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"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
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http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

Alert!

"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.

I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?

The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.

http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

And many more.

A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.

Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".

Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.

Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?

If you are using firefox, then there is an extension to customize your interaction with google. One of the preference sections is privacy settings. Options include anonymizing your user ID and never sending cookie data to google analytics.
labnol.blogspot.com has an article that discusses both of these options and also discusses how to add the hosts entry on a windows box.

Yes and no. Anxiety can also cripple you into inaction. (Anxiety vs Confidence)

I actually read about this yesterday through a friend's blog. Although the main link has been ./ he posted a nice summary.

http://lifewithoutfries.blogspot.com/here.

Yes, there are ads, but I couldn't find a summary of the story anywhere else and the main site is down.

I have been working in NYC hiring developers that do C# development at the expert developer level for some time now. I am currently working for a boutique consulting firm .. Finetix (http://www.finetix.com/) .. doing software development for the major investment banks and hedge funds in NYC and London mostly. They do Java and .Net development - and the .Net pull is STRONG. We cannot hire enough STRONG developers. I have been interviewing developers for full time and/ or consulting positions for the better part of the last 4 years in the NYC area. The market for software devlopers that can program C# is very strong right now. A friend and collegue of mine posted last week on his blog http://magmasystems.blogspot.com/ that the baseline salary for strong C# AND Java devs in NYC area is ~150k$. I agree with this. I can say that companies want C# devs for building DESKTOP APPLICATIONS in the major banks, funds etc. Swing does not cut it yet - sorry. VB is old and dead. I hate to break the news to all you Flamer Style OSS or die slashdotters - but MS makes a great programming model for building insanely rich desktop applications.On top of that EVERYONE IN MOST PLACES HAS A WINDOWS DESKTOP. Traders that make millions of dollars doing what they do DO NOT WANT WEB APPLICATIONS. They need RICH desktop applicaions (always N tier communicating with web services, message queues etc.). There is a super strong need for REAL software developers (not ASP kiddies or VBers just awakened). That all said - I am typing all this on my laptop running linux, I can code in C# as an expert, Java at the mid level - I can program Ruby some as well as some C++, and lots more. I can say that having lead teams of developers - YOU CAN DO AN AMAZING AMOUNT with C# and .Net. I have led teams to build both the 30th and the 60th busiest sites on the web for a former client - all .Net/ C#. It works. I have seen one after another huge class desktop/ N tier 'smart client' application be build succesfully using .Net on the client at least. It works. It pays the bills. Do not discount or flame it as it shows you do not understand it. Accept that C#/ .Net is here - it is ready for the enterprise. People are making great money doing it.

Enough ramble from me;
Chris

Wait until you see the MIT fashion blog :/

Uhh. No.

But this is probably what you want with an embedded device. I do not want it to be possible for a hacker to compromise my WiFi router by reprogramming it with malicious code.

There are plenty of sources of cheap, unrestricted hardware. I would much prefer a definition of openess in terms of what you can do with the device. For example, I cannot control my Dish PVR from the Internet. Access to the source code allowing me to rewrite the code so that it supports this function is good. A built in, documented capability to accept programming commands via an RS232 or USB port is better.

The answer is purely economic -- don't buy a trusted platform based machine. Don't buy an OS that supports trusted platforms (Vista.) Don't allow friends, families or your business to buy trusted platform machines. If you're in a position to purchase hardware, get "no hardware enforcement of digital signatures" written as a requirement into your RFQs.

That is not how Palladium works, as this article explains.

All Palladium does is to restrict access to certain pieces of data (i.e. encryption keys) so that they are only available to certain programs whose executeable has a specific hash value that run in a protected part of the O/S. It does not secure the boot path as most people seem to assume, that is simply not practical.

In the long, or in the short term? Because I think it's a growing trend.

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2006/01/was-wmf-vulne rability-purchased-for.html (30th January)

Why not. After all the RIAA is suing a woman who says she's never even owned, or turned on, a computer.

I'm not asking them to spend money advertising the fact that they're way behind the curve on browsers, just to stop lying to me.

'Innovation' is irrelevent and tiresome. What matters is the idea is out there. And hey, you know them thumbnail previews of tabs new to IE7? The ones no other browser has? Yeah. Well there is a copycat Firefox extension and a similar feature will available in Opera 9.

(That said, it's one thing to do censoring as required by the government. It's an entirely different thing to rat out someone critizing the Chinese government, as Yahoo stands accused of.)

From Google's China statement:

This approach is similar in principle to the disclosures we provide when we have altered our search results to comply with local laws in France, Germany, and the United States.

WTF?
Forget China; Now I want to know how they are censoring content in the US!

First off, a better view of the article(plaintext, one page).

What the submitter failed to mention is that the patent claim is validated only when the patent owner attempts to sue an alleged infringer of that patent. FTFA: "Should the patent owner try to sue an alleged infringer, an examination for novelty would be the initial step in any litigation." And goes on to claim that this is better because the alleged violator will have to provide prior art to invalidate the patent.

This seems to increase the amount of time developers will have to spend in courts, attacking and defending, while reducing the burden on the patent office. Less chance of mistakes, but probably not a viable option for smaller developers without the resources to spend on litigation.

Also, the other linked article claims that "Novelty could be challenged at any point by someone submitting prior art and paying a small fee." Anyone have any idea where this information comes from?

Google's response.
My apologies if this has been posted already.

In fact, not even a day later, Bush's staff explains that Bush was full of shit when promising to reduce America's addiction to foreign oil. Just as I expected.

Now what was that about believing Bush on something like pharmaco patents?

And did I hear something about America's faith in Bush?

Or $11 million in total.

Good news! I just received an update from Nintendo! Sweet Dance Dance action is set to hit store shelves again in April!

P.S. Word from actual smart engineers at Google:

"It was not the most challenging thing I've ever done, but at least I got to do it in Python instead of Java. If you can't have Lisp, Python is the next best thing."

http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2006/01/lost-in-trans lations.html

Google may need to go to the keyword exchange market way to compete with future strong ads services.

Opera has a similar feature in their not yet released version: http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2006/02/opera-9-to- add-tab-thumbnail-images.html

This is not as good an example as it might seem. Despite being counterintuitive, humans are actually able to voluntarily suppress memories in a way that makes it more difficult to retrieve them later (and this is confirmed through both implicit and explicit measures of memory).

It may sound Freudian, but this time the mechanism for "repressing memories" is backed up by evidence.

Google's mistaken moves in China have blown off the remaining gloss on Do No Evil

I was wondering why Romero has been relatively silent on the MMOG gaming spectrum. The MMOG world is a little too crowded, but there is so much room for more growth outside of what we consider the standard MMOG platform.

I have an intense high speed connection on my cell phone (the Samsung t809 -- 150kbps EDGE download speeds, Java capability, great screen. MMOG occupy a lot of home-office time of my friends who are addicted, to the point that they might blow off good live concerts or events to play. If someone finds a way to get the MMOG world onto the high speed cell phones out there, I think Allstate will have higher premiums for drivers after paying out all the accidents caused by using the cell phone for more than talking.

And what about developing more cross platform mini-MMOGs? I'm not just talking about getting it working between the X-Box, the PS3 and the PC, I also mean older platforms and even PDAs, laptops, cell phones, who knows what else? Java is pretty standardized, and I think it should be able to handle the performance if the server-side does a good job of filtering out more update information than the bandwidth can handle. I don't see why these games need to be tied to a high speed high power computer at home.

Other things I'd like to see are MMOGs that set some time limits to equalize the time allotments for older players. I know I can't compete as well as the 15 year old can, so I don't play. I don't have that kind of time. A 1 hour a day time limit might be interesting, though, especially if the game works on any of my many platforms I use daily.

While MMOGs seem to have hit a plateau of sorts, there is still room to grow once they find the new markets. I know MMOGs will be mainstream when we have a reality TV show dedicated entirely to the lives on digital people. Can you imagine the market of geeks who would watch it? Yeesh.

There are two reviews of them here and here.

Usabilty on JDS is actually quite high. I have no idea why you use that as a bad example when such great examples like OpenView exist.

There are two reviews of them here and here.

Usabilty on JDS is actually quite high. I have no idea why you use that as a bad example when such great examples like OpenView exist.

My first thought was of the 'Plates' out of Simon of Space.

Storage drops. It always drops. We get it. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/422/grochow ski.html
http://hermeticlogistics.blogspot.com/ How does this affect my financial future?

I'm happy to see Microsoft take this step. People need to be reminded that the Chinese citizens supposedly have their free speech protected by their constitution. If China wants to violate their own constitution, make sure that the blame falls sqaurely on their shoulders for all the world to see, rather than allowing companies to step in front and absorb the blame for them.

You can already create buttons that function like those in this toolbar using Firefox. You can also move them up to the menu bar to save space. See the bottom of my tutorial on optimizing Firefox.

I tried adding a custom button for my project and the whole process was quick and easy. Here I have explained what I did. Hope it helps...

To look at it the other way -- is there a Linux powered phone that you can VNC into and write applications for (including programably accessing the phone, bluetooth and cell-based network connection)?

While not Linux-powered, I seem to have no trouble writing software for my Palm Treo 650. Even with the one I bought from Verizon, who's pathetic attempts to disable the Bluetooth profiles for things like dial-up networking and OBEX file transfer are easily defeated. Other people seem to have little trouble writing networked, converged apps for the Treo that work flawlessly on the CDMA or GSM versions of the phone.

I don't want anybody to be able to VNC into my cell phone. That sounds like a security nightmare waiting to happen. I do want my cell phone to be able to SSH and do VNC out, which there are third-party programs for PalmOS that do nicely.

Fundamentally, at an OS level, I still have full access to the networking and Bluetooth functions. All Verizon did on the Treo was disable one of the built-in apps for Bluetooth: the hooks are all still there.. and with five minutes of work and a good Google search, you can undo anyway.

I wrote this back in June 2004, on a prompt, after the fiasco of the first DARPA grand challenge. Good that its happening.

The purpose of DARPA grand challenge is "to leverage American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that can be applied to military requirements."

The last two words make all the difference. It requires the entrants to disclose their technology to the military and public, and the criteria of the race is to cross a stretch of rough terrain (very much military requirement), The output of this challenge will aid some parts of transportation industry, but not the most important, road vehicles that everyone drives.

I guess, If some X-Prize kind of competition comes up for the purpose, then auto manufacturers will rush to beat each other in innovation. Today no competition exists for the innovation in vehicle technologies. Formula 1, Nascar etc. are tightly controlled with rules to make it competitive, knowingly restricting the use of new innovations.

X-Prize for innovations in vehicle technologies
Monday, June 07, 2004

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You write a program which you publish to the web. Someone compiles it and decides he or she likes it. They contact you about writing some more software.

I just happen to be doing that kind of thing with my blogs http://wallpaperfree.blogspot.com/ and the one in my sig, but so far haven't gotten good enough to get to step three of your plan. Nevertheless, I'll do it this way rather than snivel and moan after every pixel and semicolon of everything I produce fretting over somebody around the world didn't chip in their $.035 for something I did. I hear other people out there, and they're pathetic. They draw one frickin' picture and spend the rest of their lives mooing about it. In the amount of time they spend protecting it, they could have filled a whole gallery and moved on!

I wonder if one could do a series of PSAs about great creative minds from the past? Eistein freely gave away E=mc2. How much money did da Vinci earn off his famous engineering drawings? Didn't van Gosh paint half his life for free? If the past creative minds acted the way our present creative minds do, we wouldn't even remember them today.

Sorry, forgot to check the URL before submitting (it's in the header block, in any case). Try this link.

1) exercise is a pain in the ass, but it pays for itself. It really does. I recently started a pretty ambitious exercise routine, and I was concerned that I'd need more sleep, I'd be sore all the time, etc.

On the contrary, I need *less* sleep. I feel better than I have pretty much anytime I can remember.

2) as someone who was in much the same situation as you--I topped out somewhere north of 440# myself--there is nothing like shopping for clothes or doing physical things you weren't able to do previously.

I'm down over 80 lbs since September and I feel great. No stomach staplings, Atkins diets, or meal planning. I know the motivation to make a change like this has to come from within; I do hope that you make it there soon.

My weight loss blog

Does anybody out there have any information about what happened to Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix for the GameCube? It came out back in November, sold out, and hasn't been seen since. Of course Nintendo is only giving out boilerplate responses, but something has to be up. Anyone out there have any inside information? (And no, I'm not talking about Gamestop/EB Games/Best Buy employees who "heard it was discontinued" or some such junk—I mean real info.)

By 2050, industrialized nations will be emitting little CO2. By 2100, if necessary, we will be pumping it back into the ground.

I agree that we can and should pump carbon back into the ground, and I've proposed a way to do it. I just don't think we will absent a radical change in direction.

The only "tipping point" we are approaching is the point where renewables become cheaper than dino power.

adaption is cheap, while prevention is hideously expensive at the moment.

More info and details here.

We're not denying it, we're just questioning wether it's linked to CO2.

PR firms are noted for producing bovine excrement. They are really good at polishing it to make it look good, but it doesn't change its essence. If you want to know where climate scientists stand, you should read stuff written by climate scientists.

The cornerstone to the IPCC Report is the Michael Mann (et el) "hockey stick" graph

If you're serious, why not put your money where your mouth is? There are people out there (e.g. http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_bac kseatdriving_archive.html#111700433898143899) prepared to bet on warming. Are you prepared to bet on cooling?

There are a few major challenges that Skype faces and will likely relegate it to a popular but, not ubiquitous application.

1. Quality of service from Public Wi-Fi - There is no guarantee the access point won't be saturated or have sufficient bandwidth to support the number of users trying to use the acces point.
2. Carrier Grade WiFi infrastructure will be owned by those who will take a dim outlook on having their income eaten by free calls. Traffic will be "shaped" to make the quality less than existing wireless options.
3. Skype to Skype is free...Skype Out is not so you need to pay to access POTS lines.
4. Not everyone who is attracted to Skype will be willing to pay to access Land Lines.
5. As has been mentioned, Skype is a proprietary application, thus there will always be someone looking to build a better mouse trap and keep this segment of the market fragmented.
6. Voip is not new and most carriers route their calls through a VOIP infrastructure to reduce their costs. Consumers can get cheap calls now through long distance calling plans and cards. In North America local calls are free and long distance can be had for about the same as Skype out.
7. PDA+Voip+Wifi can be done without Skype.

Wikipedia is an adhocracy. It's also anarcho-syndicalist, or libertarian, or communist, depending on what filter you apply. Co-founder Larry Sanger called it a polity; I'd say that's accurate (though the stakes aren't as high as in real polities -- nobody can get shot at through the monitor).

No, but you do have judges who sentence minors (plea of no contest) to 30 years in prison for doing so.
http://davidfeige.blogspot.com/2005/11/sick-ric-ge ts-whupping-on-oped-page.html

Which, really, is the exact same thing - especially when you consider the substandard medical care in prisons and the transmission of hiv and other diseases between inmates. Now, I realize that you might say "well, that judge is batshit crazy and should be removed from the bench, so it isn't really a fair comparison" but the fact of the matter is once on the bench, judges are almost never removed.
For example, the judge who shaved his balls, used a penis pump and jerked off while presiding over a murder trial (in May '03) was still on the bench and doing the same shit in September '03. Yes, he eventually was removed, but if you were sentenced by the jerkin' judge your sentence still stands.
The fact remains that the "justice" system has no effective checks and balances on the actions of judges, so if judges decide that they want to start handing out 30 year sentences for running stop signs, they can for the duration of their term and depending on local policies, even the worst rulings won't be available for review for several years after sentencing (the whole "you have to serve x% of your sentence before we look at your case thing)

The fact of the matter is that downloading a copy of a crime that somebody else committed is not the same as committing that crime yourself.
Absolutely, but the judge was probably up for re-election and wanted to look "tough on crime". Add in a jury of impressionable idiots and you get the result of this case. Speaking of the jury, they are completely to blame for the results of this case. They could of have nipped it in the bud at the trial and called bullshit on the prosecutor's argument, but they didn't and this had to go to appeal.

This posting is part of a series from a speech made in 1961 by then-president Eisenhower. It accurately warns the citizens of the Untied States of the times to come, the time when the military and sociological agenda of the Untied States would be dictated by military industry. At the time, this was corporate America. In modern times, this speech rings painfully true as an unheeded warning to the level of control corporate America now holds on our country.

I have chosen to go back to this era, as it seems to be 'where it all went wrong' in modern America. You will never hear these types of warnings again, as it seems that corporate America has finally purchased its way to the top. In reality, it is my sincere hope that this speech inspires any readers of this blog to stand up for what is right, for what they believe in, and to refuse to let the power of money over-run your own sense of morality.

The fears of President Eisenhower to date have been, and are currently being realized. When asking yourself what happened to the United States of the Moon missions, Norman Rockwell, apple pie, etc., consider this speech as it was in 1961: a warning of what was to come.

I post this speech not as a criticism of our current government, but as a criticism of the control it has allowed itself to fall under, and the losses, both physical and ideological, which we have suffered.