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The screenshot is based on Jabber. Not sure if this is real ?

absolutely! just like if I stop living, I no longer have a need for food!

duh.

http://thearbitcouncil.blogspot.com/

Ah, just put it on the credit card and worry about it later. Enough people do that already, so why not follow suit?

Howdy,

Seems to me this is a clear cut case of the pot callin' the kettle black. Surely only the most uninformed would fall for such an obvious ploy as this so called interview.

This Ric Shreeves happily posted on the new home of the project formerly known as Mambo (http://forum.opensourcematters.org/) about his 20 questions article, claiming to be objective and neutral in this here matter.

Seems quite likely from the plugs he's been givin' it since that this is not the case at all, don't it?

So Mr. Shreeves, prove that ya'll are not just a part of Miro's ol' boys club, or be seen as the snake that you seem to be.

Why, such rampantly unashamed propaganda makes me ill to the stomach.

That's comin' from one who would know, pilgrim.

For those of ya'll that would like the lowdown on the story so far, as well as updates surely when more news come to hand, mosie on over to http://lonemamber.blogspot.com/, and then I suggest paying Mr. Shreeve's so-called interview a visit and givin' the man a piece of ya mind.

Thankye kindly for perserverin',

The Lone Mamber

p.s. Why not even that Brian Connolly snake got a slashdot to his propaganda, whatever is happenin' here?

Found another large collection of Flickr tools.

At least you went to an unbaised source with experience in the field of study. No, you linked to CATO. Which would be a think tank and FUCKING POLITICAL LOBBY GROUP, mostly for economic issues. But most importantly, as a lobby group, the truth is what they tell you the truth is. Truth doesn't really concern itself with facts, but how selective discussion of those facts can be rewarded, politically and economically.

You might as well have included a link to Focus on the Family, or The 700 Club, because they know fuck all about climate study.

By the way, your blog sucks. http://myopinionmatters.blogspot.com/ ...and, if read, it shows you to be an ax grinding jackass and borderline troll!

Now, if I were a spammer, instead of trying to randomly generate content with scripts, I would have the script copy entries from other blogs, and insert links throughout. I would also use CSS to make the links look like normal text. Finally, I'd get one of those "makepovertyhistory.org" banners on the top right hand corner of the screen, because they seem to disable clicks to the button that flags inappropriate content.

Also, check out this nifty trick. Way to get all the benefits of a spamful blog, but make people skittish about reporting it.

I posted a few articles related to this topic last week...

Sorry dude, beat you by almost a year.

2004/11

I really appreciate your taking some time and providing valuable feedback. I agree with your point about registration and will work on adding a guest login or read-only view. Still, most of the advantages of the site will become apparent only if someone starts writing. I spent lot of time on the navigation part to keep everything on the writer's fingertips. There is a "View Demo" link ( http://www.collaze.com/home/demo.htm ) link to show some of the features. I have a WYSWIG editor in the site with a dictionary always available on the left. To make it really sweet for the writer, I worked extra hard to make sure that the spell-checker is not a pop-up and hilites the incorrect word directly on the WYSWYIG editor. Unlike Wiki model, writers can save chapters as draft, and come back later to edit them. Also writers get a quick save option that saves the document without disturbing the cursor position in the editor or taking the writer to a new page. Business model is primarily advertisements (Yes, there is one adsense 120X600 in every project page). The purpose of the site is more to help creation of quality work than to make money. I quit my job and spent 3 months creating the site and I am confident that I can support the site with the cash flow from my next day job, provided I get some acceptance and confidence from the community. Of course, I cannot support a million users today, but everything starts small and if people like it I am sure there will be more fincancial support later. What I desparately need now is for some willing participants to see it, feel it, and tell me what I can do to improve it. I am a fan of Wiki myself, but I don't think it is the best model for creating literary work. What I have done in Collaze is to separate out idea inflow and content inflow. If someone doesn't want to write a chapter, "plot ideas" and "characters" lets the user put some ideas for other writers to use. Each chapter can be written by multiple authors, but not by editing the same document. Each writers submits his version of the chapter and the best version is selected by voting by other readers and writers. There is a 30 day deadline for each chapter, but the writers can keep revising and refining their work based on reader feedback before the deadline. In addition to this, a chapter has to be of 1000 words. This ensures that a chapter is consistent and author gets freedom to maintain his natural flow in a chapter. There is a link "Why Collaze is different" in the home page http://www.collaze.com/home/howIsCollazeDifferent. jsp BTW, I wrote a blog http://ambikasukla.blogspot.com/ that touches upon most of these points.

Don't tell me that there aren't blogs who deserve to be flagged.

http://ilovetsunamis.blogspot.com leaps to mind.

Does this mean Angry Harry or Bob's Truth can be filtered if enough people find the sites objectionable?

If you use the 'next blog' randomizing feature on blogs you'll see that roughly one out of five 'blogs' are nothing but link farms, worm repositories and bullshit like that.

And this has been going on for quite a while. We all know that Google has a fondness for indexing Blogger content rather quickly, and so do the spammers. It's about time the company did something about it.

If you use the 'next blog' randomizing feature on blogs you'll see that roughly one out of five 'blogs' are nothing but link farms, worm repositories and bullshit like that.

And this has been going on for quite a while. We all know that Google has a fondness for indexing Blogger content rather quickly, and so do the spammers. It's about time the company did something about it.

If you use the 'next blog' randomizing feature on blogs you'll see that roughly one out of five 'blogs' are nothing but link farms, worm repositories and bullshit like that.

And this has been going on for quite a while. We all know that Google has a fondness for indexing Blogger content rather quickly, and so do the spammers. It's about time the company did something about it.

Significant privacy concerns emerge with the development of such technologies - the flow of personal information in the context of highway travel will be altered. I've written about this, for those who are interested.

The shit has hit the fan

All I can say for now.....keep a look out for Michael Yons blog...something happened yesterday that involved Mr Yon having to pick up an M-4 and start shooting........And for lack of a better way to say it, we have a new Battalion commander, so you know that isnt good news, we had several guys get shot yesterday and we have 30 days of patrols left....death doesnt seem to care that we are leaving this shithole soon, no simpathy from death.

Does anyone know anything about this?

I think you'll find that the idea behind AJAX has been 20 years in the making. It's about time it caught on! ;-)

Two of the Chinese researchers (Xiaoyun Wang and Hongbo Yu) were due to present their SHA results at the CRYPTO 2005 conference in the US, but were denied visas in time to attend. Adi Shamir (the A in RSA) ended up announcing this latest result on their behalf.
      http://cipher-text.blogspot.com/2005/08/visas-for- chinese-crypto-researchers.html

I find it interesting that you are interested in photography. Perhaps you will find this of interest as well (beware where you point your camera):

http://newurbanist.blogspot.com/2005/01/copyrighti ng-of-public-space.html

The reality is that more and more of the space that the public inhabits is becoming privatized. While I'm in agreement that private property owners have rights, including the right to remove anyone for any reason, it would seem that some sort of balance is needed when spaces that are used by the general public have become private as the norm, and true "public spaces" are exceedingly rare. Here where I live the entire downtown is private property: including the roads and sidewalks, thanks to an overzealous "urban renewal" program. Because of that program I could be arrested for trespassing simply by being there (in fact, that was part of the plan: the privatized streets and sidewalks mean that the homeless are no longer simply loitering, they are trespassers on private property).

You could argue the merits of such actions (if the urban renewal plan goes well, I'm sure not many will complain that you can't reach the courthouse without potentially trespassing on private property), but as a trend it indicates to me that true public spaces will become a thing of the past.

Back to the topic of photography. I notice that photography of the Eiffel tower at night is illegal. Likewise, some buildings are trademarked so strictly speaking, photographing your family in front of such a building and posting it on the web might draw legal fire.

Some info on these issues: http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa1006 03b.htm

Likewise, I notice you have a picture of people at a beach. Do you have a signed model release from the subjects? (Particularly, the man in a red cap with man-breasts in the picture of the lifeguard... I would look for judicial relief if I was on the web looking like that.)

My point is that our society has become so "private property" happy that just about anything you do is a potential litigation point. It is awfully unlikely that people will come after you for your photographs, but if someone was in a particularly foul mood they could construe your site as a commercial exploitation of the photography because it includes a resume. (I can't find *that* link right now, but that was the legal argument used against a computer programmer's personal website who had *something* that *someone* was unhappy about: even though no advertisements were used, the posting of a resume turned the site "commercial" in the eyes of the prosecution.)

The question to you: do you believe that all "private rights" are reasonable when pushed to such limits? You said that it was "blatantly hypocritical to expel a patron..." and yet "blatantly hypocritical" wouldn't be a legal defense to trespassing (since the actual charge wasn't actually regarding the shirt, simply the right of a private property owner to expel anyone for any reason). I'm glad they dropped the charges, but what would your opinion be if they had not? In my view, the charges are independent of the *reason* they didn't want him in the store, meaning the man could theoretically have served jail time for "blatantly hypocritical actions". Likewise, I think that quite a bit of the photography laws seem fairly absurd when stretched to where the legal system will allow them to go. I'm sure every citizen of the US if a copyright or trademark infringer in regards to those laws. Do you think that such stretching of the laws in simply hypocritical (which doesn't buy much for the infringer since that's a meaningless idea in the courts) or perhaps unfair.

I am not part of your comunity but from what I have read about the history of Miro/Mambo without Lamont you guys would have been just another bunch of hobby hackers in the "-5, Thinking About It" SourceForge stage.

Why am I not surprised.

Howdy, Well, it's quite rightly good to see that ya'll are takin' an interest in our humble community, and the mutiny that lily livered Peter Lamont has sprung on us...

I've been doin' my bit to provide coverage of this debacle since the shi... sugar hit the fan on my blog site - Mambo Foundation discussion with the Lone Mamber. http://lonemamber.blogspot.com/

If you're after a lowdown on what's happened so far, pop on over 'cos I've been coverin' this thang as it happens.

Thankye kindly for your support of the Mambo core dev team and the community,

The Lone Mamber

There is actually some solid and serious research behind this initiative, and other similar projects that are pushing the traditional boundaries of education. I've commented on it here, with links to the research, theory and project pages.

The historical fact is that our current educational system is only about 350 years old, give or take a decade. Prior to that, what was considered knowledge, appropriate pedagogy, and educational techniques were considerably different, and different still compared to the same items in ancient Greece. With the fundamental changes that are occuring in many aspects of our contemporary societies, radical new approaches to education are not only to be expected, but are to be welcomed.

Besides, has anyone considered the idea that the current dysfunction among modern corporations, and the plethora of McJobs may be a direct outcome of a now obsolescent educational system - one that served the industrial age well, but is sadly outdated today?

This guy is blatantly baiting the United States Olympic Committee trademark enforcement gestapo

It would also be a great device for terrorists as I commented on my blog earlier with a much less sophisticated device. With this a terror cell could destroy themselves and their homes or other locations at the same time, reducing the chance that the police would have time to shut down the cell networks.

wow thats' interesting..

if i'm in an argument, i later forget things i said.

same thing?

http://thearbitcouncil.blogspot.com/

If you are competant at encryption, you probably aren't using gateway's service department.

Anybody got those "gateway drug" pics?

Took me awhile to catch it, but EFF is right (as usual) - the cops failed to obtain a warrant, even if they had probable cause, so the search is presumptively unlawful (probably under the Washington constitution.)

A trickier question is what was the role of the store? If company policy is, search every box and always call the cops if soemthing iffy is spotted,
they risk being in the class of informants whose activities constitute state action.

If company policy is, never search without a warrant, then they've created a reasonable expectation of privacy* which was breached here.

If, however, they have no policy, they can probably get away with being random as here.

* my use of the term "reasonable expectation of privacy" is based on federal caselaw, Katz. The Washington state cases may use some other standard entirely. If I had one beef with EFF, a wonderful organization, it's that they sometimes neglect rights under state law.

The main reason I'm posting today is to mention another EFF case.
http://ballots.blogspot.com/2005/08/case-in-smyrna -delaware-raises-issues.html
  The EFF has filed an amicus breif in a case before the Delaware Supreme Court about the standard to be used before an anonymous message board poster can be identified by their service provider. It's a libel case where some nasty things were said about a city councilperson, who sued. The nasty things may have been said by the mayor, so it's kind of an open secret, but the legal standard is important and I applaud the good work EFF does in this area.

Glass - Solid or Liquid?

Glass - Solid or Liquid?

Noooooooooooo oooooooooo ooooooooooo

What's amusing about the whole situation is that government paternalism is particularly inept at enforcing bans on gambling and other moral vices on the web.

Governments can take pop shots at intermediaries (like EBay +Yahoo over Nazi paraphernalia) but they are essentially helpless in the end as users find alternate methods to fulfill their desires.

- E -

Japan-A-Madness
http://jmad.blogspot.com/

Try teaching him how to use Tux Paint (free download at: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/), an open source (free) drawing software designed specifically for children. Personally, I find using drawing software the best way to learn computer -- for both children and adults. You learn how to use the interfaces, how to be creative, how to solve problems, and the children get to create a bunch of cute graphics for wallpaper.

I taught myself how to use GIMP, a more advanced open source graphics software, and have been using the graphics I created for my blog at: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/

Cookies are hardly the biggest problem. There are worse threats out there that Internet users should be worried about.

They have already started doing that during movies on some channels in Toronto: http://adsthatsuck.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-and-in ventive-ways-to-piss-off.html

Reminds me of a quote I read recently...

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

The Bush administration makes me feel like I'm stumbling through a bad dream.

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Japan-A-Madness
  http://jmad.blogspot.com/

Some interesting observations here

Some interesting observations here

Why? Brianiac: NetApplications report on Firefox stats

IDG has acknowledge the problem: Brianiac: IDG accepts criticism of Firefox stats article

Why? Brianiac: NetApplications report on Firefox stats

IDG has acknowledge the problem: Brianiac: IDG accepts criticism of Firefox stats article

Why? Brianiac: NetApplications report on Firefox stats

IDG has acknowledge the problem: Brianiac: IDG accepts criticism of Firefox stats article

Why? Brianiac: NetApplications report on Firefox stats

IDG has acknowledge the problem: Brianiac: IDG accepts criticism of Firefox stats article

I would respectfully disagree. The garden (and it's book I might add) gave me some wonderful insights on how to arrange my blog. I am not a designer, but it certainly help in my layout rather than trying to figure out Blogger's insane templates.

Nice to know that this bandwidthreduction-solution has the opposite effect...

See my blog for more info.

Opera's yearly earnings are a testament to how badass the browser is. People are willing to pay for something in that niche ( the browser market ) that they could easily get for free ( Firefox / IE ) Thats a testament to how great Opera is.

Were you the first Apple employee to get fired because of bloggin?

http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_epeus_archive .html#106133327387671172

As far as I can tell (this coming from Google itself, mind you), all they provide are the search data and the name for the segments. Google doesn't seem to have anything else to do with the channel.

This is lame. I submitted this article to slashdot in a more complete format, with links to the original emulator, links to the original forum post on the psphacks.net forums and the original article that was posted right after this guy announced his creation and way before pspupdates ever picked it up.

How come slashdot always posts the crap articles and never the complete ones. Come on guys.

This article first appeared on psphacks.net but of course, the mass media site that grabbed the story like, hours after it had been posted elsewhere gets the credit.

This was originally on psphacks.net, not pspadvertisements.com!

PSPUpdates.com are a company who are ripping off the homebrew scene with loads of ads/popups and free psp pyramid schemes that are exploiting those who dont know what they are. Please stop linking to them :( Emunnoobs has a dossier on these crooks and PSP Emulation News would be a much more legit site to look and post PSP Scene news. Come on slashdot newsposters.

As a point of illustration, consider both of the following sentences about my neighbor:

He is a person with yellow paint on his house.

He is a person with yellow paint on their house.

According to your logic, since "with yellow paint on (whoever's) house" modifies "person," both of these sentences must be correct. However, if the meaning of the sentence is that my neighbor has yellow paint on his own house, the second sentence is clearly incorrect and the sentences are not interchangeable. (Like yours...)

However, if the meaning of the sentence is that your neighbor is an individual member of a group in which each of the members has yellow paint on their house, then the second sentence remains both grammatically and semantically correct. Fortunately, I know the meaning of the original sentence, I wrote the original sentence, and I encoded that meaning within the grammar of the original sentence. Argue what's there, not what you wish was there.

But congratulations, you have proven that a tortured rewriting of the sentence can cause the possessive pronoun to change. You have also shown that you cannot grasp the meaning of a sentence, which is defined by its objective grammar and words, not by a subjective attempt to devine the state of mind of the writer.

BTW, the correct and original sentence pair is

He has too much time on his hands.

He is a person who has too much time on their hands.

The additional language "is a person who" is completely unnecessary in the first senctence, unless you're vainly trying to prove that you don't quite grasp English writing. The additional language makes sense in the second sentence, because of the common collective "people who have too much time on their hands."

Oh well, I'd love to continue, but I think I'm going to go make a few truly insightful posts before the night is done.

If it's the sort of insight diplayed by your lengthy analysis of the signatures of Congressmen at http://skippus.blogspot.com/2005/07/three-letters- from-congressmen.html then by all means, sally forth and display your genius to the world.

Moron.

You know, if you just hadn't bothered to reply, I wouldn't have thought badly about you. After all, we're all victims of periodic mistakes once in a while. Hell, if you look closely, it's entirely possible that I've misspelled a word or two in this reply. But you're just so wrong and so indignant about it that you've managed to make a pedantic person like me giddy with delight. I knew a guy like you in college that I still love making fun of to this day. Your name isn't Randy by any chance, is it?

You are a person with too much time on their hands is grammatically correct, but is semantically incorrect unless the time that the "you" to whom you are talking has is on some third party's hands.

As a point of illustration, consider both of the following sentences about my neighbor:

He is a person with yellow paint on his house.

He is a person with yellow paint on their house.

According to your logic, since "with yellow paint on (whoever's) house" modifies "person," both of these sentences must be correct. However, if the meaning of the sentence is that my neighbor has yellow paint on his own house, the second sentence is clearly incorrect and the sentences are not interchangeable. (Like yours...)

And thank god we've got people like you to let us know when we're being pedants and jerks. For what it's worth, I'm only a jerk to people being jerks. (Check my posts if you don't believe me.) As for that guy, I'll bet if you hadn't pointed it out, he would have never had the epiphany and made the life change that he undoubtedly made upon reading your scathing review. Oh, and he is a guy, not a girl, and for the record, he seems to be a pretty cool one from what little I know about him. I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but I was smart enough to figure what the writer's sex is. (Makes it kind of easy when he posts his name and picture on his blog.)

Now suck it.

Ah, now I see your point. I hope that sentence isn't supposed to be accompanied by any sort of gesture, because then it would really hurt my feelings. I'm sorry, if you had made that compelling argument to begin with, everyone would have seen how futile being right can be to someone like you. Oh well, I'd love to continue, but I think I'm going to go make a few truly insightful posts before the night is done. Or, maybe I'll just go defend some more pedantry against jerks. You posting in any other threads?

From your link: Google Weblog is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, Inc.

Google's actual blog is http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

From there we have:

"So now, any and all copyright holders - both Google Print partners and non-partners - can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. To allow plenty of time to review these new options, we won't scan any in-copyright books from now until this November."

So unless told otherwise, Google will assume they have permission to scan copyright work.