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A year or two back they were warning us about how bad Hurricane Earl was going to be in the Northeast. Afterwards this photo, titled "Scenes of destruction from Hurricane Earl" started circulating.

I suspect Irene will be irritating, but tolerable.

Also, it's fantastic for me in that my mother-in-law is also named Irene. Lines up all kinds of easy jokes.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/27020_313252767271_313252547271_3234436_1731521_n.jpg

Psst, here's a copy of Facebook's secret code -- http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yp/r/Ub2OCc5xWCb.js

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That was in May. Since then I've put out six revisions.

The thing is, although there was seemingly a stop in development (since 2008/2009, actually), I had never given up on the project. I had a notebook with all the ideas, sketches, mockups, etc. where I wanted to take the project. When Diaspora hit, I emailed them, offering to help. I never heard back, so I decided to push forward on Appleseed.

The pace may seem extraordinary considering I'm essentially the sole full time developer, with most help having come from designers and testers, and I handle a full time job on the side, while I do put in a lot of hours, things have moved along so quickly because I had gamed and spec'd out so much in the year prior.

Check out our roadmap, you'll see exactly where we're going.

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/roadmap/

You can also send an email to invite@appleseedproject.org for an invite to the beta test site. Here's a screenshot for people who don't want to bother signing up (apologies for FB hosting. we're working on that :)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1207.snc4/155927_469182004405_510304405_5358353_7159703_n.jpg

Michael Chisari
Lead Developer, The Appleseed Project

>>But you don't do enough to stop these fundamentalist hate-mongers, though. So because you're not actively speaking out against them, you are implicitly supporting them.

Hmm, going on Slashdot (and opening myself to flames from a thousand and one angry atheists) criticizing them doesn't count?

I already mentioned that if I'd known that these were the Westboro guys, I'd have argued with them in person... the sign I saw just said that Jesus is Lord, and I took an ironic photo with it with some women on stage behind them. Let's see if this works:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs098.ash2/38217_1513502154929_1155669588_1478801_2568238_n.jpg

If it doesn't, I'll post it some other way. I find it vaguely amusing.

>>It's got to work both ways.

I actually agree with you. I wish that atheists would disown their more nutty and rabid speakers, like Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris (I sort of like Dan Dennet, but he can be just as bad sometimes). As a Christian, I actively speak out against fundamentalists, especially the anti-intellectuals. And I do wish Muslims would speak out more disowning the radicals, but to be fair, a lot of them have, but have just been filtered out by Fox News (because it goes against their screed).

Pic is from a kids birthday party, it's gotta suck when your dad works at Weta......

Yea, but at least the scientific evidence is on their side. I mean, with the heat capacity and warming of oceans, the fact that the earth is heating insanely fast is not even a question, its a blatantly obvious fact. The earth has never heated by this much, this fast, in any history we can read. It typically takes thousands or tens of thousands of years, and happening within the past 100 years, more than half of the increase in the past 50? That is not natural.

We put out a lot more CO2 than the earth itself does, and our cow farms (don't get me wrong, I love eating meat) produce a shit-ton of methane, but you are right. The earth produces a ton of greenhouse gas, water vapor. And as the oceans rise due to the other greenhouse gasses, more of the water moves into the air, the climate becomes less stable, and traps more heat.

Also, those of us that actually know our science, know all of your arguments have to do with air and surface temperature, or solar patterns. Well, right now we are at a very abnormally low solar minimum, and as for air/surface temperature, you could not possibly be more wrong. Let me show you what I mean:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs456.ash1/25081_334304084498_536119498_3617109_7576783_n.jpg

The heat capacity of the atmosphere and earth's surface is so low, that it varies drastically within a few hours every day. Bodies of water, on the other hand, hold about 100x as much heat per unit volume. I have been debating global warming for a damn long time, and NOBODY has ever had a damn thing to say about the real global heat content (including oceans), just debating bullshit air temperatures, which account for almost nothing compared to ocean temps.

Every argument has idiots that don't understand the concepts and subscribe to it, but global warming deniers don't have anyone that understands the concepts , otherwise they wouldn't deny it. And seriously, don't reply angrily until you look at the link, it is an incredibly simple graph of heat content. Not rocket science, I am sure that even you can do it.

Also, some people believe science without question, because science has a solid foundation upon which it is built, the rest is idiot media sources perverting what science has to say to reach some end goals. The uninformed church going conservative on the other hand, doesn't have any logical foundations on which it is built, besides the bible (which is very not solid).

And please, criticize the ocean data, or apologize for being an idiot. Otherwise I am sure you will be modded flamebait even worse for running off like a coward. Anybody who knows about global warming knows that air temp doesn't matter in the big picture of the climate, and knows that the evidence is so overwhelming that somebody would have to disprove the info on ocean heating to make a valid argument. But again and again I just see the same shit come out of you people "air temps, air temps, air temps" is all you know how to fucking look at, and the actually CO2 and methane levels, you don't have a clue how much society produces compared to natural causes, right now people make about 50x as much as nature puts out.

One last thing, like republicans, especially the overly christian kind, don't try to use guilt to try to shame people into accepting government oppression, excessive violations of privacy and freedom, and moral regulation that parallels that of what churches want.

Hmmm..

I have the standard glider in UV reactive ink on my wrists. So much win that i'm not the only geek with something from Conway's game of life. Mine tie into sleeves i'm getting all in uv ink. one side will be all vines and plants and the other side with be gears and clockwork sort of like my arm is some sort of automata... a contrast thing... has to do with me etc etc...

I feel like a lot of these responses are from the old school crowd... no one just gets random stupid tattoos anymore except random stupid people. If you will end up working somewhere that requires you to not have a bunch of tattoos showing you get them where they wont show in a work environment such as the upper arm or back or you get creative and do your tattoos in uv ink which shows up under only certain lights. Besides in this day and age I doubt anyone is going to assume that you and I are going to start the alife gang and go around on our unusually blocky motorcycles adding molecules to people so that it radically changes the way they move...

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in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

When this fucks this... this results.

in contemporary terms, is it still a parody if you are mocking yourself?

should have checked those link URLs, stephen... stephen alongi made an obvious error in his linking to an image that states he is nothing. why would he allow that to happen? a very amateurish mistake. i would not trust stephen alongi to do any web based development for me. i wouldn't trust stephen alongi with anything. he is a demonstrated thief willing to commit felonies at his whim. he is a menace. ignorant and hypocritical.

clone53421 is stephen alongi.

STEPHEN ALONGI IS NOTHING.

in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

When this fucks this... this results.

in contemporary terms, is it still a parody if you are mocking yourself?

should have checked those link URLs, stephen... stephen alongi made an obvious error in his linking to an image that states he is nothing. why would he allow that to happen? a very amateurish mistake. i would not trust stephen alongi to do any web based development for me. i wouldn't trust stephen alongi with anything. he is a demonstrated thief willing to commit felonies at his whim. he is a menace. ignorant and hypocritical.

clone53421 is stephen alongi.

STEPHEN ALONGI IS NOTHING.

When this fucks this... this results.

http://images.google.com/images?q=kill%20it%20with%20fire

In the meantime, I suppose you have some excuse for deliberately and knowingly posting malicious, false, and defamatory statements about an organisation. You're lucky I don't work for them.

hmmmm... so this fucks this, and that means stephen alongi is nothing? i'm very confused.

When this fucks this... this results.

http://images.google.com/images?q=kill%20it%20with%20fire

In the meantime, I suppose you have some excuse for deliberately and knowingly posting malicious, false, and defamatory statements about an organisation. You're lucky I don't work for them.

hmmmm... so this fucks this, and that means stephen alongi is nothing? i'm very confused.

When this fucks this... this results.

http://images.google.com/images?q=kill%20it%20with%20fire

In the meantime, I suppose you have some excuse for deliberately and knowingly posting malicious, false, and defamatory statements about an organisation. You're lucky I don't work for them.

When this fucks this... this results.

http://images.google.com/images?q=kill%20it%20with%20fire

In the meantime, I suppose you have some excuse for deliberately and knowingly posting malicious, false, and defamatory statements about an organisation. You're lucky I don't work for them.

What's the matter... don't want anyone to see your fugly hick parents or your own fugly self?

Oh my god, I just used your copyrighted work in a commentary of my own. On Slashdot, none the less! Better file some papers.

What's the matter... don't want anyone to see your fugly hick parents or your own fugly self?

Oh my god, I just used your copyrighted work in a commentary of my own. On Slashdot, none the less! Better file some papers.

Police should also not wear uniforms, but black hoodies so they can blend in with the street-ninjas.

Oh, but that's what they do. Thankfully, at least here in Finland they are still very easy to recognize when they are walking at the sides of demonstration, usually in pairs and half-transparent handsfrees in their ears. Here are two from an anti-israel protest that happened in Helsinki a few days ago. :) Perhaps they've gotten better in USA? As summer is approaching, I expect to spot some undercover cops at our festivals again. Perhaps they'll try wearing Bob Marley shirts as they did last year, thinking that they'll then blend in...

Don't worry. It doesn't matter what kind of rights the cops are given or what they do without having legal rights to that. No external entity can ever effectively monitor a society. If the society decides that the cops or the justice system are no longer an internal authority that should be respected but rather an external entity that should be resisted, the police force will become very inefficient indeed. There are a lot of real world examples, whether in small scale (like the ones I gave) or in large scale (Omerta).

-Your friendly neighbourhood left wing activist

ps. Here in Finland the cops are pretty decent folk and in general I do respect them and their authority quite a lot and feel safe when they are around. However, they are quite unnecessary when combatting weed at summer festivals and certainly should wear uniforms when they observe nonviolent protests.

Enough seeds were planted last night http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs327.snc3/28962_1394349472816_1654586325_941861_440731_n.jpg Fantasy Island, smokey free since 2010.

So, since a boat floats, a screw floats?

Why not? I've done that and it was a very nice screw.

For reasons my attorney advises me not to go into, both getting into and leaving the apartment was a tad tricky - if anyone of you has ever tried to negotiate one of these staircases (mine was steeper and darker than that) after a couple of beers then imagine what it's like after a couple of... err... hours of watching computer games that have made your eyes go all funny ;)

Suffice to say it was three in the morning after a visit to a rather moreish chocolate shop and for reasons unknown I was quite enjoying watching hundreds of little daemons running around spitting fire. And watching DoW.

I dunno. There's something classic about the NES look. Maybe it's just nostalgia.

Probably.

I was never a big fan of the VGA re-releases Sierra did either, but that's just because I like the parser.

Yeah that's true I didn't like the icon based interface myself. I forgot the remakes switched to it.

But there's something to be said about inspiration coming from limitations. Would Mario look the same if Miyamoto had a full 640x480 to work with?

Technically no, since Mario was given a moustache because they couldn't give him a recognizable mouth.

But the question is does that mean he'd look worse? I doubt it. If Mario-without-moustache is unappealing, then that probably is just nostalgia cus if he'd originally not had one, it'd be Mario-with-facial-hair that would sound weird.

In this case here, I think the original FF1 characters have a lot more, um, character than the rather generic art of the remake.

They're "generic" because it's the same art style that was adopted in FFIV through VI that we're all familiar with, which is really pretty much the same style they were going for in FFI, only with less capability to actually implement it.

I mean you're saying the original characters don't look "generic" compared to the new ones?

Frankly to me the characters look exactly like the original art, just higher res and anti-aliased. Black mage looks like Black Mage, only the FFI version was put through a "make highly pixelated and lose all detail" filter.

Lich looks like what I always wished Lich looked like, rather than a skeleton emerging from some cloud of pink goo? That's I guess is supposed to be robes?

Your entire argument is in doubt based on the fact that you have no idea how long the bill is. It is actually less than 600 pages long. I can only assume you've just been accepting what you've been told about it and have never looked at it yourself.

I seriously hope someone is fired or loses a contract over this.

No, they got cake.

Sure, *quality* journalism probably isn't cheap, but if Rupert's paying much for Fox News-caliber journalism, he's getting ripped off.

My argument for rinsing hair still stands though, being a person with very long hair I can attest that it takes WAAAAAY longer and probably more water in the end to rinse under a low-flow shower head.

Then you have a crappy showerhead. My "Shower Massage" on the center-spray setting will rise the longest hair right quick, at the low-flow standard of 2.5 g/min.

(Haven't have a haircut in a dozen years -- proof of my long-hair credentials here.)

When you buy cheap crap that claims to be eco-friendly and are disappointed by the performance, it's not the eco-friendly that's to blame, it's the cheap crap part.

Actually, as far as I can tell the photos are viewable by anyone if they have the URL.
Example

Not only that, you make more MONEY. The DS version is selling for more than the Super Famicom version at used game shops. That's around $30 USD. New on Amazon it's around $40 for the DS. After all, you already made the game - it's almost all profit from there. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with this, it's just interesting.

Really. Check it out

In Italy, there is horse-meat (cavallo) babyfood. The first real culture-shock experience I had while grocery shopping.

Dean Kamen has been presenting this thing for months now... I even got to sit in it at the FIRST Championship earlier this year. More. photos. here.
Aaaand obligatory photo of this poster driving it.

No, it's socialism. I think you are complaining about how the two heads of the same friggin party are socialistic. Libertarians would say it's socialism. Anyone with a brain would say it's socialism. I don't have the information behind the graph to back this up, but it is interesting just in a thought-provoking sense:

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v374/179/71/1103467/n1103467_32537534_5793.jpg

A couple of months ago, I noticed that Facebook started telling me that I needed to turn on Javascript, even though I had facebook.com in my allow list in NoScript. I noticed that there was now a second server required, http://www.fbcdn.net/ (I checked CIRA's WhoIs and facebook.ca was snatched up by someone else in 2005). I was recently in the states, so I disallowed fbcdn.net in NoScript (just to see), and there were no complains about my Javascript setting until I returned north of the border.

This seems to imply that there are separate servers running for Canadians accessing Facebook, so at a minimum, that would give some leverage into forcing them to follow Canada's rules. Now, if those servers are physically located in Canada (no, I haven't bothered doing a traceroute to find out where fbcdn.net ends up), that would definitely force them to follow those rules.

Slightly OT, but in my current job and we recently went looking for a new hosting company to host our database (which has a fair amount of private data in it). Because my company gets a large amount of our budget for the federal and provincial governments (it's a non-profit) we like to abide by as many of the federal government rules when it comes to IT and data privacy. One of those rules is any private data must only be hosted in Canada and it can not leave the country. A few companies came to us as "the Canadian branch of hosting company X". The conversations went like this:
Me: Where are your datacenters?
Them: We have them all over the world.
Me: Ok, but in which of those datacenters is our data going to be physically hosted?
Them: We can do distributed hosting so it's in many different datacenters
Me: Yes or no, Are these datacenters in Canadian territory?
Them:
Me: So, I'll take that as a no, which means that you know we can't host with you because of the government ruling about hosting private data outside the country.
Them:
Me:

More and more Canadian companies are taking the approach of hosting only in Canada, if only to ensure that they know the rules for data privacy and know there won't be a conflict between Canada's and the other country's.