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Not just that, but from HotHardware.com's Editor-in-Chief himself.

Just ask MojoKid - he is apparently the "Editor In Chief At HotHardware.com", according to his profile here. He regularly posts links to his articles, and they're usually lacking in some way or another, hence the need to spam Slashdot with them. A link to the actual company's site would be better, which can be found here.

Maybe they have none of that technology.

One of my favourite short stories.

The problem with that is that "the greenhouse effect" is a *cause*, but "climate change" is a *result* -- they're two different things. We could make the Earth hotter by putting giant mirrors in orbit that send more sunlight our way ... that would cause climate change but would not be an example of the greenhouse effect at all.

Realistically, the problem with a name change is that politics more than anything else -- calling it by yet another name will make the conspiracy theorists think that you're trying to hide or obfuscate something (the link talks about Benghazi, but the ideas apply to climate change too), and while that's not true, the end result is still that it overall causes people to take the problem less seriously. I think we should stick with "climate change".

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

You're welcome.

There is an interesting point: In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year. (And that excludes benefits from Supplemental Security Income disability checks.)

If the middle class is getting screwed, it's not just the wealthy that are "benefiting." The article refers to a "typical" family (whatever that means) in Mississippi, but one needs only visit the websites of these entitlement programs and plug in the incomes to see what the benefit is.

The link to the original source is HERE, but I only get a blank page (well... I get the ads and menus and stuff, no article).

Hah, yes I'd have to agree. At least Goatse is upfront about trying to mind fuck you. Here is a funny ass video of an interview with the "creator".

Xmarks for bookmark management, and StumbleUpon for site discovery. SU stores favorited items into a bookmarks folder (in addition to the SU profile), and Xmarks does synchronization.

Both have excellent cross-browser/cross-platform plugins.

Warning: the Stumble button can be habit forming.

I think it's similar to http://www.stumbleupon.com/.

Orlando Florida recently passed a law that makes giving a homeless person food in public a crime. A lot of the city's most prominent men lobbied for it.
(The link I attach doesn't go into this last point, but the law is apparently suspended until a state court challenge is resolved - thank goodness!)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DHsvcwQEFKAI

Now you can't get a lot of their more exciting offerings like Server 2008 Datacenter edition unless you buy SA. Which means if you don't buy SA, you have to buy a separate copy of Server 2008 for each virtual machine you might run. And you can only transfer the license every 30 days, so if your cluster fails over you have to wait a month before you fail back, and run your cluster in non-redundant mode for that month. So the non-SA versions of Server 2008 are crippleware because they can't do HA. Way to sell product by subscription! These reality enhanced individuals have no idea what their competition is doing to their value proposition. And even if you buy into that they only support VMs that run Windows and their Novell Linux lapdog, SUSE SLED. Ubuntu? Redhat? Mandrake? Oracle Unbreakable Linux? BSD? Debian? Never heard of that stuff.

For those who are paying attention, Software Assurance is the incredible deal where you pay Microsoft every year 1/3 the price of their full software stack and in return you get to use the useful upgrades they come out with every twelve years for FREE. Isn't proprietary licensing great? There are other rules too. You wouldn't believe what obscure rules in the license agreement these tards pulled up when they were trying to drive Ernie Ball out of business. What they got instead is that he paid them, deleted their software, and became a Linux fan.

Suing your customers isn't the best way to win friends and influence people.

I have tried StumbleUpon before. Using a browser toolbar you submit binary ratings (thumb up or down) and then you can request website suggestions based on your profile. One in ten or twenty websites is a targeted advert. But it requires you to actively submit information. So you have at least some influence on how your profile looks like.

If he like Vista he would probably love Vixta which is just a version of Linux designed with the Vista bling, complete with gadgets and black taskbar.

That said I don't see why he just doesn't add the Vista bling to XP with Vista Transformation Pack which will give him all the bling and get rid of the awful blue "fisher price look" of XP. While I will take XP over Vista any day of the week even I admit the black taskbar looks better than that horrible blue.

Signal-To-Noise

If only there were a few million people out there willing to filter through this stuff and decide what was good and what wasn't.

Yeah, you're right, blogging will never take off.

(1) Let's be honest. These sites are hard-to-find. It's not something you just stumble upon.

Funny you should choose that term. Turn on "adult mode" or whatever they call it, and the BDSM images become surprisingly easy to find.

Not that I find this a problem...

"I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it's very economical," said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. I think that was the thinking when relating to this whale: http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=6ebjsqssjt

Really? Personally, I find that kinda hard to believe, ya know?

What's next, using MySpace and LinkedIn to promote political campaigns?

Here you go!

Elvish?

>> prohibiting digital alteration of an innocent image of a
>> child so that sexually explicit activity is instead depicted.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/pedobear/

I've found the results tend not to be as great as they were before in Google. Now days I am using social based bookmarking. Like Dogear http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/dogear.index.html and Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/ .

The results are so much better.

And lastly, the Internet is lousy for browsing. Browsing is about finding out what's available within a very broad class of stuff. Search engines can tell you that documents share keywords; they can't tell you for certain that the documents are actually about similar things. And within the search results, they're organized according to (roughly) how popular they are, as measured by how many sites link to them. They're not organized based on their similarities to or differences from one another.... There've been efforts to classify the web, but so far nothing really good has popped up....

StumbleUpon does a great job, in my opinion, of allowing you to browse a topic on the internet. Webpages are tagged by the collective, so it allows for fairly accurate browsing of topics like "history".

That's called StumbleUpon.com. Well, without the shock sites, the identity theft and bomb making, but it compensates with an extra dose of surprise.

Hmmmm....you mean like StumbleUpon?

My friend and I run a small indie music website called indiradio. We have about 250 songs on there, all totally independent (mostly -very- small bands), just bands trying to get their music out there. Check it out, and come participate... listeners can make accounts and take advantage of some of our lite-social-networking features (threaded comments on songs/artists, profiles with favorites, private messaging). Artists, post your music here... it's one more place for people to see it. We get decent StumbleUpon traffic sometimes.

We're also in the process of starting up a very different kind of indie record label. It's called 80/20 records. Put simply, we're giving artists 80% of the profit from all sales and licensing. No hidden fees, no recouping a big fat Mercedes (to quote High Fidelity). We don't have any artists yet, as we're still in the preliminary stages of launching this thing, but we hope to really turn the music industry on its head.

I actually read though the diagram several times, as a rating system it makes no sense. Get the viewers to watch a program and then rate it to see whether or not the viewers will watch it, I would have thought it kind of defeats the purpose if you had to watch the program to rate it to decide whether or not you would watch it, either that or M$ has just patented http://www.stumbleupon.com/, go microsofties, the market leaders of patenting already public ideas that have not yet been patented.

This must be true... South Park syas it is http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=9r6jgwkujz

The *only* reason to use a console over a PC is because the games will be optimized for your specific set of hardware, so you can be sure that there are no compatibility issues and it will probably run pretty smooth.

There's actually a website that does exactly this already. It's called StumbleUpon. You click a button and you're brought to a random page according to one of your many subscribed interests. If you like it, you say so, if you don't you vote it down. Bad pages don't get any up votes, or may even get down votes, and so they are quickly weeded out. Nice pages get some number of up votes and then subsequently get shown to more people who in turn might give them more up votes and so on.

Also wiiarcade.com has a handful of games that will work well with the Wii remote.

The Wii is interesting at the moment, not just because of its controller. It's so much more than that. First, you can grab all the used Gamecube games you can handle. All for super-cheap if you know where to look. Which means that the Wii can be used to play all the cool titles you might have missed. (I highly recommend Donkey Kong Jungle Beat!)

Secondly, the Virtual Console gives you all the classics under one roof. Whether you want to finally play Bonk, zip along with Sonic, relive Mario World or Mario 64, fly with StarFox, enter your favorite adventures with Zelda, or have a go at the hidden classics that you missed, the Virtual Console has a lot to offer.

Lastly, the free web browser is more than just a web browser. It's a portal to casual games, a television channel, and even a WiFi stereo system.

I won't even get into the fun you can have with hacking your Wii through the SD Cards and WiiMote. (If you're into that sort of thing.) Suffice it to say that you can transfer your Miis to the Internet, play your favorite SCUMMVM games, use your WiiMotes to play your computer games, and other fun hacking possibilities. :)

First Surf of The Day

Slashdot The Milwaukee Journal Gnews Fark Digg Mac OS X Hints Google Calendar Upper Room Google Personalized Home Page My Stumbleupon Page BuzzFeed Brookfield Now Facebook Three Random Stumbles

After the first run it is /., jsonline, Gnews, Fark, and Digg.

First Surf of The Day

Slashdot The Milwaukee Journal Gnews Fark Digg Mac OS X Hints Google Calendar Upper Room Google Personalized Home Page My Stumbleupon Page BuzzFeed Brookfield Now Facebook Three Random Stumbles

After the first run it is /., jsonline, Gnews, Fark, and Digg.

I'm not sure about the "deceptive" part, but http://www.stumbleupon.com/ just did the exact same thing to me, causing me to send invites to 100s of people. And of course, I feel stupid now, though I can't say that Stumbler's intent was 100% clear--by which I mean, a warning spelled out in big bold red letters warning me that each of these people would be sent a mail. I'm sure it says it somewhere in the fine print, but is that really enough?

It's not a "search engine" per-say but a lot of your talk of "automated meritocracy" sounds exactly like what StumbleUpon does in order to recommend content to users. People vote on a page, those votes are passed through an automated collaborative filtering system, and then the page is shown to more users who are predicted to like it, rinse lather and repeat. Good content rises to the top of the recommendation queue, so that new users (or people who just joined a category) are shown the things which the vast majority of people liked, in order to build up a rating history to personalize that person's recommendations.

Isn't http://www.stumbleupon.com/ already something like this?

They have a search functionality as well.

The big issue is how much content people are actually watching by going to you tube direct and creating web site loyalty and how many are just linking and are completely indifferent to the site hosting the content.

All content competes, there are only so many eyeballs and hours in the day. User created content competes for user time and means that in order to compete and regain access to the user, commercial content must be cheaper and even free. Consider the amount of time used up by slashdot, time the users would have spent with commercial copyrighted content in the prevvious century, that money is lost to the media cartels, who already have more content that any person could hope to make use of in their life time.

More and more content getting cheaper and cheaper, combined with ever greater user choice and the failing grip of B$ marketing is altering the whole media landscape. From severly limited TV licences and high capital investment of print media to the mass diversification and distribution channels of the internet. The media world is changing, and the high old world capital values of media distribution companies is just wacked in the new internet era, including the inflated values of the new internet players.

The future is more like http://www.stumbleupon.com/ where millions of people drift from site to site rather that any single portal. Consider the numbers, if every internet user creates just 30 seconds of interesting content, that 30 seconds on it's own would exceed the amount of content a person could make use of in a life time.

I could see something like stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/ being useful here. Allowing users to say - i suspect this of being phishing, or this is not a phishing site. BTW - I like how FF's spell checker has the word 'phishing' in it!

The point that M-theory (the string theories) has produced no testable hypotheses is negative speculation. Nobody has developed it enough to the point where it can be tested. It requires either development of the theory to the point where we can conduct tests based on current technology, or advances in technology to match with advances in the theory so that it can be tested at a finer level.

That said, there have been potentially testable hypotheses put forth, but they have not been able to be tested yet:
http://science-junkie.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/ 41510/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(science)( under "Arguments against"; search the document for 'testable')

In any case, it's convincing because the math works. The same was said of solar neutrinos*. The search continued for 30 years because the theory made sense despite something more negative than lack of testable hypotheses -- consistent failure of tests to produce the results predicted. Here we had what amount to falsification, yet they persisted and finally got their answer. Lack of falsification is a far more positive starting point.

And although M-theory is so stratospheric that few undertsand more than part of it, it is starting to develop an elegance. Like it or not, that's a telling sign that there's something there.

*ref. "The Golem" by Collins and Pinch

These are hilarious. I like all the "tension" jokes and the "red shirt" jokes.

I actually saw these the other day with the StumbleUpon tool (Stumble with this . I've seen lots of neat things... the tool can be pretty addictive, sometimes.

StumbleUpon has only positive reviews of the site, but I agree that it might be "funky." As always, run your usual anti-spyware apps and such. I honestly cannot remember the URL of where I downloaded GimpShop, as I now use Photoshop Elements.

I'm marking you as a friend because I love intelligent discourse. Dialectic, the interplay of ideas, to me this is the most beautiful thing about being human.

Did you read the Mark Twain essay? It's very short, and quite profound, well worth the read even if you don't agree with him in the end. I am an idealist at heart, and I wouldn't wear my hair shirt of supposing actions are inherently selfish unless I found real explanatory value in it. The way I see it, the very fact that unselfish acts arise from selfish motivations is beautiful. It shows that what we consider to be good is so for a reason, that what we conventionally see as good is in fact smarter than evil, to use two terms that often just muddy the waters.

I'd say Elli (NSFW!) has it done right. But that's just my opinion. Elli and her ilk could dominate the rest of the commercial industry. And god bless 'em.

Don't hate, just cause my wife is more vulgar than you isn't any reason to feel emasculated. It's not like she also runs an erotic link blog, but we won't even go there.

It's also not like she isn't educated enough to understand the original etymology either and having been on the recieving end of her explanations of the pejorative usage (sometimes also spelled ghey) I'd say she's a far sight removed from ignorant.

If it helps you any, think of it as equivalent to Michael Jackson's bad. If you feel it is derogatory, then get over it.

I for one will stick with StumbleUpon for socail bookmarks. http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Stumbleupon doesn't send your personal info to marketers. Advertising can be purchased from Stumbleupon, and will only been shown to stumblers whose profile shows they are interested in the relevant topics.

Incidentally, a good friend of mine is the founder of SU, we took the same data mining class at the U of Calgary, he's an honent guy. StumbleUpon shows your [advertising] page directly to websurfers according to preferences and demographics, ensuring only receptive audiences view your ad. This targeting approach also gives you insightful feedback from potential customers regarding the quality of your site.

Personally, I can rarely be sure that the stumble is an ad or not. Stumbleupon finds catagorizes you like, but also finds users with similar interests and shows you pages they like.

One of my favourite innovations in recent years has been StumbleUpon. It's a very simple idea — you install a StumbleUpon Firefox toolbar and click the "Thumbs Up" button when you come across sites you like, or the "Thumbs Down" button for sites you don't like. This way, StumbleUpon builds up a profile of the sorts of web surfer you are, and will then offer up a suggested website when you hit the "Stumble" button.

Using StumbleUpon, I've been presented with many really cool websites I woudn't have been able to find using Google, because I wouldn't have known to search for them. It seems my own interests are interactive flash websites, mathematics news, food, and philosophy. You mileage will vary, but will be catered for none the less.

I mean, if you haven't tried StumbleUpon yet, with its fantastic Firefox extension, you haven't seen nothing yet. Del.icio.us is a very poor design in comparison.