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To be fair, Keating feels that the NY Times article was not very representative of her opinions; the article is a lot more down on the streaming income than she is.

Her statements on the income from online streaming are pretty neutral; she's not totally gung-ho about it (like, say, maybe Johnathan Coulton would be), but she's also not really putting it out there in a complaining, "wah wah Spotify should be giving me more money" sense.

Obligatory:

Hey girl, the only way you're gonna keep my stack from overflowing is if you dereference my pointer.

Did we learn nothing from the x-surface debacle?

Belkins actually advertising it for the very purpose they're worried about:
http://belkinwemo.tumblr.com/post/32629402162/did-i-turn-it-off-i-must-have-turned-it-off-did

Plug in dangerous things so you can be sure their turned off by checking your phone.

Yes, but it's all in how she carries it. What matters more [pdf] is the hip-to-waist ratio. For every man that would pass these women by, another will lust.

Yes, but it's all in how she carries it. What matters more [pdf] is the hip-to-waist ratio. For every man that would pass these women by, another will lust.

Why do they link to a cnet article about a blog rather than the blog itself? Here's the proper link http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/

Goddammitsomuch. Link fail. Here.

and the hot girlfriend's tumblr, as my penance.

Here is the first one I read.

http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/post/9341558088/a-major-open-source-conference-in-paris

That guy doesn't seem very dumb to me.

'I still do use their services from time to time'.

What he means is he loves the abuse. I'm not sure if that counts as being dumb or not.

Here is the first one I read.

http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/post/9341558088/a-major-open-source-conference-in-paris [tumblr.com]

That guy doesn't seem very dumb to me.

12 paragraphs about paypal scewing him over followed by "I still do use their services from time to time".

You have a different dumb threshold than me.

Most of the sellers I read about we're just dumb

Here is the first one I read.

http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/post/9341558088/a-major-open-source-conference-in-paris

That guy doesn't seem very dumb to me.

Credit card policies are not very different

Again, citing the example I linked above, "six months" seems to be going above and beyond what most credit card policies try to enforce.

At least, I would never expect eventbrite.com to take that long to transfer funds (obviously) needed for a conference.

Agreed, I stopped spamming people with that one after it reached the 25k, which Heymann's petition hasn't reached yet.

After her bullshit self applause today however I'm all in favor of pushing her petition over 100k before they respond.

"I feel comfortable and I support the process that was done here..." - Carmen Ortiz, commenting on the aftermath to the Swartz case.

"Ortizâ(TM)s statement is a template for all that is awful in what we as a political culture have become. And it pushes me â" me, the most conventional, wanting-to-believe-in-all-things-patriotic, former teenage Republican from the home of Little League baseball â" to a place far more radical than I ever want to be." - Lessig

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40845525507/a-time-for-silence

While I think this is a good idea, I think that it's really too superficial. It very narrowly addresses a very specific problem with the law.

There are two really great little tidbits I found online that talk about what the actual problems with the law are:

• The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law - 16A - Problems
• Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: accountability for prosecutorial abuse

The first link is actually a really great series that provides a very nice explanation for a lot of things about how criminal law works.

http://breathedbrain.tumblr.com/image/412201190

The issue is not the laws he broke. The issue is not even the sentence a fair and just court might have assigned. The issue is the _punishment sought_ by the United States Federal Government in the person of a Federal Prosecutor for breaking those laws.

Conceivably fifty years in prison for circumventing a paywall and leeching bandwidth. Does that sound like "proportional response" to you?

It does not matter what "deal" the prosecutor secretly had in mind. Government must be held publicly accountable, and publicly the prosecutor was willing to have someone stagnate in a federal prison for fifty years for the above crimes.

If you haven't already, please read this blog by a solicitor who knew Aaron. http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

You sir, are cluesless. Only an idiot tries to commit suicide and fails. Most of the ones who try to commit suicide and fail are in desperate need of help and don't really wish to die. The ones who try and succeed actually want to die. Further, it's easy to say that faced with financial ruin, an order from a judge not to seek public financial support and facing 50+ years in prison, you wouldn't also commit suicide. Yes, many guilty and bad people face 30 years, 50 years, life or even execution for crimes fitting those terms and don't commit suicide. But how anyone can consider downloading the JSTOR Acedemic article archive as a serious felony worth 50 years in a Federal Prison, is revolting. How you got modded insightful is a mystery to me. As you clearly have no grasp of psychology or the what drives suicide.

Here's a word from another friend of Aaron: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

*goes to fund some non-macbook-carrying-hipster projects*

No, it's mostly wallets.

So... Node.js, chalked full of easy ways to leak memory (ie don't change default debug console, or use a crappy gzip library) but the ability to write code that runs/renders either on the server or on the client with the same code and low-level libraries to make the decision of the best place to render--ie render same code on server or client--makes JS on the server-side rather attractive. I run, Operations side, over 1000+ websites on a Node.js farm (talking 200-300 mbit/sec of sustained daily web-traffic), and it scales a lot better than PHP from both a templating side (many similar but different sites with inheritance based properties) and from the performance scaling side.

From a PLT side, yea, JS ain't the best, but it's a defacto web-rendering technology and its use on the server can simplify a lot of things, not to mention that JS in V8 is pretty quick to boot, although it does have heap limitation based around the 32-bit code V8 generates.

I leave comment readers with a wonderful link: This PLT Life

So now you want to conflate eating meat with rape, and then tell me I need to study formal logic a bit more? You need to study your teeth and your stomach a bit more. Presumably you are already sufficiently familiar with your asshole.

Carnivore teeth:
1) Tiger
2) Baboon

Herbivore teeth:
1) Deer
2) Horse

And finally, human teeth.

We like to think of ourselves as "King of the Jungle", and we are. But that's not due to our physical power, but rather, to our brain power. Also - our teeth are much closer to the herbivore's teeth than to the carnivores. We don't have the ruminant stomachs, but we have the ruminant teeth with a carnivore-lite's stomach. Which suggests to me that we're probably designed to eat mostly plants but can digest animal protein if we come across it.

http://anarchycamp.tumblr.com/post/18845167175/ive-made-a-robot-that-screams-why
I've made a robot that s/screams/vomits!
Why?

Well Done, Sir. Well Done

2: blog http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html Apology http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry

8: First ad http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=c7SjvLceXgU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dc7SjvLceXgU Parody http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-2vfxnfWGRA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-2vfxnfWGRA

9: Homeless people http://bbh-labs.com/homeless-hotspots-a-charitable-experiment-at-sxswi Wrote http://www.wired.com/business/2012/03/the-damning-backstory-behind-homeless-hotspots-at-sxswi/

Other links to LATimes articles, I did not know they were paywalled, lo siento. S.F.

That's just American exceptionalism bullshit. Since you skipped it the first two times:

The logic is the same - "how can you say xyz country is great when their people are suffering from abc". That the scales and variables are different does nothing to change the core formula.

The people of NK would almost to a person kill or risk death to have a chance to live in the US.

Batshit irrelevant. That deflection crap was old when Bushies were using it to defend Cheney's torture regime - "what, you think you'd have it better in Syria?" Of course things are worse in Syria. That's not the fucking point, dumbass. If North Korea, a third world dictatorship, cannot be praised until they start taking better care of their people, then the United States, a first world democracy, cannot be praised until it takes better care of it's poor, stops bombing the shit out of other countries, and stops treating the Bill of Rights as a list of suggestions instead of a list of requirements. That's not saying that the U.S. == N.K.

ludicrous and offensive.

So fucking what.

Imagine if the Justice League met as super-powered children instead of adults. And their gym teacher was Darkseid. And Batman and Superman pretending to be Spider-man with the mouth sound effects (Tchoo!) Its sweet without being over-bearing and hits that perfect note of what it is to be children.

http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/

Right. Bees are not cute and cuddly. And bears are.

Feast your eyes on the rise of the pink, shopping-themed LEGO.

http://sinker.tumblr.com/post/14267087602/im-starting-to-think-lego-is-evil

See extension breaking, status bar removal, tabs on bottom option removal, bugs unsolved for a decade etc. Pretty soon it will be firefox depicted as eating the glue.

I don't think Firefox developers have been eating the glue.

They've been snorting it.

See extension breaking, status bar removal, tabs on bottom option removal, bugs unsolved for a decade etc. Pretty soon it will be firefox depicted as eating the glue.

Maybe not all of China:
Hong Kong seems to be missing all sorts of information.

Oh, and part of China has made an appearance in Poland.

Maybe not all of China:
Hong Kong seems to be missing all sorts of information.

Oh, and part of China has made an appearance in Poland.

Maybe not all of China:
Hong Kong seems to be missing all sorts of information.

Oh, and part of China has made an appearance in Poland.

Even right in the middle of a major area like St. Louis, it did pretty poorly for me.

But if you need more convincing, See this blog full of terrible screenshots!

Isn't it usually blue?

Plus the Andorians live right next to them and we all know what they are like.

Indeed. Where's the sign-up list?

They have posted an update here ... I would say their most plausible explanation is probably the correct one judging from the original picture:

Most plausible, least exciting: someone purchased one from the replica-maker on Ebay that we linked to yesterday, and on its way to the recipient, it wormed its way out of an outside package. Thinking the Egyptian postage was legit, a wayward mail carrier wrote on our zip code and it hitchhiked its way to our office. Certainly less exciting than our other options, but would still be a hilarious end to our vexing problem. If you are the original Ebay seller of this item and have an angry customer who never got their package, please let us know.

They have posted an update here ... I would say their most plausible explanation is probably the correct one judging from the original picture:

Most plausible, least exciting: someone purchased one from the replica-maker on Ebay that we linked to yesterday, and on its way to the recipient, it wormed its way out of an outside package. Thinking the Egyptian postage was legit, a wayward mail carrier wrote on our zip code and it hitchhiked its way to our office. Certainly less exciting than our other options, but would still be a hilarious end to our vexing problem. If you are the original Ebay seller of this item and have an angry customer who never got their package, please let us know.

Oh, GREAT!... Here I take the good time and trouble to call someone a pinhead for their spelling/grammar/proof-reading abilities, and for WHAT?!? So I can f$ck it all up, MYSELF!

http://www.beedictionary.com/common-errors/grammer_vs_grammar

That'd be grammAR checker... Pinhead.

Here endeth the rant.

Vote Quimby.

http://milobloom.tumblr.com/post/35829454814/its-not-me-its-you-or-the-rights-attempt-to

Don't mangle a legal text. This is the actual phrase in law:

(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The only part that is "under penalty of perjury" is the last half which says that they have permission from the copyright holders of the alleged work - not the actual work. In short "I think this file is the latest Harry Potter movie, and under penalty of perjury I'm authorized by Warner Bros to send DMCA notices for the latest Harry Potter movie". What's in the file is irrelevant as long as they don't lie about being authorized by Warner Bros. If any other part of the information in the notice is wrong it is only punishable as misrepresentation.

(f) Misrepresentations. - Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section -
(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.

Unfortunately the key words here are "knowingly materially misrepresents", in plain English I'd probably say "lying". I'm going to borrow a mens rea-meter from the illustrated guide to criminal law, knowingly is very high up on the scale above reckless and negligent - basically unless you're sending out false DMCA notices on purpose there's no penalty at all. There is no penalty for being negligent or even reckless when sending out DMCA notices.

We don't know what actually happened. As much as Apple wanted to get away from Google for whatever reasons, they want to make good products even more. Maybe he was fired because he told Tim that his maps would be as good as Google's, which led to Tim dropping Google, and when he didn't deliver good maps, that's what caused the firing. Maybe Tim would have been willing to live with Google a little longer if he thought it was necessary, but he was led to believe it wasn't.

Tell the boss you can deliver, then deliver: good.

Tell the boss you can deliver, then don't: bad. Especially if the boss is making other big decisions based on your promise.

So maybe he wasn't fired because Maps was bad per se, but because he didn't do his job well. A subtle but important distinction. Or maybe he wasn't that great in general, and Maps was the last straw. We just don't know. Unlike the last two guys who got sacked, Mr. Map wasn't well-known at all.

And to answer your original question: it's a general rule of the universe that if you're going to replace something, it had better be pretty comparable to what it's replacing. Yes, Google has been doing this for a long time, but "what it takes to make a good map app" is very much a known quantity by now so it should be relatively easy to replicate -- or at least hold your product up in comparison to see if it's as good.

Besides the well-known hilarity of the new Maps, I hate that they got rid of the red/yellow/green indicators for traffic. I'd roll back to iOS 5 for that reason alone* if I could. Plus there are many other details that aren't as good as on the old Maps, and the improvements don't come close to compensating for them.

PS: thanks for being French. "Escape goat" is awesome. :-)

* Also, since upgrading to iOS 6 and then 6.0.1, my iPhone 4S gets literally half the battery life it did under iOS 5. Hoping a future point update fixes this...

I don't know if anyone has made that happen yet, but someone did put together this animation of the rotation: http://cchh023.tumblr.com/image/36728440116

Iran exports Shia terror as well. Just look at Hezbollah. Iran even supports Sunni Hamas (although they have tried disastrously to shift them towards Shia Islam).

Iran supports Shia (and some Sunni) terror groups mainly as a tool in its quest for regional domination in a region filled by Sunni Arab states - they don't really aspire to be a world superpower, or to create a Caliphate, at least not in the foreseeable future. Similar to the numerous proxy wars of Cold War, where both US and Soviets supported various organizations that used means that would be unambiguously described as terrorist today.

So Iranians are much more like Soviets in that way - they do have their own repressive ideology, and it's not all that nice, but the ruling class doesn't treat it as some kind of "death or glory" manifest destiny, and they can be reasoned with. It's quite different from Salafi fanatics, who literally just want to see the world burn.

Perhaps in a way it's our fault, but back then we weren't thinking that far ahead and were more concerned with containing the soviets. Shit happens.

Leaving the past be is well and good, but only provided that its mistakes are recognized, and its lessons are learned. But when CIA brass hangs this painting in their headquarters in 2008, all while supplying AA missiles to Islamist rebels in Libya, and now talk of doing the same in Syria, well - there's serious doubt about that. I can only shake my head in disbelief and go "tsk tsk, when will you guys learn?".

There's a pretty clever blog that has found even older references to the island right where it shouldn't be:

• British Map, 1895: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297730254
• German Map, 1881: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/post/36297688705/german-map-1881-note-that-there-are-two-sandy
• British Map, 1922: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297845583

There's a pretty clever blog that has found even older references to the island right where it shouldn't be:

• British Map, 1895: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297730254
• German Map, 1881: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/post/36297688705/german-map-1881-note-that-there-are-two-sandy
• British Map, 1922: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297845583

There's a pretty clever blog that has found even older references to the island right where it shouldn't be:

• British Map, 1895: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297730254
• German Map, 1881: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/post/36297688705/german-map-1881-note-that-there-are-two-sandy
• British Map, 1922: http://mapsofsandyisland.tumblr.com/image/36297845583

Don't worry, Apple Maps had to make up its island quota in other ways.

Aw, little butthurt white weenie. I am trying real hard not to laugh. But failing, tee hee.

What's particularly disturbing is that the prudism is getting worse over time. A good example is the original Andromeda Strain. It has a G rating on it, but features (briefly) a naked woman in it. Were it to come out today, it would get an instant R rating for that scene alone.

Or Walt Disney's G-Rated Fantasia:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/night-on-bald-mountain?before=1337222899 (the furies in Night on Bald Mountain were bare-chested, as were the centaurettes in the opening of the Pastoral Symphony).

Does anyone actually even USE gifs anymore??

...
Aside from the odd animated gif here and there, I've not really thought I'd encountered one in a LONG time...

Shocked to see it as word of the year...

Even in 2012, animated gifs are more common than you give them credit for. People are even doing really neat things with them such as this (and I've got to admit, a 256 color palette is hard to work with, but they've made it look pretty good for the most part.)

I do concur though, it's odd for it to be the "word of the year" this far after its prime.

The best use I've ever seen of GIFs: If We Don't, Remember Me.