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What you recommend amounts to requiring all verified accounts to use 2-factor authentication. But that'll be impractical until Twitter starts allowing second factors other than SMS, such as TOTP (e.g. Google Authenticator) or a U2F key. As of the last time I checked, a single phone line could be associated with only one account. Trying to use a single phone line as the second factor for both your personal account and the business account that you manage produces an error message: "The phone number you gave us [...] is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time."

Has this changed?

When are high-profile people - particularly tech people - going to learn to use any of the multi-factor auth options available to them?

As soon as Twitter allows a person with more than one account to use two-factor authentication on more than one account without multiple cell phone lines.

If you control both a personal account and a business account, you can expect the following error message when adding a second account: "The phone number you gave us is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time." (screenshot). Many major 2FA IDPs other than Twitter support TOTP, and some support U2F keys through Google Chrome. Though the Twitter Rules allow a user to manage more than one account with distinct purposes,* a user has to either forgo 2FA for one account or fork over $120 per year for a second cell phone line. Have things changed materially since September 2014 when this article was written?

Furthermore, this article claims that an account can't have more than one number, which makes 2FA impractical for multiple staffers who tweet on a single account. One might consider using a landline shared by staffers in an office, but that doesn't work either. I tried to associate my Twitter account with a landline in May of this year, but it gave an error message that my carrier was unsupported.

If any of this has changed, link me the announcement.

* As opposed to these Twitter accounts, all of which which exist to praise GNU/Linux and bash "M$".

Intolerance abounds these days under the theme of "shouting down bigotry".

Dude, there are all kinds of bigots in the world. We won't be able to squelch them.

But all I have to say is if you feel oppressed because of Gay intolerance of your viewpoint, how's that feel?

At least they aren't dragging you behind pickup trucks until your skin and bones abrade, and they aren't burning you at the stake.

People blithely unaware they're acting much the same as those who opposed civil rights laws in the first place.

Blithely unaware? I doubt it. suppression released often has consequenses against the oppressors. You expect that people who burned you at the stake, or want to deny you normal human rights won't get backlash after their evil ways are not enforceable by law any more?

"O gee, you still hate us, but that's okay, we'll just accept the hate, and only offer you puppydogs and unicorns in exchange. Srsly?"

Metaphorically "us". The idea of hot sweaty hairy guy on guy action creeps me out a little. But I just don't engage in it - I don't enforce others to act as I do.

Thought this was cute: http://twitpic.com/d3xjj9

In this specific case, however, eHarmony is perfect for anyone offended by OKCupid's behavior, given their own history here. Heck, this could improve the utility of both dating services by filtering up front on this issue.

On the other hand, I won't allow people to dictate what Browser I use. Then again, dating sites are idiotic in the first place.

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Yes, there are quite a few apps that ask for access/permission to things they clearly should not have permissions for. I've taken quite a few screenshots of the abuse, posted on my Twitpic feed. Look closely at the dates some of these were posted:

http://twitpic.com/dfg0wn

http://twitpic.com/d7sepd

http://twitpic.com/ckgra5

http://twitpic.com/ckgr11

I found the issue with Brightest Flashlight almost a full year ago, now it's just recently hit the news. Sigh.
http://twitpic.com/cjlfvr

http://twitpic.com/cjl3r1

http://twitpic.com/cjg0q3

Pictures, or it didn't happen.

Ok, already. Here is a pic she sent me

something like this?

I've been (very slowly) doing something a bit similar with the moon --- see here --- although differently; I've been trying to render everything and producing ground-level views rather than producing a painted sphere like TFA. (His looks better from a distance. Mine looks better close up.) I've been trying to use procedural texturing and atmospheric effects. The pictures above are rather out of date; rendering your own from SVN will look better.

Unfortunately rendering things the size of planets from very close up runs into big problems with floating point precision. The only renderer I've found which will do it at all is Povray, and even then there are loads of bugs --- volumetric effects for things like clouds is well buggered at this sort of scale. See this picture for an example. Plus Povray's is really slow at procedural surfaces.

Right now I really need to start again from scratch using higher-resolution terrain and gravity data from some of the recent lunar probes, and I also probably want to switch to a different renderer which works at higher precision. Any suggestions of a fast raytracer that does procedural isosurfaces, volumetric effects and works at double precision will be gratefully appreciated...

I will also share this test render with you, which I think is delightfully surreal...

I've been (very slowly) doing something a bit similar with the moon --- see here --- although differently; I've been trying to render everything and producing ground-level views rather than producing a painted sphere like TFA. (His looks better from a distance. Mine looks better close up.) I've been trying to use procedural texturing and atmospheric effects. The pictures above are rather out of date; rendering your own from SVN will look better.

Unfortunately rendering things the size of planets from very close up runs into big problems with floating point precision. The only renderer I've found which will do it at all is Povray, and even then there are loads of bugs --- volumetric effects for things like clouds is well buggered at this sort of scale. See this picture for an example. Plus Povray's is really slow at procedural surfaces.

Right now I really need to start again from scratch using higher-resolution terrain and gravity data from some of the recent lunar probes, and I also probably want to switch to a different renderer which works at higher precision. Any suggestions of a fast raytracer that does procedural isosurfaces, volumetric effects and works at double precision will be gratefully appreciated...

I will also share this test render with you, which I think is delightfully surreal...

That is a different design/layout, missing the indentations between the points of the screw driver. Here's the one used on the iPhone: http://twitpic.com/3rt9sa

You might be able to drive the Apple screw with the torx bit,but the bumps in the screw head look like they would block it. That's assuming you could get one small enough. Nobody is saying that there were not 5-spline screw heads before the iPhone 4, just that this particular head is new and apparently chosen as it was esoteric enough that existing 5-spline bits wouldn't fit.

Picture of sample here: here.

No rxn. That rock looks normal too.... shure... anything but heated and pressed.. amirite?

There's an awesome picture here taken from the MRO of the parachute deployed. This is breath-taking.

Taken from the twitter feed of a somewhat anthropomorphised representation of Curiosity.

No need to get butt hurt. You're right about MS. They had the most to lose by Office losing its dominance by having a free standard controlled by someone else. Google isn't the only company in WHATWG but they're certainly the biggest one who has the most to gain by pushing everything into onto the web and of course they have the most to lose if that doesn't happen or takes too long.

It doesn't matter to them if we head back to a dark age where developing a site that supports all browsers is a PITA.

Or stuff like this, as noted by one of their WHATWG partners. https://twitpic.com/a9cji2

The difference between a bunch of electronics bundled together and a gadget that everybody wants to use is the design.

http://www.twitpic.com/a1t93e. ;-)

http://twitpic.com/3djlet

Here is an image to send to the MAFIAA-> http://twitpic.com/8wqj94

and the police in London declaring Occupy protesters a terrorist movement,

citation needed.

Or are you referring to their including info regarding the protests in their regular circular which is used primarily to inform local businesses of relevant threats? The circular is an obvious place to include it and in it they are referred to as "peaceful" and "activists". The alternative would have been to print a specific leaflet, even though it would be going to the same people and is on the same broad topic of security, contingency planning and so on.

A bit of common sense from the police leads to headlines like "Police include Occupy movement on ‘terror’ list". Note the 'terror list' is an actual thing, and Occupy is not on it.

Desk-based "protesters" love to repeat and hype up this drivel ad nauseam but anyone with the slightest bit of sense can't miss the stench of bullshit. This then taints the entire movement by putting doubt on the credibility of any claims.

How do you Samsung / Android apologists argue with this, this and this?

If that's not blatant copying*, I don't know what is.

*disclaimer, I work for a large industrial manufacturing company that has had our products copied and ripped off by Samsung.

This one might be more relevant to the discussion: what tablets looked like before and after the iPad.

And if you found that interesting, check out what Apple thought tablets should look like before they came up with the iPad.

Also, Knight-Ridder invented the iPad in 1994... 16 years before Apple did (Apple released the first iPad in April 2010, according to Wikipedia).

This one might be more relevant to the discussion: what tablets looked like before and after the iPad.

Individuals won't last long against a mob, but this supposedly shows a group of people scaring the looters away from their businesses. Seems like the looters don't deal well with people standing up to them

I left Google+ due to their data deletion policies, Google+ would blanket delete your entire Google existence without warnings if you even innocently did something that they did not like on Google+. Which such a policy, I do not feel comfortable having Google+ linked to the rest of my Google data.

I am a content creator, and I would not like having things on my various accounts deleted cause of a simple policy violation. I figure they still have to iron out the legal issues to do with this, but till they figure it out, I'm out.

For example: If you change your name 5 times (or just correct it), Google says it would delete all your information. I kid you not. Saw this dialog and felt Google+ was not for me. As a content creator, I already deal with similar issues on YouTube, at least there you can appeal.

http://twitpic.com/5my6yr

Crowdsourcing? Sometimes you don't even need that, sometimes a muppet hands himself in because he LOVES FACEBOOK SO MUCH! Honestly. Read it and weep for humanity.

http://twitpic.com/22sgdu
Saw this at the Subway inside of the Syracuse, NY bus/train station - a sign at least warning people not to use their phones while they're in the front of the lien and are thus supposed to be ordering. Reminds me of the behavior of an inconsiderate Starbucks patron cited in Weird Al's song "Craigslist"

(Yeesh, let's try that again.)

Here's a remix of that xkcd strip that the MER team liked better than the original: http://twitpic.com/52etk7.

Goodbye, Spirit, love, and well done.

There is a nice infographics by Brand24.pl about the impact Startup Weekend Warsaw generated http://twitpic.com/4ym3so!

Taken by a friend of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIYVjqAd3Y

Awesome video, I'm glad he decided to go with a tripod or at least keep it stationary. Here's an amateur picture from the other side.

Here's what the seized-domain page looks like:
http://www.twitpic.com/4lmdsx

Meanwhile, on Twitter, they bought ad space to promote IE9 over the release of FF4. Stay classy, Microsoft! http://twitpic.com/4c6nth

And yet another, which goes somewhat higher than that chart

http://twitpic.com/49mm4l

Not when you get shoddy media outlets keen to cash in on some scaremongering.
http://twitpic.com/48zpsn/full

... In the event that the Service operates at less than 75% of the Maximum Speed,the Customer shall be entitled to have its contract migrated to the next most appropriate Service speed (the "Lower Speed Service") and be invoiced the corresponding Charges for this Service. Where the Installation Charges and/or Annual Rental Charges for the Lower Speed Service are lower than the Charges already paid for by the Customer in relation to the previous speed of Service the Customer shall be issued a credit note in respect of the difference. This shall be the sole remedy of the Customer in respect of any failure by Easynet Connect to provide the Service at the Maximum Speed.

At least in the UK you have the potential to have your contract migrated and/or price lowered based on service provided. I wish we had that here in the USA, however the telco-cable-cellular oligopoly would rather spend $1.5M per week lobbying our politicians not to provide Fiber To The Home (FTTH is the ONLY viable long term solution to the bandwidth scarcity myth and the BS price increases that come with it) not to mention net neutrality and all the lies they tell. Consider also that they have received in excess of $200 Billion since 1990 to provide US Customers with one thing FIBER. I have heard numbers as high as $900 Billion since 1990, but could not find the source, so lets assume they have only received $200 Billion of our tax dollars, its still very damning to the industry. Hint: it did not cost EPB in Chattanooga, TN $200 Billion to provide 2500 businesses and 20,000 residential customers FTTH 7 years ahead of schedule. The network has now been built past 140,000 of the 170,000 homes EPB serves in greater Chattanooga. They finished it with an extra $112 Million.

How many communities if $200B? How many if $900B?

$200,000,000,000 / $112,000,000 = 1,785 Communities (20,000 Residential, 2,500 Businesses);
$900,000,000,000 / $112,000,000 = 3,085 Communities

Even if the $112M was in addition to 200M, that would only be 312M

$200,000,000,000 / $312,000,000 = 641 Communities. Way more than 30!

So if every FTTH build out cost between $112M and $312M (some might be more, some might be less American telcos should have provided Fiber To The Home to between 641 and 3,085 communities as of 2010.

Don't forget they are reported to spend $1.5M per week lobbying for laws against competition and not to provide Fiber at all. Heck yes every American should be ANGRY!

But don't be angry, make a STAND!

While we could debate exactly how many communities should have FTTH. for our $200 Billion in tax dollars (tax money + fees + add'l taxes on bills), not to mention the $1.5M per week they spend lobbying against it, one thing is sure, there should be more than 30 communities as of 2010! Its been 20 years, look what Chattanooga did in 3 years!.

WHERE'S THE FIBER?

Its such a racket. Should it be criminal? It's definitely fraud...up to, please, how about above 768Kbps up to something higher! Its amazing with their abuse of trust that anyone uses them...oh that's right, in most markets customers do NOT have viable alternatives.

I was watching a show on Hulu and reading email...which is what brought me here...I doubt anyone here would consider that heavy bandwidth use. But if you do not know, its NOT heavy usage at all, not even close. The video stopped streaming, I checked my DD-WRT 24x7 bandwidth monitoring log (most residential routers do not allow you to see this) and my crappy cable provider that I am paying $60.99 for "up to" 16Mb/2Mb was only allowing me between 30K-60Kb upstream. wi

http://twitpic.com/3widwp

Do you think for a second it is their for any reason but humor?

Do you really think he is trying to get rioters to purchase his goods during the uproar?

For all ethical purposes, Bing should be labelled "powered by Google".

I so much agree that I tweeted a twitpic ;-)

Hats off to the classy approach to being swamped by /. linkage: http://twitpic.com/3tmjo6 Grace under pressure. Cheers!

Doesn't render correctly in Firefox for me, which is a shame.

http://twitpic.com/3tj4ax

If you can identify the top jet in this image http://twitpic.com/3lw29q
you can get a pretty good size comparison.

The old bit about radar cross sections is meaningless without the some reference to the aspect. (Coming, going, side on, bottom view, etc). As posted above, f-117 are not all that hard to spot with old school long wave radars.

Goes both ways.

In wingnut fantasy land, maybe.

This was actually hosted on DailyKos (before they airbrushed it). http://twitpic.com/3o7s5c

Since when does "dead to me" count as a threat of violence? It's cutting off ties & support, not threatening violence - but of course you knew that already.

The wingnuts don't have a counter-example here, they have a lame, transparent tactic.

Goes both ways. This was actually hosted on DailyKos (before they airbrushed it). http://twitpic.com/3o7s5c

http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/news-events/news/2010/12/amazon-severs-ties-with-wikileaks

"I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them. Wikileaks' illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world."

C.f. "There are times when we must all endure adjustment to the Constitution in the name of security."

Coincidence? I think not!

10v works fine too http://twitpic.com/tywtq

I actually would like to see "make everything greyscale" button and keyboard shortcut in taskbar/etc.; too often colors screams at the eyes for no good reason.

Another thing: human eyes see more resolution in black and white than they do in colour. DVDs use twice as much data for luma compared to chroma, because it is an effective way to use the bits available.

In the same way, it makes sense to use black & white for most elements on screen, and only use colour where you want to grab the user's attention.
An excellent example of this is the "Save/Delete" dialog in Mail.app.

This is especially topical since this was spotted at the Barns and Noble on Rittenhouse square in Philadelphia last month.

http://twitpic.com/1rkm7d