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This is not something new. Someone else is doing this already for WW2: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII.

That's done already! https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII

I tweeted this to @AOCusa, so maybe if enough people get on their case about it, they will make a 1080P version: "@AOCusa Please make your 16" USB Display with a higher-res panel (1600x900 or 1080P). Great idea, but 1366x768 too low to add much value."

Type safety-type schmafety, who cares as long as it passes unit tests?

Bitcoin == CO2 Bitcoin only works because it's incredibly inefficient.

I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me

From here. In your hasty attempt to defend Kim Dotcom you might have wanted to actually do a but more research.

Um. Kim's actual twitter message was "Google, Facebook, Twitter, I ask you for help. We are all in the same DMCA boat. Use my patent for free. But please help funding my defense." That's not really threatening to sue, that's asking for help. Yellow journalism much?

There are people like that everywhere, in one flavour or another. You'll note that I said "in general." (Here's a highlights reel if you're bored.)

Isn't there already a perfectly good forum for outing suspicious people in Florida?

State Police say there were no warrants or advisories on any of the individuals and "there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing."

How does that justify a tip line for people to report suspected terrorist activity?

Reconnaissance of vulnerable targets.

Even if those people were trying to poison the water, that reservoir holds 412 billion gallons of water. You would have to dump tanker truck loads of poison it before you'd have any chance of making anyone sick.

You only have sufficiently dense poison of sufficient toxicity at the water intake. You don't have to have a uniform distribution of poison or biological substance through the entire reservoir. In the same way, poison only needs to get to your heart or brain, not your little toe.

There's simply no way that seven people trespassing can carry enough of anything to have any real effect, yet that's exactly the sort of thing that would get reported to the tip line (along with crazy people reporting their neighbors and all the people reporting Florida Man).

Since you can't piece it together, I'll lay it out: 7 people conduct reconnaissance, note where the water intakes are, and identify routes to the place. At some future time, either they or others return driving trucks of toxic substance and dump it at the water intake, achieving lethal density of toxins.

But I forget myself, we should only be picking up bodies, not preventing them from being poisoned.

Have you seen what how the idiots in Florida behave? Terrorists don't need to file false reports of suspicious activity. The people living there will file a ton of real reports of suspicious activity which will almost all turn out to crazy people with no intentions of committing terrorism.

State Police say there were no warrants or advisories on any of the individuals and "there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing."

How does that justify a tip line for people to report suspected terrorist activity?

Even if those people were trying to poison the water, that reservoir holds 412 billion gallons of water. You would have to dump tanker truck loads of poison it before you'd have any chance of making anyone sick.

There's simply no way that seven people trespassing can carry enough of anything to have any real effect, yet that's exactly the sort of thing that would get reported to the tip line (along with crazy people reporting their neighbors and all the people reporting Florida Man).

Additionally, this is the person in the credits who edited it, also a Canadian, and doesn't work for any space agency. Let's try not to think everything is a conspiracy, please.

The only conspiracy coming from up here (canada) is a push for more maple syrup for breakfast, and bacon in every meal. We're winning on one of those fronts.

Let's not forget about operation Poutine.

Additionally, this is the person in the credits who edited it, also a Canadian, and doesn't work for any space agency. Let's try not to think everything is a conspiracy, please.

The only conspiracy coming from up here (canada) is a push for more maple syrup for breakfast, and bacon in every meal. We're winning on one of those fronts.

Additionally, this is the person in the credits who edited it, also a Canadian, and doesn't work for any space agency. Let's try not to think everything is a conspiracy, please.

Meanwhile, in delicious irony, Google Docs and Drive are down and inaccessible.

"Google Drive documents list goes empty for users "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583952-93/google-drive-documents-list-goes-empty-for-users/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=statusnet

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=google%20drive&src=typd

Facebook,Twitter and Flickr seem to disagree with you.

"Florida Teen", is that " Florida Man"'s sidekick?

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan agrees with you.

Important: If you have a relationship (other than as an ordinary reader) to the author or publisher of a book you're reviewing, disclose that relationship. This means not only cases like "My brother, the author, has given me a million dollars to type this review, and is holding me at gunpoint, while dictating to me from the Amazon review he himself wrote," but also "I used to work at this book's publisher, and was a technical reviewer for this book's three chapters on networking," or "The author is a good friend of mine." Better to disclose more than you think necessary (it can always be edited out if sensible; we'll let you know if we think there's an inappropriate conflict of interest) than less than actually necessary. If in doubt, please speak up.

Yet the author of the review is a "Senior Editor at Slashdot," Nick Kolakowski (Twitter, Literary Gun For Hire), who writes articles for Slashdot (and other places) and apparently submits them under the guise of a "user" named Nerval's Lobster. Nerval's Lobster's submissions are "accepted" by the editors nearly every day, and always link to Slashdot's "Business Intelligence" or "Cloud" content... effectively passing off paid content as normal, user-submitted content.

Two of the three links in the review are to Kolakowski's own "Business Intelligence" articles. The link to the book itself goes to Amazon and contains Slashdot's "Associates ID" (slashdot0c-20) to ensure Slashdot gets a cut of any sales this review drives.

Piece it together:
1. A Slashdot employee writes a favorable (7/10) review of a book
2. The same employee submits it under the guise of a normal reader (see the summary which ends with "Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here...")
3. The editors post the review (because nearly everything "Nerval's Lobster" submits gets accepted by the editors, and it all links back to Slashdot paid content)
4. Readers believe the review was submitted by a regular reader, and the huge wave of traffic invariably-driven by any Slashdot story results in a fair number of click throughs and purchases
5. Slashdot gets a referral fee from Amazon for getting people to buy the book from them

I have no problem with Slashdot staff writing a book review, as long as the relationship is disclosed, per Slashdot's own guidelines. I have no problem with a regular user writing a review and Slashdot making a few bucks by pointing readers to Amazon to buy that book. But he way they did it today makes it look like Kolakowski only wrote the review and the editors only accepted it because their employer is getting a kickback from Amazon. Making money is OK, but disguising paid content as user-submitted content is not. That's not what people come to Slashdot to find--it's a sleight of hand.

Before you mod me down as a troll, consider that Kolakowski's review points out that one should take the business motivations of the book's authors into account when weighing what they have to say:

Of course, Schmidt and Cohen extolling the virtues of the cloud is like two corporate board-members of McDonald's insisting that burgers are delicious and everyone in the world should eat them three times a day.

Slashdot readers should be able to do the same with the authorship of stories and book reviews.

Does work from home come with hazard pay?

The New York Times is reporting that the two suspects attempted to light a bomb while engaging in gun-fire with the police during a standoff outside of the Watertown, MA, house of Andrew Kitzenberg. Andy Kitzenberg has been live tweeting images of the police activity, shootout, and bomb explosions, and a bullet going through his wall and his armchair on twitter as linked above.

One of the brothers went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin, one of the oldest high schools in the USA.

http://t.co/0A3Mjmshkz
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https://twitter.com/AKitz/status/325121071479156736/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/akitz = andrew kitzenberg's twitter site
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supposedly, backpacks on Laurel Street where a police shoot-out occured. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3664323&cid=43490229

http://t.co/0A3Mjmshkz
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https://twitter.com/AKitz/status/325121071479156736/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/akitz = andrew kitzenberg's twitter site
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supposedly, backpacks on Laurel Street where a police shoot-out occured. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3664323&cid=43490229

https://twitter.com/jimktrains/status/324711791034761216

@RepMikeRogers I wonder if calling me a 14yro in a basement & implying I'm uneducated&unprosperous bc I disagree with you counts as slander

...said report also grossly misreports causalities at "12 dead 50 injured", while also misreporting unrelated event at the JFK library as "the library bombing".
Neither of which is true, nor was it reported by police.

From TFA:

The library bombing occurred about 4:30 p.m. and more than a mile from the marathon.

A law enforcement source confirmed to The Post that 12 people were killed and nearly 50 were injured in today's blast.

From Boston Police Dept. official twitter feed:

Update JFK incident appears to be fire related

Update 23 injuries 2 dead

...said report also grossly misreports causalities at "12 dead 50 injured", while also misreporting unrelated event at the JFK library as "the library bombing".
Neither of which is true, nor was it reported by police.

From TFA:

The library bombing occurred about 4:30 p.m. and more than a mile from the marathon.

A law enforcement source confirmed to The Post that 12 people were killed and nearly 50 were injured in today's blast.

From Boston Police Dept. official twitter feed:

Update JFK incident appears to be fire related

Update 23 injuries 2 dead

Wait and see, no point in speculating.

1) If you actually thought that, you'd delete your Slashdot account. This whole place is nothing but occasionally educated speculation.

2)

Overheard officer telling bystander that 3 more devices found.

I think native Floridians would do a pretty good job of decimating the french.

It will be entertaining to watch, too.

this sounds like a job for FLORIDA MAN !!!

erm, then again, maybe not...

It's real. Not sure if it's actually Kaz Hirai's twitter account though. There's more. Funny stuff.

Women can't be sexist. Black people can't be racist. It's a power struggle.

(If what I wrote up there sounds pretty ridiculous, I agree. If it still rings true somehow? Well... there you go.)

I feel like I've heard that before somewhere. Where could it be? Thinking.. thinking.. OH, that's right! It's from Adria herself!

Black people CANNOT be racist against White people. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power

I guess you were right!

https://twitter.com/LinuxGamers

That's who I follow to keep up to date on which projects on Kickstarter (et al) plan to support Linux

https://twitter.com/HRBraz ?

H.R. coordinator in D.C. sounds close, but not so much the non-profit part.

It sounds like you were paraphrasing Adria Richards.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/6039856858

If what I wrote up there sounds pretty ridiculous, I agree.

Adria agrees with your satirical position, non-satirically:

Black people CANNOT be racist against White people. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power

So it's okay for her to make these jokes but a guy can't say "big dongles"? She's a hypocrite who was purposefully making a scene for attention.

So this tweet she made during the conference was "mature" and "representing her company"?

And yet her making tiny penis jokes is apparently okay. She's nothing but a hypocrite.

Based on her comment "Black People CANNOT BE RACIST", I highly doubt she has wised up any.

They told a joke

...almost certainly equivalent to one she clearly has no problems with.

Interesting Twitter feed, as it were, full of sexism and racism.

But of course, it doesn't count - because she's black and female. And joking, clearly, oh, certainly.

Definitely not all in the US, but doesn't look like it's in France.

https://twitter.com/jobs/international

I always post to the wrong one. so again.

I read Twitters TOS as listed today (Mar 22 2013)

"We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably
believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request..."
https://twitter.com/tos [twitter.com]

Reading the translated article then wikipedia. The case was heard and judged by the
Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris (Google Translate) a minor jurisdiction, that hears hears minor civil cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_France [wikipedia.org]
http://books.google.com/books?id=hJaEzC1CBe8C&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q&f=false [google.com]

I would think Twitter has the right not to acknowledge this court as being applicable or relevant.

Again Twitter TOS
"(iv) respond to user support requests,

They said no, enforcing their TOS of

"(v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the public."

I'm sure it says no hateful comments somewhere but at the most the guilty persons account be deleted.

Link

But if a women is offended by a sexual joke, you're being NEUTERED.

And yet she apparently found this to be a perfectly acceptable joke. She's a hypocrite feminazi.

This. Thank you.

Plus, it drives me crazy when women (I have known many of them) try to call anything that makes them personally uncomfortable with "sexism".

Believe it or not, one time another woman at work said it to my face, in so many words: "Sexism is anything that makes me uncomfortable." [emphasis mine] She really did. My jaw hit the floor. Because anybody can be "uncomfortable" about anything. That is not a social standard. It's the sort of thing said by someone who is either terminally insecure, or a power monger. Take your pick.

In the case of Adria, I vote for power monger. Look at this tweet. Joan of Arc, my lily white ass. At least Joan actually had the guts to go to war. She didn't just have people assassinated.

I have news for you guys... but maybe it isn't news after all: in the locker room, women are just as crude and lewd as men are. They just try to pretend otherwise in public.

In this case... well, I'll just say she needs to grow up. Maybe getting fired will wise her up a little.

Incidentally, making off-color jokes in public doesn't necessarily make you a horrible human being who deserves public shaming, a point that Richards herself should appreciate as she recently joked with a fellow Twitter user about stuffing his pants with socks the next time he has to undergo a TSA pat-down.

Apparently, it's only sexist if done by men (which is a very sexist attitude for her to have).

So two guys can't make stupid jokes about dongles, but she is allowed to make comparable dick-size jokes in public? you should put something in your pants next time...like a bunch of socks inside one...large...sock. TSA agent faint. Fucking hypocrite. She's also been -very- selectively moderating the comments on her site. The above has been brought up a few times, but left either unanswered, or banned/removed. Nice.

Hardly. I think this blog post sums it up best. http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/. She didn't try and work with anyone, she wasn't out to correct anything. She was out use her bully pulpit to 1: make herself more important 2: hurt those that had the audacity to offend her. That said it doesn't excuse by ANY means the attitudes show both for and against her position that went well beyond the pale. What's more sad is at the VERY SAME conference she was offended at she made this jewel: https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425. Reeks of hypocrisy.

From this recent posting it seems that she, too, appreciates doing colorful comments.