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The 'Ocean Marketing guy' is a made-up character in a MacHeist stunt that spiraled out of our control. We are very very sorry.

I've had no problems with dotster for ages (some 20+ domains with them). And they seem to oppose SOPA, so I'm considering moving my remaining domains from GoDaddy to Dotster as well.

There been some shrinking of the "Judiciary Committee’s list of SOPA supporters", perhaps due to cold water? Compare this list (439 entries, dec 21) with the 'official' list (142 entries, dec 23).

Beyond the law firms that have complained, I can't help but note that Electronic Arts aren't in the PDF.

Also, every time some actor tweets anti-SOPA sentiment, make sure to point out to them that the Screen Actors Guild are official SOPA supporters according to the judiciary.

Not anymore. They're already in the process of moving away from GD.

https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

from https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on #sopa is unacceptable to us.

Let's see if wikipedia continues the move or not after this 180 turn

https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

It'll take a week or two at least to go into effect (it's holidays!), but there you are.

Jeff Epstein has put up a step-by-step guide detailing the easiest way to leave GoDaddy:

http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy

Take special note of that trick to confirm the transfers at the end, because it can save you a five day wait. There are also ways to export your zones if you made the mistake of using GoDaddy as your DNS provider. Several other registrars are running deals right now, too. I've heard people saying that NameCheap (which is anti-SOPA) will let you keep the time you had paid for, so if you registered a domain for 10 years, you won't just lose it all. They even have a coupon of SOPASUCKS

While NameCheap appears to be the most active anti-SOPA registrar, other honorable mentions include MediaTemple (the CEO has tweeted that he is opposed to SOPA) and DNSimple (which offers a discount for those escaping GoDaddy),

More details now available:
http://pastebin.com/XTWnLF3p
https://twitter.com/#!/aionescu/status/149818580471517184

For now it's unclear how bad is this, as the only concrete detail is Secunia's link to "original advisory"

From digging around bug submitter's twitter:

@igursev @therealsaumil not really an integer overflow. Otherwise 18082564 would have also worked ;-)
4 hours ago

w3bd3vil webDEViL @
@igursev It probably is, but not theoretically. In simpler terms, I can't build an exploit for it.
12 hours ago

@kernelpool yeah I tried with some help to get code execution but was beyond me...
19 Dec

@r3dsm0k3 Yeah. It's the NtGdiDrawStream which is being called multiple times...leading to a not so interesting crash.
18 Dec

<iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD on win 7 x64 via Safari. Lol!
18 Dec

So a) there's a bug in win32k.sys, tickled by Safari's (allegedly) incorrect API usage, so there's possibility of other exploits, b) "may lead to arbitrary code execution" means "we don't know yet, but we're playing safe", the only confirmed effect is BSoD by memory corruption.

Why the fuck there's so little about it, did nobody research yet what kind of memory corruption it actually does? The tweet's from 4 days ago, FFS.

For now it's unclear how bad is this, as the only concrete detail is Secunia's link to "original advisory"

From digging around bug submitter's twitter:

@igursev @therealsaumil not really an integer overflow. Otherwise 18082564 would have also worked ;-)
4 hours ago

w3bd3vil webDEViL @
@igursev It probably is, but not theoretically. In simpler terms, I can't build an exploit for it.
12 hours ago

@kernelpool yeah I tried with some help to get code execution but was beyond me...
19 Dec

@r3dsm0k3 Yeah. It's the NtGdiDrawStream which is being called multiple times...leading to a not so interesting crash.
18 Dec

<iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD on win 7 x64 via Safari. Lol!
18 Dec

So a) there's a bug in win32k.sys, tickled by Safari's (allegedly) incorrect API usage, so there's possibility of other exploits, b) "may lead to arbitrary code execution" means "we don't know yet, but we're playing safe", the only confirmed effect is BSoD by memory corruption.

Why the fuck there's so little about it, did nobody research yet what kind of memory corruption it actually does? The tweet's from 4 days ago, FFS.

The problem with not shifting that focus is that businesses are increasingly moving to employee owned devices, instead of company owned. If they can't appeal to consumers it will negatively affect their presence in the enterprise. Now, instead of having to appeal to IT purchasing departments you have to appeal to individual employees who don't really care if their admin can remotely wipe their data etc. They care more if they can play Angry Birds (which you can on a PlayBook now: https://twitter.com/#!/BlackBerryDev/status/149521163180191744)

Don't be stupid. Twitter lets people delete their posts, but you can't do the same for the stuff that the LoC has archived.

How To Delete a Tweet

If you've posted something that you'd rather take back, you can remove it easily. When you hover over your Tweet while viewing your home or profile page, you'll see a few options appear below the message

People signed up with the understanding that they could remove tweets from the public record. Turns out twitter, in handing a copy to the library of congress to data mine (and this is what they've said they are doing), is violating that part of the agreement.

The archive will be available to Mr Lefurgy's team of researchers, to find and analyse interesting trends.

'There have been studies involved with what are the moods of the public at various times of the day in reaction to certain kinds of news events.

'Thereâ(TM)s all these interesting kinds of mixing and matching that can be done using the tweets as a big set of data.'

I thank you for continually trying your best to go Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat. I might suggest that you might as well go 'for' and 'against', that'll save a lot of your 'for' people some wasted time because you'll run out of the 'against' pretty quickly. Mr. Chairman it's very clear we're gonna lose here eventually, and we're gonna lose in the worst possible way. We're gonna lose without all the facts, and we're gonna lose without the process being open in the way that I would hope it will be in the new year.

.debs are on their way

Well if you're one of the newer generation of technically fragile Linux users who can't handle a few .run/.tar.gz files that use statically-linked libraries anyway so you don't have to worry about dependencies, be patient...

http://twitter.com/#!/humble/status/146833629279043584

(yes that was a troll, but at least I gave some info in it. I guess I just can't believe people using Linux can't handle non-package software, particularly since you're finally getting some decent games for a change).

When they (Touchpads) were $200 - $250? They launched at $500 for the 16GB model in July 2011.
Then in August they did the $100/$150 firesale. I'd never even heard of the device before the firesale.

I don't think anyone will ever know why HP gave the Touchpad a little over a month before killing it off.
At the very least they should have ridden it out until the holiday season and then sold them at cost (supposedly ~300) with a firesale after the holidays if sales were still bad. After that they could have just tried to make back what they could through the app market.

Anyway, with regards to WebOS on the EVO: I believe the bleeding edge for that is being done by Ryan Hope.
There are still issues though and I think they're mostly waiting on the webOS source release to make it fully work.

Florian Muller unapologetically pushes his agenda, and makes no attempt to be fair and unbiased. Which wouldn't be an issue if his views weren't so widely aired, because he is a self proclaimed expert who sends his blog entries to hundreds of media outlets and websites.

Some examples of how he bends the truth: http://twitter.com/#!/FLOGSPatents

How would someone starting at http://www.twitter.com/ discover http://search.twitter.com/ ?

How would someone starting at http://www.twitter.com/ discover http://search.twitter.com/ ?

Twitter says they're going to delete it after thirty days.

No they don't.

Why can't I see all my Tweets? My Tweet count is _,___. Are they lost?

The good news is they're not lost or gone! We have all your Tweets. The bad news is that we currently only allow you to see the 3200 most recent Tweets (this could also be construed as good news, as that number could be lower than 3200). We do not currently plan to change this limit, but we welcome your feedback - just send a mention to @feedback.

From the Twitter FAQs.

- RG>

Twitter Terms of Service: http://twitter.com/tos "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). You agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use."

Anonymous Coward had a Twitter account? Huh, never knew that.

https://twitter.com/#!/AnoCow404

He's already getting hit with a lot of backlash: #IdiotKapilSibal
This move by India probably has a lot to do with this summer's online anger over government corruption that eventually
morphed into real world protests and forced the Indian Government to pass anti-corruption laws to placate the people.

It's part of India's long term goal to be able to track and silence those they consider trouble makers and rabble rousers.

I think maybe I'll go around the internet joining muslim fundamentalist message boards using things like your http://twitter.com/#!/rombuu account in the homepage field. Perhaps add your yahoo IM account so they start watching that too. Hey, did you order some cheese pizza?

Welcome to the no fly-list, motherfucker!

According to Miriam Elder, the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian it seems that United Russia may get less than 50% of the votes, but this might not mean that they get less than 50% of seats in the parliament because of the 7% threshold for the smaller parties.

try harder to get in touch with them. It's extremely obvious that you're talking about Square, so try tweeting at everyone on this list: https://twitter.com/#!/Square/team

first off "how" did you contact them??
By email? --- probably went straight to spam or trash or ignored.
By post? see above.

By twitter?
http://twitter.com/#!/seereadnow

Or your twitter feed

And submitting using the same name as your twitter?
Definitely asking for "five years in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison"

I find that comment bizarre - how could anyone care whether some particular gun was in the game or not? Was the in-game gun controversial or overpowered or somesuch in BF2? Are there really MP5 fanboys out there? It boggles the mind.

The original tweet linked to above and held up as a source indicates that DICE licenses the guns in BF3. That response was prompted by the following question addressed to Matros:

@zh1nt0 Hi will it be possible to add Mp5 in with current game after B2K DLC comes out? Mp5 is my favorite weapon of all time.

We'd absolutely love to talk with you. Please see https://expensify.com/jobs, or write jobs@expensify.com -- we look for people *exactly* like you. Here's what's written on our site: https://www.expensify.com/jobs/need

Who We Need: Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Expert Generalists

We are always hiring talented generalist programmers. But if you really like titles, we're looking for:

- Salespeople (of the future!!)
- Fresh graduates (graduating soon)
- College dropouts (graduating never)
- Senior programmers (there's no such thing as overqualified)
- Mobile developers (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone... even webOS)
- Systems programmers (back end performance and stability)
- Web developers (bring on the PHP!)
- Front-end engineers (jQuery, HTML, CSS, all that)
- Web designer (PSD, HTML, CSS)

We're not looking to stick cogs in a big machine.
We need people who can do pretty much everything and immediately learn how to do the rest. Before even thinking about the skills, we're looking for you to be:

An incredibly hard worker, even when it's not so fun.
There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks. After all - we do the sucky work so our customers won't need to. We need you to buck up and grind through random tasks, server logs, user emails, source code, and bug reports, without complaint or supervision, and come back asking for more.

A cool person to be with.
Not a crazy party animal, just someone we can trust, rely upon, hang out with, bounce ideas off of, and generally interact with in a positive way, both personally and professionally. In fact, this is one of the most stringent requirements we have: would you be fun to hang out with day and night on some remote, exotic beach? This isn't a rhetorical question, either: every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun. We've done Thailand, Mexico, India, Turkey, and the Philippines. Where do you want to go next?

Super talented, in a general way.
We're going to throw a ton of work at you of every possible sort, and you need that magic skill of being able to figure it out even if you have no idea where to start. Everyone helps with tech support, schmoozing at swank parties, hosting events, coming up with new and ever-more-ridiculous marketing stunts, etc. And if you code, you'll code everything: you might do mobile one day, front-end design, back-end optimization, low-level debugging, the works. This is not a monkey job - you're going to be a full participant in the process, and you need to bring your own unique blend of skills to the table.

Even more talented in a programming way.
You can instantly visualize solutions to problems big and small. Your code is always clean, well commented, has good nomenclature and indentation. You can switch on a dime between C++, PHP, Bash, Cron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Dwoo, SQL — not because you know them all, but because you're the sort of person who can just pick it up and figure it out. If you're this sort of person, you'll know what we mean. If not, then this position isn't for you.
Basically, we're looking for people who want to do amazing things with their careers, and who are searching for a way to get started or take the next incredible step. Does this sound like you? If so, read on...

Please check us out!

-david
Founder and CEO of Expensify
Follow us at http://twitter.com/expensify

The horse's mouth: http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/137569596440973313

Your source is to those that follow him known as generally highly uninformed. This tweet was likely just a lying excuse for why they left the MP5 out of the game.

The MP5 was in Battlefield 2. If DICE and EA put an effort into licensing the equipment in its games, it would have licensed it at the time. So why would it not be in BF3? Some might speculate that perhaps the relationship between H&K and DICE/EA deteriorated. If that were true, then why is the M416 in there? How about the G3? How about the MP7?

You have to remember that many of the people that care enough about Battlefield 3 to complain about BF3 featuring this weapon or that are likely those that don't have a lot of clout in the real world -- teenagers, mostly. Matros is not going to put a lot of effort into figuring out why the MP5 wasn't included -- he likely just walked over to his PR boss and asked what a plausible excuse was and used that.

I just did a quick google on "battlefield3 equipment licenses" and turned up nothing in the first three pages, so...probably not actually licensed.

As another note, there is a little disclaimer at the bottom of the recently-released BF3 trailers (such as this one) that reads:

"The depiction of any weapon or vehicle in this game does not indicate affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by any weapon or vehicle manufacturer."

Some might suggest that statement implies that there is some contract between EA and these equipment manufacturers spelling out the terms by which DICE may use such equipment, including that there be such a license. In fact, I'm inclined to suggest that this disclaimer is intended to set up a legal shield to avoid having any relationship at all with equipment manufacturers.

If you want to let Ms. Stover know how you think about her article, she can be found on dawnstover

Well at least in Aus OWS protesters where protesting against a police union rally so I think your stereotypes are a bit broken. Perhaps you should look up what Marxism is and compare it to what the protesters want (I suggest reading @OccupyWallSt and @occupy_SYDNEYon twitter)
I would also like to note that Marxism and Communism are not synonyms and that true Marxism is probably not what you think it is either.

Well at least in Aus OWS protesters where protesting against a police union rally so I think your stereotypes are a bit broken. Perhaps you should look up what Marxism is and compare it to what the protesters want (I suggest reading @OccupyWallSt and @occupy_SYDNEYon twitter)
I would also like to note that Marxism and Communism are not synonyms and that true Marxism is probably not what you think it is either.

...be the guy invited to the boldly-claimed energy revolution
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/030244/1-mw-cold-fusion-plant-supposedly-to-come-online ...actually attend
http://www.cobraf.com/forum/immagini/thumbs/R_319825_1.jpg ...then don't report on it
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131019897244368896 ...tell people to 'stay tuned'
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131754686226247681 ...all while the conspiracy blogs suggest that you're probably being pressured from up on high to remain quiet
http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/ecat-censorship-ap-news-report-killed.htmlz
( Not that I'm suggesting anybody pay particular attention to conspiracy blogs, just setting up the pieces... ) ...even though reality is that you probably signed an NDA and were never allowed to report a damn thing anyway (positive or negative), thus making you a pawn in the "look at how legitimate we are - we even have an official from the press, the AP no less, present" game in the days leading up to the much-hyped test.

Best practice is to just go on vacation :)
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/137641776751185920

...be the guy invited to the boldly-claimed energy revolution
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/030244/1-mw-cold-fusion-plant-supposedly-to-come-online ...actually attend
http://www.cobraf.com/forum/immagini/thumbs/R_319825_1.jpg ...then don't report on it
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131019897244368896 ...tell people to 'stay tuned'
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131754686226247681 ...all while the conspiracy blogs suggest that you're probably being pressured from up on high to remain quiet
http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/ecat-censorship-ap-news-report-killed.htmlz
( Not that I'm suggesting anybody pay particular attention to conspiracy blogs, just setting up the pieces... ) ...even though reality is that you probably signed an NDA and were never allowed to report a damn thing anyway (positive or negative), thus making you a pawn in the "look at how legitimate we are - we even have an official from the press, the AP no less, present" game in the days leading up to the much-hyped test.

Best practice is to just go on vacation :)
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/137641776751185920

...be the guy invited to the boldly-claimed energy revolution
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/030244/1-mw-cold-fusion-plant-supposedly-to-come-online ...actually attend
http://www.cobraf.com/forum/immagini/thumbs/R_319825_1.jpg ...then don't report on it
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131019897244368896 ...tell people to 'stay tuned'
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/131754686226247681 ...all while the conspiracy blogs suggest that you're probably being pressured from up on high to remain quiet
http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/ecat-censorship-ap-news-report-killed.htmlz
( Not that I'm suggesting anybody pay particular attention to conspiracy blogs, just setting up the pieces... ) ...even though reality is that you probably signed an NDA and were never allowed to report a damn thing anyway (positive or negative), thus making you a pawn in the "look at how legitimate we are - we even have an official from the press, the AP no less, present" game in the days leading up to the much-hyped test.

Best practice is to just go on vacation :)
http://twitter.com/#!/petersvensson/status/137641776751185920

Seriously, hello, editors? Is anybody home? This post is 100% false. The very subject of this story has tweeted:

No it's not attacking UEFI or secure boot, right now working with the legacy BIOS only (details will be in the paper)

Do the words "reckless disregard for the truth" have any meaning to you?

@FedcourtJunkie :"Koh just held both tablets above her head, one in each hand, asked Samsung lawyers to identify which was which. Took them a while to do so.."

Again it's not about icons, it's about icons specifically made to resemble iOS icons. It's not about a rounded square device, it's about a device that's made specifically to resemble Apple's style, etc. All those elements together create a copycat that makes it hard to distinguish from the competing product. Compare this to a competitor done right, as much as I hate to admit it, the Windows phones. They have a distinct style of their own, they don't need to rely on copying someone else's.

Remove mobile from the address. Or, click here

At 6:30AM ET, following a 1am police raid that kicked OWS protesters out of Zuccotti Park, Justice Lucy Billings issued an order effectively allowing protesters back in the park, with their tents, gear, and all. "ThinkProgress just spoke to one of the plantiff’s attorneys, Gideon Orion Oliver, who confirmed that the order was served on Mayor Bloomberg and the other defendants via fax at 7:50AM." During his press conference at 8am, the mayor had claimed he hadn't yet been served, and said that this is why the administration was keeping the park closed. ThinkProgress: "As of this writing, Zuccotti Park remains closed to protesters in direct contradiction of Justice Billing’s order."

Yeah, after Google starts bragging about how much more open they are than Apple here's the tweet they BETTER back it up. For the last year, the latest Android code hasn't been any more open than iOS.

and if its related to your job but done out side of work time they own it too

No... they own copyright to content you produce related to your job, as "work for hire". They don't own assets you create outside of work that you use in a manner related to your job.

For example... if your job entails visiting clients; your company doesn't suddenly own your personal car, when you use it one day to drive to a client's office. If you use your personal e-mail account to contact a prospect that you happen to be friends with, or you provide your e-mail address or personal phone number as contact details for a client, and you wind up signing them up... your company doesn't suddenly own your e-mail account or your home phone number.

They own the work that you provided to them, for example, the sale. They don't own personal property leveraged to do so.

So... they could own the copyright to all the twitter posts, but it's still your account. What they could do is demand you take down all the twitter posts from your account that contain their intellectual property.

Also.... you don't own the Twitter account in the first place, actually, Twitter owns it their ToS says so: All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Twitter and its licensors..

Not legally.

However Andy Rubin kind of opened his mouth...

http://twitter.com/#!/phonedog

Looks like they've already got their own - they're just greedy.

And no, capitalization doesn't mean jack shit.

Also, you're not very well-versed on this subject, so I'll lay it out for you since you seem incapable of doing critical thinking and research.

"In October 2010, Noah Kravitz parted ways with the mobile review site where he served as Editor-in-Chief, contributing written and video content, since April 2006. On June 8, 2011, a case entitled Kravitz vs. PhoneDog and Tom Klein (founder of PhoneDog) was filed (Case#: RG11579535) at the Fremont Hall of Justice, a County of Alameda court. In the lawsuit, Kravitz, the plaintiff, argues that he was a vested partner and owner of PhoneDog and entitled to 15% of the site’s gross advertising revenue, even after he had terminated his employment."

So this whole tit for tat is a litigation soup.

It's purely malicious.

Your reasoning is garbage.

For those wondering. Doing a simple Twitter search of @zhitomirskiyi, brings this recent tweet directly mentioning him: https://twitter.com/#!/micahdaigle/status/135613279618871296 "@zhitomirskiyi, founder of @joindiaspora, has committed suicide. :(" about around 24 hours ago, long before it was announced on Techcrunch. Then someone else mentioned suicide as well, but they delete their tweet, not before it was retweeted however: https://twitter.com/justinherman/status/135619350538358784 "@amoration Found out colleague killed himself. Sending serenity in the passing of @zhitomirskiyi" Sad to hear it. R.I.P. Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Thank you for your work.

For those wondering. Doing a simple Twitter search of @zhitomirskiyi, brings this recent tweet directly mentioning him: https://twitter.com/#!/micahdaigle/status/135613279618871296 "@zhitomirskiyi, founder of @joindiaspora, has committed suicide. :(" about around 24 hours ago, long before it was announced on Techcrunch. Then someone else mentioned suicide as well, but they delete their tweet, not before it was retweeted however: https://twitter.com/justinherman/status/135619350538358784 "@amoration Found out colleague killed himself. Sending serenity in the passing of @zhitomirskiyi" Sad to hear it. R.I.P. Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Thank you for your work.

Some Twitter posts (pre-dating the "official" announcement by more than 12 hours) mentioned suicide.