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Here's the link since the AC didn't post it http://unrevoked.com/ just click on the picture of the desire and you can download unrevoked3 for your phone.

Here's a link to their twitter so you can stay up to date. http://twitter.com/unrevoked

Confirm our editor applied for Swedish residency on Aug 18 to obtain prior-restraint protections http://bit.ly/czWlGT

When you follow the link, you will read nothing about "prior-restraint" protections - in fact Wikileaks has until now no protection at all under the Swedish press laws. And they will not get it soon, because Wikileaks did not fill out the application correctly.

Another migration board spokesperson, Gunilla Wikstroem, told Swedish news agency TT the application was on hold since some information was missing,

This is only one of the countless contradictions Assange was caught on. For example Assange claimed in 2009 a 17 year old Wikileaks contributor by the police in Iceland to press him for information about Wikileaks. In fact the juvenile was caught breaking into a business premises and was subsequently interrogated in the presence of his parents, police did not even know about any Wikileaks connections. Even when he had to wait for less than 30 minutes at an airport in Australia Assange did spread conspiracy theories about foul play and intelligence agency involvement.

The point is that they continue to harass open source, sabotage open source and open standards policies in others nations. Their trolls are also not getting better.

LEAVE XZIBIT ALONE!!!

I have a friend who's totally blind and is incredibly adept at technology. He runs his own web site, uses his iPhone daily, and compliments/complains daily to companies who don't have accessibility features on their apps and gadgets. He also plays video games and records himself playing and posts the videos on Youtube.

Here's his contacts if anyone is interested in reading stuff from him:
http://twitter.com/liamerven
http://www.youtube.com/liamerven

I have a hunch the other woman involved may be http://twitter.com/kristenvanster, they were both tweeting about inviting him to Sweden a week ago.

A google search for "North Korea" +Twitter gives:http://twitter.com/kcna_dprk which redirects to http://twitter.com/suspended. Apparently Great Leader will need to find another way to share his great wisdom.

A google search for "North Korea" +Twitter gives:http://twitter.com/kcna_dprk which redirects to http://twitter.com/suspended. Apparently Great Leader will need to find another way to share his great wisdom.

uriminzokkiri (uriminzok) on Twitter

YouTube - uriminzokkiri's Channel

Facebook | Uriminzokkiri

Looks like the original Facebook "people" account they made was removed (probably by North Korea when they realized it didn't make sense to have a "people" account), and replaced with a "page" thing. I noticed the original account's username was uriminzokkiri, and the new one is uriminzokkiriLike, so maybe North Korea changed accounts primarily because they want the Like button? Lots of guessing here.

The woman that accused Julian Assange has been identified on flashbackforum as Anna Ardin press secretary for the christians in the socialist party in Sweden. She has previously been an active radical feminist and author of articles on how to use the legal system to get revenge on people. She has also identified The Swedish Pirate party as a "problem we have to deal with" She waited several days to report this until the "on call" prosecutor Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand was on duty.

Any enemy of the US is our friend.

I'll bet you'll shut up the next time something bad happens to your country and the U.S. parks a giant hospital ship off your shores and starts dispensing free medical care. Hopefully that won't happen, but if it does, you probably won't turn to Russia, or China, or North Korea, or any of the countries truly deserving of your ire. Nope, the world always expects the U.S. to do all the heavy lifting, and when we do, you still complain. Well you know what? For our part, we're tired of all the losers who have screwed their own societies into the ground and expect us to do something about it.

Well hell, I'm in the US, where do I sign up for this "Giant Hospital Ship" healthcare plan? Oh wait, we can't have that for our own citizens, because... well, I have never quite figured that out yet. I think it involves health insurance lobbyists giving Republicans money and lesbian BDSM stripper themed parties, or some-such.

Oh, and the rest of the world? They're tired of the US walking around doing the diplomatic variant of a 8 year old screeching "I'M FUCKING AWESOME AND YOU GUYS ARE IDIOTS, LOVE ME!!!!" every few days. Especially given how much we lean on *them*, in areas such as, oh, I dunno -- the economy? Seriously, have you looked into just how much money we're borrowing from China on credit? We're living very irresponsibly as a nation, and it will all come crashing down sooner or later.

I think we officially lost the moral high ground the day we started officially shoving flashlights in prisoner's asses over in Iraq, which leads me to this -- Best 1 liner on that twitter page:

"Are Pentagon lawyers who believe WikiLeaks acted illegally same ones who were OK with torture of prisoners?"
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/21706258324

Answer: Probably.

This is not what the average Aussie wants. There was a petition that set the record http://bit.ly/aJuLUO in Australia for the most number of supporters, for anything, ever! There was also a public debate http://bit.ly/cts8kl showed 98.2% support for a higher rating from over 60,000 submissions.

The current government may well be voted out this week, but the problem is, the state attorney generals decide classification guidelines http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Classification_policy. And if only one of them has a personal vendetta http://www.news.com.au/technology/attorney-general-to-veto-r-rating-for-games/story-e6frfro0-1111115654451 against something it won't get through.

Our hopes were raised when Michale Atkison, main detractor for a new rating, "retired" http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/new-s-a-attorney-general-might-support-r18-might-not/ earlier this year. But all that seemed to do was delay decisions.

If you'd like more information, please subscribe to the very informative r18 tag for Kotaku http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/r18/.

Disclaimer: I am in no way afilliated with any political party or news site. I just value my freedom, or what little we have left. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nocleanfeed

This is an interesting project that I've been aware of for a while, but I did not get a good first impression. I followed the development of Haystack and its predecessor proxyheap a year ago, so far as that was possible, but it seemed to be deliberately shrouded in mystery, and going by the conversations in the relevant IRC channels on FreeNode, criticisms of this or requests for information were occasionally answered with accusations of dishonesty or personal attacks.

In particular, I recall this:

<austinheap> Those of you who want to reverse engineer the protocol and "publish documents" are just heling the IRI. Why not spend time cracking Tor and making it useless too? If your best interest in helping Iran is to create FUD about a tool to evade censorship, go ahead. (July 2009)

And this: http://twitter.com/austinheap/status/2187636648

This is not intended to be a blanket dismissal or FUD, but the NewsWeek article's style is concerningly uncritical and sensationalist, while being unaware of the technologies and knowledge that already exist in this field. I'd prefer to see it analyzed by someone like Schneier.

One word: SCOracle

Falcon

For jailbreakers who want to be safe and keep their jailbreak, search for "PDF Loading Warner" in the Cydia store. It's a pop-up that will warn you if Safari is attempting to load a PDF, so you can cancel it if you're not expecting to be viewing a PDF.

For iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G users, there's no Apple-approved solution to the PDF exploit.

The jailbreak community is working on an actual PDF patch to fix the exploit. This could be the only solution for iPhone 2G/iPod Touch 1G users, to jailbreak their device and install the patch.

It's in test phase now, but you can get a copy: http://twitter.com/saurik/status/20958834996

You can follow its adventures on twitter: @AstroRobonaut

Sorry, but the truth of the matter is a bit different.

That hasn't changed. This group had absolutely no power whatsoever, while similar left leaning ones get to say which stories make it to the front page. See http://twitter.com/novenator for an example. Novenator is actually the guy who wrote the original "exposing" article about the Digg Patriots. The guy is a hypocrite.

http://twitter.com/novenator
 
There's someone with 5,000 followers, which is at least 50 times as many as there were *active* users in the DiggPatriots group (and likely much more; most members say they joined but never went back). This novenator guy is the same one who wrote the original "exposing" article. The guy is a complete hypocrite, and as this story explains very clearly, promoting your own stories is just as harmful as asking others to bury opposing viewpoints, especially when you consider that these same liberals monopolize every discussion on digg (including the digging and burying). It's nearly impossible to find a pro-conservative comment *anywhere* on digg with a positive digg count, and liberal trolls rarely get down-voted.
 
Posting anonymously since slashdot also has a liberal bias.

If it helps, an Android hacker, http://twitter.com/thedudesandroid, has done some work with it, and installed a custom recovery (Clockwork). So potentially there's an opportunity for community work to port CyanogenMod, or a more functional rom to the device. But that all depends on who buys them, I suppose.

From Google's twitter: "@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet."

The way I understand it, we privatized the US supply of helium back in 1996. We targeted selling 850 million scm by 2015, reserving 17 million scm for the federal government's reserve. The price has been set artificially low in order to get that 850 million scm sold off in time.

In other words, we're not approaching peak helium, we're stupidly, deliberately, actively rushing toward it.

http://www.agiweb.org/gap/legis106/helium.html
http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/energy/helium/federal_helium_program.html
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=9860
https://twitter.com/timoreilly/statuses/17831735662

https://twitter.com/googlepubpolicy/status/20393606477

"@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet."

Yeah, THIS one isn't, but that one is. My initial comment wasn't about a particular bug. It was a rant about the general state of affairs. If the biggest software houses can't even write a PDF viewer that's failsafe, then perhaps we should stop using PDF and work with a really simple bitmap format. Thing is, I have a hunch that they would screw that up too.

Suddenly it's twitter in here...

The Facetime and MMS issues were due to a permissions problem, which has already been sorted out, per planetbeing's Twitter feed.

For a glimpse of a highly regarded independent creative vision - try Eskil Steenberg's highly regarded multiplayer world LOVE.

:)

So that's why I did a google search before posting here, and came up with various non-official websites saying more-or-less the same thing, plus there was this little blurb posted on the Twitter WikiLeaks profile on the 17th:

Real change begins Monday in the WashPost. By the years end, a reformation. Lights on. Rats out. 1:57 PM Jul 17th via HTC Peep

I think it's a reasonable thing to wonder.:) Of course, Wikileaks could have simply had advance notice of the story and nothing to do with its content.

Mark Moons of HTC Benelux posted his response to twitter.
source: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/68622/mobieltjesmakers-reageren-fel-op-antennevergelijking-van-apple.html
( the comment threads there are a lovely Apple vs The World whinefest )

Translated (Google fails due to colloquial word usage)
"Is Jobs yacking about the reception on competing devices to justify his own design error? I must seeing it wrong*"
( * "I must be misinterpreting", though that would typically be written as "Ik zal het wel verkeerd begrijpen")
http://twitter.com/markmoons/status/18702074270

"....ok, stopped following that fruitlet's sobstory.... got better things to do... he's denigrating the industry."
http://twitter.com/markmoons/status/18702370046

Mark Moons of HTC Benelux posted his response to twitter.
source: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/68622/mobieltjesmakers-reageren-fel-op-antennevergelijking-van-apple.html
( the comment threads there are a lovely Apple vs The World whinefest )

Translated (Google fails due to colloquial word usage)
"Is Jobs yacking about the reception on competing devices to justify his own design error? I must seeing it wrong*"
( * "I must be misinterpreting", though that would typically be written as "Ik zal het wel verkeerd begrijpen")
http://twitter.com/markmoons/status/18702074270

"....ok, stopped following that fruitlet's sobstory.... got better things to do... he's denigrating the industry."
http://twitter.com/markmoons/status/18702370046

Rubbish get it from the horse's mouth BPGlobalPR

Oh bummer, I actually just submitted a story on this a few minutes ago, oops. ;) The linked article above has a decent summary, but for the curious the summary below has some links to the original NASA sources:

NASA has announced three new 'Centennial Challenge' technology prizes totaling $5M, awarded via competitions to achieve technological goals important to NASA: The $2M Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge for launching small satellites (at least 1kg) into orbit twice in one week, the $1.5M Night Rover Challenge for demonstrating a rover capable of storing and using solar energy over day/night cycles, and the $1.5M Sample Return Robot Challenge for a robot capable of locating and retrieving identifiable geologic samples in varied terrain without human control or GPS. This is in addition to the ongoing Strong Tether, Power Beaming, and Green Flight Challenges. The White House is currently seeking to boost funding for Centennial Challenges and other NASA technology programs, although many in Congress have other plans.

The NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun is currently hosting an industry day, and you can view the webcast live (they're currently on lunch break) and read the presentation PDFs here:

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/industry_day_info.html

You can also submit questions relative to whatever the current presentation is via their official twitter account, which has been updated regularly throughout the day:

http://twitter.com/NASA_Technology

They exist for a very different purpose, but that reminds me of the QC cast Twitter accounts. The author of the webcomic Questionable Content maintains Twitter accounts for the characters which are only connected to each other. I suspect there are a good number of other "fake" Twitter accounts. I know I have seen a few Facebook accounts for fictional characters.

@micahwhipple It's too much to type out on Twitter, so I've made a blog for you, Micah.

Here's what I see:

Sue Smith can't post without everyone knowing she's female. Women in the video games world frequently face harassment; this isn't news.

Timothy Chan and Jose Perez can't post without everyone knowing their ethnicity. It shouldn't come as a shock to you that people of different ethnicities face harassment as well.

Exotic McUniquename can't post without (1) his posts being tied to his name forever through google searches and (2) everyone who reads his posts and disagrees with him digging up information on him. I think you're familiar with this one?

John Smith can post anonymously and without fear of harassment. His name doesn't reveal that he's a vulnerable female. His name doesn't reveal that he's a targeted minority. His name doesn't reveal everything about him with one simple search. He is safe.

John gets to post on your new forums without fear. For Sue and Timothy and Jose and Exotic, well, they can just not post, right? Won't the forums be a much nicer place once all those "different" people are gone?

I totally agree that this would happen if such a system was to be implemented in an environment like Blizzar'd forums.

Evidently enough to DoS the hacker.

I just contact their twitter team @BTCare. They deal with any problems in minutes, and for the three problems I have had in the last month, they called me within 10 minutes, called the following morning to ask if it has been fixed. I once moaned on Twitter that I wanted to leave BT Broadband, they called me and gave me a mac code.

The good news: We discovered a new species of fish. The bad news: They are now extinct.

The Twitter API does indeed cover the kind of thing you're talking about. If you scroll down to the very bottom of that API page you linked you'll see a link to the "Streaming API", http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

This allows you to receive tweets in real-time over a persistent HTTP connection.

It's rather well hidden though, perhaps they don't want people finding out about it for whatever reason (performance?).

Over the past week, Twitter has reduced the number of API calls from 350 to 175 an hour.

Okay, if you're making that many calls to Twitter then there might be an inherent flaw with their RESTful interfaces. I think for a long time, the "web" as we know it has suffered from the lack of the Event/Listener paradigm. This is a pretty simple design concept that I'm going to refer to as the Observer. Let's say I want to know what Stephen Hawking is tweeting about and I want to know 24/7. Now if you have to make more than one call, something is wrong. That one call should be a notification to Twitter who I am, where you can contact me and what I want to keep tabs on--be it a keyword or user. So all I should ever have to do is tell Twitter I want to know everything from Stephen Hawking and everything with #stephenhawking or whatever and from that point on, it will try to submit that message to me via any number of technologies. Simple pub/sub message queues could be implemented here to alleviate my need to continually go to Twitter and say: "Has Stephen Hawking said anything new yet? *millisecond pause* Has Stephen Hawking said anything new yet? *millisecond pause* ..." ad infinitum. I'm not claiming Twitter does this but a cursory glance at the API looks like it's missing this sort of Observer paradigm that allows for the scalability they need.

I'm not leveling the finger at Twitter, it's a widespread problem that even I have been a part of. Ruby makes coding RESTful interfaces so easy that it's very very tempting to just throw up a few controllers that are basically CRUD interfaces for databases and to call it a day. I suspect that Twitter is feeling the impending pain of popularity right about now ...

Apparently they're just upgrading:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17461648435

And even if Wikileaks was to disappear, there's always Freenet if you want to leak something:

http://freenetproject.org/

Of course, you'd have to check your own data to make sure there's no metadata that can be used to identify you. But Freenet covers the anonymous distribution angle.

Taken from wikileaks' Twitter at http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17498238199 is this:

"Wired's war on WikiLeaks continues. See comment by 'mpineiro' http://bit.ly/aZm4US"

Posted by: mpineiro | 07/1/10 | 9:21 am |

ADDITIONAL INFO REQUIRED TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THIS ARTICLE:
Below are some additional bits of information that may change your understanding of why this heavily-editorialized piece is appearing in Wired at this time.

1. The editor of the Threat Level blog at Wired, Kevin Poulsen, has recently been questioned by journalists and privacy activists for his strange role in the recent Wikileaks / Bradley Manning story. A number of questions have been asked of Poulsen in order to clear up any suspicions of impropriety or violation of journalistic ethics by Poulsen but he hasn’t been able to answer those questions, resulting in stronger suspicions and newly-revealed information that strengthens the suspicions further still. This entire matter could be cleared up and resolved except for Poulsen’s on-going non-cooperation.

2. Kevin Poulsen apparently did not like even being *asked* about conflicts of interest (something that all journalists are questioned on all the time as part of the job). To make matters worse, Poulsen is resorting to retaliation, as if this was a BBS war between pre-teens and not an important discussion about law enforcement abuses in the US, abuses committed by occupation soldier abuses in Iraq, a co-ordinated campaign to discredit Wikileaks and the unethical, allegedly illegal manner in which PFC Bradley Manning was interrogated by someone who Poulsen has known and worked with for years and years.

If you look at Poulsen’s Twitter feed (@kpoulsen), it is sparsely updated. It appears that Poulsen only posts on Twitter when he is announcing a new Threat Level blog post or he is openly attacking Wikileaks. It seems safe to say that the “editorial line” over in Poulsen’s corner of Wired is sharply opposed to Wikileaks.

Any journalist should be prepared to respond, without getting emotional or defensive, if legitimate questions about conflict-of-interest or ethics are asked of them. That’s part of the job.

3. In the If-It-Wasn’t-So-Serious-It’d-Be-Funny Department, both Poulsen and known police informant Adrian Lamo are WELL AWARE of the SERIOUS implications of Poulsen being involved with law enforcement in any way. As a result, they both say the exact same thing when anyone asks about the nature of the relationship: “It’s a reporter-source relationship,” they’ll both recite. Lamo, who has much less to lose than Poulsen and possibly has reason to feel resentful that he has to take all the heat for something that benefited both of them, recites that line with a hint of sarcasm. But, maybe I’m reading something in the tone that isn’t actually there. Could be.

4. Poulsen was asked (you might even say “challenged”) by Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald to release the unedited, un-redacted portions of the chat transcripts between Poulsen’s long-time source/friend (Lamo) and PFC Bradley Manning also, releasing the logs would help clear up any perceived impropriety by Poulsen or Wired.

Poulsen refused to do so then and continues to refuse the many requests by Greenwald and others to release the logs. Even worse, the reason Poulsen gave about why he wouldn’t release them was shown to be untrue, as documented by Greenwald. Poulsen has never said ANYTHING MORE AT ALL about THAT maybe under the advice of his attorney?

The logs that Poulsen won’t release would have enormous value in the public domain — they would help individuals & government/law enforcement watchdog groups deal with the increasing erosion of our civil liberties. They also show an unfortunately side effect of California’s

Taken from wikileaks' Twitter at http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17498238199 is this:

"Wired's war on WikiLeaks continues. See comment by 'mpineiro' http://bit.ly/aZm4US"

Not so quick to judge Wired's coverage at face value...

Already hacked: http://twitter.com/hackinblack

Simon Phipps, former chief open source executive of Sun Microsystems, has just asked IBM's open source VP Bob Sutor via Twitter (with a reference to this very slashdot story) to clarify IBM's role in lobbying for software patents in New Zealand. It will be interesting to see Bob Sutor's response, should there ever be one.

When it comes to patents, IBM stands for International Bullying Machines...

Pfft, I fit all of LOTR in 125 characters for a short story collection.

Ironically you aren't even limited to 140, you can send infinite messages, or a link to longer writings if you prefer.

However in daily use, most messages I send and receive are shorter than that. A wonderful benefit is it's faster to read/digest when people condense their thought, instead of rambling emails that say little to nothing.

http://twitter.com/208j98

I found this post by following slashdot's Twitter feed. Twitter is completely misunderstood technology. I like to think of it as RSS + SMS. People have been dismissing Twitter for years, but yet it keeps on growing.

As short as they may be, almost all messages will be useless to me. But the Twitter Engineering page is quite a good read about Twitter's actual engineering problems and approaches to solutions. That's the type of thing which I think many engineers will like to read.

Uhhhh.....I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://twitter.com/the_vuvuzela/

Not least because there's a finite probability that http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy [twitter.com] will respond to you. A thing like that can make your decade.

Agreed, this is a big one. Twitter is a two-way medium. It allows you to casually exchange ideas with people you would never get a chance to meet in meatspace (William Gibson being one mine). If you think it's all about "breakfast tweeters" I have to wonder if you have a very good grasp of the role of technology in communication at all.