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Just sayin'... http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23IEEE

Twitter isn't just the status update part of Facebook. It's not a symmetric social media. You can follow someone who doesn't follow you, and vice versa. So you're not limited to your friends.

Some people use that to follow celebrities, but you can use it to follow John Resig or Guido Van Rossum. Or if you feel weird following geek celebrities, someone like CS professor Phil Windley.

Or if you still don't like Twitter, follow Linus, who feels the same way about Twitter that you do. ;)

Twitter isn't just the status update part of Facebook. It's not a symmetric social media. You can follow someone who doesn't follow you, and vice versa. So you're not limited to your friends.

Some people use that to follow celebrities, but you can use it to follow John Resig or Guido Van Rossum. Or if you feel weird following geek celebrities, someone like CS professor Phil Windley.

Or if you still don't like Twitter, follow Linus, who feels the same way about Twitter that you do. ;)

Twitter isn't just the status update part of Facebook. It's not a symmetric social media. You can follow someone who doesn't follow you, and vice versa. So you're not limited to your friends.

Some people use that to follow celebrities, but you can use it to follow John Resig or Guido Van Rossum. Or if you feel weird following geek celebrities, someone like CS professor Phil Windley.

Or if you still don't like Twitter, follow Linus, who feels the same way about Twitter that you do. ;)

Twitter isn't just the status update part of Facebook. It's not a symmetric social media. You can follow someone who doesn't follow you, and vice versa. So you're not limited to your friends.

Some people use that to follow celebrities, but you can use it to follow John Resig or Guido Van Rossum. Or if you feel weird following geek celebrities, someone like CS professor Phil Windley.

Or if you still don't like Twitter, follow Linus, who feels the same way about Twitter that you do. ;)

If you want to go to a party, you have to accept being at a party.

Twitter is fine, if you follow people you find interesting, and if you are interesting yourself.

But if you just click on the Trending Topic links, then yes, you're going to discover that 90+% of the things people say from behind their cellphones is pointless blather. And that's the people, not the fake accounts that are using the TT to get undeserved attention. Those are half or more of any #1 topic.

Once they get how it works, engineers should love twitter. Not least because there's a finite probability that http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy will respond to you. A thing like that can make your decade.

Corp, Dougie & Sugar Slam ran those scientist haters off and we had a fuckin' amazing ass concert. 2500 Los rocked the building's foundation

In almost any other context I would have thought that the phrase "scientist haters" would mean people who hate scientists, not scientists who are haters. Ah well.

is http://twitter.com/6

he use to comment on people's comments and questions

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16501545943

https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/16503238009

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503504650

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503582811

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16501545943

https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/16503238009

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503504650

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503582811

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16501545943

https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/16503238009

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503504650

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503582811

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16501545943

https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/16503238009

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503504650

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/16503582811

That is what he is claiming

100% incorrect:
From Ormandy's own post:
"Microsoft was informed about this vulnerability on 5-Jun-2010, and they confirmed receipt of my report on the same day."
Followed by:
"I would like to point out that if I had reported the MPC::HexToNum() issue without a working exploit, I would have been ignored."
That was the sum total of his justification for his behaviour. This is *his own* post. Now, he too is having second thoughts about what he did: http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/15874332662/
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Do you have proof that contradicts his account?

I hope you'll accept his own post on seclists, and his own twitter post as proof. At this point, you need to just admit that you're wrong to defend him, and he was irresponsible.

My concern about ACTA is not related to copyright law but to its effect on patents. Copyright law is practically always infringed by intent, while patent infringement in the field of software is in most cases inadvertent (that's the most fundamental problem I have with software patents). It would be desirable to introduce into patent law, at least in connection with software, an independent invention defense. However, ACTA in the version I saw might do quite the opposite, treating a patent infringer as a "pirate" once he is made aware of an infringement (for an example, by a cease-and-desist letter). That's unreasonable and unjust in my view. I blogged about that.

Recently I read on Twitter that the US Trade Representative told knowledge rights activist Jamie Love that the US wouldn't mind throwing patents out of ACTA and instead the US government blames the EU for wanting patents included. Since those negotiations take place behind closed doors, it's not easy to verify that claim. However, it's more likely than not to be accurate. It would be good if EU-based activists could inquire about this (especially with help from Members of the European Parliament). With pressure from inside the EU there may be a chance to get patents thrown out of ACTA altogether. I know a lot of people here are at least equally interested in copyright issues but to many of us patents are the number one concern.

For those interested in EU processes relevant to free and open source software, here's a link to a blog post on a talk I gave on the subject (not discussing ACTA per se in detail, but with a couple of slides on EU patent policy in general) at LinuxTag in Berlin last week. LinuxTag is Germany's and probably Europe's largest open source event. The blog post I just linked to contains links to the presentation.

According to this tweet: http://twitter.com/taviso/status/16005411316 Those 5 days were spent trying to negotiate a fix within 60 days. So much for the 'he only gave them 5 days!' arguments.

Twitter's 'Promoted Tweets' platform already allows advertisers to insert ads directly into its users' Twitter feeds.

No it does not.

As detailed here, promoted tweets are NOT displayed in user's feeds at all, but only in search results currently.

They do go on to explain they will review feedback, and potentially expand them, keeping the option open to include them in users' feeds, specifically if there's value in doing so.

I search and use the service daily, and have yet to receive a single ad.

I do follow game developers twitters like http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2 [twitter.com] to get almost realtime news, and you can even ask something directly to them and get an answer sometimes, things like this were unthinkable just a few years ago

Uh...how few is a few? People have been interacting with software developers directly for years. We used to use BBSes, Usenet, mailing lists or sometimes direct emails. Maybe vie finally hit some "old fogey" point but I refuse to be awed by communicating via 140 character messages. The only reason we kept BBS postings short is we were charged by the minute and had slow modems.

according to WikiLeaks' twitter feed: "Allegations in Wired that we have been sent 260,000 classified US embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect."
Would Wikileaks have a reason to lie and withhold these messages, if the US govt. has the capability to find out if Manning sent them to Wikileaks? Maybe he leaked them, but to someone else, and it was simply assumed to have been to Wikileaks?

Tweet does not, officially, mean "to submit a text string to twitter.com".

Oh, really? According to The Twitter Glossary,

Tweet (verb)
Tweet, Tweeting, Tweeted. The act of posting a message, often called a "Tweet", on Twitter. Find out how to post a Tweet.

Tweet (noun)
A message posted via Twitter containing 140 characters or fewer. Find out how to post a Tweet.

If anyone has a right to define terms relating to Twitter, that'd be it.

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

Everyone else can eat a bag of dicks. Twitter is, to me, a one-liner joke delivery mechanism.

Do you really want, when reading a book or newspaper or watching a movie, to have to look up a (different) brand-specific word every few minutes? That's what I was talking about. Interestingly, movies from the 40s that use slang tend to be easier to understand than slang from the 70s, which I'd guess has to do with the longevity of the words' initial usage. With the amount of tech neologisms one could allow, and how quickly tech is changing, you could easily give your articles a very short shelf life. Worse, in the case of tweet you could easily misinterpret that it means talk -- a consequence of unnecessarily taking a proper noun and turning it into a verb.
 
And what's the benefit of using 'tweet'? You save a word? You sound trendy? It's short-sighted. And if you read Twitter's own writing, you'd know that they're pretty much the last people on the planet whose word usage should be adopted.

Yeah. Not only that, but anyone (eg: the submitter) who thinks that Twitter is in any way pushing the NYT into obsolescence is insane. Twitter is inane and stupid, the NYT is actual, you know, news.

Other variations on news may or may not be making the NYT obsolete, but Twitter has not a damn thing to do with it.

I actually find twitter very useful at least in the way I use it, I do follow game developers twitters like http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2 to get almost realtime news, and you can even ask something directly to them and get an answer sometimes, things like this were unthinkable just a few years ago
of course this is way different than saying that twitter will replace NYT, but still it's not something "insane and stupid"

Ops. The second link should have been this status message instead of their twitter page.

There were also a couple of snarky tweets from Microsoft regarding the "bing-style" backgrounds.

There were also a couple of snarky tweets from Microsoft regarding the "bing-style" backgrounds.

I don't see how this won't be abused by governments to track and shut down people who oppose them (like human rights activists that coordinate using twitter).

Like these guys

"Allegations in Wired that we have been sent 260,000 classified US embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect." http://twitter.com/wikileaks

Gizmodo is not the press, nor do they intentionally commit journalism. Assuming this is a valid Twitter account, here's what Gawker's Nick Denton had to say about it: @kensweet Yes, we're proud practitioners of checkbook journalism. Anything for the story! http://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/12467349291

Just FYI, Mike Massimino was the first to regularly send public messages via Twitter from the Space Shuttle (on the mission they upgraded Hubble). It was most interesting seeing him adapt to being back on Earth.

Other folks in space have since, including @Astro_Soichi, who regularly posted great pictures from the ISS to his Twitter account.

Here's a list of, wow, now twenty astronauts' Twitter accounts. The @NASA_Astronauts combines all their messages into one account, but most would be earthbound and it would be lots of messages, probably better in an RSS reader or email digest than getting dinged with messages all the time.

Just FYI, Mike Massimino was the first to regularly send public messages via Twitter from the Space Shuttle (on the mission they upgraded Hubble). It was most interesting seeing him adapt to being back on Earth.

Other folks in space have since, including @Astro_Soichi, who regularly posted great pictures from the ISS to his Twitter account.

Here's a list of, wow, now twenty astronauts' Twitter accounts. The @NASA_Astronauts combines all their messages into one account, but most would be earthbound and it would be lots of messages, probably better in an RSS reader or email digest than getting dinged with messages all the time.

Just FYI, Mike Massimino was the first to regularly send public messages via Twitter from the Space Shuttle (on the mission they upgraded Hubble). It was most interesting seeing him adapt to being back on Earth.

Other folks in space have since, including @Astro_Soichi, who regularly posted great pictures from the ISS to his Twitter account.

Here's a list of, wow, now twenty astronauts' Twitter accounts. The @NASA_Astronauts combines all their messages into one account, but most would be earthbound and it would be lots of messages, probably better in an RSS reader or email digest than getting dinged with messages all the time.

Just FYI, Mike Massimino was the first to regularly send public messages via Twitter from the Space Shuttle (on the mission they upgraded Hubble). It was most interesting seeing him adapt to being back on Earth.

Other folks in space have since, including @Astro_Soichi, who regularly posted great pictures from the ISS to his Twitter account.

Here's a list of, wow, now twenty astronauts' Twitter accounts. The @NASA_Astronauts combines all their messages into one account, but most would be earthbound and it would be lots of messages, probably better in an RSS reader or email digest than getting dinged with messages all the time.

Strange name for a bill thats made for limiting and controlling the flow of information in case of, well just about anything. War on drugs, immigrants, terrorists, citizens?

...or in case of breaking news stories via places like the wikileaks channel, or other reporting of recent world events not in line with the Fed/Corporate interests...

I have an ADP1 (aka G1), it's very limited hardware wise, making it hard to support the latest OS version. I could say I almost got burned.

But thanks to the open nature of Android and the XDA community, I am able to upgrade to 2.1 and soon 2.2: http://db.androidspin.com/androidspin_developer_display.asp?developerid=105

> The problem with that argument is these support
> periods aren't currently transparent

That's what I said. We need one manufacturer to take the risk and take this market by saying something like: we support 2 years upgrades on our devices. It shouldn't be too hard, they could pay one or 2 of these hackers from XDA to work on it full time. Today, some have to rely on donations to replace their phone when they fry it.

http://twitter.com/ChiefzReloaded/status/14681541487

> fragmentation

'fragmentation' isn't an issue, it's an enabler. In my case a lot of innovation comes to the OS to be able to support older devices. That's good for everyone.

See also http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-android-compatibility.html

I thought they tweeted version 1.2 was approved.

Obligatory link: http://twitter.com/BPGlobalPR

We are very upset that Operation: Top Kill has failed. We are running out of cool names for these things.

HAHAHAHAHA, I wouldn't be bragging about my 500MB app using XML the same week I claim I can prove how awesome I am by writing in binary.

http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/14850981422

Why must we feed these lie spewing would-be analysts who know nothing of technology?

Oh, confirmation via Microsoft Official Twitter Spewer.

latest "live" thread with great insights in the comments: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6515

Relevant links to top kill procedure (scroll to comments in each, they're very good.)

Deepwater Oil Spill - Permissions and Concerns about Top Kill http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6513

Deep Water Spill - Waiting for Top Kill (more updated tech) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6509

The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - the Top Kill Attempt (the technical aspect of what just happened) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6505

The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill, barriers, flow rates, and top kill http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6501

Hope you find this informative...

Computer software is about utility

More than once she mentions items which don't have copyright protections because they are "too utilitarian." If computer software is "about utility" why should it have copyright protection?

As far as trademark is concerned, this only really applies to the logo. You can't trademark a design. I can't make a new type of shoe and say "this is trademarked so now you can't copy it." I can, however, make a unique "shoe logo" and stamp it prominently on every shoe I sell. Then, when the knockoff designers make copies of my shoes, they won't have the cool design on their shoes.

When it comes to the question of why pay for a movie when you download it for free, this is where I think price, availability, hassle and extras can tip the scales. First of all, don't price your product too high or people won't buy it and will seek out other methods of obtaining it (either used or pirated versions). Secondly, make your product available. I can't count how many times people have said they wanted to buy movie X but couldn't because it wasn't released in their DVD region. Thirdly, if you add hassles to your legal copy (DRM, unskippable ads, etc) people will flock away from it. Alternatively, if you make it hassle-free, people will choose it over trying to find and download a good pirated copy. Lastly, if you include cool extra features in your paid-version, people will buy that over the "just the movie DVD rip" torrent.

This isn't to say that everyone would flock to the paid-for copy. There are people out there who would download the pirated version even if the movie company was selling a DRM-free, Platinum Version with a thousand extra features for $5. You just need to realize that these people aren't your customers. Just like Gucci realized that the people buying cheap Gucci knock-offs weren't their customers.

Perhaps you can even find a way to profit from them like some high fashion designers who knocked off their own looks for sale to the "cheap knockoff" chains. To give an example from Disney, they're currently giving away free music every day for 50 days. ( http://twitter.com/disneymusic ) The "free music buffs" will eat this up and download every one. They might even discover that they like the song and go out and buy the album it came from. In the end, Disney is "out" 50 songs yet potentially increases their sales. (And yes, I know that Disney is a huge source of our current copyright woes, but like any big company there are good things they do and bad things. I figured I'd give them credit for one of the good things.)

it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves

This may be what has happened, since after all, this group DID just make complete fools of themselves.

I'm hoping this is what happened

-CBS execs try to decide what shows to put on the air next, cause they're scraping the bottom of the barrel
-Out of the blue, this idiot group approaches them and pre-emptively warns that if they were to make a show with an obviously censored word in the title, they'll protest it.
-CBS execs find this hilarious (and realize an opportunity for free slashvertising), scramble to find a show that uses a censored word as part of the title
-CBS execs realize that the only way to make this even funnier is if they make the show based on, of all things, a twitter feed
-Censorship advocates rebel in exactly the braindead way they said they would, execs and the rest of us get a good laugh and hopefully a few more people realize that there's no point in getting offended at words (or symbols standing in for words).

As Justin's dad's most recent quote, probably on this very topic: "They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."

Seriously, I object to a show being based on a twitter post, but at least they picked the best one and did the title well. The rest of it might be a trainwreck, but it's off to a great start.

No. It's Executives. They will not find this hilarious, they don't have the brainpower left after years of MBA training and ouroboros-style self wanking.

Here's how this goes down:
-Professional Culture Troll group threatens CBS due to Professional Culture Trolls' (aka: Moral Guardians, Professional Christians, what have you) increasing irrelevance in modern society
-CBS execs come out of their cocaine fueled haze, realize that someone, somewhere is offended, contact CBS legal team as this is the first they've heard of this show
-CBS legal team sees opportunity to look relevant and "fix" the show, blocks show as "culturally insensitive" until changes are made
-CBS marketing team sees opportunity to look relevant and "fix" the show, gets involved in rename process and uses it as excuse to "fix" other things
-Show delayed for "reinvisioning"
-CBS releases "That's Our Pa!", a "retooled" version of "Shit My Dad Says" about a Mr. Magoo type who runs a christian orphanage for sassy minority children in 2011.

Been following this one for a year or two now.

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

I hate rehashed shit. Way to go CBS, way to not be original....

Fittingly enough, that statement sounds like it could be part of the collection.

it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves

This may be what has happened, since after all, this group DID just make complete fools of themselves.

I'm hoping this is what happened

-CBS execs try to decide what shows to put on the air next, cause they're scraping the bottom of the barrel
-Out of the blue, this idiot group approaches them and pre-emptively warns that if they were to make a show with an obviously censored word in the title, they'll protest it.
-CBS execs find this hilarious (and realize an opportunity for free slashvertising), scramble to find a show that uses a censored word as part of the title
-CBS execs realize that the only way to make this even funnier is if they make the show based on, of all things, a twitter feed
-Censorship advocates rebel in exactly the braindead way they said they would, execs and the rest of us get a good laugh and hopefully a few more people realize that there's no point in getting offended at words (or symbols standing in for words).

As Justin's dad's most recent quote, probably on this very topic: "They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."

Seriously, I object to a show being based on a twitter post, but at least they picked the best one and did the title well. The rest of it might be a trainwreck, but it's off to a great start.

"They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."

Seems appropriate.

The photo in the engadget link is ANCIENT and by far the ugliest early development pic.

For pics, go here and here:
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/53552-look-who-flew-the-nest/
http://twitter.com/craigix

Looks like Gruso's blog got slashdotted pretty quickly.

Here's some more links to keep people occupied:

Official Site: http://www.open-pandora.org/
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
Pandora forums on GP32X: http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/forum/61-pandora/
Craig Rothwell's Twitter feed (all kids of pics there): http://twitter.com/craigix

"My sarcasm radar is all over the place on this one. Is he joking or or real?"

Confirmed Joke. From his twitter:
"My viral video got about 15,000 hits from SlashDot - http://bit.ly/bMGX9W - Ads made nearly $50.00 today! (proceeds are donated to charity)"

Why do I suddenly feel like an idiot for helping this guy get $50?

Here's the two people he's requesting subpoenas for:
http://twitter.com/bfbarbie
http://twitter.com/CasablancaPA

Let's see if we can make them go from 300-500 followers to 3,000-5,000.

I can't believe he's making such a huge stink over someone with a few hundred followers.