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You misunderstand the process and many do.

Here is a rundown of what it looks like:
Step 1: someone has an idea
Step 2: a possible API is discussed on the w3c mailinglist
Step 3: an API is drafted
Step 4: 1 or 2 browsermakers implement it in their browser, do use a 'vendor' prefix
Step 5: people look at how well it works, discuss it on the w3c mailinglist.
Step 6: Webpage authors are encouraged to try it out (and use it in production) with the vendor prefix.
Step 7: proposals for a standard are made
Step 8: I think people vote on it
Step 9: standards are approved and it is a standard. An actually "industry standard" too. Because pretty much everyone agrees on the standard.
Step 10: browser vendors change their browsers and people can use it without the browser-prefix

I'm sure sometimes step 2 and/or step 3 are skipped.

You can see a video of a coneference which explains it in detail:

http://vimeo.com/16326857 from 20:36 till 32:00

Summary: browsers implement what they want and when everyone agrees about the API it .

While the process looks kind of weird from the outside. But the idea is that what becomes the standard should be stable, so it can be set in stone and works like everyone wants.

Funny.
http://vimeo.com/5395057

Nothing a AR50 with .50cal incendiary rounds won't fix...

HardOCP TV - .50 Caliber BMG - Shooting Hard Drives

While you're at it, why don't you mention that unions bussed their rent-a-mobs into Wisconsin, in contrast to Tea Party rallies where most participants are there on their own volition.

I would if it were true. The narrative that you just presented is exactly the kind of media distortion that is the problem. Yes, it is true that the unions organized buses to transport people from the general area to Madison for the protests, but the Tea Party people also showed up on buses.

From my personal experiences in talking with people, I never talked to someone who was NOT from Wisconsin (although I'm sure there were people from out of state there), and everybody was there because of their own personal reasons. Quite frankly, the narrative of "rent-a-mob" has no basis in reality. Perhaps some of the people there came on paid vacation or some such thing, which gives enough of a grain of truth to allow the pundits to say, "The protesters were paid to be there," but the ground truth doesn't bear it out.

Instead, as you walked around, you saw an extraordinarily peaceful protest, which included many families and children. Never was there any sense of danger or conflict, despite emotions often running high.

Your impression is exactly the point that I'm trying to make - our media failed. For example, at one of the protests, the crowd was about 95% against Gov. Walker and his policies with about 5% showing up to voice support. In the media, though, it was reported as, "XXX people came out today in support and opposed to the bill."

Those kinds of distortions were extremely common. My experiences of what I saw on the ground rarely matched the narrative that came out of the media. Let me ask you - other than being "protesting the stripping of collective bargaining right" do you have any idea why people were out there? Here's a hint - it is much more complicated than that single sound bite. It was much more about how a long-standing trend towards erosion of worker's rights has led to a shrinking middle class, which has led to a recession, which has led to budget issues, which led to the draconian measures put forth by the current administration, but even that summary is a fairly trite, simplistic overview.

Try watching this video and hear other people express why they were there, and try to start questioning everything you hear in the news, especially the reports that confirm your own political biases.

Gain power by hoarding information ? Drop some Prospero in here.. ;) http://vimeo.com/28884746

Brilliant concept, well executed! Helium is a good choice, I initially thought that the balloon might be thermal, powered by wax or some liquid fuel. (eg kerosene). The ballon project video is good but it could be improved.
Perhaps with a 360 degree fisheye or some kind of spin correction system, I felt a bit dizzy watching it. A really stand-out high-altitude stop-motion vid' with good production like this one of mountain views of Annapurna in Nepal can be really successful and might do a lot to promote this amazing balloon project.

The people in countries the US has invaded would disagree with this portrayal. Vietnam alone estimates that removing US mines and unexploded shells will take 300 years and 10+ billion dollars (see also: Hearts and Mines documentary). The automated killing in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indochina, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and the use of murderous drones in Afghanistan/Pakistan, continues.

"...by now they should be converted to self-destructing or self-dearming anyway." is a PR phrase of no value.

Privacy is dead, get over it?

So, are you telling me it's now easier to fly with a firearm than it is with an acoustic guitar?

It has been much easier (in the US) to fly with guns than with many other things for a while now. There are unique advantages to doing so; for example, AFAIK it is the only way to ensure your bags aren't searched unless you are present.

This is a long but very informative video: http://www.vimeo.com/3923535

"Chemical analyses of the minerals near the cells suggest the microorganisms depended on sulfur for fuel"
If we find them alive, move them to Athabasca oil fields in Canada - http://vimeo.com/6547387

I thought we had all the programming languages we need.

Nowhere even remotely close to true. The state of programming is in the dumpster, especially in terms of what's mainstream. Mainstream languages are still yet to catch up to... well, languages of the 60's. (See: LISP.)

There are only a few people (e.g. Alan Kay and his organization) that I know of that are actively doing research on advancing the state of programming itself in a significant way. We're going to eventually simply hit our limit with what we can do with current mainstream languages and their lack of significant abstraction capabilities.

You can see a talk about the kinds of things Alan Kay and co. are attempting here.

They post papers and what not here.

I have written a few apps using Tornado... So far it is my favorite framework for developing rich web applications. I contributed code/patches that the Tornado devs used to add SSL support to the framework. Also, just the other day I completed a Kerberos/AD/SSO authentication module for Tornado (I'll be making it available soon I hope).

My favorite feature of Tornado is the built-in support for WebSockets. It should also be mentioned that it is one of (if not THE) fastest Python web frameworks.

I also want to mention that for one-off/quick development web applications that don't need to be super fast I almost always use CherryPy. It is much simpler/quicker to develop with CherryPy than Tornado. You lose out big time on speed but the development time of CherryPy apps is very impressive. I wrote a reporting tool for my job that would examine a passwd file and then check it against Active Directory for uid/gid/shell/homedir conflicts and report the results on a pretty page using jqGrid. Users could even click a button to export the grid to spreadsheet format. Total development time: 16 hours (and that includes lunch breaks and five or six hour long conference calls)! Needless to say my boss was ecstatic, my coworkers were amazed, and the people who ended up using the tool asked me how much it cost (as if we bought it).

To bridge the gap between CherryPy and Tornado I actually wrote a MethodDispatcher that lets you port a CherryPy app to Tornado with a trivial amount of effort. Of course, it also lets you write a Tornado app "the CherryPy way" which, while a bit strange sitting on top of Tornado, is much simpler and allows for faster development time.

As for the differences between some popular frameworks I wrote up a pretty good explanation over at Stackoverflow.

For reference, here's some apps I've developed using Tornado: Gate One (still developing it), PyCI (no longer maintaining it though--I hope to revisit it some day when I have time, sigh), Escape From The Web, and here's a writeup of mine on how to develop an application similar to my reporting tool using CherryPy and jqGrid in no time at all.

You want Communist Zombies? Here's your communist zombies.

Well, there's also a lot of:
You're assuming that 90% of the universe is invisible on the basis of *what* evidence? I'd like a bit of better evidence, please, before I swallow something like that.

There is lots of evidence. Look up "Bullet Cluster" on the net for the closest thing to a single "smoking gun". Or, for a mention of the Bullet Cluster and lots of other evidence (and not even all of it), watch this: http://vimeo.com/4559703

Sure. Vimeo only supports H.264 for its "HTML5" videos. Pick any video there (e.g. http://vimeo.com/5419749 ) then click on the "Switch to HTML5 player" link below the video description (doesn't get shown in Firefox, but does get shown in Chrome). That gives you a element that points to an H.264 video and plays fine in my Chrome on the dev channel.

Blender Tomato Branch

http://www.vimeo.com/26420002

Latest build
http://graphicall.org/?keywords=tomato

You can find the devs on #blendercoders @ freenode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
"In economics, an externality (or transaction spillover) is a cost or benefit, not transmitted through prices,[1] incurred by a party who did not agree to the action causing the cost or benefit. A benefit in this case is called a positive externality or external benefit, while a cost is called a negative externality or external cost."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
"The process of enclosure has sometimes been accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist and neo-Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit. This created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. "

Anyway, AC, so that is the kind of reasons you got screwed by the system, and why you are poor when your current birthright is currently about 1/7-billionth of the Earth and ultimately the same percentage of the solar system or beyond. You have a right to part of our cultural and technical capital, but you deny that right for yourself, and for everyone else. See also, on why wealth comes from more than present-day labor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit

And that is why the first part of this "Manna" story by Marshall Brain may well be your future (and for the rest of us, too):
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

The problem in the USA, which has been pursuing regressive neoliberalism for decades, is that the US Republicans are the worst sort of Socialists, who privatize profits (Enclosure) while socializing costs (Externalities). A truly socialist country would not do that. As for your suggestion of "America, love its regressive neoliberalism or leave it", well, people can't move as easily as capital encoded in internet packets -- they have family issues, language issues, cultural issues. So most people are stuck in the USA as it goes down the toilet. The USA may well take the whole world with it too, given all its stockpiled WMDs (which is another reason to stay and try to reform it, since where are you gonna hide from widespread US-originated plagues, nuclear fallout, and killer robots?). See also:
http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/
"Neoliberalism As Water Balloon"
http://vimeo.com/6803752

Meanwhile, you are just defending your own assailants because they have misled you with their self-serving "mythology of wealth":
http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402

That said, local subsistence is one way forward, but so is a basic income, a gift economy, and better democratic planning at all levels of our society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY

Very few/ no storms (dustorms maybe), I don't think it gets earthquakes, next to no rain.

Seriously, Arizona get's some wicked weather all during monsoon season that doea plenty of damage.

I am pretty excited about this tower (AZ is my home state though I live in Mozambique, Africa now) but I am definitely concerned about its viability under the extreme weather Arizona can bring.

This is unlikely all about permissions though. While I definitely agree with your point, this may very well be the same LogCat leak "uncovered" by lookout at DefCon of last year. Basicly what happens is lazy devs are writing personal info into the debug log. Other apps could read this with an innocous sounding "read logs" permission. It was a reader here at Slashdot who actually pointed it out to me (I write a guide for new users about Android permissions).

Of course, there may be more to it. And certainly part of it will be about companies "leaking" info to ad agencies -- but that isn't much of a "leak" when users agree to it. It's still a shady business, (especially the methodology used), but Android has a limit to what it can protect when a user agrees to give out personal details.

Anyways, here's the video of the lookout presentation:

Video from DefCon (need to login/download):

http://vimeo.com/14980971

And a simple work-around for devs not wanting to leak data.

It has been claimed that it doesn't. The claim is: government funded research was, for all modern purposes, non-existent before 1920, and yet the pace of development and growth in science, technology and wealth remained constant into the modern day.

I dunno, while I don't have a Chromebook I *do* do serious work with Chrome (the browser) every day and I'm not talking about web development. All you need to do serious work, is a decent terminal program:

http://vimeo.com/24857127

Gate One should be available for public consumption soon. I hope to make it the best damned terminal program/SSH client that ever existed. It is already superior to PuTTY (as long as you don't need port forwarding or X11).

Unfortunately, port forwarding (specifically dynamic - using putty as a SOCKS proxy) is 95% of what makes PuTTY useful to me. Hell, it's what makes SSH useful - an SSH client which doesn''t support these functions is, in my view, not a terribly useful piece of software.

I dunno, while I don't have a Chromebook I *do* do serious work with Chrome (the browser) every day and I'm not talking about web development. All you need to do serious work, is a decent terminal program:

http://vimeo.com/24857127

Gate One should be available for public consumption soon. I hope to make it the best damned terminal program/SSH client that ever existed. It is already superior to PuTTY (as long as you don't need port forwarding or X11).

9/11 Missing Links should show you all the evidence you need to know this and more.

That sucks, try this one instead (probably should've linked to it first anyway) http://vimeo.com/3281558

Reality check here... what he did was really cool. Did you guys see the video? : http://vimeo.com/25958231 .. as a filmmaker, I find it's a huge pain for people to express themselves without worrying about where they can film, if there's someone's logo on something, if everyone in the film has given their permission, etc. Either you have the enormous cash required for production insurance, renting locations, securing official permission from every company with a visible product, funds to pay police for securing exclusive use of city property, payment for extras to populate your scene rather than just filming bystanders... or... you have to do something illegal and be subjected to some risk. I can see if there's a place/product/person displayed unfairly (libel), and if so, sure, take whoever to court and prove your damages, but you should not need permission to film/photograph whatever, wherever, and whoever otherwise.

Because there are developments that require years and millions of $, think pharmaceuticals.

Software must not be patentable. Why? Because with software patents it is possible to monopolize mathematical concepts, see http://vimeo.com/11206098

Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here: http://curiositycounts.com/post/6455747293/jonathan-stray-of-the-associated-press-on

You can skip this site also. The presentation can be found here on vimeo.

in the sand. (Thought I was going to use another location, didn't you?)

example of head in the sand.

Don't forget this one. Some of the best aurora footage I've ever seen.

This one is nice too: http://vimeo.com/23205323

Since two weeks, I saw very good videos of this kind.

For those who like that kind of stuff, also check out this video - one of the best I've seen so far.

after seeing what the genetically modified crap monsanto propagates around (curiously after a while the crap propagates itself without help from anyone), this is a win for my stomach.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/13/0328221/Organ-Damage-In-Rats-From-Monsanto-GMO-Corn?art_pos=1

https://www.facebook.com/notes/wood-prairie-farm/the-complete-text-of-dr-don-m-hubers-letter-to-usda-secretary-vilsak/197340006962367

http://vimeo.com/22997532

Sidereal Motion (2010) is a four-movement film+music work about the night sky as photographed from five astronomical observatories around the world. It features awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences and still images shot by Salgado and original music by Bailey. The close correlation between music and visuals results in a work where the combination of these is much greater than the sum of its parts.

A month ago TSOPhotography posted this time-lapse video of the milky way (please watch it in HD). No VLT here and the results are amazing, not to mention the soundtrack... even National Geography forwarded their link. Enjoy :)

or how about actually using the privacy settings. For instance if you make a photo album and then white list it to three people. Anyone with the link at the bottom of ever album can still see the pictures (if they use the link but not if they search manually). In theory that link is for your 'friends who don't have facebook'. But considering how obsessed the world is with facebook, 90 times out of 100 when I send someone a picture the first thing they ask is if I can upload it to facebook. Why is the biggest and (i'm pretty certain) most penetrated social media platform trying 'so hard' to accommodate people who aren't in it especially to the detriment of my privacy. Even YouTube knows how to properly allow me to make a video private never mind the hassle of having to know everyone's YT name if I want maximum privacy. At least it's an option. FB keeps talking about their privacy settings and yada yada yada but when a simple link completely loop-holes them all the talk is pointless.

Jane McGonigal has written some great stuff about how and why gaming can be not only engaging but good for your level of engagement with life, friends, family.

See http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850 for the book, and particularly her "Practical Advice for Gamers" included in this page.

http://vimeo.com/16227360 is a great video of a talk she did that's entertaining as well as instructive, gives a flavour of the book I think.

I don't completely buy that gaming is completely positive, as excessive hours gaming can really be a problem, but she makes some good points.

I have 30874 on the Ptolemy II repository, see http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/cxbrx. Hauke Fuhrmann put up Codeswarm videos of the software evolution of the Ptolemy II project. See Chaotic, Less Chaotic. The number of commits is a poor measure though. I tend to make lots of small commits while cleaning code. A student doing a Ph.D., may make many fewer commits, but their commits have greater impact in the form of support for their Ph.D. We see software as a form of publication, see Software Practice in the Ptolemy Project.

I have 30874 on the Ptolemy II repository, see http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/cxbrx. Hauke Fuhrmann put up Codeswarm videos of the software evolution of the Ptolemy II project. See Chaotic, Less Chaotic. The number of commits is a poor measure though. I tend to make lots of small commits while cleaning code. A student doing a Ph.D., may make many fewer commits, but their commits have greater impact in the form of support for their Ph.D. We see software as a form of publication, see Software Practice in the Ptolemy Project.

There were fuel rod pieces found two miles away from the containment structures. This fact has been completely ignored by the media.

The hypothesis is that there was explosion in the spent fuel rod storage in Unit 3, and it was strong enough to blow rods out of the pool. Unit 3 uses MOX fuel containing plutonium, so it poses a potentially greater health risk. The suggestion is that there was a "prompt criticality" event where a hydrogen explosion mechanically shifted the rods so they went critical and released additional energy resulting in a much stronger explosion.

The follow on video http://vimeo.com/23393101 says that if the fuel rods went prompt critical, that highly radioactive material was vaporized and ejected into the atmosphere. This is the black cloud that was only seen in the Unit 3 explosion. The reason this had minimal impact is that most of the material went out to sea. This is one of the reasons that there are such high levels of radiation on the sea floor by the plant. If the prevailing winds had blow over land then a Chernobyl style uninhabitable zone would have been created in a large area next to the plant.

Currently this is a hypothesis, but if it did happen it would be easy to detect based on the radioactive isotopes at the scene. Both the US and Japanese governments, and perhaps China and S. Korea would also be able to figure this out. Given that there has been almost no mention of how fuel rod components have been blown all over the landscape, It is conceivable that this situation has been kept under wraps.

To give another take on how bad thinks are http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105120189.html

That means that radioactive water at the No. 2 reactor alone suffices to be classified as a level-7 accident.

That's right, the contaminated water in just one of the units, by itself, is enough to warrant the same international severity level as Chernobyl.

There were fuel rod pieces found two miles away from the containment structures. This fact has been completely ignored by the media.

The hypothesis is that there was explosion in the spent fuel rod storage in Unit 3, and it was strong enough to blow rods out of the pool. Unit 3 uses MOX fuel containing plutonium, so it poses a potentially greater health risk. The suggestion is that there was a "prompt criticality" event where a hydrogen explosion mechanically shifted the rods so they went critical and released additional energy resulting in a much stronger explosion.

The follow on video http://vimeo.com/23393101 says that if the fuel rods went prompt critical, that highly radioactive material was vaporized and ejected into the atmosphere. This is the black cloud that was only seen in the Unit 3 explosion. The reason this had minimal impact is that most of the material went out to sea. This is one of the reasons that there are such high levels of radiation on the sea floor by the plant. If the prevailing winds had blow over land then a Chernobyl style uninhabitable zone would have been created in a large area next to the plant.

Currently this is a hypothesis, but if it did happen it would be easy to detect based on the radioactive isotopes at the scene. Both the US and Japanese governments, and perhaps China and S. Korea would also be able to figure this out. Given that there has been almost no mention of how fuel rod components have been blown all over the landscape, It is conceivable that this situation has been kept under wraps.

To give another take on how bad thinks are http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105120189.html

That means that radioactive water at the No. 2 reactor alone suffices to be classified as a level-7 accident.

That's right, the contaminated water in just one of the units, by itself, is enough to warrant the same international severity level as Chernobyl.

Not supporting Flash means locking people out of a LOT of websites, most notably YouTube and other video-serving sites. With HTML5 coming in a few years (yes I know it's here now, but I don't see any sites supporting it)

That's a funny argument: without Flash you can't browse Youtube, and nobody supports HTML5 ... yet Youtube supports HTML5 video for many/most videos.

It's definitely not alone. Vimeo supports HTML5 video. Dailymotion supports HTML5 video. Netflix doesn't do HTML5 but it doesn't use Flash either (it's MS Silverlight).

I uninstalled Flash several months ago and it's fairly rare these days that there's video on the web I can't watch.

I think everyone should see this at least once: http://vimeo.com/22077752 Shows how proper butchering is done and where our food comes from.

The Ipad2 was mostly a Xoom clone

Boy, is THAT a laugh! I'd bet a large number of Galactic Credits that the iPad 2 was in the pipeline BEFORE the iPad 1 even launched. Just how fast do you think someone can push a complex SoC like the A5 through all the approval and fab cycles? Xoom clone? I think your psychological "projection" is showing. Better put a towel over it!

The Xoom has a resolution of 1280x800. The iPad 2 has a resolution of 1024x768. Hence, the iPad 2 has a much lower resolution screen.

And, as many, many reviewers and slashdotters have pointed out, what is the point of having extra pixels if you can't paint them fast enough? Even YOU point out the GPU deficiencies on the Xoom. "The GPU performance of the Ipad 2 is indeed better than the Xoom. "

It's mobile strategy appears to be to emulate IBM's PC strategy in 1984.

In what way?

It will take a while for Android to mature in Tablets.

They've had over a year now to play CATCH UP, and haven't. Meanwhile, Apple is still chugging away, getting ever further and further ahead...

The T-mobile G-slate can capture 3-d video, which is pretty cool.

Oh, great! Now we have to suffer not only nauseatingly-fast 2D panning in home movies; but now it's going to be Tip O'Neill's 3-D House Of Representatives! Gag me (literally!).

http://www.vimeo.com/18417770

He also suggests DNSCurve as an alternative. Would be interesting to try setting up both on the same name server.

...when there's Michael Winslow? :D

*cue "We can emulate them, we have the technology" jokes*

np: Alva Noto - Teion Acat (Xerrox Vol. 2)

Before the server went down, I got to a time-lapse video they made from the pictures taken:

http://vimeo.com/22150511

Something cool to watch if the server remains down...

http://vimeo.com/22150511 This has the video of the images taken.

Two documentaries explaining why those aliens will never contact us First Contact and They Are Made Out of Meat .

This might be a little OT, but could someone watch this video of a bunch of piranhas attacking a mouse in an aquarium?

http://vimeo.com/3389691

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dja54kUOnyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYt668w1lGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy4o7c0FGbI

This might be a little OT, but could someone watch this video of a bunch of piranhas attacking a mouse in an aquarium?

http://vimeo.com/3389691

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dja54kUOnyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYt668w1lGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy4o7c0FGbI