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Ben Wills writes "Yahoo! announced that Google Released an API last Thursday.
"The service, launched Thursday, is called Google Web APIs, for application programming interfaces. The tools let noncommercial software developers "query more than 2 billion Web documents directly from their own computer programs," according to Google's Web site. For now, the service is free."
Google just keeps pushing the limits."
I have not tested Lunix, so I am in no position to say how good it is. But why do you think it sucks?
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"I'm surfin the dead zone
In the twilight, unknown"
W00t! I got it! Now give me a +1 funny!
FreeBSD 4.3 has been released! This time, it really has been released!
My complaint about John Ashcroft
May I be cynical for a bit? I hope you don't mind,
but with Ashcroft's latest barrage of
malodorous notions, I can't resist the urge to make a
few cynical comments. To get right
down to it, some of the facts I'm about
to present may seem shocking. This
they certainly are. However, it's time that a few
facts had a chance to slip through the fusillade of hype.
What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it
in the form of a question: Where are the people
who are willing to stand up and acknowledge
that Ashcroft, in his infinite wisdom, has decided
to destroy the natural beauty of our parks and forests?
On the surface, it would seem to have something to do
with the way that his whole approach is repugnant.
But upon further investigation, one will find that
by allowing Ashcroft to put mephitic thoughts in our
children's minds, we are allowing him to play puppet master.
As for the lies and exaggerations, Ashcroft's
epigrams are rife with contradictions
and difficulties; they're entirely maladroit,
meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited
for a supposedly educated population.
And as if that weren't enough, if Ashcroft is going to
obstruct important things, then he should at least have
the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, a
true enemy is better than a false friend. And
second, many people respond to his debauched vituperations
in much the same way that they respond to television
dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but
they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything
about them. That's why I insist we pronounce the truth
and renounce the lies.
Even people who consider themselves scornful
foolhardy-types generally agree that Ashcroft's slurs
symbolize lawlessness, violence, and misguided rebellion
-- extreme liberty for a few, even if the rest of us
lose more than a little freedom. One might conclude
that Ashcroft is incapable of writing a letter without using
such phrases as "crapulous pop psychologists", "loquacious
exhibitionists", "oppressive personae non gratae", or
some combination thereof. Alternatively, one might conclude
that Ashcroft has a different view of reality from the rest of us.
In either case, if you're not part of the solution,
then you're part of the problem. His historical record of
fickle pleas is clearer than the muddled pronouncements
of his apple-polishers for a variety of reasons. For
instance, the worst sorts of inconsiderate Neanderthals there
are must be treated with political justice, not with
civil justice, as they are sincerely not real citizens. Let me
rephrase that: I wonder if he really believes the
things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he?
A complete answer to that question would
take more space than I can afford, so I'll have to give
you a simplified answer. For starters, if
we let him cause riots in the streets, then greed,
corruption, and tribalism will characterize the government.
Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens.
And lies and deceit will be the stock and trade of the
media and educational institutions.
Even Ashcroft's bedfellows couldn't deal with the full impact of
Ashcroft's refrains. That's why they created "Ashcroft-ism," which is
just a garrulous excuse to force square
pegs into round holes. He plans to drag everything
that is truly great into the gutter. He has instructed
his votaries not to discuss this or even admit to his
plan's existence. Obviously, Ashcroft knows he has
something to hide. Most of you reading this letter
have your hearts in the right place. Now
follow your hearts with actions. I have traveled the length and
breadth of this country and talked with the best people. I can
therefore assure you that Ashcroft's artifices cannot stand on
their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate
artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that Ashcroft's
warnings can give us deeper insights into the nature of
reality. We can and we must protect ourselves by any means
necessary against the unrestrained bestiality
of stupid, quasi-macabre paper-pushers. And that's the honest truth.
Treat this double post as a 4-1-XX post:
W00t! I had a stupid salesman delete his entire sales folder this morning!
w00t!
Off to the back-ups...
(fuckin' moron...)
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Why doesent /. just put a small icon up under the story for when a site gets hammered. it couldent be that hard to write the code to test the site, and would mean that i dont have to sit here and hope it loads.
i saw this mentioned before but with/. mirroring the site, which would lead to copyright issues, so maybe this makes more sense?
Comments?
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Not reading Slashdot to see what articles have already been posted.
Well, considering the engagement, he's probably got other things to do... ;)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Someone moderated the parent post as Redundant.
Nonono. this is Redundant... THAT post was funny.
-Russ
Me
The moderation made me laugh even more. Perhaps Redundant mods should be getting +1 instead of -1? Seems to be the vogue around here.
DataSquid.net, a little about me.
All of the repeated posts complaining about the people that point out that this ia a repeated post!
Bastards!
how fucking idiotic must somebody be to mod this "funny" ???
*where is that metamoderation stuff again?*
I guess I'm waiting to have my account bitch-slapped back to 1, or 0. Lot's of people don't understand my type of humor/rhetoric/slang. Look back at the commodore article. I was one of the first posts, but used the word commie. If any of you remember, commie was slang for commodore. Still, even using _well_known_ slang at the time, idiots still mod me -1 troll, or such rubbish.
The longing I have for the old internet.... It was soo nice.