What we need are some microformats that all browsers support. If we make one for "shortened URL", how long do you think it'll take to make it as a feature in IE?:D
That's why I'm glad I use ChromeMUSE in Chromium (one of my work-mates pointed me to it). I don't use the shortening part of it, but the lengthening part (which you have to enable) is useful. Being Javascript, I even hacked in this extra little patch (around line 17, just after the "if response is OK") to see the real URLs on the page instead of the Bitly/etc ones:)
if (a.innerText == a.href)
{
a.innerText = msg.url;
}
I've posted it as a suggestion, so it might be in future versions if the author cares:)/IBBoard curses the "junk characters" filter and proceeds to add filler to the rest of his post
ChromeMUSE is an extension to facilitate the use of URL shortening services. A short URL can be generated for any web page, using the user's preferred shortening service. The short URL is automatically copied to the clipboard to paste into other applications.
ChromeMUSE also automatically expands short URLs on any page, replacing the target URL with the original URL and displays the page title as a tooltip. The URL expansion is provided by LongURL.org, which handles links from more than 200 services.
Features - Shorten URLs with one-click operation (the shortened URL is automatically copied to clipboard) in Simple Mode. - Advanced Mode allows choice of service on the fly. - Supports login credentials (for services like bit.ly and Cligs). - Scans web pages for short URLs and automatically updates the target URL. The title of the website is displayed as a tooltip when available. - Supports dynamically updated (AJAX) websites (eg. twitter.com) without having to refresh the page.
That assumes that someone knows how to use HTML and what and tags are for. Given the quality of a lot of content these days (which is down-hill in a different way to early 2000 and the 90s!) I'd be surprised if they did!
Ditto for Linux Format in the UK. Some of the projects have nice short URLs (e.g. something.sourceforge.net) but others have horribly long ones that people would have to re-type, possibly introducing errors.
Still, I avoid URL shortening wherever possible in Twitter and just work with the URL I've got and the characters that remain. ChromeMUSE is useful for un-shortening links as well:)
That only works with physical things. Disconnecting an Internet account is trivial compared to imprisoning someone (which is what you'd need for physical civil disobedience). The level of technical competence of the user will vary the amount of time before they try (potentially unsuccessfully if there is a common blacklist) to get back online, but the mass disconnecting shouldn't be all that difficult.
Basically, it is because RMS is a complete Open Source zealot and doesn't consider proprietary software to have any legitimacy (certainly not when it comes to mention of it in the Plant GNOME aggregated feed).
I agree to a tiny degree in that Planet GNOME should be about GNOME stuff, and that I'd rather have OSS than proprietary most of the time, but I still know when to compromise.
When I was a 'minor', the last thing I'd have wanted to do in most games was get segregated in an area with kids of my own age. It would have led to a dull, boring, and ruined gaming experience as they all messed around. Hell, I'm 25 now and I wouldn't want to be segregated in a game with half of the 25 year olds I know for exactly the same reason!
As people have said, you can't control every little thing that kids see, hear or do. I've got an 18 month old and we're going to be relaxed, logical and sensible with his up-bringing. Certain things have their place, but both me and my wife know what kids are like and won't go crazy if he starts viewing porn at age 14, and language will be explained.
No one has been killed by swear words, no one has been killed by watching porn...
Tell that to all the people with dodgy hearts who died of heart attacks after either hearing a slew of swear words they're not used to (mainly the older generation) or after watching something a little to 'interesting';)
"Kate Lister, author of Undress for Success -- The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home, estimates that more than 95% of Google hits on the words 'work at home' are scams, link to scams, or other dead ends."
Say it isn't true. How ever could someone be so cruel as to scam people who just want to do minimal work, never leave the house, and yet still make thousands per week?
Actually, to be fair, I didn't think that many would be scams - I thought a bigger proportion would be money laundering exercises.
I dunno. BBC Click managed to do it seemingly quite easily (thereby giving some of the BBC license fee to criminals), and broadcast it on TV, and subsequently modify people's computers (they changed the desktop to one of their own messages), and still they didn't get charged over it. If you can be that blatant and make it appear that easy then I can't imagine the phishers will have much trouble with it.
According to Ambassador Ron Kirk, the head of US Trade Representatives, the secrecy around the ACTA copyright treaty is necessary because without that secrecy, people would be 'throwing a tantrum, chucking their toys out of the pram and generally having a paddy on behalf of their paying taskmasters (the entertainment industry).'
There, fixed that for him!
When will the rule of law next be used in the interests of the public as a whole rather than of the corporations? (and no, I don't mean "we should be free to do teh piratez! making money is wrongz", I mean sensible law that benefits society as a whole).
Democracy 2.0 may look prettier, but it'll use new technologies that aren't so widely supported at first, it'll do extra effects that do nothing beneficial and are purely superficial, and it'll slow to a crawl when attempted with anything that isn't from the past couple of years. Are you sure you want Democracy 2.0?;)
Yeah, what's hard about cloning a site (not always that well), hiring a botnet and spamming the whole world (again, not always that convincingly and not always to the relevant people) before sitting and waiting for the account details to roll in?
Next thing you know there'll be an article about how migrants are stealing jobs from these poor, hard-working phishers!
Some of the mods have kept interest in DoW1, which isn't good from a business point of view, but then making a sequel that your devoted modding community can't mod doesn't seem like a good move either! From what I'd read the lack of minor customisation like badges is part of the terms of GfWL, but the change in the rest of the system is a design thing. It probably is more complex and harder to work as it is a newer and more complex game built on a new engine, but it is still a shame.
Some companies support "modders" making derivative works, some block or threaten legal action, but some start one way and switch. I don't suppose the Devs want to do it, but Legal probably get twitchy these days.
The main one that irks me is Relic. Dawn of War was a great game with a good modding community. Dawn of War 2 came along and (in part because of the GfWL networking) really locked down on modding such that most of the community gave up. There were some incredible mods and textures for DoW1, and any "pure graphics" changes were user-side only and didn't break games. Mods were properly handled and a handshake before the game failed if you weren't running the same Mods. Then DoW2 was released, it was "more complex" (like that ever stopped the community!) and modding didn't get anywhere near the same support (plus even textures needed to be put in as mods the last I saw). You can't even easily add custom badges and banners, FFS!
I can see the point of copyright and intellectual property to some degree - working hard on something and then having someone else duplicate or modify it or appear to be an official part of it without your permission and without credit or recompense, potentially making a bad impression on those who don't know it isn't official, is wrong and serves no good purpose. The problem is that corporations take it too far.
Or just not use the radio service (since that isn't the only service they provide).
Besides, $3 per month? That's peanuts for all you can hear streaming music! Its not as if streaming music over the Internet is exactly a low-bandwidth job.
Go find me a nation where you have full democracy - I'm betting it is nigh-on impossible. Get beyond a few hundred people in your population and you can't adequately poll everyone, so you need to bring in some kind of leadership who do the majority of ruling for the people. Is it perfect? No, but then the anarchy of everyone trying to vote on every issue wouldn't be either (true and full democracy). Does it work? Yes, it seems to for most of the world. Granted the corporations have pushed the main parties in almost all countries closer together, but that's an issue of the morals of the people in charge, not an issue of the wider system of "voting in people whose sole job is to run the country for the best of the country".
One of these days I'll find that Terry Pratchett quote again. I can't remember it exactly, and it is probably related to Lord Vetinari, but it basically says that people have the wrong idea about democracy and elected government. The point of elected government is to do what they think is best for the people, not to do what the people think is best for themselves.
Besides, determining laws through self-serving greed and individual ignorance of the greater picture might sound nice in the short term, but it sure as hell won't last in the long term.
Until they bring in brain scanners (or people who read body language) that can tell when you're lying. At that point you need to start wiping your memory of downloading copyrighted content, leaving you with the wonderful situation of going "ooo, where did that come from?":D
I feel groups like the RIAA care very strongly about laws, but in a very selective way - i.e. "the ones that help us are very important, but the ones that hinder us should be ignored or bought away". ISPs have some dodgy ground to stand on, and the government tends to be above a lot of laws (or at least have exceptions and caveats that they claim and use).
Or flood it out - everyone share public domain versions of classical music etc! (Stuff that will be recognised as "a known song that doesn't need a license").
Either that or everyone should just torrent large amounts Linux ISOs so that the DPI system generally has to monitor loads of stuff anyway before it determines that it isn't relevant.
Sorry, I'll correct that: "Nothing of value was lost". One of my housemates used to get something like the Sun (mainly for the football coverage) and Page 3 was terrible the few times I saw it. Talk about ugly, skanky women you wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole!
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What we need are some microformats that all browsers support. If we make one for "shortened URL", how long do you think it'll take to make it as a feature in IE? :D
That's why I'm glad I use ChromeMUSE in Chromium (one of my work-mates pointed me to it). I don't use the shortening part of it, but the lengthening part (which you have to enable) is useful. Being Javascript, I even hacked in this extra little patch (around line 17, just after the "if response is OK") to see the real URLs on the page instead of the Bitly/etc ones :)
I've posted it as a suggestion, so it might be in future versions if the author cares :) /IBBoard curses the "junk characters" filter and proceeds to add filler to the rest of his post
ChromeMUSE is an extension to facilitate the use of URL shortening services. A short URL can be generated for any web page, using the user's preferred shortening service. The short URL is automatically copied to the clipboard to paste into other applications.
ChromeMUSE also automatically expands short URLs on any page, replacing the target URL with the original URL and displays the page title as a tooltip. The URL expansion is provided by LongURL.org, which handles links from more than 200 services.
Features
- Shorten URLs with one-click operation (the shortened URL is automatically copied to clipboard) in Simple Mode.
- Advanced Mode allows choice of service on the fly.
- Supports login credentials (for services like bit.ly and Cligs).
- Scans web pages for short URLs and automatically updates the target URL. The title of the website is displayed as a tooltip when available.
- Supports dynamically updated (AJAX) websites (eg. twitter.com) without having to refresh the page.
That assumes that someone knows how to use HTML and what and tags are for. Given the quality of a lot of content these days (which is down-hill in a different way to early 2000 and the 90s!) I'd be surprised if they did!
Ditto for Linux Format in the UK. Some of the projects have nice short URLs (e.g. something.sourceforge.net) but others have horribly long ones that people would have to re-type, possibly introducing errors.
Still, I avoid URL shortening wherever possible in Twitter and just work with the URL I've got and the characters that remain. ChromeMUSE is useful for un-shortening links as well :)
That only works with physical things. Disconnecting an Internet account is trivial compared to imprisoning someone (which is what you'd need for physical civil disobedience). The level of technical competence of the user will vary the amount of time before they try (potentially unsuccessfully if there is a common blacklist) to get back online, but the mass disconnecting shouldn't be all that difficult.
Basically, it is because RMS is a complete Open Source zealot and doesn't consider proprietary software to have any legitimacy (certainly not when it comes to mention of it in the Plant GNOME aggregated feed).
I agree to a tiny degree in that Planet GNOME should be about GNOME stuff, and that I'd rather have OSS than proprietary most of the time, but I still know when to compromise.
When I was a 'minor', the last thing I'd have wanted to do in most games was get segregated in an area with kids of my own age. It would have led to a dull, boring, and ruined gaming experience as they all messed around. Hell, I'm 25 now and I wouldn't want to be segregated in a game with half of the 25 year olds I know for exactly the same reason!
As people have said, you can't control every little thing that kids see, hear or do. I've got an 18 month old and we're going to be relaxed, logical and sensible with his up-bringing. Certain things have their place, but both me and my wife know what kids are like and won't go crazy if he starts viewing porn at age 14, and language will be explained.
Tell that to all the people with dodgy hearts who died of heart attacks after either hearing a slew of swear words they're not used to (mainly the older generation) or after watching something a little to 'interesting' ;)
How can there be a zombie outbreak? Everyone who is infected will explode from the inside out. It would be quite messy, though!
Say it isn't true. How ever could someone be so cruel as to scam people who just want to do minimal work, never leave the house, and yet still make thousands per week?
Actually, to be fair, I didn't think that many would be scams - I thought a bigger proportion would be money laundering exercises.
I watched it on TV, so I never read an article. Looks like Google has loads about it, though.
Or, to confuse the numerically illiterate (whatever that is called), Government 2.0 is Government 7. Now go and try to find the missing versions ;)
I dunno. BBC Click managed to do it seemingly quite easily (thereby giving some of the BBC license fee to criminals), and broadcast it on TV, and subsequently modify people's computers (they changed the desktop to one of their own messages), and still they didn't get charged over it. If you can be that blatant and make it appear that easy then I can't imagine the phishers will have much trouble with it.
There, fixed that for him!
When will the rule of law next be used in the interests of the public as a whole rather than of the corporations? (and no, I don't mean "we should be free to do teh piratez! making money is wrongz", I mean sensible law that benefits society as a whole).
Democracy 2.0 may look prettier, but it'll use new technologies that aren't so widely supported at first, it'll do extra effects that do nothing beneficial and are purely superficial, and it'll slow to a crawl when attempted with anything that isn't from the past couple of years. Are you sure you want Democracy 2.0? ;)
Yeah, what's hard about cloning a site (not always that well), hiring a botnet and spamming the whole world (again, not always that convincingly and not always to the relevant people) before sitting and waiting for the account details to roll in?
Next thing you know there'll be an article about how migrants are stealing jobs from these poor, hard-working phishers!
Some of the mods have kept interest in DoW1, which isn't good from a business point of view, but then making a sequel that your devoted modding community can't mod doesn't seem like a good move either! From what I'd read the lack of minor customisation like badges is part of the terms of GfWL, but the change in the rest of the system is a design thing. It probably is more complex and harder to work as it is a newer and more complex game built on a new engine, but it is still a shame.
Some companies support "modders" making derivative works, some block or threaten legal action, but some start one way and switch. I don't suppose the Devs want to do it, but Legal probably get twitchy these days.
The main one that irks me is Relic. Dawn of War was a great game with a good modding community. Dawn of War 2 came along and (in part because of the GfWL networking) really locked down on modding such that most of the community gave up. There were some incredible mods and textures for DoW1, and any "pure graphics" changes were user-side only and didn't break games. Mods were properly handled and a handshake before the game failed if you weren't running the same Mods. Then DoW2 was released, it was "more complex" (like that ever stopped the community!) and modding didn't get anywhere near the same support (plus even textures needed to be put in as mods the last I saw). You can't even easily add custom badges and banners, FFS!
I can see the point of copyright and intellectual property to some degree - working hard on something and then having someone else duplicate or modify it or appear to be an official part of it without your permission and without credit or recompense, potentially making a bad impression on those who don't know it isn't official, is wrong and serves no good purpose. The problem is that corporations take it too far.
Or just not use the radio service (since that isn't the only service they provide).
Besides, $3 per month? That's peanuts for all you can hear streaming music! Its not as if streaming music over the Internet is exactly a low-bandwidth job.
Go find me a nation where you have full democracy - I'm betting it is nigh-on impossible. Get beyond a few hundred people in your population and you can't adequately poll everyone, so you need to bring in some kind of leadership who do the majority of ruling for the people. Is it perfect? No, but then the anarchy of everyone trying to vote on every issue wouldn't be either (true and full democracy). Does it work? Yes, it seems to for most of the world. Granted the corporations have pushed the main parties in almost all countries closer together, but that's an issue of the morals of the people in charge, not an issue of the wider system of "voting in people whose sole job is to run the country for the best of the country".
One of these days I'll find that Terry Pratchett quote again. I can't remember it exactly, and it is probably related to Lord Vetinari, but it basically says that people have the wrong idea about democracy and elected government. The point of elected government is to do what they think is best for the people, not to do what the people think is best for themselves.
Besides, determining laws through self-serving greed and individual ignorance of the greater picture might sound nice in the short term, but it sure as hell won't last in the long term.
Yes, because getting sent a letter saying "we believe you were committing a crime" ends your nation's ability to vote on who controls their nation...
Until they bring in brain scanners (or people who read body language) that can tell when you're lying. At that point you need to start wiping your memory of downloading copyrighted content, leaving you with the wonderful situation of going "ooo, where did that come from?" :D
I feel groups like the RIAA care very strongly about laws, but in a very selective way - i.e. "the ones that help us are very important, but the ones that hinder us should be ignored or bought away". ISPs have some dodgy ground to stand on, and the government tends to be above a lot of laws (or at least have exceptions and caveats that they claim and use).
Or flood it out - everyone share public domain versions of classical music etc! (Stuff that will be recognised as "a known song that doesn't need a license").
Either that or everyone should just torrent large amounts Linux ISOs so that the DPI system generally has to monitor loads of stuff anyway before it determines that it isn't relevant.
Sorry, I'll correct that: "Nothing of value was lost". One of my housemates used to get something like the Sun (mainly for the football coverage) and Page 3 was terrible the few times I saw it. Talk about ugly, skanky women you wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole!