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Interesting way to make your voice heard - threaten to sue, but say you will drop the lawsuit if you do this (interesting, sounds kinda like blackmail - we will sue unless you do this).
May not be such a bad idea though - first time you setup your computer, you get asked if you want to enable a porn filter or not (or whatever you want to call your web filter). You probably don't even have to really maintain it - just block Playboy.com , the.sex and the.xxx domains and say that you provided a filter. Something that could be coded up in a few minutes, just add another screen that users have to click through, and get all of these nut cases off your back.
Of course, and even better idea might to be to actually provide a functioning filter. Could be a great selling point for many families. To turn said filter off (after you turn it on - remember, you have to turn it on during the setup) requires an admin password. The fact that the user may know the admin password is moot.
So yeah, its a stupid stupid lawsuit, but it may not be that bad of an idea for Apple to actually do it.
So, under copyright claim 12, HBO is claiming to own the rights to Hannah Montanna Season 2? Disney should sue - they have to protect their copyrights from these theives at HBO!
Subtitles are not derivative works, though. The screenplay is protected by copyright. The dialougue is protected by copyright. Therefore, subtitles, which are copies of those texts, are copyrighted.
Shoot, I have fansubbed a few German movies myself. I took the German subtitles, translated them, and stuck them back into the movie. Not sure how US Copyright law handles translations, but I am pretty sure that I could not take a Twilight book, translate it into Gaelic or something (not that I would), and claim that I then hold the copyright on it because "its a derivative work".
Note that only newer Rokus do subtitles. The first gen Rokus do not support them.
I was going to suggest a smart television - it doesn't get much easier than that - hit the Netflix button, and there you are. Now your grandparents are going to have to figure out how to switch HDMI inputs to watch a movie (depending on how tech savory your grandparents are - mine could hardly figure out how to use a remote).
Sadly, I don't think smart televisions support closed captions.
I think Hulu supports closed captions as well, but that may be limited to the PS3 - as I have the old Roku, the Hulu app runs like crap on it, so I haven't messed with it too much.
Vudu should support closed captions as well, but that may also be limited to the PS3.
Not sure if Amazon supports captions or not. I don't think it does.
No one really cares. The people sitting at customs are there because its a job. You were checked for bombs and firearms at the TSA. By the time you get to customs, the people are half asleep. Most of the boarder agents I have seen won't even check your luggage to see if you have something that you didn't declaire. They don't care. If your passport and Visa are in good order, you are not on a watch list, and you don't act stupid or look suspicious, they won't bother. The worst I have ever had to do when flying internationally is going through security and having to power on electronic devices to prove they really are electronic devices (which on some items required me to find my voltage adaptor - make sure you know where it is).
Yeah, we have all heard horror stories about horrible security agents and people being held up at the boarders and having their laptops searched. Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people fly a day. You hear a horror story, what, once every few months. Probably the worst that happens when you fly will most likely be that you have to take your shoes off and get wanded (or if you do something like forgetting to put your liquids in a seperate pouch and leave leave your sunscreen in your camera bag or something, and even then, half the time they don't care - you just get a brief 10 second lecture and have to pull stuff out and bag it right and put it back through the scanner, so can take an extra minute or two to get through security).
Seriously, don't worry about customs. You could be transporting top secret materials on an unencrypted device, and, chances are, you won't be caught, as long as you don't act suspicious and stuff. Now, if you hit customs, and are all nervous, stumbling over your words, incohearent and stuff because you are anxious, than, yeah, you might get pulled aside.
My state passed a law last year deeming red light cameras illegal. Sadly, new cameras are still going up. Turns out that, if they had already bought the equipment, they are still allowed to put them up. But they are not allowed to do any maintanance or renew contracts. I am just glad they are coming down - not so much because of the two tickets I had, but because of safty issues. Try driving along on a highway at night, and suddenly you are blinded by a flash going off from a redlignt camera on the access road. I know many cities have talked about how the traffic light cameras help improve safty - but I wonder if any studies have been done on how many accidents they cause - either from people being blinded by flashes, speeding up to make it through the intersection in time, or slamming on their breaks to avoid getting ticketed (most intersections I have seen with the cameras, they shortened the length of the yellow light - which I think has also been deemed illegal)
The judicial system in this country is completely broke. I know multiple people who have had issues with CPS (usually involving a kid falling and breaking a bone, parents take them to the emergancy room, CPS is called, takes kids away). Bail, lawyer fees, mandnitory parenting classes, and months without contact with your kids have to be gone through before your case even get the first hearing. Then, if you plead Not Guilty, its months before the trial actually starts.
Then the fun begins.
First, you better hope your lawyer, that you have already paid thousands to, actually cares about the case and actually believes you. Otherwise, midtrial, you fire your lawyer, get a new one, a whole new slew of legal fees, etc
Worst is, assuming you win, you are still stuck with legal fees equal to a student loan all the way up to a mortgage. And you don't get any of that back.
This isn't just issues with CPS. This is true for pretty much any criminal or civil case. Whether you are guilty or innocent, at fault or not, doesn't matter, you are still stuck with legal fees.
If you are lucky, if you win at the criminal level, you might be able to take the person to trial on a civil level and recoup some costs, but even that isn't very likely.
Another horrible example of this is red-light tickets. I have been issued two in my life, and in both instances, the "evidence" (ie pictures / video) clearly shows that no violation occured. However, at $35 for a court hearing, plus two days of missing work (to go down to the court and plea not guilty, than for the actuall court date), then the amount of money I loose missing work, its easier just to pay the $75 ticket.
Its a broken system. It needs to be completely overhauled.
Don't really see an issue with this - unless someone can find out how to hack VLANS, but is that really that much different than someone hacking WEP or WPA? In fact, I would imagine VLAN is much mroe secure - you are running multiple virtual instances on a physical machine - you would have to hack into the physical router for there to be a security issue, which people could pretty much do now if you have things poorly configured.
If Comcast has a way of distinguishing between what is public and what I am paying for (figutively speaking, I am on Time Warner), I see no hit in performance, they increase the number of nodes in a neighborhood, increase their overall bandwidth, and, if you are talking about the number of wireless devices that can connect to a router, if they prioritize what connects to the customer's vlan over the public vlan, and don't affect the end customer in any way, I don't see how this would be an issue. In fact, I see it as a great idea.
Plus, as the summery stated, customers get new hardware.
Question is, the summery states "Customers will be upgraded to new wireless routers that will have 2 wireless networks, one for the home users and one for the general public". So does this mean their new routers doesn't support customer VLANs? I guess that wouldn't surprise me too much - with Time Warner I had to finally end up buying my own router as their crappy routers didn't properly support VPN - anytime I tried establishing a VPN or OpenVPN connection, the router would reboot.
I am supposing this also means that customers can still use their own routers and opt against Comcast's routers, and just rent (or buy) modems.
You are assuming 97-98% of people 1) want to look at porn or 2) are going to bother to take the time to opt-out.
Granted, you can opt-out. So it's not like it's that big of a deal, at lest, to me. While I have looked at porn on the internet, it usually comes from starting at someplace innocent, say, a news site or something, then falling down the internet rabbit hole. (ie:Hmmm, that looks interesting. That does too, let's read that. Well now, I wonder how someone would do that, let's google it. Hmmm, something is getting past my ad filter. Whoa, what's that?" Several hours later you pull your mind out of the gutter.).
While I am not big on government censorship (ie don't like it at all), I, for one, probably wouldn't bother to opt out. By the time I remember that porn is blocked, and then start the process of opting out, my desire to look at it will probably have passed. And considering how much time I loose when I do start falling down the porn rabbit hole, I would probably start thanking the filters from saving me from hours of unproductive time on the internet.
Yeah, you can opt out. Many people will. But 97-98%? I'm willing to bet it will be under 50%. Willing to bet a good number of people are like me - while they have looked at porn on the internet, they did not have that intention when they first sat down at the keyboard, and out of those who did sit down with that intention, a good number of those wouldn't bother to turn off even a local filter, much less bother to opt-out.
It's a good plan if you want to police people's morality - while people will oppose this very vocally, most of those people won't go through the trouble of opting out, no matter how simple they make it.
I am not trying to start a politically correct argument or be pro or anti transgender. I think we should back up and look at the bigger problem.
The issue here is the age of many of these databases, with only minor updates occuring over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these databases dated back to the 70s, written in COBOL, living on an System/360 or 370 (or a newer system - 390 or zSeries or something else - with the database just ported over from the 360 and 370 days. Possibly the database was then "ported" over to a server based enviornemnt, but the cores database and information attached was still in place). At the time those databases were written, you were either male or female, or lived in shame. Not sure when sex reassignment surgery began, but you hear stories now of people who were born hemephrodite, and their parents had the surgery performed on them as infants or toddlers.
it probably did not even occure to the database designers to include an option for for changing Gender or for including possibly a third option.
The question should be 1) why has the older systems not been overhauled and 2) where they have been, why is the option no longer there. For systems that have been overhauled, if someone is maintaining the code, you have to ask how hard it would be for someone to go into the code and make that a changable field.
At that point, though, it probably changes from a technical issue to a political / sociological issue. I am not going to guess on the political issue, because I don't follow it, and making an assumption would be stupid (I know, I just made an assumption about the above. Rather, I don't want to get into the political issues to avoid flames and troll baiting). As for the sociological issues, even with media attention lately on transgender issues, we are still a society that breaks things down into male and female. Transgender stories still shock many people (although it is starting to become more understood and accepted - at least in some places).
I am not trying to get into an issue of if it is right or wrong, whether it needs to be changed or not. I am saying that the lack of options in databases shouldn't really come as a surprise.
Truth in a headline.:-) I sped read the article, and it looks that they were alluding to the fact that it hasn't been confirmed as a planet. But after reading "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming", would speculate that you could also say that images have been taken that are still being analyzed, or that both computer and human observations have glossed over that show planets.
ISDN, T1 and T3 lines are dedicated, whereas cable is shared. ISDN, T1 and T3 lines are also synchronous connections. Even in business-class cable and DSL connections, I rarely see synchronous speeds (doesn't mean they don't exist, just means that they seem to be rare). In the larger cities, I see major companies going to Fiber connections, but in smaller cities and towns, T1 and T3s are still the way to go.
Our company still has ISDN lines as backups when the fiber fails.
At least in the States, where you have a lot of smaller towns and rural areas with sometiimes hundreds of miles between them and the largest hub, I see copper pair staying around for a while yet.
On a commodore 64 and later on a pc. After doing a few programs, I started breaking the code down, making changes. I must have been about 7. When I was 9, I took an official BASIC course at the local junior college in their college for kids program. In high school, I took Pascal, then majored in Computer Sciences in college where I learned C, Cobol, Java and Assembly.
and say that they most likely did not know the rules. That is such an outdated rule, that it is likely they did not even think twice - especially if they were using a smartphone. The government is most likely acting like this because its the BBC.
That being said, as many other have pointed out, their country, their rules.
You could always take the northern route from Tibet, but I have a feeling that the Chinese government would be harder on them than Nepal.
I can see me checking about 50 times a day. My notifications for facebook, e-mail and texts all sound the same (and I have dug through everything to figure out hwo to change that). Luckily, for text messages, the phone lights up. So whenever my phone buzzes or beeps, I look down to see if it lit up. I have it setup where, if its plugged in, the screen stays on unless I shut it off, so I will glance down at it every time a notification comes in. So I guess you can say I on average check it about 50 times a day. If I had work e-mail going to my phone, I am sure I would check it more often than that.
I agree. In fact, I take it a step futher - if I am not on call, for at least one 24 hour period of my weekend, the phone goes OFF (unless I am trying to make plans with someone to do something, but as I am off Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and no one else is ever available Thursdays, that is the day the phone is off). On that day, I don't check personal e-mail, I don't blog, I don't facebook, I don't do bills, or even check personal e-mails. I might do laundry, but it is usually a day of laying around, reading, watching movies, catching up on TV shows, or reading books (fiction - reading an O'Riley book could be construid as work). Yeah, it may sound like a religious motivated thing, but it is a good thing to do - to give your body and mind a day to just relax and unplug. The change it has made in my life has really been amazing - I am happier, less stressed, and feel rested when I go back to my work, ready to take another week of abuse. I suggest everyone to give it a shot if they are not on-call.
Few people even post on Facebook anymore - they just reshare cat pics and George Takai's meme of the day. The few people I do want to make sure I keep up with, I set up notifications, and Facebook keeps turning them off. Really annoying, because you only know they are turned off if you check your notifications on a PC, or when you start wondering why your friends haven't posted in a while and head over to their page on your phone.
You would think that now that Facebook has gone public, they would find ways to stop pissing off their users.
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Wouldn't surprise me.
Interesting way to make your voice heard - threaten to sue, but say you will drop the lawsuit if you do this (interesting, sounds kinda like blackmail - we will sue unless you do this).
May not be such a bad idea though - first time you setup your computer, you get asked if you want to enable a porn filter or not (or whatever you want to call your web filter). You probably don't even have to really maintain it - just block Playboy.com , the .sex and the .xxx domains and say that you provided a filter. Something that could be coded up in a few minutes, just add another screen that users have to click through, and get all of these nut cases off your back.
Of course, and even better idea might to be to actually provide a functioning filter. Could be a great selling point for many families. To turn said filter off (after you turn it on - remember, you have to turn it on during the setup) requires an admin password. The fact that the user may know the admin password is moot.
So yeah, its a stupid stupid lawsuit, but it may not be that bad of an idea for Apple to actually do it.
So, under copyright claim 12, HBO is claiming to own the rights to Hannah Montanna Season 2? Disney should sue - they have to protect their copyrights from these theives at HBO!
Subtitles are not derivative works, though. The screenplay is protected by copyright. The dialougue is protected by copyright. Therefore, subtitles, which are copies of those texts, are copyrighted.
Shoot, I have fansubbed a few German movies myself. I took the German subtitles, translated them, and stuck them back into the movie. Not sure how US Copyright law handles translations, but I am pretty sure that I could not take a Twilight book, translate it into Gaelic or something (not that I would), and claim that I then hold the copyright on it because "its a derivative work".
Note that only newer Rokus do subtitles. The first gen Rokus do not support them.
I was going to suggest a smart television - it doesn't get much easier than that - hit the Netflix button, and there you are. Now your grandparents are going to have to figure out how to switch HDMI inputs to watch a movie (depending on how tech savory your grandparents are - mine could hardly figure out how to use a remote).
Sadly, I don't think smart televisions support closed captions.
I think Hulu supports closed captions as well, but that may be limited to the PS3 - as I have the old Roku, the Hulu app runs like crap on it, so I haven't messed with it too much.
Vudu should support closed captions as well, but that may also be limited to the PS3.
Not sure if Amazon supports captions or not. I don't think it does.
Or the questions that can be answered in 10 seconds with a Google search.
I just wonder if TMA-1 is going to be included in the park
No one really cares. The people sitting at customs are there because its a job. You were checked for bombs and firearms at the TSA. By the time you get to customs, the people are half asleep. Most of the boarder agents I have seen won't even check your luggage to see if you have something that you didn't declaire. They don't care. If your passport and Visa are in good order, you are not on a watch list, and you don't act stupid or look suspicious, they won't bother. The worst I have ever had to do when flying internationally is going through security and having to power on electronic devices to prove they really are electronic devices (which on some items required me to find my voltage adaptor - make sure you know where it is).
Yeah, we have all heard horror stories about horrible security agents and people being held up at the boarders and having their laptops searched. Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people fly a day. You hear a horror story, what, once every few months. Probably the worst that happens when you fly will most likely be that you have to take your shoes off and get wanded (or if you do something like forgetting to put your liquids in a seperate pouch and leave leave your sunscreen in your camera bag or something, and even then, half the time they don't care - you just get a brief 10 second lecture and have to pull stuff out and bag it right and put it back through the scanner, so can take an extra minute or two to get through security).
Seriously, don't worry about customs. You could be transporting top secret materials on an unencrypted device, and, chances are, you won't be caught, as long as you don't act suspicious and stuff. Now, if you hit customs, and are all nervous, stumbling over your words, incohearent and stuff because you are anxious, than, yeah, you might get pulled aside.
My state passed a law last year deeming red light cameras illegal. Sadly, new cameras are still going up. Turns out that, if they had already bought the equipment, they are still allowed to put them up. But they are not allowed to do any maintanance or renew contracts. I am just glad they are coming down - not so much because of the two tickets I had, but because of safty issues. Try driving along on a highway at night, and suddenly you are blinded by a flash going off from a redlignt camera on the access road. I know many cities have talked about how the traffic light cameras help improve safty - but I wonder if any studies have been done on how many accidents they cause - either from people being blinded by flashes, speeding up to make it through the intersection in time, or slamming on their breaks to avoid getting ticketed (most intersections I have seen with the cameras, they shortened the length of the yellow light - which I think has also been deemed illegal)
The judicial system in this country is completely broke. I know multiple people who have had issues with CPS (usually involving a kid falling and breaking a bone, parents take them to the emergancy room, CPS is called, takes kids away). Bail, lawyer fees, mandnitory parenting classes, and months without contact with your kids have to be gone through before your case even get the first hearing. Then, if you plead Not Guilty, its months before the trial actually starts.
Then the fun begins.
First, you better hope your lawyer, that you have already paid thousands to, actually cares about the case and actually believes you. Otherwise, midtrial, you fire your lawyer, get a new one, a whole new slew of legal fees, etc
Worst is, assuming you win, you are still stuck with legal fees equal to a student loan all the way up to a mortgage. And you don't get any of that back.
This isn't just issues with CPS. This is true for pretty much any criminal or civil case. Whether you are guilty or innocent, at fault or not, doesn't matter, you are still stuck with legal fees.
If you are lucky, if you win at the criminal level, you might be able to take the person to trial on a civil level and recoup some costs, but even that isn't very likely.
Another horrible example of this is red-light tickets. I have been issued two in my life, and in both instances, the "evidence" (ie pictures / video) clearly shows that no violation occured. However, at $35 for a court hearing, plus two days of missing work (to go down to the court and plea not guilty, than for the actuall court date), then the amount of money I loose missing work, its easier just to pay the $75 ticket.
Its a broken system. It needs to be completely overhauled.
Don't really see an issue with this - unless someone can find out how to hack VLANS, but is that really that much different than someone hacking WEP or WPA? In fact, I would imagine VLAN is much mroe secure - you are running multiple virtual instances on a physical machine - you would have to hack into the physical router for there to be a security issue, which people could pretty much do now if you have things poorly configured.
If Comcast has a way of distinguishing between what is public and what I am paying for (figutively speaking, I am on Time Warner), I see no hit in performance, they increase the number of nodes in a neighborhood, increase their overall bandwidth, and, if you are talking about the number of wireless devices that can connect to a router, if they prioritize what connects to the customer's vlan over the public vlan, and don't affect the end customer in any way, I don't see how this would be an issue. In fact, I see it as a great idea.
Plus, as the summery stated, customers get new hardware.
Question is, the summery states "Customers will be upgraded to new wireless routers that will have 2 wireless networks, one for the home users and one for the general public". So does this mean their new routers doesn't support customer VLANs? I guess that wouldn't surprise me too much - with Time Warner I had to finally end up buying my own router as their crappy routers didn't properly support VPN - anytime I tried establishing a VPN or OpenVPN connection, the router would reboot.
I am supposing this also means that customers can still use their own routers and opt against Comcast's routers, and just rent (or buy) modems.
You are assuming 97-98% of people 1) want to look at porn or 2) are going to bother to take the time to opt-out.
Granted, you can opt-out. So it's not like it's that big of a deal, at lest, to me. While I have looked at porn on the internet, it usually comes from starting at someplace innocent, say, a news site or something, then falling down the internet rabbit hole. (ie :Hmmm, that looks interesting. That does too, let's read that. Well now, I wonder how someone would do that, let's google it. Hmmm, something is getting past my ad filter. Whoa, what's that?" Several hours later you pull your mind out of the gutter.).
While I am not big on government censorship (ie don't like it at all), I, for one, probably wouldn't bother to opt out. By the time I remember that porn is blocked, and then start the process of opting out, my desire to look at it will probably have passed. And considering how much time I loose when I do start falling down the porn rabbit hole, I would probably start thanking the filters from saving me from hours of unproductive time on the internet.
Yeah, you can opt out. Many people will. But 97-98%? I'm willing to bet it will be under 50%. Willing to bet a good number of people are like me - while they have looked at porn on the internet, they did not have that intention when they first sat down at the keyboard, and out of those who did sit down with that intention, a good number of those wouldn't bother to turn off even a local filter, much less bother to opt-out.
It's a good plan if you want to police people's morality - while people will oppose this very vocally, most of those people won't go through the trouble of opting out, no matter how simple they make it.
I am not trying to start a politically correct argument or be pro or anti transgender. I think we should back up and look at the bigger problem.
The issue here is the age of many of these databases, with only minor updates occuring over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these databases dated back to the 70s, written in COBOL, living on an System/360 or 370 (or a newer system - 390 or zSeries or something else - with the database just ported over from the 360 and 370 days. Possibly the database was then "ported" over to a server based enviornemnt, but the cores database and information attached was still in place). At the time those databases were written, you were either male or female, or lived in shame. Not sure when sex reassignment surgery began, but you hear stories now of people who were born hemephrodite, and their parents had the surgery performed on them as infants or toddlers.
it probably did not even occure to the database designers to include an option for for changing Gender or for including possibly a third option.
The question should be 1) why has the older systems not been overhauled and 2) where they have been, why is the option no longer there. For systems that have been overhauled, if someone is maintaining the code, you have to ask how hard it would be for someone to go into the code and make that a changable field.
At that point, though, it probably changes from a technical issue to a political / sociological issue. I am not going to guess on the political issue, because I don't follow it, and making an assumption would be stupid (I know, I just made an assumption about the above. Rather, I don't want to get into the political issues to avoid flames and troll baiting). As for the sociological issues, even with media attention lately on transgender issues, we are still a society that breaks things down into male and female. Transgender stories still shock many people (although it is starting to become more understood and accepted - at least in some places).
I am not trying to get into an issue of if it is right or wrong, whether it needs to be changed or not. I am saying that the lack of options in databases shouldn't really come as a surprise.
so (and while TPB is undoubtedly a large tracker, it is hardly the only one),
For them to be a tracker, they would have to host torrent files, and they haven't in years.
So are you saying we are going to declair open war on the Brits to give us more Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and Britain's Got Talent? .....
Actually, I like this idea, where do I sign up!
Truth in a headline. :-) I sped read the article, and it looks that they were alluding to the fact that it hasn't been confirmed as a planet. But after reading "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming", would speculate that you could also say that images have been taken that are still being analyzed, or that both computer and human observations have glossed over that show planets.
ISDN, T1 and T3 lines are dedicated, whereas cable is shared. ISDN, T1 and T3 lines are also synchronous connections. Even in business-class cable and DSL connections, I rarely see synchronous speeds (doesn't mean they don't exist, just means that they seem to be rare). In the larger cities, I see major companies going to Fiber connections, but in smaller cities and towns, T1 and T3s are still the way to go.
Our company still has ISDN lines as backups when the fiber fails.
At least in the States, where you have a lot of smaller towns and rural areas with sometiimes hundreds of miles between them and the largest hub, I see copper pair staying around for a while yet.
On a commodore 64 and later on a pc. After doing a few programs, I started breaking the code down, making changes. I must have been about 7. When I was 9, I took an official BASIC course at the local junior college in their college for kids program. In high school, I took Pascal, then majored in Computer Sciences in college where I learned C, Cobol, Java and Assembly.
and say that they most likely did not know the rules. That is such an outdated rule, that it is likely they did not even think twice - especially if they were using a smartphone. The government is most likely acting like this because its the BBC.
That being said, as many other have pointed out, their country, their rules.
You could always take the northern route from Tibet, but I have a feeling that the Chinese government would be harder on them than Nepal.
I can see me checking about 50 times a day. My notifications for facebook, e-mail and texts all sound the same (and I have dug through everything to figure out hwo to change that). Luckily, for text messages, the phone lights up. So whenever my phone buzzes or beeps, I look down to see if it lit up. I have it setup where, if its plugged in, the screen stays on unless I shut it off, so I will glance down at it every time a notification comes in. So I guess you can say I on average check it about 50 times a day. If I had work e-mail going to my phone, I am sure I would check it more often than that.
I agree. In fact, I take it a step futher - if I am not on call, for at least one 24 hour period of my weekend, the phone goes OFF (unless I am trying to make plans with someone to do something, but as I am off Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and no one else is ever available Thursdays, that is the day the phone is off). On that day, I don't check personal e-mail, I don't blog, I don't facebook, I don't do bills, or even check personal e-mails. I might do laundry, but it is usually a day of laying around, reading, watching movies, catching up on TV shows, or reading books (fiction - reading an O'Riley book could be construid as work). Yeah, it may sound like a religious motivated thing, but it is a good thing to do - to give your body and mind a day to just relax and unplug. The change it has made in my life has really been amazing - I am happier, less stressed, and feel rested when I go back to my work, ready to take another week of abuse. I suggest everyone to give it a shot if they are not on-call.
Makes me wonder how fast they are having to add storage. For that matter, what type of storage are they using to use for the constant read / writes. And that is just for YouTube - forget Gmail, Google Earth, Google Docs and Google. Man, I would love to see pictures of Google's DataCenter. Oh, wait, I can Google it:
http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1536&bih=891&q=google+data+center&oq=google+data+&gs_l=img.3.0.0l9j0i10.648.2409.0.4177.12.11.0.0.0.0.297.1367.3j6j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.4Zg6ztnIvrI
You shouldn't confuse Fox News with the Fox Network. I think the two exist so that they can make their own news stories on slow news days.
Few people even post on Facebook anymore - they just reshare cat pics and George Takai's meme of the day. The few people I do want to make sure I keep up with, I set up notifications, and Facebook keeps turning them off. Really annoying, because you only know they are turned off if you check your notifications on a PC, or when you start wondering why your friends haven't posted in a while and head over to their page on your phone.
You would think that now that Facebook has gone public, they would find ways to stop pissing off their users.