In addition to loading new pages for comments, it would have been neat to see a "like" feature (toggled off by default). A lot of people keep personal blogs that a few people read regularly, but don't have time/interest in actually commenting on a post.
Apparently there's a legal situation where they (a political party) needs X number of seats of congress to choose their PM. Their "Florida" is obsessed with cyber security apparently.
If it requires registration to browse around the site, and has "book" in the title, most people would assume it's closed. It's not named "PublicOpenForumBoardSurrenderYourPrivacyAtTheDoor". What was originally fielded as a sort of online yearbook has changed direction completely.
I would imagine they signed multi-year agreements with certain cell phone carriers (AT&T? T-Mobile?) that gave their users free wifi access while others would have to pay. This created a new selling point to get people to switch to their cell phone service. Starbucks may have been contractually obligated to charge a reasonable amount for wifi through the end of the contracts.
That said, it makes lake water (most of the drinking water in Texas is sanitized lake water) taste less horrible. Especially in July/August when the lakewater inverts and tastes bad enough that the local water companies put out statements and buy ads to tell the public that it's safe to drink.
In addition to masking flavors, it also gives soft water some flavor. You might have amazing stream fed, high mineral content, low chlorine tap water that tastes fucking delicious, but water quality, even in the first world, varies widely.
I saw the video. Re-watching it, knowing what to look for, it is most definitely not an RPG. On the other hand, being in a helicopter that is vulnerable to RPGs, I can completely understand the gunner seeing the kneeling man around the corner looking like someone loading an RPG. Who hasn't swerved out of the way of ____ on the road thinking it was a ___? Especially towards the end of a couple hour road trip at the end of the day. It's a tragic event but I think one party is not completely at fault here.
I agree with you, and also find that most of the people who "hate" or "can't stand" twitter are all people who either have never used it in their life, or are not using it properly.
As near as I can tell there are three groups of people who are actively using twitter:
1. People who like being marketed to; find PR interesting to them from their favorite companies etc (baconaise tweets, whitehouse tweets) 2. Journalists who use the twitter service as some sort of public/industry IRC/LinkedIn 3. Teens who perpetually have more time to socialize than the rest of us
I have a twitter account since I tend to sign up for services in case I need to use them, I've updated it maybe twice a month. I don't really see the utility of twitter once you graduate from college. Facebook does a much better job (also: pics, no 140char limit etc) and has fantastic smartphone integration. Twitter would have been an excellent service if it had launched in 2003 prior to widespread smartphone adoption.
these materials even while not fissionable can be used to make dirty bombsI tend to stop reading posts that talk about the dangers of a 'dirty bomb'. You could just as easily build a bomb with any number of things like anthrax or just do a lot more damage like the unibomber, or that one guy in NYC recently with his failed bomb. Considering how much of a PITA it is for terrorists to obtain nuclear materials and the very small area a dirty bomb can cover, the cost/risk:reward ratio is just too low for anyone to realistically worry about a dirty bomb being set off.
The patriot act has to be renewed every X years. Where X is a single digit number. It's got a lot of bite, but it's designed to sunset itself unless congress actively passes it. It almost didn't get renewed recently.
What banner is flying over this huge censorship push? What is the general public's thoughts on all this? Usually with this sort of absolute censorship you have a particularly powerful head of state like in Russia, Iran or North Korea. Australia still has free elections (to my knowlege). Here in the USA we had a bit of tightening here and there security-wise with 9/11, but Australia doesn't seem to have any sort of dictator-to-be, nor do they have any significant terrorist threats or major overarching foreign policy that would require them to keep an eye on dissidents. Usually someone can point to some major speech by a prime minister or president outlining an "improved security policy" for the welfare of the country against some outside boogeyman, but from what I can tell, Australia is tightening it's grip on everything for censorship's sake.
My email gets routed through gmail for this exact reason. I typically get 1-2 pieces of spam a day (due to a hijacked mailing list I was on) but otherwise it's just about the best anti-spam you can get, a real pleasure to work with.
Lots of anonymous cowards white knighting BoingBoing this morning I see! No personal vendetta, no trolling. Look around at the (registered!) netizens here and you'll see my opinion is shared by many. I'd be happy to list examples if someone with a name wishes to ask for them. You don't have to dig very hard to find them.
Belay that order; Cory Doctorow is the John Katz of the Internet 2.0. Avoid at all costs.
Most of the other posts in this thread will agree with me. Lots of "anonymous cowards" who seem to disagree with the regular posters on slashdot who seem to dislike Doctorow's shameless self promotion. Hmm...
Regarding my downmod "-1, Troll" -- I'm not trolling, BoingBoing has a really terrible, sensationalist slant on all of their DRM stories. What used to be an interesting blog "a collection of wonderful things" has turned into Doctorow's personal platform for pushing his own personal DRM agenda in an attempt to gain notoriety to sell more books. Many of their articles are reactionary, sensationalist garbage you would expect to see in a supermarket tabloid, tailored to suit their slightly above average readership. There's no reason to plug him or his site. Him and his site should be buried under a heap of bad reviews, not promoted. What's worse is that they're occasionally featured on google news' "fast flip" feature, giving their sensationalist headlines and "analysis" added weight, when they lack any sort of editorial review beyond Doctorow's lazy "delete" button. Internet journalism has been going downhill and someone has to stand up and point out the merely mediocre from the bad and biased. If you don't agree with my opinion, fine, move on and keep reading but don't label me a troll.
Really K Dawson? a Doctorow plug on/.? His enormous ego doesnt need to be stroked any more; BoingBoing's DRM articles are pretty bad already. Dont encourage them further by giving any sort of association with Slashdot. Let me rephrase that, poorly written, poorly researched and sensationalized for pageviews "blog". Promoting Doctorow and by association his blog BoingBoing is doing nothing more than legitimizing one of the worst "techie" (and I use that term loosely) tabloids on the net.
I think I read your 1992 post about switching from serial mice to PS/2, and then your 3,000 word essay about the evils of the USB mouse. Don't get me started on that "optical mice mechanical ball mouse" bullshit website you started back in '97...
Intel's supported EUFI now for 4 or 5 years on their motherboards now, you're welcome to use the EUFI interface instead. I'm running dual boot Win7 + Ubuntu10.4 on EUFI right now.
Most name brand manufacturers have phased out BPA the last time a study came out about the chemical... in 2007? This is on par with doing a study about the adverse effects of lead paint or asbestos insulation. Possibly dangerous chemical isolated in common item, replacement chemical used, hazardous chemical phased out of use. You're only at risk if you buy your hard plastic water bottles at the dollar store.
tl;dr California and a few other states have the proposition system. Don't like something? Hate property taxes getting raised each year? Put it up on a petition, get enough people to sign it and the citizens will vote on it democratically. This is how that whole Prop 8 stuff was organized. The downside is that sometimes citizens do really dumb things, like fix property taxes so the state is no longer funded in relation to inflation, and can bankrupt the state. So vehicles do exist to push your agenda. Don't live in California? Run for office on a particular platform. You won't (likely) win, but it'll be on the agenda for the next election. If you're persistent, and you have popular support, you can change the laws in your area. See also: Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
I had to physically wrestle the phone book delivery guy to the ground and beat him senseless with my unwanted phonebook before he would take it back. I got a knock on my door from my neighbor the next morning saying they'd delivered two to his door.:shakes fist at phone book gods:
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That's an interesting argument and I'm hearing more and more about that coming out of the houston area. Do you have any links you'd like to share?
In addition to loading new pages for comments, it would have been neat to see a "like" feature (toggled off by default). A lot of people keep personal blogs that a few people read regularly, but don't have time/interest in actually commenting on a post.
Apparently there's a legal situation where they (a political party) needs X number of seats of congress to choose their PM. Their "Florida" is obsessed with cyber security apparently.
If it requires registration to browse around the site, and has "book" in the title, most people would assume it's closed. It's not named "PublicOpenForumBoardSurrenderYourPrivacyAtTheDoor". What was originally fielded as a sort of online yearbook has changed direction completely.
I would imagine they signed multi-year agreements with certain cell phone carriers (AT&T? T-Mobile?) that gave their users free wifi access while others would have to pay. This created a new selling point to get people to switch to their cell phone service. Starbucks may have been contractually obligated to charge a reasonable amount for wifi through the end of the contracts.
Tea tastes like water polluted with cured leaves.
That said, it makes lake water (most of the drinking water in Texas is sanitized lake water) taste less horrible. Especially in July/August when the lakewater inverts and tastes bad enough that the local water companies put out statements and buy ads to tell the public that it's safe to drink.
In addition to masking flavors, it also gives soft water some flavor. You might have amazing stream fed, high mineral content, low chlorine tap water that tastes fucking delicious, but water quality, even in the first world, varies widely.
Drinks 1-2 cups of tea/coffee a day
I saw the video. Re-watching it, knowing what to look for, it is most definitely not an RPG. On the other hand, being in a helicopter that is vulnerable to RPGs, I can completely understand the gunner seeing the kneeling man around the corner looking like someone loading an RPG. Who hasn't swerved out of the way of ____ on the road thinking it was a ___? Especially towards the end of a couple hour road trip at the end of the day. It's a tragic event but I think one party is not completely at fault here.
As near as I can tell there are three groups of people who are actively using twitter:
1. People who like being marketed to; find PR interesting to them from their favorite companies etc (baconaise tweets, whitehouse tweets)
2. Journalists who use the twitter service as some sort of public/industry IRC/LinkedIn
3. Teens who perpetually have more time to socialize than the rest of us
I have a twitter account since I tend to sign up for services in case I need to use them, I've updated it maybe twice a month. I don't really see the utility of twitter once you graduate from college. Facebook does a much better job (also: pics, no 140char limit etc) and has fantastic smartphone integration. Twitter would have been an excellent service if it had launched in 2003 prior to widespread smartphone adoption.
The patriot act has to be renewed every X years. Where X is a single digit number. It's got a lot of bite, but it's designed to sunset itself unless congress actively passes it. It almost didn't get renewed recently.
What banner is flying over this huge censorship push? What is the general public's thoughts on all this? Usually with this sort of absolute censorship you have a particularly powerful head of state like in Russia, Iran or North Korea. Australia still has free elections (to my knowlege). Here in the USA we had a bit of tightening here and there security-wise with 9/11, but Australia doesn't seem to have any sort of dictator-to-be, nor do they have any significant terrorist threats or major overarching foreign policy that would require them to keep an eye on dissidents. Usually someone can point to some major speech by a prime minister or president outlining an "improved security policy" for the welfare of the country against some outside boogeyman, but from what I can tell, Australia is tightening it's grip on everything for censorship's sake.
My email gets routed through gmail for this exact reason. I typically get 1-2 pieces of spam a day (due to a hijacked mailing list I was on) but otherwise it's just about the best anti-spam you can get, a real pleasure to work with.
Lots of anonymous cowards white knighting BoingBoing this morning I see! No personal vendetta, no trolling. Look around at the (registered!) netizens here and you'll see my opinion is shared by many. I'd be happy to list examples if someone with a name wishes to ask for them. You don't have to dig very hard to find them.
Belay that order; Cory Doctorow is the John Katz of the Internet 2.0. Avoid at all costs.
Most of the other posts in this thread will agree with me. Lots of "anonymous cowards" who seem to disagree with the regular posters on slashdot who seem to dislike Doctorow's shameless self promotion. Hmm...
Regarding my downmod "-1, Troll" -- I'm not trolling, BoingBoing has a really terrible, sensationalist slant on all of their DRM stories. What used to be an interesting blog "a collection of wonderful things" has turned into Doctorow's personal platform for pushing his own personal DRM agenda in an attempt to gain notoriety to sell more books. Many of their articles are reactionary, sensationalist garbage you would expect to see in a supermarket tabloid, tailored to suit their slightly above average readership. There's no reason to plug him or his site. Him and his site should be buried under a heap of bad reviews, not promoted. What's worse is that they're occasionally featured on google news' "fast flip" feature, giving their sensationalist headlines and "analysis" added weight, when they lack any sort of editorial review beyond Doctorow's lazy "delete" button. Internet journalism has been going downhill and someone has to stand up and point out the merely mediocre from the bad and biased. If you don't agree with my opinion, fine, move on and keep reading but don't label me a troll.
Really K Dawson? a Doctorow plug on /.? His enormous ego doesnt need to be stroked any more; BoingBoing's DRM articles are pretty bad already. Dont encourage them further by giving any sort of association with Slashdot. Let me rephrase that, poorly written, poorly researched and sensationalized for pageviews "blog". Promoting Doctorow and by association his blog BoingBoing is doing nothing more than legitimizing one of the worst "techie" (and I use that term loosely) tabloids on the net.
Does R&D and oil and gas exploration costs come out of profits or is that considered a base expense?
The ones without brand names at the dollar store if you'd read that far
I think I read your 1992 post about switching from serial mice to PS/2, and then your 3,000 word essay about the evils of the USB mouse. Don't get me started on that "optical mice mechanical ball mouse" bullshit website you started back in '97...
Universal Mac-Linux-Windows 7 64-bit drivers, for a start.
One Printer Driver to rule them all, One Press Release to Announce them,
One URL to bring them all and in the darkness bind them to all OSes
Intel's supported EUFI now for 4 or 5 years on their motherboards now, you're welcome to use the EUFI interface instead. I'm running dual boot Win7 + Ubuntu10.4 on EUFI right now.
Most name brand manufacturers have phased out BPA the last time a study came out about the chemical... in 2007? This is on par with doing a study about the adverse effects of lead paint or asbestos insulation. Possibly dangerous chemical isolated in common item, replacement chemical used, hazardous chemical phased out of use. You're only at risk if you buy your hard plastic water bottles at the dollar store.
tl;dr California and a few other states have the proposition system. Don't like something? Hate property taxes getting raised each year? Put it up on a petition, get enough people to sign it and the citizens will vote on it democratically. This is how that whole Prop 8 stuff was organized. The downside is that sometimes citizens do really dumb things, like fix property taxes so the state is no longer funded in relation to inflation, and can bankrupt the state. So vehicles do exist to push your agenda. Don't live in California? Run for office on a particular platform. You won't (likely) win, but it'll be on the agenda for the next election. If you're persistent, and you have popular support, you can change the laws in your area. See also: Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
Legally, corporations are people, they just can't vote. Look it up. It's sickening, but true.
I had to physically wrestle the phone book delivery guy to the ground and beat him senseless with my unwanted phonebook before he would take it back. I got a knock on my door from my neighbor the next morning saying they'd delivered two to his door. :shakes fist at phone book gods: