Flickr just removed the photos from its own site. The people who uploaded the photos are free to host them on Picasa, Imageshack, Yfrog, etc. etc.
This is not censorship. Flickr is not saying that they (users) can't host the photos anywhere; they're just saying that, for whatever reason, these photos are not welcome on Flickr.
When we throw words like "censorship" around willy-nilly, we weaken the real meaning of the word.
First, it's a 5% blend of algae fuel. Big fuckin' deal.
Second: it's a plugin hybrid. Crossing the US with a plugin hybrid is no big deal. Heck,
if you belive the Chevy Volt's "230MPG" number, you should be able to cross the US with
about 12 gallons of fuel, right? Hell, I can drive across the US on almost no fuel,
if you let me re-charge the batteries every 150 miles in a motel along the road!
I hate such gimmicks. Just tell the truth, dammit!
Someone in SanFran City Hall is doing a piss-poor job of contract management!
THIS! I live in SF, and almost all of the City government is utterly inept. Good example: a psychiatrist nurse who makes $360K per year. When asked why, his manager replied: because he puts in overtime since we are understaffed. And yet it doesn't occur to the manager that hiring a second person would be cheaper than paying 2x overtime to the most senior person! Despite it being pointed out numerous times, the city continues to make this nurse the highest paid city employee year after year.
Another example: anyone who has ridden the SF Muni knows how rarely they are cleaned. And yet there are several MUNI cleaners who make over $100K/year , according to the City's payroll records. Imagine that: janitors making over $100K, and then we wonder why nothing gets cleaned.
At last count, there were over 4300 people in the City government who made more than $100K/year. In a city of 700K, that is a pretty large number. But hey: it's public money. So what if the government runs out of money? They'll just raise taxes or fares! (Yes, MUNI fares are going up on Wednesday).
BTW... can you point me to which TIGER/ZIP file contains the information for Istanbul? Or how about Casablanca, Morocco? And which county (district) contains the town of Aleppy, Kerala, India?
Thanks! Much appreciate it.
You know, America isn't the center of the known world.
I am a privacy nut too, but there might be something else to it here. TOR, by its very nature, makes it easy for people to run lots of automated queries against Google. So it's natural that Google will clamp down on what it sees are automated accesses from the same IP.
If there was a way to use Google on a peer-to-peer fashion so that only humans used it, I'm sure Google won't block you.
I'm not associated with Google in any way, and regularly clean out my cookies.
Heads must roll for this; our country absolutely depends on it.
LOL. . . . here's what will really happen: you and all the slashdotters will bitch and whine on this forum; and a few minutes later, move on to... oooh, shiny new gadget at gizmodo... oh look! Messiah Jobs has unveiled a _new_ Macbook.................. get my drift?
We're all keyboard corporals here. No amount of bitching and whining will make any heads roll, unless you count the chess piece some nerds will knock over while posting indignant comments here.
If you _really_ want to see heads roll, then start by putting your money where your mouth is. Donate money to politicians (like Kucinich) who are actually trying to make a difference. Money talks. Bullshit walks. So far, the bullshit seems to be winning.
So why is this the first time these outages have been discussed here?
I'll get modded into oblivion for this, but the simple answer is: Slashdot editors and the crowd
are huge Google fanboys. According to them, Google can do no wrong.
I can't even imagine the reaction here if Microsoft or Yahoo had screwed up like this.
Face it: Google's halcyon days are over. It's just another company now, with bumbling middle-management
and mediocre engineers who are biding their time waiting for their shares to vest.
If the telecom bill were THAT unpopular, these asshats in congress would be voted out . . .
Just like GWB was voted out for the Iraq war in 2004 ?
Face it: the popularity (or lack thereof) of an issue plays little role in the Congress's thinking. They care much more about the lobbyi$t dollar$, pandering to niche groups, lining their own pockets, etc.
Either you are so ignorant of what's being going on for the last 7 years that you really didn't know the answer.
Or you are so blinded by your blind faith for your Nazi Party and your Fuhrer President that you can't think straight.
By "nation", surely you mean just the people. For if you included the mineral assets of these nations, you'd be living like Neanderthals in no time (instead of just acting like one on/. ).
A lot of these nations are poor because the Western nations have invaded, raped, pillaged and destroyed their cultures in pursuit of minerals and precious stones.
England enslaved India not because of their love for the curry, but because they wanted to dominate the spice trade.
Leopold invaded Congo for the rubber (which was derived solely from natural means).
I could go on, but/.'s disk space is probably limited.
Apply your website's look and feel to the search results page.
Provide search refinements within results pages to make it easier for searchers to find the information they're looking for.
Add sites to your search engine's index as you surf the web.
Invite friends and trusted users to co-edit and contribute to your search engine.
Make money from your Custom Search Engine by participating in Google's AdSense program.
Yahoo's BOSS allows you to retrieve raw results from their index, and then munge them as you see fit.
Google does not allow you to tinker much with the results (just add/exclude sites), except maybe the presentation.
Will I make money by hosting the Yahoo! Sponsored Search advertisements in my search application?
Yes. It will be a requirement to host our ads on your site. We're building this technology into our platform and it is coming soon. Yahoo! Search will share the revenue produced through these ads with developers. In the meantime, the API is open for free use without ads.
and
What if I want unlimited queries but I cannot take ads?
After the ad infrastructure is ready it will be a requirement to publish Yahoo! Sponsored Search ads as part of search applications that exceed a set QPD (Queries Per Day) level.
Listen up, people. EMAILING DOES NOTHING!.
Let me repeat this fundamental truth, since all of you armchair revolutionaries don't seem to get it: EMAILING YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ACHIEVES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
You want to make a difference? Make a phonecall. Write letters to the local newspapers (which may be too late for this). Best yet, show up to the representatives' office in person and speak to their aides. And finally, vote: vote with your money and vote with your ballot.
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Flickr just removed the photos from its own site. The people who uploaded the photos are free to host them on Picasa, Imageshack, Yfrog, etc. etc.
This is not censorship. Flickr is not saying that they (users) can't host the photos anywhere; they're just saying that, for whatever reason, these photos are not welcome on Flickr.
When we throw words like "censorship" around willy-nilly, we weaken the real meaning of the word.
echo "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" | sed -e 's/We/We Are/' -e 's/ Up.*/!/'
Second: it's a plugin hybrid. Crossing the US with a plugin hybrid is no big deal. Heck, if you belive the Chevy Volt's "230MPG" number, you should be able to cross the US with about 12 gallons of fuel, right? Hell, I can drive across the US on almost no fuel, if you let me re-charge the batteries every 150 miles in a motel along the road!
I hate such gimmicks. Just tell the truth, dammit!
Chuck Yeager?
THIS! I live in SF, and almost all of the City government is utterly inept. Good example: a psychiatrist nurse who makes $360K per year. When asked why, his manager replied: because he puts in overtime since we are understaffed. And yet it doesn't occur to the manager that hiring a second person would be cheaper than paying 2x overtime to the most senior person! Despite it being pointed out numerous times, the city continues to make this nurse the highest paid city employee year after year.
Another example: anyone who has ridden the SF Muni knows how rarely they are cleaned. And yet there are several MUNI cleaners who make over $100K/year , according to the City's payroll records. Imagine that: janitors making over $100K, and then we wonder why nothing gets cleaned.
At last count, there were over 4300 people in the City government who made more than $100K/year. In a city of 700K, that is a pretty large number. But hey: it's public money. So what if the government runs out of money? They'll just raise taxes or fares! (Yes, MUNI fares are going up on Wednesday).
BTW... can you point me to which TIGER/ZIP file contains the information for Istanbul? Or how about Casablanca, Morocco? And which county (district) contains the town of Aleppy, Kerala, India?
Thanks! Much appreciate it.
You know, America isn't the center of the known world.
The same applies to a student loan also.
You have it backwards. 99% of the world (outside of Pakistan) probably applauds the bombings and hopes for more of them.
Hint: their main export
Who needs a 'processor manufacturing plant' when you have FPGAs ?
If there was a way to use Google on a peer-to-peer fashion so that only humans used it, I'm sure Google won't block you.
I'm not associated with Google in any way, and regularly clean out my cookies.
Just because he's using a redirector is not, in itself, a smoking gun.
LOL. . . . here's what will really happen: you and all the slashdotters will bitch and whine on this forum; and a few minutes later, move on to ... oooh, shiny new gadget at gizmodo ... oh look! Messiah Jobs has unveiled a _new_ Macbook ..... ...... ....... get my drift?
We're all keyboard corporals here. No amount of bitching and whining will make any heads roll, unless you count the chess piece some nerds will knock over while posting indignant comments here.
If you _really_ want to see heads roll, then start by putting your money where your mouth is. Donate money to politicians (like Kucinich) who are actually trying to make a difference. Money talks. Bullshit walks. So far, the bullshit seems to be winning.
As 1 person can do 800 captcha entry per hour . . . .
Interestingly, that's also about the rate established by Ben Franklin for a manual postal worker to sort mail.
RI can be covered by a handful of WiFi APs , so that's no surprise.... ;-)
I'll get modded into oblivion for this, but the simple answer is: Slashdot editors and the crowd are huge Google fanboys. According to them, Google can do no wrong.
I can't even imagine the reaction here if Microsoft or Yahoo had screwed up like this.
Face it: Google's halcyon days are over. It's just another company now, with bumbling middle-management and mediocre engineers who are biding their time waiting for their shares to vest.
I live in Larrabee, IA and I'm getting a kick out of these replies . . .
Just like GWB was voted out for the Iraq war in 2004 ?
Face it: the popularity (or lack thereof) of an issue plays little role in the Congress's thinking. They care much more about the lobbyi$t dollar$, pandering to niche groups, lining their own pockets, etc.
Either you are so ignorant of what's being going on for the last 7 years that you really didn't know the answer.
Or you are so blinded by your blind faith for your Nazi Party and your Fuhrer President that you can't think straight.
In either case: I feel sorry for you.
" . . . and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism . . . "
WTF is a BS in "Journalism", but it ain't science....
His bio is available online.
From the bio (above):
How the f**k does a person with such a background become a CIO?!?!? Shouldn't have at least a science degree, let alone a CS or CSEE degree??
A lot of these nations are poor because the Western nations have invaded, raped, pillaged and destroyed their cultures in pursuit of minerals and precious stones.
England enslaved India not because of their love for the curry, but because they wanted to dominate the spice trade.
Leopold invaded Congo for the rubber (which was derived solely from natural means).
I could go on, but /.'s disk space is probably limited.
What hope is there for EWB when then can't even link to their West Coast chapter properly? See this page.
From Google's CSE docs:
Yahoo's BOSS allows you to retrieve raw results from their index, and then munge them as you see fit. Google does not allow you to tinker much with the results (just add/exclude sites), except maybe the presentation.
and
Listen up, people. EMAILING DOES NOTHING!. Let me repeat this fundamental truth, since all of you armchair revolutionaries don't seem to get it: EMAILING YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ACHIEVES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
You want to make a difference? Make a phonecall. Write letters to the local newspapers (which may be too late for this). Best yet, show up to the representatives' office in person and speak to their aides. And finally, vote: vote with your money and vote with your ballot.