John and John, I'm a longtime Slashdot user and cohost of A Way with Words. Come and have dinner with Martha and me when you play the Belly Up near San Diego next month.
I've had about a dozen or more phones since 1999 and my T-Mobile G1 is the best one I've ever owned. Not perfect, no, but the things I don't like and have to live with are far outweighed by the sense of possibility this phone gives me. I'll keep it and will recommend it to anyone who asks.
Podcasting has hardly been sidelined. In the radio business, podcasting is utterly huge--a transformative, disruptive technology that is propelling new business models and new integration of old and new medias. I host a public radio show myself: our podcasting audience is the equivalent of having a dozen more stations syndicate our show. I'm a convert, too: in 2004 I said podasting was DOA. Boy, was I wrong. I'm now at the point where podcasts are the main way I get radio an it's true for more and more people. We know because our radio audience tells us so and we see it in the numbers.
Google is not scanning anything. It is merely providing a deep-web metasearch for pre-existing databases such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale. These are, for the most part, pay services that until now had to be searched separately. For people like me (a lexicographer) this is great news because it will shave many minutes off of each work day. Now, if they'd also make them affordable to independent scholars...
I noticed the Earthlink change this week and immediately put a non-Earthlink DNS server at the top of my DNS servers list. My browser now returns the proper "can't find server" message and not Earthlink's advertising. (If you do this, please consider the ethical implications of using another provider's DNS server if you do not subscribe to that provider.)
So they're adopting the Business Software Alliance model, right? Will they adopt it fully? Will they allow for retroactive purchase and penalties to be paid in an extralegal manner rather than pursuing the manner in courts?
Part-time wheels: City dwellers share cars through new service By HEIDI B. PERLMAN Associated Press Writer 637 words 23 June 2000 08:29 Associated Press Newswires English Copyright 2000. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. BOSTON (AP) - It took only a month for the traffic jams, insurance costs and parking woes of Cambridge to convince Katherine Watkins to sell her car when she moved from Kentucky.
But after two years riding the bus and taking cabs, she finally broke down and got a car again. Sort of.
Watkins is a new member of Zipcar, a service that allows her to share a car with more than a dozen other people for $4.50 an hour.
"My cat was sick and I had to bring her to the vet, and it was just too much to do in a cab," she said. "I finally decided I really do need a car, just not all the time."
Zipcar, based in the Boston suburb of Cambridge, caters to drivers such as Watkins, who like the convenience of having a car but don't like what it costs to maintain one in the city
I left IT support, where I'd worked for more than ten years and was making very good money, to become a lexicographer. It was a two-thirds paycut. While I had to re-learn how to live like a graduate student, I haven't missed the money. Of course, my only serious financial obligations are student loans. No mortgage, no car, no car payments, no wife, no children. So no doubt it's been easier for me than it would be for others.
PS: I understand that a zero-day exploit can also refer to the use of a vulnerability discovered before the release of software, but the software affected here is not new.
The original article and the Slashdot headline are wrong. It's not a "zero-day exploit." The article itself says, "The group that published the exploit said Microsoft has been aware of the Javascript Window() vulnerability for several months but was mistakenly treating it as a low-priority denial-of-service flaw." A zero-day exploit is one that is discovered or revealed the day software becomes available, be it brand-new software, an update, a patch, or a service pack.
Sure, there's been a great resurgence of old-time radio. I love the stuff and I have a bunch of it. But let's be fair here: most of it is bootlegged. The original creators are not the ones posting it online, streaming it online, selling it online. It's other people either giving it away or making money only for themselves, with no licensing fees at all being paid to or by anyone. The original creators or performers aren't seeing a dime. So to paint that as the ideal model for old-time television isn't quite right, although it's a great example of what *will* happen if the TV people don't starting putting up a lot of content, and quick, on services like iTunes. The bootleg market for online OTTV (to coin an acronym for old-time television) will soon be so huge there will be no room for legitimate producers--just like happened with today's television, too.
Works well on one feed, like my http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/ all_rss/">main dictionary entry and citation feed, but how will it handle the 1100 other feeds I subscribe to? Love the "blog this" option that interacts with Blogger (they I haven't used Blogger in years). Needs an OPML import and export. Pops up a window on links in the reader, no matter what, which some people might hate.
The caveat "major Hollywood movie" isn't much of an accomplishment. The independent film Evergreen used the exact same distribution method earlier this year. The movie, which appeared at Sundance, stars Bruce Davison--the senator from the X-Men movies--and Mary Kay Place.
Google still has some tweaking to do. Search for "political slang." The first result is for "Political Slang Christmas Ornaments."
It's a feeder site: all sites like this do is corral keyword searches using a log of stuffed-up domains, subdomains, meta tags, bogus copy, and alt tags to give the appearance of heavy linking and high-incidence keyword frequency, thus bumping it up the Google results. On their server side, they've got a script that checks the referring URL, grabs the keyword(s) which were being searched for, plugs them into $keyword all over the page, then returns the page, keywords added, to the surfer. What's the bloody point? Political slang Christmas ornaments? Are you kidding me?
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(Didn't meant to post anonymously...)
John and John, I'm a longtime Slashdot user and cohost of A Way with Words. Come and have dinner with Martha and me when you play the Belly Up near San Diego next month.
I've had about a dozen or more phones since 1999 and my T-Mobile G1 is the best one I've ever owned. Not perfect, no, but the things I don't like and have to live with are far outweighed by the sense of possibility this phone gives me. I'll keep it and will recommend it to anyone who asks.
I hope someone will make an SSH client for it. I could dig a real keyboard to compile a kernel while I'm in the car...
There is one, called "ConnectBot." Works fine even at this early stage. The text is a little small, though.
Podcasting has hardly been sidelined. In the radio business, podcasting is utterly huge--a transformative, disruptive technology that is propelling new business models and new integration of old and new medias. I host a public radio show myself: our podcasting audience is the equivalent of having a dozen more stations syndicate our show. I'm a convert, too: in 2004 I said podasting was DOA. Boy, was I wrong. I'm now at the point where podcasts are the main way I get radio an it's true for more and more people. We know because our radio audience tells us so and we see it in the numbers.
The term email bankruptcy dates as far back as 1999, though the written record only shows it as far back as 2002.
In English, taking extraordinary measures toward achieving maximum fuel efficiency in an automobile is known as hypermiling [self-link].
Definition of data Valdez, via a self-link.
Google is not scanning anything. It is merely providing a deep-web metasearch for pre-existing databases such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale. These are, for the most part, pay services that until now had to be searched separately. For people like me (a lexicographer) this is great news because it will shave many minutes off of each work day. Now, if they'd also make them affordable to independent scholars...
Dear poster, RFPA (read the fricking patent application). Microsoft is not patenting conjugation, but a type of conjugation software.
I noticed the Earthlink change this week and immediately put a non-Earthlink DNS server at the top of my DNS servers list. My browser now returns the proper "can't find server" message and not Earthlink's advertising. (If you do this, please consider the ethical implications of using another provider's DNS server if you do not subscribe to that provider.)
So they're adopting the Business Software Alliance model, right? Will they adopt it fully? Will they allow for retroactive purchase and penalties to be paid in an extralegal manner rather than pursuing the manner in courts?
Zipcar's been around since 2000:
Part-time wheels: City dwellers share cars through new service
By HEIDI B. PERLMAN
Associated Press Writer
637 words
23 June 2000
08:29
Associated Press Newswires
English
Copyright 2000. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
BOSTON (AP) - It took only a month for the traffic jams, insurance costs and parking woes of Cambridge to convince Katherine Watkins to sell her car when she moved from Kentucky.
But after two years riding the bus and taking cabs, she finally broke down and got a car again. Sort of.
Watkins is a new member of Zipcar, a service that allows her to share a car with more than a dozen other people for $4.50 an hour.
"My cat was sick and I had to bring her to the vet, and it was just too much to do in a cab," she said. "I finally decided I really do need a car, just not all the time."
Zipcar, based in the Boston suburb of Cambridge, caters to drivers such as Watkins, who like the convenience of having a car but don't like what it costs to maintain one in the city
I left IT support, where I'd worked for more than ten years and was making very good money, to become a lexicographer. It was a two-thirds paycut. While I had to re-learn how to live like a graduate student, I haven't missed the money. Of course, my only serious financial obligations are student loans. No mortgage, no car, no car payments, no wife, no children. So no doubt it's been easier for me than it would be for others.
PS: I understand that a zero-day exploit can also refer to the use of a vulnerability discovered before the release of software, but the software affected here is not new.
The original article and the Slashdot headline are wrong. It's not a "zero-day exploit." The article itself says, "The group that published the exploit said Microsoft has been aware of the Javascript Window() vulnerability for several months but was mistakenly treating it as a low-priority denial-of-service flaw." A zero-day exploit is one that is discovered or revealed the day software becomes available, be it brand-new software, an update, a patch, or a service pack.
Sure, there's been a great resurgence of old-time radio. I love the stuff and I have a bunch of it. But let's be fair here: most of it is bootlegged. The original creators are not the ones posting it online, streaming it online, selling it online. It's other people either giving it away or making money only for themselves, with no licensing fees at all being paid to or by anyone. The original creators or performers aren't seeing a dime. So to paint that as the ideal model for old-time television isn't quite right, although it's a great example of what *will* happen if the TV people don't starting putting up a lot of content, and quick, on services like iTunes. The bootleg market for online OTTV (to coin an acronym for old-time television) will soon be so huge there will be no room for legitimate producers--just like happened with today's television, too.
Damn, it does have import. Time to give this sumbitch something to chew on...
Works well on one feed, like my http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/ all_rss/">main dictionary entry and citation feed, but how will it handle the 1100 other feeds I subscribe to? Love the "blog this" option that interacts with Blogger (they I haven't used Blogger in years). Needs an OPML import and export. Pops up a window on links in the reader, no matter what, which some people might hate.
What about transcripts? All that video is hard to handle without transcripts to help people find what they're after.
For those interested, here's a definition of mugu. It's a self-link.
The caveat "major Hollywood movie" isn't much of an accomplishment. The independent film Evergreen used the exact same distribution method earlier this year. The movie, which appeared at Sundance, stars Bruce Davison--the senator from the X-Men movies--and Mary Kay Place.
I really like Swing State Project. Even-handed, even-toned, and factual.
You know that E-40 story is false, right? Complete nonsense. Mostly unfactual, hyperbolic, and not true.
Google still has some tweaking to do. Search for "political slang." The first result is for "Political Slang Christmas Ornaments."
It's a feeder site: all sites like this do is corral keyword searches using a log of stuffed-up domains, subdomains, meta tags, bogus copy, and alt tags to give the appearance of heavy linking and high-incidence keyword frequency, thus bumping it up the Google results. On their server side, they've got a script that checks the referring URL, grabs the keyword(s) which were being searched for, plugs them into $keyword all over the page, then returns the page, keywords added, to the surfer. What's the bloody point? Political slang Christmas ornaments? Are you kidding me?