"we are still technically at war with these assholes already."
No, we're not. We never were. The US hasn't declared war on *anyone* since 1941 (or maybe '42, I'd have to look at the formal declarations to see if we declared war on any of the oddball puppet axis powers like Romania after the December 8th declaration of war.) Korea was a 'police action', but you are correct in that North Korea still says they're at war with the South (and anyone else.) It's a fine point, but the only people empowered to declare that a state of war exists between the United States and anyone else is Congress. Though as we've seen, the Commander in Chief can essentially ignore that point.
Talk is cheap, but at least it's cheaper than body bags. I do like that even the most official statements on this seem to be the equivalent of "Welp, here we go again."
“The United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas, but today’s announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Those words were echoed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called the agreement a “modest first step in the right direction.”
I think that's Pol-speak for "We've played this game before, we know how it ends, but what's the alternative?"
That was the NUMMI plant, which became a casualty of GM's meander through bankruptcy. Ostensibly it was a place where GM could study Toyota's management and assembly practices and Toyota could run people through the trials and tribulations of managing American workers. In reality it turned out like that joke about nationalities in heaven and hell (Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are Italians, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and its organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and its organized by the Italians.)
The last duo that i remember being made there was the Pontiac Vibe / Toyota Matrix.
Not true. The absolute *best* (theoretical) use of dollar coins is to pay off any (purely theoretical) winnings in (theoretical) super bowl, march madness, or fantasy football / baseball / hockey / MLS / UEFA / Cricket league prize pools.
In a piece of short fiction that I wrote about a fantasy football league I ran, I paid the winner his several hundred dollars by filling a wooden(ish) box with PIRATE DOUBLOONS (or gold dollars, but it's more fun to call them pirate doubloons)! Was it awesome? It certainly would have been had it happened in real life.
Splitting hairs here, but electors are "supposed" to go with the results of the popular vote. Since the electoral college is a state issue, rather than federal, there are different laws at work depending on what state you're talking about.
The ever trustworthy wikipedia says only 24 states have laws on the books *requiring* electors to vote with the popular vote. Everyone usually does, but if there really was a "Ron Paul Revolution" in one or all of those 26 states, there wouldn't be as much legal recourse (though there'd certainly be supreme court level arguments).
In addition, Nebraska and Maine don't follow the Winner-take-all philosophy that the other 48 states do. Their votes are awarded proportionally, though practically this hasn't changed they way the states votes have been awarded.
So, they spoofed GPS, jammed the drone's communications, then convinced it to land with the spoofed GPS coordinates. That's awesome.
Then, uhhh, why exactly did you guys have the kids from the Tehran High school football team and pep squad make up banners to hide the undercarriage?
Don't get me wrong. Both sides have plenty invested in having their own version of the story be the authoritative version, and the odds of the general public finding out the truth any time this decade are infinitesimal at best. But what we've been shown doesn't currently support the "we made it land on its own because we're fucking badass and the Americans suck" theory. It supports the "we don't want you to see what the underbelly looks like, also, we're lousy artists" theory. The iranians might have brought it down, and it might have crashed on its own while inside Iranian borders. "Proof" is in short supply at the moment.
After reading reading Tuesday's account of the first 24 hours at Fukishima, it's pretty clear that the scope of the accident exceeded what the engineers thought was possible. From there there chain of "we believe" and "probably" and "fairly certain's" began flowing until several days later when the full extent of the accident became clear.
With any major incident, hindsight allows us to say "Look! You were bullshitting us when you said XYZ!" Did the head of TEPCO say everything was hunky dory an hour after the tsunami? Maybe. But was that because the various people charged with reporting the situation to him told him that things were okay, or because he was a genuine piece of shit who knew that they were 24 hours from the worst nuclear disaster in his countries history, and wanted to cover his own ass? Proving what everyone up and down the chain of command knew at what point in time is almost impossible, because we know the people on the ground couldn't get a good handle on what was going on for a couple days.
On top of that, you honestly expect that information to filter up and back down through the proper channels and out to the media (all of whom immediately started checking how to correctly spell "Chernobyl" the instant someone said "nuclear power plant") AND expect that information to be disseminated out responsibly? YEAH. RIGHT.
Fukushima is not some watershed moment that finally drives the stake in the evil demon of nuclear power. At least it shouldn't be. This accident (a top 25 all time earthquake followed by possibly the worst Tsunami in the nation's history, proved that a positively ancient nuclear plant wasn't as prepared as it could have been. Even in those circumstances there still wasn't ANY loss of life.) should be a signpost that says we need to modernize nuclear power, not bury it.
OJ Simpson killed more people than the Fukushima disaster.
Re:Just seems like a well thought out list
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Claim: Van Halen's standard performance contract contained a provision calling for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms, but with all the brown candies removed.
Status: True.
Example: [Harrington, 1981]
Van Halen tends to make the news portion of radio more often than it gets airplay. There was the M&M riot in New Mexico where the band did thousands of dollars of damage to a hall when they were served brown M&Ms — their contract said the brown ones had to be removed.
Origins: Rock concerts have come a long ways since the days when the Beatles performed in boxing rings and hockey rinks, and made no greater demand of Van Halen promoters than they be provided with clean towels and a few bottles of soft drinks. As the audiences grew larger, promoters stood to make more and more money from staging concerts, which meant that not only could rock stars command higher prices for their performances, but they were able to demand other perks as well, such as luxurious accommodations, lavish backstage buffets, and chauffeured transportation. It was inevitable that some high-demand acts, all their financial and pampering whims satisfied, would exercise their power and start making frivolous demands of promoters, simply because they could.
By far the most notorious of these whimsical requests is the legend that Van Halen's standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with provision that all the brown candies must be removed. The presence of even a single brown M&M in that bowl, rumor had it, was sufficient legal cause for Van Halen to peremptorily cancel a scheduled appearance without advance notice (and usually an excuse for them to go on a destructive rampage as well).
The legendary "no brown M&Ms" contract clause was indeed real, but the purported motivation for it was not. The M&Ms provision was included in Van Halen's contracts not as an act of caprice, but because it served a practical purpose: to provide an easy way of determining whether the technical specifications of the contract had been thoroughly read (and complied with). As Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth explained in his autobiography: Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We'd pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through.
The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say "Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes . .." This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: "There will be no brown M&M's in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation."
So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening. Nonetheless, the media ran exaggerated and inaccurate accounts of Van Halen's using violations of the "no brown M&Ms" clause as justification for engaging in childish, destructive behavior (such as the newspaper article quoted at the top of this page). David Lee Roth's version of such events was decidedly different: The folks in Pueblo, Colora
It's an open source tracker (with the obvious caveats that come with tracking software), but the nice thing is, you can point it to a server you control, rather theirs if you so choose. My MBP was stolen from my car (wife didn't know my bag was in the back, parked the car at a hotel lot. One busted window later....), and a very similar one (missing the extended power cord that I still had no less) showed up on craigslist a couple days later with a weak story behind why it was being sold. I told the cops, but local cops wouldn't go out of jurisdiction without better proof, the local (to seller) cops wouldn't show without better proof, and the state cops weren't going to get involved over the value. They said if I could prove it was mine (by buying it back) they could prosecute.
Sadly, a $1500 laptop, even though you may consider it "your life" just doesn't make the police drop everything. Your best bet is to be able to overwhelm the police with evidence, and prey will help you do that. In the end, the lesson is that your data comes first (back it up early, often, and everywhere), your safety comes second (if you want to get it back face to face, bring a weapon and be prepared to use it. and I don't mean show it off like a hollywood badass. I mean take another human beings life in exchange for the laptop you already planned on getting rid of in three years, or get shot yourself), and your hardware comes third. Anyone that's committed themselves to stealing isn't going anywhere in life anyway. Odds are they're not going to live to a ripe old age where they can regale their grandkids with tales of snatching bags. Live and learn, even if it enables the assholes of the world.
"The government abandoned the property, he should claim it as salvage."
Salvage wouldn't work. It's not like he loaded up a few days worth of oxygen in the back seat of his Plymouth and drove to the moon to go digging through the junk piles. Somebody had to provide him with the means of getting to and from, and that someone just so happened to be the Government.
Sure, we'll give you web access....through our prefect system.
Then there's the hardware spec. 1024x600 screen, 8 gigs internal storage (free cloud storage for *amazon* content) and no camera.
The dual core tegras are nice, but that's about it. I told someone earlier today. This isn't Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it's more like 6:00am on the Normandy (or Dieppe) beaches. The iPad is still going to dominate for a long time, but there might finally be a legit contender on the horizon
As silly as it sounds, I do. I fly Southwest as often as I can when traveling on business. All 737's of slightly varying generations. It also helps that southwest's business practices (No bag fees for up to two bags, no assigned seats) don't completely suck ass like other airlines.
The only positive sides to privitisation are that now when you get felt up, it's much easier to sue the ever-loving crap out of a private company. They'll still claim that they're acting *on behalf* of the government, but that layer of abstraction will give some legal wiggle room. In addition, the next time a wanna-be underwear bomber or loony with a knife disrupts a flight, said private company can then be sued by the passengers, the airline and the federal government for failing to do their jobs.
Even better, you could probably sue them for making you miss a flight, sue them for cracking your laptop screen, for exposing you to super ultra harmful cancer death rays, for racial profiling, embarrassing you by choosing you for selective screening, etc. etc. I bet the lawyers are just salivating at the thought of privatized airport security.
Maybe in the long run, their insurance rates will skyrocket to the point that, instead of security theater, we get some decent common sense security measures. A boy can dream, right? I guess that's the new means of eliminating failure in the world. We end up doings things the right way not because it's cheaper, but because we do the wrong thing half-assed until it gets too expensive, then we start drifting towards the right way.
You're operating under the assumption that the government cannot possibly, every, under any circumstance whatsoever perform the slightest task. Ever. We've been well conditioned either by media sensationalism or by partisan pundits to just accept that this is the case. Whatever shreds of appearance of competence are left after those two are done are usually destroyed by the instances where the government actually does fuck things up, rather than just does something that pisses off the (left / right / center / fundies / neocons / bleeding hearts.) Every so often, moreso that we like to admit, the Federal government actually can accomplish their day to day duties. Usually.
One of the things that has gotten lost in this merger is that......it's AT&T doing the acquiring. You know? The people that got broken up in an anti-trust suit 40+ years ago? Allowing them to complete major acquisitions without serious scrutiny (from the people that did the breaking up in the first place) is a bit like letting Michael Vick adopt a dog from the pound. Even if the intentions and motives are pure, it's gonna get a longer look because of....ya know....what happened in the past.
Nope. No SFTP access, so really this is more about just killing off personal webhosting than FTP access.
And really, if you can figure out FTP for web hosting, it's not much of a leap to just run FTP on a box at home if all you're doing is storing files. Or SSH.
I got to meet Taco and Hemos at the Ann Arbor Slashdot tenth birthday party. What struck me, and what made slashdot that much cooler, was that they were *exactly* what I expected. Just a couple of genuine guys who did something that they liked, and didn't seem to care too much one way or the other.
Not that they were indifferent to slashdot, but that they weren't the slimy, indirectly self serving "we're so awesome that we're gonna change the world" blog-o-matic faux revolutionaries (See; that doctor fellow over at the site that goes "boing" a couple times) and they weren't the ultra-nerd, stereotype basement dweller elitists either. They were just, ya know, geeks. It made me feel just a bit geekier knowing that something like slashdot really and truly was put together by somebody sorta like me.
Slashdot Mirror
"we are still technically at war with these assholes already."
No, we're not. We never were. The US hasn't declared war on *anyone* since 1941 (or maybe '42, I'd have to look at the formal declarations to see if we declared war on any of the oddball puppet axis powers like Romania after the December 8th declaration of war.) Korea was a 'police action', but you are correct in that North Korea still says they're at war with the South (and anyone else.) It's a fine point, but the only people empowered to declare that a state of war exists between the United States and anyone else is Congress. Though as we've seen, the Commander in Chief can essentially ignore that point.
Talk is cheap, but at least it's cheaper than body bags. I do like that even the most official statements on this seem to be the equivalent of "Welp, here we go again."
“The United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas, but today’s announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Those words were echoed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called the agreement a “modest first step in the right direction.”
I think that's Pol-speak for "We've played this game before, we know how it ends, but what's the alternative?"
That was the NUMMI plant, which became a casualty of GM's meander through bankruptcy. Ostensibly it was a place where GM could study Toyota's management and assembly practices and Toyota could run people through the trials and tribulations of managing American workers. In reality it turned out like that joke about nationalities in heaven and hell (Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are Italians, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and its organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and its organized by the Italians.)
The last duo that i remember being made there was the Pontiac Vibe / Toyota Matrix.
Not true. The absolute *best* (theoretical) use of dollar coins is to pay off any (purely theoretical) winnings in (theoretical) super bowl, march madness, or fantasy football / baseball / hockey / MLS / UEFA / Cricket league prize pools.
In a piece of short fiction that I wrote about a fantasy football league I ran, I paid the winner his several hundred dollars by filling a wooden(ish) box with PIRATE DOUBLOONS (or gold dollars, but it's more fun to call them pirate doubloons)! Was it awesome? It certainly would have been had it happened in real life.
Splitting hairs here, but electors are "supposed" to go with the results of the popular vote. Since the electoral college is a state issue, rather than federal, there are different laws at work depending on what state you're talking about.
The ever trustworthy wikipedia says only 24 states have laws on the books *requiring* electors to vote with the popular vote. Everyone usually does, but if there really was a "Ron Paul Revolution" in one or all of those 26 states, there wouldn't be as much legal recourse (though there'd certainly be supreme court level arguments).
In addition, Nebraska and Maine don't follow the Winner-take-all philosophy that the other 48 states do. Their votes are awarded proportionally, though practically this hasn't changed they way the states votes have been awarded.
False.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp
(short story: The article was satire, but got passed off as true.)
70 lbs is 70 lbs regardless. Weight is *always* paramount when flying. Doesn't matter if it's a C-5 or an ultralight.
Right. Because Apple and every other PC maker just moved to China in the last 18 months....
So, they spoofed GPS, jammed the drone's communications, then convinced it to land with the spoofed GPS coordinates. That's awesome.
Then, uhhh, why exactly did you guys have the kids from the Tehran High school football team and pep squad make up banners to hide the undercarriage?
Don't get me wrong. Both sides have plenty invested in having their own version of the story be the authoritative version, and the odds of the general public finding out the truth any time this decade are infinitesimal at best. But what we've been shown doesn't currently support the "we made it land on its own because we're fucking badass and the Americans suck" theory. It supports the "we don't want you to see what the underbelly looks like, also, we're lousy artists" theory. The iranians might have brought it down, and it might have crashed on its own while inside Iranian borders. "Proof" is in short supply at the moment.
Disagree.
After reading reading Tuesday's account of the first 24 hours at Fukishima, it's pretty clear that the scope of the accident exceeded what the engineers thought was possible. From there there chain of "we believe" and "probably" and "fairly certain's" began flowing until several days later when the full extent of the accident became clear.
With any major incident, hindsight allows us to say "Look! You were bullshitting us when you said XYZ!" Did the head of TEPCO say everything was hunky dory an hour after the tsunami? Maybe. But was that because the various people charged with reporting the situation to him told him that things were okay, or because he was a genuine piece of shit who knew that they were 24 hours from the worst nuclear disaster in his countries history, and wanted to cover his own ass? Proving what everyone up and down the chain of command knew at what point in time is almost impossible, because we know the people on the ground couldn't get a good handle on what was going on for a couple days.
On top of that, you honestly expect that information to filter up and back down through the proper channels and out to the media (all of whom immediately started checking how to correctly spell "Chernobyl" the instant someone said "nuclear power plant") AND expect that information to be disseminated out responsibly? YEAH. RIGHT.
Fukushima is not some watershed moment that finally drives the stake in the evil demon of nuclear power. At least it shouldn't be. This accident (a top 25 all time earthquake followed by possibly the worst Tsunami in the nation's history, proved that a positively ancient nuclear plant wasn't as prepared as it could have been. Even in those circumstances there still wasn't ANY loss of life.) should be a signpost that says we need to modernize nuclear power, not bury it.
OJ Simpson killed more people than the Fukushima disaster.
Just for good measure:
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
Brown Out
Claim: Van Halen's standard performance contract contained a provision calling for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms, but with all the brown candies removed.
Status: True.
Example: [Harrington, 1981]
Van Halen tends to make the news portion of radio more often than it gets airplay. There was the M&M riot in New Mexico where the band did thousands of dollars of damage to a hall when they were served brown M&Ms — their contract said the brown ones had to be removed.
Origins: Rock concerts have come a long ways since the days when the Beatles performed in boxing rings and hockey rinks, and made no greater demand of Van Halen promoters than they be provided with clean towels and a few bottles of soft drinks. As the audiences grew larger, promoters stood to make more and more money from staging concerts, which meant that not only could rock stars command higher prices for their performances, but they were able to demand other perks as well, such as luxurious accommodations, lavish backstage buffets, and chauffeured transportation. It was inevitable that some high-demand acts, all their financial and pampering whims satisfied, would exercise their power and start making frivolous demands of promoters, simply because they could.
By far the most notorious of these whimsical requests is the legend that Van Halen's standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with provision that all the brown candies must be removed. The presence of even a single brown M&M in that bowl, rumor had it, was sufficient legal cause for Van Halen to peremptorily cancel a scheduled appearance without advance notice (and usually an excuse for them to go on a destructive rampage as well).
The legendary "no brown M&Ms" contract clause was indeed real, but the purported motivation for it was not. The M&Ms provision was included in Van Halen's contracts not as an act of caprice, but because it served a practical purpose: to provide an easy way of determining whether the technical specifications of the contract had been thoroughly read (and complied with). As Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth explained in his autobiography:
Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We'd pull up with
nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn't support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren't big enough to move the gear through.
The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say "Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes . . ." This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: "There will be no brown M&M's in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation."
So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.
Nonetheless, the media ran exaggerated and inaccurate accounts of Van Halen's using violations of the "no brown M&Ms" clause as justification for engaging in childish, destructive behavior (such as the newspaper article quoted at the top of this page). David Lee Roth's version of such events was decidedly different:
The folks in Pueblo, Colora
...Why not Zoidberg?
(especially since the episode where Zoidberg finds a shell has some of the best quick gags in the series.)
Where'd the monkey take his vaction? All over Tehran!
What color were the monkey's eyes? Blue. One blew north, the other blew south....
Iranian NASA. Needs Another Simian Astronaut
So, for your NEXT laptop, try this:
http://www.preyproject.com/
It's an open source tracker (with the obvious caveats that come with tracking software), but the nice thing is, you can point it to a server you control, rather theirs if you so choose. My MBP was stolen from my car (wife didn't know my bag was in the back, parked the car at a hotel lot. One busted window later....), and a very similar one (missing the extended power cord that I still had no less) showed up on craigslist a couple days later with a weak story behind why it was being sold. I told the cops, but local cops wouldn't go out of jurisdiction without better proof, the local (to seller) cops wouldn't show without better proof, and the state cops weren't going to get involved over the value. They said if I could prove it was mine (by buying it back) they could prosecute.
Sadly, a $1500 laptop, even though you may consider it "your life" just doesn't make the police drop everything. Your best bet is to be able to overwhelm the police with evidence, and prey will help you do that. In the end, the lesson is that your data comes first (back it up early, often, and everywhere), your safety comes second (if you want to get it back face to face, bring a weapon and be prepared to use it. and I don't mean show it off like a hollywood badass. I mean take another human beings life in exchange for the laptop you already planned on getting rid of in three years, or get shot yourself), and your hardware comes third. Anyone that's committed themselves to stealing isn't going anywhere in life anyway. Odds are they're not going to live to a ripe old age where they can regale their grandkids with tales of snatching bags. Live and learn, even if it enables the assholes of the world.
What does Dave Grohl's band have to do with any of this?
"The government abandoned the property, he should claim it as salvage."
Salvage wouldn't work. It's not like he loaded up a few days worth of oxygen in the back seat of his Plymouth and drove to the moon to go digging through the junk piles. Somebody had to provide him with the means of getting to and from, and that someone just so happened to be the Government.
Sure, we'll give you web access....through our prefect system.
Then there's the hardware spec. 1024x600 screen, 8 gigs internal storage (free cloud storage for *amazon* content) and no camera.
The dual core tegras are nice, but that's about it. I told someone earlier today. This isn't Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it's more like 6:00am on the Normandy (or Dieppe) beaches. The iPad is still going to dominate for a long time, but there might finally be a legit contender on the horizon
...and THAT hasn't stopped a group of passengers from suing Boeing.
12, not 14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38
As silly as it sounds, I do. I fly Southwest as often as I can when traveling on business. All 737's of slightly varying generations. It also helps that southwest's business practices (No bag fees for up to two bags, no assigned seats) don't completely suck ass like other airlines.
The only positive sides to privitisation are that now when you get felt up, it's much easier to sue the ever-loving crap out of a private company. They'll still claim that they're acting *on behalf* of the government, but that layer of abstraction will give some legal wiggle room. In addition, the next time a wanna-be underwear bomber or loony with a knife disrupts a flight, said private company can then be sued by the passengers, the airline and the federal government for failing to do their jobs.
Even better, you could probably sue them for making you miss a flight, sue them for cracking your laptop screen, for exposing you to super ultra harmful cancer death rays, for racial profiling, embarrassing you by choosing you for selective screening, etc. etc. I bet the lawyers are just salivating at the thought of privatized airport security.
Maybe in the long run, their insurance rates will skyrocket to the point that, instead of security theater, we get some decent common sense security measures. A boy can dream, right? I guess that's the new means of eliminating failure in the world. We end up doings things the right way not because it's cheaper, but because we do the wrong thing half-assed until it gets too expensive, then we start drifting towards the right way.
You're operating under the assumption that the government cannot possibly, every, under any circumstance whatsoever perform the slightest task. Ever. We've been well conditioned either by media sensationalism or by partisan pundits to just accept that this is the case. Whatever shreds of appearance of competence are left after those two are done are usually destroyed by the instances where the government actually does fuck things up, rather than just does something that pisses off the (left / right / center / fundies / neocons / bleeding hearts.) Every so often, moreso that we like to admit, the Federal government actually can accomplish their day to day duties. Usually.
One of the things that has gotten lost in this merger is that......it's AT&T doing the acquiring. You know? The people that got broken up in an anti-trust suit 40+ years ago? Allowing them to complete major acquisitions without serious scrutiny (from the people that did the breaking up in the first place) is a bit like letting Michael Vick adopt a dog from the pound. Even if the intentions and motives are pure, it's gonna get a longer look because of....ya know....what happened in the past.
Nope. No SFTP access, so really this is more about just killing off personal webhosting than FTP access.
And really, if you can figure out FTP for web hosting, it's not much of a leap to just run FTP on a box at home if all you're doing is storing files. Or SSH.
Wow. I bet both users were not only outraged, but they were even more infuriated to learn that geocities was gone too....
1996 called, they want their web hosting solution back.
1992 called, they want their protocol back.
1990 called, telling me I owe it royalties on this joke....
I got to meet Taco and Hemos at the Ann Arbor Slashdot tenth birthday party. What struck me, and what made slashdot that much cooler, was that they were *exactly* what I expected. Just a couple of genuine guys who did something that they liked, and didn't seem to care too much one way or the other.
Not that they were indifferent to slashdot, but that they weren't the slimy, indirectly self serving "we're so awesome that we're gonna change the world" blog-o-matic faux revolutionaries (See; that doctor fellow over at the site that goes "boing" a couple times) and they weren't the ultra-nerd, stereotype basement dweller elitists either. They were just, ya know, geeks. It made me feel just a bit geekier knowing that something like slashdot really and truly was put together by somebody sorta like me.
Well done and good luck.