This was posted to slashdot after the "go live" time of the app/website, but only links to articles posted prior to the launch that speculated it was a hoax.
When the website went live at 5 p.m. on Monday, the app asked users to sign in using their Tinder, LinkedIn or create a new account. It matched all users up with a fighter named Dudecati. The user wouldn't be able to do anything but type back at the automated response. At the end of it, the bot tells users:
"ok in all seriousness though you're wasting your time here," and then redirects you to the group's website.
a) some of these bugs where filed months ago, and yet those hotspot "optimizations" are still on by default
b) it's true that some problems can be avoided by deliberately disabling these optimizations, but w/o raising big warning alarms to users, people aren't going to know they need to go out of their way to do that. For crash bugs, it may not be so bad -- they see the crash and google to find out why it crashed. For miss-evaluation of loops that can lead to silent data corruption it's a different story -- how would users ever know that they need to disable those options if developers don't yell and holler from the roof tops?
The twitter account in question isn't retweeting the URLs.
There is no automated bot in play here.
All this guy did was create a "Twitter List" of the ~40 official Twitter Accounts used by the NYTimes (they seem to have one per section of their site)...
If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...
I concede that the bylaws of the ASF state "To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member..." however as a matter of practice the current membership of the ASF consists solely of people, and to the best of my knowledge no company/organization has ever been a member (or even been nominated to be a member)
It doesn't change anything about my underlying point: Microsoft did not join the ASF, and it is not Microsofts first code contribution to an ASF project.
"Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project."
Corporations can not join the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Microsoft became a "sponsor" of the ASF last summer, but only individual people can join the ASF.
This is also not the first time Microsoft has contributed code to an Apache project, pulling one quick example out of google...
* CLR
* The Dragon Book
* The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
* AI: A Modern Approach
* Catcher in the Rye
-- I've been asked about this one. This book is all about perceptions: our perceptions of others, and our concerns about the perception other people have of ourself. Realizing your own hangups, and when you/others are being "phoney" can vastly reduce the amount of bullshit you waste time on in your life/work.
Akamai is licensing this technology to the whole world http://www.akamai.com/html/support/esi.html , and if they choose not to license this to their competitors, but the competitor goes ahead and implements it "as-is" based on their spec, then hey, the competitor deserves to be sued.
That almost makes sense, except that even according to the Akamai page you link to...
The ESI open-standard specification is being co-authored by Akamai, ATG, BEA Systems, Circadence, Digital Island, IBM, Interwoven, Oracle, and Vignette.
You can't claim something is an "open standard" and then sue people for building and using their own implementation. well, I guess aparently you can -- but be prepared for me (and clearly a lot of other people) to think you are being petty and stupid.
While the C&D to Improv Everywhere and Neighborhoodies still stands (although the shirts seem like clear parody to me) If you actually look at laughingsquid.com you'll see that BestBuy apologized for sending them a C&D for reporting about the existence of the shirts as a matter of fact, and acknowledged they were in error.
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Hmmm, so should we believe the last line of the page, or the second to last line of the page?
"The Stones do not currently have this footage themselves; this particular piece of film lasts 10 minutes, with the electrocution scene occurring at the close, and lasting approximately a full minute," the catalog for the auction states.
The footage is part of a collection of film that is owned by Mark and Colleen Hayward and is being sold as a single lot. Other footage in the lot includes an early film of The Beatles playing in Blackpool, England, and some shots of Paul McCartney in 1966 yukking it up on a Learjet owned by Frank Sinatra.
TV stations pay around $3,000 to broadcast about 30 seconds of footage from the Hayward collection.
The Haywards will also auction off a collection of photos of rock stars over the decades: The Clash, AC/DC and The Moody Blues. You'd have to go to the Konocti Boat Harbor to see some of those acts today.
It won't be all celebrity memorabilia at the intellectual property auction. Most of the lots involve chemicals (a formula for flexographic printing from Meat/Westvaco), wireless communications, medical devices (customized bone implants--a patent with a $200,000-plus value), green technologies (an efficient way to incinerate waste from our pals at KusuKusu Industry), or electronics (anyone care for a gas composition sensor from Accentus?).
Despite early skepticism, the open auction concept for intellectual property is clearly gaining steam. In the company's April auction in Chicago, $11.4 million worth of intellectual property was sold, including two lots that went for $3 million and $2.8 million each.
Although it's not a really popular sentiment these days, I think patents, trademarks and copyrights are simply fantastic and a primary, necessary driver of the world economy. Without them, the rapid pace of technological innovation around the world would slow to a crawl. And frankly, without them, most open-source projects would rapidly wither away: without an intellectual property behemoth like Microsoft to fight, what would be the point?
Why all the frothy sentiment? Intellectual property provides one of the most dependable means toward wea
Background: my last name starts with the letters "Host"
When southwest first started offering online checking, i discovered a small bug, when you got the the "Print your boarding pass" screen, with my name in all caps, the letters "HOST" were replaced with "southwest.com"... so if your name was "Jim Hostenfeffer" it would appear on your boardingpass as "JIM southwest.comENFEFFER"... I played with the site a little bit and found that it was a straight macro replacement bug of whatever domain name was used, so would say "JIM wWw.SOutHwesT.cOmENFEFFER" if that was the domain you typed into the URL bar.
The first time it happened i thought it was ammusing, I emailed their tech support, saved the HTML to a file and edited it so it had my name again and would match my ID when i checked in.
4 or 5 flights and at least 9 months later it was still happening and I spent a good 3 hours on the phone being transfered arround to different people trying ot get them to understand what the problem was and how fucking ridiculous it was that i had to constantly "hack" my boarding pass because of a bug they'd had for months.
Aparently, the political censorship taking place for Google users in China results in making porn easier to find.
Comparing China and US with the search phrase "teen girls" results in the following unique word lists...
For China... animal aqua beastiality bestiality blowjobs breeds brunette cheerleader cheerleaders com cum cute dog farm force fucked fucking galleries hardcore horse hunter masturbating mature milf milfhunter milfs models petite porn posing pussy rape schoolgirl seeker series shaved showing spreading stripping sweet thong thongs thumbs tiffany topless used year zoophilia
For the US... adolescent advice april assault boy child color culture daughter daughters dave death disorders doesn't don't dr eating education exercise frank healthy image important information iraq john lindorff look march media messages mothers parents paul pope relationship relationships response right seventeen shop st support things war website weight woman women's
I really like the new options... there are definitely sections that i'm interested in enough to want to see the summaries of all the stories inthat section right on the front page, but why isn't there an option to turn back on the "2 More" links for the sections in the left nav?
In my normal day, there are only a handfull of sections that i care about enough to read on the front page, but if i'm waiting for a build and i have some free time, it would be nice to know which sections have content I haven't seen (without having to click on each one and skim them to see if anything doesn't look familiar)
I believe mp3.com will become a "Music Portal" for info about digital music -- without acctually hosting any music. Where as music.download.com will be a place to download music other people have uploaded (much as download.com is a place to download software, yad, yada...)
Provide a forum for both discussion of instructor posted "articles" as well as a way for students to post their own writting samples, which can be reviewed/critiqued/commented-on by other students, in such a way that the "cream" rises to the top, and is more visible by all students.
Slashdot Mirror
This was posted to slashdot after the "go live" time of the app/website, but only links to articles posted prior to the launch that speculated it was a hoax.
One of the authors (Alfred Ng) of one of those articles wrote a follow up piece *after* the launch, with the actual details of what the hoax actually was (A marketing stunt) and what registered users saw when they used the app at launch...
a) some of these bugs where filed months ago, and yet those hotspot "optimizations" are still on by default
b) it's true that some problems can be avoided by deliberately disabling these optimizations, but w/o raising big warning alarms to users, people aren't going to know they need to go out of their way to do that. For crash bugs, it may not be so bad -- they see the crash and google to find out why it crashed. For miss-evaluation of loops that can lead to silent data corruption it's a different story -- how would users ever know that they need to disable those options if developers don't yell and holler from the roof tops?
The twitter account in question isn't retweeting the URLs.
There is no automated bot in play here.
All this guy did was create a "Twitter List" of the ~40 official Twitter Accounts used by the NYTimes (they seem to have one per section of their site) ...
https://twitter.com/#!/FreeNYT/firehose/members
You would get access to the same URLs if you followed each of those ~40 individual twitter accounts directly.
Essentially the NYT is complaining that someone is promoting the existence of their twitter accounts.
If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...
I don't like star trek, i haven't seen most of hte movies, and even i kow that the proper way to have started that summary should have been:
"Have you always wished that you could hear your favorite Christmas classics in the original Klingon?"
Bruno Borges said it the most succinctly...
"There is no point helping to write specifications that you aren't allowed to implement"
http://twitter.com/#!/brunoborges/status/13058930657730560
And Brian McCallister explained the full ramifications most clearly...
http://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html
I concede that the bylaws of the ASF state "To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member..." however as a matter of practice the current membership of the ASF consists solely of people, and to the best of my knowledge no company/organization has ever been a member (or even been nominated to be a member)
It doesn't change anything about my underlying point: Microsoft did not join the ASF, and it is not Microsofts first code contribution to an ASF project.
Corporations can not join the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Microsoft became a "sponsor" of the ASF last summer, but only individual people can join the ASF.
This is also not the first time Microsoft has contributed code to an Apache project, pulling one quick example out of google...
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/10/14/microsoft-s-powerset-team-resumes-hbase-contributions.aspx
once upon a time there was a vigorous discussion on perlmonks about non-perl books that have made people better programmers...
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=508862
my reply...
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=509146
* CLR
* The Dragon Book
* The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
* AI: A Modern Approach
* Catcher in the Rye
-- I've been asked about this one. This book is all about perceptions: our perceptions of others, and our concerns about the perception other people have of ourself. Realizing your own hangups, and when you/others are being "phoney" can vastly reduce the amount of bullshit you waste time on in your life/work.
They're really cool when done using gradients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
Code for generating them...
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=190245
Example...
http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~chultqui/houdini/images/heightfield_voronoi_part.png
Everyone seems to think that it will either be the best of times, or it will be the worst of times ... why can't it just be a different time?
Worst Of Times: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1962
Best Of Times: http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9862772-16.html
While the C&D to Improv Everywhere and Neighborhoodies still stands (although the shirts seem like clear parody to me) If you actually look at laughingsquid.com you'll see that BestBuy apologized for sending them a C&D for reporting about the existence of the shirts as a matter of fact, and acknowledged they were in error.
That's a different ipod vibrator attachment: The Oh mi bod. I wonder why Apple hasn't sued them.
Uh, okay ... wait a minute...
Hmmm, so should we believe the last line of the page, or the second to last line of the page?
Fuck it...
When did a distorted GIF of Amanda Tapping become the symbol of Security?
This certianly isn't the first time...
o r-sexually-abusing-herself/
http://www.lies.com/wp/2004/03/30/teen-arrested-f
Background: my last name starts with the letters "Host"
... so if your name was "Jim Hostenfeffer" it would appear on your boardingpass as "JIM southwest.comENFEFFER" ... I played with the site a little bit and found that it was a straight macro replacement bug of whatever domain name was used, so would say "JIM wWw.SOutHwesT.cOmENFEFFER" if that was the domain you typed into the URL bar.
When southwest first started offering online checking, i discovered a small bug, when you got the the "Print your boarding pass" screen, with my name in all caps, the letters "HOST" were replaced with "southwest.com"
The first time it happened i thought it was ammusing, I emailed their tech support, saved the HTML to a file and edited it so it had my name again and would match my ID when i checked in.
4 or 5 flights and at least 9 months later it was still happening and I spent a good 3 hours on the phone being transfered arround to different people trying ot get them to understand what the problem was and how fucking ridiculous it was that i had to constantly "hack" my boarding pass because of a bug they'd had for months.
Aparently, the political censorship taking place for Google users in China results in making porn easier to find.
Comparing China and US with the search phrase "teen girls" results in the following unique word lists...
For China...
animal aqua beastiality bestiality blowjobs breeds brunette cheerleader cheerleaders com cum cute dog farm force fucked fucking galleries hardcore horse hunter masturbating mature milf milfhunter milfs models petite porn posing pussy rape schoolgirl seeker series shaved showing spreading stripping sweet thong thongs thumbs tiffany topless used year zoophilia
For the US...
adolescent advice april assault boy child color culture daughter daughters dave death disorders doesn't don't dr eating education exercise frank healthy image important information iraq john lindorff look march media messages mothers parents paul pope relationship relationships response right seventeen shop st support things war website weight woman women's
I really like the new options ... there are definitely sections that i'm interested in enough to want to see the summaries of all the stories inthat section right on the front page, but why isn't there an option to turn back on the "2 More" links for the sections in the left nav?
In my normal day, there are only a handfull of sections that i care about enough to read on the front page, but if i'm waiting for a build and i have some free time, it would be nice to know which sections have content I haven't seen (without having to click on each one and skim them to see if anything doesn't look familiar)
I believe mp3.com will become a "Music Portal" for info about digital music -- without acctually hosting any music. Where as music.download.com will be a place to download music other people have uploaded (much as download.com is a place to download software, yad, yada...)
I can't believe the game "Water Closet" didn't make the list.
I think something like the system that powers http://www.sciscoop.com/ would be usefull.
Provide a forum for both discussion of instructor posted "articles" as well as a way for students to post their own writting samples, which can be reviewed/critiqued/commented-on by other students, in such a way that the "cream" rises to the top, and is more visible by all students.
Ep4: Lucas
Ep5: Irvin Kershner
Ep6: Richard Marquand
Ep1: Lucas ...
Ep2: Lucas
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