Does Facebook still ban breastfeeding pictures? Just wondering.....
Yup.
FB page Bitchin' Parents is the latest to be targeted by FB censors for sharing their members breastfeeding images. As a result they have been asking members to share their BF images here instead. Incredibly sad this is still an issue on FB.
http://www.facebook.com/ParentsUncut
OK, I'll make allowances for poor English. Their web site is actually pretty cool. Still remind me a bit too much of guys who like blowing stuff up for fun, and I'm not entirely convinced by "We have no administration or technical boards to approve our work, so we move very fast from idea to construction. Everything we build is tested until we believe it will do. Then we (attempt to) fly it!"
OK, let me get this right. Buddy wants to work with high explosives in his garage, and can't understand why the people in his neighbourhood might think that "red tape" like zoning, safety, and fire regulations might be a good thing?
I grew up on Robert Heinlein and stuff like "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel," and really, really love projects like Spaceship One, but this guy frightens me.
At one organization I inherited a fund-raising database developed with much arrogance in Filemaker Pro. Except that the FMP "Guru" quit in a huff when it was only about 2/3 functional.
Despite this the thing was used - with many, many crashes - for two years because it was the best thing that they had. And because Mr. Guru was a pal of half the staff.
Did I mention that Mr. Guru also refused to hand over any of the logins that would allow someone to fix or administer this thing?
We eventually wound up moving over to MS Access (GOD YUCK EVIL!), and massaging, fixing, cleaning, importing ten years of data, each year on a different format, file type, or with different fields. We actually managed to turn it into a reasonably useful fund raising tool. I mean, aside from the downside of using MS Access.
Documentation? HA HA HA HA!
Instead we had lots of on-screen buttons though that didn't do anything because he never quite got around to it.
Don't care about sports. Don't care about seeing "this week's" new episode of some series. Get news off of the 'net.
At that point cable very quickly becomes pointless. Netflix delivers more than enough great content to fill our idle hours, and costs us roughly $75 a month less. I can't count how many TV series we've plowed through (Currently working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and how we don't care if they were originally broadcast a few years ago.
In all seriousness, the business model for cable is looking more and more like the business model for the music industry.
I actually heard a lengthy interview with the author the study last week, and I did not get that impression. Just anti "print anything that comes over the transom as long as they pay."
I feel obliged to note that yes, there are workarounds of various types, either of the arcane multiple key combination type, or the buried under three or four levels of (obscure) menus types.
These sort of things should be up front and centre in the Settings of a word processor. Thousands of posts to help forums and "Ask Yahoo" suggest that there's a problem here. RTFM isn't an option since no software comes with a manual these days, even in PDF, (Or does Word actually offer that?) and I gave up on the built in "Help" functions years ago.
And don't even get me started on the madness of "Settings" vs "Options" menus. (Or whatever MS always calls the two seemingly same things.)
It seems that the whole scientific publication industry is undergoing big changes, and as a result a lot of sloppy and/or dishonest behaviour is popping up.
Hundreds of open access journals, including those published by industry giants Sage, Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, have accepted a fake scientific paper in a sting operation that reveals the "contours of an emerging wild west in academic publishing".
The hoax, which was set up by John Bohannon, a science journalist at Harvard University, saw various versions of a bogus scientific paper being submitted to 304 open access journals worldwide over a period of 10 months.
My number one wish for any word processor, but especially Word, is a switch that says:
I'm writing a document that will be printed out on paper with black toner.
At a minimum, I don't want e-mail addresses or URLs changed to blue, or underlined, or hyperlinked.
My number two wish is a switch that says:
Anything pasted into this document will adopt the formatting of the line into which it is being pasted.
I cannot think of a single instance, ever, when I wanted the formatting from some web page to be carried over into my document.
My final wish is to find a word processor that assumes, or at least makes really easy to specify, that the Page One Header will not be used on subsequent pages. I don't recall how Word does that these days, but in LibreOffice it involves creating a style just for the first page. Assuming that you've managed to Google the specific forum post that tells you that.
Yes, I still pine for WordPerfect 5.1, and even the early Windows versions.
Three words: Reveal, Codes, and Acerson.
With just those you could do damned near anything.
To this day, likely close to ten years since I stopped using WordPerfect, I still find myself clobbered by strange MS Word formatting edicts, with no obvious way to get rid of them.
At least with WP you could see why something was weird, and fix it.
Actually, we learned this technique from our colonial overlords. Then again, some Canadian companies aren't dumb enough to act on that's sent to them...
Save your time, the 45 seconds it would take you to read TFA won't tell you more than the summary.
As far as hotel charges: everything in a major hotel is expensive, but then again you get a depth and quality of service that Motel 6 will never, ever provide. It's about the overall experience and level of comfort, not about nickle and diming on peanuts stuff.
Speaking of which, mini-bar cashews @ $18 are the best, but for a real treat order up a full carafe of room service hot chocolate after a long day.
A lot of years ago I spent some time with a Canadian guy who more or less invented the idea of no-name white box cash machines up here. I think we talked about his "high-end" Quake gaming rig....
In any event, one topic of discussion was the technology behind bank cards and debit cards. I can still recall him telling me that the bank card was about the most insecure thing ever invented, and that using four-digit PIN was pretty much laughable.
In his words, "You do not want to trust these things."
So now we have Chip and PIN; and stupidly annoying multiple factor authentication; and bio-metrics; and whatever some security company can cook up next week.
I still don't trust them, and really don't ever assume that any of this stuff is really secure.
The development conjures up memories of so-called "company towns" at the turn of the 20th century, where American factory workers lived in communities owned by their employer and were provided housing, health care, law enforcement, church and just about every other service necessary.'"
Hey, hopefully they'll get some tips from the Chinese companies that make the technology that support Facebook....
For me the writing was on the wall for RIM when they stopped selling themselves as a business tool, and started flogging pink phones to teenagers.
I remember when Blackberry devices started showing up everywhere (and knew some RIM people at the time). They didn't sell because they were way cool. They sold because they did some things really, really well, and because companies felt that they were safe and secure.
Arguably BlackBerry was way, way ahead of the game in terms of messaging and mobile e-mail. That was what sold the things.
A smart Blackberry would have built on that with enhanced security, and with enhanced tools to make it easy for corporations to use all of that Internet goodness. I can think of a hundred ways that they could have built "got to have" tools and widgets that large corporations and governments would need to have.
And it's not all about anticipating touchscreens. If BlackBerry had been on the ball they could have defined a lot of the next generation of phone based operating systems, instead of scrambling to follow.
One other factor that I think has to be considered in all of this is that Canadian smartphone users are still hampered by insanely expensive data charges. My carrier now offers 250 MEG a month with base packages, and upgrading that starts at $40-50 a month.
If BlackBerry's engineers are working in an environment where data intensive applications are unwelcome it's likely that that would have influenced some of their decisions. Who's going to focus on video or even audiobook downloads if (consumer) customers can't afford to use them?
I'm still betting that a lot of the good BlackBerry ideas - including a real keyboard - are going to appear in some form of business oriented device. There's still a market out there, but no-one is filling it.
This is likely a good time to talk up Insite, a "safe injection" site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The premise of Insite is simple: provide a clean, safe place for addicts to shoot up, under medical supervision. Insite doesn't provide drugs, but at least it offers some kind of controlled environment for injection.
The upshot is ten years of servicing addicts, and not one death. It Just Works.
Of course our law 'n' order neo-con Harper government is determined to shut it down, crying "Think of The Children" while pocketing donations from the big US private prison companies...
Seriously. I can't think of a better system for comment handling. Just move the sliders aaaaaaall the way to the right and never see another troll!
For some reason The Register also seems to have good quality comments. As does The Guardian, so it can be possible to build a commenting community that works. Maybe it's a British thing?
On the other hand it's been years since I bothered looking at comments on any Canadian media site..... CBC pays a lot of money to contract out comment moderation and still manages to have a worthless stream of dreck.
it is a serious case if a charger for such a popular product is to cause death. But seriously, I have been using 3rd party cables for ALL my phones I have ever used, and there have been no problem. How come it happens to Apple?
I have to ask the same thing - is there something seriously wrong and dangerous about Apple products??
This makes me sad, if only because it feels as if RIM was the only company that was thinking in terms of what business people need(ed) in a smart phone.
I still think there's a market for a smart phone that is actually intended to be used for document (especially e-mail) creation, and aimed at the needs of people who need to send and receive messages that run longer than three sentences.
On a day to day basis the things that I need from my phone aren't 10,000 music tracks, or the ability to watch a Breaking Bad marathon on the run, or Facebook. It's a solid and easy to use e-mail appliance; a tool for finding and reading information on the Internet; and a decent handling of documents. These are where RIM should shine, and should wipe the floor with either Android or Apple.
I won't speculate where they went wrong - although becoming stupidly rich probably played a role in the founders' decisions - but it's a loss.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup.
OK, I'll make allowances for poor English. Their web site is actually pretty cool. Still remind me a bit too much of guys who like blowing stuff up for fun, and I'm not entirely convinced by "We have no administration or technical boards to approve our work, so we move very fast from idea to construction. Everything we build is tested until we believe it will do. Then we (attempt to) fly it!"
Yup, they do a have a web site. I guess what with the big Facebook outage the Slashdot eds couldn't track it down.
OK, let me get this right. Buddy wants to work with high explosives in his garage, and can't understand why the people in his neighbourhood might think that "red tape" like zoning, safety, and fire regulations might be a good thing?
I grew up on Robert Heinlein and stuff like "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel," and really, really love projects like Spaceship One, but this guy frightens me.
Is it any coincidence that Iowa is like right next door to Nebraska, and that both of these stories involve so called "scientists"?
I smell a conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids. Or communists. Or something.
And Isn't Area 51 almost also next door to Iowa? You never can be sure, since the government also makes all of the maps.
You know, even by Slashdot standards this summary is remarkably incoherent. And that's ignoring the waived/waved confusion.
"he's posting his experience in trying to get certified by the FAA on GitHub so they can follow along."
Likely his problem was that the FAA doesn't use Github for certification. They have their own computers and application forms and stuff.
At one organization I inherited a fund-raising database developed with much arrogance in Filemaker Pro. Except that the FMP "Guru" quit in a huff when it was only about 2/3 functional.
Despite this the thing was used - with many, many crashes - for two years because it was the best thing that they had. And because Mr. Guru was a pal of half the staff.
Did I mention that Mr. Guru also refused to hand over any of the logins that would allow someone to fix or administer this thing?
We eventually wound up moving over to MS Access (GOD YUCK EVIL!), and massaging, fixing, cleaning, importing ten years of data, each year on a different format, file type, or with different fields. We actually managed to turn it into a reasonably useful fund raising tool. I mean, aside from the downside of using MS Access.
Documentation? HA HA HA HA!
Instead we had lots of on-screen buttons though that didn't do anything because he never quite got around to it.
Don't care about sports. Don't care about seeing "this week's" new episode of some series. Get news off of the 'net.
At that point cable very quickly becomes pointless. Netflix delivers more than enough great content to fill our idle hours, and costs us roughly $75 a month less. I can't count how many TV series we've plowed through (Currently working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and how we don't care if they were originally broadcast a few years ago.
In all seriousness, the business model for cable is looking more and more like the business model for the music industry.
I actually heard a lengthy interview with the author the study last week, and I did not get that impression. Just anti "print anything that comes over the transom as long as they pay."
I feel obliged to note that yes, there are workarounds of various types, either of the arcane multiple key combination type, or the buried under three or four levels of (obscure) menus types.
These sort of things should be up front and centre in the Settings of a word processor. Thousands of posts to help forums and "Ask Yahoo" suggest that there's a problem here. RTFM isn't an option since no software comes with a manual these days, even in PDF, (Or does Word actually offer that?) and I gave up on the built in "Help" functions years ago.
And don't even get me started on the madness of "Settings" vs "Options" menus. (Or whatever MS always calls the two seemingly same things.)
As reported at The Guardianand elsewhere:
Yeah, but why does Word default to assuming that I'm writing a web page and not a paper document?
My number one wish for any word processor, but especially Word, is a switch that says:
I'm writing a document that will be printed out on paper with black toner.
At a minimum, I don't want e-mail addresses or URLs changed to blue, or underlined, or hyperlinked.
My number two wish is a switch that says:
Anything pasted into this document will adopt the formatting of the line into which it is being pasted.
I cannot think of a single instance, ever, when I wanted the formatting from some web page to be carried over into my document. My final wish is to find a word processor that assumes, or at least makes really easy to specify, that the Page One Header will not be used on subsequent pages. I don't recall how Word does that these days, but in LibreOffice it involves creating a style just for the first page. Assuming that you've managed to Google the specific forum post that tells you that.
Yes, I still pine for WordPerfect 5.1, and even the early Windows versions.
Three words: Reveal, Codes, and Acerson.
With just those you could do damned near anything.
To this day, likely close to ten years since I stopped using WordPerfect, I still find myself clobbered by strange MS Word formatting edicts, with no obvious way to get rid of them.
At least with WP you could see why something was weird, and fix it.
Need I say more?
Actually, we learned this technique from our colonial overlords. Then again, some Canadian companies aren't dumb enough to act on that's sent to them...
Save your time, the 45 seconds it would take you to read TFA won't tell you more than the summary.
As far as hotel charges: everything in a major hotel is expensive, but then again you get a depth and quality of service that Motel 6 will never, ever provide. It's about the overall experience and level of comfort, not about nickle and diming on peanuts stuff.
Speaking of which, mini-bar cashews @ $18 are the best, but for a real treat order up a full carafe of room service hot chocolate after a long day.
A lot of years ago I spent some time with a Canadian guy who more or less invented the idea of no-name white box cash machines up here. I think we talked about his "high-end" Quake gaming rig....
In any event, one topic of discussion was the technology behind bank cards and debit cards. I can still recall him telling me that the bank card was about the most insecure thing ever invented, and that using four-digit PIN was pretty much laughable.
In his words, "You do not want to trust these things."
So now we have Chip and PIN; and stupidly annoying multiple factor authentication; and bio-metrics; and whatever some security company can cook up next week.
I still don't trust them, and really don't ever assume that any of this stuff is really secure.
The development conjures up memories of so-called "company towns" at the turn of the 20th century, where American factory workers lived in communities owned by their employer and were provided housing, health care, law enforcement, church and just about every other service necessary.'"
Hey, hopefully they'll get some tips from the Chinese companies that make the technology that support Facebook....
Why, just yesterday I was saying to my mates, "Hey guys, wouldn't it be keen if Slashdot looked JUST like Google+?"
This redesign is long overdue - all of them "word" thingies keep getting the way of the pretty pictures.
For me the writing was on the wall for RIM when they stopped selling themselves as a business tool, and started flogging pink phones to teenagers.
I remember when Blackberry devices started showing up everywhere (and knew some RIM people at the time). They didn't sell because they were way cool. They sold because they did some things really, really well, and because companies felt that they were safe and secure.
Arguably BlackBerry was way, way ahead of the game in terms of messaging and mobile e-mail. That was what sold the things.
A smart Blackberry would have built on that with enhanced security, and with enhanced tools to make it easy for corporations to use all of that Internet goodness. I can think of a hundred ways that they could have built "got to have" tools and widgets that large corporations and governments would need to have.
And it's not all about anticipating touchscreens. If BlackBerry had been on the ball they could have defined a lot of the next generation of phone based operating systems, instead of scrambling to follow.
One other factor that I think has to be considered in all of this is that Canadian smartphone users are still hampered by insanely expensive data charges. My carrier now offers 250 MEG a month with base packages, and upgrading that starts at $40-50 a month.
If BlackBerry's engineers are working in an environment where data intensive applications are unwelcome it's likely that that would have influenced some of their decisions. Who's going to focus on video or even audiobook downloads if (consumer) customers can't afford to use them?
I'm still betting that a lot of the good BlackBerry ideas - including a real keyboard - are going to appear in some form of business oriented device. There's still a market out there, but no-one is filling it.
This is likely a good time to talk up Insite, a "safe injection" site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The premise of Insite is simple: provide a clean, safe place for addicts to shoot up, under medical supervision. Insite doesn't provide drugs, but at least it offers some kind of controlled environment for injection.
The upshot is ten years of servicing addicts, and not one death. It Just Works.
Of course our law 'n' order neo-con Harper government is determined to shut it down, crying "Think of The Children" while pocketing donations from the big US private prison companies...
Seriously. I can't think of a better system for comment handling. Just move the sliders aaaaaaall the way to the right and never see another troll!
For some reason The Register also seems to have good quality comments. As does The Guardian, so it can be possible to build a commenting community that works. Maybe it's a British thing?
On the other hand it's been years since I bothered looking at comments on any Canadian media site..... CBC pays a lot of money to contract out comment moderation and still manages to have a worthless stream of dreck.
I have to ask the same thing - is there something seriously wrong and dangerous about Apple products??
This makes me sad, if only because it feels as if RIM was the only company that was thinking in terms of what business people need(ed) in a smart phone.
I still think there's a market for a smart phone that is actually intended to be used for document (especially e-mail) creation, and aimed at the needs of people who need to send and receive messages that run longer than three sentences.
On a day to day basis the things that I need from my phone aren't 10,000 music tracks, or the ability to watch a Breaking Bad marathon on the run, or Facebook. It's a solid and easy to use e-mail appliance; a tool for finding and reading information on the Internet; and a decent handling of documents. These are where RIM should shine, and should wipe the floor with either Android or Apple.
I won't speculate where they went wrong - although becoming stupidly rich probably played a role in the founders' decisions - but it's a loss.