They refer to themselves as "officers", not "agents". The STRIP Act seeks to smack those petty tyrants down a few pegs. Tell your Congresscritter to support it.
Pray tell, to what domestic use would you put depleted uranium, cordite, and lead?
You don't like foreign wars, which is a fine position to have. Don't bollix it all up with falsehoods about the DoD procurement process and where those dollars actually end up.
Are you at all familiar with the defense procurement process? Do you *REALIZE* the regulations you have to comply with in order to even source parts from a foreign entity? "Export controls" are a *HUGE* headache for anyone in the DoD's procurement chain, such that the vast, VAST majority of Defense dollars stay States-side.
In fact, the net effect is such that it entirely negates your point: dollars spent on munitions manufactured by US firms are deployed in theater and used for creative destruction far from our shores. Would you rather we started carpet bombing Chicago instead?
They did "Beverley Hillbillies" at the show I attended last month. Jim West is a good guitarist, but it's easy to see why Knopfler wanted to play the riff -- it just doesn't sound right with anyone else picking away at it.
My parents had a strict No Popular Radio rule when I was a young lad yet, for some reason, had a "Weird Al" Escape Clause -- I could listen to all the "Weird Al" I wanted, but never the source material.
To this day, I can't hear "Lola", "Hey Ricky", "I Love Rock And Roll", "Ride The Pony" and countless other songs that "debuted" in Yankovic form in my life without singing the "Weird Al" version.
I saw him on the first leg of his US tour in Glenside, PA. He does "Perform This Way" in the peacock suit that shows up about 2/3 of the way through the video.
Their site wasn't compromised AFAICT. Three plugin developers' accounts were compromised (passwords guessed?) and SVN checkins containing backdoors were pushed into their respective (fairly popular) plugins. This was intended to push malware out to individual WordPress installs.
I mean allowing multiple video streams on one call, yes. Perhaps the Linux client doesn't yet allow for it. The Pro/subscriber edition on Mac and Windows does, at least in theory.
It's simple, though -- a Skype-replacement just needs to end up on Leo Laporte's desk. He and his TWiT network cohorts have been ragging on Skype for years, and yet they continue to use it because it
1) works on durn near every OS out there 2) is easy to acquire and install for potential collaborators
Seriously, Skype has been a grudgingly-necessary eyesore for years, and yet we don't seem to have a widely-accepted and/or functionally-equivalent OSS project in the wild. How can this be?
Thanks for pointing out that comment. As I thought, it points to Lvl3 being disingenuous and attempting to exploit NetNeut proponents to do their dirty work.
Precisely. All the Network Neutrality pushers are being played for suckers by Level 3. It's dirty pool on their part -- they're trying to get a better price in a market that was previously covered by "gentlemen's agreements" between ISPs and are attempting to incite a NetNeut flashmob in order to get their pricing.
I have used it extensively with a geographically disperse group of friends and I, at least, will be sad to see it go. It was superior to IM, IRC, etc., in one single respect:
It allowed for full-historied asynchronous conversations.
The core functionality was akin to IM, but with the capability to drop in and out at will. We would take turns starting the Wave of the day and encapsulate a rolling "conversation" each day, with folks contributing jokes, interesting links, YouTube videos, etc., at their leisure, and (here's the best part) everyone could get caught up immediately simply by reading through the history.
I would not have connected with these friends in the same way had we simply had a group IM room, or an IRC channel, or a forum. Forum posts feel too "heavy" for the transient nature of many of the observations we had, while IMs are too easy to misplace and take out of chronological order. Wave's threading alleviated the latter and the former.
What really made it hard, though, was the lack of a coherent export process. There were some Waves we wanted to save for posterity's sake but, until very recently, it's been a nightmare to get the data out.
*shrug* I know it wasn't for everyone, but my friends and I will surely miss it.
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The TSA defines "anything past the screening area" as "secure areas", IIRC, so that's a load of crap.
They refer to themselves as "officers", not "agents". The STRIP Act seeks to smack those petty tyrants down a few pegs. Tell your Congresscritter to support it.
They're desperate and in spaghetti-against-the-wall territory, to be honest.
Cave Johnson doesn't concern himself with orange anything. It's lemons, or nothing!
Came for the Portal 2 reference. Didn't leave disappointed.
Pray tell, to what domestic use would you put depleted uranium, cordite, and lead?
You don't like foreign wars, which is a fine position to have. Don't bollix it all up with falsehoods about the DoD procurement process and where those dollars actually end up.
Are you at all familiar with the defense procurement process? Do you *REALIZE* the regulations you have to comply with in order to even source parts from a foreign entity? "Export controls" are a *HUGE* headache for anyone in the DoD's procurement chain, such that the vast, VAST majority of Defense dollars stay States-side.
In fact, the net effect is such that it entirely negates your point: dollars spent on munitions manufactured by US firms are deployed in theater and used for creative destruction far from our shores. Would you rather we started carpet bombing Chicago instead?
They did "Beverley Hillbillies" at the show I attended last month. Jim West is a good guitarist, but it's easy to see why Knopfler wanted to play the riff -- it just doesn't sound right with anyone else picking away at it.
My parents had a strict No Popular Radio rule when I was a young lad yet, for some reason, had a "Weird Al" Escape Clause -- I could listen to all the "Weird Al" I wanted, but never the source material.
To this day, I can't hear "Lola", "Hey Ricky", "I Love Rock And Roll", "Ride The Pony" and countless other songs that "debuted" in Yankovic form in my life without singing the "Weird Al" version.
I saw him on the first leg of his US tour in Glenside, PA. He does "Perform This Way" in the peacock suit that shows up about 2/3 of the way through the video.
He averaged a costume change every 1.5 songs or so. And yes, it was an awesome show, though I hear he won't be doing "You're Pitiful" live anymore, which is a shame.
Their site wasn't compromised AFAICT. Three plugin developers' accounts were compromised (passwords guessed?) and SVN checkins containing backdoors were pushed into their respective (fairly popular) plugins. This was intended to push malware out to individual WordPress installs.
C'mon, trolls, y'all are falling down on the job!
...Because the Mac client is a hideously-designed UI and slow as all get-out, plus I can use Meebo to integrate all my other chat channels?
I mean allowing multiple video streams on one call, yes. Perhaps the Linux client doesn't yet allow for it. The Pro/subscriber edition on Mac and Windows does, at least in theory.
Do either of these support
1) multiple concurrent video chat streams
2) Windows, Mac & Linux with a similar UI
It's simple, though -- a Skype-replacement just needs to end up on Leo Laporte's desk. He and his TWiT network cohorts have been ragging on Skype for years, and yet they continue to use it because it
1) works on durn near every OS out there
2) is easy to acquire and install for potential collaborators
It's not just about the POTS service, though. I rarely, if ever, see folks using it for voice-only calls. People use it for (in my experience):
1) Text-only chat (which is bat-guano-insane, IMHO)
2) Video chats
#2 sees the most use in my family and company circles. If we want voice-only, we call the other person's cell phone.
Seriously, Skype has been a grudgingly-necessary eyesore for years, and yet we don't seem to have a widely-accepted and/or functionally-equivalent OSS project in the wild. How can this be?
Let’s face it, they missed out on a real opportunity to establish the Green Jobs Lantern Corps.
Did the recipients have to pay cape-ital gains taxes?
...When after all, it was you and me.
Such a thing exists: APB. It flopped at launch and was acquired by another MMORPG company with an eye towards re-launching as a freemium game.
Thanks for pointing out that comment. As I thought, it points to Lvl3 being disingenuous and attempting to exploit NetNeut proponents to do their dirty work.
Precisely. All the Network Neutrality pushers are being played for suckers by Level 3. It's dirty pool on their part -- they're trying to get a better price in a market that was previously covered by "gentlemen's agreements" between ISPs and are attempting to incite a NetNeut flashmob in order to get their pricing.
Penny Arcade coined a term for this: bullshot.
Still as relevant today as it was in 2005.
I have used it extensively with a geographically disperse group of friends and I, at least, will be sad to see it go. It was superior to IM, IRC, etc., in one single respect:
It allowed for full-historied asynchronous conversations.
The core functionality was akin to IM, but with the capability to drop in and out at will. We would take turns starting the Wave of the day and encapsulate a rolling "conversation" each day, with folks contributing jokes, interesting links, YouTube videos, etc., at their leisure, and (here's the best part) everyone could get caught up immediately simply by reading through the history.
I would not have connected with these friends in the same way had we simply had a group IM room, or an IRC channel, or a forum. Forum posts feel too "heavy" for the transient nature of many of the observations we had, while IMs are too easy to misplace and take out of chronological order. Wave's threading alleviated the latter and the former.
What really made it hard, though, was the lack of a coherent export process. There were some Waves we wanted to save for posterity's sake but, until very recently, it's been a nightmare to get the data out.
*shrug* I know it wasn't for everyone, but my friends and I will surely miss it.