Worked great except that Google Bookmarks uses "Labels" instead of "Tags' so all my pre-existing Google Bookmarks have labels and all my imported bookmarks have the label "Tag:*" and all reside within the "Imported from Delicious" label...
Oh, and I lost all of the notes associated with my delicious bookmarks, none of those made the import although they did successfully make it out in the export... Lame.
"Union opposes saving taxpayer money, more news at 11."
They have a vested interest in keeping the jobs local; nothing wrong with that at all. I wouldn't want to loose my job either. This has nothing to do with quality of education or the kids, it's all about the money.
More background information on this whole "Pen Register" information can be found on http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060119. html Crignely's January 19th 2006 posting, There's a Long History of Intercepting Foreign Communications, and Some of It May Have Been Legal.
Why is piracy the probable cause of CDs having already hitting their peak in sales? Why isn't it crappy music? Seriously. Why make the jump from CD sales are down to piracy before the jump from CD sales are down due to lack on interest in the talent?
Not many people know that until 1973 the school was located down south in Miami, but decided to move to more northerly latitude out of fear of the radio signals (EMF radiation) emmiting from the sun.
Let me ask you this? What if Apple did to the cell phone market what they did to the MP3 market? Seriously. Walk around a college campus and everyone has a cell phone to their ear, and each cell phone is different. What else do they all have (and I mean ALL)? iPods! They could kill the cell phone market and turn each one into a.Mac subscriber and possible Mac owner.
Over the course of a few years, my mom ordered so much Latin dance music from BMG that they started sending her the catalogs in Spanish as I guess they thought she spoke that language. She doesn't.
I don't buy it. 1) yeah there was water there at one point in history but it's not around much anyomre in liquid form. 2) Mars is tiny, less than 20% the size of the earth, while there was at one time tectonic activity which could have provided the necessary heat / pressure to do this, the planet is currently frozen solid and has been for some time. It just doesn't have the mass (like earth does...) to keep tectonic activity going on. 3) without a constant (and modern) method for creating this methane, it all would have blown away like the rest of the Martian atmosphere, the planet is cold, nothing geologic is going on there anymore.
Yeah, it COULD happen, but not today, not on a planet so small and so old.
Slashdot's audience is pretty much techies or admins.
Who gets called when some new IE bug pops up? Who get to try to clean out spyware installed by buggy closed source application? We do.
Why tell everyone we know to stay away from IE and MS products? It's easy. We're just trying to help them from having computer problems and in turn help ourselves from having to deal with those problems.
I've been using Dodgeball for a few months now here in Portland. You use it when you want friends to join you, not when you're out on a date or having a private evening. On more than one occasion I've found myself with evening plans (playing pool and drinking beers) only because someone broadcasted a message through Dodgeball. You can call all your friends (or hope your friend calls all of his friends including you...) or you can just send an SMS to everyone when you get somewhere. "Hey I'm here, if you aren't doing anything, come join me..." It really works.
The BSA, and the SPA before it, have to be the biggest idiots ever. If you like that though, you'll love this eBay auction I posted a few days ago for an old 1990's SPA poster showing a pair of hand cuffs and the text, "Copy software illegaly and you could get this hardware absolutely free." Hillarious. Idiots I tell you.
I got the letter on Friday from ATTWS, saying that they were sending me a new phone. They are supposedly providing return shipping for the old phone but the letter didn't say anything about HAVING to return the old phone to get the new phone. I'll be interested in reading the fine print when the new phone shows up but I'm not worried. I have no interest in downgrading from my T68i to this lesser phone, and I have no interest in returning either my old phone or the new one they are sending to me. More information can be found at: http://sonyericssont226upgrade.com/
Now, some background information on the return issue - I used to manage the returns department for a dotcom and thus I was supposed to know a bit about returns issues. I cannot name the specific regulation by name, but the FTC says that if a merchant sends you a product that you didn't order, it is your's for free. They can ask for you to pay for it, they can ask for you to return it, they can call you bad names for keeping it, but they cannot require you to return it nor can they require you to pay for it. Keep this in mind for this new phone and any future boxes that end up at your door step. Now, since we are all ATTWS subscribers and signed some contract when we got our service, they might actually be able to force us to return the new phones or pay for them, but I'm not sure.
Now here's the part about the whole deal that makes me worried. Why are they sending new phones for free to people? Why aren't they just letting us keep our outdated phones and stop selling them, and start selling the new phones? What is the benefit of sending me a new phone and asking for me to return my old phone? At first I thought they wanted to give me a new phone with more features so that I'd send more SSM messages, or download ringtones, or do something else that would generate more revenue for ATTWS, but I don't think that is the case, if it was I think they would have given out even cooler phones. Frankly I cannot use a phone without Bluetooth, I just cannot, if the new phone had all the features of my old phone and some bonuses it would be a different story but... ATTWS is doing something it doesn't have to. They are giving out free phones when they don't have to. It doesn't make any sense, they should just stop selling the old phones. I think there is more to the story unfortunately, and I think that the end effect is that sooner or later my old phone will no longer work with ATTWS.
Will someone please file a class action lawsuit. I'm already ready to sign up.
The same thing happened to me. I had a co-worker help me out so I don't know specifically what he did, but from what I could tell, he created a root account, logged in as root, then was able to copy the files to the folder, then logged back on as me. Worked perfectely. Good luck.
At the end of the article, he said: "I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial." Heaven forbid."
This isn't completely accurate. I hate to admit it but I watch college football and the 30 second skip feature allows for the exact amount of time to pass between a down and the begining of the next play. It's great for when I'm in a hurry and don't care to see the replays or if they got a first down.
While not the stupidest patent, it does seem ridiculous that someone would patent the computer virus/worm. However there are a few reasons someone might actually want to do this:
1) Virus writing isn't always against the law (or at least if you're the victim of a virus you might wish more harm on the author than the law will allow.) If someone had a patent on the computer virus however, the author could be sued for patent infringement.
2) Much like the lack of reporting your income due to illegal drug sales will get you into hot water with the IRS (simply to punish drug dealers more), this patent infringement could be used by the prosecutors to punish the authors.
3) You could probably go after Symantec and McAfee as well for making money off of someone's product (virus) that infringes on your patent.
Sloth503.
p.s. I'm looking for Buffalo Daughter CDs - check out my page for information on what I need:
"Without any use of logic, it just seems wrong that retarded children should not have the chance to live simply because they are severely disabled."
Many people would say that it seems wrong that some men like to have sex with other men, or that some white men marry black women (or likewise.) Just because it seems wrong (without using any logic) to you, does not in fact make it wrong. It just tells us about your social beliefs and how you were raised.
If anything just "seems" wrong, you have not thought about it enough.
"All that seems to be missing from Slashdot-type sites is some kind of reputation rating system, where participants are assigned a trust rating based on feedback from the group and managed by a central authority."
It's called the moderators applying a score to the message. Did the author even visit Slashdot?
"But as an advocacy community, Slashdot is upfront about its biases. Microsoft stories are identified with a graphic of Bill ates mocked up as a Borg from Star Trek Generations."
You'd think someone writing for Wired (tired) would know something about Star Trek.
Slashdot Mirror
I just successfully exported all 3,000 delicious bookmarks to my computer, then imported them into Firefox, and then imported them to Google Bookmarks through the Google Toolbar using these instructions:
http://techblawg.ca/2010/12/17/exporting-bookmarks-with-tags-from-delicious/
Worked great except that Google Bookmarks uses "Labels" instead of "Tags' so all my pre-existing Google Bookmarks have labels and all my imported bookmarks have the label "Tag:*" and all reside within the "Imported from Delicious" label...
Oh, and I lost all of the notes associated with my delicious bookmarks, none of those made the import although they did successfully make it out in the export... Lame.
If you're interested in this, I'd suggest reading Thomas Gold's, "The Deep Hot Biosphere." Good read.
"Union opposes saving taxpayer money, more news at 11."
They have a vested interest in keeping the jobs local; nothing wrong with that at all. I wouldn't want to loose my job either. This has nothing to do with quality of education or the kids, it's all about the money.
More background information on this whole "Pen Register" information can be found on. html Crignely's January 19th 2006 posting, There's a Long History of Intercepting Foreign Communications, and Some of It May Have Been Legal.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060119
Why is piracy the probable cause of CDs having already hitting their peak in sales? Why isn't it crappy music? Seriously. Why make the jump from CD sales are down to piracy before the jump from CD sales are down due to lack on interest in the talent?
Not many people know that until 1973 the school was located down south in Miami, but decided to move to more northerly latitude out of fear of the radio signals (EMF radiation) emmiting from the sun.
Let me ask you this? What if Apple did to the cell phone market what they did to the MP3 market? Seriously. Walk around a college campus and everyone has a cell phone to their ear, and each cell phone is different. What else do they all have (and I mean ALL)? iPods! They could kill the cell phone market and turn each one into a .Mac subscriber and possible Mac owner.
Over the course of a few years, my mom ordered so much Latin dance music from BMG that they started sending her the catalogs in Spanish as I guess they thought she spoke that language. She doesn't.
I don't buy it. 1) yeah there was water there at one point in history but it's not around much anyomre in liquid form. 2) Mars is tiny, less than 20% the size of the earth, while there was at one time tectonic activity which could have provided the necessary heat / pressure to do this, the planet is currently frozen solid and has been for some time. It just doesn't have the mass (like earth does...) to keep tectonic activity going on. 3) without a constant (and modern) method for creating this methane, it all would have blown away like the rest of the Martian atmosphere, the planet is cold, nothing geologic is going on there anymore.
Yeah, it COULD happen, but not today, not on a planet so small and so old.
Slashdot's audience is pretty much techies or admins.
Who gets called when some new IE bug pops up? Who get to try to clean out spyware installed by buggy closed source application? We do.
Why tell everyone we know to stay away from IE and MS products? It's easy. We're just trying to help them from having computer problems and in turn help ourselves from having to deal with those problems.
I've always enjoyed 2600's Off The Hook. They have a huge archive and you can even subscribe to their RSS feed for podcasting.
http://www.2600.com/offthehook/
This really rose the bar? I don't see how.
Regardless of everything else, there is one thing that might be pushing people away from their television and onto their computer.
Cable companies raising their rates at double the rate of inflation, and broadband access dropping in price to less than a mid-level cable package.
I've been using Dodgeball for a few months now here in Portland. You use it when you want friends to join you, not when you're out on a date or having a private evening. On more than one occasion I've found myself with evening plans (playing pool and drinking beers) only because someone broadcasted a message through Dodgeball. You can call all your friends (or hope your friend calls all of his friends including you...) or you can just send an SMS to everyone when you get somewhere. "Hey I'm here, if you aren't doing anything, come join me..." It really works.
pwb.
The BSA, and the SPA before it, have to be the biggest idiots ever. If you like that though, you'll love this eBay auction I posted a few days ago for an old 1990's SPA poster showing a pair of hand cuffs and the text, "Copy software illegaly and you could get this hardware absolutely free." Hillarious. Idiots I tell you.
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Anyway, photo of the poster at:
http://tofu.portland.or.us/ebay/copythatfloppy.jp
eBay auction if you're interested at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=
I got the letter on Friday from ATTWS, saying that they were sending me a new phone. They are supposedly providing return shipping for the old phone but the letter didn't say anything about HAVING to return the old phone to get the new phone. I'll be interested in reading the fine print when the new phone shows up but I'm not worried. I have no interest in downgrading from my T68i to this lesser phone, and I have no interest in returning either my old phone or the new one they are sending to me. More information can be found at: http://sonyericssont226upgrade.com/
Now, some background information on the return issue - I used to manage the returns department for a dotcom and thus I was supposed to know a bit about returns issues. I cannot name the specific regulation by name, but the FTC says that if a merchant sends you a product that you didn't order, it is your's for free. They can ask for you to pay for it, they can ask for you to return it, they can call you bad names for keeping it, but they cannot require you to return it nor can they require you to pay for it. Keep this in mind for this new phone and any future boxes that end up at your door step. Now, since we are all ATTWS subscribers and signed some contract when we got our service, they might actually be able to force us to return the new phones or pay for them, but I'm not sure.
Now here's the part about the whole deal that makes me worried. Why are they sending new phones for free to people? Why aren't they just letting us keep our outdated phones and stop selling them, and start selling the new phones? What is the benefit of sending me a new phone and asking for me to return my old phone? At first I thought they wanted to give me a new phone with more features so that I'd send more SSM messages, or download ringtones, or do something else that would generate more revenue for ATTWS, but I don't think that is the case, if it was I think they would have given out even cooler phones. Frankly I cannot use a phone without Bluetooth, I just cannot, if the new phone had all the features of my old phone and some bonuses it would be a different story but... ATTWS is doing something it doesn't have to. They are giving out free phones when they don't have to. It doesn't make any sense, they should just stop selling the old phones. I think there is more to the story unfortunately, and I think that the end effect is that sooner or later my old phone will no longer work with ATTWS.
Will someone please file a class action lawsuit. I'm already ready to sign up.
The same thing happened to me. I had a co-worker help me out so I don't know specifically what he did, but from what I could tell, he created a root account, logged in as root, then was able to copy the files to the folder, then logged back on as me. Worked perfectely. Good luck.
At the end of the article, he said:
"I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial." Heaven forbid."
This isn't completely accurate. I hate to admit it but I watch college football and the 30 second skip feature allows for the exact amount of time to pass between a down and the begining of the next play. It's great for when I'm in a hurry and don't care to see the replays or if they got a first down.
pwb.
1) Virus writing isn't always against the law (or at least if you're the victim of a virus you might wish more harm on the author than the law will allow.) If someone had a patent on the computer virus however, the author could be sued for patent infringement.
2) Much like the lack of reporting your income due to illegal drug sales will get you into hot water with the IRS (simply to punish drug dealers more), this patent infringement could be used by the prosecutors to punish the authors.
3) You could probably go after Symantec and McAfee as well for making money off of someone's product (virus) that infringes on your patent.
Sloth503.
p.s. I'm looking for Buffalo Daughter CDs - check out my page for information on what I need:
http://www.aracnet.com/~pbradley/
"Without any use of logic, it just seems wrong that retarded children should not have the chance to live simply because they are severely disabled."
Many people would say that it seems wrong that some men like to have sex with other men, or that some white men marry black women (or likewise.) Just because it seems wrong (without using any logic) to you, does not in fact make it wrong. It just tells us about your social beliefs and how you were raised.
If anything just "seems" wrong, you have not thought about it enough.
-Sloth503
Sign me up. I've been waiting for this to happen.
-Sloth503.
They updated the sentence about a half hour after the story appeared on the web. It used to read Star Trek: Generations.
-Sloth503
Try to get to the main Slashdot page. We've been Wired(ed). Funny feeling, eh?
-Sloth503
"All that seems to be missing from Slashdot-type sites is some kind of reputation rating system, where participants are assigned a trust rating based on feedback from the group and managed by a central authority."
It's called the moderators applying a score to the message. Did the author even visit Slashdot?
"But as an advocacy community, Slashdot is upfront about its biases. Microsoft stories are identified with a graphic of Bill ates mocked up as a Borg from Star Trek Generations."
You'd think someone writing for Wired (tired) would know something about Star Trek.
-Sloth503