I posted this on the Atlantic, but here it is for/."
What people are really failing to understand here is that Google's real name policy is utterly unenforceable, and thus, irrelevant. When I joined Google+ the other day, I used my real name, not because I had to, but because I wanted to. It would make my friends able to find me easier, and vice versa.
If I wanted to use a psuedonym, to use Google+, I could easily do so by not using one like "3L33TPoZtR" and instead use a REAL NAME psuedonym like John Smith. How would Google ever know John Smith is not me? Of course they never would.
People will just start using fake names that Google can't show are fake to become anonymous. Will they gain the benefits of using Google+ by doing so? Probably not so much, but the point is it's unenforceable. No one seems to talk about this.
Also, there's a very good reason for using Psuedonym...if you are a DJ, for example, people know you by your DJ name. Say, DJ Aphrodite or Kaskade. How ludicrous would it be for Google+ to require DJ Aphrodite to use his real name, when no one knows what that is? How can he invite his friends into his circle to listen to his music of he has to use a real name?
Yes, I don't understand how they were going to get an injunction against him. The only way they would know the content of his speech is if it was on the agenda. Why not just list him as a "Featured Speaker" with no topic. How can a judge grant an injunction in that case?
Oddly enough, this is what I did. I'm 40K in debt, with a History MA. I do web development for a living and I love it. I am very happy I got my degree, and while I am still in debt, it was, in my opinion, worth it.
Some of you may not know this, but CiviCRM is used extensively by non-profit organizations. Maybe some other non-profit organizations looking for a similar solution might be interested in this product, because it's free and works quite well. Maybe they might be interested in reading a review about this product.
But all I see here are people irritated that/. is letting people know about a for-profit book on a free service that many people might find useful. Pretty sad.
You are making your "reason" up out of whole cloth. If the killing of Bin Laden was not covert military action, then what was? That was as covert as it gets. The fact that the government has chosen to release *some* of the details about the covert military action does not mean it needs to release *all* of them. It gets to pick and choose. You may not like that, but if the government wants to classify his photo as part of a covert military action, it is legally entitled to do so. You are wrong.
Announcing his killing != bragging about it. I don't think one can reasonably say Obama bragged about his killing during the press conference. In fact, he has said regarding the photos that we "Don't need to spike the football" which is pretty anti-bragging to me.
The idea that the photos can be used by those who hate us to drum up support (i.e., LOOK what they did to Bin Laden!) for additional attacks on innocent people is not whimsical. A picture is worth a thousand words. You may not wish to believe it, but it is so.
Did you not get satisfaction at the videos of him watching TV? Watching the outtakes with the sound removed, knowing that he was dead? Why must you see the blood? BTW, there are pics online taken by the Pakistanis who came in afterwards of his couriers lying on the ground dead. Quite graphic. Not good enough for you?
It's pretty easy to say that these photos fall under 1.4(d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources.
Killing Bin Laden in a foreign country certainly counts as foreign activities. His photo is evidence of that, so it's pretty easy to classify it under this reason.
Two things
1) Flash video. The ability to see simple flash videos without needing to install other software.
2) Applications written in flash - This is one area where HTML5 just will never measure up to snuff. There's a ton of web apps out there written in AS2.0-3.0 that are amazing. If my PC can handle these with few or no bugs, then the iPad should as well.
I'll speak for myself, thanks.
I love my iPad. It is amazing in almost every respect. It's just this one area that really bugs me. All in all, I'd rather have the iPad than another tablet because it integrates so seamlessly into my iphone applications and iTunes and a whole host of other things. I am a ipad/ipod/iphone/itunes fanboy.
But this ONE thing really really bugs me.
I don't care if it is proprietary or not. I care if it is useful. Windows is proprietary, the Mac OS is proprietary; I am not a linux fan, so I am not going to stop using something just because a company may restrict others in how they use it.
The fact is that on most platform simple embedded Flash videos work fine. Something like 99% of desktops have flash installed. But Apple is unable/unwilling to allow me to see these videos on another platform. Therefore I am considering switching.
I am not of the school that says proprietary = bad. I want to see my Thai recipe videos on the iPad; Im sure the Thai recipe website owner feels the same way. The company standing in the way is Apple, not Adobe.
I am this close to switching from my ipad to another tablet with another operating system that allows Flash. It comes down to this simple fact:
There is a lot of content I am unable to see on the web because Steve Jobs wants site developers to switch to another standard and build websites that do not use flash. But...a lot of content I want to see is already in Flash.
For example, there is a great Thai recipe site that has a lot of videos of people in Thailand making food using traditional Thai recipes. These videos were all simply imported into Flash and then spat out with a player skin and uploaded. Hundreds of them. They are great. So use my ipad/iphone to go to the site. But I can't view the videos because I am using a machine that does not allow flash.
It's this simple. Should the owner of the Thai recipes site re-encode his hundreds of videos so that people using an ipad can play them? The maker of the device should include software that allows me to view this content, easily, as part of the browsing experience, if I want to see it. Usability 101. Millions of website ownsers should not have to change their websites to fit Steve Job's inability to add a flash player that plays flash video content when I want it. If android can do it, so can the iOS - based devices.
Please do so. Pray to your God when someone close to you is sick. In your interpretation of things, any answer is an answer from God. If the person is healed, it was a miracle. If the person is not healed, the answer from God was "No. I will not heal this person." This is clearly not testable, as you assume from the beginning that any answer in the situation is a sign from God.
However, if I do experiment to see what will happen if I cover a plate of iron with salt water, I make no assumptions (in the experiment) about what will happen. I hypothesize that oxidation will occur, resulting in rust. I can test my theories about chemical interactions involving iron, salt, and water and reproduce result.
Young kids in Boy Scouts often learn to make basic flint axes on camping trips. We did it a few times when I was growing up. Learning to sharpen stones, tie a good piece of sharpened flint to a stick... just to see if it could be done easily.
Im very curious how they know this...how can they determine this is not simply a sunspot if it is that close? It's my understanding all the Kepler measurements are validated on the ground with telescopes checking doppler shifts for the wobble method...for something this close and this small, wouldn't that be a problem?
I am hoping that when they finally puncture the final layer and break into the area with all that oxygen, the first thing that will happen the be the most epic balloon-neck pulling sound EVER. The most wacky, high-pitched WHEEEEEE noise you have ever heard, just like when you release all the air from a balloon slowly by releasing and pinching the neck.
And they can push the drill up and down rapidly to make it sound even wackier.
Just hoping.
I disagree. I have been able to teach people who have no idea what "back-end" means how to log into a cms, make changes, install templates, and edit pages very quickly.
The one problem I have found is teaching people the difference between category and section in naming structures for categorizing articles. But that has pretty much been it.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't run seamlessley on most shared servers. Serious permissions issues.
I posted this on the Atlantic, but here it is for /."
What people are really failing to understand here is that Google's real name policy is utterly unenforceable, and thus, irrelevant. When I joined Google+ the other day, I used my real name, not because I had to, but because I wanted to. It would make my friends able to find me easier, and vice versa.
If I wanted to use a psuedonym, to use Google+, I could easily do so by not using one like "3L33TPoZtR" and instead use a REAL NAME psuedonym like John Smith. How would Google ever know John Smith is not me? Of course they never would.
People will just start using fake names that Google can't show are fake to become anonymous. Will they gain the benefits of using Google+ by doing so? Probably not so much, but the point is it's unenforceable. No one seems to talk about this.
Also, there's a very good reason for using Psuedonym...if you are a DJ, for example, people know you by your DJ name. Say, DJ Aphrodite or Kaskade. How ludicrous would it be for Google+ to require DJ Aphrodite to use his real name, when no one knows what that is? How can he invite his friends into his circle to listen to his music of he has to use a real name?
Zing! He'll be appearing here till Sunday, folks; be sure to try the steak!
Yes, I don't understand how they were going to get an injunction against him. The only way they would know the content of his speech is if it was on the agenda. Why not just list him as a "Featured Speaker" with no topic. How can a judge grant an injunction in that case?
Oddly enough, this is what I did. I'm 40K in debt, with a History MA. I do web development for a living and I love it. I am very happy I got my degree, and while I am still in debt, it was, in my opinion, worth it.
You should check again; they are amazing. I've built tons of sites with Joomla.
Some of you may not know this, but CiviCRM is used extensively by non-profit organizations. Maybe some other non-profit organizations looking for a similar solution might be interested in this product, because it's free and works quite well. Maybe they might be interested in reading a review about this product. But all I see here are people irritated that /. is letting people know about a for-profit book on a free service that many people might find useful. Pretty sad.
You are making your "reason" up out of whole cloth. If the killing of Bin Laden was not covert military action, then what was? That was as covert as it gets. The fact that the government has chosen to release *some* of the details about the covert military action does not mean it needs to release *all* of them. It gets to pick and choose. You may not like that, but if the government wants to classify his photo as part of a covert military action, it is legally entitled to do so. You are wrong.
Announcing his killing != bragging about it. I don't think one can reasonably say Obama bragged about his killing during the press conference. In fact, he has said regarding the photos that we "Don't need to spike the football" which is pretty anti-bragging to me.
The idea that the photos can be used by those who hate us to drum up support (i.e., LOOK what they did to Bin Laden!) for additional attacks on innocent people is not whimsical. A picture is worth a thousand words. You may not wish to believe it, but it is so.
Did you not get satisfaction at the videos of him watching TV? Watching the outtakes with the sound removed, knowing that he was dead? Why must you see the blood? BTW, there are pics online taken by the Pakistanis who came in afterwards of his couriers lying on the ground dead. Quite graphic. Not good enough for you?
It's pretty easy to say that these photos fall under 1.4(d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources. Killing Bin Laden in a foreign country certainly counts as foreign activities. His photo is evidence of that, so it's pretty easy to classify it under this reason.
Two things 1) Flash video. The ability to see simple flash videos without needing to install other software. 2) Applications written in flash - This is one area where HTML5 just will never measure up to snuff. There's a ton of web apps out there written in AS2.0-3.0 that are amazing. If my PC can handle these with few or no bugs, then the iPad should as well.
I'll speak for myself, thanks. I love my iPad. It is amazing in almost every respect. It's just this one area that really bugs me. All in all, I'd rather have the iPad than another tablet because it integrates so seamlessly into my iphone applications and iTunes and a whole host of other things. I am a ipad/ipod/iphone/itunes fanboy. But this ONE thing really really bugs me.
I don't care if it is proprietary or not. I care if it is useful. Windows is proprietary, the Mac OS is proprietary; I am not a linux fan, so I am not going to stop using something just because a company may restrict others in how they use it. The fact is that on most platform simple embedded Flash videos work fine. Something like 99% of desktops have flash installed. But Apple is unable/unwilling to allow me to see these videos on another platform. Therefore I am considering switching. I am not of the school that says proprietary = bad. I want to see my Thai recipe videos on the iPad; Im sure the Thai recipe website owner feels the same way. The company standing in the way is Apple, not Adobe.
I am this close to switching from my ipad to another tablet with another operating system that allows Flash. It comes down to this simple fact: There is a lot of content I am unable to see on the web because Steve Jobs wants site developers to switch to another standard and build websites that do not use flash. But...a lot of content I want to see is already in Flash. For example, there is a great Thai recipe site that has a lot of videos of people in Thailand making food using traditional Thai recipes. These videos were all simply imported into Flash and then spat out with a player skin and uploaded. Hundreds of them. They are great. So use my ipad/iphone to go to the site. But I can't view the videos because I am using a machine that does not allow flash. It's this simple. Should the owner of the Thai recipes site re-encode his hundreds of videos so that people using an ipad can play them? The maker of the device should include software that allows me to view this content, easily, as part of the browsing experience, if I want to see it. Usability 101. Millions of website ownsers should not have to change their websites to fit Steve Job's inability to add a flash player that plays flash video content when I want it. If android can do it, so can the iOS - based devices.
Please do so. Pray to your God when someone close to you is sick. In your interpretation of things, any answer is an answer from God. If the person is healed, it was a miracle. If the person is not healed, the answer from God was "No. I will not heal this person." This is clearly not testable, as you assume from the beginning that any answer in the situation is a sign from God. However, if I do experiment to see what will happen if I cover a plate of iron with salt water, I make no assumptions (in the experiment) about what will happen. I hypothesize that oxidation will occur, resulting in rust. I can test my theories about chemical interactions involving iron, salt, and water and reproduce result.
The Salsa and the ChaCha? What about the Bachata, the Merengue, the Cumbia, the Tejano, and the Norteno? I want a phone named after one of those!
Young kids in Boy Scouts often learn to make basic flint axes on camping trips. We did it a few times when I was growing up. Learning to sharpen stones, tie a good piece of sharpened flint to a stick... just to see if it could be done easily.
Im very curious how they know this...how can they determine this is not simply a sunspot if it is that close? It's my understanding all the Kepler measurements are validated on the ground with telescopes checking doppler shifts for the wobble method...for something this close and this small, wouldn't that be a problem?
I am hoping that when they finally puncture the final layer and break into the area with all that oxygen, the first thing that will happen the be the most epic balloon-neck pulling sound EVER. The most wacky, high-pitched WHEEEEEE noise you have ever heard, just like when you release all the air from a balloon slowly by releasing and pinching the neck. And they can push the drill up and down rapidly to make it sound even wackier. Just hoping.
1)Do. 2) Profit.
I disagree. I have been able to teach people who have no idea what "back-end" means how to log into a cms, make changes, install templates, and edit pages very quickly. The one problem I have found is teaching people the difference between category and section in naming structures for categorizing articles. But that has pretty much been it.
1) Do. 2) Profit.
There's plenty of security modules available that can make your site as secure as you need it.