thx for the heads up - it should be fine now. This is the setup I run on my blog (http://jeffreifman.com/detailed-wordpress-guide-for-aws/) but I've noticed that sometimes when I get slashdotted in the initial minutes Varnish/Apache can't keep up. After I restart them it's fine under load:(
Section 7 – Exploration of the City of Seattle as a Direct Broadband Provider - If broadband internet access service providers providing service to residents of the City of Seattle violate this ordinance in ways which evidence a pattern and practice on behalf of those providers to interfere with the rights secured by this ordinance, the City Council of the City of Seattle shall explore the potential for the City of Seattle to become a direct broadband internet access service provider to the residents of the City of Seattle.
You make it sounds like democracy is a can of worms:) Ha, it is. Besides, there already is a patchwork of sometimes conflicting statutes across our country.
From the blog post... This work is about giving up hope that Congress is going to do the right thing, or State legislatures are going to do the right thing; and beginning to craft a structure of "rights" at the municipal level that challenges the hegemony exercised by those other levels of government; and then using the combined force of that municipal strength to push upwards against those higher levels of government to get the change that we want and need.
This organizing is about turning away from traditional activism (which is mired in letter writing campaigns and lowest common denominator federal and state legislation) and dipping our hands into a new activism in which the grassroots forces themselves begin to craft and model rights-based laws which then stitch together to change state constitutions, and eventually, to change the framework of the federal constitution itself. It's a realization that the only way substantive change is going to happen - especially that change that runs counter to the interests of a relatively small handful of corporations - is a revolt from the bottom, from the municipal level.
It's promising and hopeful work involving people who have given up on higher levels of government doing what's needed; who are refocusing themselves on change that matters at the local level.
A lot of people bring this up... e.g. Seattle could re-legalize slavery or re-segregate. Thomas Linzey again: "On the issue of segregation, our ordinances actually expand rights-frameworks; so example, some of the ordinances adopted in rural communities borrow from UN materials to expand rights for communities and people; while reasserting and validating federal and state bill of rights protections. So, it isn't about a 'race to the bottom', but a 'race to the top' - a new civil rights movement which expands and accelerates rights protections which then come into fundamental conflict with rights claimed by corporations and higher units of government."
Just want to clarify things for a few of the commenters:
Although offensive, it's completely legal for Microsoft to sue in Washington courts on its Nevada-based contracts. However, it's record of doing so further erodes its tax argument that it isn't in the software licensing business in Washington.
The article, if you take the time to read it, explains why Microsoft's tax practices may constitute illegal tax evasion. It's really up to the Department of Revenue to explain why it's as yet chosen not to contest Microsoft's returns - and they are preparing to respond again soon.
This fall, I released free source code for people to use a PHP Class to generate SiteMaps for Google - and it seems like the standards group adapted Google's format. The code is perfect for dynamic database driven sites that can't readily use perl-scripts that sometimes perform this task.
http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/google_sitemap_.html
The fate of human existence may hang in the balance. There is like 1 scientist for every 100 who thinks global warming isn't happening...and that scientist is well paid by the oil lobbies.
There was another bigger purge last night: 78% of Daily Show Clips Missing from YouTube
I wrote a script to analyze this... Of 897 Daily Show videos on YouTube sampled, 699 were missing or broken. That's nearly 78% of Daily Show videos now taken down for alleged copyright infringement without any regard for fair use from what I can tell.
More commentary on the week's events here: Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week
I think he's got it backwards
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Ballmer Sounds Off
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If Steve's so sure, isn't Google essentially transferring its wealth to rights holders - or can no one find a good attorney?
Or perhaps Steve needs to read the DMCA. I don't see Comedy Central complaining about South Park and Daily Show clips flying around on YouTube.
Perhaps Steve is just upset that investing hundreds of millions in proprietary video playback technology only got him tossed into court at the E.U. rather than actually building a successful social video Web site that customers actually like - and that spreads virally.
One cancer patient says Gag Me With a Pink Ribbon
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Jeanne Sather, a breast cancer survivor, at Assertive Cancer Patient says "Gag me with a pink ribbon: Where pink marketing really runs wild is in the for-profit sector. Retailers offer pink-themed merchandise, then donate only a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. I'm tripping over these products everywhere I go this month. At the pet store, a pink dog collar printed with pink ribbons sells for $9.99; the tag says 30 cents (30 cents!) from the sale of this product will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the 800-pound gorilla of cause marketing." and more.
Has anyone checked it out? It's PDFish.
btw I like CommonTimes too - it's digg applied to the general news problem - and it's helpful when you can see what other people are reading...especially when the NY Times holds on to major Bush-spying stories for 12 months.
De-orbiting the Hubble is part of the religious right's attack on science. Learning where we came from is not in their interest.
News about science and knowledge is not in the best interest of furthering their agenda.
I am not affiliated with Redwood at all. I just thought this information would be helpful - I spent time editing and improving what I was given.
I think people here are smart enough to find their own host or run it on their own box.
Dude, I'm not affiliated at all with Redwood Virtual - I just thought this would help people.
It's not hard to find another place to host your stuff - or just run it locally at your house.
Slashdot Mirror
thx for the heads up - it should be fine now. This is the setup I run on my blog (http://jeffreifman.com/detailed-wordpress-guide-for-aws/) but I've noticed that sometimes when I get slashdotted in the initial minutes Varnish/Apache can't keep up. After I restart them it's fine under load :(
Section 7 – Exploration of the City of Seattle as a Direct Broadband Provider - If broadband internet access service providers providing service to residents of the City of Seattle violate this ordinance in ways which evidence a pattern and practice on behalf of those providers to interfere with the rights secured by this ordinance, the City Council of the City of Seattle shall explore the potential for the City of Seattle to become a direct broadband internet access service provider to the residents of the City of Seattle.
You make it sounds like democracy is a can of worms :) Ha, it is. Besides, there already is a patchwork of sometimes conflicting statutes across our country.
From the blog post ... This work is about giving up hope that Congress is going to do the right thing, or State legislatures are going to do the right thing; and beginning to craft a structure of "rights" at the municipal level that challenges the hegemony exercised by those other levels of government; and then using the combined force of that municipal strength to push upwards against those higher levels of government to get the change that we want and need.
This organizing is about turning away from traditional activism (which is mired in letter writing campaigns and lowest common denominator federal and state legislation) and dipping our hands into a new activism in which the grassroots forces themselves begin to craft and model rights-based laws which then stitch together to change state constitutions, and eventually, to change the framework of the federal constitution itself. It's a realization that the only way substantive change is going to happen - especially that change that runs counter to the interests of a relatively small handful of corporations - is a revolt from the bottom, from the municipal level.
It's promising and hopeful work involving people who have given up on higher levels of government doing what's needed; who are refocusing themselves on change that matters at the local level.
Um, so best just to give in?
A lot of people bring this up ... e.g. Seattle could re-legalize slavery or re-segregate. Thomas Linzey again: "On the issue of segregation, our ordinances actually expand rights-frameworks; so example, some of the ordinances adopted in rural communities borrow from UN materials to expand rights for communities and people; while reasserting and validating federal and state bill of rights protections. So, it isn't about a 'race to the bottom', but a 'race to the top' - a new civil rights movement which expands and accelerates rights protections which then come into fundamental conflict with rights claimed by corporations and higher units of government."
Just want to clarify things for a few of the commenters: Although offensive, it's completely legal for Microsoft to sue in Washington courts on its Nevada-based contracts. However, it's record of doing so further erodes its tax argument that it isn't in the software licensing business in Washington. The article, if you take the time to read it, explains why Microsoft's tax practices may constitute illegal tax evasion. It's really up to the Department of Revenue to explain why it's as yet chosen not to contest Microsoft's returns - and they are preparing to respond again soon.
iFilm doesn't have RSS feeds for Daily Show episodes or Colbert Report. I've put together these two feeds using Dapper and Feedburner: Daily Show Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyShowiFilm) Colbert Report Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ColbertReportiFilm) Link to blog entry on this
GooHoo?
This fall, I released free source code for people to use a PHP Class to generate SiteMaps for Google - and it seems like the standards group adapted Google's format. The code is perfect for dynamic database driven sites that can't readily use perl-scripts that sometimes perform this task. http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/google_sitemap_.html
The fate of human existence may hang in the balance. There is like 1 scientist for every 100 who thinks global warming isn't happening...and that scientist is well paid by the oil lobbies.
There was another bigger purge last night: 78% of Daily Show Clips Missing from YouTube I wrote a script to analyze this ... Of 897 Daily Show videos on YouTube sampled, 699 were missing or broken. That's nearly 78% of Daily Show videos now taken down for alleged copyright infringement without any regard for fair use from what I can tell.
More commentary on the week's events here: Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week
If Steve's so sure, isn't Google essentially transferring its wealth to rights holders - or can no one find a good attorney? Or perhaps Steve needs to read the DMCA. I don't see Comedy Central complaining about South Park and Daily Show clips flying around on YouTube. Perhaps Steve is just upset that investing hundreds of millions in proprietary video playback technology only got him tossed into court at the E.U. rather than actually building a successful social video Web site that customers actually like - and that spreads virally.
Jeanne Sather, a breast cancer survivor, at Assertive Cancer Patient says "Gag me with a pink ribbon: Where pink marketing really runs wild is in the for-profit sector. Retailers offer pink-themed merchandise, then donate only a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. I'm tripping over these products everywhere I go this month. At the pet store, a pink dog collar printed with pink ribbons sells for $9.99; the tag says 30 cents (30 cents!) from the sale of this product will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the 800-pound gorilla of cause marketing." and more.
And Microsoft apparently jumped right on it ... not.
Has anyone checked it out? It's PDFish. btw I like CommonTimes too - it's digg applied to the general news problem - and it's helpful when you can see what other people are reading...especially when the NY Times holds on to major Bush-spying stories for 12 months.
I'm involved with CommonTimes. It's a social network site for general news - and we hope taking online news in a different direction.
Social newsmarking is the next big thing.
This slashdot post showed some sites using BitTorrent legally e.g. CommonBits, LegalTorrents et al.
The scrabble at the UK site PixiePit is fantastic and is actually hosted in a European country out of the reach of Hasbro's lawyers.
De-orbiting the Hubble is part of the religious right's attack on science. Learning where we came from is not in their interest. News about science and knowledge is not in the best interest of furthering their agenda.
I am not affiliated with Redwood at all. I just thought this information would be helpful - I spent time editing and improving what I was given. I think people here are smart enough to find their own host or run it on their own box.
Dude, I'm not affiliated at all with Redwood Virtual - I just thought this would help people. It's not hard to find another place to host your stuff - or just run it locally at your house.