The Darwin awards after these people.
I just finished working on a small investigation of some county employees in a North East state who were doing some funky business, and man, they said just the most damning things in regular email! Things like, "The systems has flaws, and we circumvent it all the time."
No joke. They do get what they deserve. Using a black-berry?! Jesus!
The fact that the website published the information is simple freedom of speech. If they commited Libel or Slander, something that has damaged the Apple brand then that is a different story (and a bitch to prove BTW for a company that can easily get its CEO on the cover of Time Mag).
I find that there is debate at all on this truely astounding and unbelievably frustrating. The violator is the person who passed the information. Not the press! Apple has to prove that some person violated some DNA or whatever. You don't just get to shut of the press if you don't like the information being printed. I mean, unless you are Dick Cheney, then you can do whatever the F*&%ck you please.
That's two for two today.
First M$oft
Second EU Patents
Whats next?
Bush wasn't elected in Ohio and decieds to step down? The American Automotive industry embraces higher emissions standards? Natally Portman releases her own version of One Night in Paris?!
What's it going to be?
I'm so excited.
However there are some good legitimate reasons that copying should be permitted - like making backups. Now if the MPAA and RIAA wanted to address that by saying, "if your CD has gone bad, just mail it in and we will ship you a new one for a buck (covers the dupe and mailing costs)." Then the arguments against copying would be toast. Of course just like eveyone here the MPAA and RIAA wants their cake and to eat it too.
To me as usual the real big problem is the copyright periods (DAMN YOU DISNEY!). Its rediculous and stifles creativity and freedom of expression. Disney made a bundle ripping off other stories. But whats good for the goose...
so, the above post is spot on technically, but we are also dealing with people who do not act in good faith. They are crooks too. In which case - the gloves are off?? tough call.
the.mobi name is rediculous and completely useless, and will just end up costing businesses more money who want to control their brand names and now have to register more domain names to do so.
so you are saying that T-Mobil is going to feel the pinch because they might want to register their name across two more domains for the wopping price of $4 a year?
ok, thats just an aside, but here is what I am really thinking is interesting. The problem with.com is that people only remember.com because.com is the most important. The solution really is to kill.com. To dilute its value. Instead of publishing two more addresses, ICANN shoudl just open the whole thing up. If I want to register bigfreaky.titties or stever.jobs or atomic.Bridsong then people will start to focus on the remembering the unique name -- the net effect will be escentially taking the.* off the domain name. and we are back to unique phrases.
ICANN could promote this by selling redistration for like 50 cents a year. It should be cheap for any person to get a domain name. Like no cost.
And yep, that means if Coke still wants to control the whole world they might have to register: coke.soda cocacola.co coca.cola or drink.coke or whatever else those Harvad MBA's can think of. But thats their problem. And so is marketing their domain address. Because this also means that 3rd world socialist soda haters will be able to register dontdrink.coke or whatever. It would open the whole name game up. And domains with good content will rise to the surface as always. Which is more fair and more creative. And come to think of it, it would eliminate the whole squating issue for the most part too.
Or with all that space available now, can we please have the firewire port back ON the player, so I don't have to carry two objects.
The greatest scam of portability has been puting powersupplies and ports on a second device...That You Still Have to Carry!! I really miss the firefire port on the org device. At least then you could get some dual use out of it, being able to transport files as well as songs.
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Why is everything horizontal in the 2D interface world? The 3D thing seems stupid to me too, but what it shows is that there might be some utility to putting things on an angle. Just off the cuff for example, it seems like it would be useful to have folder and file names on an angle. Horizontal Only is really inefficient. More things could fit in smaller areas virtically or on steep verticle angles. Also for image browsing. I can understand what photo I am looking at even if I am looking at it from the side at 10degrees. It doesn't have to be real 3D - just a compressed horizontal image. Then I could look at 20 images at once without them being rediculous small thumbnails. (and natalie portman would look even thinner!)
CSS has a huge layout problem in this regard. It is a constant source of frustration to me as a designer that there is no rotate property to CSS. No virticle text on the web unless I make a gif or png. Rediculous.
Finish 2D first.
Oh, and while I am filling out my christmas wish list, I would like more transperancy options too please.
You know, some may not like the idea, but I don't see how this is a flaimbate. It may be controversial information, but it is still informative! The flaimbait rating is just wrong - unless its about censoring. Flaimbate would be like - "F*ck all you cell phone users"
--- As an aside, thats an interesting little tool - Would be super handy on the Acela too where phone conversations have just gotten out of control. Thank god for the quiet car. Perhaps they will have quite sections on the plane?!...and Monkeys might fly out of my arse.
So says a friend of mine up a Columbia who is working on a doctorate in Physics. He also works on their Fusion project. They just HAND BUILT! a plasma containment device. They had a couple of custom magnetic rings made and put together -- thing. INAP, but it looks cool, and they get some sort of plasma going and they are able to do test of some importance. I think there is a big conference coming up at which they will make a hoop-de-do about it.
The big work is in France of course. My friend says the real problem is funding. Because all the michines for research are one offs and super expensive. Of course we laugh at this all a bit too becuase up in the lab where this plasma machine is there is a poster that is like 40 years old that proclaims Fusion will provide enless amount of energy and it has a big How-It-Works illustration that is pretty close to this...
Step 1. Harness Power of the Sun
Picture of glowling fireball with swirly blue and red lines running about it.
Here are their results on Tiananmen Square -- at least like the tenth link down has something relavent. Needless to say the google results are quite different.
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Paying for their crappy or not so crappy art projects seems to me is their problem. Not the government's or mine. Maybe they would like to give the air time back to the people. If Fox needs programming I have some ideas.
I wish I could get some federal legislation that would require people to give me money for my crappy paintings.
Maybe so many people wont just sit around watching crappy tv just because its free.
Do these people look like communists (whatever evil that is supposed to insinuate, since communists are apparently still should not be allowed to speak in the US according to you.)?
Isn't this just a low budget version of the Macromedia site?
I miss the old color scheme. Yeah it looked kind of pissy/crappy but at least Mozilla owned pissy/crappy. And square too.
While I am adding my utterly worthless 2 cents (since thats what this submission is mostly about), I also would like a bigger draggon (god/mozilla, whatever...). I think a lot of people get excited about Mozilla because of the draggon...seriously. Now its all just cool bubbled internet blue. Why didn't they add a Swoosh too?
I would like to also give my cheers to the parent and relate another feel good story involving tough love.
I have a friend who always likes to ask me for help with technical issues. And this person uses a Mac by the way. One of those favors involved setting up a backup system. On my advice they bought a hugh gazigagillion firewire drive, and I configured everything on the computer so that all their data saved to the home folder. All this person had to do was copy the home folder to the backup drive. Note, no backup software was purchased because it cost *too much*.
But you know what - it still got screwed up..how? I have no idea. And you know why? This person surely called for support. But then got angry when I told them they would have to wait a few days till I had some down time to look into their problem. Then, this is the best part...I insisted we do the troubleshooting via email (oh yeah - the person lives an hour and half away, so this wasn't going to happen in person anyway.) And although I gave very simple instructions in the email (the nice thing about email is that you can edit and give simple instructions), this person got impatient and started arguing why we couldn't do this over the phone. I explained that I was happy to help out, and that I thought we could recover their lost data, but I just can't do it on the phone because it takes too much time.
I haven't heard from them in a week, and you know what, they probably had to dish out a butt-load to Apple or Intuit(missing Quickbooks Data! - Yikes), or they completely bailed, and decided it would be more fun to re-enter all their business data from the past nine months! EAK! JUST BECAUSE THEY COUNLDN"T HANDLE READING EMAIL...and probably because I wouldn't sit on the phone and let them Kavetch. (which is what I think half of friend/family *tech support* calls really are.)
Ultimately I was not suprised in the least. I've had it with the impatience and incompetance and the whining. Here is my last $.02 on this: Be happy to help out, which I was, but don't be afraid to let them hang themselves either. After all, its just their computer...none of their problems are life threatening. And they'll learn to respect/ value the device too!//
You know what - I have 2 more cents too! My girl friend is a former Micrsoft Sales Executive (and she's HOT!). She was always a big supporter of the MS machine, and was involved in promoting.NET - a few weeks ago her computer got infected with Adware stuff..nasty...I recommended she install Mozilla - she did and she does not plan to go back...she is not a disgruntled former MS worker...she just realized Moz works better and has far far far fewer risks. She gets it. Very simple. So there are the bad ones and the good ones.
Slashdot Mirror
hmmm...tried the "check for updates" in iTunes 4.9 and it kicked back that 4.9 is the current version. Did I miss something?
The Darwin awards after these people. I just finished working on a small investigation of some county employees in a North East state who were doing some funky business, and man, they said just the most damning things in regular email! Things like, "The systems has flaws, and we circumvent it all the time." No joke. They do get what they deserve. Using a black-berry?! Jesus!
Yes!
The fact that the website published the information is simple freedom of speech. If they commited Libel or Slander, something that has damaged the Apple brand then that is a different story (and a bitch to prove BTW for a company that can easily get its CEO on the cover of Time Mag).
I find that there is debate at all on this truely astounding and unbelievably frustrating. The violator is the person who passed the information. Not the press! Apple has to prove that some person violated some DNA or whatever. You don't just get to shut of the press if you don't like the information being printed. I mean, unless you are Dick Cheney, then you can do whatever the F*&%ck you please.
That's two for two today. First M$oft Second EU Patents Whats next? Bush wasn't elected in Ohio and decieds to step down? The American Automotive industry embraces higher emissions standards? Natally Portman releases her own version of One Night in Paris?! What's it going to be? I'm so excited.
Good post. Totally spot on on IP rights.
However there are some good legitimate reasons that copying should be permitted - like making backups. Now if the MPAA and RIAA wanted to address that by saying, "if your CD has gone bad, just mail it in and we will ship you a new one for a buck (covers the dupe and mailing costs)." Then the arguments against copying would be toast. Of course just like eveyone here the MPAA and RIAA wants their cake and to eat it too.
To me as usual the real big problem is the copyright periods (DAMN YOU DISNEY!). Its rediculous and stifles creativity and freedom of expression. Disney made a bundle ripping off other stories. But whats good for the goose...
so, the above post is spot on technically, but we are also dealing with people who do not act in good faith. They are crooks too. In which case - the gloves are off?? tough call.
I'm so used to bad news. Especially in America. ;)
Lets see how that opening of the code part of the order goes.
so you are saying that T-Mobil is going to feel the pinch because they might want to register their name across two more domains for the wopping price of $4 a year?
ok, thats just an aside, but here is what I am really thinking is interesting. The problem with .com is that people only remember .com because .com is the most important. The solution really is to kill .com. To dilute its value. Instead of publishing two more addresses, ICANN shoudl just open the whole thing up. If I want to register bigfreaky.titties or stever.jobs or atomic.Bridsong then people will start to focus on the remembering the unique name -- the net effect will be escentially taking the .* off the domain name. and we are back to unique phrases.
ICANN could promote this by selling redistration for like 50 cents a year. It should be cheap for any person to get a domain name. Like no cost.
And yep, that means if Coke still wants to control the whole world they might have to register: coke.soda cocacola.co coca.cola or drink.coke or whatever else those Harvad MBA's can think of. But thats their problem. And so is marketing their domain address. Because this also means that 3rd world socialist soda haters will be able to register dontdrink.coke or whatever. It would open the whole name game up. And domains with good content will rise to the surface as always. Which is more fair and more creative. And come to think of it, it would eliminate the whole squating issue for the most part too.
election results.
Or with all that space available now, can we please have the firewire port back ON the player, so I don't have to carry two objects.
The greatest scam of portability has been puting powersupplies and ports on a second device...That You Still Have to Carry!!
I really miss the firefire port on the org device. At least then you could get some dual use out of it, being able to transport files as well as songs.
Why is everything horizontal in the 2D interface world? The 3D thing seems stupid to me too, but what it shows is that there might be some utility to putting things on an angle. Just off the cuff for example, it seems like it would be useful to have folder and file names on an angle. Horizontal Only is really inefficient. More things could fit in smaller areas virtically or on steep verticle angles. Also for image browsing. I can understand what photo I am looking at even if I am looking at it from the side at 10degrees. It doesn't have to be real 3D - just a compressed horizontal image. Then I could look at 20 images at once without them being rediculous small thumbnails. (and natalie portman would look even thinner!)
CSS has a huge layout problem in this regard. It is a constant source of frustration to me as a designer that there is no rotate property to CSS. No virticle text on the web unless I make a gif or png. Rediculous.
Finish 2D first.
Oh, and while I am filling out my christmas wish list, I would like more transperancy options too please.
You know, some may not like the idea, but I don't see how this is a flaimbate. It may be controversial information, but it is still informative! The flaimbait rating is just wrong - unless its about censoring. Flaimbate would be like - "F*ck all you cell phone users"
---
As an aside, thats an interesting little tool - Would be super handy on the Acela too where phone conversations have just gotten out of control. Thank god for the quiet car. Perhaps they will have quite sections on the plane?!...and Monkeys might fly out of my arse.
So says a friend of mine up a Columbia who is working on a doctorate in Physics. He also works on their Fusion project. They just HAND BUILT! a plasma containment device. They had a couple of custom magnetic rings made and put together -- thing. INAP, but it looks cool, and they get some sort of plasma going and they are able to do test of some importance. I think there is a big conference coming up at which they will make a hoop-de-do about it.
The big work is in France of course. My friend says the real problem is funding. Because all the michines for research are one offs and super expensive. Of course we laugh at this all a bit too becuase up in the lab where this plasma machine is there is a poster that is like 40 years old that proclaims Fusion will provide enless amount of energy and it has a big How-It-Works illustration that is pretty close to this...
Step 1. Harness Power of the Sun
Picture of glowling fireball with swirly blue and red lines running about it.
Step 3. Endless Engergy
FUSION!
Here are their results on Tiananmen Square -- at least like the tenth link down has something relavent. Needless to say the google results are quite different.
... After an extended hiatus, I'm working on the site again - I've started uploading Beijing photos, so far just ... Tiananmen Square, will add Forbidden City stuff later. Gaaah, there's still so much to do though - I haven't even started writing up my ...
... Tian'anmen ... Square ... Hotels located near Tian'anmen ... Square and the Railway Station. ...
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... Beijing Attractions Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, ... Tiananmen Square, Hutongs, Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven ...
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... Tour Beijing Super-Valued Coach Tour Package Beijing Badaling Great Wall Half Day Tour Beijing Summer Palace & Panda Zoo Half Day Tour Beijing ... Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City Half Day Beijing Half or One Day Hutong Tour(Rickshaw) Beijing Two Walking Tours: Traditional & Modern Beijing-Qufu-Taishan Mountain 3-Night ...
... ... To ... Tiananmen Square / Forbidden City (centre of Beijing) ... Just next to the subway which is coveniently connected to the Tian'anmen ... Square, the Forbidden City and other major sites. As are the important government agencies ...
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there should be one last prompt asking if you want to login before the posted message goes through.
Paying for their crappy or not so crappy art projects seems to me is their problem. Not the government's or mine. Maybe they would like to give the air time back to the people. If Fox needs programming I have some ideas.
I wish I could get some federal legislation that would require people to give me money for my crappy paintings.
Maybe so many people wont just sit around watching crappy tv just because its free.
I just installed Fox.1 and it disabled my AdBlock. In the extensions panel it says its not compatible.
I have AdBlock 0.5.2+ on Mac
Anyone else seen this? The update feature does not find a new version. This would seem to be a major goof. As AdBlock kicks Ass!
Further, I can tell you that the vast majority of protestors were not city residents.
You have some study you or someone else did that proves this, or is this one of those, "No believe me, I live there" statements? Because I do too.
Most were students from all over the country, indoctrinated by communist teachers at surrounding universities.
Again, you interviewed some people maybe?
90% of the protestors were White and between 18 and 30
Many people where white, I agree, but this statement is rediculous.
Do all these people look 18?
Do these people look like communists (whatever evil that is supposed to insinuate, since communists are apparently still should not be allowed to speak in the US according to you.)?
Do these people all look white?
The protests were a lot more diverse...thankfully.
Moderator, note the quotes and sarcasm...this is Funny!
And very funny at that.
There are people who still use IE? Thats f*ckn crazy, shut up.
...our current regulatory and cultural environment conditioned me not to expect a strip show in the middle of the superbowl
Dude...seriously?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Isn't this just a low budget version of the Macromedia site?
I miss the old color scheme. Yeah it looked kind of pissy/crappy but at least Mozilla owned pissy/crappy. And square too.
While I am adding my utterly worthless 2 cents (since thats what this submission is mostly about), I also would like a bigger draggon (god/mozilla, whatever...). I think a lot of people get excited about Mozilla because of the draggon...seriously. Now its all just cool bubbled internet blue. Why didn't they add a Swoosh too?
Revenge is always sweet. If its not sweet its something else...like F*cking Yourself for example.
Thus:
Dude 1: Did you get revenge? (notice sweet is not necessary here)
Dude 2: No, I just really fucked myself.
Yeah - But we will blow them UP!...er...DOWN! YEAH! USA USA USA
I would like to also give my cheers to the parent and relate another feel good story involving tough love.
//
.NET - a few weeks ago her computer got infected with Adware stuff..nasty...I recommended she install Mozilla - she did and she does not plan to go back...she is not a disgruntled former MS worker...she just realized Moz works better and has far far far fewer risks. She gets it. Very simple. So there are the bad ones and the good ones.
I have a friend who always likes to ask me for help with technical issues. And this person uses a Mac by the way. One of those favors involved setting up a backup system. On my advice they bought a hugh gazigagillion firewire drive, and I configured everything on the computer so that all their data saved to the home folder. All this person had to do was copy the home folder to the backup drive. Note, no backup software was purchased because it cost *too much*.
But you know what - it still got screwed up..how? I have no idea. And you know why? This person surely called for support. But then got angry when I told them they would have to wait a few days till I had some down time to look into their problem. Then, this is the best part...I insisted we do the troubleshooting via email (oh yeah - the person lives an hour and half away, so this wasn't going to happen in person anyway.) And although I gave very simple instructions in the email (the nice thing about email is that you can edit and give simple instructions), this person got impatient and started arguing why we couldn't do this over the phone. I explained that I was happy to help out, and that I thought we could recover their lost data, but I just can't do it on the phone because it takes too much time.
I haven't heard from them in a week, and you know what, they probably had to dish out a butt-load to Apple or Intuit(missing Quickbooks Data! - Yikes), or they completely bailed, and decided it would be more fun to re-enter all their business data from the past nine months! EAK! JUST BECAUSE THEY COUNLDN"T HANDLE READING EMAIL...and probably because I wouldn't sit on the phone and let them Kavetch. (which is what I think half of friend/family *tech support* calls really are.)
Ultimately I was not suprised in the least. I've had it with the impatience and incompetance and the whining. Here is my last $.02 on this: Be happy to help out, which I was, but don't be afraid to let them hang themselves either. After all, its just their computer...none of their problems are life threatening. And they'll learn to respect/ value the device too!
You know what - I have 2 more cents too! My girl friend is a former Micrsoft Sales Executive (and she's HOT!). She was always a big supporter of the MS machine, and was involved in promoting
Happy to tell you all about both.