If only I had mod points. Parent, and GP both...couldn't help but thinking, as I was reading, 'these systems already exist, and have for many years.' We don't need something strong enough to push people to BUILD things like these, we just need something strong enough to push people to USE them. But there are plenty who do already -- last time I was on Freenet, there was a better selection of movies than Netflix streaming!
Yea, from what I've read that is the plan. I just hope they're integrated well enough that they become a part of G+, not a separate entitity accessible _through_ G+.
Couldn't agree more. I'm loving G+. And unlike Facebook, Google has proven quite happy to give you all of your data in an open format. And unlike Facebook, the privacy options of EVERYTHING on your page and everything you post is an integral part of the UI, not something that seems like it was tagged on as an afterthought. Every post you make it shows you exactly who it's going to be shared with. Makes the 'oh, we update the privacy settings and now all your shit is public' stuff that Facebook always pulls a lot less likely.
My only problem with G+ is that there's no way to form groups. Facebook groups/fan pages SUCK, even Facebook seems confused about what excatly they're for, so I was eagerly awaiting G+ to see what they would do about this. And they've got nothing at all. Hopefully that will be coming in the future though...at the very least as some kind of integration with Google Groups.
Events would be nice too. Add Google Calendar and Google Groups, and G+ will have everything I need. Add the API too and it will have everything I want.
Since it says it was a chrome extension that was banned, I have to wonder how hard it would be to get around that ban. Could probably make a greasemonkey script or something too, I don't really know, haven't messed with that stuff...but I'm assuming all Facebook is doing is revoking app access codes, right? So...use theirs!
Clicking that link (not here, but on the actual page) gives you a valid temporary access token. It's only good for 2 hours...but reload the page and you get another 2 hours! Then just pop that access code in and you can pull up a list of all of your friends, well formatted for a script to handle...and it gives you their IDs, which you can use to scrape data from their page in the same manner. How is Facebook going to block this, short of crippling their own developer pages?
Every bulb in my house has been CFL for a while and I've never even _heard_ of them failing until now. I generally buy GE, and they've always been great for me....
Haven't noticed any problems with the ceiling fan dimmer that's now using CFL bulbs either. Dims a bit faster I guess, but nothing more than that...
The contaminated (evacuated) zone around Chernobyl is the size of Switzerland. If something similar happened in Germany, they would loose a major chunk of their country. Just food for thought.
That's great and all, but a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl would not be possible. It was a fundamentally unsafe reactor design from the start (positive void coefficient, no containment dome, etc)...but even then, they would have been fine, but people who didn't know what they were doing were ordering them to run an experiment in ways that ignored nearly all existing safety protocols.
Without question, the accident at Chernobyl was the result of a fatal combination of ignorance and complacency. "As members of a select scientific panel convened immediately after the...accident," writes Bethe, "my colleagues and I established that the Chernobyl disaster tells us about the deficiencies of the Soviet political and administrative system rather than about problems with nuclear power."
I get FAR less spam in my ~7 year old gmail inbox than I ever got in my year at Hotmail, or Yahoo, or Fastmail, or my ISP. And the vast majority of the spam I get to my gmail is crap being imported from my university email (which I don't give out; all that spam is people scraping the address from the online directory.)
Maybe I could get less by buying and using my own domain...but then I'd have to waste time getting everything set up and either paying for a server or making sure mine is always up (which would be impossible anyway...). And if I wanted to spend time maintaining spam filters and tracking down who's giving out my address, I would be doing that with gmail. You can do all of that with them too. But I'd rather spend my time working on other things. I'd rather spend a few seconds a week scanning my junk folder for the once a month false positive (which usually aren't anything I'd miss anyway) than spend an hour every week preventing it.
In theory, sure, but between incompatible packages, screwy default configurations, older (or newer) versions of packages with various bugs, and better or worse configuration tools there can be pretty significant differences in how easy it is to get something working. I mean, I did eventually get my network card working just fine on Ubuntu, but it took a few hours and unofficial packages to get that. For an experienced Linux user, those things don't matter all that much, but I've seen newbies completely give up on Linux because of things like a poorly designed distro-specific config tool. Newbies don't want to deal with the command line and config files. If you can't get the entire system up and running from the included GUI configuration tools on most common hardware configurations, it's not newbie friendly in my book.
Sure, you can make the case that they'll be better off if they just suck it up and learn the command line -- I agree, and I usually suggest Arch to anyone who's really interested in learning -- but I don't think that really qualifies as 'easiest distro for a newbie'.
You mean, WIRELESS network adapters made by BROADCOM, that you have in your CRAPPY LAPTOP, right? Right!
Yes, I mean wireless network adapters. Is there any OS/hardware combination in the world that has trouble with wired? I figured that was kinda assumed. And yes, I mean broadcom adapters in my "crappy laptop". That's why I use Linux, because I can buy the cheap hardware and have it still perform better than the guy on the $2000 machine. Besides, that's what's in damn near every laptop I've ever seen. I know exactly two people who don't use Dell machines...and one of them just broke their HP and is looking to buy a new Dell. The other uses a mac, so that's not really applicable to the OP's question. And I don't know of anybody who has ever opted to pay the premium for a non-broadcom chip in a Dell. Who's going to spend the extra cash on a freakin _network card_?
No sane person would use ndiswrapper on his own hardware now. If wireless card is unsupported, replace it or don't use it at all.
...or use a distro with current drivers and good hardware support. Don't use it? Yea, great advice...'if your hardware isn't supported you should either turn your laptop into a desktop or run new wires through your house! Otherwise you have no business using Linux, dammit!'. Great advice. And I highly doubt the OP is going to pay for a new wireless card just to try out Linux.
My point is: My wireless card works just fine in Arch, just fine in Mandriva, just fine in Slackware...yet it takes hours to get the damn thing to work in Ubuntu. If you've never used Linux before, why would you shell out cash for new hardware or cripple your existing machine when you could just pick a different distro from the start?
Everyone's going to suggest Ubuntu. But every time I've tried Ubuntu I've run into countless problems with it detecting hardware -- especially network cards. And every Ubuntu liveCD I've ever tried has been complete garbage.
Go with Mandriva. The LiveCD is excellent, the installer is the best I've ever seen, and every set of hardware I've ever thrown at it just works, straight off the install. None of the endless hours of screwing with things like Ndiswrapper that you get with Ubuntu. And it's got excellent config tools that will handle pretty much anything you want to do.
I was under the impression that circles are specific to you, where Facebook's groups are not. In other words, if I have a circle called 'friends', and Joe has a circle called 'friends', Joe can be in my 'friends' circle without me being in his. Plus, groups take some effort to set up and such. I suppose that's what lists are for, but you don't get group chat and such with those. But Facebook groups always struck me as something designed for actual organizations. You'd make a group for your school club, not for the guys you tend to go to parties with. I guess that's what lists are for...I don't really know though, I just went to Facebook and couldn't figure out how to create a list...I mean I did once at one time back before they started automatically creating lists for networks...and haven't been able to figure out how to delete it since...
Not to mention that there are a ton of problems with Facebook's groups. I can't tell you how many pages I've had to duplicate from groups to fan pages. I mean, for a small org (like a school club), the term 'group' sounds more like what you want than a 'page'...so people always create them as groups, then find out a group doesn't actually work (can't do an open group, for example). So then you move to a fan page. Or you start with a fan page, find out 'groups' give a ton of features that fan pages don't (group chat, documents, for example), so you switch to that...only to discover it doesn't have the features of a page that you NEED, so you have to move back...it's just a huge mess. Not to mention that even Facebook themselves seem to be confused about the purposes of these based on how often they keep shuffling around the functions, interface, and rules for them...
If Google+ can come up with a groups/pages feature that WORKS, I will be dropping Facebook ASAP.
Those are among the ugliest glasses I've ever seen. Though I guess they're no uglier than most plastic frames. Personally, I'll stick with metal.
How much does the hair actually provide support rather than just acting as filler for the plant resin?
And could they make other crap out of this? I think this stuff would look a lot better in a car interior...laptops...cell phones...damn near anything, except perhaps anything that's going to be holding food. Might work, but I don't think people would want to use it.
Gandi.net is in the process of adding DNSSEC support, though I'm not sure how exactly it will work. But they are without a doubt the best domain registrar I've ever found. Far better than GoDaddy. Might be worth waiting. They say it should be completed over the next few months.
Well, that's kinda why they release it like this, to crowd-source the digging. Go look for something!...or just wait a couple days, I'm sure stuff will come out soon, like what happened with LulzSec's dump of the Arizona law enforcement data. I'll admit I haven't heard a whole lot about that, but there were some posts on BoingBoing a day or two later detailing some of the more interesting bits.
My Firefox has been updating itself without any intervention from me, without me having to adjust any of the settings to get it to do so. All I have to do is make sure I close the browser occasionally and it'll stay up to date....
So what, because they have decided that their product isn't designed for the corporate environment, they cannot be "bastions of the open source community"? What, because they're the best alternative they should be REQUIRED to add all the various features and spend all their time working to please enterprise users? If you don't like it, fork it, but I am personally quite pleased that they're going to be continuing to work to make the browsing experience better for ME, rather than for some fortune 500 company.
Had they said the opposite...well, I'd still be fine with it, but I'd probably be migrating entirely to Chrome soon.
From when I was looking for schools, I would suggest you look for schools with things like "institute of technology" in the name. I suspect that you won't find any major universities without gen-ends, but if you're OK with somewhere like Rochester Institute of Technology, I seem to recall that they didn't have much required in that area.
Exactly! Though maybe pad it as being in case someone steals your phone and...does...something with it...that happens to be similar to police tactics....
Or, sell it as a device to prevent corporate espionage! That could work, if cops can get those bags I'm sure rival corporations could too, lol
Next killer app: One that wipes your data if your phone isn't able to check in for a certain amount of time, or if it's connected via USB when there is no service available. True, most people wouldn't want that as they could accidentally lose something, but for people who legitimately have reason to fear police confiscation of their phone, it could be worth the risk.
Meh. I switched from Apple products to Android after every single Apple product I had recently (iPod touch, 2 iPod nanos, iPod classic) all stopped working in about a year. My iPod nanos would also tend to reboot without warning and for no reason a couple times a week. My Archos 5 with Android hasn't had a single problem since the day I bought it, other than ones I've caused (leaving it in the pocket of the hoodie I used as a pillow and cracking the touch screen -- but even that was a $20 fix)
I'd start with one of two options: Web programming or physical devices. Either one lets you make pretty simple programs that actually DO SOMETHING.
For web, I'd obviously start with HTML/Javascript, then go into PHP. Or maybe skip Javascript at first, as it's a huge pain to debug. Point is, you can build something with a nice pretty GUI pretty quickly and easily, and PHP and Javascript will prepare you well (in terms of basic concepts and syntax) for more advanced languages like C or Java.
The other way to go -- the way I really went -- is to start with programming physical devices. I started with Lego Mindstorms -- you start with their programming language (drag-and-drop stuff), but that quickly becomes too basic, so you start looking into things like NQC -- basically a C variant that has a rather limited instruction set, specifically designed for the Lego microcomputer. It's a bit hard to learn on your own (I still remember asking for help with my first program -- "You need semicolons!" "...I do? Where?"), but if you actually read the tutorials or have someone to help you with it, it isn't too bad, and you can immediately see what it's doing. Something like an Arduino could also work, though it may be too complicated. I'm only familiar with the TI MSP430 Launchpad stuff, which is similar in design, but would be way too difficult for a beginner....but I gather that the Arduino has some easier programming tools.
None of that was a lie though. Sure, there were other factors involved, but other than the one or two details I already discussed when I cited my sources, nothing I said was at all incorrect. He was still considered guilty until he proved himself innocent. If he can order a copy of his birth certificate from the state, the state should be able to confirm that he is in fact a citizen.
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If only I had mod points. Parent, and GP both...couldn't help but thinking, as I was reading, 'these systems already exist, and have for many years.' We don't need something strong enough to push people to BUILD things like these, we just need something strong enough to push people to USE them. But there are plenty who do already -- last time I was on Freenet, there was a better selection of movies than Netflix streaming!
Yea, from what I've read that is the plan. I just hope they're integrated well enough that they become a part of G+, not a separate entitity accessible _through_ G+.
Couldn't agree more. I'm loving G+. And unlike Facebook, Google has proven quite happy to give you all of your data in an open format. And unlike Facebook, the privacy options of EVERYTHING on your page and everything you post is an integral part of the UI, not something that seems like it was tagged on as an afterthought. Every post you make it shows you exactly who it's going to be shared with. Makes the 'oh, we update the privacy settings and now all your shit is public' stuff that Facebook always pulls a lot less likely.
My only problem with G+ is that there's no way to form groups. Facebook groups/fan pages SUCK, even Facebook seems confused about what excatly they're for, so I was eagerly awaiting G+ to see what they would do about this. And they've got nothing at all. Hopefully that will be coming in the future though...at the very least as some kind of integration with Google Groups.
Events would be nice too. Add Google Calendar and Google Groups, and G+ will have everything I need. Add the API too and it will have everything I want.
Since it says it was a chrome extension that was banned, I have to wonder how hard it would be to get around that ban. Could probably make a greasemonkey script or something too, I don't really know, haven't messed with that stuff...but I'm assuming all Facebook is doing is revoking app access codes, right? So...use theirs!
Load this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Scroll a bit down the page and you will see the following link:
Friends: https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=...
Clicking that link (not here, but on the actual page) gives you a valid temporary access token. It's only good for 2 hours...but reload the page and you get another 2 hours! Then just pop that access code in and you can pull up a list of all of your friends, well formatted for a script to handle...and it gives you their IDs, which you can use to scrape data from their page in the same manner. How is Facebook going to block this, short of crippling their own developer pages?
Every bulb in my house has been CFL for a while and I've never even _heard_ of them failing until now. I generally buy GE, and they've always been great for me....
Haven't noticed any problems with the ceiling fan dimmer that's now using CFL bulbs either. Dims a bit faster I guess, but nothing more than that...
On the other hand though, at least Google+ provides a very easy and convenient way to download your data:
Download data from a specific service
Download your Picasa Web Albums photos .zip file
Save your albums and photos as a
Download your Profile data .json file
Save your profile data as a
Download your Stream data .zip file
Save your Stream posts as a
Download your Buzz data .zip file
Save your Buzz posts as a
Download your Circles and Contacts .zip file
Save your circles and contacts as a
Try getting that from Facebook...
The contaminated (evacuated) zone around Chernobyl is the size of Switzerland. If something similar happened in Germany, they would loose a major chunk of their country. Just food for thought.
That's great and all, but a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl would not be possible. It was a fundamentally unsafe reactor design from the start (positive void coefficient, no containment dome, etc)...but even then, they would have been fine, but people who didn't know what they were doing were ordering them to run an experiment in ways that ignored nearly all existing safety protocols.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/chernobyl.html
Without question, the accident at Chernobyl was the result of a fatal combination of ignorance and complacency. "As members of a select scientific panel convened immediately after the...accident," writes Bethe, "my colleagues and I established that the Chernobyl disaster tells us about the deficiencies of the Soviet political and administrative system rather than about problems with nuclear power."
I get FAR less spam in my ~7 year old gmail inbox than I ever got in my year at Hotmail, or Yahoo, or Fastmail, or my ISP. And the vast majority of the spam I get to my gmail is crap being imported from my university email (which I don't give out; all that spam is people scraping the address from the online directory.)
Maybe I could get less by buying and using my own domain...but then I'd have to waste time getting everything set up and either paying for a server or making sure mine is always up (which would be impossible anyway...). And if I wanted to spend time maintaining spam filters and tracking down who's giving out my address, I would be doing that with gmail. You can do all of that with them too. But I'd rather spend my time working on other things. I'd rather spend a few seconds a week scanning my junk folder for the once a month false positive (which usually aren't anything I'd miss anyway) than spend an hour every week preventing it.
In theory, sure, but between incompatible packages, screwy default configurations, older (or newer) versions of packages with various bugs, and better or worse configuration tools there can be pretty significant differences in how easy it is to get something working. I mean, I did eventually get my network card working just fine on Ubuntu, but it took a few hours and unofficial packages to get that. For an experienced Linux user, those things don't matter all that much, but I've seen newbies completely give up on Linux because of things like a poorly designed distro-specific config tool. Newbies don't want to deal with the command line and config files. If you can't get the entire system up and running from the included GUI configuration tools on most common hardware configurations, it's not newbie friendly in my book.
Sure, you can make the case that they'll be better off if they just suck it up and learn the command line -- I agree, and I usually suggest Arch to anyone who's really interested in learning -- but I don't think that really qualifies as 'easiest distro for a newbie'.
You mean, WIRELESS network adapters made by BROADCOM, that you have in your CRAPPY LAPTOP, right? Right!
Yes, I mean wireless network adapters. Is there any OS/hardware combination in the world that has trouble with wired? I figured that was kinda assumed. And yes, I mean broadcom adapters in my "crappy laptop". That's why I use Linux, because I can buy the cheap hardware and have it still perform better than the guy on the $2000 machine. Besides, that's what's in damn near every laptop I've ever seen. I know exactly two people who don't use Dell machines...and one of them just broke their HP and is looking to buy a new Dell. The other uses a mac, so that's not really applicable to the OP's question. And I don't know of anybody who has ever opted to pay the premium for a non-broadcom chip in a Dell. Who's going to spend the extra cash on a freakin _network card_?
No sane person would use ndiswrapper on his own hardware now. If wireless card is unsupported, replace it or don't use it at all.
...or use a distro with current drivers and good hardware support. Don't use it? Yea, great advice...'if your hardware isn't supported you should either turn your laptop into a desktop or run new wires through your house! Otherwise you have no business using Linux, dammit!'. Great advice. And I highly doubt the OP is going to pay for a new wireless card just to try out Linux.
My point is: My wireless card works just fine in Arch, just fine in Mandriva, just fine in Slackware...yet it takes hours to get the damn thing to work in Ubuntu. If you've never used Linux before, why would you shell out cash for new hardware or cripple your existing machine when you could just pick a different distro from the start?
Same exact hardware, on Ubuntu native network drivers wouldn't work; ndiswrapper wouldn't work, uninstalled it, reinstalled it, still no...uninstalled, installed from source...still no. Reinstalled Ubuntu entirely, removed ndiswrapper, reinstalled ndiswrapper from source, finally worked. On Mandriva? Installed Mandriva, network card worked.
Everyone's going to suggest Ubuntu. But every time I've tried Ubuntu I've run into countless problems with it detecting hardware -- especially network cards. And every Ubuntu liveCD I've ever tried has been complete garbage.
Go with Mandriva. The LiveCD is excellent, the installer is the best I've ever seen, and every set of hardware I've ever thrown at it just works, straight off the install. None of the endless hours of screwing with things like Ndiswrapper that you get with Ubuntu. And it's got excellent config tools that will handle pretty much anything you want to do.
I was under the impression that circles are specific to you, where Facebook's groups are not. In other words, if I have a circle called 'friends', and Joe has a circle called 'friends', Joe can be in my 'friends' circle without me being in his. Plus, groups take some effort to set up and such. I suppose that's what lists are for, but you don't get group chat and such with those. But Facebook groups always struck me as something designed for actual organizations. You'd make a group for your school club, not for the guys you tend to go to parties with. I guess that's what lists are for...I don't really know though, I just went to Facebook and couldn't figure out how to create a list...I mean I did once at one time back before they started automatically creating lists for networks...and haven't been able to figure out how to delete it since...
Not to mention that there are a ton of problems with Facebook's groups. I can't tell you how many pages I've had to duplicate from groups to fan pages. I mean, for a small org (like a school club), the term 'group' sounds more like what you want than a 'page'...so people always create them as groups, then find out a group doesn't actually work (can't do an open group, for example). So then you move to a fan page. Or you start with a fan page, find out 'groups' give a ton of features that fan pages don't (group chat, documents, for example), so you switch to that...only to discover it doesn't have the features of a page that you NEED, so you have to move back...it's just a huge mess. Not to mention that even Facebook themselves seem to be confused about the purposes of these based on how often they keep shuffling around the functions, interface, and rules for them...
If Google+ can come up with a groups/pages feature that WORKS, I will be dropping Facebook ASAP.
Those are among the ugliest glasses I've ever seen. Though I guess they're no uglier than most plastic frames. Personally, I'll stick with metal.
How much does the hair actually provide support rather than just acting as filler for the plant resin?
And could they make other crap out of this? I think this stuff would look a lot better in a car interior...laptops...cell phones...damn near anything, except perhaps anything that's going to be holding food. Might work, but I don't think people would want to use it.
Gandi.net is in the process of adding DNSSEC support, though I'm not sure how exactly it will work. But they are without a doubt the best domain registrar I've ever found. Far better than GoDaddy. Might be worth waiting. They say it should be completed over the next few months.
I wish we had more detail, though.
Well, that's kinda why they release it like this, to crowd-source the digging. Go look for something! ...or just wait a couple days, I'm sure stuff will come out soon, like what happened with LulzSec's dump of the Arizona law enforcement data. I'll admit I haven't heard a whole lot about that, but there were some posts on BoingBoing a day or two later detailing some of the more interesting bits.
My Firefox has been updating itself without any intervention from me, without me having to adjust any of the settings to get it to do so. All I have to do is make sure I close the browser occasionally and it'll stay up to date....
So what, because they have decided that their product isn't designed for the corporate environment, they cannot be "bastions of the open source community"? What, because they're the best alternative they should be REQUIRED to add all the various features and spend all their time working to please enterprise users? If you don't like it, fork it, but I am personally quite pleased that they're going to be continuing to work to make the browsing experience better for ME, rather than for some fortune 500 company.
Had they said the opposite...well, I'd still be fine with it, but I'd probably be migrating entirely to Chrome soon.
From when I was looking for schools, I would suggest you look for schools with things like "institute of technology" in the name. I suspect that you won't find any major universities without gen-ends, but if you're OK with somewhere like Rochester Institute of Technology, I seem to recall that they didn't have much required in that area.
Exactly! Though maybe pad it as being in case someone steals your phone and...does...something with it...that happens to be similar to police tactics....
Or, sell it as a device to prevent corporate espionage! That could work, if cops can get those bags I'm sure rival corporations could too, lol
Next killer app: One that wipes your data if your phone isn't able to check in for a certain amount of time, or if it's connected via USB when there is no service available. True, most people wouldn't want that as they could accidentally lose something, but for people who legitimately have reason to fear police confiscation of their phone, it could be worth the risk.
Meh. I switched from Apple products to Android after every single Apple product I had recently (iPod touch, 2 iPod nanos, iPod classic) all stopped working in about a year. My iPod nanos would also tend to reboot without warning and for no reason a couple times a week. My Archos 5 with Android hasn't had a single problem since the day I bought it, other than ones I've caused (leaving it in the pocket of the hoodie I used as a pillow and cracking the touch screen -- but even that was a $20 fix)
I'd start with one of two options: Web programming or physical devices. Either one lets you make pretty simple programs that actually DO SOMETHING.
For web, I'd obviously start with HTML/Javascript, then go into PHP. Or maybe skip Javascript at first, as it's a huge pain to debug. Point is, you can build something with a nice pretty GUI pretty quickly and easily, and PHP and Javascript will prepare you well (in terms of basic concepts and syntax) for more advanced languages like C or Java.
The other way to go -- the way I really went -- is to start with programming physical devices. I started with Lego Mindstorms -- you start with their programming language (drag-and-drop stuff), but that quickly becomes too basic, so you start looking into things like NQC -- basically a C variant that has a rather limited instruction set, specifically designed for the Lego microcomputer. It's a bit hard to learn on your own (I still remember asking for help with my first program -- "You need semicolons!" "...I do? Where?"), but if you actually read the tutorials or have someone to help you with it, it isn't too bad, and you can immediately see what it's doing. Something like an Arduino could also work, though it may be too complicated. I'm only familiar with the TI MSP430 Launchpad stuff, which is similar in design, but would be way too difficult for a beginner....but I gather that the Arduino has some easier programming tools.
None of that was a lie though. Sure, there were other factors involved, but other than the one or two details I already discussed when I cited my sources, nothing I said was at all incorrect. He was still considered guilty until he proved himself innocent. If he can order a copy of his birth certificate from the state, the state should be able to confirm that he is in fact a citizen.
So it's OK because he was pretty obviously mentally ill and might not have even known what was going on?