The Gawker sites have backup blogs that are now up. Gawker is at http://live.gawker.com/ Lifehacker is at http://live.lifehacker.com/ and so on. They seem to have already thought of a backup plan, albeit not a complete one.
The good news is that this is the best their sites have looked in months! I wholeheartedly approve of the new layout.
If you can show proof positive that they deliberately did not provide the service you contracted for, why on earth would you pay them full price?
The issue is that if you are a residential subscriber, you didn't contract for any specific level of service. There were no SLAs in your agreement with your ISP. They wrap it with weasel words, like "up to 10Mb" but in the end it means that they can give you dial up data rates if they want to and it still qualifies.
You wouldn't pay a contractor full price if they only installed 3/4 of your hardwood floor..
You would be expected to pay a contractor the full amount if your contract with him specified that he would work on the floor for one month for an agreed upon sum and in return you would receive "up to" a complete hardwood floor. Whatever you actually got would still be within the language of the contract. Now within the contracting market, anyone who attempted this business model would quickly fail, but ISPs thrive on it. The key difference of course is competition, or lack thereof.
BTW if you want your complete hardwood floor guaranteed at the end of the month with penalties specified for each day over, you might be able to get that in a contract. Of course you will pay for those assurances though over the other estimate to make up for risk of the possible fines. Similarly if you want a guaranteed 10Mb to your home, you can probably get it. It's going to cost a bit more that $29.99 per month though. Quite a bit more.
EDITORS WILL YOU PLEASE FIX THE STORY TITLE. This should be:Imran Khan detained by US customs over opposition to drone strikes as in the original submission, or if you prefer Pakistani politician..., but not Pakastani...
Sorry, they're too busy designing the stupid/. logo for tomorrow. Hell, I'm surprised Google hasn't sued them for patent infringement on this yet.
t's hard to believe that they managed to screw up this way.
Is it really? I find it just the opposite. I find it completely believable that US Customs would behave exactly in this manner and would screw up in exactly this way.
Seemed to me that Google's security team could've done a bit better job on the recovery had they used a bit less bluster and a bit more appreciation (aka people skills).
Have you ever met one of these guys? They are proof of reincarnation because no one could learn to be such a dick in just one lifetime.
some folks may decide to pay the tax bill on a CC and or they used it to pay for the tax prep (plus they may also have actual bank account numbers for DD of a refund).
Don't forget people who may have elected a direct deposit of any tax refund. They may have had their bank account details compromised as well.
We could retrain these guys and up their salaries at the same time to be Air Marshalls.
Seriously? These are people that couldn't qualify for a position as a security guard at the local mall and you want to arm them and put them on a pressurized airplane? No thank you.
which they silently fixed with a 1024 bit key after he reported it to them...
From TFA:
Harris made sure the return path for the e-mails went to his own e-mail account, so that Brin and Page could ask him how heâ(TM)d cracked their puzzle. But Harris never got a response from the Google founders. Instead, two days later, he noticed that Googleâ(TM)s cryptographic key had suddenly changed to 2,048 bits. And he got a lot of sudden hits to his web site from Google IP addresses.(emphasis mine)
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
GNU MediaGoblin (also MediaGoblin) is a free web platform for hosting and sharing digital media,[7][8] aimed to provide an extensible, adaptive, decentralized and freedom-respectful software alternative to current art-and-media-related major internet services such as Flickr, deviantArt, YouTube, etc.[9][10]
Stop letting the politicians give themselves exclusions to the rules. Robocalls have been up 500% at my home during the past few months preceding this election. Personally I won't vote for any candidate who does robocall my house. The "Do Not Call" list is available to them and my home number is on it. If they have so little regard for my preference and my opinion on that matter that they still call me, why should I believe that they care even a little bit about my opinion on anything else?
There is a fail-safe which could have deployed the main shoot if he had been moving at more than 115 feet (35 meters) per second at 2,000 feet (610 meters) or less altitude.
But what if you manage to roll back your transaction instead of getting out, does it necessitate rolling back of only that portion of the Universe or does it trigger a large rollback for the entire simulation? I think it would just roll back that portion of the time and space, not the entire Universe.
As someone else speculated, it may be that quantum randomness acts as a damper on the butterfly effect. This would then limit the region that needs to be rolled back. Perhaps in a previous version of the universe they had to do complete rollbacks and added this dampening effect later to conserve resources.
Judging from the amount of comments thus far (about 7) I think that this "story" surely has to rate as one of the biggest in/.'s history. The lack of comments, to me, indicates that the entire population of nerds across the world are dumbfounded by the article's revelation and that they are collectively lost for words to express their dismay.
Judging from the amount of comments thus far (about 7) I think that this "story" got posted in the late evening / early morning on a non work day. Timing is everything.
It looks like whatever the owner of the pod you are on wants it to look like. Pages on the
diasp.org pod look very similar to Facebook. Other pods might appear differently. I would expect that eventually the pod code will support themes so that the pod owner can have his site appear however he wants. The point is that you aren't stuck with a single social media overlord. Don't like the terms of service or the terms have changed for the pod you are on? Move your profile to a different pod. Worst case scenario is that you stand up your own pod. The hope though is that there will be enough pods that you won't need to do that, but you will have the option if you wish. Right now I'm wondering if you could build out and stand up a small pod for a few users on an EC2 instance and still stay in the "free" category. If so, then once an image has been built it would be nothing to stand up your own pod and tweak it to however you wanted.
Slashdot Mirror
If you can read this, you are in range.
The Gawker sites have backup blogs that are now up. Gawker is at http://live.gawker.com/ Lifehacker is at http://live.lifehacker.com/ and so on. They seem to have already thought of a backup plan, albeit not a complete one.
The good news is that this is the best their sites have looked in months! I wholeheartedly approve of the new layout.
Not sure how it works in America, but isn't asking people to vote in exchange of products is a form of cheating on election?
Asking people to vote a certain way in exchange for something is quite illegal. Simply asking them to promise that they will vote not so much.
hrm..you might want to google that author's name before you say that.
You're right. He has written a lot of stuff about this sort of stuff. The thing that seems to be missing is the doing.
Remember: Those that can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach Phys-Ed. Those who can't teach Phys-Ed write books about it.
the Nexus 4 appears to lack support for LTE and with a display from LG rather than Samsung I wonder just how good it will be.
If you can show proof positive that they deliberately did not provide the service you contracted for, why on earth would you pay them full price?
The issue is that if you are a residential subscriber, you didn't contract for any specific level of service. There were no SLAs in your agreement with your ISP. They wrap it with weasel words, like "up to 10Mb" but in the end it means that they can give you dial up data rates if they want to and it still qualifies.
You wouldn't pay a contractor full price if they only installed 3/4 of your hardwood floor..
You would be expected to pay a contractor the full amount if your contract with him specified that he would work on the floor for one month for an agreed upon sum and in return you would receive "up to" a complete hardwood floor. Whatever you actually got would still be within the language of the contract. Now within the contracting market, anyone who attempted this business model would quickly fail, but ISPs thrive on it. The key difference of course is competition, or lack thereof.
BTW if you want your complete hardwood floor guaranteed at the end of the month with penalties specified for each day over, you might be able to get that in a contract. Of course you will pay for those assurances though over the other estimate to make up for risk of the possible fines. Similarly if you want a guaranteed 10Mb to your home, you can probably get it. It's going to cost a bit more that $29.99 per month though. Quite a bit more.
First I would start with a little sun, then maybe some strength training and perhaps an aerobic activity or two . . .
EDITORS WILL YOU PLEASE FIX THE STORY TITLE. This should be:Imran Khan detained by US customs over opposition to drone strikes as in the original submission, or if you prefer Pakistani politician..., but not Pakastani...
Sorry, they're too busy designing the stupid /. logo for tomorrow. Hell, I'm surprised Google hasn't sued them for patent infringement on this yet.
t's hard to believe that they managed to screw up this way.
Is it really? I find it just the opposite. I find it completely believable that US Customs would behave exactly in this manner and would screw up in exactly this way.
Seemed to me that Google's security team could've done a bit better job on the recovery had they used a bit less bluster and a bit more appreciation (aka people skills).
Have you ever met one of these guys? They are proof of reincarnation because no one could learn to be such a dick in just one lifetime.
Somebody needs to get a proof read things before they're published.
Maybe someday /. will become big enough to hire some editors.
some folks may decide to pay the tax bill on a CC and or they used it to pay for the tax prep (plus they may also have actual bank account numbers for DD of a refund).
Don't forget people who may have elected a direct deposit of any tax refund. They may have had their bank account details compromised as well.
We could retrain these guys and up their salaries at the same time to be Air Marshalls.
Seriously? These are people that couldn't qualify for a position as a security guard at the local mall and you want to arm them and put them on a pressurized airplane? No thank you.
which they silently fixed with a 1024 bit key after he reported it to them...
From TFA:
Harris made sure the return path for the e-mails went to his own e-mail account, so that Brin and Page could ask him how heâ(TM)d cracked their puzzle. But Harris never got a response from the Google founders. Instead, two days later, he noticed that Googleâ(TM)s cryptographic key had suddenly changed to 2,048 bits. And he got a lot of sudden hits to his web site from Google IP addresses.(emphasis mine)
that Swordfish was a premonition - Hugh Jackman really does crack encryption...
He also apparently likes to channel DaVinci and write backwards from his POV
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
How about wikipedia?
GNU MediaGoblin (also MediaGoblin) is a free web platform for hosting and sharing digital media,[7][8] aimed to provide an extensible, adaptive, decentralized and freedom-respectful software alternative to current art-and-media-related major internet services such as Flickr, deviantArt, YouTube, etc.[9][10]
Those both seem pretty concise to me.
Stop letting the politicians give themselves exclusions to the rules. Robocalls have been up 500% at my home during the past few months preceding this election. Personally I won't vote for any candidate who does robocall my house. The "Do Not Call" list is available to them and my home number is on it. If they have so little regard for my preference and my opinion on that matter that they still call me, why should I believe that they care even a little bit about my opinion on anything else?
Why can't we have a phone number whitelist just like I have for MAC addresses on my wireless router? Everything else dumps to VM.
Because when my daughter's car breaks down and she has to borrow a phone she won't be able to get through to me.
There is a fail-safe which could have deployed the main shoot if he had been moving at more than 115 feet (35 meters) per second at 2,000 feet (610 meters) or less altitude.
You know, the parashoot. Idiots.
That night, Ms. Duncan's father left vitriolic messages on her phone, demanding she renounce same-sex relationships,
He then went back to spanking his monkey to the lesbian porn DVD he had been watching before all of this happened.
But what if you manage to roll back your transaction instead of getting out, does it necessitate rolling back of only that portion of the Universe or does it trigger a large rollback for the entire simulation? I think it would just roll back that portion of the time and space, not the entire Universe.
As someone else speculated, it may be that quantum randomness acts as a damper on the butterfly effect. This would then limit the region that needs to be rolled back. Perhaps in a previous version of the universe they had to do complete rollbacks and added this dampening effect later to conserve resources.
Judging from the amount of comments thus far (about 7) I think that this "story" surely has to rate as one of the biggest in /.'s history. The lack of comments, to me, indicates that the entire population of nerds across the world are dumbfounded by the article's revelation and that they are collectively lost for words to express their dismay.
Judging from the amount of comments thus far (about 7) I think that this "story" got posted in the late evening / early morning on a non work day. Timing is everything.
Let's just outsource citizens while we're at it.
Someone must have watched Surrogates lately.
They do have security designed in, but it's the hard-outer-shell variety.
Isn't that the M&M security method with a hard outer shell and a soft creamy center?
What does a diaspora page look like?
It looks like whatever the owner of the pod you are on wants it to look like. Pages on the diasp.org pod look very similar to Facebook. Other pods might appear differently. I would expect that eventually the pod code will support themes so that the pod owner can have his site appear however he wants. The point is that you aren't stuck with a single social media overlord. Don't like the terms of service or the terms have changed for the pod you are on? Move your profile to a different pod. Worst case scenario is that you stand up your own pod. The hope though is that there will be enough pods that you won't need to do that, but you will have the option if you wish. Right now I'm wondering if you could build out and stand up a small pod for a few users on an EC2 instance and still stay in the "free" category. If so, then once an image has been built it would be nothing to stand up your own pod and tweak it to however you wanted.