I have been using ActiveInbox for several years now. https://www.activeinboxhq.com/ It connects to a gmail account. You can set due dates, keep track of items you need to take action on or you are waiting on other people for. It uses the Getting Things Done methodology and has helped me stay on top of my life in an organized fashion. You can even create custom categories. Its worth the money in my opinion. You can use it with extensions for most browsers. They also have apps on ios and android I think.
I care as well. Not a fan of trolling or me-too posts but need you guys to know that you are appreciated and thought of. Also, I am glad someone finally responded on twitter after I sent you guys a message. I hope you guys don't go down again but if it does happen can you proactively post something like a twitter update of an outage?
You are absolutely right. I showed up at a board meeting in 2011 to complain about the grass behind my unit dying. The board at the time appointed me their treasurer and empowered me to do something about it. People love to complain about the job their board does but they never want to do it themselves. I have been re-elected or re-appointed every year because once people discover what has to be done, they just abruptly quit. I don't even bother campaigning other then sending the required candidate statement. I have only lost in one year. That year the entire board was all newcomers. They quickly landed themselves in hot water and after people quit they came back and asked me to rejoin the board. I didn't boast or give anyone a hard time. I just showed up, did my job and taught my fellow board members the things they don't know. I enjoyed the time off while I was gone and look forward to the day when there is a full board of people who want to serve that I am no longer needed. The best piece of advice I can give to anyone is this:
Most people just want to be heard and understood. A little bit of empathy goes a long way to solving most problems.
If you don't like the job we do, feel free to join the board and do it better. If you won't volunteer or provide constructive feedback, we can't help you.
While their offerings look like they are an enterprise company, I will for sure take a look at their ArcGIS Apps Community. Maybe they have a partner who is consumer focused. Thanks for the response.
Bruce
Thank you for your commments. I am a fan of your work.
As others have mentioned HOAs can't legally stop you from putting an antenna or satellite dish on the roof. Some of them have rules in the CC&Rs that are quite dated that block antennas or satellite dishes but the FCC has come down hard on communities that do that. The only requirement I know of is that you can't permanently attach them to a building and it is preferable to put them out of site if possible. You still have to apply for an Architectural Spec through your HOA but they can't actually deny it. The recommendation we give to our homeowners is to apply and get permission from us to go on the roof or have a 3rd party (if they have adequate worker's comp insurance). They [the homeowners or installers] also have to use cinder blocks or some other temporary measure to keep the equipment in place. We haven't had any issues in our community with homeowners doing the above and the satellite companies readily take the above steps to honor the rules above.
I like to think of myself as a Rennaissance Man so my tastes vary month to month. I do try to tackle one heavy book and one light book at a time. Here is my list so far:
Currrently reading
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" by Brené Brown - Heavy Read on Shame/Shame resilience. Its geared towards women but its a topic I know nothing about and the researcher shares lots of letters / examples of things women do that they and the people around them don't even understand why they even do it. I think she is working on a book that will come out about Shame/Shame resilience for men as well. Its Fascinating but equally intense at the same time.
Previously I have read in 2017
The Secret Lives of Hyapatia Lee by Hyapatia Lee - Light read on an actress from the Adult Entertainment Industry
The Philosophy Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Will Buckingham - Heavier read on General Philosophy
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough - Lighter read on Education System in Ameria
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry - Heavier read on EQ and how to better yourself in recognizing emotional interactions with other people
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline - Light read on how our clothing industry changed and why low cost gives low quality
Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back by Junheng Li - Light read on Wall Street with differences between how things are done in business in China vs US
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) by Christian Keur - Heavier read on iOS programming
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen - Heavy read on how to better communicate with your partner in a relationship. Very good research on social psychology and linguistics.
If you want more, send me a response or DM. I read a lot on kindle and because I have my phone or tablet everywhere I never have an excuse not to read something. Hope this helps.
maxrate, Can you provide some specs on what equipment you are using? What is the best 4G access point in your experience? Also what aggregation platform are you using to bond them all together? I would love to hear about your setup.
Its horrible. Worse yet, I used a plugin called "Good News" to filter out all of the irrelevant garbage and that extension no longer works. Google has arbitrarily decided what is important and that I will have to read the stories they deem newsworthy. Whatever happened to the customer is always right and Don't Fix What Isn't Broken?
I find that most if not all news in the US is falls under 2 or 3 world views. What is on the left, right, and center. People have a tendency to read sites that share their world view. The big debate with President Trump, right now, is what is actually fake news versus real news. You may think that its easy to spot but not everyone shares your world view. If you are a liberal, you will probably watch CNN or read the NY Times. If you are conservative you will probably watch Fox News or read the Wall Street Journal. Either way you will accuse the other of being less reliable or fake. The best alternative is to take a collection of news sites from around the world and periodically read stories from the viewpoints of people in that region.
I know that in the Middle East, for example, Al Jazeera is considered reliable while people in Egypt find CNN's coverage laughable. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle between all these extremes. I make it a habit of reading stories on CNN, Fox News, Washington Times, France 5, BBC, Al Jazeera, Xinhua (Chinese State Media), RT (Russia Today) among many others. Some are state sponsored and some are independent. By studying and reading what others think you learn the facts of the stories but you also learn how others interpret that knowledge and what the bigger picture is. It will also make you more rounded as a result.
Currently reading
Deep Reading:
Reading The Prophet by Ghalil Gibran//Good for getting the imagination going. Its probably more literature and requires a lot of introspective thought for me.
Reading You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen//Good book on relationship communication. Its academic in nature by socio-linguistic researcher.
Light Reading
Tiger Woman on Wall Street by Junheng Li//Good for accounting and finance theory. Also insight into Chinese Culture
Recently read:
Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky//Good for understanding community organization and how members on the left side of the aisle think and act. Politics
Read Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie//Good for finding work that has meaning. Job and Life Satisfaction are themes.
1. Fixed point 3D isn't really achievable except for one person. If two people watch something on TV, they both can't look at different things. They still only see the same thing. As a result, all you get is slightly better definition and clarity but not really 3D.
2. Glasses are a big factor - cost, hassle, batteries, vision issues, headaches, etc.
3. The technology was there (ESPN had a 3D Channel) but it required standards and training that most had not acquired. This is also the chicken and egg, content problem.
4. The social problem. People like to watch TV socially. However, you can't have everyone watching the same thing at the same time unless you have multiple sets of glasses. However, this comes back to #1. It really becomes an inconvenience to have multiple people watching the same thing with glasses and that doesn't compensate for a slightly better viewing experience.
Which brings up VR yet again.
The time is becoming ripe for VR to take over from where 3D TV failed. The biggest way is with the GearVR. Many people already have smartphones so this greatly reduced the cost. You only need the goggles. Samsung took care of that by giving them for free with new phone purchases which most consumers make every 2-3 years. That basically left content as the bottle-neck. Now with a captive audience that is only growing upward, it made sense for content producers to make 3D content much more regularly. Several companies have been doing Stereoscopic 3D VR broadcasts and playback of content that has been created for 3D VR. The result is that you can watch NBA Games, Concerts, sporting events, political debates, etc in 3D.
This in turn is bootstrapping the content industry as well as acting for a 3D VR Gateway for users. They get the first taste with very little investment if any (perhaps a few bucks to buy an NBA Game or episode of some TV Show. Sporting events are good initial content investments as people are already accustomed to watching from a fixed viewpoint. However, you can now watch from seats which you can't afford to in real life such as behind the players bench or from viewpoints which may not be viewable at all such as inside a goal or underneath a basket. Once customers see the value in that, they will be more likely to upgrade to higher end VR systems such as Vive, Rift, PSVR, and any other new platform that appears. This should then get the industry going iteratively. More customers equals better content. Better content leads to more refined viewing systems. This leads to higher bandwidth connections which leads to better quality content. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
I agree. Most if not all utility poles are on municipal grounds with some sort of easement granted to the company using it. It doesn't make sense to let a common carrier use it and then deny access to a competitor if it is not on their land. I think it is fair to make the competitors pay for a share of the installation and maintenance of the utility poles. I think there is similar precedent in that regards with Cell Phone Towers. I think the pricing should be RAND and standardized.
Update your review with the responses from the company. Be fully transparent to future customers whoe might be mislead by the company's products. Don't feel bad if someone loses their job because they weren't doing it properly to begin with. I would go so far as to tell the company that if they keep pushing it I would start investigating the security of their other products and possibly educate them about the Streisand Effect with other companies who have tried to do the same thing.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I think this is more a form of Libel than Parody. Parody is using likeness to something else but not representing it as something else. Think "Eat It" by Weird Al as opposed to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson. The likeness is there in the same music and video concept but the lyrics are different and Weird Al takes attribution for the work. This peace changes the message completely around and gives attribution to someone who is not affiliated with it. A good parody might have a similar sounding name and website. This one is using a legitimate organizations name and website to infer association. This content deserves to be taken down - especially because the creators don't take ownership of it. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they are sued for defamation and libel as well.
They collect data from multiple sources and they can be more accurate at telling you if a family member is pregnant than a pregnancy exam. They actually have alogrithms that capture shopping habits and based an a seemingly random grouping of purchases they can determine if someone in the family is pregnant. Once they determine this, they send an email or mailer with a discount for pregnancy related products like diapers and baby food. I have heard of a couple of people now who have discovered this the hard way.
There is a lot of rhetoric on this thread about the impending doom of humanity as everything becomes automated. I think generally anytime you have a paradigm or technology shift people speak about the end of the earth or that we will all be replaced by robots. I don't think that automation of society is a bad idea. I do not believe that switching to manufacturing by robots will necessarily equal long term problems for humanity. I think the net effect is that people will move to fields that can not be automated or if the are automated they will come at great expense of time, resources, or other forms of effort.
For example, psychological counseling is traditionally done person to person. I don't know that someone who is struggling with an issue will choose to talk to an inanimate object over a live human being that can express empathy or even share in the life experience a patient is struggling with. I don't know many children that will want to stop playing with other human beings because a robot will be more entertaining. I think the jobs will shift to new fields such as Entertainment and the Arts, Athletics, Social Applications, Creative Pursuits - to be honest I think work will end up feeling a lot less like work.
I think as more of the mundane jobs are pushed off onto robots people and the money that they are involved with will shift to other sections of our economy. If an owner automates all production and no longer employs human beings - he too loses. Henry Ford new this principle all too well and chose to lower the costs of his cars through economies of scale so that he could increase his customer base. I think with Apple, eventually, Cook et al will fully understand this and reembrace humans in other portions of their business.
I think Dark Tangent should sponsor a "Spot the Perp Contest!" Just like Spot the Fed but allow the community to self-police and weed out the perps. Give the winner a free t-shirt, shame the perp on the wall of shame, toss their ass and make it clear that one douchebag doesn't speak for the whole community. Our community should be equal opportunity in its treatment of others just as we are willing to accept ideas from anyone. Women shouldn't avoid conferences because their rights of personal and emotional security will be violated. Everyone should stand up for this. We don't leave a hacker out in the cold because of their ethnicity (Russian hacker Dmitry Skylarov), past indiscretions (Kevin Mitnick), academic status (Christopher Soghoian) so why should gender be any different?!?!
I am fed up with hearing how companies extort each other using NDA's and then litigate them into annihilation. I am glad Barnes & Noble is fighting this. I wish more companies would fight this type of patent and copyright abuse. I think a law should be passed to require companies to publicly identify which patents are infringing by a technology rather than fearmongering. Put up or shut up.
...In particular, the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying 'the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks'"
Isn't this guy just incriminating himself of a crime? Isn't that how the Syndicates operate? "Oh, it just fell off a truck". I remember when I lived in a free country where rights and liberties were protected. It is a sad shame our society is heading in such a wrong direction.
I wish Karma would come back and wipe out all the trolls! I will settle for it one at a time. Perhaps the MAFIAA's will be next. I made it a point never to buy anything with RDRAM in it after those lawsuits RAMBUS filed. Maybe if we are lucky they will go RAMBUST.
I suspect that this is a form of censorship like what we saw in the arab spring. The internet is self-sustaining at this point. There is much angry sentiment against these kinds of laws and much support among technical crowds. While a few greedy and dishonest legislatures may be able to pass laws that attempt to control this behavior (filesharing), there are many more people who have the know-how to bypass it. Perhaps it is time that people who are disconnected start connecting ad-hoc networks to bypass the ISP points of failure. If this can be done to topple dictatorial regimes in the 3rd world, why can't it be done in dictatorial regimes in the 1st world?
Sounds like a burglar's christmas wish come true. Assuming the burglar doesn't post his actions to facebook, I think the privacy implications for this are far worse than what Google's streetview has done.
Slashdot Mirror
I have been using ActiveInbox for several years now.
https://www.activeinboxhq.com/
It connects to a gmail account. You can set due dates, keep track of items you need to take action on or you are waiting on other people for. It uses the Getting Things Done methodology and has helped me stay on top of my life in an organized fashion. You can even create custom categories. Its worth the money in my opinion. You can use it with extensions for most browsers. They also have apps on ios and android I think.
I care as well. Not a fan of trolling or me-too posts but need you guys to know that you are appreciated and thought of. Also, I am glad someone finally responded on twitter after I sent you guys a message. I hope you guys don't go down again but if it does happen can you proactively post something like a twitter update of an outage?
I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jeremi
You are absolutely right. I showed up at a board meeting in 2011 to complain about the grass behind my unit dying. The board at the time appointed me their treasurer and empowered me to do something about it. People love to complain about the job their board does but they never want to do it themselves. I have been re-elected or re-appointed every year because once people discover what has to be done, they just abruptly quit. I don't even bother campaigning other then sending the required candidate statement. I have only lost in one year. That year the entire board was all newcomers. They quickly landed themselves in hot water and after people quit they came back and asked me to rejoin the board. I didn't boast or give anyone a hard time. I just showed up, did my job and taught my fellow board members the things they don't know. I enjoyed the time off while I was gone and look forward to the day when there is a full board of people who want to serve that I am no longer needed. The best piece of advice I can give to anyone is this:
Most people just want to be heard and understood. A little bit of empathy goes a long way to solving most problems.
If you don't like the job we do, feel free to join the board and do it better. If you won't volunteer or provide constructive feedback, we can't help you.
While their offerings look like they are an enterprise company, I will for sure take a look at their ArcGIS Apps Community. Maybe they have a partner who is consumer focused. Thanks for the response.
Thanks, I will check it out.
Bruce Thank you for your commments. I am a fan of your work. As others have mentioned HOAs can't legally stop you from putting an antenna or satellite dish on the roof. Some of them have rules in the CC&Rs that are quite dated that block antennas or satellite dishes but the FCC has come down hard on communities that do that. The only requirement I know of is that you can't permanently attach them to a building and it is preferable to put them out of site if possible. You still have to apply for an Architectural Spec through your HOA but they can't actually deny it. The recommendation we give to our homeowners is to apply and get permission from us to go on the roof or have a 3rd party (if they have adequate worker's comp insurance). They [the homeowners or installers] also have to use cinder blocks or some other temporary measure to keep the equipment in place. We haven't had any issues in our community with homeowners doing the above and the satellite companies readily take the above steps to honor the rules above.
I like to think of myself as a Rennaissance Man so my tastes vary month to month. I do try to tackle one heavy book and one light book at a time. Here is my list so far:
Currrently reading
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" by Brené Brown - Heavy Read on Shame/Shame resilience. Its geared towards women but its a topic I know nothing about and the researcher shares lots of letters / examples of things women do that they and the people around them don't even understand why they even do it. I think she is working on a book that will come out about Shame/Shame resilience for men as well. Its Fascinating but equally intense at the same time.
Previously I have read in 2017
The Secret Lives of Hyapatia Lee by Hyapatia Lee - Light read on an actress from the Adult Entertainment Industry
The Philosophy Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Will Buckingham - Heavier read on General Philosophy
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough - Lighter read on Education System in Ameria
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry - Heavier read on EQ and how to better yourself in recognizing emotional interactions with other people
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline - Light read on how our clothing industry changed and why low cost gives low quality
Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back by Junheng Li - Light read on Wall Street with differences between how things are done in business in China vs US
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) by Christian Keur - Heavier read on iOS programming
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen - Heavy read on how to better communicate with your partner in a relationship. Very good research on social psychology and linguistics.
If you want more, send me a response or DM. I read a lot on kindle and because I have my phone or tablet everywhere I never have an excuse not to read something. Hope this helps.
maxrate, Can you provide some specs on what equipment you are using? What is the best 4G access point in your experience? Also what aggregation platform are you using to bond them all together? I would love to hear about your setup.
Its horrible. Worse yet, I used a plugin called "Good News" to filter out all of the irrelevant garbage and that extension no longer works. Google has arbitrarily decided what is important and that I will have to read the stories they deem newsworthy. Whatever happened to the customer is always right and Don't Fix What Isn't Broken?
I find that most if not all news in the US is falls under 2 or 3 world views. What is on the left, right, and center. People have a tendency to read sites that share their world view. The big debate with President Trump, right now, is what is actually fake news versus real news. You may think that its easy to spot but not everyone shares your world view. If you are a liberal, you will probably watch CNN or read the NY Times. If you are conservative you will probably watch Fox News or read the Wall Street Journal. Either way you will accuse the other of being less reliable or fake. The best alternative is to take a collection of news sites from around the world and periodically read stories from the viewpoints of people in that region.
I know that in the Middle East, for example, Al Jazeera is considered reliable while people in Egypt find CNN's coverage laughable. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle between all these extremes. I make it a habit of reading stories on CNN, Fox News, Washington Times, France 5, BBC, Al Jazeera, Xinhua (Chinese State Media), RT (Russia Today) among many others. Some are state sponsored and some are independent. By studying and reading what others think you learn the facts of the stories but you also learn how others interpret that knowledge and what the bigger picture is. It will also make you more rounded as a result.
Currently reading Deep Reading: Reading The Prophet by Ghalil Gibran //Good for getting the imagination going. Its probably more literature and requires a lot of introspective thought for me.
Reading You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen //Good book on relationship communication. Its academic in nature by socio-linguistic researcher.
Light Reading
Tiger Woman on Wall Street by Junheng Li //Good for accounting and finance theory. Also insight into Chinese Culture
Recently read:
Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky //Good for understanding community organization and how members on the left side of the aisle think and act. Politics
Read Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie //Good for finding work that has meaning. Job and Life Satisfaction are themes.
TV
1. Fixed point 3D isn't really achievable except for one person. If two people watch something on TV, they both can't look at different things. They still only see the same thing. As a result, all you get is slightly better definition and clarity but not really 3D.
2. Glasses are a big factor - cost, hassle, batteries, vision issues, headaches, etc.
3. The technology was there (ESPN had a 3D Channel) but it required standards and training that most had not acquired. This is also the chicken and egg, content problem.
4. The social problem. People like to watch TV socially. However, you can't have everyone watching the same thing at the same time unless you have multiple sets of glasses. However, this comes back to #1. It really becomes an inconvenience to have multiple people watching the same thing with glasses and that doesn't compensate for a slightly better viewing experience.
Which brings up VR yet again.
The time is becoming ripe for VR to take over from where 3D TV failed. The biggest way is with the GearVR. Many people already have smartphones so this greatly reduced the cost. You only need the goggles. Samsung took care of that by giving them for free with new phone purchases which most consumers make every 2-3 years. That basically left content as the bottle-neck. Now with a captive audience that is only growing upward, it made sense for content producers to make 3D content much more regularly. Several companies have been doing Stereoscopic 3D VR broadcasts and playback of content that has been created for 3D VR. The result is that you can watch NBA Games, Concerts, sporting events, political debates, etc in 3D.
This in turn is bootstrapping the content industry as well as acting for a 3D VR Gateway for users. They get the first taste with very little investment if any (perhaps a few bucks to buy an NBA Game or episode of some TV Show. Sporting events are good initial content investments as people are already accustomed to watching from a fixed viewpoint. However, you can now watch from seats which you can't afford to in real life such as behind the players bench or from viewpoints which may not be viewable at all such as inside a goal or underneath a basket. Once customers see the value in that, they will be more likely to upgrade to higher end VR systems such as Vive, Rift, PSVR, and any other new platform that appears. This should then get the industry going iteratively. More customers equals better content. Better content leads to more refined viewing systems. This leads to higher bandwidth connections which leads to better quality content. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
I agree. Most if not all utility poles are on municipal grounds with some sort of easement granted to the company using it. It doesn't make sense to let a common carrier use it and then deny access to a competitor if it is not on their land. I think it is fair to make the competitors pay for a share of the installation and maintenance of the utility poles. I think there is similar precedent in that regards with Cell Phone Towers. I think the pricing should be RAND and standardized.
Update your review with the responses from the company. Be fully transparent to future customers whoe might be mislead by the company's products. Don't feel bad if someone loses their job because they weren't doing it properly to begin with. I would go so far as to tell the company that if they keep pushing it I would start investigating the security of their other products and possibly educate them about the Streisand Effect with other companies who have tried to do the same thing.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I think this is more a form of Libel than Parody. Parody is using likeness to something else but not representing it as something else. Think "Eat It" by Weird Al as opposed to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson. The likeness is there in the same music and video concept but the lyrics are different and Weird Al takes attribution for the work. This peace changes the message completely around and gives attribution to someone who is not affiliated with it. A good parody might have a similar sounding name and website. This one is using a legitimate organizations name and website to infer association. This content deserves to be taken down - especially because the creators don't take ownership of it. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they are sued for defamation and libel as well.
Disabling Auto Refresh is the best thing to happen to slashdot in a long time. Auto-refresh is the worst feature I never wanted.
They collect data from multiple sources and they can be more accurate at telling you if a family member is pregnant than a pregnancy exam. They actually have alogrithms that capture shopping habits and based an a seemingly random grouping of purchases they can determine if someone in the family is pregnant. Once they determine this, they send an email or mailer with a discount for pregnancy related products like diapers and baby food. I have heard of a couple of people now who have discovered this the hard way.
There is a lot of rhetoric on this thread about the impending doom of humanity as everything becomes automated. I think generally anytime you have a paradigm or technology shift people speak about the end of the earth or that we will all be replaced by robots. I don't think that automation of society is a bad idea. I do not believe that switching to manufacturing by robots will necessarily equal long term problems for humanity. I think the net effect is that people will move to fields that can not be automated or if the are automated they will come at great expense of time, resources, or other forms of effort.
For example, psychological counseling is traditionally done person to person. I don't know that someone who is struggling with an issue will choose to talk to an inanimate object over a live human being that can express empathy or even share in the life experience a patient is struggling with. I don't know many children that will want to stop playing with other human beings because a robot will be more entertaining. I think the jobs will shift to new fields such as Entertainment and the Arts, Athletics, Social Applications, Creative Pursuits - to be honest I think work will end up feeling a lot less like work.
I think as more of the mundane jobs are pushed off onto robots people and the money that they are involved with will shift to other sections of our economy. If an owner automates all production and no longer employs human beings - he too loses. Henry Ford new this principle all too well and chose to lower the costs of his cars through economies of scale so that he could increase his customer base. I think with Apple, eventually, Cook et al will fully understand this and reembrace humans in other portions of their business.
I think Dark Tangent should sponsor a "Spot the Perp Contest!" Just like Spot the Fed but allow the community to self-police and weed out the perps. Give the winner a free t-shirt, shame the perp on the wall of shame, toss their ass and make it clear that one douchebag doesn't speak for the whole community. Our community should be equal opportunity in its treatment of others just as we are willing to accept ideas from anyone. Women shouldn't avoid conferences because their rights of personal and emotional security will be violated. Everyone should stand up for this. We don't leave a hacker out in the cold because of their ethnicity (Russian hacker Dmitry Skylarov), past indiscretions (Kevin Mitnick), academic status (Christopher Soghoian) so why should gender be any different?!?!
I am fed up with hearing how companies extort each other using NDA's and then litigate them into annihilation. I am glad Barnes & Noble is fighting this. I wish more companies would fight this type of patent and copyright abuse. I think a law should be passed to require companies to publicly identify which patents are infringing by a technology rather than fearmongering. Put up or shut up.
...In particular, the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying 'the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks'" Isn't this guy just incriminating himself of a crime? Isn't that how the Syndicates operate? "Oh, it just fell off a truck". I remember when I lived in a free country where rights and liberties were protected. It is a sad shame our society is heading in such a wrong direction.
I wish Karma would come back and wipe out all the trolls! I will settle for it one at a time. Perhaps the MAFIAA's will be next. I made it a point never to buy anything with RDRAM in it after those lawsuits RAMBUS filed. Maybe if we are lucky they will go RAMBUST.
I suspect that this is a form of censorship like what we saw in the arab spring. The internet is self-sustaining at this point. There is much angry sentiment against these kinds of laws and much support among technical crowds. While a few greedy and dishonest legislatures may be able to pass laws that attempt to control this behavior (filesharing), there are many more people who have the know-how to bypass it. Perhaps it is time that people who are disconnected start connecting ad-hoc networks to bypass the ISP points of failure. If this can be done to topple dictatorial regimes in the 3rd world, why can't it be done in dictatorial regimes in the 1st world?
Sounds like a burglar's christmas wish come true. Assuming the burglar doesn't post his actions to facebook, I think the privacy implications for this are far worse than what Google's streetview has done.