jerrya

Someone that does that to me would not get a punch in the nose, but that is certainly what they would deserve.

Second, stuff you probably know that confuses me.

On Chrome, I can drop (multiple) imgur urls from another Chrome tab, and they are all placed on the canvas.

On Firefox, I get the Upload prompt when I drag the image (an image hosted on imgur in a chrome tab) onto Firefox, but when I drop it, nothing happens.

On IE 10, same as Firefox, but not even the Upload prompt.

Also, what am I missing? I fail to see how to get the image out of snapnote.io. I don't see a download or upload or url...? Nor do I see a link to this desktop app.

It might be fun to create a Chrome extension that created such a tally.

The problem I have with T-Mobile is their customer service reps are so poorly trained.

So depending on who I speak with, I am told I either need to pay the $15 for tethering or not. I pay it as I am a bit afraid to drop it never to have it return.

So can you tell me more about how you much you tether, and how often? Or if T-Mobile has ever given you anything official about your tethering being okay?

I just now read the WSJ article and while I am probably wrong to feel this way, I am a bit happier they need to get me to load malware on my phone, rather than the spooky action at a distance, reach out and touch someone approach suggested in 2005.

Priest's article is vague enough that last cell tower pinged may be what she was getting at, but the context, IIRC, was that the Army could determine down to a few feet where people were. Well, yes, maybe that's just cell tower triangulation and having a quick response.

Oh well, perhaps we'll know before the black helicopters arrive over the city. :(

I have a question for you, and maybe a suggestion for an article.

Around 2005/2006 I believe you published this article suggesting that cell phones could be remotely monitored. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

I think that article took on a life of its own, perhaps (?) beyond what you had intended, and since then has been the source of many articles saying the Feds could remotely turn on any cell phone at any time.

I once spent an afternoon reading various articles and they all used your article as their sole source.

I also think that folks suggested it wasn't any cell phone, but a particular few phones that could be reprogrammed, or that never really turned off, perhaps on a specific few carriers. (And there was some speculation that it wasn't even the phone, but a bugged phone battery.)

I haven't read anything further since 2006 about the Fed's ability to turn on cell phone mics when the phone is off, so I was wondering if you could do a follow up.

    1. Have you heard anything further on this?
    2. Did your article (inadvertently) create 
       unfounded rumors/conspiracy?
    3. Do you think that Android phones, mostly open 
       sourced with a few proprietary drivers, or 
       iPhones could be susceptible to this?
    4. If so, how might you answer the question of how 
       are all those employees at all those companies,
       Apple, Google, Verizon, ... being kept unaware, 
       or being kept silent?

But recently, Dana Priest at the WaPo made a claim that:

By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this “The Find,” and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-gr...)

Which made me rethink my dismissal.

Still, I haven't seen anything other than your piece and Dana Priest's piece suggesting anyone has this capability.

I'd love to read a follow up.

Philip Greenspun wrote a post about that sometime back.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/09/15/californias-st...

  Manager - SC Johnson
  Oversaw renovation of 70 year old building. Placed 1000
  employees in building that previously housed 200. Saved
  $50,000,000 construction of new building.

What is the deal with dropbox these days? Is it okay to host websites out of my dropbox via a dropbox associated app?

An argument from a legal department is a threat. And if it's not actually a threat, it's certainly a very significant perceived threat.

And lawyers and society definitely understand that.

The letter itself wasn't terrible, but it definitely contained a threat, and claiming it is a tone argument denies that.

Also, do you have a reference to PG's "hierarchy of disagreement"? Sounds interesting.

  * it doesn't get answered
  * it gets closed pretty quickly (and usually in an offputting insulting manner)
  * it gets changed(!) and a question I didn't ask gets answered

I don't understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.

No more than 10 years experience seems very much not job related. How does having too much experience hurt a person's ability to do a job?

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/27/why-do-speakers-ma...

Ideally, I'd love to find some vagrant scripts and ansible playbooks to bring Amazon ec2 instances up and down and configure them with a standard set of packages.

You could add a lot of value to the discussions and to the DailyDot if you were to participate to some extent in the discussions.

Your clean page, and the design and colors of your icon led me to think at first that this was a google project.

Compare your logo to that of google play's logo.

Throwing more light on the controversial use of police license plate readers, a new report from the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals the development of a new California database under development with the help of Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm whose data analysis technology is in wide use by the US intelligence and defense communities. According to the report, the company is party to a $340,000 contract to build the new infrastructure. The project is being spearheaded by the Northern California Intelligence Research Center — an office set up after the 9/11 terror attacks to enable police and intelligence agencies to share data.

The new database will collate records coming in from 14 counties across the state, will be able to handle at least 100 million records, and will be accessible to both local and state law enforcement, according to the report. It also notes that license plate records will be held by the new database for two years, regardless of the data retention policies of local law enforcement agencies. The database's total size is unknown, as is the identity of the government organization that administers it. However, LA Weekly wrote last year that a precursor to the new California-wide database in use by Los Angeles police had logged more than 160 million data points.

Despite their undeniable effectiveness at identifying stolen vehicles ("100 times better than driving around looking for license plates" in the words of one San Leandro police officer), license plate scanners have come under sharp criticism from privacy groups like the EFF and ACLU, which sued the LAPD and County Sheriff’s Department in May for access to a week's worth of records from its license plate readers. Since the devices permit automated scans of some 14,000 plates during a single shift, privacy advocates argue that strict data retention policies need to be put in place to stop a useful law enforcement tool from turning into a comprehensive database of citizens’ movements. And while the Supreme Court ruled last year that warrantless GPS tracking violates the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search, automated license plate readers don't face the same legal restriction.

This is a crowd sourced, human curated list, different from a feed reader, where the crowd consists mostly of humans competent in the field.

The problem of course is such crowds do not exist for so many other fields, but I would pay for good human curated content.

Alas, none of that is in any feedreader...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work

In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.

As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that would create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers.

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Jeremy Rifkin - 2005

http://www.foet.org/press/interviews/Spiegel-%20August%203%2...

European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs. But in reality the work isn't going to the Chinese --it's going to the robots.

(But for the most part, no one reads the comments of the dead.)