mvalle

I find that calling Americans "Unitedstatesians" is like calling the French "Republicans".

Case in point: Gaddafi

I had an email from Google(docs) go to the gmail spam folder.

Guns are the only form of power. Sometimes you just don't have enough guns.

Does this work with Chrome? I believe Chrome does it's own dns resolution and skips the host file. (I defiantly know it won't resolve localhost if you're offline)

There is one good thing XML. brought: BPEL.

It's the funniest language I've ever seen.

I think it's changing, ala inflation.

I love reading software patents. From the article:

32. Of the patents Microsoft threatened Barnes & Noble with in the past, Microsoft has only sued Microsoft on the ’780 patent. Barnes & Noble denies that the accused NookTM and Nook ColorTM devices infringe any valid, enforceable claim of the ’780 patent. The ’780 patent appears to cover nothing more than placing a loading status icon in the content viewing area of a browser. In that patent, Microsoft concedes that loading status icons and content viewing areas of a browser were both known in the prior art. The prior art placed the loading status icon outside of the viewing area, but it is nothing short of obvious to place it in the content viewing area (since there are only two locations for such an icon—either in or out of the content viewing area).

In business school, my law teacher worked as a lawyer and only came in to teach us a few hours a week. He also was a really great teacher.

I'm just building a mango app to sync with IMDb. Oh well...

I'll have a look at yours. I didn't know about tmdb.

I believe he now works for the Software Freedom Law Center, which is sort of affiliated with the FSF.

That's what I thought. It's not very humble anymore is it?

I think this is great. I think more sites should do this. I think I should do this! I'm not a great sysadmin, but I'd like to do what I can to help the ipv6 switch-over.

Does anyone have any experience in operating a ipv6-enabled site? What is involved?

Isn't it possible to plot someone's position over time, no matter what phone you have? I mean the carriers know which towers you've connected to and when, they have all the info you need to track someone, even across multiple phones.

I don't think it would be hard to do, in fact, they reverse the whole point of a CAPTCHA.

A CAPTCHA is supposed to be a task that is easy for humans, but difficult for computers. High-level mathematics is difficult for humans but easy for computers.

They do have some success of telling computers and humans apart, though.

I fear that 1981 still applies today, and is indeed the case with Google.

Free Software is defined as software released under a license that follows the definition of Free Software ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ).

BSD, MIT and WTFPL are all on the list of officially verified Free Software licenses: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html and are thus "Free Software".

Open Source, similarly, is defined as software released under a license that follows the definition of Open Source Software ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd ). The OSI also has a list of approved licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

"In reality, Free Software ends up being useful only for programmers, hackers, technical people,"

That is like saying that freedom of speech is only useful for journalists.

You don't have to exercise a freedom to benefit from it. You benefit from others exercising it too. Whether a journalist exposes government corruption, or a security experts independently audits OpenSSL, everyone benefits of the relevant freedom being exercised.

You don't have to be a programmer for benefiting from DeCSS. You don't have to be a hacker to benefit from Apache. You don't have to be a technical person to benefit from WordPress.

The same applies to the reversed, you don't have to be a programmer to suffer from DRM, vendor lock-in, or nag-ware.

Some Chinese people say, that the government only prevents them from seeing/reading bad stuff, and that censorship is, in general, a good thing.

I'd like to emphasize that this is music only. Not video content or non-music audio content etc.

It appears that Match.com does control OkCupid.

"IAC's Match.com Acquires OkCupid"

http://iac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1882

Oh, the irony...

Because App Stores are the new trend and everyone wants one. Most iPhone/iPod apps could too just as easily be plain web sites.

Totalitarian or not, it is still a tyrannical regime.

When I first got my netbook, I sometimes set up an ssh media server to stream music from my main computer to my netbook like this:

ssh user@host cat /path/to/music-collection | mplayer

Yep, Microsoft (probably) just bought Unix.

Somehow, there's something poetic about that...

This is an important point that I think a lot of people don't understand.

Even respected people in the technology world don't recognize that the GPL is not a use license.

And it's probably not the first or last word. And if it precedes a ',' then it's probably more likely to be it. There are many ways to increase the hit-rate.

If SPAM is interesting and engaging, is is SPAM?

I suppose getting the GPS co-ordinates would help the local search. Most modern smart-phones have GPS nowadays, and I believe that they GPS co-ordinates are embedded into the images.