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A. Oh, I wish I had seen and checked the box, that initial tweet didn't get sent out.

B. Oh, I wish I had seen and unchecked the box, I was surprised that a tweet got sent out.

Which way do you think the vote would go if you asked people their preferred scenario?

:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.

If UPS existed 110 years ago: "After years of horse drawn cartage, we're going petroleum first, and we're very excited about it."

Of course digital first should be the first inclination. Succeed where the success is, not where the past has died.

Good for the Atlantic.

I think the point to be gleaned from this article is not "start a business and then retire on the proceeds from its sale." As the article states, people aren't buying businesses at a rate that makes that a sensible strategy.

The more immediate benefit of owning/starting a business "at age" is to create employment for yourself, when employment pickings are very thin for older workers.

Bad that the recession has destroyed retirement funds and people have to work longer. Worse that those same people may not find work at all due to age related factors. One solution is to create a job for yourself.

Does Zuckerberg disagree that the effect would be something like this?

"I suppose the next step for our "well-intentioned" law makers would be to have all routers subscribe to a global IP blacklist, which will be easier when IPV6 becomes the norm and the one-to-one mapping between IP addresses and nameable things returns."

OT, but this made me think of assigning an IP to every individual, mapped to either or all of iris scans, fingerprints and dna.

The government already tries to hard to keep information from citizens. Why should we help them?

My understanding is that everything is copyright automatically, unless given to the public domain. Your post here, for example, is copyright by you.

And they can illuminate the cover titles in calligraphy with little illustrations of cherubs and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript#Gallery

Who decides what's porn?

I was pretty pissed to realize that my Epic, that cost as much as a small PC, would not likely enjoy updates for very long, certainly not the life of the phone.

Coincidentally, because of my personal recession I've backgraded to an old feature phone I had, and no data plan. And I'm of a mind to just stand pat when my personal economic recovery kicks in. I feel like an idiot paying that much for a phone with a short support life (and CM does not support that phone), and a horrendously expensive data plan.

"Not to mention ===, etc, etc."

In that context, I read "etc, etc" as a variant of the "etc" operator.

Excellent advice, often ignored. To your comment, I would add that you shouldn't limit your problem to something small or "doable." List and describe as grandiose a problem as interests you, then carve out a piece of that problem whose scope is appropriate for your project.

They've got people skills.

Already too late, they're falling all over themselves to proclaim their ignorance and vote this into tragic existence.

Let's hope so, it seems only something that ridiculous is going to get anyone's attention.

I suppose the Elves leaving .com might do it too.

Anonymous lists the names of Portman's children in the attack.

I don't have much problem with the "attack," which mainly lists Portman's public information.

But his children are innocents and vulnerable, and it's beyond the pale to involve them. People with an interest in this issue are not the only people who read the web. Sometimes knowing a name is all you need to social engineer a crime.

Don't do this, it's wrong.

These laws are written for entities that are "too big to fight." Not us.

To go in the Description field of your bookmark: (quote)

If you are currently using the Oracle Java packages from the partner archive, you have two options:

1- Install the OpenJDK packages that are provided in the main Ubuntu archive. (icedtea6-plugin for the browser plugin, openjdk-6-jdk or openjdk-6-jre for the virtual machine)

2- Manually install Oracle's Java software from their web site [4].

I have flashblock turned on. vtunnel is full of flash, and does some sort of not-a-popup popup at the beginning, with nothing but flash in it.

They could be angels for all I know, but a site that promotes anonymity and loads up with flash makes me pass it by.

Never heard of it, just tried it. I can see this ending up being my favorite browser, if I can peel off the time to figure out bookmarks. If I understand, the answer is "manage them yourself," which is mostly thrilling if slightly off-putting. I'll try to get to that soon.

I would like the ability to access and manipulate all of "my" browser data in a pipelined command line environment similar to a shell. I want to be able to easily get at all my bookmarks, tabs, plugins, tabs, the dom, history, cookies, super cookies, megalomaniacal cookies, etc, i.e. everything that changes the browser due to my actions, and list it, count it, query it, twist it and tease it.

I'd like that data and environment to be available from within the browser, and bonus points if I could easily get at it from a traditional [[t]c|k|z|da|ba]sh shell.

And I'd rather use a shell-like language, not javascript, but if javascript were the only way to do this then hell yeah I'd use it.

If the jackal is breaking your windows you'll probably do something direct and immediate to defend yourself. If it's slinking just beyond the tree line you might decide to put another log on the fire and sip hot chocolate.

Probably the trailer, as we think of it in the movies, is too expensive. Trailers are shown to and amortized across a national audience, and I assume are placed in front of movies where the audience will have a positive response.

That said, I see static local ads in the discount theaters. I suppose a theater owner would show any ad that was paid for, but most movie theaters are chains and probably make large deals for the trailers, just like they do for the movies.

Or something.

"What happens if you cannot find a bank that gives you a loan without insisting that you give them access to your accounts?"

Then you either go to another bank, or maybe you don't get the loan from any bank. If you don't get the loan, you change your plans to save up cash, or you change your goals.

Either most people will go along with this (likely), or banks will have to decide if a smaller loan pie is good business.

And they would have nothing pushing them to be the best birds, so it would be pretty unpleasant.

Ironic that, for me, the first hit after the telephone number (same one raganwald lists) is a Wikipedia article on suicide methods.

When a farmer drives his harvester through a field, most ears of corn get profitably harvested. [Work with me, I'm a city boy.] A few ears get trampled and destroyed. The farmer doesn't grieve for the trampled ears, and he does little to nothing to reduce trampled ears, because overall his harvesting method is the most monetarily efficient one available to him. He's happy, and doesn't give the trampled ears a single thought.

Amazon, Google et al. have discovered that millions of ears of corn will line up to be harvested. Virtually none leaves voluntarily.

Welcome to the produce section.

Anything on TV more widely available than public access is, almost by definition, mainstream. Even the non-mainstream shows are mainstream, their selling point being that they're "non-mainstream."

If a show doesn't make big dollars for the network, it doesn't get on in the first place. Almost everything you see and touch today is mainstream, and if you think it isn't, it's because it's been marketed to you as non-mainstream.

It's every federal employee's role, including the TSA and Congress, by the oath they take to protect and defend the constitution. The military, as well as some state employees, all take similar oaths. It's job number one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office#United_States