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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - http://online.wsj.com/article...
“Who were the lame engineers who came up with a system that runs without encryption? Even the graduates of the local high school programming courses know better than to leave to chance an important security hole.” — John Cierra
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
Disappointing Gifts, 1986 Edition: The Etch A Sketch Animator - http://www.crunchgear.com/2009...
I had one of these as a kid. I wouldn’t call it a disappointing gift myself because I did play with it on and off for many months. But I quickly learned that I was not destined to be a great cartoonist.
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
Zune HD Arrives in Purple and Magenta - http://arstechnica.com/microso...
My wife’s favorite color is purple, so she would love this… except she can’t stand the Zune she already owns.
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
In the past week, I've stopped receiving updates from Amazon. I tried a manual refresh. When I tried to remove and re-add Amazon, I get the 'oops, there was a problem' message.
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Kamilah Gill, Mike Chelen and 9 other people liked this
Same here, Amazon fetch is broken. I stupidly deleted Amazon service, now I cannot add it back again.
- andrei_c
It looks like the Amazon feed hasn't been working since Aug 17th. Does anyone know if this is a FF or Amazon problem?
- Greg Guitarbuster
Still broken.
- Greg Guitarbuster
I reported the bug using the link at the top of the page (doh). I received a quick reply from Ana that the Amazon feed changed and FF is working on a fix.
- Greg Guitarbuster
Is everyone else still experiencing this also?
- Myrrh C.
Edit: Three weeks ago, I stopped receiving ....
- Greg Guitarbuster
Just added to Amazon wishlist and the new items are not appearing when I manually refresh the feed here in FriendFeed.
- Scott of Two Countries
I got a note from Ana a couple of weeks ago that Amazon had changed their interface or API or whatever they use and FF was trying to sync back up with them. I also stupidly deleted my account, but it hadn't been updating anyway. I tried again today (9/14) and no luck.
- Mark Edwards
Any update?
- andrei_c
still not working for me
- masstrovato
Oops, didn't see that this had been bumped. I posted another question but I'll watch both threads.
- joey
Permanent vegetative state or brain dead? Anyone want to call time of death?
- Greg Guitarbuster
Still seeing this myself, yeah.
- Stephen Mack
Is there an update? http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- joey
Oct 15, 2009: Still not working. I noticed this after the custom themes were unveiled, for the longest time I assumed my custom theme was to blame. Guilt > Doubt > Curiosity > Annoyance > Procrastination > Pet Peeve > more Procrastination. I finally emailed FriendFeed yesterday, and got a reply from Ana that same day. It seems like they understand what the problem is, but her email wasn't very reassuring beyond that, as she apologetically stated that this is [still] going to take awhile to fix.
- OraMac
OraMac, thank you for the update.
- Greg Guitarbuster
Nov 19, 2009: Still not working. Broken for 3 months.
- Greg Guitarbuster
It is really ridiculous that the Amazon feed has been broken this long. I remember when issues like this were quickly resolved. FriendFeed is clearly no longer a primary concern for the developers.
- Evan Brown
5 Years of Firefox - http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009...
Congratulations to Mozilla on five years of Firefox!
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
HijiNKS Ensue: Better Than I Know Myself - http://hijinksensue.com/2009...
This comic has me pegged (although I really am trying to catch up on FlashForward).
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
2009 jQuery Halloween Pumpkin - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Another year, another jQuery-inspired jack-o’-lantern.
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
World Not Ending in 2012, Says NASA - http://dsc.discovery.com/news...
I am SO glad they cleared that one up.
- Evan Brown
Six-Year-Old Child Floating Alone High over Colorado - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
Please pray for this child and the rescuers.
- Evan Brown
The boy was found in the attic of his home. He was never in the balloon. Thank God.
- Evan Brown
Colorado Boy in Loose Aircraft - http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1356...
“Rescuers are tracking and chasing a ‘homemade flying saucer’ that is in flight with a 6-year-old, by himself, on board.”
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
Isn't this an act of war? Shouldn't Obama be sending some ships down to Venezuela right now? http://www.breitbart.com/article...
An act of war? I’m not so sure. A hotel owned by an American company is not exactly on the same level as a U.S. embassy.
- Evan Brown
Thanks to Judy Jones, I am now on Google Wave!
You did, and I thank you!
- Evan Brown
In Case You Forgot: IE6 Still Holds 25% of the Browser Market - http://mashable.com/2009...
Good grief.
- Evan Brown
LastPass extension for Google Chrome now available, and it rocks - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
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A number of Download Squad readers have been echoing the same sentiment in recent posts about Google's browser: as soon as LastPass is available, we're leaving Firefox for good. Well, gang, grab your parachutes, it's time to bail! The LastPass crew has released an alpha version of their Google Chrome extension, and it rocks. Check out the screens after the break!
- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Ah, nice. Would be all over it if I needed a password manager.
- Christopher A Carr
Now, I forget another web browser because WebKit is my favorite page renderer & the style of Chrome is being liked by me. I use IE or Firefox because there's many way to sync my passwords here.
- Sachin Shekhar
This is great news. I was a long-time Roboform user, but LastPass is much better in my opinion. Glad to see that I no longer have to use the bookmarklet in Chrome.
- Evan Brown
I'm on phone right now but I swear to having read reports saying that Roboform now works as a Chromium extension.
- Niklas Pivic
from fftogo
Not quite. They are actually offering a custom build of Chromium with Roboform built in.
- Evan Brown
You have to get the Dev channel build of Chrome...
- Paul Whitaker
Google Has a Solution for Internet Explorer: Turn It into Chrome - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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This is an excellent idea. People still using old versions of IE will be more likely to download a plugin than an entirely new browser (although the plugin secretly is a new browser)..
- Evan Brown
from Bookmarklet
Not bad ! But, what will be the basic page rendering engine ? We like chrome also due to WebKit. OK !!!
- Sachin Shekhar
The rendering engine will still be IE’s Trident engine by default unless you visit a page containing the X-UA-Compatible meta tag.
- Evan Brown
I am *loving* mint.com and I *really* hope that Intuit doesn't dork it up.
Same here.
- Evan Brown
FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
I admit I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, especially when it comes to tech issues, but that article made almost no sense at all. The Beatles torrent scenario for example... in that scenario I (who happen to be a huge Beatles fan) am the aggrieved neighbor! Why shouldn't the greedy bastard have to pay a premium for excessive usage like that? Though the amount of a given ISP's...
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- Jim Is Not Smart
Are you sure you read the same article I did? I didn’t find any of it to be convoluted. The general idea to me seems to be that if ISPs are no longer permitted the freedom to manage traffic on their own networks as they see fit, they may have to charge high-consumption users a premium in order to keep the networks from being overloaded.
- Evan Brown
Is Silverlight the New WebForms? - http://encosia.com/2009...
This is a great article explaining why in most cases, using HTML, CSS, and Javascript is a better choice than Silverlight.
- Evan Brown
Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Hmmm… I’m not sure how I feel about this. I really like Mint; it is much better than Quicken in my opinion. I hope that Intuit doesn’t do anything to mess it up.
- Evan Brown
President Obama stated that 90 percent of health insurance in Alabama “is controlled by just one company” (that would be Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama). He claimed that we need a government-run insurance option to provide competition. But part of the reason there is not more competition in Alabama is BECAUSE of government since nearly all...
Since nearly all state employees (which make up an increasing percent of the population) get their health insurance through the State Insurance Board, which contracts with BCBS.
- Evan Brown
17-Year-Old Melanie Oudin Upsets Sharapova at U.S. Open - http://www.seattlepi.com/othersp...
Oudin is having an impressive Open. First, she beat number four seed Elena Dementieva, and now she has sent former champion Maria Sharapova packing.
- Evan Brown
The Web Is the Most Successful, Fantastic Virtual Machine - http://almaer.com/blog...
I had never thought of the Web as a VM before; it’s an interesting perspective.
- Evan Brown
Disney to acquire Marvel in $4 billion deal | U.S. | Reuters (via feedly) - http://www.reuters.com/article...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I feel your pain, Mike. But you never know; this might turn out to be a good move for both companies.
- Evan Brown
Disney Is Buying Marvel for $4 Billion - http://laughingsquid.com/disney-...
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HOLY. CRAP.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh noes. What will happen to the violence and gore?
- Dean Michael Berris
Doesn't Marvel have deals with Universal Studio's?
- Mark Layton
Yes they do. Expect those deals not to be renewed. I imagine we will be seeing Spider-Man and the Hulk at Disney World before too long.
- Evan Brown
@Evan. Thanks, that is what I was thinking. Universal has a majority of rides and venues themed from Marvel. Should be interesting to see what happens there and at the Disney Parks.
- Mark Layton
Outstanding. More summer blockbuster crap that I don't have to watch.
- Big K
After sitting down with him and making certain that he understood the purpose, my son Micah took his first communion this morning.
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Welcome to the table, Micah!
- Mistletoe Glen
Thanks, Glen. My son said he appreciates that.
- Evan Brown
Amen! Micah, the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:25,26)
- Melanie Reed
Kennedy's graveside ceremony has unfortunately devolved into a political stump speech. Shameful.
That's like complaining that a pastor's graveside ceremony devolves into a call for souls to come to Christ. Politics was the man's life's work -- liberal politics at that. Ignoring everything he worked for and everything he was working for as he died would be pure farce.
- James (@willia4)
James, your comparison is flawed. A funeral is a very appropriate time to talk about eternity. It is an inopportune time to discuss something as fleeting as politics.
- Evan Brown
You could use that argument to silence anything at a funeral that isn't related to infinity. "John was a great father." "No. Too fleeting. His kids will be dead before the universe ends, let alone before eternity ends." So, if one part of the man's fleeting life is okay to talk about, pretending that his entire legacy is too fleeting is just silly.
- James (@willia4)
Red Skelton — Guzzler’s Gin - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is a sketch from the 1946 MGM film Ziegfeld Follies. My family watched this last night, and my seven-year-old son was on the floor laughing so hard that we had to pause the movie.
- Evan Brown
Why Do Linux and Open Source Lovers Give Apple a Free Pass? - http://blogs.computerworld.com/14616...
As a Linux user and fan of OSS, I wish I knew the answer to this question.
- Evan Brown
Friendfeed still here in a year? Yes or No?
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say yes.
- Evan Brown
I wanna say yes but I think I fall more in the "Hell if I know" category. :)
- pea
Yes. But I don't think new features will be implemented.
- imabonehead
FriendFeed with "improvements" ? FriendFeed as we know it today? Or friendfeed.com as a site? Yes, no, yes are my guesses. Two years no, no, no.
- Brian Sullivan
Yes, but that's just a guess.
- 321
Yes, most probably more users
- victed
Yes, i hope so. If more users would see the possibilities here...
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
Well, very probably. But I don't think that I'll be here, myself.
- directeur
Yes, it will exist. And it will have more users. But with the expected demographic associated with the anticipated influx, I doubt I will be as interested in the service. For me, I'll wait and see who the Friendfeed community will be before I decide to invest further or cut my losses.
- Lorin Olsen
:) you've said that since Friendfeed launched directeur! :)
- Zee.
Zee ;-)
- directeur
what does ff have that others dont?
- Micheal Condon
That may be an indicator
- Micheal Condon
If people stop itching and moaning it will. If they don't I have a feeling there won't be any community worth it left.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
yes
- Mac Sharp
Friendfeed has always been about community and dialog. And I used the tool to test/sense the zeitgeist of tech luminaries that I respected. Twitter is a megaphone; Facebook is the shopping mall. I wanted Freindfeed to be the quiet coffee shop. But Friendfeed may now be over-run by a collection of nattering nabobs. If so, I'll go find a quieter shop where I can have deep and meaningful discussions. Disqus, anyone?
- Lorin Olsen
Easily yes, although "here" could mean "the website is still searchable."
- John E. Bredehoft
i hope so!
- Francisco Kemeny
Yes!
- Michael Fidler
Yes
- johnpiercy
yip
- Micheal Condon
Yes......?
- Kristian Salonen
I fear not. The equation is [FF = (feeds+people+conversation) * interesting]. If interesting people and contents will migrate in another place, all their friends will follow them. Since FF will be not mainstream, no other people will replace them and so maybe there's not reason to let this service open. I'm afraid about this, really, but I think that a cloud architecture could be the right place for early adopters
- Roberto
Yes if we all stick by it! Maybe.
- Matt G
It will likely still exist but the real question is if it will keep it's popularity.
- Stephen
Yes, in one way or another. The problem is, people are fleeing just because FB bought it...if too many goes away, whats the point keeping it up? Websites like this has to grow bigger and bigger or else they'll die. If FB wouldn't have bought it, I think FF would have died sooner or later anyway.
- Patrik Johansson
Yes, it will probably be around. Will it be recognizable as the Friendfeed we all know and love? I am much less confident about this. :o(
- Seth Greenblatt
Yes, and hopefully with many more users than now, thanks to the fb acquisition.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Yes :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Yep.
- Akiva Moskovitz
No
- Alejandro
Yes, because they aren't treating it like a back-burner project: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
yes.
- Gus
yes... but we'll probably be using it differently.
- .LAG liked that
Give me 6months and I'll tell you, yes or no. For now yes.
- Jimminy Fuller
no
- Alex Scrivener
Yes.
- Robert Scoble
Yep - just like Del.icio.us is still here
- Chris Saad
A more thoughtful response here: http://blog.areyoupayingattention.com/2009...
- Chris Saad
Yes - still the cleanest way to have intelligent conversations.
- Alan Morris
yes - they serve different markets. Facebook is for keeping in touch with friends. Friendfeed is for sharing ideas with people who share similar interests but who you may have never met.
- Simon Hicks
Yes..It is going to be here as it provides a cusp of Twitter and Facebook.. as i see it so there is a room for it to stay here longer
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Well I get the impression from Paul that it will be around for a while so I'd say yes but Facebook will gobble it up at some point (whenever the contract states). The team have been split up and thus fewer people are working and maintaining it. Let's hope some sort of FB Lite will accommodate us... but I doubt it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hope so...
- David Cook
Maybe it will be integrated in facebook, but the innovations that friendfeed have will then move over to facebook, because they are awesome
- alfred westerveld
Friendfeed yes, the need to use it, no.
- Dani Radu
Depends on us :)
- Véronique Rabuteau
Yes. It's Facebook's R&D dept....they might as well bucktest the stuff here before rolling it out on their 'main' site ;)
- Nicholas James
no
- Gaith
Your boss comes to your office and is standing while talking to you, do you stand too?
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or remain seated? Seems wrong to me to be comfortable while the boss is standing.
- Matthew DeVries
I keep seated, but we're a very informal office. Sometimes he sits on the floor, and I'm not following suit with that one.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I have a cube, so maybe it's different, but I definitely stay sitting.
- Jordan Hofker
If it's my manager, I remain seated. If it's someone above him with whom I do not normally interact, I'll stand.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I always stay sitting.
- Sparky
It depends upon the length of the conversation. I stay seated for a quick, informal talk. If it is a more involved discussion, I may stand, or he may sit down.
- Evan Brown
The only time I get uncomfortable is when my boss sits on my lap.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I stay seated. Sometimes she'll pull up a chair and sit too.
- Yolanda
Yeah, I'd rather they came in and sat down, I have chairs for it. What about clients who come in for a quick talk and insist on standing?
- Matthew DeVries
Definitely. This shows that you respect them. You can offer to let them have your chair or another if available. It sends a message that you are here to support them
- Melanie Reed
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