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Twitter's shutting down the version of the API that is in current use by Friendfeed, afaik. So that may be permanent. The 100k tokens policy probably wouldn't apply to Friendfeed, they probably have access to somewhere around 300k tokens. https://dev.twitter.com/blog... - Gimminy

Advanced Tweets kind of works. I don't think it's against their terms if they make any provision of ownership to the author (the questionable case would be retweets). And yeah, it's not hard, just kind of costly. - Gimminy

You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting... - Bret Taylor

*jealous* I no longer get anything but subscription emails. - Bruce Lewis

"Talk about mixed messages: when Aereo first began offering consumers a way to get free network TV over the internet — on any device and on demand — CBS CEO Les Moonves said last year that the service wasn't causing him any loss of sleep. Fast forward to yesterday and executives from News Corp are warning that, if Aereo persists, Fox may pull programming off the free public airwaves and make it available only to paid cable subscribers." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"Top execs from HBO and Netflix offered contrasting perspectives on the value of binge-viewing in separate appearances Tuesday at the D: Dive into Media conference. HBO president/COO Eric Kessler downplayed the appeal of releasing multiple episodes all at once, as Netflix did recently for original series "House of Cards." "It's really a small percentage," he said of viewing activity on HBO Go, the premium channel's digital platform. What little binge viewing occurs on HBO Go, said Kessler, is when viewers are trying to catch up to a series that has already begun a run of original episodes on air or when subs first sign up and watch a series that is no longer in circulation on HBO. Kessler indicated that the traditional weekly episode installments help drive buzz, particularly across social media, that giving a series momentum through its finale episode. "For us, what was much more important is for fans to engage in social conversations every week," he said. Netflix chief content... more... - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

We have done what Sean has described to catch up on series we came into after a few seasons had passed (Bones, Big Bang Theory, BSG, Sherlock Holmes). That has been our primary summer movie/TV watching the past few years. - JA Castillo

"In March, when Google replaced the more than 60 privacy guidelines that governed its products and services with a single policy, it also moved to consolidate the personal data it collects. The company creates as much data in two days — roughly 5 exabytes — as the world produced from the dawn of humanity until 2003, according to a 2010 statement by Eric Schmidt, the company’s chairman, who later declared that he didn’t “believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable, and recorded by everyone all the time.” - Amira from Bookmarklet

"New research from Pew Internet says that ebook readership is up (duh), and overall we own more tablets and ereaders. That's not all that surprising, really. Still, here's a look at how America reads. According to data gathered from more than 2,000 participants in the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, the number of people who read ebooks increased to 23 percent of Americans 16 and older, from 16 percent last year. That's a big jump statistically, and coincides with the number of people who own a tablet or ereader going from 18 percent to 33 percent. And tablet owners actually passed ereader owners this year too, which makes sense given ereaders had a few-year head start, and this is the year inexpensive tablets actually got good with the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD. How Much Do Americans Read? (And How Much of That is with eBooks?) The study also said that 75 percent of Americans have read a book in the past year, which seems, weirdly, both surprisingly high and... more... - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

I have to say, that while I'm in the upper range of the number of books I read last year, only a handful of the some 40+ books I read were non-digital. It's just so much more convent to have it on my devices. - Bluesun 2600

I first started gravitating towards ebook technology in the mid-1990s -- I began by reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays on a Palm Pilot, as I recall -- and I have never looked back since. 80% of the books I read now (and I read many) are in ebook format. - Sean McBride

"The FCC has ordered cable operators (and TiVo) to update their cable boxes to include support for HD streaming over home networks to devices like PCs, smart TVs, and tablets. In addition to video streaming, cable boxes must also allow HD video recording on external devices through home networks. By June 2nd 2014 the vast majority of set top boxes will have to support an open standard, although cable companies with fewer than 400,000 subscribers have been given an extra three months to implement the changes. The commission originally ordered cable companies to support network-based streaming back in 2010, but TiVo protested the order saying "if each cable operator deploys set-top boxes with its own understanding of an open industry standard, the result may be an outcome that is neither standard nor open." The FCC has now clarified that an open standard should enable companies to work together without consultation, explaining that video streaming should work even if the cable company... more... - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"CNET reports that an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) re-authorization bill would completley reverse the intended protections of the original bill by allowing more than 22 federal agencies, including law enforcement agencies and the FCC, to read email and access other electronic files without a search warrant. The original ECPA, passed in 1986, is the only source of current federal guidelines on data privacy in the US and is in need of an update — and the ECPA Modernization Act originally would have required that law enforcement requests for cloud data be accompanied by a warrant. But if Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has his revised bill passed, American citizens could lose an important defense against secret electronic surveillance. "American citizens could lose an important defense against secret electronic surveillance" CNET says the revised bill would allow law enforcement and other federal agencies to access cloud data like... more... - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

http://thenextweb.com/us... - Clark Kent

Contents: 1. Information in colloquial speech 2. History of the term and the concept of information 2.1 Classical philosophy 2.2 Medieval philosophy 2.3 Modern philosophy 2.4 Historical development of the meaning of the term ‘information’ 3. Building blocks of modern theories of information 3.1 Languages 3.2 Optimal codes 3.3 Numbers 3.4 Physics 3.5 Logic 4. Developments in philosophy of Information 4.1 Popper: Information as degree of falsifiability 4.2 Shannon: Information defined in terms of probability 4.3 Solomonoff, Kolmogorov, Chaitin: Information as the length of a program 4.4 Applications 5. Conclusion Bibliography Academic Tools Other Internet Resources Related Entries - Amira from Bookmarklet

See also: Open Problems in the Study of Information and Computation http://plato.stanford.edu/entries... - Amira

Not sure where it came from. Possibly Jack Kornfield. Heard it quoted in a song. - Paul Buchheit

i might be some one u might want to talk to - James O'brien

October 2, 2012 Compiled by University of Waterloo 9/11 Research Group The following articles are peer-reviewed journal papers that address issues surrounding the day of 9/11/2001 from a critical perspective. Academics are encouraged to take an interest in 9/11 research. March 2012 | Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Journal: The Asia-Pacific Journal Author: Dr. Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley) Link: http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_... February 2012 | Temporal Considerations in Collapse of WTC Towers Journal: Int. J. Structural Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.189-207 Author: Dr. Gregory Szuladzinski (PhD, Structural Mechanics; FEIA & Member of ASCE) Link: http://www.inderscience.com/offer...

For all practical purposes this weekend ended the Israeli debate on attacking Iran. What tipped the scales were two developments. The first was the decision of the country's president, Shimon Peres, to make his opposition to a military strike public. The second was an interview given by a former key defense advisor of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, questioning for the first time publically whether his former superior and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are fit to lead Israel in time of war. Using every possible media outlet on the occasion of his 89th birthday, President Peres made clear last Thursday that "going it alone" -- attacking Iran without a clear understanding with the United States -- would be catastrophic. Peres did a great service to his country by focusing the debate away from some of the weaker arguments offered by opponents of a strike. Thus, the supposedly limited time that would be gained by such a strike was never convincing because in both previous experiences with... more... - Eric from Bookmarklet

Stupid statement: "Thus, the supposedly limited time ... gained by... a strike was never convincing because in both...experiences with such preventive action...Iraq... in 1981 and ...Syria ... in 2007 -- Israel ended up gaining more time than ...most had anticipated." WRONG. In fact, Israel's bombing of Iraq & Syria presaged the total destruction of both cultures; they were the... more... - Allen Bee

"On Monday, a startup revealed that it was ending its presence on Facebook, alleging it had paid the social network for a shocking amount of automated ad clicks. In its examinations, Limited Run charged that at least 80 percent of the clicks came from invalid traffic, or clickbots. Facebook gets paid whenever someone clicks on an ad that advertises an ad client's page. It's called Pay Per Click advertising. The situation continued despite complaints to Facebook, and then when Facebook told Limited Run it would need to pay $2,000 monthly to be able to update the company's Page name, enough was enough. Despite sizable outcry from tech forums such as Reddit's r/technology and Hacker News, Facebook issued a troublingly unsatisfying statement - and Limited Run has deleted its Facebook presence entirely. But now it looks like Limited Run's claims were just the tip of the clickbot revenue inflation iceberg." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"China has found a backdoor to access 80 percent of the “world’s communications” to include information passed through the internet and sensitive infrastructure databases, writes a former senior security analyst for the Pentagon. F. Michael Maloof, who now writes for WND, cites Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and ZTE Corporation as the companies the Chinese government and People Liberation Army can use to gain access to this information via commercial networks installed by each Chinese electronic manufacturer. “The two companies give the Chinese remote electronic “backdoor” access through the equipment they have installed in telecommunications networks in 140 countries. The Chinese companies service 45 of the world’s 50 largest telecom operators,” Maloof writes. He goes further to say the Chinese are working to access the remaining 20 percent. Individuals and companies who communicate over their “virtual private networks” or VPNs are especially susceptible. Sources have told Maloof those... more... - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"Google's Indoor Maps feature, which launched in November, has been steadily growing with the addition of walking directions and its recent launch in the UK. Today, Google announced the addition of floor plans for 22 US museums and the National Zoological Park, further expanding the Indoor Maps feature. Simply zoom into the museum on Google Maps to see the floor plan, and with "My location" enabled you can get walking directions as well. Some of the museums added include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as 17 different Smithsonian Museums (most of which are in Washington, D.C.). Google says that it is currently working with other museums to add maps of their buildings using its Floor Plans tool." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"Five years ago, the iPhone revolutionized the mobile business and kicked off a seismic shift in the technology industry that continues today. But the massive success of Apple's phone has overshadowed the grim reality of an American wireless marketplace that has become increasingly hostile to innovation — a market tightly controlled by carriers who capriciously pick winners and losers while raising prices and insisting that their use of valuable public spectrum remain free of any oversight. While the iPhone is a raging success, the wireless market is headed towards total failure." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

It was possible to “fix” the results by repeating request (this somehow helped to get omitted entries), but not anymore. - Хозяин строки

This is bad because due to the limitation of the API some posts could be digged out only via search or filtering by service, and now with search failing to get all the way through the database older stuff gets buried forever. - Хозяин строки

This stinks. Lots of my older posts are no longer accessible by search (e.g. searching for old NYC hostel information that I posted on FF). Guess I should have double-posted everything to De.li.ci.ous. :0-( - Mitchell Tsai

"Google has reached an agreement with French publishers that will allow it to digitize thousands of rare, out-of-print books. The French Publishers' Association (Syndicat National de l'édition) and the French Author's Association (Société des Gens de Lettres) have dropped their lawsuits against Google and will allow the company to digitize portions of their repertoire while retaining ownership of the works. This agreement represents a framework that Google hopes to extend to other nations and other publishers. While American authors coalesce against Google in a class action lawsuit, this agreement with the French is a win-win for both parties — Google Books can provide search results and context, while the publishers receive the proceeds if a purchase is made. While Google itself is no longer looking to be a book reseller, uniting the depth of knowledge entombed in books with the speed and convenience of the internet will be a boon to researchers and literary fans alike" - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

"Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back gardens are being deployed by Google and Apple. The U.S. technology giants are racing to produce aerial maps so detailed they can show up objects just four inches wide. But campaigners say the technology is a sinister development that brings the surveillance society a step closer. Google admits it has already sent planes over cities while Apple has acquired a firm using spy-in-the-sky technology that has been tested on at least 20 locations, including London. Apple’s military-grade cameras are understood to be so powerful they could potentially see into homes through skylights and windows. The technology is similar to that used by intelligence agencies in identifying terrorist targets in Afghanistan." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

May 24, 2012 NoLiesRadio.org Paul W. Rea, PhD, presents 
Mounting Evidence: Debunking the War on Terror that Washington Still Wants to Wage. Event will be live-cast by No Lies Radio. Details below. In Mounting Evidence, Paul W. Rea, PhD, delivers an amply-researched critique of the 9/11 Commission and debunks the War on Terror. There’s little doubt the tragic attacks on 9/11 soon became the defining events of our time, shaping much of what has followed. But even now, over a decade later, how well does the public actually understand them? Other researchers have written about key facets of 9/11 – the fall of World Trade Center buildings, the air-defense failures, the backgrounds of the hijackers, or the role of the Saudi funders. In Mounting Evidence, Dr. Rea shows how, by understanding the shattering events of that dark day, Americans can end seemingly endless wars and take back personal liberties they’ve lost.

"Pandora was not the first internet radio service to come along, but it quickly became the most prominent because of it’s tie-in to the Music Genome Project, which makes it unmatched at putting together playlists of related music based on a particular style or beat. Today, Pandora released details of their financial information and included some additional numbers on growth and market share. Specifically, Pandora now controls 71.7% of the top 20 U.S. internet radio services with 51.9 million active users. Revenue was also good, jumping 58% from last year to $80.8 million. Of that revenue, the vast majority ($70.6 million) came from advertising, while just over $10 million came from subscriptions. Both of those figures were also significant jumps over last year. You can read the entire statement, which goes into great detail, over at Pandora’s web site. For those who worried that the long-awaited U.S. release of Spotify would jeopardize the future of other services like Pandora, it seems those fears can be put to rest for now." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

By Russ BakerMay 4, 2012WhoWhatWhy.com When I got an email announcing an exclusive from NBC about the raid that, we’re told, resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, I dared raise my hopes. The last time a major media organization, the New Yorker, had promised us the inside story about what really happened on that day in early May, 2011, we got a major bit of disinformation. But, being an optimist, I set my TV to record the hour on NBC’s newsmagazine show, Rock Center, and went out to dinner. When I returned, I settled in and began watching. I heard the dramatic music, and listened to correspondent Brian Williams’s dramatic intro. Then I began waiting for answers. I waited. And waited. The answers never came. Can you believe an entire hour (or about half an hour plus endless ads) and not one interesting revelation? Can you believe that almost the entire thing dealt with how people in the White House felt that day, what kind of chairs they sat in, etc, and almost nothing on the...

BBC News Freed Israeli brother of Rabin gunman "proud" Chicago Tribune RAMLE, Israel, May 4 (Reuters) - Hagai Amir, the brother of the man who assassinated late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, said he was proud of his own role in the murder plot after he was freed from prison on Friday. Brother of Rabin Assassin Released from Israeli PrisonVoice of America Rabin killer's brother released from Israel prisonThe Associated Press all 223 news articles »

The tent camp activists say the municipality's demand to evict them contradicts its treatment of other movements that have protested there. They note that on this stretch of sidewalk, at the corner of Gaza Road and Balfour Street, the Shalit-family...

I’m told that MEMRI, which has its origins in Israeli military intelligence, has put out a statement doubting that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ever issued a fatwa forbidding nuclear weapons. (MEMRI claims to be a 501(c)3 non-profit but is actually an effort to cherry-pick Middle Eastern news to present the most negative face of [...]

An article in Wired's Danger Room blog caught my eye. Entitled "Pentagon Wants Spy Troops Posing as Businessmen," the article's main point of DoD wanting to use commercial cover in its clandestine activities seemed woefully out of date... by decades....

There is an irony to the vituperative attacks on Peter Beinart. He questions the narrow limits on debate about Israel, making pushback inevitable, J.J. Goldberg writes. Click here for the rest of the article...