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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the... - http://coffeenated.tumblr.com/post...
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Do or do not. There is no try
- Wizetux
temporarily yes. isolation is also a teacher i learn many things in isolation, conversely how to be a better human being
- Simply Caroline
treat people better. learn how to take care of yourself better, in isolation there is contemplation .. a meditation .. yea meditation is a better word. we as humans have a negative connotation to the word isolation
- Simply Caroline
it's a sad little word. by its self and all.
- Simply Caroline
no, are you?
- Simply Caroline
this was good. i enjoyed this conversation. i'm glad we talked it out.
- Simply Caroline
Onavo Is A Money-Saving, Must-Have App For EVERY iPhone Data User - http://techcrunch.com/2011...
Yeah, does this not bother anyone else? First off, how are they paying for the bandwidth to proxy all of this data? They have to be doing something with your data to pay for this.
- Wizetux
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T-Mobile Blog - http://blog.t-mobile.com/speedch...
T-Mobile is challenging Seattle area iPhone users to a unique challenge. Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1, 2011, bring your iPhone into one of our 10 participating stores to take part in a speed challenge. If your iPhone can beat the Galaxy S 4G in two out of three speed tests (download speed), we’ll give you 1,000 bucks.
- Wizetux
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RT @zephoria: HOLY SHIT. It looks like Tumblr deleted my account and gave it away. Without notifying me (violating their TOS). ::jaw on floor:: #horrified
andrei_c, Kisha, Monique the crochet freak and 2 other people liked this
Reason #1 why you should own your own web site.
- Wizetux
Unless that website is in the cloud, cf. AWSgate. So really everyone should own their own rack space. But what if the martians come and blow up all the data centers? Reason #1 why you should have your own underground fortress, capable of withstanding tactical martian nukes.
- Mark Trapp
Reason #1 why you shouldn't use third party sites as sole repositories of your information. I'm not sure whether she's more upset that she lost her URL/username or the data. At least the data should be backed up elsewhere. The URL/username you can fight to get back.
- Kevin Fox
She should fight it. Get the EFF involved, drum up some community outrage at Tumblr. She had the namespace first, isn't infringing, and now some commercial interest comes along and breaks the links it took years to forge. But yes... don't trust 3rd parties.
- Tinfoil 2.0
lol you don't have to tell her not to trust 3rd parties.
- holly #ravingfangirl
See some more irony Mark caught: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...
- Micah
How do you use 1Gbps Internet links? Chattanooga residents find out - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
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"Google is bringing 1Gbps fiber connections to Kansas City, Kansas next year—but what can Kansans expect when the fiber arrives? Chattanooga, Tennesse provides a partial answer."
- LANjackal
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"which launched with a $350 per month price tag" Really??? I know people who complain about spending 20 dollars a month on internet service. I don't think they really expected residents to pay for this.
- Wizetux
I'd get it if I had the $
- LANjackal
Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’ - http://techcrunch.com/2011...
Hmm, interesting. Facebook becomes Google Buzz.
- Wizetux
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Senator urges lawmakers to give up pay if there’s a shutdown – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011...
Out of all of the things about shutting down the government, this has to be one of the biggest issues that I have with it: ""While millions of American families will be impacted by a government shutdown...elected officials are the one group who will not be impacted. Just the opposite, in fact: we still get paid," says Manchin, in a letter circulated to fellow lawmakers. "How does that make any sense?""
- Wizetux
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It is just like politician to make decisions that have absolutly no imact on themselves, but affects millions of people under or around them.
- Wizetux
I have come to the conclusion that I am not good at naming programming structures. I tend to want to keep them short so I don't get tired of having to type "superdiscriptiveclassnamebutitisreallylong" every time I want to create one of the structures.
However, seeing how everyone at my job does their coding in Visual Studio with its auto-complete on, they tend to not care and I have seen class names almost 30 characters in length, which I must admit leads to some pretty ugly code.
- Wizetux
Time Warner Cable is a terrible service. Still no internet.
SteVe C, Scoble, Alex Scoble and Marty liked this
Time to think about moving to Kansas City, KS.
- Wizetux
No USB port? No problem! :D
Halil, Brian, Skyler Call and 45 other people liked this
Love
- Fossil Huntress
I...but...what? Does it actually work?
- Squall
saygilar
- ufo
I am just going to venture to guess that this setup would not work at all.
- Wizetux
I bet there are Linux drivers for such a set up :)
- Victor Ganata
@Glen Corollary: Just because you shouldn't, means someone will.
- Micah
i am this thing
- world-of-disabled.de
liking again.
- Joe Silence
YouTube - Doctor Who - Full Length Trailer for New Series 2011 - BBC One - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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OMG!
- Wizetux
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Amazon.com: Number Slide: Amazon Digital Services: Kindle Store - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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hmmm, is this real, or just another April Fools joke?
- Wizetux
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I really don't understand how some business sectors feel that the economical status of their sector has nothing to do with the general economy. If people don't have money to spend, they then can't buy your product.
#cryptic, Heather, Morton Fox and 3 other people liked this
Oh, where can I get some of this "not my" money that I can spend?
- Wizetux
Some businesses aren't connected to the general economy and are making money off of transactional activities instead. As long as those transactions continue to exist and grow in number, those companies will continue to do well, regardless of how the consumer economy is going.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Cristo, wouldn't it just be easier to let your neighbors buy the product, and then just take that away from them? Oh, wait...I think that is how the government is doing it.
- Wizetux
Remember that little economic disturbance the world is just now fighting its way out of? Yeah, people without money to spend, spending it on product ... in this case, houses.
- Le Slip Anglais
Technically, the more business sectors that are tied to the economic status of the general economy make the general economy that much more vulnerable (to cyclical swings). That said, I know this post is about the financial sector. When I hear that, I think about how much more flexible the financial market has become since the 80s, and all the new possibilities that allows. Also the...
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- Christopher Galtenberg
Putting money in a savings account is still investing. At least people aren't putting their money under their mattresses or buying large immovable piles of stuff that you can't really use for anything. Oh wait.
- Victor Ganata
/joins the crowd, *throws hands up
- Christopher Galtenberg
Already have it figured out, do you, Cristo? I hear foxes have that ability, too. But after the hens are gone come the hounds.
- Melanie Reed
Cryptic cynicism
- Christopher Galtenberg
I've been reading stuff about how economies can be modeled like ecologies, so I'm having a hard time imagining sectors of the market that can operate completely in a vacuum. They're ultimately all competing for the same resources: money. The only way I could see it is if the sectors you're talking about aren't centered around money.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor, one sector that is not connected with the economy as much is that of needed goods. Such as food, heat, water...you know, all those things you need to live. Those greedy bastards..these should just be free for the betterment of man/women (I don't want to be called sexiest again.)
- Wizetux
OK, there's a huge difference between not connected as much and not connected at all. That's all I'm saying. We still buy those things with money. I do anticipate that when the end of the civilization happens, competition over food, water, and shelter will no longer center around money, though.
- Victor Ganata
Barnyard economics, Cristo. So many things are self-explanatory.
- Melanie Reed
"....because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." Some things seem hidden that are obvious because of the condition of our mind and our heart, Cristo.
- Melanie Reed
I had my 11 year old niece read through the thread, explained it to me, wow, kids these days... very solid on the fundamentals.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Environmentalist Monbiot Supports Nuclear Power : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...
"Now, in China alone, between 5,000 and 20,000 people every year are killed in industrial accidents in coal mines. And the death rate from coal-fired energy is hundreds, thousands of times greater than the death rate in nuclear."
- Wizetux
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The Bull Market in Uranium is Over | FINANCIAL SENSE - http://www.financialsense.com/contrib...
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"The Public Doesn't Want Nuclear Power "It just is," they said. "It's all over." "But it's possible the reaction to Japan has been exaggerated", I ventured. "Doesn't matter", said one of the girls. "We don't want it. Nobody wants it. We've had enough." Her friend, an American, took over. "It's the same back home. We don't want it. Nobody does. We've heard all the arguments about nuclear being safer than coal and stuff. I know in Japan the earthquakes were outlier events. And at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and the buildings were old. Doesn't make any difference. Nobody wants it." Another piped up. "Japan's supposed to be the most technologically advanced country on the planet – and they had problems. There are power stations on fault lines. The ocean's contaminated. I don't want to be eating radioactive fish. And how do you get rid of the waste? How do you store waste for a thousand years? Nuclear power is over. Nobody wants it." Irwin looked at me, as if to say, "they may have a point"."
- Morton Fox
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Is the solar the answer or geo-thermal? We need some sort of solution, don't we?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Other than nuclear fission, I don't believe any of the current means of power generation can be developed to a point where they can cater to our insatiable need for energy. Not given the rate of population growth and industry in the world.
- Le Slip Anglais
There is no single solution that will answer our need for energy, not unless we want to pump a whole lot more money in to fusion.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I wonder what would be the electrical capacity if, say, we turned every desert into a giant photovoltaic collector, every valley into a giant wind turbine, and every ocean into a dynamic generator, and how that capacity would compare to all of the fission reactors currently functioning in the world.
- Le Slip Anglais
We'd already have done so, Cristo. For example - wind turbines take energy out of the wind, thus reducing the amount of energy contained within the wind. Enough "renewable" means of power generation would effectively stop the weather. Hmmmm, I think I just hit on the idea for my next story.
- Le Slip Anglais
Quite probably. Solar panels absorb solar radiation and convert it to electricity. If you put solar panels everywhere there is sunlight (ie WAY above the clouds), there would be no sunlight other than that which hits the solar panels. Clouds are created by the interaction of heat and moisture. Heat, in this case, from sunlight would be redirected, so the only clouds would come from heat...
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- Le Slip Anglais
My scientific knowledge is based on little more than assumption and guesswork, but it seems to me that unless the human race as a whole makes radical changes in their consumption of energy, even nuclear fission will one day fall short of our energy needs.
- Le Slip Anglais
You're singing from my very own hymnbook, Cristo. Unfortunately, the longer we leave it, the fewer resources will remain to power our exodus.
- Le Slip Anglais
Large near earth orbit solar fission reactors...too sci-fi?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
That's just it, Mathew and Cristo. Our most efficient means of power-generation is already up there and functioning. It powers pretty much everything on this planet that isn't powered by us. The only conceivable way of concentrating that energy and getting it down to us is by using it to power orbital lasers, microwaves or some other wireless energy transmission system. The biggest...
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- Le Slip Anglais
I don't know, I'm just enjoying the discussion. I'd forgotten there was an OP :-)
- Le Slip Anglais
Mathew, when it comes to sci-fi, I've toyed with many means of power generation. My favourite is the ultra-high-torque ultra-low-rotation fault-line dynamo. This would have the added benefit of absorbing much of the energy that causes earthquakes. Of course, such technology is about as far beyond our engineering abilities as the helicopter was in daVinci's day.
- Le Slip Anglais
Those happen to be two interests of mine: sustainable living and science fiction. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
"Watching the outcome of how the earthquake and tsunami affected Japan, one environmentalist says he's convinced that nuclear is better than coal." http://www.npr.org/2011...
- Wizetux
Republicans continue to sell the lie that reducing taxes increases tax revenues.
Joe Silence, Steven Perez, Morton Fox and 3 other people liked this
Ah, but who is buying it?
- Wizetux
Someone's buying or they wouldn't be selling. And I love how they continue to use Ronald Reagan as the poster boy for the lie, never mind the fact that he signed tax hikes in to law at least 5 times during his tenure as president.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Have you ever looked at the federal tax receipts as a percentage of GDP over the last 40 or so years? It never strays far from about 18%.
- Kevin L
That would indeed be an interesting graph to see, Kevin. Particularly if it showed change in actual revenue for comparison as well.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
On a scale of 1-10, how ghetto would it be for me to push these two chairs together in the library and take a nap?
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, Turkish Delight, Rahsheen? and 2 other people liked this
1. You're in a library. #noghetto
- Louis Gray
I don't think that even registers on the scale.
- SAM
Yeah that's a 0. Plenty of people do that all the time
- LANjackal
Make it more ghetto by taking the chairs out onto the lawn
- Pete #TeamMonique
you go girl!
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
is a 10 low or high on the ghetter scale ?
- Peter Dawson
Now, if you bring a blanket and some pillows and make a fort, that would be amazing!
- Wizetux
Modern Day Narnia - http://jchotz.smugmug.com/Other...
Suresh S, Hutch Carpenter, Mehmet John Doguelli and 15 other people liked this
Taken by an acquaintance of mine. He just came across this phone booth in a field.
- Kevin Fox
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Well, I guess we now know how things will end for the good Doctor.
- Wizetux
It's unintentional art that has a message about our how our culture has evolved over the last couple decades
- Becca
Would love to hear what @codinghorror thinks of this: http://blog.expensify.com/2011... "Why we don't hire .NET programmers." by @expensify
Jimminy IS Everybody liked this
Methinks the author doesn't know much about developing in .net.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And his attitude will cut him off from hiring some really talented devs. *shrug*
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I have to wonder, when they say .Net programmers, are they really meaning someone who uses Visual Studio 2003+? Because, .Net covers a lot of ground.
- Wizetux
And now, a story about branded soup aimed at kids.
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Sunday night, I went shopping with my two children, at Safeway.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"What do you want for dinner?" I asked.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Soup!" said my eldest, who is five.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
We made our way to the soup aisle.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
There were many choices.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"What kind of soup?" I asked.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"That kind!" my children said, pointing to the chicken noodle soup that had cars and princess shapes.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Hmm," I said to myself.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I recalled that my wife told me that these soups were disgusting and very salty.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
So I looked at the label closely.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Healthy kids," said the label.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Reduced sodium," said the label.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I did a quick online search.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
This press release and blog post about it came up: http://www.fooducate.com/blog...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Cars soup!" said Sammy.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Princess soup!" said Sophie.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"All right," said I.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The next night, I was making dinner.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"We want our soups!" said my children.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Very well," I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I prepared the soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I served the soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They had a few bites.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I also served some other food, including meatballs, broccoli, and bread.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They ate that, but not really the soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Eat your soup or you don't get any dessert," I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
(I should probably not do that. But I repeat everything my parents ever did, unwittingly or not.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They grudgingly ate some more soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Two more bites," I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They each had a bite. They ate very slowly.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Now one more!" I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They asked if they could eat broccoli instead.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Certainly!" I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They ate their broccoli without complaint.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I gave them dessert.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They were happy.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Why didn't you eat your soup?" I asked.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"We did!" they said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"But not very much," I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Can we have more dessert?" they said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I told them yes and that I would finish their soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I took a bite of cars soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It was incredibly salty.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Grr," I said.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I was upset.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Here I was, buying soup despite being worried about sodium content because the label and the press release told me it was less sodium.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
But I could TASTE how much salt there was.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I wrote an angry e-mail to the Campbell's Soup company.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They wrote me back.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"We are sorry you did not find the soup to your satisfaction," they wrote.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Enclosed please find a coupon which you can use to try a different variety of soup which may be more to your liking," they wrote.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"We do want to make sure that you prepared your soup according to directions," they wrote.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Of course I did! I thought. What kind of moron doesn't know how to prepare soup?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
You just put it in a pot and heat it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"As this is a condensed soup," they wrote, "it is important that you do add a cup of water during preparation," they wrote.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I am apparently the kind of moron who doesn't know how to prepare soup.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
THE END.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
:) Brilliant.
- Anika
*applause*
- Rochelle
[Standing O]
- Micah
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hahaha, nice
- Chieze Okoye
and even with the directions on the can. Although, from the letter, it sounds like you are not the first to mis-prepare the soup
- Wizetux
It's true, Wizetux. And I've even bought this type of soup before, and should have known it needed water. But it's been too long since I've done so -- normally my wife shops, but she's out of town. The bright side is that now my kids probably will never ask for this type of soup ever again, and given that it's probably still too salty even when prepared correctly (plus short on actual chicken), that's probably a good thing.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I see Stephen remains off the caffeine kick. With proper caffeine, this would not have occurred!
- Louis Gray
With proper caffeine, I would have made the soup from scratch!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I nearly made the same mistake a few nights ago :D
- Shannon - GlassMistress
With proper caffeine, coffee for supper would have sufficed.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Coffee's not just for dinner anymore.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Davis: Crunchy treat!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
A cautionary tale!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
hah you just made my day so funny :)
- Allen Stern
oh dear...
- Joe Silence
(Monique, I'm sorry I stole your schtick!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It's cool, I think Robert Scoble stole it from Socrates.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I lol'd Stephen. See, I am the opposite kind of moron. I'm the kind of moron that added water to Campbell's Chunky Soup more than once, because the concept of non-condensed canned soup was so foreign to me.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
LolCurtz, during my bachelor days I would have done the same thing as you with the Chunky. (I remember having to go a neighbor's house once to borrow milk to add to a clam chowder can.) But honestly this is the first time I bought canned soup in years. I guess I'm out of practice. I blame the faded gold color they use on the red label for the word "condensed." Or maybe I'm just dense.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
All that said, most soups are still very high in sodium; but Campbell's soups (even the ones that aren't "low sodium") are generally considerably lower in sodium than a lot of other brands' "low-sodium" varieties. Pick up a can of Campbell's Chunky or "Select" soup and compare the nutritional information to a can of similar Progresso soup. The difference is astounding.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I just thought about this story while I was sitting at my desk and laughed so loud! Good thing I'm working at home today!!
- Georgia
Aww, thanks Georgia!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I buy these: http://www.amazon.com/gp... Microwavable, no need to add water, and just enough soup for me to not get oversouped. Plenty of chicken too.
- Otto
What kind of a moron... ;-)
- Brian Johns
canned soup is loaded with sodium... I don't personally think you should feed it to kids. but Hey I prepare my own dog food: lol little steamed rice, boiled organic chicken, low fat cottage cheese ... real food is better fuel for your body.
- Julie Parker
As opposed to what? Fake food? I'm pretty sure your body processes chemicals in the same way regardless of what form they are in. It's all molecules.
- Otto
Oh, FriendFeed, I have been gone for awhile, and I sure do miss you. Now, impart me with some great knowledge.
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42?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Ah, but what is the question?
- Wizetux
Sorry, my knowledge isn't that great. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So business mileage is going up from 40p per mile to 45p mile. There has to be a catch somewhere...
Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
Gas has gone up 3x this amount.
- Wizetux
RT @ashrewdmint: One does not simply SSH into Mordor.
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Because you first have to punch a hole through the Black Gates.
- Wizetux
Sauron has neither public keys nor fingerprints.
- Kevin Fox
Because, if you can't keep track of a ring of power, he probably couldn't keep his private key safe either.
- Wizetux
One token ring to rule them all, one token ring to find them, one token ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
- Mark Trapp
Its logic gates are guarded by more than just dorks. There are processes there that do not sleep(9). The great I/O is ever watchful. It is a Barrens waste LAN, riddled with firewalls, bash, and disks. The very Macbook Air you breathe is a poisonous zune. Not with sixty-five thousand, five hundred and thirty-six memes could you do this. It is full of fail.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
And then there are the daemons.
- Private Sanjeev
I suppose one could finger Mordor and take a look at its .plan.
- Kevin Fox
YOU SHALL NOT P- oh, sorry, what? You have an encrypted key? Oh, may bad. Please come on through.
- Josh Haley
Fact: Sea otters hold hands whilst sleeping... - http://alexisohanian.com/fact-se...
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- Alexis Ohanian
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aaaawwwwwwwww
- Kenton
probably to prevent themselves from turning over in the water.
- Wizetux
Yep. It got me to "awww" out loud. Real talk.
- Alexis Ohanian
from email
I hate to say it, but I recently found a greeting card that showed a pair of otters sleeping but not holding hands. I didn't know what to do...
- Alexis Ohanian
from email
If I knew Linux better I'd probably be employed already.
Tyson Key, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), April Russo and 16 other people liked this
Then again, it's not something I've ever had a real need to learn better.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You wouldn't like Linux. There's no central planning, and everyone is free to do whatever the heck they want with their computers.
- Kevin L
Um, try to check in a patch Kevin, see how free you are then :-)
- Todd Hoff
If freedom is having to do everything through mind-numbing text files, I don't want freedom.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm sure you could set up a Linux system to store all its configuration info in a database if you really wanted to :)
- Victor Ganata
Having all of the configuration in text files make it so much easier to script everything that you need to do, which gives you more time to play.
- Wizetux
If you can mount a USB drive from the command line without Googling how to do it, then you're in excellent shape *nix-wise.
- Julian
Heh, I'd have to google that, Julian. The last time I used Linux was when I took a penetration testing class and it's been like 2 years since then.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Don't most Linux distros have automount now, though?
- Victor Ganata
Some do, which is how I can call myself a Linux person.
- kendrak
If you think that it is all *mind-numbing text files* then stick with windows.
- Scott. Cat Herder.
Well, I was making a joke based on the linux stereotype. So many people love that everything in Linux is a text file, I personally couldn't care less. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Todd, with *their own* computers, not others'.
- Kevin L
But how can we really know which computer is "ours"?
- Alex Scrivener
from iPhone
As usual there's a reluctance to acknowledge how the whole system is created and maintained. You get to be locally free because of a globally unfree process.
- Todd Hoff
How so?
- Alex Scrivener
from iPhone
Yep, but those mind-numbing text files mean I can configure almost anything in UNIX using Vim. #notaddictedtovim #vimhead #canquitanytime #:q
- Morton Fox
Todd, my point is, there's no central planning in FOSS software because you can get the source and modify it to run on your computer however you want. Whether others want to put that executable on their machines or store your version of the source on their servers is up to them.
- Kevin L
yep....it's quite possible...." #floss #jobs: Linux Skills Are Hot on Improving IT Hiring Front - PCWorld Business Center" http://ff.im/wPluu
- ovigia
How is kernel development not centralized?
- Victor Ganata
Heh, my joke has turned into a discussion that I realize will soon be beyond my scope of knowledge.
- Kevin L
rsync -ave ssh linux ascoble@ascoble.com: :D
- imabonehead
Alex, I recommend learning Redhat Enterprise or CentOS. And here's a pretty good document to learn about security in Linux and it's in line with your CISSP - http://www.puschitz.com/Securin...
- imabonehead
BDE, werd. I'm currently working securing Linux and Windows appliances to meet DoD standards. :)
- imabonehead
Here's the Redhat Enterprise documentation, http://docs.redhat.com/docs...; and here's the Fedora's - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...
- imabonehead
Do you have any docs on configuration requirements for securing redhat and apache?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is anybody ever murdered in *warm* blood?
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Spontaneous crimes of passion are considered warm blooded
- RAPatton
Yes...most murders are murders of passion. Killing someone in cold blood is to do it dispassionately and with malice aforethought.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
hot blood, certainly.
- Joe Silence
Or what RAP said.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well, I'm sure the murdered person's blood should be about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, so all murders are done in warm blood, otherwise it wouldn't be murder since they were already dead.
- Wizetux
It's hard to keep a bathtub full of blood warm.
- Kevin L
The blood doesn't refer to the dead person's but rather to what was going through the killer's mind at the time...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Alex, I sure the blood going through the killer's mind is also warm, unless of course, they are a zombie!
- Wizetux
It's a figurative meaning and not literal. As in if the killer murdered because they were angry, that would be in warm or hot blood. If the killer did it because they saw the victim as just an object that needed to be dealt with, that would be seen as a cold blooded killer.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the terminology came about when we still thought bile, choler, phlegm, and blood had something to do with personality types.
- Victor Ganata
The Oxford English Dictionary has Victor's back: "A phrase of the older physiology: from the sensations felt in the face and head when the circulation is quickened by exertion or excitement, the blood itself was supposed to grow hot or to ‘boil’, at other times to be ‘cold’ or not sensibly hot. See blood n. 5a. Hence phrase in cold blood"
- Steele Lawman
The most painful asterisk of all... - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
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A million dollars to every TiVo owner!* (* Offer not valid to TiVo owners.)
- Mark Trapp
I'm glad that I have a Roku box.
- Wizetux
I think the key word is "prime". What does that mean?
- Chris Topher
Chris, Amazon Prime is a membership service Amazon offers that makes shipping fast and free/cheap. The offer is that you get access to a Netflix Watch Instantly-type service as part of your Amazon Prime membership, unless you have a TiVo. I think.
- Mark Trapp
Indeed.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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Well the other streaming content from Amazon is still available for TiVo. Just not the Prime selections. I wonder why the differentiation? I'm guessing it's a contract thing with TiVo getting a piece of the pie and not wanting to stream freebies they get nothing back from.
- Hookuh Tinypants
My guess is it's just an issue of implementation.
- Kevin Fox
But if it's already available on TiVo, then where's the hangup with implementation? You have to link your TiVo to Amazon to be able to use the feature in the first place, so Amazon knows it's me on the other end and knows I"m a prime member.
- Hookuh Tinypants
There's a big implementation difference between supporting a service that saves a full show to the drive for viewing within a specified time window and supporting a streaming service that has to handle things like guaranteeing streaming performance even if it means on-the-fly switching to different compression levels to accomodate bandwidth issues.
- Kevin Fox
Unfortunately most of the prime video offerings are already available on Netflix streaming. Hopefully Amazon will expand their catalog as they go on.
- Noah Belson
I think it's just a matter of time. TiVo seems to be, in my opinion, a slow moving company. They likely couldn't hit Amazon's launch date. Not a big deal to me because until the Amazon collection of streaming titles is larger I won't be cancelling my Netflix. (I read it's around 1/5 of what Netflix has)
- Benjamin Golub
The online video market is way too fragmented. Internet won't kill cable and satellite until people don't have to double-down (or more) on subscription services to get all the shows and movies they want.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I don't know how fragmented it really is: it's pretty much the same as music, with Netflix and Hulu being the iTunes of subscription-based movies and TV, respectively. Yes, there are competitors, but they almost always have a subset of the catalog the big guys have and aren't really useful if you're happy with the big guys. It's just the case that there are large swathes of stuff simply not available anywhere because the MPAA and TV industry don't want to cannibalize their offline money-makers.
- Mark Trapp
The Twitter at-reply s-p-a-m is just getting out of control. I'd love for Twitter to acknowledge that they're working on the problem.
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I spell it out because if I use the actual word without hyphens I get spam from people promoting their software for spamming twitter users. No joke.
- Kevin Fox
Ouch.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Build an anti-spam bot that tweets out keywords, then it blocks all of those that respond to the tweet on your normal account. Actually, I am very surprised that no one hasn't already done this and then made it a website for others to sign up, and report spam back to the system.
- Wizetux
Do people really believe that getting a 3rd of your paycheck is a good inducement to not work? #UnemploymentInsurance
Angel R. Rivera, Turkish Delight, Lola Bean (Penguin) and 14 other people liked this
Yes, I'd like to get paid barely enough to cover my roof payments. Sign me up for that!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Now, Alex. Everyone knows that unemployed people are just lazy bastards who want to suck off the government teat. We know you'll spend all day watching daytime TV on the 50-in flat screen TV you bought with your food stamps. [/a little sarcasm]
- Steven Perez
It cases change at the margin.
- Alex Scrivener
most *working* people get a third of their paycheck.
- Anthony Citrano
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I guess I must be doing something right, I keep about 2/3's of my paycheck.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm fairly certain no one in the U.S. is paying an effective tax rate of 66.7%, even when you count FICA, but I could be wrong. But, yeah, unless you're actually committing fraud and have an alternate source of income, I don't really see how living off of unemployment is supposed to be luxurious.
- Victor Ganata
first of all Jeff if you *truly* net 67%, you're lucky. further still, you must not pay (out of that net pay) sales tax, fuel tax, property tax, ...
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Victor: it's pretty easy to approach 67% if you live in CA or NY and count *all taxes*.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Alex, if you have learned that from this experience, you have learned more than most students do in a required government class in high school.
- Melanie Reed
Most people have no idea how the country really works,how the programs they vote for or against really work. Frankly, having lived on the front lines of it, with respect and apologies to those who might be offended, I have been scared at the idea that so many people are qualified to vote for some time.
- Melanie Reed
+Victor.
- Melanie Reed
Shoot, my effective tax rate isn't even 33% and I live in Canada. (yes, yes, this is before sales tax and whatnot.)
- Andrew C (✓)
I live in California and even counting sales tax in addition to income tax, I know I'm not paying anywhere near 66.7%. It's expensive to live here but it's not *that* expensive
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Anthony, how about we only give you a third of your current take-home pay, tax that and see how far you go with it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
That is why so many on unemployment do work under the table, and then don't report it when they file each week.
- Wizetux
what Anthony said
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Its funny to see how much people complain about the amount of taxes we pay, yet we are among the lowest taxed "developed" countries in the world. Edit: I dont mean just this post, I mean overall.
- Chris Topher
What Anthony said has nothing to do with this thread, since it has nothing to do with what I meant when I wrote the OP.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You know what, after reading what your wrote for the 5th time(?) I just got it -.-
- Chris Topher
I finally got that it meant "Unemployment insurance is 1/3rd of ur paycheck, why would people want this?"
- Chris Topher
I have heard of people who are content to live off unemployment until it runs out. Not saying they're very motivated in the first place, but in their cases, it was enabling their laziness.
- Kevin L
If getting one's take home pay cut by two thirds enables their laziness, they probably need to seek counseling. Oh wait, except that our healthcare is so messed up that they can't afford to do so.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The question then is if you believe lazy people on unemployment are an aberration or the norm
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Glen, you need some more deductions....
- Jeff P. Henderson
If you are making tens of millions of dollars in earned income (not LTCG) in California then you might have an effective income tax rate of above 50%, not counting sales tax, property tax, etc. But then you need to look at your situation. You are making tens of millions of dollars. In income. Every year. In California. And you are able to keep and spend fives of millions of dollars. In...
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- Jim Norris
What Jim N. just said. And I suspect there's a (deliberate?) conflation of marginal tax rate--the tax on each new dollar earned--and actual tax rate. Also, I'd guess, the same piling-up (that is: you add all the percentages together, even those percentages that nullify others) that can lead you to the "only two people actually do any work" conclusions. [Easy example: If you pay 10%...
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- Walt Crawford
Lady uses hidden camera on butt to catch lookers · MyNorthwest.com - http://www.mynorthwest.com/...
Ok, I think if you are a gal, and you don't want guys or girls looking at your butt, then why do you spend so much time at the gym focus on that area?
- Wizetux
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