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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.