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"Proclaimed Dead, NYT reports that Wired article has skinny on what has expired" (web.com)

EDIT: Plus, count on some real action being taken once a celebrity's images are posted.

I see that a lot of people agree with you.

I, however, would gladly permit myself to be scanned on condition that I never had to view the body scans of any of the aforementioned government employees.

That being said, being scanned (and especially having some files stored for unknown length of time) seems to be a very unpleasant prospect for many people. And...

There is going to be a huge outcry when (not if) some TSA employee starts posting some images online - or having a huge stash of them found on their personal computer. Count on it happening.

The author(s) of the piece may be right. Or not.

It's an unsigned/unattributed essay that is long on weasel words (as wikipedia would put it, e.g., "Many of its 2,000 members..."), short on evidence (a few quotes attributed to identified individuals) and devoid of quantification ("tech leaders have been outraged by..." what proportion? did some take a poll?)

Economics tries to be a quantitative behavioral science. This piece, however...

OK, so I'm totally ignorant of workings of trackpad (or its potential to work in ways additional to its current use), but might it not be possible for Apple to add the capability (via software) to enable tapping on left/right edge of track pad to have trigger events that are triggered by touch to left/right side of an iPhone/iPad screen?

Because this one did:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846909

Wow, thanks for taking me back to my youth:

> Bentley. Everett. Miss Logan's going to have dinner with us.

> Whip up a liver and whey shake.

--Warren Beatty in "Heaven Can Wait"

[ best dietary advice this vegetarian ever got about how to prepare for the Super Bowl ]

The inability to find any joy in anything ("anhedonia") is one of the markers for depression. Be on the lookout for others (increase or decrease in appetite; increase or decrease in sleep).

Depression can come in response to specific ("depressing") circumstances or events, and it can come from hormonal or biochemical conditions. Depending on cause, different professional routes may be helpful.

Other contributing conditions (e.g., social isolation; career confusion) may be addressed well be a counselor worth their salt. [ Keep in mind that how 'loudly' you complain about how awful you feel will affect how much the counselor accelerates (or not) getting you more significant/experienced assistance. ] The 'right' counselor should be able to convey to you that they take your issues seriously and that they genuinely care about you and finding solution(s) that work for you.

Friends can provide some of the support and perspective that a professional counselor does, but usually not enough when you've really got yourself into a clinical depression. Plus a professional will have guidelines to know whether you are a candidate for referral to someone who can consider whether an anti-depressant might be worth trying. I'd encourage you to keep looking until you find a professional who's really an effective ally during these trying times.

Thinking of you

Sadly, this is the one piece of the operation about which there doesn't seem to be a flood of rumors, let-alone informed ones.

Being Apple, could they possible have a joint announcement planned for both the facility and for a total makeover of XServe line (emphasizing GreenPower, price-wise farm-suitable servers). Would it not be embarrassing for Apple to stock the place with a non-Apple product? At the same time, would it not be absurd to risk the success of a data center this size on an (relatively) inefficient, second-rate hardware config?

Either way, it should be an opportunity for a huge Apple PR event.

Anyone find this comment (in a suggested answer) strange:

>Yahoo! Store was written by Paul Graham, who is a big Lisp advocate. He also wrote Hacker News, which is, effectively, a Reddit clone.

Ah, well... it's understandable when you realize that businessweek is seeking entry to the "dying technology" list...

Presumably they think that aggravating their readers they'll be able to hasten their suicide. I support that ambition for all such user-hostile practitioners of 'journalism.'

And, sadly:

www.archive.org:

>0 pages found for http://google.com/search2001.html

>Sorry, no matches.

Very handy. And exquisitely executed.

Also, perhaps you've tweaked it since some of the other comments, but two-finder scrolling (MBP trackpad, Safari 5.0.2) works great for me. Took me a while to figure that I needed to shrink window enough to see scroll bars (and thus be able to scroll and manipulate luminosity.

I've got it bookmarked, so if you are generous enough to keep it at aurlien.net I'll definitely make a lot of use of it. Great work && great service.

This is a huge disappointment for me. I teach and try to keep up with the (MS) software that my students are using so I can offer some tech support (though I'm not about to switch to Windows for their sake).

But the type of issues that aggravate Pogue are exactly what annoy me in software UX. Someone's going to have to write an mighty effective rejoinder to his review of MS Office to get me to follow this "upgrade."

Well, as much as I'd like to believe it... a report from "Solar Energy Industry Association" is not a very independent analysis.

And there's the problem with presenting a bar graph showing linear growth over the next few years, followed by a text that says the claim is for "exponential" growth over the next few years.

FWIW: I'm not seeing any such phenom. My Opera (10.62) is scarcely discernible from Safari - both of which look very attractive.

I like the action of the site. Looks very interesting.

FYI: When I'm on my pokey DSL I notice something weird in playing your demo video: when my DSL can't feed data into your video player fast enough, the player jumps me back to the start of the video (rather than pausing and signaling that it's buffering).

Someone mentioned in a TechCrunch comment that there are other (up-and-coming) start-ups working on models that may be more customer-friendly.

Anyone know of competitors to green dot?

...I'd like to hear about some alternate business models being used for these services.

>If you’re pursuing a liberal arts degree, you really don’t need a brand new computer just to write all the papers you’ll write.

Well, if you're an undergrad and your school is inflicting Blackboard or Desire2Learn software, you find the sluggishness on older machines to be agony. In my humble experience.

Related FWIW: when I, as instructor, am perusing student records or developing a course, I am grateful for a 27" iMac. Tiny screens add to the BB/D2L sluggishness. [/rant]

Actually, I've not bought a new Apple laptop in years - but have bought several refurbs (~10% off). Never had one I had trouble with (or could tell was not 100% new).

Whether that is his intent or not, we can hope that a consortium of the defendant/victim corporations might be able to launch some action (in-court or in-congress) to begin at last the patent-reform process.

I am encountering more a more people (including just regarding educ. references) who decline to provide reference that say anything beyond the dates of employment/study - on advise of the organization's legals.

Who want's to get out on any legal limb in the current U.S. litigious environment?

EDIT: Of course candid (or even outrageous) negatively can easily be risked in an anonymous blog comment :(

I, too, would be interested to know whether sites of that size tend to build their own email dbs in-house or find that anything available off-the-shelf is adequate (or make their own modifications to the latter).

In point #11 pg presciently says,

> If Sun runs into trouble, they could drag Java down with them.

[ 'trouble' could of course include 'nonexistence' or 'sleeps with the enemy' ]

As has been pointed out, coins were "accepted" elsewhere once notes were withdrawn.

Looking at the title provides clue to human behavior: then there is no need to ask "why do people resist accepting what they hate."

Simple principles of shaping behavior suggest one simple principle: reinforcement: offer discount for using coins (i.e., $1.01 of merchandise for a $1 coin) or transaction penalty for paying with notes.

"...was simply to withdraw the notes..." ? !

As the article points out this would take "an act of Congress." There is an excellent reason that "act of Congress" is a figure of speech meaning ~Herculean feat of struck-by-lightening probability~

Total noob here - going to try to locate you in the Brower Center.

Might be especially convenient if the system you're using worked seamlessly with the Time Machine's automatic backup. What's been your experience?

Legislators looking after themselves, most likely. I remember back in the early Pleistocene era when I lived there that the CHP was forbidden to use radar (legislators needed to be able to speed back to Sacramento).

If my neighborhood were abused by pink-light violators, I might be tempted to post fake signs warning of a traffic camera. </confession>

Guess you'd better be psychic enough or psychologist enough to be able to assess someone's "retributory bones" ...or their ability to grow them when they feel aggrieved against you.