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as you get auto-subscribed, this is no early adopter. Gmail's around for years

> The second is that all the people that frequently contact > HER (via an anonymous account which forwards to her Google > account) now have her personal Gmail account and are > following her on Buzz (and Google Reader), which she can't > stop from happening.

Until now, hiding your mail address from spam was one of the biggest concerns one had with email. Now, that might turn into hiding from Google. Or at least circumventing where we don't want it to do something with our private data we do not agree with.

That might turn out to be hard.

then I'd likely resort to getafreelancer or something and get the initial stuff done. There is quite a bandwith of talent and cheap, too.

Though, I wouldn't get excited about it. For an initial version, I guess, everything you get there might suffice; but I might turn to pros asap.

I'm with you. Unfortunately, that applies to the whole world.

I often experienced the issue that friends I pointed to xkcd either didn't get it because of poor English skills or lack of geek background.

Maybe I should try to point them to xkcdexplained.com instead -- thanks for the hint!

even 2^20 wouldn't be a megabyte rather than the figure of 1048576 (which happens to be the amount of bytes a megabyte happens to have), so, a number != a storage

If you'd fit such a balcony to an existing app building and the balcony indeed would hold the weight of a group of people, I would still wonder whether the house's frame would hold the balcony.

I guess once you can tell who is who, you can start targeted marketing.

Or collect data on people. Likely only a matter of time until you can build up a complete record, including name, address, social security number.

IIRC this was on Hacker News less than a week ago. 4 points for simply repeating it? I'm startled.

I've been in figuring out how to encode content using the tools the brain has "at hand", for a while now.

Originally, I thought similarly, but then: The less interesting part might be to decode information from the brain but to it.

I guess since Google is (that) profitable there's little benefit in seeking an income by detection of copyright violations.

Ah, so I'm not the only one experiencing suffering when having to use Windows. :)

Recently learned about AndLinux [1] and CoLinux [2] -- running a Linux kernel atop Windows. Didn't use it yet but looks promising.

[1] http://www.andlinux.org/ [2] http://www.colinux.org/

maybe someone should redo the Monthy Python "Spam" sketch with the term "bomb", in flight, to get everyone back down to earth

people (authorities) should learn to realize what kidding is

maybe just a person who accidentally saw the tweet in question, but did know nothing about the person who wrote it. Did they bother to ask any ofthe other followers about the seriousness of the tweet? Or even the originator?

That sounds like the usual 'I take the chance to get my 15 mins of importance'. Bad thing is, worried internet-foreign authorities make it so easy to denounce people.

I've got an other question: Might that shying away from humans be kind of a folk tale amongst species? Which new/remote species don't know about? Like Galápagos?

I read most of the thread here but not all, so I hope I'm not repeating anything yet said: I'm convinced that once we can produce meat rather than butchering animals, why in the world would anybody want to farm animals? I guess cows and pigs would be the next animals going to be extinct soon.

So I doubt it's that a good idea to be able to produce meat.

A while back Vancouver Film School (VFS) released a short-film on how Iran embraces new media, namely the web. The piece is titled "Iran: A Nation of Bloggers", can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MChlT0GvFPM . With about 100000 (one hundred thousand) actively maintained blogs, I can imagine Twitter indeed does play an important role there.

Despite this contributes nothing to the Iran thread, I find it amazing that you say 'we'. I neither want to go off-topic here. But it occured to me that people closely attached to the web tend to realize a 'we' amongst them, across all borders.

I thought so too, but I don't grasp how a stationary "Twitter access point" would be of use while the revolution is going on at the street.

found yasnippet some days back, also that Chrononaut provides snippets “automatically converted from the TextMate repository” to be used with the yasnippet.

blogged a tiny howto to get it running. http://is.gd/ruUx

because of that a shortcut answer would have been to delegate the issue to the CS department as sorting words is not a task for a tech writer. Nice that he identified the question as being off-topic. Poor that he didn't dismiss it because of that.

right. Even better the service could become if they'd watch the status pages for the services they'dget asked about. But takes a little more effort than a plain GET.

Besides of the above URL, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ works not only for google but any other service too. However, I got suggested that tool via twitter, but I have no clue how it works or how reliably it is.

> The best you can do is allow the post to go thru and > make it appear to the spammer that they have succeeded.

I read the cons on this suggest, but what about turning the approach just around: Keep the spam in by default, just the folks with higher karma get the spam filtered out? That way, the successfully submitted spam could not only be verified from the original source but also from every other node of, say, a bot net.

Honestly, Marissa Mayer would appeal only to geeks & nerds. And those might be more interested on what she can do, than look.

Wasn't it services like learn.to, beam.to and similar that came first? With the intend to have freely pickable shorthand URLs, where the shortness of them was just a byproduct?

I'm not sure of this, but iirc the learn.to/beam.to etc services were around in the early web already, mid-90s, while tinyurl and friends came later.

Yepp, I made that experience too. But to work out the details took inexpectedly long.

Well, originally, tinyurl just went for sequential short URLs too. But as those were predictable, abuse was afoot: "Early on, the resulting URL aliases of the service were predictable, and were exploited by users to create vulgar associations. The URL aliases dick and cunt were made to redirect to the White House websites of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyurl#Early_abuses

...which in turn might make oone wonder whether or not that's happening already all the time and on just any poll around. Haven't it be the respected TIME one could suspect they kept the poll as it turned out just because the Anonymous group knew the exact number of votes for every rank.