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Re: Boing Boing, Wikipedia, the list goes on: Websites black out to protest SOPA | 89.3 KPCC

playerx — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:45:29 -0000

There are already more than enough American laws on the books to curtail
the threats of media and software piracy, and chill the advancements of
technology within our borders. Businesses, and politicians supporting
blacklist legislation again just want to sidestep the current legal
processes to chill online freedoms.

I can't say how much business or my own personal livelihood I could
loose. But the possibility to loose everything is there. A majority of
my life, and work has been around technology, and free flowing and
unrestricted information. A side business of mine is selling domain
names from around the world. http://suspicious.net/

Further blacklist legislation within the US will only fragment the
Internet further, causing higher barriers of entry into the marketplace
as either a consumer or business.

With the passage of further blacklist legislation on-top of the media
industry developed DMCA, innovation and new online based business
ventures will be slowed to a standstill. If you thought software patents
were bad, this is really just the next evolution of telling consumers
and smaller businesses that they must conform or go out of business,
this time unable to respond in a court of law.

Clearly bills, agencies, and things meant to improve the safety or
livelihood of Americans do not always have that aftertaste that things
are better off, but that you have zero rights to privacy, and now
someone has to foot the bill for all those new positions of labor. The
TSA is an expensive, perpetual, and wasteful response to a moment in
time. How about the brand-new indefinite detention bill? Which may or may
not be used within the Obama presidency against American citizens,
depending on who you talk to...

Re: Scripting News: NDAA should be freaking us out

playerx — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:39:54 -0000

Movie makers' reasoning behind using 'alien' villains is to lessen the blow that humans are equally capable of such atrocities. :\

Re: Watch & Win: Cowboys & Aliens’ Close Encounter of the Explosive Kind

playerx — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:24:09 -0000

War of the Worlds.

Shouldn't it be a contest for a refund of your Cowboys and Aliens ticket admission price?

Re: Scripting News: DLINK webcam deemed useless

playerx — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:03:04 -0000

I've heard nothing but good things about Foscam IP Cameras.

http://www.amazon.com/Fosca...

Re: Scripting News: A wifi pocket disk

playerx — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:09:09 -0000

"Is that a WiFi disk in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Sorry, just had to make the immature joke reference. :)

Re: Scripting News: Flow of pics from Times Square?

playerx — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:20:47 -0000

Just poking around in their un-minified javascript package, I can see how they retrieve data via JSON to update the search page.

http://web1.twitpic.com/js/...

Search for `execute_search : function () {`

Looks like they are using simple HTTP GET

`type: 'GET',
url: '/search/show',
data: postData,
dataType: 'json',`

http://web1.twitpic.com/sea...

Re: Scripting News: Flow of pics from Times Square?

playerx — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:06:59 -0000

I've only figured out how to get feeds from users, not search terms on Twitpic.

https://twitpic.com/photos/...

Hope this helps.

Re: http://www.underpaidgenius.com/post/9513932570

playerx — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:39:30 -0000

Good answer. :)

Re: http://www.underpaidgenius.com/post/9513932570

playerx — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:23:04 -0000

Stowe,
You find such great stuff for me to read.
If we all donated $5 to you, would you still be underpaid and a genius?

Re: Scripting News: Indirect business models FTW

playerx — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:30:46 -0000

I can see how more and more tech guys begin to stop thinking outside of the box. Engineers solve problems with abstract thinking, forethought, & problem solving, everyone else is taught to stay within the lines.

Re: Navel Gazing - Nick Schou - Garden Grove To Marijuana Clubs: You're Welcome Here

playerx — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:34:08 -0000

$200,000 for 1/8th oz. of #medical #cannabis has to be a #record. Does anyone keep #statistics of this?

Re: Scripting News: Obama can't make it personal

playerx — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:31:24 -0000

I personally don't really think anyone up there, in Washington, is taking any of this as personally as they should. The time to grow up and wear big boy clothes, while making thoughtful, informed, unbiased, smart decisions has come.

Humans vs. Business.

"The part that Boehner objected to came in the way of $1.2 trillion in revenue increases that the president said "could be accomplished by eliminating loopholes and deductions" in a "tax reform process."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/th...

Re: Scripting News: A trillion dollar coin?

playerx — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:03:20 -0000

If they use a Credit Card to purchase the $1 trillion coins, think of all the airline miles they would earn!

Re: Scripting News: Dropbox at $5 billion

playerx — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:43:56 -0000

Spot on Dave.
"They want the advertisers' money."
Has anyone else noticed doctor's offices now all have televisions and commercial filled cable tv playing in their lobbies or waiting rooms?

Re: Scripting News: Why Twitter may have trouble monetizing

playerx — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:54:59 -0000

Sigh, the consumer Internet and ad based world wide web at large is just too commercialized, and built to siphon money from priceless bits. I can't stand browsing a web page or using an application where the Ad to be supporting the product either shows up first before the page renders, or causes the page to lag on load. Who cares about efficiency when you're getting paid more from both sides and offering a less?

Re: Scripting News: I'm deleting my Dropbox account now

playerx — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:11:29 -0000

Psst Dave. I tweeted you how to delete your account, included pictures of my progress. :)
https://twitter.com/#!/px/s...

Re: California state workers' data taken from state offices - SC Magazine US

playerx — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:29:28 -0000

Dear State of California Workers,
Your personal information is being improperly stored and handled. You would think that people would actually care enough to not let this kind of thing happen in the first place. So, please enjoy your offer of credit monitoring services, because insurance and credit companies would really like to continue selling you snake oil into the foreseeable future that tax payers end up paying for.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

playerx — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:27:04 -0000

It seems like just another Friendfeed at this point.

Re: Scripting News: API designers should be writers

playerx — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:25:35 -0000

I've always been partial to blogs or websites, with URL that read like a sentence, or actually provide common points like, /contact /about.

It would be pretty nice if API were developed by writers. All those actions, nouns, and verbs, just waiting to be succinctly pieced together to create masterful sentence like queries. I definitely think that semantics of some structures could use the linguistic improvement. As well as provide a similar less complicated way to do something without applying various repetition schemes to queries.

Re: Scripting News: Should I be linking to the NY Times?

playerx — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:23:33 -0000

Just another piece of the puzzle to what makes CSS so powerful.

Re: Sony BMG Greece hacked, company's security woes continue

playerx — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:55:01 -0000

Dear Sony,
Take a cue.

Re: Scripting News: Browsers without address bars?

playerx — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:57:01 -0000

I like the address bar in most browsers. But I'm pretty sure that a majority of the non-techies really don't care to see the computer mumbo-jumbo that is a URL. They would just like to know that they are actually on their bank website, and security is in-place, or that Facebook is actually not a phish. I think that Google will eventually nix the address bar under an advanced setting soon enough and others will follow. Or they might make it auto-hide, say when your mouse is near. Not a "Full-Screen" fan, I already hide the Bookmarks Bar in the browser when I need more vertical room, toggling hide on the address bar would be a nice keyboard hot-key that is already in place on the Mac. Command+L

Re: Scripting News: Does this exist? Easy-Unix-EC2

playerx — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:30:39 -0000

Hi Dave,
Running an environment that depends on remote X11 access and control is not the best idea for security or speed of access. It can leave some unwanted holes. I agree with the other posters about using a control panel of sorts, if that is what would help you administer the machine.
Commercial products like cPanel and Plesk are alright, I wouldn't pay for them, I'd rather use a host that licenses it out, if at all because you _WILL_ need their constant updates. There is some free ones, GPLHost, and ISPConfig come to mind. http://www.ispconfig.org/

If you really just want a basic web server running on Linux, that has an easy to use web GUI, check out the Cherokee Project. http://www.cherokee-project...

There is even an outdated windows installer if you just want to try it and get your feet wet. Also for any web GUI tool you should limit it's access to only localhost, and tunnel your access when possible via SSH. At the very minimum you should have a self-signed certificate providing HTTPS access to it's tools.

Re: Scripting News: Internets everywhere!

playerx — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:00:56 -0000

The public folder in Dropbox, has a pretty limited amount of allowed bandwidth to really be useful to users sharing, depending on the content size, between more than 10 or so people.

It's happened to me enough that I don't care for it at all, like the annoying warning, web space providers put over content when their customer run over their allocation. I think of it as a digital ransom note.

Re: Scripting News: scripting.com running on Linux now

playerx — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:40:52 -0000

Hi Dave,

I recently moved over from a convulated setup which included varnish front ends, and apache /w mod_gnutls for TLS SNI support, to Cherokee. Wow. It's really nice to use with dynamic sites like my WordPress blog, and serves up static content much quicker for me too. The administrative web interface is the best feature though.

http://www.cherokee-project...