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In the spirit of keeping your blood flowing, we present what would normally be flamebait, but instead is normal functioning of the United States of America.
Furthermore, instead of comtemplation and resolutions to never do something that stupid again, the Iraq War passes into history without analysis and with a lot of people claiming that such a thing should not have ended yet. A lot of these same people also support the idea that indefinite detention without trial is a tool that the United States needs, instead of decrying it as a violation of everything the United States holds Constitutionally holy.
The Dead Pool Technologists Group says "Well done, good and brilliant manager. Come inheret the PARC that was prepared for you from the beginning of time", or, Xerox Pao Alto Research Center founder Jack Goldman dies at 90. The Xerox PARC is responsible for many of the inventions that we enjoy today in our interconnected lives. (This following on the death of the inventor of the LISP language and the coiner of the term AI in October.)
Finally, in addition to the ire raised by the latest LJ rollout in terms of design and visual components, users find their automatic payment options have been turned back on when they were previously off, and that the site is designed to enroll people in auto-payment, even if they choose "manual payment" and that the actual manual payment is "one-time payment", instead. For those considering trying out other services, a comparison list between LJ and DW services, for example.
In the international realm, The vice-president of Iraq had an arrest warrant issued for him on suspicion of ties to terrorism and bombings in the country.
In Afghanistan, despite the blood and treasure spent there, rngtones with Taliban propaganda do brisk business because arriving at a checkpoint with the wrong kind of stuff can get you killed.
The locale of the stones that were used to build Stonehenge has been discovered...which raises the question of how the stones were moved from one place to another. Thankfully, we know that big projects are doable by societies that do not have the benefit of heavy petroleum-powered machinery, so we have an idea of what to look for.
Domestically, the bill that would turn over control of DNS to the media tyrants stalled slightly in committee. Additionally, Louis Vitton sued Warner Brothers for marking and calling a knock-off bag a genuine Louis Vitton in a movie.
In North Dakota, a sheriff's department used a Predator drone to coordinate when to raid the farm of suspected cattle thieves, after they chased off the sheriff by brandishing guns.
In Denver, the Auditor's office has requested that the city prove that the installation of traffic cameras have improved traffic safety in the areas the cameras were installed in, lest they be seen merely as revenue generators for the city. I like the way this Auditor Office thinks.
The EFF had a lawsuit reinstated against the government that said they illegally funneled communications to the National Security Agency withoutthe requirement of a warrant. However, the same court told the EFF that they could not sue the telecommunications companies that did the alleged funnelling, as retroactive immunity granted to them by the previous administrator still held.
A survery of teenagers and their sexuality shows that more young girls are claiming sexual experience with other girls. And that they're not getting pregnant as much, perhaps related to the decrease in sexual contact with men. I'm actually hoping it's comprehensive sexual education that's doing it, but it's a good thing that we have enough out people that young girls feel comfortable saying they've had sexual contact with other girls.
Speaking of being comfortable in one's sexuality... AlterNet talks to professional dommes about how sex work can be a buffer against a bad economy, but that there's lots of competition, and it's not actually easy to make money at it.
Last out: anonymous donors are paying the layaway/layby tabs of various customers in department stores.
In technology, overbroad patents means British Telecom is suing Google over Android.
Google may be working on an alternative to Apple's Siri called Majel, after Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the voice of the computer in many a Star Trek production.
American Telephone and Telegraph drops their bid to buy Deutsche Telekom's United States arm.
Most telecoms tell Senator Franken's investigation that by signing the contract to get cell phone service, you consent to being monitored by software like Carrier IQ that is installed with your default handset loadout and never announces its presence. That said, some companies say they don't use it or are stopping its use, now that there's an outcry.
Security researchers and consultants attempting to attack Google's Near Field Communication service and encrypted wallet were not able to easily access any data. More testing is recommended, of course.
Internet Explorer will soon start automatically updating itself, something more like the Google Chrome model. Which means those people who still have Internet Explorer 6 will soon be forced to upgrade to a standards-compliant browser. Good riddance, IE6.
MIT launches some courses on-line for free that will result in a certificate from the institute upon completion. And then Stanford offers some of their computer science coursework online for free. It's too bad that none of these courses could result in, say, a degree that could be obtained for free.
It was a bad year for technology innovators continuing to live.
And finally, the technology to fool photos and other records only gets better as the technology used to record those records advances.
In opinions, apropos for the VEWPRF, the Infamous Brad mentions the difference between empathy, sympathy, and whatever it is that so many who profess to have both feel in the way they act toward the homeless, the abused, and those that the economy and the country seem to believe are excess or useless people. Especially those that call themselves Christians.
Staying vaguely close by in language, an older post on the viability of policing other people's language choices by yor own preferences.
Last for tonight, that poem? It does not mean what surface readers and high school English teachers think it means.
Furthermore, instead of comtemplation and resolutions to never do something that stupid again, the Iraq War passes into history without analysis and with a lot of people claiming that such a thing should not have ended yet. A lot of these same people also support the idea that indefinite detention without trial is a tool that the United States needs, instead of decrying it as a violation of everything the United States holds Constitutionally holy.
The Dead Pool Technologists Group says "Well done, good and brilliant manager. Come inheret the PARC that was prepared for you from the beginning of time", or, Xerox Pao Alto Research Center founder Jack Goldman dies at 90. The Xerox PARC is responsible for many of the inventions that we enjoy today in our interconnected lives. (This following on the death of the inventor of the LISP language and the coiner of the term AI in October.)
Finally, in addition to the ire raised by the latest LJ rollout in terms of design and visual components, users find their automatic payment options have been turned back on when they were previously off, and that the site is designed to enroll people in auto-payment, even if they choose "manual payment" and that the actual manual payment is "one-time payment", instead. For those considering trying out other services, a comparison list between LJ and DW services, for example.
In the international realm, The vice-president of Iraq had an arrest warrant issued for him on suspicion of ties to terrorism and bombings in the country.
In Afghanistan, despite the blood and treasure spent there, rngtones with Taliban propaganda do brisk business because arriving at a checkpoint with the wrong kind of stuff can get you killed.
The locale of the stones that were used to build Stonehenge has been discovered...which raises the question of how the stones were moved from one place to another. Thankfully, we know that big projects are doable by societies that do not have the benefit of heavy petroleum-powered machinery, so we have an idea of what to look for.
Domestically, the bill that would turn over control of DNS to the media tyrants stalled slightly in committee. Additionally, Louis Vitton sued Warner Brothers for marking and calling a knock-off bag a genuine Louis Vitton in a movie.
In North Dakota, a sheriff's department used a Predator drone to coordinate when to raid the farm of suspected cattle thieves, after they chased off the sheriff by brandishing guns.
In Denver, the Auditor's office has requested that the city prove that the installation of traffic cameras have improved traffic safety in the areas the cameras were installed in, lest they be seen merely as revenue generators for the city. I like the way this Auditor Office thinks.
The EFF had a lawsuit reinstated against the government that said they illegally funneled communications to the National Security Agency withoutthe requirement of a warrant. However, the same court told the EFF that they could not sue the telecommunications companies that did the alleged funnelling, as retroactive immunity granted to them by the previous administrator still held.
A survery of teenagers and their sexuality shows that more young girls are claiming sexual experience with other girls. And that they're not getting pregnant as much, perhaps related to the decrease in sexual contact with men. I'm actually hoping it's comprehensive sexual education that's doing it, but it's a good thing that we have enough out people that young girls feel comfortable saying they've had sexual contact with other girls.
Speaking of being comfortable in one's sexuality... AlterNet talks to professional dommes about how sex work can be a buffer against a bad economy, but that there's lots of competition, and it's not actually easy to make money at it.
Last out: anonymous donors are paying the layaway/layby tabs of various customers in department stores.
In technology, overbroad patents means British Telecom is suing Google over Android.
Google may be working on an alternative to Apple's Siri called Majel, after Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the voice of the computer in many a Star Trek production.
American Telephone and Telegraph drops their bid to buy Deutsche Telekom's United States arm.
Most telecoms tell Senator Franken's investigation that by signing the contract to get cell phone service, you consent to being monitored by software like Carrier IQ that is installed with your default handset loadout and never announces its presence. That said, some companies say they don't use it or are stopping its use, now that there's an outcry.
Security researchers and consultants attempting to attack Google's Near Field Communication service and encrypted wallet were not able to easily access any data. More testing is recommended, of course.
Internet Explorer will soon start automatically updating itself, something more like the Google Chrome model. Which means those people who still have Internet Explorer 6 will soon be forced to upgrade to a standards-compliant browser. Good riddance, IE6.
MIT launches some courses on-line for free that will result in a certificate from the institute upon completion. And then Stanford offers some of their computer science coursework online for free. It's too bad that none of these courses could result in, say, a degree that could be obtained for free.
It was a bad year for technology innovators continuing to live.
And finally, the technology to fool photos and other records only gets better as the technology used to record those records advances.
In opinions, apropos for the VEWPRF, the Infamous Brad mentions the difference between empathy, sympathy, and whatever it is that so many who profess to have both feel in the way they act toward the homeless, the abused, and those that the economy and the country seem to believe are excess or useless people. Especially those that call themselves Christians.
Staying vaguely close by in language, an older post on the viability of policing other people's language choices by yor own preferences.
Last for tonight, that poem? It does not mean what surface readers and high school English teachers think it means.
