Comment Re:Self-hosting is an alternative (Score 1) 61
You can also give NewsBlur a try, and if you like it you have two choices: pony up for a full account or self-host, since it is totally open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
You can also give NewsBlur a try, and if you like it you have two choices: pony up for a full account or self-host, since it is totally open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Pitchforks. Torches. More effective than phone calls.
Check out the PDroid project. It can patch any rom and will let you select on a by-app, by-API basis whether to provide real data, spoofed data, or no data.
There is votingforjudges.org, which is a great start.
Wish I could help more for other states!
Voted today in Washington state. Well, "today" is a misleading word.
I got my ballot weeks ago, spent about 12 full hours doing research with the provided ~100pg guide and an additional ~200 google searches. Carefully considered each vote, filled in the ovals (or abstained where appropriate), sealed her up, and dropped her off at a dropbox today.
I wish more states worked this way. I shudder to think the number of folks in walk-up-and-vote states that go on a whim, punch the name of a person they've seen on a commercial, and never give it another thought.
It's pretty simple: if SMS is point-to-point, Twitter is broadcast.
Provided you are sane and use a protected account, it's part microblog and part one-to-many SMS. Most folk I know have 25-50 'friends' and it is a heck of a lot easier to tweet "pub at 16:30!" than to text each one individually. Bonus points for being able to stay connected with friends in other states on a day-to-day basis in near real-time.
Now the whole business about having an open account and/or following people you don't personally know? Yeah, I don't get that either.
Doesn't EC2 let you request hosts in any of several particular datacentres (which they call an "availability zones") just so you can plan around such location-specific catastrophes? No matter how good the redundant systems, some day a meteor will hit one datacentre and you'll be S.O.L. no matter what if you put all your proverbial eggs in that basket.
Only a fool cares about a single-datacentre outage. This is why it's called "*distributed*-systems engineering", folks.
*bzzzt*
John Spartan, you have been fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Be well!
If you debunk a debunker, don't you just get back to the net-zero result?
The terrorists have won.
No, the government has won
You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to . . .
Can this "feature" (of Android?) be modified in software since this is open source, and since WiFi hardware is so clearly present?
Absolutely. Earlier android phones (the Dream and Magic and others) have well-known solutions for operating without an active SIM. The Nexus One is only 3 days old, so it might still need some work, but unlike the earlier locked-down hardware, the N1 is not only open-source, you don't have to "crack" it to replace the firmware.
The XDA forums contain all the info you could ever want about the topic. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ )
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It's also one more reason why I won't use Android, despite how good it is. I already use too many Google services. I don't need them to know even more about me than they already do.
What kinda weak FUD is this? It's a linux system on which you can gain root access with fair ease! You can packetsniff, block traffic, and swap out whatever bits of the OS you want. If the Big G were spying on you as such, you would not only know, you could do whatever you like about it.
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The participants had better be careful; if their entries - submitted to google, solicited by google - happen to redistribute trademarked Google property in any way such as names, logos, or interaction with google services, they'll just slap them with a Cease and Desist letter shortly after awarding the prize money.
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