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Comment Re:CNN! (Score 1) 426

Here is a video I took from Hot Club in Providence RI right next to the hurricane barriers. No danger, people standing around chiling (the bar we were at remained open and we were able to get nice rums and beers and enjoy the drizzle and light breeze), and this clearly irritated the CNN anchor for the threat to the narrative she was pushing

Comment only problem in this regard is Motorola themselves (Score 1) 384

That's funny, I have a Droid 2 Global and it's great. Well, once I disabled as much of the crap that Motorola bundled with it and removed their terrible widgets. Suddenly I stopped having problems booting the shell and my battery life literally doubled.

Know what caused the worst CPU and power consumption? The RSS reader. A technology literally designed for occasional checking and low bandwidth consumption.

Magically, I can install a dozen widgets from other random third party vendors with no problems. Foursquare? Twidroid? Reddit is Fun? All fine, all on my home screen and auto-updating. Yet Motorola, with the ability to do literally months of integration testing, can't make an app that would be an easy exercise for any first-year CS student without FUBARing it all up. I don't even know why they bothered because Android comes with a news app ANYWAY that actually works. Pathetic.

Comment Facebook asked for this (Score 1) 259

I would scoff at this guy if not for Facebook insisting on becoming integrated into every Web site and application possible. Positioning themselves as a trusted authentication broker, and banning alternate accounts, puts them in a position of a bottleneck for access to information and services. Honestly, I'd try to find - in addition to friends and family - a business that he had authenticated with using Facebook, and then sue them for tortious interference of contracts, or whatever the legal jargon is.
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Submission + - Learn from Ron Paul, Internet Icon (wsj.com) 1

vsync64 writes: "Ben Worthen at the Wall Street Journal has an article today about how people are starting to realize, thanks to Ron Paul, that the Internet can help unpublicized causes, but that there's not a magic “Internet” button they can push and get buzz: “‘We're using the same tried and tested social networking tools as all the other campaigns,’ [says] Jesse Benton[....] They're just doing it really really effectively. The campaign uses these networks to get its message out quickly, but Benton says that the campaign is careful not to try to manage what Paul's supporters do and say. Also, the campaign uses the Internet to engage with its biggest supporters directly.” Apparently talking to your supporters and treating them as people with their own opinions is the latest fad."

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