Mind boggling... but what is even more so are how many people are out there insisting that we have to get rid of psuedonyms.

It is a good thing that articles are being published debunking some of the myths... and not just by people who come across as ranting or rambling...

The oath that one takes when enlisting is:

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Google Takeout - lets you download all the data from google services that are almost completely unused in one easy step.

The Data Liberation group has a noble goal... but this is an incredibly lame step in that direction. Given how many years the group has been around, it is pretty sad that they've made such minor inroads. Perhaps this is the first real step in that direction... we'll see...

Newsflash. In-house IT departments can be unreliable and pricey too.

And what this means, in reality, is that if you're doing work for the Federal Government, you do all your work in Imperial Units, and then convert them to Metric. So you don't actually get "standard" metric sizes... you get "standard" Imperial sizes with metric units labeling them.

Any indication how the SMS will be handled? Google Voice has a pretty bad reputation for dealing with SMS messages, particularly Short Codes, although a lot of companies that promise to send you an SMS message are unable to handle a Google Voice Number and will silently drop the SMS message in these cases.

Has anyone seen how this will impact Virgin Mobile users, who use the Sprint network? Last time I tried to get Google Voice working with VM, I was told that conditional call forwarding was not available, thus making it a bit less than useful.

What this does demonstrate is that the cell carriers should focus on what they're at least moderately competent at - building and running the infrastructure and letting someone else run the features that make use of it.

When the web was new and I had to make presentations like this, I would do HTML pages (with bullets) instead of powerpoint slides. The big difference was that I would also provide lots of links to additional information and details on each point. It took longer to write (both because of the additional information, but mostly because we didn't have great tools to assist), but was more engaging with the audience and did provide the additional details that a bullet-list-slide didn't.

Nowadays, I might think about using something like Prezi for some of my briefings. While it does allow a linear path through a presentation, the information is layed out spatially and allows zooms and pans both through the path and independent of the path. This makes it pretty easy to provide additional information and show the relationship between some of the points. It does allow bullet points, but mostly so it can mock their use.

This is why you should:

• Practice with a camera before you need to use it for something.
• Use a digital camera where you actually have an eyepiece (like most DSLRs).
• Use a tripod or other stabilizer.
• Hold the camera in close to yourself, so your arms aren't fully extended, or stabilize your arms in some other way (lie down on the ground, lean against a tree, etc).

I know you're trying to make a funny here, but... well... why wouldn't someone notice? (Given how much coverage /. has given it, someone has, anyway.)

Do they care, or just virtually care? Thats another question.

When Disney announced they were shutting down VMK, they did so after a quest weekend where they ended up accusing their players of cheating. The final week of VMK was run exactly as the entire history of the game was - filled with lies and empty promises.

Funny... when I install something like iTunes for Windows on my machine, I automatically get the Apple Updater. Which runs on its own schedule and not just when I run the programs that are installed. Sounds like someone at Google was just making sure that OSX users had the same experience.

I went into reading about this very skeptical. I've been part of a few "no-subscription" virtual worlds aimed at kids, and watched a bunch of inventive and creative kids be horribly disappointed when the companies (I'm looking at you, Disney) pulled the plug on them.

But from the rather poor write-ups I'm finding, it sounds like this is Open Source, so even if its pulled there is still use for it.

Care to actually tell us more about the platform?

The concept of "local power" was first advocated by... Thomas Edison. He was advocating small power stations all around a municipality for local distribution via his DC-based systems.

Westinghouse's AC system, however, allowed for transmission of power great distances. Despite using his name, and some patents, most of what we use today owes more to Westinghouse than Edison.

Sounds like the "go local" movement is gaining strength when it comes to power generation, too. Wonder if we'll be able to go back to DC? Probably not.

Heh... someone score that post up as funny, please. {:

I'm not sure if its "supply and demand" or just "demand". It sounds like the argument is that the supply is, currently, not a limiting factor.