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Comment this breaks copy and paste of rich text in gmail (Score 1) 195

by nathanbeach (#45704307) Attached to: Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data

Because the image URLs are rewritten to the Google proxy server, you can no longer copy and paste rich text with embedded images from Gmail into another application. That really sucks. I need to do that all the time for a certain client. It looks like I'm now going to have to get a separate webmail service just to be able to copy and paste rich text. Ridiculous.

Comment Re:Product vs. Customer (Score 1) 176

The persistent "top stories" garbage is basically the reason I deactivated my Facebook account and haven't been back in a year. I couldn't handle the "random chaos feed" taking back over randomly. It was so frustrating to be going down the feed and then realizing that it's all out of order and you've already read parts of it. Seriously, WTF. I hope they don't screw up Instagram like that.

Comment amazing translation i got yesterday (Score 1) 138

by nathanbeach (#36013382) Attached to: Google Wants Your Voice Data

I love the idea of the feature -- I hate stopping to listen to voice mails. ...but I got the most ludicrous / hilarious translation yesterday. Pure poetry!

"Hi, My name is The bring the Anderson and I was interested in ordering. I'll call. Sarah, Mrs. Kate, on the Hudson birthday. He really liked all here in the for you. So, anyway, I would see it for next Sunday. I'm not sure where they said of. It's Hey Lady, Thank tonight anyway. If you can just give me a back. My phone number is 972."

Good to know about the "helpful? / donate" feature (from a comment above), which I did for this one...
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School District Drops 'D' Grades 617

Posted by samzenpus from the pass-fail-education dept.
Students in one New Jersey school district will no longer be able to squeak by in class after the Morris County School Board approved dropping the D grade. Beginning in the fall students who don't get a C or higher will get an F on their report card. "I'm tired of kids coming to school and not learning and getting credit for it," said Superintendent Larrie Reynolds in a Daily Record report.
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Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn 186

Posted by kdawson from the that'll-learn-'em dept.
edremy writes "Blackboard, the dominant learning management system (LMS) maker, has won its initial suit against Desire2Learn. Blackboard gets $3.1 million and can demand that Desire2Learn stop US sales. (We discussed Blackboard when the patent was issued in 2006) This blog provides background on the suit. Blackboard has been granted a patent that covers a single person having multiple roles in an LMS: for example, a TA might be a student in one class and an instructor in another. You wouldn't think something this obvious could even be patented, but so far it's been a very effective weapon for Blackboard, badly hurting Desire2Learn and generating a huge amount of worry for the few remaining commercial LMSs that Blackboard has not already bought, and open source solutions such as Moodle (Blackboard's pledge not to attack such providers notwithstanding)."

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