10 month ago
43folders : apophenia: algorithms for dumb security questions - via anarchaia
Rod Begbie : apophenia: algorithms for dumb security questions - A consistent tactic for answering those stupid "What color was your first favourite pet?" type questions. #
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15 month ago
jimray : Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores - I've said it before, I'll say it again: we'll know that we're in The Future when people are no longer using fax machines.
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15 month ago
jimray : eHarmony sued for excluding gays - This is lame. There are plenty of alternatives to eHarmony. Do gay people (or anyone) really want to meet people at a dating site run by a guy connected to James Dobson? And what about dating sites that cater to gays and lesbians? Can I sue them?
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16 month ago
jimray : Engadget fesses up to the fake iPhone delay screw up, fanboys fall over themselves to heap praise on over eager bloggers - Once again, the bloggers get to play by different rules than the rest of the media that they have so much disdain for and yet their adoring fans can't help but join the love-in. Or is it bukkake? So hard to tell these days...
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16 month ago
jimray : 8020 Publishing has an official response to the JPG mag flap - I dunno, sounds kinda corporate-ish and wonky. Not exactly the best way to tell your side of the story to a pissed off community, upon who's support your business depends
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16 month ago
jimray : It would seem Flickr has fucked up - Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, an incredibly talented and well-loved Flickr user, found that her copyrighted photos were being sold, she bitched about it on Flickr, they deleted her post and comments and threatened to delete her account.
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16 month ago
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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16 month ago
jimray : Microsoft fanboi hack tries to talk himself in to the idea that a .NET version of Ruby on Rails is better than the real thing - And don't even get me started on the "viral" GPL inanity.
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16 month ago
jimray : Valleywag is trying to out Fake Steve Jobs - This is why we can't have nice things, the kids always have to break 'em.
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jimray : PC World editor returns to editor in chief post - This is the dude who quit over the "10 things we hate about Apple" non-story (really, just a fluffer blog post to juice page views). Reminds me of when Dave Winer quit his blog for, like, half a day. q
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16 month ago
jimray : The asshattery of Digg strikes again - A bunch of childish republicans (any other kind?) are pissed that hopeless candidate Ron Paul isn't listed in some poll, put NBC's main switchboard number online and slander our marketing director. It's the wisdom of the crowds!
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16 month ago
jimray : 1 thing I hate about tech "journalism" - 1. You take an intentionally incendiary, content-free article weighing in at a whole 1,500 words and spread it across three "pages" in a shameless attempt to juice pageview metrics. Asshats.
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16 month ago
jimray : Who doesn't believe in evolution? - Chris Matthews asked a throwaway question at the Republican debate last night, Brownback, Tancredo and Huckabee all answered affirmative. See, unlike virgin births or flying spaghetti monsters, evolution doesn't give a god damn if you believe.
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16 month ago
jimray : Sam Zell thinks it's time to stop "giving away" content to Google - Oh, boy. What has the Trib gotten itself in to?
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16 month ago
jimray : NBC buys R|Mail, RSS to email gateway - Man, that's weird. Seriously, this feels like the brainchild some TV person who doesn't understand RSS. Not that there's anything wrong with being a TV person - I love TV people! Especially you.
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17 month ago
jimray : I HAVE WII, I WANT CAR - I'm sure you do, dude. I'm sure you do.
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jimray : Race to the Whitehouse - I'm linking to this only to officially distance myself. No one I know or work with had anything to do with this simplistic, stupid idea. It was built by some dude in Utah at who's request, I don't know.
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17 month ago
jimray : Kottke "hacks" the New Yorker's website to start annoying you that much earlier - Of course, he uses the word "hack" in that grating way that best describes the person who uses it as opposed to the actual act. This may be the ultimate in self-parody.
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17 month ago
jimray : Why does Rob Curley's summer internship program piss me off so much? - Could it be that he uses the word "cool" 7 times? That he openly acknowledges they won't pay you what your worth? Or that he waited until now get this together and expects kids to quit the internships they've already accepted to work with him an
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17 month ago
jimray : The obsolete Jeff Jarvis - That man continues to prove how out of touch he is. Completely blows the Calacanis/Vogelstein thing *way* out of proportion in order to prove some idiotic point about how A-list bloggers make journalists irrelevant. Or something.
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17 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : An Open Letter to the Thunderbird Team - An Open Letter to the Thunderbird Team: "So, given that, it’d be nice, really fucking nice, if in the new app, Cmd-Shift-M did something other than DELETE MY FUCKING MESSAGE."
jimray : An open letter to the Thunderbird team - Cmd+Shift+M used to start a new message. Now, it DELETES the selected message. Brilliant, fellas, brilliant.
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17 month ago
jimray : Couple wants to find a kid to adopt...on MySpace - I smell a new To Catch a Predator!
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17 month ago
deusx : Miss Snark, the literary agent: Stop wasting your time - "And don't post your work on the web. It's not silly or savvy. It's pointless."
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17 month ago
jimray : The trouble with Twitter - The Twitter backlash continues
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17 month ago
jimray : When Twittering hurts - Overrated blogger Steve Rubel Twitters that he doesn't like PC Mag. They get their panties in a twist, kinda threaten to boycott Rubel's employer Edelman (for what exactly? putting out a shitty tech shill mag?) and Rubel apologizes. Feh.
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