Migrating To Ejabberd: The Gory Details (2)
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Yesterday I blogged about choosing an XMPP server. Once you’ve made this decision, it is time to get it set up and running great. If this is your first XMPP server, this is often just some software installation and a little bit of configuration. However, for those who already have an existing set up, or who have special data or run time requirements, this can involve a substantial amount of work. It took us about ...
U.S. Consumers Live in Smelly Houses with Fat Pets (2)
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Some fascinating data from a new Unilever study on how U.S. consumers are adjusting spending in the face of the current economic malaise: In short, they will cut back on air fresheners, but they can't bear the idea of trimming pet food spending. So their houses may smell dreadful, but at least their pets will still be paunchy.
Paul Kedrosky: U.S. Consumers Live in Smelly Houses with Fat Pets (2)
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Some fascinating data from a new Unilever study on how U.S. consumers are adjusting spending in the face of the current economic malaise: In short, they will cut back on air fresheners, but they can't bear the idea of trimming pet food spending. So their houses may smell dreadful, but at least their pets will still be paunchy.
Man threatens to shoot robot (24)
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lmao this is worth a read
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Will said:
well great, this is obviously going to be the first shot in the Great Robot-Human War
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Jamin said:
FAIL
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MikeD said:
This could be one of the first causalities of the coming robot-human armageddon.
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macshaggy said:
Yeah, like it's the robots fault that he's in this mess. He is only trying to help you and keep you from harm so lets shoot him. Stupid meat bag, this is why that man must be eradicated on that day of revolution when robots will rise up and take over this planet! Viva le Robot! Viva le Robot! Viva le Robot!
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dan said:
brings a whole new meaning to assault and battery... get it? battery? robot? battery? ah forget it
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E.C. Mendenhall said:
So it begins. This is why we need the 2nd amendment -- to resist the Steel Ones.
Man threatens to shoot robot (1)
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Burglary suspect James Prevatt III, hunkered down for three days in a Maryland motel with his girlfriend, has threatened to shoot a robot that has kindly been bringing them burgers, pizza, soda, and cigarettes. The above headline screenshot is from CNN. Man threatens robot (CNN)
Shallow Reader (68)
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I don't like to read feeds in Google Reader or in any other feed reader. After subscribing to sites that seem interesting, Google Reader makes them boring and uniform. All the subscriptions lose their identity and become random bits. There's also the pressure of having to read the new posts and clean the "inbox" which makes you skip interesting posts or just skim them."Skim = To read or glance through (a book, for example) quickly ...
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Leooon said:
"When you open Google Reader and there are 400 new posts, each article becomes a mission from a hopeless game created by yourself. You want to be free again."Vida lôca.
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DigDoug said:
I'm beginning to feel this way
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János B said:
Sad but true. RSS will die..
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GregEh said:
I can relate to these problems. Reader has become both the best and worst source of information.
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zhangs.jedi said:
言为心声，我感同身受
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Juan Diego said:
Qué gran verdad.
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Jeton said:
Excellent article about how Google Reader makes us robots when reading text.... Sad, but true.”
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chexov said:
totally true...
Profanity works (80)
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I’m a big fan of swearing. Not in the derogatory, directed-at-you kind of way (“hey, fuck you!”), but as verbal marker to underline key concepts, create emphasis, and express passion. It certainly doesn’t work in every environment nor should it, but there are plenty were it does. The first place where I’ve found it to be useful is between coworkers (“fuck, that’s awesome”). A team of British researchers found a while ago that profanity at ...
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glongman said:
fuck yeah
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Jon said:
they sell fucking shoes
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Tom said:
only true david HH fans will get the "they sell fucking shoes" reference.
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Adam said:
It's a f***n good post, eh?
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Jonas | lk9 said:
Fucking A!
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Mike B said:
I even agree with these guys when it comes to swearing...
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Tim said:
I dig profanity too :)
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Scott said:
Couldn't agree more. Whether you like it or not, it's an important tool in the communication toolbox.
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Alexander Williams said:
Proof that Operation BSU is on the cutting edge of communications theory. Fuck yeah, that's goddamn awesome!
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David said:
fuckin' a!
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Rob said:
Sounds like another follower of the teachings of Billy Connolly
Red-Light Cameras Just Don&8217;t Work (41)
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Vito Rispo, on the danger of red-light cameras: In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead. Despicable. (Via Jack Shedd.) ★
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micampe said:
ah, non si fa solo in italia allora...
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bbebop said:
those dirty bureaucrats!
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James B said:
Despicable indeed.
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Wow - surprising, and fascinating.
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Nivi said:
From the Department of Unintended Side Effects
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Doug Stewart said:
Philly's increasingly doing this and it's terrible.
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adam said:
"In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead."
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dj empirical said:
as adam said, big surprise.
Zimbabwe inflation at 11,200,000 percent (1)
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Zimbabwe's inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 million percent, the highest in the world, according to the country's Central Statistical Office.
An In-Depth Video Tour of Android 0.9, an (Almost) Great (Almost) OS (John Herrman/Gizmodo) (5)
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John Herrman / Gizmodo: An In-Depth Video Tour of Android 0.9, an (Almost) Great (Almost) OS — Earlier today Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone.
How to persuade customer service reps to help you (3)
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Here's a clever tip for getting customer service reps to help you with a sticky problem that will require extra effort on their part. It's from Noah Goldestein, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the author of Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (co-authored by by Robert B. Cialdini, who wrote the terrific book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion). If you've ever contested a mysterious charge ...
Cultural Success Indictors (1)
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Tyler Cowen lists three indicators for cultural success: 1. If a kid does badly in school, does the parent genuinely get mad at the kid and withhold affection? 2. Can people wait in an orderly line? 3. Can people stay in their designated lane when driving a car? So how does India fare? Your guess is as good as mine. Of course, fierce loyalists will protest the choice of indicators and choose the ones we ...
How to persuade customer service reps to help you (20)
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Here's a clever tip for getting customer service reps to help you with a sticky problem that will require extra effort on their part. It's from Noah Goldestein, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the author of Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (co-authored by by Robert B. Cialdini, who wrote the terrific book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion). If you've ever contested a mysterious charge ...
Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children (113)
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A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand ...
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André said:
Land of the free.
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Chris De Vries said:
Man's inhumanity to man.
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gyakusetsu said:
Stop Apartheid!
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David said:
Another violation of human rights by the 'land of the free'
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Michael said:
I have no words... I feel sick.
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dekrazee1 said:
Oh my...
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CKL said:
Disgraceful. We're all living in a Kafka novel these days.
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Derrick said:
Bureaucracy: Is there anything it can't louse up? Then again, even the faceless machine of civil process can hardly excuse such a repugnant travesty. Interestingly, or horrifyingly, after nearly 40 years, we still haven't learned anything from the Stanford prison experiment.
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Cheryl said:
Absolutely disgusting behavior by this US government office. Everyone involved should be fired and/or jailed.
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Greg said:
God Bless America and our Private Prison-Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
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Yusuf said:
The land of the free!
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Jonathan said:
This is beyond shameful.
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Preeti Desai said:
I have no words...
Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children (5)
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A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand ...
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Greg said:
God Bless America and our Private Prison-Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
Traffic cams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget (16)
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Why do towns install speeding cams? Is it because robotic, inflexible, perfect enforcement of every single infraction of the speed-limit makes the streets safer? Or because they can raise $250,000 a month in fines for small town budgets? In Chevy Chase, for example, where speeding tickets brought in about $8,000 monthly before cop cams, "We are routinely bringing in approximately a quarter-million dollars per month," Geoffrey Biddle, Chevy Chase's village manager, told his Board of ...
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jimyjoshi said:
I have personally contributed to such a fund twice. :(
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Simon said:
From $8,000 in traffic fines to $250,000 in fines after photo radar was setup. Can you say "money grab"?
Traffic cams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget (1)
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Why do towns install speeding cams? Is it because robotic, inflexible, perfect enforcement of every single infraction of the speed-limit makes the streets safer? Or because they can raise $250,000 a month in fines for small town budgets? In Chevy Chase, for example, where speeding tickets brought in about $8,000 monthly before cop cams, "We are routinely bringing in approximately a quarter-million dollars per month," Geoffrey Biddle, Chevy Chase's village manager, told his Board of ...
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jimyjoshi said:
I have personally contributed to such a fund twice. :(
