Geek Stuff category archive
Delta BSOD 0
Why do I find this disquieting?
I used to say that “if you die and go to hell on Delta, you’ll change at Atlanta.”
Now, you get a bonus wait for a virus scan and defrag.
Twits on Twitter 0
Jack Ohman:
One of my favorite presidents, “Silent” Calvin Coolidge–why? Because he was a jerk– was famous for his terse responses. My favorite was when a drunk woman came up to him at a reception and said, “My husband bet me I couldn’t get three words out of you.”
Coolidge responded, “You lose.”
Backstory at the link.
More Adventures with iJunk 0
Thoreau summarizes:
The Los Angeles public school system has a well thought out plan for improving academic achievement:
1. Hand everyone iPads.
2. ???
3. Test scores!
Details at the link.
Facebook Frolics 0
The ACLU takes on the Zuckerborg’s limitations of statue.
News from the iJunk Yard 0
Trouble in the walled orchard’s workers’ paradise.
Authorities in the northern city of Taiyuan sent 5,000 police to restore order after what the plant’s Taiwanese owners Foxconn Technology Group said was a personal dispute in a dormitory that erupted into a mass brawl.
However, some employees and people posting messages online accused factory guards of provoking the trouble by beating up workers at the factory, which employs about 79,000 people and is owned by the world’s largest contract maker of electronic goods.
Via LQ.
iTois for Poor Fanbois 0
Like, You Know, Facebook Frolics 0
Like, like, dude.
The U.S. Court of Appeals based in Richmond, Virginia, made the judgment in the case of a Virginia sheriff’s department worker who claimed he was fired for exercising his free speech rights — in this case “liking” a political opponent of his boss.
Facebook Frolics 0
Using Facebook to find stolen bicycles.
I know that I would be most upset if my bike disappeared. Not just because it’s my bike, but because it came from the Urban Bike Project to which Second Son introduced me and because it’s old, like me, and still functions, like me.
But mostly because it’s fun to ride.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook is mucking with its “privacy” (c’est rire) policy once again in its continuing effort to parade you naked through the internets.
The Next Next Big Thing 0
Filtering the Internet 0
Thom reports on Verizon’s attempt to ration your internet so they can collect money on both ends.
Digital Divides 0
Right here in River City.
Well, just down the road a piece:
Unable to get high-speed Internet or cable TV or reliable phone service, about a dozen residents have banded together to press local communications companies and the city government to come to their aid.
Cox Cable and Verizon say it’s outside their service areas.
More properly, it’s inside their service areas, completely surrounded by folks with access to home broadband, an island of dialup in a sea of speed.
It’s been almost a decade since I used dial-up. I have no idea how long it would take to have one of today’s heavy, graphics intensive, script-laden web pages full of embedded video to load over a 28.8 modem. Days, I imagine. Long enough that, when residents of Land of Fortune Road need to use the internet to do such things as, say, fill out college applications or check their course assignments, it’s easier for them to drive to Starbucks than wait for the download.
At the rate my cable and phone bills go up annually with no improvement of service (which is, I must say to be fair, pretty reliable), one would think a bit of them could be used to lay some cable for Land of Fortune’s unfortunates.
Dulcet Tones 0
In which I bake honey wheat bread.
Facebook Frolics, Expropriation Dept. 0
What’s yours is theirs.
The proposed update is set to go into effect in about a week, in September.
A judge mandated the clarifying language as part of Facebook’s recent $20 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on by users who said Facebook was using people’s information and images for advertising without consent or compensation. Some of those users were under 18.
Details at the link.
Facebook Frolics, None So Blind Dept. 3
At the end, she asks for twits.
Remember, the “user” is not the customer; he or she is the product.