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TECHNOLOGY: No “kill switches”
Saturday, February 5, 2011
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NEWJERSEY: “Private funding for public schools”; no the issue is “public” schools!
Friday, February 4, 2011http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/02/private-funding-for-public-schools.html
“Private funding for public schools”
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real issues — funding disparity and a segregated state —
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How about the real issues:
(1) The Gooferment shouldn’t be indoctrinating future voters in worshiping at the alter of “big gooferment”.
(2) People forced to have their children taught things they find morally offensive in the name of “political correctness”.
(3) One group of folks forced to pay for the education of other people’s children — they had no vote in the decision to have children but are forced to pay for that decision.
(4) Parents are forced by geography to place and keep their children in failing schools.
(5) The infrastructure of “Gooferment Skrules” is corrupt — the Teacher’s Unions, Politicians and Bureaucrats are in an incestous relationship which screws the parents and taxpayers.
Those are the “real” issues!
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RANT: “government issued costumes”?
Friday, February 4, 2011http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/76340.html
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Every week — actually, every day — innocent people across the country are harassed, abused, brutalized, tortured, and murdered by armed strangers in government-issued costumes. Most of the assailants are never held accountable. Often, they are placed on paid vacation (commonly called “administrative leave”) while their colleagues devise an official rationalization for their crimes.
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I like the phrase “government issued costumes”. ROFL!
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JOBSEARCH: Amazon gives away three free “jobsearch” e-books (probably to get folks using their Kindle or Kindle software)
Thursday, February 3, 2011http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20030241-58.html#ixzz1Cq6592H8
February 1, 2011 10:16 AM PST
Get ‘The Career Survival Kit’ e-book collection free
by Rick Broida
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Amazon says these three e-books are worth $45. But they’re actually worth $30. Does it matter? They’re free!
Every so often, Amazon.com rolls out an e-book freebie that’s perfect for the business crowd. Here’s the latest: “The Career Survival Kit (Collection).”
Available for the Kindle reader or any device that can run a Kindle application (including Android and BlackBerry devices, iPhones/iPods/iPads, PCs, and Macs), this download contains three e-books.
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Probably to get folks using their Kindle or Kindle software?
Works.
A little confusing.
You must install the Kindle Software on your PC and / or MAC. Or other IOS devices.
Then, you buy the book collection. It’s free. Just strange to buy a free book.
Then, you tinker to have it deliver it to the registered platform.
Then, you go to archived content, and double click.
And, you’re done.
Neat!
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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 NOTRECOMMENDED
Thursday, February 3, 2011POSTBOX2, a OSX mail application, is in my doghouse.
- Smearing in message preview screen when paging down in a message.
- Support told me that I’m unique and they can’t reproduce it.
- Don’t have the accounts open.
- Unable to “next” thru an mail folder from message to message.
- It’s “involved” in several high CPU usage incidents.
- It’s “involved” in several disk space exhaustion incidents.
- It has “performance issues” especially when switching mailboxes.
I’ve fallen back to APPLE MAIL.
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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 “SMEARING” appears to be related to “account” display
Wednesday, February 2, 2011RE: POSTBOX2 has a serious value-impacting problem — “SMEARING” in message preview pane
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“SMEARING” in message preview pane POSTBOX2 Version 2.1.0 (PAID) While the workaround — “click on the message” and read it in a new tab — works, it destroys the usability of it.
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The support folks have tumbled to a key fact. “SMEARING” only appears to occur when (1) the ACCOUNT has many accounts; and (2) the ACCOUNT folder is open to show individual accounts. Close it, no “SMEARING”.
This is now a acceptable temporary (I hope) workaround.
Support was good in terms of responsiveness and follow thru.
Assuming this will get a fix, I’m downgrading my “NOTRECOMMENDED” recommendation to “WARNING”. (Like anyone cares.)
The implication is that it is NOT well tested if within a week of buying and using the product, I can hit a CLASS #2 bug which should have been obvious to find.
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TECHNOLOGY: Talking cars
Wednesday, February 2, 2011http://www.impactlab.net/2011/01/26/talking-cars-someday-may-save-lives/
‘Talking Cars’ Someday May Save Lives
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“This technology is an opportunity to help create a future where millions of vehicles communicate with each other by sharing anonymous real-time information about traffic speeds and conditions. This new world of wireless communication will make transportation safer,” said Peter Appel, administrator of the Transportation Department’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
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I wonder if the regional dialects will be preserved.
As they say in Brooklyn, Fuggedaboudit!
Another boondoggle.
Think runaway Toyotas are “fun”?
How about cars that “know better” than the driver!
Still a autobahn with 200 mph cars and no driver would be an interesting experience. Like the Disney attraction Mister Toad’s Wild Ride!
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MACBOOKAIR: Disk space disappears until reboot
Tuesday, February 1, 2011*** begin quote ***
Case Information
Case ID: 202017437
Case: Application or system is unresponsive
Status: Opened Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Contact Option:
An Advisor will call you Tuesday, February 1, 2011, between 4:00 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. Eastern
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I’ve gotten annoyed with the continual temporary disk space exhaustion issue.
I left windoze because of all the issues. And, on MACOSX, I seem to be having as many.
ARGH!
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SERVICE: Amazon Simple Email
Tuesday, February 1, 2011http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (beta)
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. With Amazon SES there is no long-term commitment, minimum spend or negotiation required – businesses can utilize a free usage tier and after that enjoy low fees for the number of emails sent plus data transfer fees.
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10¢ per thousand emails?
Wow!
That’s going to change the dynamics of the marketplace.
Not as simple as a Yahoo Group. Haven’t played with Google Groups. It requires coding and the use of APIs. I’m sure someone will write an smtp front end that makes it trivial to use.
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