Did anyone else find the pre-play ad (mine was for Pfizer) and the interstitial happy music creepy in this context? Couching Klein's answers in this manicured, pop-sugar commercial format seems to take all the force out of her critique.

Or perhaps I'm just oversensitive.

It's like birth control; it gives us the feeling of having reproduced, without actually having done so.

What do you do in your 501's?

Wouldn't this be fascinating as a serialized "fake" website?

SHRUBURBS!

Sounds like the job market, to me.

I don't think I've seen so many straw men on one web page in my entire life.

Doesn't anyone ask questions instead of making assumptions, anymore?

Wait, I get it. It's not that we shouldn't complain because it doesn't help them; but that we shouldn't complain because it DOES.

I understand, now. ;p

Question: was the art any good?

I sense a new business model; sell ads on glaciers. The money can go to climate change research, and remediation.

Wouldn't it be neat to be able to create a layered, claymation-style animation that falls off, piece by piece, in slow motion?

Savored Slack.
Loved All.
Prefer myself.

I'll give you one guess how many people will be held accountable for designing & deploying a system this easy to exploit for a system this easy to cause injuries with.

Any time my laughter prompts someone to say, "Oh, you think I'm kidding?" I always respond "No; I just think it's funny!"

This is worrisome; a Free Software license for the server code is the single most important thing for me right now.

But, after digging, I did find this bit on Nov 21st by Rosedale:

"Second, we need to keep opening SL up, as we’ve started talking about lately. This means formats, source code, partners, and more. We are working on turning our clear vision on this into more detailed plans. Virtual worlds, in their broadest form, will be more pervasive that the web, and that means that their systems will need to be open: extended and operated by many people and companies, not just us."

I realize talk is cheap, but that's not the kind of thing that you hear from CEOs with purely proprietary business strategies, or even from web 2.0 companies interested in openness from the sole perspective of profiting from the work of users.

That said, time will tell. I'm STILL waiting to be able to make my own backups of the Second Life creations I allegedly hold the copyrights to. What good is a copyright if I can't actually make a copy?

"The U.S. government has taken a largely deregulatory approach to the broadband ISP market, based on a belief that competition will compel large ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast to sell broadband at the speeds and price points that consumers want."

I thought the idea was that you had to regulate in order to GET competition? Who's operating on this strange idea that large vendors compete in the absence of regulation?

"ProPublica will focus exclusively on journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them. We will be non-partisan and non-ideological"

Not to be impish, but how is the exploitation of the weak by the strong non-ideological?

Because if there's anything a tech mogul hates worse than his own customers, it's his competition

You know it's coming, so I might as well be the one to ask:

Was she charged with a salt?

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Wouldn't tracking serve as a better deterrent to bad behavior if the subjects knew about it?

I mean, what's more important: firing dishonest employees, or prompting them to be more honest?