Google, You Can Use My User-Agent

I saw this YouTube.com today... while using the Google Chrome browser!



Google, there is a User-Agent which my computer is sending you. And I understand the privacy implications, but... you *are* allowed to use it :-)

Story of experiences with gay men

Not all gays are like this, but it's a thought...

I have had only 2 personal experiences with gay men. First, I needed a roomate and rented to a stranger, who did not tell me he was gay. When I found out I was none too happy, but, life goes on. Unfortunately for me, my roomie brought a different man home as much as possible, at least 3 nights a week, and they had sex, and they were loud. When I questioned this behavior, i was called a homophobe. My roomie told me one thing that sticks with me, he liked more than anything in the world to have sex with striaght men, he liked making people gay I guess. He got AIDS and died, very sad.

The other episode was with my son 7th grade gay history teacher. This guy constantly tried to toss homosexuality into every lesson, parents complained and he was admonished, but I had to call him out as he touched my son every chance he got. He rubbeed his back when asked a query, he caressed his chin, he liked to touch his shoulder when addressed. I told that piece of crap to lay off and he said, “Your son needs affection and love!” I said, “If you touch him again I am going to f*cking kill you!!!” He then called me a homophobe. LLEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF THIS QUAGMIRE EVERYBODY, PLEASE!!!

Comment by Resolute Protector | 10/26/07 2:34 pm

Google Fixes Mistake in Closing Video; Offers Full Refund - Google Community

Here's a great resolution on the Google Videos shutdown fiasco. Instead of merely offering refunds in the form of Google Checkout credits, they're now giving full refunds. This is in addition to any Checkout credit you've gotten, if you did purchase videos.

I don't know anyone who actually bought from Google Video, but I hear most of the people who did are from the media and reviewers who were testing the service.

Good for Google to set this right. At least they actually have the money to comfortably do so.

Do you Google? Join the Google Community.

Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video feedback

javascript refer to element with dot in name

Problem when field has a dot

JavaScript FAQ

JavaScript Best Practices: Square Bracket Notation

It is more profitable to be ethical. - RapLeaf

RapLeaf says,

It is more profitable to be ethical.

Their goal is "to make it more profitable to be ethical."

This seems like a very dangerous idea to me. Sometime down the road, one has to ask: If something is more profitable, is it therefore ethical?

Profits can then be used to justify ethics. It becomes the scale by which ethical behavior is measured.

Stealing is profitable.

Joost Crash Reporting

Interesting. It actually doesn't send the information to Joost automatically. Why not?

Crash reporting is available when the Joost application crashes, it takes an image of the application memory used for the stack and writes it to a file in the directory minidumps in your profile. You can attach the file to Issues raised on either the website or using the F1 page within Joost.

I guess it eliminates privacy fears. So why would I not enable crash reporting?

ReCaptcha for vBulletin

I wish there was a ReCaptcha plugin for vBulletin. Do you know of one?

Web Security is Tough

This article on The Chilling Effect made me rethink a few things about software quality.

"It's terrible to say," Arora concedes, "but in some ways, from an economic perspective, it's more efficient to let the market tell you the flaws once the software is out in the public." The same consumers who complain about flawed software, Arora argues, would neither wait to buy the better software nor pay the price premium for it if more-flawed, less-expensive software were available sooner or at the same time. True, code can be engineered to be more secure. But as long as publishing vulnerable software remains legal, vulnerable software will rule because it's a significantly more efficient market than the alternative, high-security, low-flaw market.

Against Net Neutrality

This is interesting because there are very smart people on both sides of the net neutrality debate. I don't know which side to choose. And once I choose, can I change? Precursor blog

The Internet is awesome and enables all kinds of new research

Now, thanks to Choisser and the Internet, Duchaine could locate hundreds – even thousands – of subjects. "A whole new world of questions can now be asked," he says. "We're moving inside the black box."

Face Blind - Wired

It's one of the greatest inventions of mankind. How can we make the Internet even better than it is today?

For Housman, as for most prosopagnosics, the Internet is changing everything. He learned about his condition when his wife stumbled across Choisser's Web site one night. She thought it explained a lot about her husband, and she showed the site to him. Housman stayed up until five in the morning reading Choisser's online memoir and following links to other prosopagnosia Web sites. For Hasidics, Housman says, "it's considered arrogant if you make a big deal out of something or call attention to yourself. So I didn't really talk about my problems until I sent my first email to Brad Duchaine."

Face Blind - Wired (page 5 of 5)