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Google. No Configuration Needed
The Google Operating System blog rounds up a number of Google’s recent major feature releases that require “no configuration,” or rather: ‘we’ll just turn on all this social sharing stuff for you because we know what’s right.’ I really want to hope that the Buzz debacle will snap Google back into The Real World where people do still actually care about privacy. Believe it or not, a woman in fact did not want to be auto-friended by her abusive ex-husband.
But the conspiracy theorist in me worries that this was all part of Google’s plan. So far it has failed miserably in social networking, but its massive Gmail user base provided too juicy of a “six-degrees-of-everyone” opportunity. Google flipped the switch and made a massive splash in a pond now dominated by Facebook and Twitter.
Now all Google has to do is apologize to quell the angry vocal minority and tech press, making up stories about how they never conceived of this privacy train wreck during “months” of testing. Meanwhile, the broader user base that doesn’t get what’s wrong with all this may very well plod along in Buzz, giving Google the foothold in social networking for which our inboxes—one of the last bastions of actual privacy in the 21st century—were sacrificed.
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”Adobe is finally becoming the Microsoft it so desperately wanted to be for so long. The only problem is, it’s becoming the Microsoft of ten years ago, not the Microsoft of today that’s trying to change its image.
Aral Balkan, I’m not on Adobe’s Christmas card list anymore via Twitter / AceyTech
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Google turns most popular search engine into ad for its own browser - Gizmodo
Google has tipped the browser scales and begun advertising Chrome on Google.com, even to users not signed in. I don’t remember a banner ever being there for Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, OmniWeb, or Camino before.
This is wrong. Chrome is wrong. Besides testing for any work I need to do for Agile or other future employers, I don’t think I’ll be touching Chrome with a ten foot pole. Besides, when it comes to Chrome’s development, it’s clear that Google considers the Mac as a second-class citizen anyway (if not third-class). Four “major” releases in its first year and they just now get around to the Mac? Bite me.
I’m also moving my davebc.com email off of Google Apps. Google has finally crossed my personal threshold.
“Don’t be evil” my ass.
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There are people who celebrate keeping people who love each other apart. There are people who make it their pathetic life’s work to keep two people who belong together from being together. There are people who revel in not letting others be genuinely happy, and making them feel like second-rate citizens in their own country, for the want of “preserving tradition.”
These people are assholes.
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”Remember how I wrote about all those kids who died because their ignorant parents preferred to pray for them to get better rather than call a real doctor? Well, it appears that a couple senators are trying to include a provision to the healthcare bill that would require insurers to cover Christian Science prayer as a legitimate medical expense.
Senators try to get prayer payment plan into Health Care Bill | The Good Atheist
This isn’t a joke. How utterly ridiculous.
via lkm
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Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive - Gizmodo
And I think it should be legal to revoke drivers licenses from this 3% of people.
Ok not really, but still. That’s insane.
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Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony - Ars Technica
Flash can die in a bloody fire as far as I’m concerned. 10 lashings for the nincompoops at Adobe who thought that “Flash” has any place in “open government.”
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NoDaddy.Com - Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names
I finished moving all of mine away from GoDaddy last month, and that was before I heard about this site.
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”HTC is the Taco Bell of the handset world—they’ve only got a few ingredients that they put into their long menu of products, but the results are consistently pretty good, if not spectacular.
HTC Imagio Review: HTC Is Microsoft’s Best Critic - Htc imagio review - Gizmodo
I was making an honest attempt at reading the review in its entirety until I read this line in what is basically the third paragraph. Now I’ll admit to satiating my occasional fancies for
comfortjunk food with Taco Bell. But there’s no way in hell I can bring an open mind to a review that compares HTC, Windows Mobile, and Taco Bell with “pretty good” or “spectacular.” -
Adobe video shows off Flash 10.1 multitasking on Pre. Oh wait, no it doesn't
The douchbagging ridiculousness that is Adobe and its plague of a platform that is Flash knows absolutely, inarguably, no bounds.
In one breath this Adobe rep touts the Pre’s multitasking abilities. He shows off how he has three different cards (applications) running Flash instances like a film preview, a game, and a music player embedded in a site.
In his next fucking breath, he boasts that they did a lot of work to make sure Flash stops when you switch away from an application.
We multitask on the Pre! Nya nya nya-nya nya.
Oh wait, no we don’t.
Because Flash is god-foresakenly pathetic dreck.
But buy it and make us money. Wake the hell up people: we aren’t a design company anymore. We’re just a company. Who gives a crap about experience, or quality, or making something work, or the fact that we’re trying to hijack the web with our terrible products and proprietary bullshit.
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”Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an update to CS4 that makes it not crash when you move the mouse too fast. You really want to trust them to manage your memory, translate your code and keep up with Apple’s SDK? Let me know how that works out for you.
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