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Today I went to dell.com.  I saw a laptop at walmart for around $500, and I was curious if I could purchase it with ubuntu on it.

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This kinda pisses me off, the other day I was using stumble upon, and the “rick roll” video showed up.  So for all I know I’m now on some list.  I’m waiting for the FBI to come knocking on my door.  All because I clicked stumble!

Rick Rolled to child porn = you’re a pedophile, says FBI

I’m pissed off at every browser developer out there. I’m talking to you ie, firefox, opera, safari, konqueror, galeon, lynx, and links.

Why?! Well you’re all a bunch of jerks. Why? Well I’ve been working on an upload progress bar. Yup something simple, something really simple, or so you would think.

For those of you who don’t know anything about uploads on a web page, they look a little like this:


<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
<input type="file" name="somefile">
<input type="submit" value="Send File" />
</form>

That basically tells your browser, hey send this file when visitor presses submit.

What bothers me is I’ve spent the last 10 hours of my life working on something that isn’t going to work on all browsers, and should have been implemented in the browser to begin with.

To get your browser to show those upload progress bars on web pages, is a hideous hack.

Continue reading “ATTN: Browser developers.”

Senate Bill Could Restrict Political Commentary | TechFreep Web

This is just plain unconstitutional, and if it passes, America is no longer America.

Baby held in locked room at airport dies - The Honolulu Advertiser

You know there are many “reasons” to have increased airport security.   In the end this is the sort of thing that happens.  People who have time dependent life or death situations are dying.

Honestly, we need to stop harassing innocents in the name of security.

More likely than not nobody is going to get in trouble for this.  Because like the SS Storm Troupers they were just doing their job.

Western Digital Blocks Media File Sharing From Storage Device — Storage — InformationWeek

I’m never going to buy a Western Digital  drive again.

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Pay too much and you could raise the alarm
This is just insane. Apparently now you can be considered a terrorist if you pay too much on your credit card bill.

This sucks because we were planning on playing a big amount off on one of our debts when we get a refund this next year.

When is paying off a debt going to make you a terrorist? I would think if you were funding a terrorist operation you would pay cash.

I guess being responsible and paying your bills off isn’t “American.”

Next thing you know if you buy gold you’re going to be considered a terrorist, and not someone who is just trying to get prepared for the future in the event all your assets are frozen because you “might” be a terrorist.

We shouldn’t be under such scrutiny.  Paying a bill off is so freaking harmless.  I’m not scared of Terrorists.  I’m more scared of the government looking for terrorists

Bush vetoes $10bn increase in health/education budget, signs $40bn increase in Pentagon budget - CashBulge - Bigger Pockets for Bigger Wallets
Bush vetoes $10bn increase in health/education budget, signs $40bn increase in Pentagon budget

I sorta think this is insane … couldn’t you have taken 10 billion from the military and given it to our schools?  No wonder Americans are considered so stupid, probably because we are.  Grated I sorta think school is there to teach you what to think, and not how to think.