I'll text from my secret hiding place.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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quester - Aug 05, 2009 3:50:58 pm PDT #10853 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
flea - Aug 05, 2009 4:05:36 pm PDT #10854 of 25501
information libertarian
What does the random and frequent occurrence of Open DNS errors mean? One url will throw the error repeatedly, then I go somewhere else for 3 minutes and come back and it's fine. I'm running current Firefox on Mac OS X (and the other internet annoyance of late is how damn herky-jerky anything on Youtube is any more - did I mention the machine is 7 years old?)
Tom Scola - Aug 05, 2009 4:17:34 pm PDT #10855 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Do you have Comcast?
flea - Aug 05, 2009 4:28:02 pm PDT #10856 of 25501
information libertarian
Nope, AT&T DSL.
DCJensen - Aug 05, 2009 5:47:52 pm PDT #10857 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Quester, if it wasn't the special "dish network card" you might be ok.
If your card is ok, you may be able to buy the same model cheap or free on Craigslist in your area, pop in your card and go.
Jon B. - Aug 06, 2009 1:37:04 am PDT #10858 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Happy Birthday, WWW! [link]
Calli - Aug 06, 2009 4:51:28 am PDT #10859 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy Birthday, WWW!
Without which I would be unemployed. Yay WWW!
evil jimi - Aug 06, 2009 6:08:25 am PDT #10860 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Oh my Dog! Facebook has managed to come out with the stupidest error message I have ever come across in 12 years of surfing the Interweb! To whit:
"Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/inline_comments.php': A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet."
WTF? Check that I'm connected to the internet?????
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2009 6:56:55 am PDT #10861 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is cool - a camera dock that can tilt and rotate by itself, as well as automatically take pictures.
While we're waiting for full-on robots to put our human paparazzi out of work, Sony gives us a kind of middle step with the introduction of the Party-Shot personal photographer. The camera dock, designed to work with the DSC-WX1 and DSC-TX1 Cyber-shot digital cameras, can be programmed to tilt up to 24 degrees and pan a full 360 degrees.
In addition to the automatic angle adjustments, the unit can also detect faces and then take a well composed photo. Priced at $150, Sony plans to make the device available in September, in the meantime you can see the Party-Shot in action here.
So if you had this at a party, it would take pictures whenever it saw faces, or something.
omnis_audis - Aug 06, 2009 7:39:09 am PDT #10862 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I watched the video. It's a bit uncanny if it really is that intuitive for the zoom and framing. And I wonder what it's like to be at a party with random flashes going off. Would the annoyance factor be high? That said, DUDE! How cool would that be to have for Prom and hospitality suite!?!? Oh the incriminating fun photos that could be snapped.