Posted
on January 16, 2012, 1:48 pm,
by Jack Hodgson,
under Congress.
On Jan 18 the Uncontrolled Airspace website will go dark from 8am to 8pm as part of an internet-wide protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills which are being considered by the US Congress.
Cory Doctorow of the Boing Boing website explains the issues well.
“… I don’t think that any amount of “piracy” justifies this kind of depraved indifference to the consequences of one’s actions. Big Content haven’t just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the “fun” Internet: they’ve declared war on every person who uses the net to publicize police brutality, every oppressed person in the Arab Spring who used the net to organize protests and publicize the blood spilled by their oppressors, every abused kid who used the net to reveal her father as a brutalizer of children, every gay kid who used the net to discover that life is worth living despite the torment she’s experiencing, every grassroots political campaigner who uses the net to make her community a better place — as well as the scientists who collaborate online, the rescue workers who coordinate online, the makers who trade tips online, the people with rare diseases who support each other online, and the independent creators who use the Internet to earn their livings.”
Posted
on November 18, 2011, 7:36 pm,
by jeburnside,
under Uncategorized.
“A special committee set up to steer the implementation of a critical NextGen technology has concluded there is – as yet – no business case for an equipage mandate.”
Posted
on November 11, 2011, 10:04 am,
by Dave Higdon,
under Uncategorized.
Well, it’s 11/11/11…and at 11 there’s an event honoring veterans that’s on my to-do list. There will be lots of hats and pins and patches attesting to the different services and various conflicts the veterans faced and survived.
For my part, the moment is but one moment on one day in which the service of my father, my uncles, my neighbors and friends dominates my thoughts. Many of those remembered gave the last full measure of their efforts in conflicts far from home; many others made it home and built America’s remarkable middle class out of the GI Bill and out of their sweat and tears and blood. Some of them passed on to that great vets reunion beyond us.
Remember them all today and every day; remember when you see that homeless guy wearing old, faded olive drab or dessert camo…they probably earned those clothes the hard way and now have a hard way through life.
Those deserve our remembrances and our thanks as much as those with shiny badges and fresh, clean clothes. And the whole lot of them deserve at least a moment of our remembrances every single day we continue to enjoy loving under our flag.
If you are downloading large files and your iPad or iPhone is running low on disk space, iOS 5 can remove data from inside apps under certain conditions. For example, if you had 1GB of free space and downloaded a 3GB movie, the operating system will delete 2GB of data from other apps to make room. When this happens, your iPad home screen with display a “Cleaning” message underneath app icons that are having data removed. The next time you start those apps, they will be missing data that had been previously downloaded.
The go on to provide advice on how to minimize (eliminate?) the possibility of data being unavailable while in flight.
Foreflight