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Rob Enderle seems to have gone off the deep end in his response to net neutrality and the following

Last week, there was uproar about a rumored secret negotiation between Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Verizon that, if successful, would result in Google customers getting better bandwidth.

Check out these quotes.

The scary part is that communism typically requires a major change in how the government is run, and there's a tendency to want to kill whomever was running it before. There is no wonder that it makes those currently in power nervous.

A bigger problem for the rest of us is that it doesn't seem to work very well.

and this

It isn't yet clear if socialism will work in the United States, but given that pure communism didn't work in the USSR and China, it is doubly doubtful an equivalent concept -- albeit with a vastly more acceptable "Net neutrality" name -- will ever work.

It is so totally over the top that it is almost totally unrelated, no matter how you feel about net neutrality. It seems like part of some larger unrelated, right wing conspiracy to place this type of information in all types of media.

and Buffalo is now where on there. However, Cleveland is #2. When I was in high school I was under the impression that Cleveland was better than Buffalo. I guess I was wrong

Its almost like they are perpetuating stereotypes with google suggest.
To be fair I was really looking up, "Why black people are so loud?" because some black people were talking really loudly outside. I didn't even get the letter a in there and this already came up. For a second I was concerned that google was reading my mind.



Then I once again got sidetracked with google suggest.



Its like never ending entertainment.


They aren't all bad. Not much to say about gays. Maybe it censored which is even more ridiculous. I find it hard to believe no one searches that and no one has anything bad to say?!


My search for why are latino's faired the best, well at least for latin women.

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The state of HTML 5 audio sucks. I think it is destined to fail at this point. Firefox only supports ogg vorbis format, not mp3, chrome supports mp3 but not short audio files, at least no in my chrome and it is a documented bug. Safari supports mp3 but not ogg vorbis. IE supports none of them yet.

IE - no native audio support, flash
firefox - native ogg vorbis and wav support, flash
safari - native mp3 and wav support, flash
chrome - native ogg and mp3 support (and problems with some mp3), flash
opera - native wav only, flash
iphone safari - mp3 and wav - no flash
android browser - no native support, has flash

Why even bother trying. My experience was that it totally sucked.

Here is my test page:

I think I will stick with flash for now and just include a link to each audio file for native rendering/download for browsers that don't have flash e.g. iphone. If I go native HTML I need to write something to detect the browser capabilities and change it accordingly or re-render all the mp3 as ogg and mp3. Its really just a freakin mess.

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PICFEEDER.COM    
LOUDFEEDER.COM
PORTABLEFRIENDS.COM
REMEMBERBUFFALO.ORG
EPEEPS.NET
PMOBL.COM

I am glad I havent had to deal with this yet.

This totally sounds like something @mike would make up.

It is all part of what is increasingly called "textual harassment," a growing aspect of dating violence at a time when cellphones and unlimited texting plans are ubiquitous among the young. It can be insidious, because messages pop up at the sender's will: Where r u? Who r u with? Why didn't u answer me?

I have been busy building an app for my new phone. I have a whole lot of pictures to post soon as it is done. In the meantime I wanted to post about this before its already normal.

Facebook's attempt to push location based services is so commercial its disgusting. I can't believe the service is partnered with McDonald's. Maybe it is just because I hate McDonald's so much.

AdAge is reporting that Facebook is expected to challenge popular startup Foursquare by offering location-based status updates for its users later this month. McDonald's is allegedly building an application with Facebook to allow users to check in at one of its restaurants and have a featured product appear in the post.

I bet it is not long before most people's daily experiences are paired with matching advertisements. I for one do not want to become an advertising venue ever. Moreover, its really unfair for anyone when you think it is in exchange for some fucking coupons. Think about how much advertising normally costs - this is a brilliant use of people on faceboo and McDonald's part. I guess it's that other people don't care so much but it seems pretty disgusting to me.

Whats next facebook, a strategic partnership with BP gas stations?

This is too funny. I love when local media has articles about stuff they do not exactly understand.

This one article on wivb was about the danger of installing 3rd party apps on cell phones and how they can have viruses or be full of exploits. That is true and there is real danger there but what's weird is this passage.

Another possible threat is simple weather apps. GPS technology conceivably could take control of a smartphone, by reading text messages and address books.

Loosely translated into english: I don't understand cell technology but I heard some of it is scary so I will name some random part of the system I know the acronym for as dangerous and make up some bull shit reason.

The real thing they should say is this. Like desktop apps you shouldn't install apps from sources you do not trust.