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This could be even more dangerous than Facebook's walled garden in that it further defines Google as "The Internet."
Why is this necessary if Google Plus already exists? Couldn't they just add the features to Google Plus and include them in the search results?
They could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.
That is the same sort of silliness as banning software but applied to hardware instead. Furthermore, many terrorist attacks have been done using knives and machetes such as the May 22, 2013 Woolwich attack.
Perhaps those of us that prefer encrypted email should begin lobbying companies to encrypt transactional emails.
Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.
Posted by
passionfruit on Saturday August 17, 2013 @10:50AM
from the areweprivateyet.com dept.
I use RequestPolicy[1] to prevent cross-site requests. If only NoScript is used and a user has allowed javascript on a domain, then NoScript allows cross-site requests and javascript from that domain to run on any domain.
https://www.requestpolicy.com/
Posted by
passionfruit on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:07PM
from the kickstarter.com dept.
I decided to use Yandex Speller since at the time I was researching this issue it was clear that Google Spell was an undocumented and unsupported feature.
http://api.yandex.ru/speller/
Here are some other ways.
1. They could email you.
2. They could send you a SMS.
3. They could let you view your bandwidth usage by logging into their site.
4. They could provide an application (desktop or mobile) to keep track of your bandwidth and alert you at certain points.
I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision and for someone with poor mouse skills is even more difficult.
Using an em dash would make the sentence clear.
"Through the window she saw George—a policeman—and several onlookers."
Or one could simply specify who George is by inserting "who is" after George.
"Through the window she saw George, who is a policeman, and several onlookers."
If using the Oxford comma does not make the sentence clear then the sentence needs to be rewritten.
This article makes some bad analogies. Showing the structure of two different molecules and acting aghast that someone would choose one over the other is like saying all digital information is 1's and 0's so it's all the same. Or it's like saying all words are just a bunch of the same letters therefore they have no meaning.
Reading large works like these may stimulate your thinking much more than getting the same information in a shorter format.
I get 10 spam emails a day that get past Yahoo's spam filter. The common factor in all of them is that my address is not in the "To" field. Marking them all as spam for the past several months has been completely ineffective. My solution was to filter all email without my address in the "To" field into another folder.
I don't think the Yahoo spam filter works on an individual basis like the gmail filter does.
I almost allowed this access to my facebook account until I saw that the app name was misspelled "elpehantvsdonkey." It doesn't look trustworthy enough to use with an obvious misspelling like that.
I see the church submission form, but will there be a way to submit the churches of entire denominations whose directory of churches is publicly available?
SermonAudio.com, which also has mobile apps, already has similar functionality to this app. Why should churches use ChurchMint instead of SermonAudio? SermonAudio does cost money, so will ChurchMint be providing these services for free?
This is exactly what happened to Google Buzz.
Posted by
passionfruit on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @11:45PM
from the ccofal.org dept.
As a person with very strong religious views I've found the matching algorithm to be great at filtering out those with incompatible views. I think matching based on ethical, political, and religious views is the matching system's strength. The true weakness of the algorithm is that it matches poorly for personality. Two people can have very similar beliefs but be a terrible match in terms of personality. I would prefer an entirely separate score for that aspect.
Yes, this is definitely needed. I have a book in an interlinear format that requires css floating elements for fluid display.
Posted by
passionfruit on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:52PM
from the betterfacebook.net dept.
Posted by
passionfruit on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:23AM
from the ccofal.org dept.