WordPress 2.6.1
With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable “dot zero” bugs into your hands without a long wait. If you’re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it. You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the [...]
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WordPress 2.6.2
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and [...]
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WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
Note: Survey is closed as of 9/18/08. Thanks for the feedback!WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and as some people already know, it features a revised layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback regarding the use of screen real estate. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse [...]
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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish
Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding:Where to put the search boxWhere to put the Add New Post button/favorites menuHow to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp functionThe survey (hosted by the good guys over at PollDaddy.com) [...]
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2008 Bengals season DAYTON High winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc across the region on Sunday Sept 14 leaving 100 000 DP amp L customers across the region without power The Weather Service said motorists 0133 …
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Steve Jobs Barcode License Plate Mystery Solved
Within a few hours after posting a photo of Steve Jobs’ Mercedes spotted outside the
Yerba Buena Center, (above) the location of Apple’s ‘Let’s Rock’ event on Tuesday, comments and controversy began to emerge along with a flood of email inquiries.
The controversy and questions surrounded the supposed UPC barcode pictured on Jobs’ Mercedes SL55 AMG in lieu of of an official California license plate. We discovered wild rumors have dated back several years spawning constant speculation over Jobs’ barcode license plate. The most absurd rumor alleges that Jobs paid California DMV a lot of money for a special exemption that allows him to have a UPC barcode instead of a real license plate. A lame idea invented by the village idiot.
Another popular wedge of white trash folklore asserts that Steve Jobs uses a bar code instead of a license plate to expedite the billing of his numerous parking tickets. This also turned out to be false. Our own hack investigation into this looming Jobsian mystery has revealed a few facts that force the rumors into a long dirt nap. Short of a direct quote from Steve Jobs himself, here’s exactly what we’ve uncovered.
The supposed Steve Jobs barcode in place of a license plate is actually the vehicles VIN number placed on the car by the manufacturer (above). When we randomly removed the license plate from a parked Mercedes E320 Wagon, a similar VIN sticker was found underneath (left). It appears that Steve Jobs may be choosing to not display his license plate for reasons unknown, not because he’s exempt. California Highway Patrol confirmed by phone that no exemptions for omitting a license plate are given to anyone under California law.
The fine for violating CA Vehicle Code 5200 for lacking the proper license plates can run in the range of $250. The code clearly states; (a) When two license plates are issued by the department for use upon a vehicle, they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they were issued, one in the front and the other in the rear. Section (b) states that if only one plate is issued it should be attached to the rear of the vehicle. Not the case for Jobs.
Another geeky piece to this strange puzzle comes by way of the film “Back To The Future” that featured a bar code license plate on the famed DeLorean time machine. “Barcode license plates were in use by 2015 as a means of identifying cars. It is assumed that they could reveal much more information once scanned than a standard license plate”. According to Futurepedia, a Back to the Future Wiki. Could this be the source of the rumored barcode license plate that was eventually attached to Apple’s CEO?
It’s become painfully obvious that anyone can drive like Steve Jobs if they have an open checkbook, ready and willing to pay the fines to the California courts. I suggest continuing to obey the law if you can’t afford to fight it. If you have any unique license plate info about El Jobso that we have not posted, chime in with your comments and let the speculation continue. Consider this mystery solved… for the moment.
below photo by Mathieu Thouvenin Mercedes E320 photo by Fast Cars
Yerba Buena Photo by Kitetoa VIN Number Close-up by roachtt3
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Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restores all customer reviews
Spore may have been a long-awaited title, but publisher EA surely didn’t expect the most talked-about aspect of the game to be its DRM. Alas, now it seems that all the protest from angry gamers over the restrictive nature of the game has reached the boiling point: following hundreds of scathing, DRM-focused reviews on the official product page, Amazon accidentally deleted customer reviews of the game sometime Friday afternoon (they have since been restored).
Earlier this week, we reported on the mass of negative customer reviews on Amazon’s website drawing attention to the game’s DRM. As of Monday, there were more than 194 one-star customer reviews—roughly 87 percent of all reviews of the game were negative, most focusing on the DRM. Over the week, that number continued to grow as more gamers picked up the title and found themselves unhappy. When the reviews disappeared late this week, there were 2,216 reviews, of which 2,016 were one-star ratings.
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Telco to fiber-deploying town: we sue because we care
TDS Telecom, a telco with 3,500 employees and a presence in 30 states, is suing the town of Monticello, Minnesota, for trying to put in a fiber optic network of its own. Why would a company try to prevent a town from building itself a faster network? TDS tells us that it’s really just looking out for the taxpayer (and its own infrastructure investment).
Not satisfied with the current DSL and cable offerings, Monticello hatched an ambitious plan to wire up its entire town with fiber, build an interconnect station, and allow ISPs to link up to the site and offer Internet access over the city-maintained fiber links. After a vote on the measure passed overwhelmingly last year, Monticello moved to break ground and was promptly sued by the local telephone provider, Bridgewater, a unit of TDS.
We’ve already covered the legal filings in that case (which is ongoing), but were also interested in hearing from TDS. Fiber backers see the lawsuit and a recent announcement to install a TDS-built fiber network in town as strategy designed largely to prevent the Monticello experiment from being repeated across Minnesota (“See, you’ll get sued, and neither of us wants that! Also, we’re already building fiber networks, so no need to do it yourselves! Please stop thinking about it!”). But TDS insists it’s in the right.
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Metrolink train crash: 18th victim found in rubble in Chatsworth
A commuter train carrying 225 slams into a freight train, leaving at least 135 injured. Rescuers continued their search early Saturday, hours after the last survivor was pulled from the wreckage.
New election low: distorting the fact-checking
The Sept. 11 memorial bells chimed with beautiful clarity Thursday, from Shanksville, Pa., to ground zero and beyond, a reminder of tragedy and our nation’s real enemies.
What a welcome respite, that serene sound, after days of presidential politics that roared and sputtered with a cacophony of distortion, innuendo and outright lies.
It got so bad the day before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that FactCheck.org — one of the nonpartisan journalism websites heroically trying to strain truth amid all the sound and fury — had to put out an extraordinary news release.
It chastised John McCain’s campaign for — now get this — distorting FactCheck’s debunking of distortions.
News organizations and these admirable truth-squadding outfits, including PolitiFact.com, do not collaborate. But in independent news reports and commentaries this week, they seemed to reach a consensus to say “enough” to the McCain camp’s efforts to demonize Barack Obama.
I’m not saying that Obama hasn’t told a few whoppers — like suggesting McCain’s proposed corporate tax breaks are tailored specifically for oil companies or that his opponent seriously believes anyone making under $5 million is middle-class.
But it’s McCain and his foot soldiers who have really fouled the election airwaves in recent days, provoking the first flickerings of a backlash from the media.
Give credit to PolitiFact.com — an online endeavor operated by Florida’s St. Petersburg Times along with Congressional Quarterly — for unequivocally knocking down one of the McCainites’ biggest fabrications in recent days. You know, the one where Obama supposedly called Republican V.P. nominee Sarah Palin a pig.
For the half-dozen of you who haven’t heard about this kerfuffle: It began this week when Obama belittled McCain’s suggestion that McCain would bring change to Washington.
“That’s not change,” Obama told a responsive audience. “That’s just calling something — the same thing — something different. But you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig.”
McCain operatives puffed themselves up with outrage about Obama’s “sexism.” Then they released a Web advertisement, disingenuously flashing text on the screen — “Barack Obama on: Sarah Palin” — while cutting to Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” remark.
As noted on PolitiFact, the ad gives no context for Obama’s remark — context that made it clear the Democrat was belittling McCain’s claim that he is an agent of change.
PolitiFact rated the McCain ad “Pants on Fire” (as in “liar, liar”) on its Truth-O-Meter. “If anyone’s doing any smearing,” the site concluded, “it’s the McCain campaign and its outrageous attempt to distort the facts.”
Outrageous, but just a warmup for the smarmy untruth the McCain camp uncorked next –that Obama voted in his home state of Illinois to foist detailed sex education on kindergartners.
Often in the past, journalists who were confronted with such a lie opted for on-the-one-hand/on-the-other-hand reporting. That allows one politician to launch a fabrication, while another tries, often in vain, to swat it down.
McClatchy Co. newspapers (publisher of the Sacramento Bee and other papers) and reporter Margaret Talev admirably cast aside the wishy-washy approach. Looking at Obama and the Illinois sex-ed legislation, Talev concluded that McCain’s charge was “deliberately misleading.”
“As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for, but was not a sponsor of, legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12,” the reporter explained. “But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach ‘age-appropriate’ sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners.”
That probably would have meant, at most, classes to help the youngest children fend off sexual predators.
Talev flagged the McCain ad for “unsportsmanlike conduct.”
The truth-tellers in this campaign have not throttled McCain alone. PolitiFact, for example, has slapped Obama more than once, including for his false claim that McCain promised to continue the war in Iraq for 100 years. (McCain said the United States might need to keep military bases there for that long.)
It was the McCain team, however, that plumbed new depths this week by distorting a fact-checking outfit that had come to its aid.
It happened when FactCheck (a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center) shot down rumors flying around the Internet about Alaska Gov. Palin.
FactCheck rejected claims that Palin cut special education in Alaska, endorsed Pat Buchanan for president and joined the secessionist-leaning Alaskan Independence Party. (Her husband, Todd, was an AIP member.)
The McCainites tried to attribute anonymous Internet falsehoods to one individual: Surprise! Barack Obama.
Superimposing FactCheck’s “completely false, or misleading” finding over a photo of Obama, the Republicans suggested the Democrat had trumped up the charges.
FactCheck, however, found “no evidence” tying Obama to the anonymous Internet attacks. The muckrakers announced Wednesday that McCain & Co. had been “less than honest.”
Obama blew off the lies with a shrug and a smile when he visited David Letterman this week. But I suspect that many Americans’ reaction comes closer to sadness. Or anger.