Link. Harsh living, salaries not high enough.
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Mountain Lion – my experience.
Link. A non-keen view. Seems better than Lion, which isn’t hard. I may put on my production machine in the fall instead of the winter.
Guantanamo verdict rejected.
Link. Torture and justice mix do not.
Sliding Into The Great Depression – Delong on structural unemployment
Link. “within a year of becoming unemployed the worker is out of the labor market for all practical purposes: a job must arrive at his or her door, grab him or her by the scruff of the neck, and through him or her back into the nine-to-five routine if he or she is to be employed again.”
Zenith CruisePad 1996
Apple OS X Lion pulled as Mountain Lion rolls out
Link. Huh?! What about machines that can’t go to ML?!
Samsung’s evidence destruction will be factor in upcoming trial
Link. Very good news for Apple and for international justice.
Safari for Windows is dead.
Link. Chrome killed it.
When to move primary machines to ML? Either October or February.
Link. Nice ars summary of days to point releases. Pretty predictable.
How to create a bootable, backup Mountain Lion install disk
Link. Same as Lion: “make a copy of the installer outside of the Applications folder or make your install disk before upgrading”
Safari has Do Not Track now (Lion and ML)
Link. Is Chrome only browser no lacking do not track?
Romney Camp Jumps Into the Vote Suppression Game
iPhone glass repair – Mission:Repair
Link. Expert tells me this is best bet for non-Apple repair of broken glass iPhone.
ML relief from Lion pain: save as and encrypted TM backups
Link. Biggest ML improvements for me. Restoration of something like Save As, and Time Machine changes including multi-disk and encryption make offsite backups safe.
Worst feature of ML: obsoleting 3 yo Macs. Customer screams should be loud and long. The right answer is fix Lion.
Notational Velocity does not work on Mountain Lion.
Link. Completely blocked; big deal for me.
Cockburn on Tom Friedman – an epic takedown from 2000
Link. “Friedman exhibits on a weekly basis one of the severest cases known to science of Lippmann’s condition … the inherent tendency of all pundits to swell in self-importance to zeppelin-like dimensions…” He is a legend of our time.
Doonesbury: The return of James Crow.
Link. Old nightmares reborn.
Siracusa on ML.
Link. My takeaway: mostly good – but iCloud is bad.
Gruber: ML a better Lion.
Link. Lion was a bummer for me. ML needs to work better, and a smart Apple would keep fixing Lion.
Folbre: poverty and single mothers.
Link. Justified anger showing.
Hiding prices: airlines.
Link. Learning VerizATT scams.
Alzheimer’s Drug Fails.
Link. Dang.
US GDP analyzed. Good reference.
Link. “2011, nominal G.D.P. was $15,094 billion. Of this, purchases of goods accounted for $4,259 billion, or 28 percent. Of the goods, about half were durable ($2,186 billion) and half nondurable ($2,073 billion). Consumption of services accounted for $9,812 billion of G.D.P. or almost two-thirds. Production of structures added $1,022 billion or 7 percent.”
CEO selections random.
Link. Like presidents.
Cosmopolitan China.
Link. “Chinese women who earn $15,000 a year spending $2,000 on one luxury item.”
Fukushima workers told to hide radiation exposure.
Link. Japan can be a harsh place.
China Sends Troops to Disputed Islands
Serbia Becomes a Hub for Sex-Change Surgery.
Link. Only 100 a year? Hub is a relative term.
Alcohol abuse widespread is South Korea.
Link. Impressive even by 1920 US standards.
£21tn hidden from tax agencies
Eyelash Wish Log
My Apple purchase records jumped from true AppleID to one I’ve never used. This is what I think happened.
Link. Apple needs help.
Apple’s profits disappoint. So what has Apple done for me lately?
Link. Regressing to the corporate mean.
Romney ‘Advisor’: Mitt Will Bring a White Man’s Touch.
Link. At least their honest.
Experts’ Best Guesses On Romney’s Swiss Bank Account
Link. He forgot about a minor tax avoidance scheme.
iCloud continues to founder.
Link. No wonder Apple’s customers are sitting on their wallets.
Apple slow growth – why?
Link. How about longtime customer deeply disappointed by Lion and the forced march to iCloud?
Spanning Sync for Google/Apple sync dies.
Link. Sync is hell. “10.7.4. That release included a bug that prevented iCal from properly syncing with Sync Services, and therefore with Sync Services clients like Spanning Sync, BusySync, Blackberry Sync, and many others. We’ve been in touch with Apple, and it doesn’t appear they intend to fix the bug.
Instead, they’ve suggested we move to the more modern CalendarStore and Address Book frameworks. But this would require a major rewrite, which, given the dwindling need for a third-party solution to sync Apple and Google calendars and contacts, isn’t economically feasible for us.”
Apple’s earnings disappoint.
Link. The company has been disappoint me too.
Parallels turns into adware that you pay for?
Link. Die parallels die.
Neo Poll Tax.
Link. Legitimate term.
Unlocking a completed-contract AT&T iPhone – what happens if you replace the glass?
Link. “I met with two Apple Genius Bar staffers today, and neither knew the answer. This is what they do know:
1. Only ATT&T does US post-contract carrier unlock. Verizon/Sprint can’t/don’t. So nice advantage AT&T.
2. If you buy an unlocked phoned it will show as unlocked in Apple’s database and if you have it serviced it will be replaced with an unlocked phone. However, if you have a post-contract phone unlocked they don’t THINK Apple updates the database used to check replacement status.
3. If you are post-2 years with AT&T, but haven’t switched to a new phone/contract (so old contract is current) there is an option. What happens is that in this situation you do the glass repair / refurb switch, then put your SIM into your phone and AT&T changes the IMEI associated with your current (completed) contract. Then you go through the unlock process with AT&T.
They’ve never come across my situation. My guess is that there’s no way to do it at this time.”
Managing bandwidth utilization in the mifi era.
Link. Also, tragedy of the wifi commons.
See also: NetUse Traffic Monitor and RubberNet.
Krugman endures the stupidity of Brian Wesbury.
Link. It takes a lot of stamina to manage such high stupidity levels.
The Alaskan highway: permafrost and history
Link. 1940s help wanted ad: “Temperatures will range from 90 degrees above zero to 70 degrees below zero … Men will have to fight swamps, rivers, ice and cold. Mosquitoes, flies and gnats will not only be annoying but will cause bodily harm.”
The climate change permafrost problem is interesting but manageable. Love the history part of this article.
Supreme court medicaid decision has interesting consequences …
Link. “Medicaid is quite cheap — cheaper per patient than the law’s average insurance subsidy.” Well, that’s interesting. That cheapness presumably hides some severe cost shifting and a pretty crummy medicaid system.
Facebook’s Stuart Crab fails the boiled frog test.
Link. Fallows on patrol.
Voter ID: The Poll tax lives.
Link. Funny to hear Tea Partiers complaining about the moral decline of America.
Great quote: “Pennsylvania House Majority Leader — a Republican — said of his legislature’s law: “Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”
A Mole of Moles. xkcd.
Link. Ice IX?
“edX”: Berkeley joins open courseware.
Link. Continents moving.