Another reason not to use Paypal.
Seriously, WTF kind of money-laundering scheme is this company (besides a very successful one, that is)?
My site is very cognitive, and i have a good future
It’s true. I have hundreds of unsolicited, unread and unpublished comments from people — and no doubt, machines — who tell me so every day. They apparently think that by stringing together random words and phrases they’ve stolen from other people’s private data files, they’ll fool the spam filters and get their important ads for Viagra and hardcore erotic comics (what the hell?) out to the world.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate spam and the miserable, soulless little sh*t-eaters who send it?
Isn’t there some way we can legalize voluntary manslaughter just for these twits?
I’m just sayin’…
@!$!!. They got me!
Update: The site is slowly getting back to normal, but unfortunately, comments are not working at all. They pretend to be, but they’re not. I suck. Stay tuned for details.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a server hacked by script kiddies, but as you can tell by the “plain ol’ vanilla” look and feel of the site today, Turdhead.com is in the process of rebuilding. Stay tuned as I try to get the real Turdhead.com back up and running. Meanwhile, enjoy this, um… much prettier version of it. Hmmph.
Patently absurd: No tab panel dragging in Flash 8
I finally got around to installing Flash 8, and so far I’m impressed with it. But thanks to an absurd patent and its subsequent enforcement, I can’t use it in the way I expect to.
You may have noticed the problem too as soon as you started customizing your work space: What’s with this new “Group Transform with…” dropdown? And why can’t I just drag panels from one tab group to the other like I could with Flash MX 2004? Or with Photoshop?
Turns out the answer is that Adobe has patented this “drag a tab” process, and Macromedia felt obliged to “turn it off” after Adobe sued them for violating that patent. According to the Macromedia KnowledgeBase concerning FreeHand 10:
On May 2, 2002, a U.S. jury found that Adobe’s U.S. patent number 5,546,528 regarding tabbed palettes was valid and that certain Macromedia products infringed that patent. Macromedia has respectfully complied with the court’s rulings. In relation to Macromedia FreeHand 10 in the Macromedia Studio MX, we have taken steps to implement the ruling and changed features accordingly.
But… but… Aren’t Adobe and Macromedia the same company now? And will they issue a patch to “uncripple” the tab-drag feature now that they love each other?
And will the U.S. Patent Office ever figure out that these kinds of software patents are crippling the industry?
I have no problem with copyrighting source code — in fact, the U.S. copyright laws are more than adequate to protect everything one types into a keyboard in the U.S. But patenting a process — or a “feel” — of a software product is sheer insanity.
And while we’re on the subject, did you know the patent office is actually in the business of patenting storylines for unwritten fiction now? Yep. Thanks to crap like this, you can actually patent ideas and things without actually having to do anything. Just make money suing the people who actually do.
To learn more about how you can stifle creativity, eliminate new ideas and make workflow awkward for hundreds of computer users, see the following sites:
US Patent and trademark Office
Knight & Associates – Storyline patents and plot patents
How did we get to be No. 1 on everyone’s list of “Sites we hate?”
I’m often curious about what people are looking for when search engines send them to Turdhead.com, so I tend to look at the site’s log reports pretty regularly. I was recently surprised — and a little alarmed — to find that more than a few people are ending up here after typing “Sites we hate” into their Google search boxes!
Even more troubling: Turdhead.com is the first thing that shows up when one enters the phrase on both Google and MSN.
It took me a while to realize that “Sites we hate” is actually the heading of one of our less-used article categories, so it does in fact show up on every page of Turdhead, and we do actually have a lot of content filed under the header.
Maybe we should change our focus from “whatever the hell it is now” to “Sites we hate?”
Not that it matters: Whatever we decide to focus our sights on, we won’t end up talking much about it anyway.