12/9    Philip Greenspun says Canon is better than Nikon. Therefore,
        I'm selling my Nikon equipments and getting a 5DmkII.
        http://photo.net/equipment/building-a-digital-slr-system
        \_ Does he intentionally crank up the JPG compression to make
           his small pictures look like ass so that you click-through?

12/9    Can someone shed some light on the Blagojevich arrest?
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7773717.stm
        \_ Apparently, he was trying to turn his power to appoint
           Obama's replacement on the Senate into financial gain
           for himself.  Straightforward abuse of public power.
           If he were demanding concessions for his state, he
           might have got away with "selling" the senate seat.
           \_ What makes him such a colossally stupid douche
              is that he was already under investigation - for
              some 3 years apparently.  It was likely common
              knowledge that his office and phones were
              bugged.
           \_ Restoring honor and dignity to the White House.
              \_ What the fuck are you spewing about?  There's
                 no evidence that Obama did anything improper
                 at all - in fact, the exact opposite would
                 appear to be the case.
                 \_ Yeah, part of the reason dude started trying to
                    sell the senate seat is because Obama refused to
                    offer this dude "favors" in return for his top
                    pick.
                    \_ Well, didn't offer them quickly enough.
                       \_ Uh, what?

12/9    Here's an idea for a CSUA project (I think it's been done before, but
        never in a way that took off)... a web-page that lets you create
        polls, authenticated against soda. e.g. "How much do you make?"
        "What OS do you use?". Poll results would be "pseudo"-anonymous.
        Good idea: ...
        Bad idea:
        Meh:
        RIDE BIKE: .
        \_ Will mention to politburo, sounds reasonable. Also sounds like a
           one-man job. I may play w/ python-ldap & Pylons over winter break --t

12/9    Does anyone know of a good blogging software that can
        handle blogging entries as well as photo albums?
        Wordpress and the WP Gallery plugin is too tricky to
        configure easily. And please don't mention Facebook!
        \_ Why not just use Blogger and Flickr/Picasa or whatever?  -tom
                \_ I'd prefer a stand-alone platform/software that
                   I can use on my own domain, in particular so
                   that every page (blog and albums) will have the
                   same theme. thanks. -op
           \_ cuz they're run by evil companies. UNIX + pine!

12/9    Does anyone know if updates for clam av for mac are distributed in
        some signed way like say the update files for trendAV or even in
        like the way .debs are signed?

12/9    I have what is likely a very basic (and possibly stupid) question.
    Do the current financial troubles of the big 3 auto makers
    just happen to coincide with the horrible economy we have,
    or is it resulting from it? Thanks.
        \_ They were already troubled, but not irreparably in the
           previous environment. The current environment has made things
           much worse.
        \_ GM is an unmanagable leviathan which has been in decline for 30 years.
           Its debt was downgraded to junk status _last_year_ after they lost
           $39 billion. The downturn would merely pull the plug on this vegetable.
        \_ GM is an unmanagable leviathan which has been in decline for 30
           years. Its debt was downgraded to junk status _last_year_ after
           they lost $39 billion. The downturn would merely pull the plug
           on this vegetable.
           http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/12/03/ap5776689.html
           http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2008/snapshots/175.html
        \_ The Economist ran a story about the End of the Car Giants, which I
           unfortunately cannot find right now. They said their business model
           was basically broken and that they were going to wither away. This
           was about three years ago.

12/9    Oops, rescuing borrowers didn't help much
    http://ridingtheelephant.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/08/news/economy/mortgage_summit
        \_ What is the default rate of those who do not have modified loans?

12/9    The book burners of the left
        http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07egan.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
        \_ What the fuck are you talking about?  Are you insane or just
           retarded?
        \_ I think I'm stupider for having read that.
        \_ Your reading comprehension is poor.

12/9    Is there a how-to to use csua ftp service?  I used to ftp to
        http://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu but now I have forgotten what exactly needed to
        set it up again.
        \_ fixed for 80 columns.
        \_ Are you trying to ftp as anonymous or as a soda user?
        \_ Ask again in two weeks, when finals are over and maybe the vp can get
           back to you on that. --t
        \_ Ask again in two weeks, when finals are over and maybe the vp can
           get back to you on that. --t
          \_ You're better off emailing root@ with questions like that...