Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 2009 for taking source code just before he left Goldman Sachs. He was sentenced to prison for 8 years under the economic espionage act.

The conviction was overturned because ‘one cannot physically hold source code’, so there is no theft. It is interesting to consider the consequences of this court ruling as there exist another often debated thing that ‘cannot physically be held’; media such as movies and music. I’m quite curious what the internet thinks.

“Fill out this form to apply for consideration in our program allowing a limited number of businesses to use Google+. We will be using this small experiment to see the effect of including brands in the Google+ experience.”

Having been an early fan of Google, naturally I tried to figure out if I could join Google+ in the beta. It wasn’t very difficult to do and when I did I happened to be logged in with my fredl@dutchie.org Google Profile and all was well.

So being busy with this, I decided to check out some other pains from the past (mind you, I specifically said ‘my fredl@dutchie.org Google Profile, meaning that this was NOT my Google Apps fredl@dutchie.org account; I found out I could create an @dutchie.org Google Profile next to my @dutchie.org Google Apps account years ago, unfortunately quite a while after already having created a fred.leeflang@gmail.com profile *sigh*)

So I logged in to my fred.leeflang@gmail.com profile and checked out my Picasa. Well wow, FINALLY Google had created a simple way to migrate my Picasa albums to my other account, the fredl@dutchie.org Google Profile. Whoohoo, that meant… could it be true… that I could share my Picasa pictures on Google+ now! Testing this confirmed it and I was happy as a pig in snot. Encouraged by this success, I noticed the window that said my fredl@dutchie.org Google Profile would be forcefully moved under the management of my @dutchie.org Google Apps administrator, somewhere in July 16th if I remember correctly. So I decided what the heck and moved stuff aheas of time.

BIG MISTAKE! Trying to log back in on Google+ after the migration, I suddenly get this message saying Google Profiles is not supported under Google Apps. I had to login on Google using my (now) incomplete temp account.

So then I went to — google — for any news on this subject and it turns out Google has announced in March that it would be a few weeks before Google Profiles would be available on Google Apps. In May they announced it would be ‘a few more months’. So much for Google promises, I hope their promises on privacy will be more reliable.

But then this morning something interesting happened. I was reading a Google group and decided I’d comment on a post. For that, you have to join the group first. And what do you know..

Of course, this is in Dutch, but it says there under ‘Google-profiel’ ‘Bied een link naar mijn dutchie.org-profiel’ (give a link to my dutchie.org profile). The only thing I see different now than the first time I tried this is that my profile picture is now not my dutchie.org profile picture (which I think it was the first time I tried this).

Update:

Well, I just checked the ‘Bied een link naar mijn dutchie.org-profiel’ which did make my Google Apps profile picture show up.

Mind you, it also shows a link to my profile!! Clicking on the link however results in a message saying:

This service is not available

Profiles is not available for dutchie.org. Learn more about Google products you can use with fredl@dutchie.org.

If you are the Google Apps administrator, please read these articles to learn more about controlling user access to Google Apps services and turning services on/off for certain users.

Did you use this product with a different Google Account? Sign out of your current Google Account and then sign in to the account you want.

Looking for something just a little different on your vacation this year? Check out Scooba-Doo’s new line of underwater scooters!

The obvious advantage of the ingenious design is the enclosed head area – the need for a mask or mouthpiece is eliminated by the constant replenishment of air into the clear dome that enables normal breathing. There’s also no need to wear weight-belts or an air tank.

Add the ability to cruise at a rate of 2.5 knots, or remain stationary while feeding the fish and you have a unique underwater experience open to a wider range of people than conventional diving – those who are not strong swimmers or who have minor disabilities can still ride the bike and you can wear your spectacles or contact lenses without difficulty. Even young children can easily use a Scuba-Doo.

It also comes in 5 cool colors:

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Now you, too, can look like a Manly man while serving up your favorite snack, with the Pizza Boss 3000 circular saw pizza cutter.

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Whatever you want to do… There’s an app for that. That’s right. Whether you want to buy movie tickets, read the news, write a review, pay a tip, catch a taxi, or even train your dog, there’s an app to help you out.

But what if you want to hang a photo on the fridge, leave a note on the microwave, or save that Chinese take-out menu in a place where you can’t lose it? When it came to certain old-school tasks, the apps were coming up short.

A little reverse innovation was needed. Well, good news, everyone… Now there’s an app for that, too. All 18 individual epoxy coated App Magnets measure a substantial 7/8″ x 7/8″ and are waiting to hold that next photo or coupon!

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We’re all familiar with traditional bubbles. You know how it goes, you stick the wand in, blow, bubble forms, floats around for a bit and then falls to the floor and pops! How completely boring is that?

Introducing Touchabubbles! These bubbles really stick around! Blow them as you would ordinary bubble soap, but instead of popping, these harden up when exposed to air, making them strong enough to stack, roll, even throw.

Great idea for a party!

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just given us all an entirely new gadget however. Despite, and perhaps because, raging debates about whether online pornography should be put under a .xxx extension, ICANN has just announced that it will now be possible to get your own domain extension, so sometime soon it may be possible to go to, say, http://cocacola

Getting your own domain extension will not be cheap however. The ICANN application fee alone is $185.000 with an ongoing fee of $25.000 to maintain the domain extension.

As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it’s acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.

While arguably the whole statement sounds a bit immature, does LulzSec have a point? And are they as immature as the appear to be? Jack Koziol of the Infosec Institute says he’s quite sure they’re not and the members of the group are old school and masters in hiding their tracks. “I say these guys have been in the underground for years”, he claims.

As a brief note to myself and other who may experience the same problem: I use the “Simple Facebook Connect (SFC)” WordPress plugin on my site. It’s a very nice modularly written plugin but that’s all described very well on the site. My note is about using this plugin on a WordPress instance running multiple domains however.

While adding ‘like’ buttons to my second domain on the server, I noticed I started getting error message from Facebook saying:

The app ID specified within the “fb:app_id” meta tag is not allowed on this domain. You must setup the Connect Base Domains for your app to be a prefix of http://dutchie.org/rowan-lore/.

Further investigation showed that the <fb:like tag generated by plugin adds an href parameter which contains the http://dutchie.org/rowan-lore/ URL.

As http://dutchie.org is really running on http://dutchie.3dn.nl but mapped on there with the domain mapping plugin, I figured I’d change the href parameter into http://dutchie.3dn.nl/rowan-lore. This can be done through a bit of an undocumented feature in SFC. I modify the theme files directly through putting an sfc_like() call in the theme file. When used without arguments, the sfc_like() function will generate the URL based on the get_permalink() WordPress API call. However, noticing the function also parses a $args parameter when provided, I decided to do:

$url = urlencode(str_replace('dutchie.org ', 'dutchie.3dn.nl ', get_permalink($id))); sfc_like_button(array('url' => $url));

While of course this little trick is handy to know and resulted in the desired effect, the error message remains.

I’ve also been looking into the FBML tags being put in the header:

<meta property='fb:app_id' content='100842573341270' />
<meta property=&quot;og:site_name&quot; content=&quot;Dutchie&quot; />
<meta property='og:url' content='http://dutchie.org/rowan-lore/' />

And manually tried to force sfc-base.php to generate dutchie.3dn.nl instead of dutchie.org in the og:url field. Alas, this also did not work. Otto, the developer of SFC assured me that there is no way of adding a second domain to a single FB application, but I’m still curious about this as http://dutchie.org is a second domain on the server indeed, but it’s *mapped* to http://dutchie.3dn.nl which is a subdomain of the facebook app.

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