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L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com)

L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com) 02/19/2004 08:10 AM
USATODAY.com - Traffic bottlenecks across the nation have increased by 40% since 1999, a new report shows. Despite that, delays are being reduced at some of the nation's most infamous chokepoints such as Albuquerque's "Big I" and Chicago's "Hillside Strangler."

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
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stop smothering computer users

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users 07/30/2004 07:13 PM
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Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You 09/12/2004 11:33 PM
Armed with advanced server-side technologies like ASP.NET and powerful database servers such as Microsoft® SQL Server™, developers are able to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with incredible ease. But the power of ASP.NET and SQL can easily be used against you by hackers mounting an all-too-common class of attack—the SQL injection attack. The basic idea behind a SQL injection attack is this: you create a Web page that allows the user to enter text into a textbox that will be used to execute a query against a database. A hacker enters a malformed SQL statement into the textbox that changes the nature of the query so that it can be used to break into, alter, or damage the back-end database. How is this possible? Let me illustrate with an example.

Don't stop now, there are nine more!

Don't stop now, there are nine more! 12/30/2003 07:26 AM
The 10 Dumbest Quotes of 2003 .. all of them

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I can stop if I want to!

I can stop if I want to! 06/04/2004 08:24 PM
National Review, Pro-Drug? I was searching for information of drug use in Vietnam and during wars in general, when I found this gem. Scroll halfway down to a very interesting pro-drug discussion between the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Mr. William Buckley. A little dated (1990), but I never thought I'd come out of an article thinking to myself, "Maybe all drugs should be legal."

Can't stop the pop-ups

Can't stop the pop-ups 06/04/2004 07:10 AM
ZDNet Jun 4 2004 11:47AM GMT

Never stop

Never stop 12/22/2003 11:17 PM
As you'd expect, it's shaping up to be a somewhat slow week, which oddly enough I'm finding to be tough to handle since I'm so...

The Ads Don't Stop

The Ads Don't Stop 05/06/2004 07:17 AM
On Monday I stopped into the post office. The United States Postal Service office. Federally-run. You know. The red-white-and-blue shipping company. I was stunned to see Shrek 2 cross-marketing everywhere. A huge orange poster describing April as national "write-a-letter" month featured Princess Fiona swooning over a love letter from Shrek. The jive-talking donkey winked at me from the shipping rates/times table above the counter, which featured the quip: 'we haul it fast.' [hoho!] I guess it's an inevitable consequence of the Postal Service being spun off as an independent business unit that sooner or later, the spaces inside it would be sold off for marketing dollar. It's just the last place I expect to be inundated with 'see-our-movie' marketing but as time goes by, no space is kept sacred from advertising. It will likely get worse. Can you see it now: the golden-arches postage stamp?

Can't stop the pop-ups

Can't stop the pop-ups 06/04/2004 06:52 PM
Tech Republic (subscription),KY-9 hours ago ... It initiates a JavaScript command, and it gets around pop-up blockers that don't block user initiated commands like Google and Yahoo," said Adam Tuttle ...

Stop that some more

Stop that some more 07/10/2004 12:59 AM
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iPOD: where will it stop ?

iPOD: where will it stop ? 03/30/2005 09:51 AM
iPOD ... I don�t think a single day goes by without an article about the innocent player from Apple to be published. In 2001, iPOD revolutionized the music industry, hard-disks and took Mac sales with 5% higher on the desktop market. But how much of this success is because of the player�s technical characteristics and how much is because of marketing? iPOD has undisputable advantages: it�s easy to use, has a high capacity (it was the first player with a hard-disk), has an innovative design and the list could go on.

Critics say that is heavy, fragile compared to other flash players, with a limited number of functions compared to the capacity of the hard-disk, lacks a FM tuner and again the list could go on. The controversy can go on for days, but after all the technical issues are exhausted, iPOD supporters will bring the final argument: good or bad, iPod has 85% of the MP3 player market and what�s more, since 2001 no company succeeded in dethroning it.

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Stop The Presses

Stop The Presses 12/29/2003 11:50 PM
I just got a phone call from KFI in Los Angeles. They want me to take over the Jeff Levy show starting... this weekend! Jeff is moving to another station - I think he's even going to be on at...

STOP the madness

STOP the madness 05/23/2004 03:19 PM

Will somebody give this guy a break!

Off to Helsinki.

Last minute change in plans and I'm off to Helsinki for two days... too much travel...

[Joi Ito's Web]

I remember when Joi was running around teh world with high-level Sony execs.  Now it seems Nokia has his attention.

I sure as hell hope something comes of all his work and schleping.  Does that mean that you DO have something to do between June 4 and 10th now?  No Trieste?

One-Stop Returning

One-Stop Returning 12/31/2004 08:21 AM
A group of manufacturers is quietly pushing a fully automated anonymous return system that can print out receipts for rival retailers. The largest retailers are buying in.

Stop him before he clicks again!

Stop him before he clicks again! 04/15/2004 07:43 AM
Internet filters were supposed to keep kids away from X-rated sites. Now some grown-ups, unable to stop porn-surfing on their own, are submitting to the filters themselves.

Putting a Stop to Fly and Tell

Putting a Stop to Fly and Tell 01/28/2004 09:14 AM
Business Week Jan 28 2004 12:38PM GMT

Stop Censoring Us!

Stop Censoring Us! 12/10/2003 08:01 AM

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GameStop Can't Stop

GameStop Can't Stop 05/19/2004 10:22 AM
Investors who believe in the company's growth strategy should watch for further dips.

Next Stop, OracleSoft?

Next Stop, OracleSoft? 09/10/2004 02:50 PM
Nope -- it ain't over till Larry Ellison sings.

Where Would You Like To Stop Today?

Where Would You Like To Stop Today? 04/21/2004 02:25 PM
While Microsoft's Connected Car technology is already being used in a variety of car platforms, these pictures illustrate some of the dangers in using a system that isn't thoroughly tested. It's probably reasonable to suppose Windows wouldn't be controlling anything safety-related in a production vehicle (and I have no idea...

Stop WSDM

Stop WSDM 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
Over at OASIS, they’re working on YAWSS (Yet Another Web-Services Spec) called WSDM. The committee decided they were done and asked for an OASIS-wide vote; the result was 67 yes, 7 no. Interestingly, the 7 “No” votes weren’t about the substance of WSDM, they were about the fact that it has dependencies on all sorts of other WS-bric-a-brac that isn’t finalized yet, including a W3C Submission and a bunch of other committee drafts. The committee pondered this and decided to go ahead and make it a standard anyhow. I tried to go and read WSDM and it made my head hurt, severely; it’s gnarly and huge and complicated and seems to depend on lots of other gnarly and huge and complicated things. So, anyone who wants to implement this is going to have to make a major investment, and since a lot of the relevant specs are unstable, you just know some part of that investment is going to get thrown on the trash-heap. Interoperability? Ha. Ha. Ha. This sucks. I don’t want to be an absolutist here; some organizations, like IETF, totally forbid this kind of thing while others, like ISO, allow them in a kind of controlled way. But in this particular case, what they’re trying to do is deeply wrong and the OASIS management needs to find a way to stomp on it if they want to retain any credibility. For other commentary, start here. [Disclosure: I don’t understand WSDM and I don’t even understand the problem it’s trying to solve and while Sun was one of the “No” voters, it was strictly on the dependencies issue, and I don’t know whether we, corporately, are as irritated as I am individually and I don’t know whether we, corporately, actually care about this technology and if we do, whether we like it or not.]

Stop Being a Victim

Stop Being a Victim 04/29/2004 09:48 PM

Hanafuda and Go-Stop

Hanafuda and Go-Stop 05/02/2004 11:28 AM
Hanafuda, also known as Go-Stop . [more]

Stop the music

Stop the music 04/09/2004 04:02 PM

I’ve been viewing a lot of sites while reviewing for BlogSnob and I’m a bit annoyed. What’s with all the music on people’s sites? Is this 1998 again?

In case you were thinking about having your favorite tune load up when people visit your site—don’t. It takes a long time to load. The sound quality generally stinks. It crashes some browsers. And most of all, your musical tastes are not likely the same as all of your visitors. I have my own musical selections, thank you. I don’t need to hear yours.

[stop] design

[stop] design 05/10/2004 07:27 AM
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Stop the MADNESS!

Stop the MADNESS! 03/08/2004 11:26 PM

How long do we have to put up with this? 

I don't necessarily believe in guns, but shouldn't we have a Constitutional Amendment allowing for the smoking of weeds?  It's God's gift to us.

Stop the INDUCE Act

Stop the INDUCE Act 09/12/2004 03:26 AM
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Why You Should Stop Before You Click

Why You Should Stop Before You Click 03/14/2005 04:00 PM
From Ed Foster’s Gripelog: “This week the Americans For Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (AFFECT) coalition announced its “Stop Before You Click” campaign promoting its 12 Principles for Fair Commerce in Software and Other Digital Products. But what does AFFECT mean by all that? After we stop before we click, what do we do next? My long-time readers know AFFECT as the organization that succeeded in stopping the spread of UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions…

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Next Stop: Gizmoville

Next Stop: Gizmoville 04/06/2005 12:24 PM
The week's other coolest gadgets

The phones don't stop

The phones don't stop 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
Trapped in a dead-end job at a customer-service call center, a man in his mid-30s hears the ringing and just doesn't care.

Stop, go, flow

Stop, go, flow 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Asynchronous messaging matters because real life isn't like a flowchart. Depicting a process as a series of steps on a ...

Stop Us Before We're Briefed Again

Stop Us Before We're Briefed Again 06/05/2005 11:17 PM
The headline at Romenesko caught my eye. "D.C. bureau chiefs: No more background-only WH briefings." Wow, I thought, they finally did it. They quit the racket. But no. They had not. They had sent an e-mail around, and asked Scott McClellan to change his ways...

How do you stop the threat from within?

How do you stop the threat from within? 12/30/2003 01:39 AM

Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.

Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop. 07/24/2004 01:10 PM
Mr. O'Reilly, You have declared a "war" on the New York Times. That's good for you, good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions deserve strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about matters important to the Republic. But in waging this "war," you are continuing to abuse a man whom you have wronged, and to whom you owe an apology. On February 4, 2003, Jeremy Glick was your guest on THE FACTOR. Glick had lost his father in the attack of 9/11. He had also signed an ad criticizing the war in Iraq. You were "surprised" that one who had lost his father could oppose that war. And so you had him on your show, presumably to ask him why. (Here's a clip from Outfoxed putting this story together.) You might not remember precisely what you said on that interview, or more importantly, what Jeremy Glick said. So here's a copy that you can watch. Nor may you remember precisely what the ad that Jeremy Glick signed said. Here's a copy that you can read. And when you've watched what was actually said, and read what was actually written, I'm sure you will see that the statements you continue to make about Jeremy Glick are just plain false. Not Bill Clinton "depends upon what is is" false, but false the way most Americans learned growing up: just not true. For example:

• in the February 4th interview, you said the ad "accused the USA itself of terrorism." Read the ad, Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
• in the February 4th interview, you said the ad "equates the United States with the terrorists." Read the ad, Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
• in the February 4th interview, you said the ad "absolutely says" that the United States is to be "equated" with the terrorists. Read the ad, Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
• on February 5th, you told your viewers that "Glick was out of control." He may have been out of your control. But you and our government have got to learn that just because someone disagrees with you, he doesn't become a security threat. Again, watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He was not "out of control."
• on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing hatred for this program." Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He criticized you, not the program, for unethically using sympathy for the 9/11 victims for your own political ends. He was calling your behavior improper. You had not earned his hatred.
• on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing hatred for ... his country." Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He said no such thing. He specifically distinguished the people he was criticizing from "the people of America." He, like the rest of us, loves our country, even if we disagree with its political leaders, or your political views.
• on February 5th, you accused him of using "vile propaganda." What does "propaganda" mean to you, Mr. O'Reilly? He was disagreeing with your views. Why is that "propaganda"?
• six months later, you said that Glick said that the Bushes "were directly responsible for 9/11." Again, watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He said no such thing. Indeed, he twice denied it.
• eleven months later, you said Glick "came on this show and accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11 and murdering his own father." This, Mr. O'Reilly, is a total, if not pathological, fabrication. Glick said nothing about Bush "knowing" about 9/11. He said nothing about Bush "murdering" his own father. Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. Your statements characterizing what Glick said are absolutely false.
• just last week, you again repeated the claim that Glick said that President Bush was "responsible for his father's death." He said nothing of the sort.
• just last week, you repeated the claim that Glick "implied that the United States itself was a terrorist nation." Glick said nothing of the sort.
• just last week, you said Glick said "America itself was responsible for the 9/11 attack." Glick said nothing of the sort.
• And finally, and most extraordinarily, just last week you repeated the claim that "security actually had to take the guy out of the building, he was that out of control." This, Mr. O'Reilly, you know to be absolutely false. Indeed, it was you who threatened physical violence against Mr. Glick after his interview, and your own staff that apologetically begged Mr. Glick to leave as quickly as he could, fearing that if you saw Glick again, as they said, you would "end up in jail."

I understand how someone loses his temper, Mr. O'Reilly. I have done the same myself. But a decent man apologizes for his lack of control, and he certainly doesn't continue to abuse someone he has wronged. Mr. Glick is not the New York Times. He will not earn more money from higher ratings because you attack him so viciously. Neither he nor his widowed mother get any benefit at all from seeing Glick slandered by your on a regular basis. You are wrong about the facts, Mr. O'Reilly. And you are wrong to continue to do such harm. Have the courage to admit your error. Apologize to Mr. Glick, and let him go back to a life that has been made difficult enough by, as you said, the "barbarians" who killed his father. This family has suffered enough from barbaric behavior.

Stop Selling

Stop Selling 06/17/2005 03:20 PM
CIO Jun 15 2005 10:36PM GMT

Stop. What's That Sound?

Stop. What's That Sound? 08/03/2004 02:21 PM
"When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war ... with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its economy ... when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home, then it's time for new leadership for the United States." The ellipses are to keep you from guessing too soon. Give up? That was Dick Nixon in 1968. Nowadays Kennedy and Johnson are heroes who made a "mistake" in Vietnam while Nixon twirls a handlebar mustache in Hell. But to look back at what we thought at the time is to see parallels to today.

Stop the madness...

Stop the madness... 03/14/2003 01:03 PM
Fell asleep at 8:30. Woke up around 12:30 Went back to bed 10 minutes later. Woke up at 5am. Finished...

Stop, hey, what's that sound?

Stop, hey, what's that sound? 07/07/2004 07:23 PM
People are just beginning, it seems, to wake up to the fact that most digital music today doesn't sound as good as it could. That's because the most popular compression formats -- including both the lingua franca MP3 standard and the standard Apple uses for its ITunes store -- are "lossy": To make the file size smaller, they trade off some loss of information (and therefore sound quality).

This latest round in the discussion seems to have kicked off with a Randall Stross column in the Sunday New York Times, but it dates back at least as far as Andrew Leonard's early, groundbreaking coverage of the MP3 phenomenon in Salon. Stross points out that Apple's choice of a good but still "lossy" compression standard for its music store means that -- surprise! -- you're really not getting CD quality audio when you pay for your $9.99 album.

Continuing the thread, Tim Bray writes: "I used to think that if you were listening to music on headphones on a bus or train or plane or in a crowd, the MP3 lossage really didn’t matter much. But recently I’ve been listening to the Shure 3C phones, and it’s obvious that we really shouldn’t be ignoring these compression issues; in particular since lossless compression is available right here, right now."

Well, yes. We have the technology! The problem here is not technical, it's political, legal, financial.

The odd thing to me is that Stross's column -- which appeared in the Business section, after all -- failed to mention the obvious: that the record labels are selling lossy versions of songs online because they still distrust the new medium, even when it is being used legally and when people are paying for their product. They're more interested in propping up their sagging CD business than in quickly exploiting a new marketplace. So after years of dithering they figure, OK, we'll sell our wares on the Net -- but let's only provide crippled versions. The crippling applies not only to Apple's DRM schemes (lord knows whether you'll still have access to that music, 10 years and three computers from now) but to the 128 kbps bit rate of the songs you buy. It was one thing to accept that tradeoff in 1998 when MP3s were underground, hard disks were smaller and most of the world was on dialup connections. Today, it makes no sense.

I don't doubt that the DRM and bit-rate compromises were part of the horsetrading Steve Jobs had to engage in to get the record labels in the door in the first place. But it doesn't make me want to sink my cash into purchases on iTunes. (At EMusic, by contrast -- which I still subscribe to despite my hissy fit when they stopped offering unlimited downloads -- I pay for music and receive it uncrippled by DRM and in a higher quality, though still not perfect, format.)

The prevalence of cruddy 128 kbps music in the online marketplace demonstrates that the music industry still don't believe in online distribution: It still don't trust us, even when we're paying for the music.

The real issue for the recording industry has never been loss of profits due to piracy, because no one has ever proven that there is a direct connection between piracy and declining CD sales (in fact, quite the contrary). What the industry fears is loss of control. Individual consumers -- like Andrew, who wrote a column about this last week -- want to buy their music and then do whatever they want with it: Put it on an iPod, put it in the car, burn new CD mixes, share with friends. It's what we've always done with our music, after all; we just have better tools today.

There are audiophiles out there, of course, who turn up their noses at "CD quality" -- which is itself "lossy" compared with higher-quality audio formats. But meanwhile, the vast majority of music lovers who are reasonably content with their CDs aren't getting their money's worth when they buy online.

So remember: when you rip your own CDs to MP3, use at least a 160 kbps rate, or higher if you've got a big disk, or a "Variable Bit Rate" if your ripper supports that. The added file size is negligible given how cheap storage is today, but your ears will thank you. And the next time you think of buying music from an online store, tell them you won't settle for anything less.

Next Stop: Saturn

Next Stop: Saturn 06/12/2004 05:11 PM
CBS News Jun 12 2004 9:05PM GMT
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