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I'm sceptical as well, but I tried to stick to a neutral presentation.

Regarding third-party devs, this is what they say on the Kickstarter: As an added benefit we're providing talented developers with the opportunity to make a living out of their great apps by sharing a portion of the monthly fee with them.

I take that to refer to third party devs, and not their own developers (presumably they consider those talented), although that would be pretty funny.
I think the author being deliberately hyperbolic for humour's sake, playing up lots of British stereotypes etc for laughs or a bit of catharsis. It's a Friday afternoon "I've had a shit week" blog post and it wasn't to my tastes, but I wouldn't necessarily assume the author has some problems.
No. Anyway, if that was the case why would they hide the name of the company?
Its name is not based on the name of a music festival, so that at least helps it stand out in the market. Or maybe it should have gone with the flow and called itself critipalooza?
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Config file changes rather than code changes. Version of the software stays the same, so you just have to restart it.
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>effectively hiding it from US mass surveillance

How effective would it really be?
Kobo has some, but doesn't make them easy to find. It's a note on the bottom of each store page instead of something you can search by. I have no idea why; if I could find the good books with no DRM I'd have spent way more money there.

Recently discovered that Brandon Sanderson's books are among the DRM free (Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, others), which is a great set of reads for fantasy fans.
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Jesus, I certainly don't.
Biotech is nothing like computer hardware in the 80s, for one you can't do it out of a garage with a few hundred dollars worth of equipment. You need money and credentials just to get started for practical and regulatory reasons.

It's more like starting Intel than Apple.

I do agree with you though that it's probably her sales ability rather than her gender that led to the investments. I think it's likely the investors thought she'd make a great cover story, and that contributed somewhat to her success, but I doubt her gender was anywhere near the defining reason.
This is one of those things where the FSF has the completely correct idea, but has accidentally pointed their finger at the wrong culprit. The problem here is not e-books, it's DRM. The article even says as much at the bottom. I completely agree with the whole point of this article but wish it had used this case as a further tie-in to the various other articles asserting DRM's horrible. I think that the use of the specific case with specific examples to draw into a larger argument is often more effective than continuing to just point the finger at the single instance of the problem.
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This made me remember that I haven't visited HeadFi in a while.
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Good point, thanks! I went too far when trying to shorten everything as much as possible.
> if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.

Right, except you don't have the right to do that. You have no carte blanche entitlement to access media or entertainment. If the executives at HBO figure that, financially speaking, it's in their best interest to keep new Game of Thrones episodes accessible to cable customers only, you have the right to not buy it and be frustrated at that and protest it until eventually enough people protest for HBO to budge.

What you don't have the right to do is then to circumvent the legal and technological system set up for you to purchase Game of Thrones and access it for free, which, yes, is fucking theft. I can hear the scoffing through TCP/IP.

And you're not just harming the company, you're not just harming the already rich suits at HBO. This is a classic case of tragedy of the commons. People figure getting their music for free is a more rational individual choice than paying $16 for a CD. Everyone then makes the decision to get their media for free. Who cares about those stupid record labels, anyways?

Suddenly, smaller markets around the world have their industry gutted by piracy, smaller labels have to shut down, bigger labels have to fire hundreds of less successful artists that they used to be able to support from the money they made on the more successful artists, the more successful artists have to stop relying on royalties from album sales and have to whore themselves out doing nonstop touring year-round for money. Thank God it's physically impossible to "pirate" concert tickets.

I know we're going on a tangent here, but people often falsely conflate open-source access to information and piracy into this one big, happy revolution against the evil gatekeepers and their evil transactions that involve my money. No. Piracy is just fucking theft, period.
Yesterday I wanted to share a sentence of text from an ebook with two friends on Google Hangouts. I clicked the 'share' button in Nook Reader and chose 'Hangouts' as the destination. It pasted a URL pointing to a barnes and noble site with some ID appended. This is not what I want to happen.

I ended up screenshotting the page, cropping it, and pasting the image onto chat. It might have been easier to type the whole thing out (though I'm not great at typing on mobile).

This annoyance alone has spurred me to look again at keeping my own catalog of DRM-free files in Calibre and using a reader that doesn't do this sort of thing.

Any advice on 'flow' to make this sort of approach easy is welcome (apart from the DRM bit, that's off-topic).
The law isn't an intelligent being that makes its own choices. It is an artifact created by humans, who have a reason for making it such. Humans have considered, in the US, that hiring a hitman to kill a target is murder, so they have ensured the law reflects such. Since an entire rewrite of the law isn't possible for every change, it sometimes means that the law will have to have less than perfect patches applied. But to suggest that the way it is reasoned about in law is the way it is meant to be makes as much sense as looking as a kludge and saying that the kludge is what was wanted, ignoring all the factors that lead to the genesis of a kludge.
The freebsd daemon tool is exactly what I'm talking about. Debian has start-stop-daemon [1]. Process supervisors like daemontools create daemons simply by fork+exec by virtue of the parent process already being a daemon. There's no reason for every service to implement its own daemonization routine.

[1] http://man.cx/start-stop-daemon%288%29
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People just use callibre or other software to read anything they damn want on their kindles.

When it stops being possible people won't buy kindles.

As gog.com and CD Projekt RED shown - it's perfectly possible to make a living selling non-DRMed games (when their servers failed last tuesday people still bought the Witcher 3 expansion in gog, and then downloaded it from torrents), so I don't see how it's impossible to do with ebooks.
yeah really helpful. I paid for these lessons and Justin was kind enough to refund me the cost when he moved on to Docker.
What makes Docker so good?
"I didn't give myself a break after final university year"

Ok...

Stop drinking, exercise, and have an activity out side of work (that isn't drinking or eating).

That outside activity is important. Take some classes, join a club/meetup group, go to church, find a hobby sport.

The trick to not burning out is to have other outlets, where you do things you enjoy. Your going to realize when work is getting "bad" because you skipping out on the outside activity (don't do this), or your looking forward to it so much your not working.

When this happens you know to "slow down" and plan some more personal time to balance things out take a weekend out of town, a vacation, change jobs etc.
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I am in no way suggesting people should not express their opinions.

I'd like to know whether those opinions are formed as a result of propaganda. In this case, whether any anti-russian opinions are out of principle (e.g. pacifist principles) or on the basis of consumed propaganda.
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Your approach only works when the methods to work around these digital controls are easy and functional. If Amazon and those that advocate for strong DRM strengthened methods either technological or legal to pursue you and/or the tools that circumvent protection - you'd care.
Thanks for the feedback! Good point about the form -- I'm on it right away.
On top of this, make the work environment nice enough that your staff will recommend you.

My current job was very strongly recommended to me by a friend and former colleague (who also got a small referral bonus when I was hired), and I'm pleased to say he was not exaggerating.

I've been honest with friends about about the pros and cons of my workplaces. The cons have normally seemed quite easy to fix, but nobody responsible cared to fix it (unfortunately, this part is not easy to fix).
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I don't get all the annoyance at recruiters. I don't mind recruiters reaching out to me at all. If you don't want their help, ignore their E-mails. If the opportunity looks interesting you reply, if not, don't. Here's an entire profession that exists to help get you a job (and to help employers find talent). Like every profession in the world, there are going to be a few jerks--just ignore them.

When times are good and everyone has their dream job, we all seem so annoyed with recruiters. When times are not so good, and you're 2 months away from being broke, they are a potential lifeline.
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Nothing wrong with stealth mode.
> In sum, we conclude that: (1) Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use. (2) Google’s provision of digitized copies to the libraries that supplied the books, on the understanding that the libraries will use the copies in a manner consistent with the copyright law, also does not constitute infringement. Nor, on this record, is Google a contributory infringer.
> Creator of Ansible and Cobbler

For context on author's perspective. Perhaps the post is related to http://www.ansible.com/blog/red-hat
You do realize that there is an entire IT Industry outside of Facebook and Google?
Personally I only read non-DRMed e-books. I usually make sure I get them in non-DRM PDF format. A couple of times I have accidentally bought DRM PDF e-books (e.g. from google books) and returned them ASAP. I generally use good reader on iOS to read my e-books. Certainly not free in the RMS sense, but at least I have them in a format that allows me to choose my reader.

Note that I'm not criticizing your use of e-books, just presenting an alternative.
>No. Piracy is just fucking theft, period.

Tell that to the cable companies and radio stations that got their start the same way. Nearly every major media distribution channel in this country at least was founded on piracy. [Source: http://goo.gl/fN62uy]
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Some people are, and this is why companies like Miele exist (as an example)
SSNs were never really intended for that purpose and there are a number of problems with using SSNs for that (SSNs have been and will be reused, for instance).

I can see a point in having an identification system that spans the country and is easy to use, but SSNs are not (and should not be) it. It's also something unlikely to properly happen in the US due to the state/federal powers separation. (Which is why we have the kludge of so many businesses using SSN for the purpose in the first place...)
The establishment have already floated the idea that Corbyn is a "friend of terrorists" which they will keep in their back-pocket. Corbyn will be a financial terrorist as he wants to bring down the rentier cartel of the goverbankment.
This is great. How are you curating the "startup advice only" tweets?
Creative people, artists and, of course, designers from all the spheres of artistic work are certainly welcome here.
Depends what you mean by "effective".

It's similar to e.g. steam or appstore DRM: relatively easy to trivial to bypass (or you can access the content with bypassed/removed DRM easily enough) but the system is convenient enough that most won't care to do so unless and until it's being repeatedly and widely (ab)used by the keys authority.

It won't hinder the motivated and technologically inclined but they're a small minority, meanwhile the scheme spreads, and if/once devices or accounts get killed it's too late.
It's so sad that intrade got stomped by the Feds while fanduel and draftkings are advertising on TV.
There's a serious social utility in prediction markets, whereas fantasy sports betting is just another way to separate punters from their money.
More significantly, they could awaken mice instantly by stimulating certain neurons in the medulla. This could have far-reaching effects! Imagine working comfortably for days. Both industry and the military will be all over this.
It's not theft; it's not even piracy. It's copyright infringement.
IT people talking about being exploited, particularly by unskilled laborers, well... I understand how "boring" it might be to be harassed in this way, just as telemarketing is, but - come on - a little perspective, please. Surely you'll understand that your boring doesn't trump someone's need to make money.

P.S. The author talks about "us social inepts in tech". I hope he understands his article is a great banner to said ineptness.
Its an over-the-top, funny rant in prototypical UK style on the state of outsourced recruiting - not in house recruiting (which has its own, different issues).

A lot of the behavior mentioned here is awfully familiar in the US.
Does anyone know of a store front for fiction and non-computer non-fiction books that all are unencumbered by DRM?

I think Tor is releasing everything DRM free right now, but I'd like to see any stuff from other publishers that is also DRM free.
And the day you want to cut GCHQ funding? Well just a moment minister let me play you this before you make a final decision...
eBook DRM is currently hilariously easy to crack. It's no different than DRM in other media.
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I hereby declare that reading this comment below that line will be theft.
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If you read this, you are a thief, you just stolen that information from me. Do you agree?

Arguing about labels is stupid, but so is misusing a word for financial gain.
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A couple of decentralized prediction markets[1][2] powered by blockchain technology are trying to move regulatory compliance from centralized betting exchanges to the users themselves, which could be construed as an attempt to minimize regulatory liability, similar to DMCA Safe Harbor provisions.

[1] http://www.truthcoin.info/

[2] http://www.augur.net/
Fair point. But I found Steam reviews aggregation pretty good, or at least matching my taste. If the aggregate says 'Mixed reviews', it's usually pretty bad, and anything below is definitely bad. On the extreme end of the spectrum, I've never been disappointed by a game rated as 'Overwhelmingly positive'. I've made dozens of purchases based on the reviews there and haven't been disappointed yet.

I guess they are in a similar position as Amazon (well pointed). It's ok to indicate that the game is probably crap because there are loads of games anyway and chances are that you'll end up buying something else.

However, I gave more thought to it... They are actually incentivized to show honest reviews. If you buy a piece crap which was meant to be 'great', you will be disappointed and might not come back. However, if you (thanks to the honest reviews) buy something actually good than you might become a regular customer who will generate much more revenue then all the disappointed and tricked customers would have ever generated.
The main idea is to make it as simple as possible. So no surveys (at least at this point) etc. As a visitor, just type in a comment, maybe highlight a part of the website and submit it. As the webmaster, you see feedbacks received from users.
I also mentioned combi oven. Throw in Watson that is walking flavor bible, and you have very potent mix.

Sous vide removes any kind of skill out of the cooking process.

I have also had policy later - everything that is not sous vide goes into the pressure cooker (which could be seen as 120 degreee sous vide bath). Makes food prep extremely easy.
> 'someone decides Jeremy Corbyn is "dangerous to state security"'

Tweedle-Cameron and Tweedle-May already have announced that - they're paving the way for the possibility that his popularity continues to grow, so they can first off attempt discrediting him (the volume of smear already is incredible), and if that fails, he'll be arrested for a) treason b) sedition c) paedophilia d) a parking offence in 1977 e) none of the above f) all of the above.

I think the particular dystopia we are headed for is most akin to Gilliam's Brazil, in which Kafkaesque bureaucracy, the application of technocratic principles, and a veneer of "reasonability" stifles and neuters all possible opposition.

This is the kind of discourse we hear from our politicians today, and it sends chills down my spine:

INTERVIEWER
Deputy minister, what do you believe
is behind this recent increase in
terrorist bombings?

HELPMANN
Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless
minority of people seems to have
forgotten certain good old fashioned
virtues. They just can't stand
seeing the other fellow win. If
these people would just play the
game, instead of standing on the
touch line heckling

INTERVIEWER
In fact, killing people

HELPMANN
In fact, killing people they'd
get a lot more out of life.

INTERVIEWER
Mr. Helpmann, what would you say
to those critics who maintain that
the Ministry Of Information has
become too large and unwieldy... ?

HELPMANN
David... in a free society
information is the name of the
game. You can't win the game if
you're a man short.

INTERVIEWER
And the cost of it all, Deputy
Minister? Seven percent of the
gross national produce...

HELPMANN
I understand this concern on behalf
of the tax-payers. People want
value for money and a cost-effective
service.

HELPMANN
That is why we always insist on
the principle of Information
Retrieval Charges. These terrorists
are not pulling their weight, and
it's absolutely right and fair
that those found guilty should pay
for their periods of detention and
the Information Retrieval Procedures
used in their interrogation.
I think countries have problems because of governments, not because their governments aren't strong enough. Paying more to police officers doesn't make them behave any more civil. An example of that is the US where police abuse is widespread and incarceration rate is highest in the world. Statistically, in terms of police interaction, I'd be much safer in your country than in the US.

The real problem is absence of the market mechanism in law enforcement. A police officer, even though I basically am paying his salary, isn't working for me. He's working for the state. I can't hire another protection service and stop paying to the police. I can't complain. Hell, I can't even change laws that I don't like (except through a very long political process which is unlikely to give me any results in any meaningful timeframe).

What you should be thinking is, not how to make a government better, but how to make it less dangerous and influential.
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Thanks, pushing the change right away.
The FSF advocates against DRM in general as a major part of their campaigns work. Not sure why you'd suggest they are only pointing at a single instance of the problem.
You simply find another shithead. ie: another job.
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> None of the organizations that benefit are going to voluntarily relinquish access to these crutches

Except of course that that's exactly what most of them did. By taking preferred stock the treasury gave the banks an incentive to buy back the shares and make the treasury a bit of money on the side. Much better than the UK government buying common stock and being stuck with it till they sell at a loss (as they're doing now).

My understanding of the GSEs is that they're still haggling over precisely what form they ought to take in the brave new world i.e. it's not particularly that they want to be state run.
Well, there's a couple of scenarios:

- Long-running processes where they don't want to destroy and redeploy every single time a fix or change gets deployed

- One is where they try to reduce the configuration sprawl by making configuration changes at runtime using something like ansible

- One is straight-up bigco stupidity (we must have a way to change the running configuration of a system because the audit team says so)

- separation of responsibilities - we have one team that builds "approved" docker images, and then dev teams can make changes based on that - it might be easier to deploy changes at launch time

Again, I'm not saying all of these make sense, but back when I was workign on docker strategy and interviewing really big companies, these are the types of concerns they had about implementing docker at scale.
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> The problem here is not e-books, it's DRM. The article even says as much at the bottom.

So… how did the FSF point their fingers at the wrong culprit when they state black on white that the problem is DRMs but that ebooks are not intrinsically problematic?
This highlights the importance of using data when arguing, even in seemingly "soft" social sciences.

On every day of the 20th century, a definite number of people washed clothes, and the gender of each person was (for the most part) definitely determinable. Likewise for people doing work for a paycheck.

Now, it might be difficult (or impossible) to get that exact data. So you'll have to make do with what you can get. But this is what occupies quite a lot of the time of professional historians and social scientists: getting the best data they can. In some cases it might mean personally combing through the paper archives in dozens of museums, corporate archives, or libraries. Or following chains of relationships, like a detective, to find the one retiree who might have held on to some of those records that everyone thought got tossed out 40 years ago.

I offer this not to imply that you, as an undergrad, should do all these things. My point is to illustrate the hard work and tenacity that's necessary to actually know things.

Quite often here on HN (in fact, even in this thread), I see sentiments to the effect of "well anyone can just make up what they want" when it comes to these sorts of gender/society issues. While it's true that anyone can hold an opinion, it's also true that there are often ways to better inform our own opinions.
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