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>No. Piracy is just fucking theft, period.

No, you don't get to redefine a word because you feel like it. "Piracy" is often wrong, but it is not theft (the owner is not deprived of the item).
And in fact it turned out that they should have been looking at Cambridge and who the Queen kept company with. Whoops.
I have UK recruiters calling the number listed on our website and try to get patched through to my employees. And when I tell them that they just called the boss, they're not even embarrassed and just try again the next day. Only stopped when I called their boss.
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>Plus, they have successfully rolled out the HSV1 test. It's seems reasonable to expect that more will follow.

The biggest criticism of their overall method that I've seen, is that blood from the finger is too likely to be contaminated to give good results for many of the tests they are performing.

Testing for the presence foreign virus (or virus antibodies) may be different in this regard than testing the level of naturally occurring chemicals.
They very well may. For all we know, some of the Snowden revelations are distractions from some breakthrough, designed to protect the real secrets.

The scale out of the NSA capabilities may have become an issue -- adversaries have figured out that the US knows too much, as people get blown up when they pick up the phone.
The project page is here http://www.unicorn-engine.org/

I think the project is fascinating. I wanted to build something similar, but unlike the authors of Unicorn I was doing everything from scratch.

The idea was that it would be a plugin for a debugger to aid dynamic analysis so that you could "execute" some piece of code(instructions) with the current values in real memory and registers and see what the end values will be and where the code will go/do. And then perhaps step-back and forth through the emulated code to see the execution in real-time. Made a mistake? Roll-back and change the emulated values see what jump or what result it gets.
Not when you're selling it. It's ridiculous to sell something without any specifics.
>Right, except you don't have the right to do that.

You say they don't. They say they do. The law may agree with you right now, but then there are places where the law still allows for slaves, so I wouldn't put any weight in what the law says.

>Piracy is just fucking theft, period.

No it isn't. Exclamation mark. ! > .
Exactly. Let's not conflate sharing (making exact copies) with theft or the real meaning of piracy. It's copyright infringement, and we should be promoting works that fight against the copyright regime using Creative Commons licensing and other such free culture licenses. At at the very least we should reject DRM.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
10-15% at Western Union. 30%+ for bank wire transfer. 7.5% to transfer money reliably into a failed state seems quite reasonable at this time.

If it's providing a high profit margin with regards to the risk involved, the price will fall over time as competitors enter the market.

I'd be interested to explore blockchain tech for low-cost money transfer, but the hard part is creating a global network of interchangers to turn the money back into cash - and there'd still be fees to cover risk.
Managing the container hosts.
On a hard drive or tape system?

On a reader - if you're counting the cost of electricity, let's count the cost of shipping entire forests of paper around the world, first to paper mills, then to print factories, then to bookshops and libraries.

And the cost of travel to and from a lending library for every reader.

And why not also include the cost of lighting to read the book? (I can read my Kobo in the dark because it has a very low energy backlight. My eyes don't work so well with the lights off, so I've never been able to do that with paper.)

I wonder how many people here understand that giant warehouses full of overstocked print are regularly shipped back from stores and pulped. Does everyone understand how much space and weight a million copies of a failed bestseller takes up? Does everyone know that paper books are always sold sale-or-return, so if they don't go out the front door they go out the back door onto a truck, with the covers stripped so they can't be resold?

The original article is factually wrong in significant ways.

Not all ebooks are sold by Amazon, not all ebooks have DRM, and not all ebooks that start with DRM continue to have DRM.

At this point, arguing against digital publishing because Amazon is like arguing against the printing press because the medieval Catholic church was fond of censorship and burning.
You clearly don't have a clue about how things are here in the EU. Few weeks ago one of these charitable souls deceived a co-worker offering him an incredible opportunity to move to London and the result was:

- £15k ($23k) less salary than advertised in the offer

- No benefits (healthcare, dental, etc)

- No free food/snacks/bevare at the company

- No perks (equipment, etc)

When questioned about this, the recruiter said: hey! impossible to get this, this is were I make my money you know!.
How is this a "fantastic offer for an engineering job in a comfortable office with great pay and great working conditions"?
Basically. "A bit over the top" could very well be the byline of gnu.org/philosophy. They are the impractical philosophical anchor at one end of a line of conversation; if the world worked the way the philosophy described, everyone would be a bit technologically poorer (but "freer", at least).
Put your calibre library in Dropbox or Google Drive. Get Calibre Cloud Pro to have a good-looking, easily searchable library on your device (you download from there as needed). Use Moon+ or some other reader to read the books. Calibre also has a server function (which Moon+ supports), but not everybody has a public IP to access their books everywhere.

These are all Android, but there's probably some equivalent on iOS. You will want to convert all your ebooks to a format that your reader supports, such as epub. There are extensions for Calibre that will strip DRM if you're into that.
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If you want to get to the truth of something, you might want to entertain alternative viewpoints. Just because you are emotional about it doesn't make you right. Now you can choose to ignore what's happened in the last few decades and continue on with your stubborn view, but chances are you'll turn out to be wrong. If you want to have a more nuanced view of things, here's some reading for you: http://paulgraham.com/property.html
First I wonder what pointed them in this direction. It seems like a lot of time and work to conduct this experiment, so what did they expect and why?

Second, I wonder if rTMS or similar might be able to induce some of the same effects on unmodified animals or people.
Snark for no reason? Check.

Somehow extrapolates me saying that I know lots of recruiters because I worked with recruiters at a large company means that I believe IT only exists within two companies on earth? Check.

Thanks, great response.
> The same is also true in other situations where the dominant player creates a "walled garden"[1] over which they have complete control, as with Apple

It's somewhat unclear what you mean, especially with apple having added sideloading support in Xcode 7/iOS9.
Well they are not videos and not able to upload onto a website without doing a screen recording. This tool actually is much better than making a video.
First you dont know what a startup is. Second you dont know what a one man startup is.
As far as free flow of information goes, you can't torrent a paper book.

It's also not true that Amazon pushes DRM. They include it as a gesture to the publishers. You can put a DRM-free ebook on Amazon if you choose so.
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Exactly. His post is rather long to be only an outburst of angriness. I think he is pretty pissed off by the recruitement process and decided to take it up a notch in order to make it grotesque.
Things WILL get better.

It takes time to find the right medication, but if you don't feel better within 2 weeks tell your doctor and they'll give your something. I've had people close to me go through the same thing and it took a while to finally hone in on something that works. I know it must feel like the most hopeless and frustrating situation, but hang in there. Something out there will work, you just need patience.

Just remember that it's not your fault. Good luck.
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The FSF is once again using aggrandizing to present their case. Amazon did not go in without cause and revoke the book. There was a specific reason they did so, and they did refund the customers' money. There was no back door in to the Kindle, it was all done through the account management services. The way the FSF is presenting it is intentionally done to make Amazon appear malicious, when the reality is it what a mistake on their part and they corrected it.

This is typical of Stallman and his organization. They have good points, but the presentation of them is over the top to the point where people just stop caring.
That's one way of looking at it.

Another way is that building the loaded weapon was a prerequisite for their capacity to offer the world's largest library of commercially-viable ebook content, and without that "bizarre fact," the content simply wouldn't be available to anyone electronically because of the legal wrangling necessary to get it into publicly-accessible electronic format.
In such a hypothetical world the main thing stopping you would be that in many cases you would need to provide three such identifiers (Equifax, TransUnion, Experian) to get a full credit report. Presumably that redundancy alone would actually help catch fraud in that world.
oh yeah, lots of creators use Patreon. Fenoxo, the creator of the text based RPG Trials in Tainted Space (he sells it in MiKandi), uses Patreon and brings in $20K a month. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=121401&u=121401&ty=h

So far it's a great service for adult art and fiction creators. But as with any mainstream service and adult content, you can't ever be sure how long it'll last. Past experience has shown it's a matter of time before adult gets kicked out of the party. I hope that won't be the case with Patreon.
Gets half the range of Model S, twice as slow acceleration, and hopefully the batteries don't randomly explode. You would be better off getting a cheaper Model 3.
> Does an amateur license allow you to operate a RADAR system?

Yes, conditionally. RADAR does not fall under the "specifically prohibited" rule for communications, but it's also not explicitly listed as "specifically authorized" either. Likely up to the discretion of whatever FCC official you asked.

http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=about_1&id=am...

> the ability to detect and avoid [interference with other] signals.

This is a requirement for all amateur radio transmissions. However, so long as you take reasonable precautions (and react to any reports of issues), you can do it.

In my (unprofessional) reading of the phrase "You determine for yourself whether your communications should be transmitted on amateur service frequencies", a reasonably powered experimental radar system which doesn't interfere with other services would be OK.
> we use docker intensively CI in Jenkins for documented, project-specific build environments

This. Doing apt-get install on Travis builds to spin up my required tools on every build was slow and a PITA. I started using GitLab CI with the Docker executor[0], that's reduced to `docker pull myimage` which is often times cached locally. Build time when from up to 10s of minutes -> seconds.

I built a Docker image for building Android AOSP projects[1]. Few people use Docker for build environments where it's immensely valuable. I don't want to develop my low level Android platform code on Ubuntu 14.04, I'd rather throw the build over the wall to a pre-vetted build image that always works.

Sure I could roll my own special Jenkins slave to do this, but why not leverage Docker? Perhaps it'd be too easy to use the same Docker image on my development laptop.

I do agree with the author in some respects that some people don't fully understand when containers are valuable and instead containerize all the things!

[0] http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/docker/using_docker_images.html

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/kylemanna/aosp/
That doesn't explain backwards compatibility issues unless what they're saying is they want stuff created in SQLite 3 to work with SQLite 2. The policy doesn't seem to say that though. It's probably just hard to figure out.

http://www.sqlite.com/formatchng.html
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I do the same. And I rip the DRM off my Kindle books. I'm not putting them on a torrent site, but I'll send one to my girlfriend if I think she'd like it, because well, that's how you treat books.

If Amazon cares enough to try to shut down the decryption with better technology, I'll stop buying Kindle books and I guess we'll both be a little bit poorer for it. That's their call though. I'll worry about it when I have to.

I don't generally pirate things. I can't say I never do, but it's very rare, and I don't believe I'm in the right for doing so. But with ebooks, I'm paying Amazon for the book, and while I recognize the truth is that content creators and publishers have the right control distribution of their work, in practice I'm only willing to recognize those rights when they're not wholly unreasonable. HBO wanting me to pay for Game of Thrones is reasonable. Wanting to charge me as a commercial broadcaster if I have a watch party at my house isn't, and I feel like my treatment of ebooks is morally fine. It's an arbitrary line, I recognize, but it's one I'm currently fine with.
Will they turn on the wifi on my device to do so?
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LOLFR: We were so clever and so good at it that we over-engineered the capabilities

That is true, gold plated BS! Beautiful!

More importantly:

L.E.A.N. Ads do not replace the current advertising standards .... Rather, these principles will guide an alternative set of standards

This is hammered home at the end of the post:

Publishers should have the opportunity to provide rich advertising experiences, L.E.A.N. advertising experiences, and subscription services

Translation: They're defining these new, fancy standards, but they're viewed as part of the overall picture, and not a replacement for the current abortion that is online advertising. So if the odds weren't already deeply stacked against them that they'd have an influence in moving the market, this makes it even less likely.
You do have a point but unlike eating junk food, having a seatbelt on is a binary and can be detected without much argument.
That doesn't make it ok.
I own a Kindle Voyage and read heavily on it and yet I can get behind this FSF campaign with all my heart.

1. There is no reason Amazon/publishers can't distribute DRM free books which I can backup and share (within reason, not putting for torrent).

2. It is amazing how badly Kindle supports other languages. I was trying to read a book written in Hindi on it and it was meh. Page turning is slow, font rendering is awful. Are we ready for a world where literature means English literature?
Furthermore, let's not say that copying an ebook is the moral equivalent of storming a vessel, murdering and raping everyone onboard, plundering the remains and then sinking the thing into the sea. Let's just agree that those two are separate things.
>But sharing an e-book is much painless and convenient, thus can easily abused.

I find it strange to see the word "abuse" used when talking about sharing. Sharing is caring, after all, not abusing.
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Because you cannot make the choice to store something in internal store, it's automatically managed by the OS. The backing store for everything is the cloud.
Best way to not 'feed the beast' is to write a quality resume/CV and post it to your local tech careers site.
Man, I tried building one of these when I was in high school and didn't know a damn thing about electronics. No multimeter, no oscilloscope, just a soldering iron and teenage idiocy. I put it together and (big shocker here) it didn't work, and I didn't have the vaguest idea of why it didn't, or how to figure out why it didn't. It pissed me off so much that I threw everything away and forgot about it.

I should really consider taking a second stab at it now that I have an engineering degree and a snowball's chance of making it work.
It's the nature of the beast, other option...

Company hates recruiters.

Company builds an internal recruitment team.

Find out they can't perform.

They then start using external recruiters.

There has to be a solution to this, whoever solves it will become very, very, very rich. At present, only internal hires or referrals seem to work best.
I agree to some points but still, pdfs/ebooks will help distributing books to more people making information more available. And with these arguments, are libraries bad? Considering you need to identify yourself and they are in charge for choosing which books you're can to read, and which ones you can't.
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I disagree that the invention of home appliances has stopped.

The appliances you list are "labor-saving" devices. But there is only so much labor to be saved. In the last quarter of the 20th century, and into today, new home appliances tend to be for communications or entertainment. Examples:

- TV, then flat panel, digital

- Computer, then laptop

- Modem - telephone/Cable/DSL

- WiFi router

- Cable box/DVR

- Video game system

In addition, an entirely new category of appliances was created: the personal appliance:

- PDA

- Cell phone, then smart phone

- Tablet

- Fitness sensor, then smart watch

I think the next round of home appliances is likely to be energy-related:

- Solar panels

- Home battery

- Smart monitoring & reporting system
There is no need for the dark alley if someone has obtained your PIN; he or she just needs to purloin the card.
Fandango can't be trusted to give an unbiased rating because they're trying to sell you tickets to the movie.

On the other hand, movie studios have a lot to gain by gaming sites such as IMDB and rotten tomatoes while these sites wouldn't exist if their users knew their ratings were paid for. As others have pointed out, I have noticed that movies tend to be very highly rated on IMDB during the first week or two of a movie being released to theaters. With the amount of money on the line I wouldn't be surprised if movie studios were creating fake accounts and reviews on a massive scale in an effort to generate positive ratings, especially if review sites aren't accepting the movie studio's money to fake the rating.
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>> Contract tech workers sometimes believe agencies insulate them from a defaulting client.

This is true.

In one of my last contracts I was working alongside a guy who was contracting for them directly. He eventually walked out when they failed to pay (again!)

Agents are scum, but as someone that doesn't have a vast network (most of the people I've worked with are still in the same perm position years or even decades later), and who doesn't live in London, I'm afraid I don't see that I'm going to be able to live without them any time soon.

Instead I'm actually trying to build relationships with the agents I have worked with that have found me appropriate work and who haven't f*cked up in any way. They are few and far between, but they do exist.
I was watching a video yesterday of the founder giving a talk in August, I think it's pretty impressive what they have done in a year with a small team. http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2015/10/video-hardware-vs-soft...

I think they should release more details of the OS. Is it Linux with some Android runtime like Jolla, or AOSP fork?

I just don't personally know if I could stomach a UI that looks like a shroom trip, but maybe it feels good when you're actually using it. At least it's different

I saw another cloud based android phone recently, Robin - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/09/ex-android-and-htc-.... Call me old school but I am not sure I want cloud as the only storage option, definitely not from a new company who might not be around in a years time.
Actually, piracy is the act of forcefully commandeering another's maritime vessel; theft is the legal act of taking & depriving another of property, and I'm really not sure what "fucking" has to do with it at all.

Piracy is the correcting hand of the free market, where obtaining things for free is easier and less byzantine than by paid channels. Psychological research has proven time and time again that most people are willing to pay, but unwilling to have their personal rights trampled by draconian licensing and DRM.

Luckily your opinions, however misinformed, are irrelevant because anyone who understands this will never give up the fight. We understand how international trade deals and copyright law are being used offensively against the public, and we will not relinquish control over the devices we've rightfully purchased.

I'd suggest you get used to it. We're here to stay.
actually I've experienced that they're nicer, or at least try to (?)
How many of those forgot to lock their computer?
^ I don't subscribe to the idea that it's not ok in the first place.
He's obviously very hyperbolic, but when you leave the sphere of elite IT (Google/Facebook) and head into the folks who are in other geographic locations (and not willing to move to tech hotspots) suddenly the skills in demand and the positions available become overwhelmingly large enterprise type IT jobs.

The recruiters who are working for these companies are, to some extent, as the author describes. The real reason the industry is so slimy on that end is because enterprise companies are too old fashioned to view technology workers as people who deserve to be paid salaries on par or exceeding middle managers. Therefore, the salaries simply aren't high enough to attract talent beyond H1B indentures and fakers who are horribly unproductive. This creates an IT department that isn't very good or effective, and thus isn't thought of as deserving high pay. Never mind that the C-level management at large, established companies is, for the most part, hopelessly disconnected from what it takes to have an effective technology capability at a company. If you don't agree with me on this, then ask yourself why SAP and Oracle continue to make so much money selling huge software implementations that are known to never work and always go over budget.
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Anyone else think the post title is disingenuous? Seems written to infer that Facebook was the tool that lead six million Americans to feel comfortable about their sexuality and opening come out.

But they define coming out as simply setting your sexual preference as being the same sex as your own. Facebook isn't helpIng or causing this, people are just expressing it on a social network.

Just bothersome personally, because it sounds self-righteous and as if Facebook is help progressing equality. In reality, allowing users to express they are gay (and any other tools/changes that made this easier, as discussed in the blog post) are simply measures Facebook implemented to help mine more extremely personal information about individuals in order to better peddle Totino's Party Pizza™.

Personally, just tired of brands that attempt to push such an agenda. You want to know if I'm gay so you can target me with more appropriate ads. You don't care less about how such a personal decision changes my life.