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> IMHO, Mozilla should absorb the Tor project

Tor has too many legal and ethical issues around it for Mozilla to take that kind of risk.

> And stop attacking the Linux distros for the Firefox trademark (forcing them to create the Iceweasel fork) or including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

Debian made a bunch of changes to Firefox and was still calling it Firefox. Debian also objected to Firefox's trademark policy despite Debian's trademark policy for their own trademark being virtually identical. This happened years ago and years before Pocket even existed.

Pocket code in Firefox is open source, you can examine it yourself. And, due to lazy loading, it's never even called if you don't interact with it. You can right-click and remove the button and never worry about it again. Using Pocket was to add a much-requested feature to Firefox without Mozilla having to invest to development hours into building something that already existed.
In Sweden it's the Government (prime minister, effectively) that decides, not any court.

Only in one direction. If the Supreme Court blocks an extradition as illegal under Swedish law then the Government cannot overrule that judgement (though I suppose they could change the law and ask the country to refile the extradition request). They can however refuse to extradite someone even if the courts rule the extradition legal.
You wouldn't mind putting my on the next batch of invites as well would you? This sounds pretty interesting to me. I signed up with the email in my profile.
dumbfounder, are you Twicsy's owner? If not, the editorialization seems unnecessarily harsh. If so, oh, well, OK then. :)
Note that the random source should be truly (in quantum sense) random for this to work.
So if a site is using Adsense and doesn't require all ads are reviewed then as site owners appears we run the risk of another part of Google telling visitors that the site is malicious. Hope that the site owner tooling referred to is good enough that it can identify the advert, at worst the network otherwise only option would be to remove Adsense code.
You're not the parent; stop commenting.
I don't understand. If "all four of VirnetX’s patents have been found invalid by the patent office" as Apple claims, why hasn't the case been dismissed?
I also use the `IDEA` tag in addition to `TODO` and `FIXME`. My definitions:

* IDEA: This is neat and could be helpful, but is probably okay if it never gets done.

* TODO: Not doing this has some measurable ill effect. Maybe maintainability or constraining scale.

* FIXME: This is a temporary work-around while finishing a feature. It should never be shipped.
No thanks, I'd take a native desktop app over a web app any day of the week thank you very much.
Lifespan of a mobile home is estimated at 30-55 years depending on area and on how much upkeep the owner does. There's also a huge stigma around living in a mobile home, and serious logistics involved in hauling the mobile home to its final destination as it has to be delivered in one or two pieces on a long flatbed trailer.
Yup, the XKCD translations still hold: https://xkcd.com/678/
There's something to what you're saying.

Our industry is a big lover of the next big thing. We collectively waste so much time and productivity by constantly changing the rules of the game.
You managed to invent two wild theories that have nothing to do with reality.

So I will give you some facts, you you can invent a third theory:

Both women enjoyed the encounter with assange, and both women admired him.

One woman, was concerned about the lack of preservative, and tried to get medical attention.

Police got involved by themselves, both women declined to have Assange charged.

The women, wrote on twitter about how awesome Assange was.

Assange was informed of all this, but had to visit UK for his work, he informed Sweden, and asked permission to leave.

The police concluded that indeed, Assange had done nothing wrong, and told him he could leave.

After Assange left, suddenly prosecutors wanted him back in Sweden out of the blue.

The women, made clear in the media that they DON'T asked Assange to be charged, the woman that made the police know about him, also made clear that she only wanted medical attention to check for STDs, and that she didn't wanted to get the police involved.

I have impression that these facts don't fit 100% any of your theories, now you can come up with a new theory that fit them.
vacri's comment made me chuckle. I do not understand why someone thinks it is an acceptable practice to force the replacement of adequate hardware due to the lack of software updates.

When security should be a concern in this ecosystem, vacri tells users to root their phone and presumably either load some amatuer dev's ROM or port and compile their own.

I just don't see any of that being helpful for the average user.
I don't think you need to down vote it because it doesn't suit you. Yes I'd like if it was open source and available on Linux as well, but it's not a bad, dangerous or negative product.
It's actually stellarator from stella, star.
My point was that the selection bias proposed will not necessarily obscure a biological effect (or at least, correlation).

Setting aside the legitimacy of pursuing this research, looking for effects using statistical analyses of medical records is an interesting way to direct at least a small amount of research, saying that such questions can only be asked when there is solid control of every factor is probably not a win.
Again, you're making a ton of assumptions about mechanisms. Saying low intensity RF has a negligible effect on chemistry belies the fact that cell receptors can be exquisitely sensitive and those receptors can cause large changes in cells via DNA transcription.

The current most plausible mechanism is localized cell heating. We already know that RF can cause cell heating. There are a number of physical responses to cell heating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_protein) which can have large effects on cell morphology.

I am not claiming that is the mechanism. But I've seen enough epidemilogical studies that have been conducted carefully enough to suggest there is some mechanism by which negative health effects may be occurring, and I think that alone makes it worth being a bit more creative than trying to disprove the observed evidence by claiming one of the plausible mechanisms isn't.

(I have a PhD in Biophysics; I've worked up and down the molecular stack, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that if the epidemiologists carry out a good study, and the meta-analysts confirm the effect, it's always a good idea to be open minded about the cause).
Translated article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033244
Huh, that doesn't make any sense to me. Smaller houses would make cities more walkable/livable and thus be better for people's health and the environment.

Do people want those kinds of laws in order to protect their "investment"? I mean, I guess maybe your house will be worth more if all the other houses nearby are large and thus expensive?

Of course, now in the digital age, I guess such laws seem sillier than they did earlier. You no longer need a huge amount of books, music records, train set, pinball machines, billiard table etc., since you can fit all those things in a small computer.
Exactly. The energy required to break the bond of a DNA pair (a covalent bond) is about 1 eV. If you plug 1 eV into E = hv you get the frequency of ultra-violet light. So anything lower than UV light (visible, infrared, microwave, radio wave) doesn't have enough energy to do anything.
Why are these stadiums not financed with revenue bonds? Municipalities typically issue bonds as general obligations or as revenue bonds where there is no obligation to the broader municipality, only to the revenue producing entity.
You might have seen the recent project on network speed testing on a Raspberry Pi which tweets to Comcast when the speed goes below 50 Mbps. This is an alternative or complementary option.

The Raspberry Pi software is installed as a Debian package. The data is displayed on a dashboard. You can receive alerts by email when the connection goes down, the Ping packet loss goes above x%, you can't access Facebook, or can't resolve times.com. No tweeting capabilities though.
It's sad
Hopefully if the big boys get burned by trolls, they will finally decide to do something about the current patent system.
This is a good explanation, but unfortunately it's wrong. You don't actually need to invoke quantization of light (i.e. photons) to derive the photoelectric effect, or multiphoton ionization.

You can actually use a semiclassical model - electrons are quantized, and obey the Schrodinger equation, but EM radiation is fully classical. I.e., just solve the time dependent Schrodigner equation with V(x,t) = V_{atom}(x) + cos(wt) E x.

Using this model, you derive exactly what the photonic theory intuitively predicts - i.e., the rate of 2-photon ionization scales like O(I^2) (i.e. probability of ionization = probability of 2 photons hitting simultaneously), n-photon ionization scales like O(I^n), etc.

Unfortunately I can only give paywalled references for this:

A. Jensen A. Galtbayar and K. Yajima. Local time-decay of solutions
to schrodinger equations with time-periodic potentials. J. Stat. Phys.,
116:231, 2004.

O. Costin, R. D. Costin, and J. L. Lebowitz. Time asymptotics of the
Schr¨odinger wave function in time-periodic potentials. J. Statist. Phys.,
116(1-4):283–310, 2004.

S Geltman. Multiphoton ionization of atoms. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys.,
10:831, 1974.

R. V. Jensen and I.B. Bernstein. Semiclassical theory of relativistic electrons
in space and time varying electromagnetic field. Phys. Rev. A.,
29:282–289, 1984.
would love to connect w/ you. My email: kadnan@gmail . com
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Interestingly, the four patents in question cover ways of initiating a secure connection via DNS - nothing about video transcoding or low latency communication, which was my first guess.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
IMO, they're working towards it, but slowly. Boiling the frog slowly helps in not scaring it away.
You've a pretty unusual idea of the meaning of rules. We're talking about a legal process. The rules are the laws of England and Sweden.
Geoff's comment nails the intent.
My first thought when reading the article and seeing the pictures is that there's no way this design (as depicted) would work in Appalachia without enclosing and insulating around the bottom of the house. Otherwise, your pipes would freeze and the house would be way, way too cold during the winter. I was also disappointed that the article didn't go into the R-value of the house itself as that's going to be extremely important with regards to where the home could be built. I'm assuming it's probably pretty good, given that it's new construction materials, but I would not want to weather out an Appalachian winter in one unless it had been properly designed to withstand a harsh winter.
You're not wrong, but deployment is rarely simple. And there are gotchas in every environment I've ever worked with.

It's just a different set of skills to pick up, no different from any others.
The US lost an AC-130 while operating over Kuwait during Desert Storm. Got caught at sunrise and was shot down with complete loss of life.

We can't plan on having air supremacy. It's nice that we've had it since Nam, but counting on it isn't always going to be an option, and we'll need to provide CAS to troops when it's necessary.
No, he's accused of rape:

>>One: “The allegation of rape would not be rape under English law”

>>This is flatly untrue. The Assange legal team argued this twice before English courts, and twice the English courts ruled clearly that the allegation would also constitute rape under English law.

http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...
(1) without any reasons doesn't seem particularly meaningful. There are plenty of "agile" options on the JVM.

(2) I find the exact opposite; companies that use Java are very often huge contributors to the Java OSS ecosystem. And the Java community is giant because it's all over the place.

(3) Maybe you're not familiar with Spring, the canonical example of a huge ecosystem with tens of thousands of users, a very active development community, etc.

On point (3) I'd agree that the most agile environments have a smaller number of active contributors precisely because goliaths like Spring have so much mindshare. At the same time, I don't consider that a huge drawback, either: the people involved in the better, leaner frameworks are, in general, hugely smart.
Yeah, I have the same issue going south on I-405 in the afternoon. The road is clogged from 3 miles north of Bellevue and remains clogged until a couple miles south of I-90. I used to spend 50% of my commute time in that pile.

We really needed to build rail in the space where we added a toll lane.
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Everyone consented to sex, but he said he used a condom and didn't.
I believe Django also works under Jython
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The only person who has denied justice to Assange and the women is Julian Assange, when he skipped bail.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK I am an idiot. And it's already been edited,.
Java's memory/object allocation/instantiation is quite good.
Perhaps of deeper interest is the opening paragraph:
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If we can get rid of native advertising too, I'm all for it. Native advertising is a special kind of evil.
When I click the > I get https://support.google.com/adsense .

The link from the ad is to https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net

I don't see how it can't be a Google-sold ad.
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And I read till the end to figure out what was that "crazy" thing...
I don't think Debian "objected". Mozilla's trademark rules are not compatible with the DFSG, therefore Debian can't distribute an officially branded Firefox. I do think the ideal thing would be for Mozilla to distribute Firefox packaged in such a fashion that the branding can easily be swapped out (in the same way that e.g. Redhat isolates its trademarked material to a couple of packages and documents exactly what you need to replace if you want to distribute your own modified version of Redhat) so that there would be no need for a full fork.
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IBM gave up their VM (J9) and now uses OpenJDK as their primary VM, on which they build many, many enterprise products. I think they're about as "big" as you can hope to become. If Oracle does anything nefarious preventing someone from using the JVM in a commercial fashion, I'd imagine IBM's army of litigators would be the first to submit their grievances to whichever civil court held jurisdiction. Historically IBM been a huge OSS contributor over the last 15 years- starting with Eclipse in 2001.

The license for the JDK anyways is good ol' GPL v2 so they really can't take the OpenJDK out of the community[1]. I'm not sure about "Java the language", and I'm really not sure about things like Hotspot and JRocket. But Oracle can do about as much to take away the OpenJDK from the community as Linus can remove Linux.

[1] No license flame wars please.
There seems to be some ridiculously large misconceptions here regarding these two things:

1. Assange is not violating any Swedish laws or policies by staying in the embassy and avoiding extradition, he has no obligation to return to Sweden and every right not to.

2. Assanges presence in Sweden is not required by Swedish policies or laws, Swedish courts already called out the prosecutor for not accepting his statements from the embassy.

The duty of the prosecutor also seems to need clarifying, some people here seem to think that the prosecutor has no obligation to agree to interview Assange in the embassy. This is absolutely not true.

Do you not think that the victims(although not entirely applicable here) are OK with the prosecutor indefinitely delaying the case until the crimes expire just because she is too arrogant to pick up the phone and ring up Assange or buy a 30 euro plane ticket to London?

Another thing worth noting is that many people seem to think UK is a particularly easy country to extradite people from, this isn't exactly true. See Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love.

Sweden has a history of just handing people over to the CIA.
And I can't even delete it because anyone can just undelete it....
> I just buy plain old dumb TVs, no need to worry about anything.

This is a bit short sighted. In the near future, we will only have 'smart' TVs to chose from.
Java (the language and the platform) is my #1 choice for almost everything I do.

I can see why people wouldn't choose it though... for better or for worse.

There are not a lot of technical reasons, except perhaps than in "the cloud" using more RAM in a VM has a not insignificant cost, and Java-ish applications tend to have significant memory overhead.

Most of the downsides seem non-technical - perhaps mostly than it is just not "the new hotness". Also, in the 2000's Java went through the wringer of being used everywhere in "enterprise", and admittedly there were some ugly growing pains where you ended up writing XML configuration files that could be longer than your actual source code (Spring Framework and Hibernate were serious offenders, and
"everyone" used those). During that time RoR started to become popular and provided a more pleasant alternative... then some of the Ruby community started writing hit pieces about the JVM platform which did a lot of damage to Java's "coolness" from which I don't think it ever really recovered.

Fast forward to today, and Java/JVM is battle tested and actually much easier and pleasant to use, but compared to "the new hotness" it is quite mature... and like grandparents, even though there is a lot of wisdom baked in there, it is not something that the "cool kids" want to hang out with.
First of all, it's only through their browser. There are alternative browsers you can use. And they already filter search results, quite extensively.
Honest typo rather than ignorance.
There is a ton of opportunity in the christian media industry with huge markets. I hope more christian developers get involved and start making stuff that would help believers, missionaries, churches, etc. There are so many things to disrupt. For those that are interested and want encouragement or help finding ideas. I found a christian startup slack community http://thirdpathinitiative.com/christian-startup-community and there is also a really cool hackathon organization http://codeforthekingdom.org
The alt combinations do not work on Windows, and I believe they don't on most (all?) Linuxes either.

On my phone or I'd provide the equivalents.
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This is entirely false, as extradition is a political process, not a judicial one. In the U.S., the Department of State decides whether someone will be extradited. In Sweden, it's the Government (effectively, the prime minister for a case like Assange's).
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> Why would you use q.e.d. with out a reference. I know I am strange in that I studied Greek and know a decent amount of Latin but how were you using q.e.d.?

The claim was that the CDU is somehow christian. The argument against that was that they aren't actually christian, but that they rather get inspiration for their politics from christian theology.

Now, if your opponent presents an argument for your position as if it were for their own, there isn't really any need to restate that argument, you can simply point out that your position has been demonstrated.

> Also can we please not lump ALL Christians into the same boat it feels kind of like calling all Muslims terrorist. For Global warming the Bible is very clear that we are to protect the Earth which many Bible Global Warming protesters claim to upheld.

The problem with christianity (or any religion, for that matter) is that it tends to encourage people to believe things for bad reasons. Now, there might be christians who don't, but that doesn't change that a vast majority of them do. Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to lump them all together, at least in this regard, when making general statements. The problem is not whether some christians believe that the bible clearly tells them to protect the earth (while other christians ironically equally fervently believe that the bible clearly tells them that they don't need to do anything because god will take care of it), it's that they think that the bible telling them something is a good reason to act accordingly. That is an irresponsible method for trying to obtain knowledge, and it's outright dangerous when other people are affected by the results.

If I feed a starving child because my horoscope told me that I should, then the fact that feeding a starving child is good does not change the fact that the reason why I do it is still bad, and that acting according to astrological advice is not a reliable way to do good, and might well lead to bad consequences in other cases.
Got a citation/link?
You can throw in Hivemind (www.crudzilla.com) as well...an open source polyglot web development platform for the JVM...It makes it very easy to use various JVM languages to build web apps.
I am also a fan of the JVM. That's why I made my full stack framework JVM based:

https://github.com/zubairq/AppShare
Yes, he has a right to respond to the allegations. But he doesn't have a right to dictate terms on how that should happen. The Swedish authorities may decide to grant him that request, but he doesn't have the right to demand it. It's breathtakingly arrogant of him to suggest that he can. He has exercised his right to challenge the EAW and lost comprehensively.
I had an awesome math teacher in 3rd grade that taught us how to make these out of popsicle sticks and use them.

I always wondered why stuff like this never catches on in a school's math curriculum. Perhaps it's viewed as a gimmick that is impractical in the real world?
>Rent in America today is identical to the serfs of old. Instead ... make everyone fiscally responsible so that getting a mortgage wouldn't be hard for them in the first place.

Replace rent with debt is your solution? Mortgages (banks) are the new feudal lords
And finally, you should always
TRY THE DOOR KNOB
- “is the door open?
No, just Southwest. At the time they'd run a flight every hour between SJC -> BUR and after a while it became really easy to gauge exactly when I could show up and hop onto the next flight out. Cut it too close and miss a flight? They'll just put me on the next one. No big deal. The smaller airports help enormously in getting in and out fast -- I could walk into SJC and be on a flight in a matter of minutes. SFO and LAX are gigantic time sinks.

Though in Musk's case I imagine he can do the private jet thing and have the plane wait for him.
Warm battery in front pocket? Testicles are outside the body to help control temperature.
Is there a link to the source code?