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If Google just shut down youtube for australia. Even for a day. (With a site explaining that the government wants to censor it).

I know it will never happen - but would be so awesome if it did.
Good reference - thanks. Among the tidbits, I found this one extremely entertaining: http://xkcd.com/538/ It looks like bcrypt is the big winner though, no salt needed. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
I imagine this will not last long.
First, while still having some little bugs, the gmail integration is done really good. That's probably the best thing after looking at buzz for one day.

Second, is this Author pretending to be knowledgable of tech? This blog post is one of the worst informed posts i've seen so far. On a technology he is pretending to know about. I mean the part about Google Wave. He should know, that Wave is not really intended for real use nowadays. There isn't even a client protocol done by the developers! That should tell you about the early state of wave. There also is no federation, i don't see other wave servers connected to google wave popping up. Without a client protocol and several running wave servers, Wave is just tech preview thing, not more.

Third, he probably has missed the new century. People can complain over social networks, but he may have missed that social networks are overtaking mail and IM in terms of communication channel at the young users, the internet population of tomorrow. In that way, integrating buzz with gmail is a _perfect_ fit! That some old guy is complaining will be something we laugh at in a few years.

Anyway, not one point of constructive/objective critisism in this blog post, just "ohhh, i'm scared, i don't want that new stuff, i want my old mail back!!". Why doesn't he unfollow his pre setup followers and be done with it? It's not like Google forces him to read status updates of his friends. All in all, the post is a shame for a blog post that is supposed to be about new technology.

Also, it is worth mentioning, that buzz is probably the most developer friendly and open social network out there http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/buzz/ .
This advice probably works just fine for a chain of fast food restaurants, or discount clothing stores, but not a business where good people are required. Judging by his website, he's already scared away good graphic design help.
Isn't "copy & paste" the major paywall crumbling technology here?
I understand the complaint, but in this day and age, that's like being annoyed that your microwave and VCR have clocks. Everything is a social networking site now. I had to think for a minute in order to not include some form of profiles and user-to-user messaging in the last app I wrote.

I think it's just a generation gap, though—being younger, I grew up without any expectation of privacy from strangers, and I don't see anything wrong with that, really. I know that everyone else has just as many trite details floating around about them as I do, so there's no reason to single me out. It's like the sociological warfare of cars getting a steering-wheel-locking device/alarm/what have you, but in reverse: every person that removes their car's security is one more person reducing the probability that my car will be the one to get stolen.
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Well, I do dislike first impressions because of how judgmental people can be. I would love to take apart the facts of his arguments, but he is just writing opinions and stating features. I'd be wrong to disagree with features, and I dislike his opinions. I believe they are not based off of experience with Buzz but based off of previously held ideals about social networking sites the author has claimed he dislikes. He is applying his view on one thing automatically to another without giving it a shot. He hasn't even given it a couple of days.
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I went searching through the Settings page to no avail before I gave up and Googled (irony) how to turn it off.

Besides the point though. They opt you into a service you didn't sign up for, and require you to take measured steps to preserve your privacy.

It's good for Google, whether its a good default or not is debatable.
That depends on how much power the rest of the system uses. If the CPU is a small enough part of total system power, using four cores to cut time in half might be worth it.
This is what happened in his time there... http://siteanalytics.compete.com/myspace.com+facebook.com/
Most of the CakePHP are slow complaints are more issues of not knowing how to use it. Suggest if you really think CakePHP is being slow set $recursive = -1; in all of your models and use Containable to only fetch related model data when needed. You should be able to hit tens of thousands of unique visitors per day without caching no problem.

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> The guy's views are a bit extreme

I really hope that you are understating that. This guy's views are not just a 'bit' extreme.
Exactly, how is this different from copying the article to a blog or something?
I really don't see the problem. He marked an RSS-item public, and now complains the public can see it? The link is kinda the real content for a RSS-item. It's not Buzz' fault he shares paywalls-links...
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Yes, it's being debated: http://www.techmeme.com/100210/p66#a100210p66
Wow, 16 cores on one die. 128 threads. I can't wait until this makes it into consumer-level hardware. (I'm not sure what I'll do with it, but "build it and they will come".)
I believe that instead of stopping one's kids from giving out personal information (unless they have a disorder- then it may be necessary), one should teach his or her children what is appropriate: to speak and to write => in public and in private- to family - to friends - to acquaintances - to strangers.

All of that should be taught. Show the child why things are bad rather than simply stopping them. If your child doesn't listen, then more extreme measures of censorship should come into play.
While true, that there is a risk to expose personal information to the internet you probably should start to educate your kids in internet usage and not deny them.

You sentence "GMail was an entirely appropriate way for a child to communicate with family and school friends, as far as I can tell" shows that you are still living in the 20th century.
"As far as i can tell" means "i didn't ask them but i don't use facebook and email works, so it works for them too". Did you really ask your kids if their friends communicate over social networks?

You probably did miss it (too busy complaining and fearing?) but social networks are overtaking mail. You don't expect your kids to write their friends mail when everyone else is writing messages in facebook, do you? You will see, that your kids will get access to facebook/whatever anyway, if not only out of despite.

One of many sources: http://mashable.com/2009/03/09/social-networking-more-popula...

I beg you: Start educating your kids soon, if you have concerns, but don't forbid them!
I couldn't agree more. I use my GMail contacts as a general purpose address book so my brief trial of Buzz resulted in lots of stuff from people I don't really know outside of a very limited context. Does the reseller I e-mailed from GMail 3 years ago understand I'm seeing this information? I really doubt it.
Your computer doesn't subtly dislike you for using the wrong word, however.
I'm a little peeved by the author's parting shot:
"a world where nerd engineers get turned loose in a Montessori preschool, and they have no idea about user interface design and, frankly, they don’t care.  " Everything the author does on the internet was created by these "nerd engineers," most with no expertise in UI design.

Petty quibbles aside, though, the author has a point: Google's services recently have appeared to lean toward the Google-serving with the side-effect of helping Google's userbase at large. Of course, they are a for-profit corporation and this is to be expected, but I think everyone was hoping that "don't be evil" really meant "actively pursue the best interests of the internet, even above profit."

On the other hand, I disagree that Buzz specifically is Google simply trying to punch out other social networking sites. Currently there are three basic types of personal communication online: IM, Email, and Facebook/Twitter. GMail has already combined the first two, and I think it makes logical sense to add the third. It's certainly useful, just maybe not useful and better.
I use it.

Pros:

- It is practically free. An article I wrote was #1 on Digg, Reddit, etc. and Google charged me $0.11 for the traffic.

- Very easy to use. I can rapidly develop production ready web apps with it and deploy it in one click.

Cons:

- It only supports certain features. For example, if you want comet, you're out of luck.

- Arbitrary limitations. Blobstore only handles 50 MB files. A URLFetch request must take less than 30 second. Etc. If you need something more, you're out of luck.

- Lock in. AppScale and Google are working to change this, but if GAE doesn't fit my needs, it currently is a pain to port it to a new cloud service.
That's what's nice about functional programming. Write the equations, and let the computer deal with the computer stuff.
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How many users are they expecting to garner by deploying these cell 'towers' to off-the-grid, rural locations? Sure the base station is solar-powered, but the users themselves need power for their cellphones, no? How many poor, rural towns that are off-the-grid have solar panels for cellphone chargers?
Because talented people don't spontaneously self-organize.

Yes they do. Game recognizes game. I always want to socialize and engage with people I deem technically competent.

Myself, and most technical people I know, would not defer judgement nor respect to someone trumping "leadership skills" as a reason to follow them. In fact, someone projecting that air would be an immediate target for mockery until they displayed technical competence.
"Then came Twitter, which is mostly pointless, since I really don’t care what anyone else is doing at any particular moment and have no desire to tell others what I’m doing either, but again I joined, mostly because if I didn’t get on Twitter I’d look like someone who doesn’t “get it,” as they say in the Valley, and in my line of work that’s a bad reputation to have."

If that's indeed how people are judging him, this article is not going to help his 'reputation'.

I absolutely understand somebody not using a service (I don't use facebook). But that whole paragraph gives me very little confidence that this is an opinion I should listen to. It could be written by my 50-year-old uncle who's "in IT".
The interesting thing here is that the abstract which is the text he has is free for all. It is just the abstract of a nature journal article, nothing more, nothing less, which is available to everyone, anyways.
It does say, "Google Inc.'s email services" - would that include Google Apps (free, pro) too? That sure would suck ...
So I just checked into buzz and found a work email buzz from someone who's posted nothing and another person who I have no reason to follow or even care about. So until they get like, I dunno, more than 150 passionate users can we let this Orkut 2.0 clone rest easy?
I came here to post the exact comment. If you must use double negatives ("not waste"), then just do it once and be positive for the rest of the article. The title could be "How not to waste money". Then you made your point about how dumb it is to ignore the rules you are about to list, and you don't confuse people with weird negative-ness in the rest of the article.

Or, if you really want to do it right, skip the whole negatives thing. "How to best spend your Adwords money. 1) Use conversion tracking. 2) Use negative keywords..." Clear and helpful!
you don't have to be so harsh. At least they are trying. Better than nothing.
A receptionist is in lesser stature to you, though—you're trying to deal with the receptionist's boss as an equal, so when you get the boss's subordinate, they are then logically your subordinate as well (assuming transitivity of classism.) To put it another way—no matter how old you are, your friend's little brother has less stature than you. I'm not saying this is right or proper—but this is how the math works, when, for example, figuring out how polite to cast your speech as in Japanese.

Separately, though, I do think that the very concept of being made to deal with someone's personal secretary instead of the person themselves is a rude gesture by that person, because usually a personal secretary has no authority to help you with your problems. It's the same sort of rudeness implied by redirecting you five times to different departments on a support call, but immediately and in person. (Note that a receptionist in, e.g. a company lobby is a totally separate and useful thing; it is only when the receptionist has a one-to-one relationship with the number of people they route information to that it becomes a snub.)
My home machine (Debian GNU/Linux) says "--arg-file", and it looks like a relatively new feature. My RHEL box at work definitely didn't have anything with the word "file" in it.
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Yeah, because digital content is really easy to restrict. The recording industry succeeded, the movie industry succeeded, and the software industry succeeded, so it's likely that scientific journals will have no trouble keeping people from copying their content.

Yeah right...

It's almost like people don't care about your copy "right", even though "the law" tells them otherwise. Oh noes!
Yep, my employer still uses CVS, and by "uses" I really mean blindly commits everything (including output files) using TortoiseCVS with no commit messages. No branches, almost no tags.

I mentioned git once to my boss and it was definitely over his head. So I put git (via Cygwin) on my machine and am using it with CVS (as much as I can).
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So in the last 5 years, how close has this come to being true?
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You mean by using fans that don't make noise? What a concept :)
Every good product spreads at least a little by positive referrals. So is every good product also 'viral'?

Not in the sense Weissman is talking about. Yes, if you squint, any positive word-of-mouth is passed along vaguely like a virus. But then everything is 'viral', and the word has lost its value for distinguishing products that are strongly and inherently 'viral'. Those that are 'viral products' are passed to more customers by their design and mechanisms of operation, which is different (and deserving of a unique label) compared to just 'good enough to remark to friends'.
The oddest thing about Buzz was that it's automatically following everybody I've ever conversed with using GMail, whether or not I know them. They successfully avoided the "nobody's here" problem that Wave had, but by opting in everybody who uses GMail, it created the opposite problem.
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Keywords: "taught" "show" "listen" "learn"

Let's turn this around a little bit:

I believe that instead of automotive safety belts, we should all just teach people to drive slower and more cautiously. That we we are not encumbered by restrictive seat belts. Reasonable?

Takeaway: Take everything that you just said and then add parental controls on top of it because children really do need boundaries while they learn to think for themselves and hopefully make good decisions.

Yes. I am a parent.
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I would assume it involves drastically increasing the size of the fans, consequently reducing the RPM (and noise) whilst keeping the same overall airflow.
One of the main issue is continuous power supply. You might get power for couple of hours a day which is good enough for charging mobile. But then towers would need to have a generator for 24x7 operation. So this technology fills that gap.
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People still are generally want to do good and genereally want to pay for and reward good content if it's super easy and they don't have to think about spiraling costs.

I think the "flat rate" part might be the trick to make this work. If I know I'm only paying for instance $5 or $10 a month, why wouldn't I use flattr to reward content i like?
I just found out about it tonight, but it reminds me of all the problems and all the benefits of Craigslist (and really connecting with other people for example). Unlike the broadcast, asynchronous mediums of YouTube, etc. , this site seems directly made so we can connect with a a real person and be entertained (in the broadest sense). The anonymity allows people to do things that they wouldn't normally do when connected to their identity (allows cool performance art too).

You'll notice that a lot of folks like to visit chartroulette together with friends because it's like going out. Being able to tell somebody... "crazy night, we saw... and...."

The internet is supposed to be our window into another world right? I guess this is the first real start of that. And... maybe, just maybe, we'll be entertained by someone like us (or shocked by a fat guy in a bra).
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The comparison to generators does not seem valid. Outsourcing your electrical needs is not the same as outsourcing your IT needs. I don't think many companies would (or should) outsource their data storage, for example.
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=] Very interesting point; however, I must completely disagree.

In a car you are entrusting your life to other drivers, but in sharing information about yourself, you are entrusting yourself.

I'm trying to say "You have no control over others, but you have control over yourself" which is why I view your point as incorrect- yet interesting.
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It's hard for me to understand why people still use MySpace. I've never had an account there, but from all the user profile pages (not sure if that's what they're called) I've visited, none have been easy on the eye. Facebook seems to be the much better option to me. The Facebook fan pages can be used by most bands to build their brand and market themselves (I've only ever seen Bands using MySpace - nobody I know uses it) - maybe they should create some way for people to migrate their MySpace accounts to Facebook - that'll probably speed up MySpace's demise.
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And what would that demographic be? Even teenagers don't use myspace any more.
Thanks for doing that Shib71... wasn't sure whether I should
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I keep finding that these new features by various internet companies are pushing me towards becoming a more social person. I'm not sure whether or not I'm comfortable with that, but suddenly things like my email are pushing me much more into the lives of tangential acquaintances - and the temptation is great to participate and reciprocate by bringing them more into my life by giving them more personal information, so I often do.
It's interesting that this is just like their protocol they set for trademark complaints against AdWords advertisers.
So disappointed; that headline had such promise.
Ok. Why?
I don't have quick access to user numbers, but Google search trends is interesting (especially when you consider the readwriteweb example today of people typing 'facebook login' into google).

Here's the comparison of Facebook, Myspace, and Orkut - http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+myspace%2C+orkut&...

Nothing surprising, except that there are some areas (USA? Tijuana??) where Myspace still out searches Facebook.
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The way to measure this is not by fan speed, it's by power draw. To measure power draw, the most reliable way is to:

a) Make sure you can get your machine in a quiescent state (say, 5 minutes after bootup, all unnecessary background tasks and services are turned off).

b) Make sure ambient temperature is the same between runs.

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e) Compare results before and after. It's important to have a baseline for comparison so you know whether you're making progress or not.
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You can't take individual messages, sadly.
Don't look now, but I think video game manufacturers are winning. The PC is dying as a platform for most mass-market games which are not MMORPGs. Subscription services are essentially immune to piracy. So are "free to play" games, FarmVille, etc etc.

The consoles are seeing a resurgence. Piracy on the PS3 is, what, negligible? Put the same game on a PC and empirically 80%+ of users steal it. Unsurprisingly games are not moving in that direction that much anymore.
Service based IT companies such as Amazon and friends have seen massive growth. Governments and large corporations are building clouds to share between offices, campuses, and divisions. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of startups and businesses have never expended a single capex dollar to buy and install a single server despite utilizing dozens and hundreds of them.

So yeah, getting closer all the time.
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You're misunderstanding something here, the selling off of the T-bills and other US dollar valued assets would be the extent of the hostilities. The rest will take care of itself.