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I had a coupe of graduate student roomates from the PRC in the late '80s and one of the most intersting things they told me was that accusations of sexual infractions had replaced execution by starvation as the state's main tool for controlling the population.

Before the free market in food was established, if you got on the wrong side of your block committee or village equivalent, they'd just stop issuing you ration coupons; no muss, no fuss on their part.

So every time you hear about a PRC crackdown on "porn", expect that there's a hidden agenda behind it that's used to zap "enemies of the people" who have nothing to do with porn.
I'll do a write up tomorrow, but I'm about to head to sleep. Been refreshing the statistics page and looking at ref urls for an hour and checking out some of these news sites I've never heard of!

email me at admin @ the linked website . com and I'll either email it to you or post it. The writeup will require quite a bit of time and tweaking :D
The minute I saw people calling those who dispute the accuracy of findings, "Climate Change Deniers" I realised that this was less about science and more about politics.

The science should stand up on it's own two feet, it shouldn't need 'consensus' from closed groups. Release the data and the methods and we'll find out what's really happening by putting the hypothesis under scrutiny.
"Naturally viral" and "monetizing potential" take on new meanings for this app.

Poll: how many of you added markers? I did!
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I don't actually know but I suppose you can make a full android app in ASE.
because it's crap and everyone knows it. can we stop upvoting threads about flash now?
I don't think the author has actually spent real time without X. Some of his choices aren't very good compared to the alternatives.

Mutt is great, Alpine is also good for those that don't want to spend time tweaking mutt.

As well as elinks there's also w3m. I've used both interchangeably.

Centerim is probably the best general console chat client (although finch - Pidgin's console brother is also good). IRSSI is a good IRC client, but BitchX is undoubtably more popular.

Raggle is ok but has been slow for some time (at least for me) compared to Snownews.

For Music use MOC (Music-On-Console) or MPD. I'd go with MPD if you want to remotely control the music.

FWIW my main personal laptop is a P3-850 with 256mb of RAM. I do use X, but mainly as a placeholder for terminal sessions in Awesome.
Imagine UFC cross-marketing with MIT! Similar in nature to the ragged copy of "How to Solve It" sitting on my shelf, I think this is a great idea for a course to teach approximate calculations and heuristics to the common man.
Like Sun and Java, I think Adobe will eventually open source but when they finally do it, it will be too little too late.
I think it really comes down to the degree in which your idea competes or potentially does so with the company you are currently work for.

If it's completely unrelated ... to come up with something wild off the top of my head, say you've noticed something that could improve the landscaping you see as you go to the targets' front door, and your company sells business software of some sort, sure, go for it with care and the points that _delirium made.

But if it's something you could suggest to the company you're working that they add to their lineup, then you really need to separate from it before pursuing this. And states have very strong and enforceable laws about using the customer lists of your old company (note this doesn't have to be codified in your employment agreement), I'd consult a law library and lawyer for that. And of course if you live outside of California you may have to wait a year or two for a non-compete to expire.
I have recently been using the latest webkit nightly for all of my debugging. It's developer inspector is getting fairly close to firebug in terms of useful-ness. There are a few instances where it can't quite jump into the code as well as firebug but its getting there.
I'm reminded of the scene in idiocracy where two of the morons actually get off their couches and meet. Their dialog went something like this:

"So what do you like?"

"I like eating and sex."

"Really? Me too!"

Apps like this seem to fit the idiocracy mold; striving to find the lowest common denominator of interest. What's next? Tracking our bowel movements? Places we've had diarrhea? Places we saw pretty girls?

In short, looks like a great idea. I'm happy to not be using it.
Yea I don't understand that either. Why is there middlemen when it costs nearly nothing to post a story?
"Why don't you open source everything else then ?"

Probably because the codebase is a steaming pile of crap.
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Ironic considering Google refuse to contribute the Android kernel code into the mainline kernel.
Why are the markers so evenly distributed across the map? There should be a much larger concentration of markers in places where population density (with Internet access) is high. For instance, there seems to be as much markers in Canada as in the US.

My guess is that most (read 99%) of the markers are fake. The map was most likely populated by the website owner.
I think Adobe is trying to negate a lot of bad press that they're getting in the techie community. It started with Jobs/Apple saying that they crash a lot and continued with all of our old complaints being dredged up.

Adobe claimed that they don't ship Flash Players with any known crashing bugs. They had a great blog post and it made at least me feel that maybe it wasn't their fault. Then the evidence is presented that they not only ship with known crashing bugs, but neglect to fix them for years.

Now comes the argument that they aren't allowed to open-source Flash because some of it is non-free. However, madars has already pointed out that Adobe has taken legal action over the RTMP protocol (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107585) and, similarly (although a tad dated) Rob Savoye of the Gnash (GNU Flash) project has said:

The Adobe EULA for Flash forbids anyone who has installed their Flash tools or plugin from working on Flash technologies. This has had a chilling effect on the development of free Flash players, since a developer must either choose to decide that Adobe won't sue them over this, or to do what Gnash does, which is a slow and inefficient, clean room, reverse engineering project.

Adobe has declined to comment on this issue, since the confusion benefits their lockin of the market. Although Adobe has said they support Open Source projects, and donated Tamarin to Mozilla, we'd love to see a public statement that Gnash developers won't be subject to a lawsuit. It's very difficult to find developers that have never installed the Adobe software ever, which is what we've been doing to maintain our clean room approach.

(http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/30)

Adobe's hasn't been given a lot of hassle over Flash for a long time. We've kind of accepted that it was free as in beer, ran on Linux (if poorly), etc. Now we're seeing that Flash could become the barrier to HTML5 and we're finally re-evaluating Adobe's patronage. We've found out that we don't want to be Adobe's ward - protected, well-fed, etc. We want to be able to live and innovate for ourselves.
If you've exceeded you free 1 article per month quota on ft.com, just register and you'll get 10 per month without having to pay them (these are the current limits for people in the US and every other country I checked besides the U.K. and are down from 3 and 17 respectively; see details at http://www.ft.com/cms/275bc334-3063-11dc-9a81-0000779fd2ac.h...).
Is it indicative of a larger trend of over-sharing? Don't know, and hard to say.

My perspective:

I was a military wife and homeschooling mom for many years. I am also medically handicapped, which used to limit me a lot more than it does now. So I spent a lot of time on the Internet, to have a social outlet, to get information to help me homeschool, to attend college online, etc. Then I got divorced and got a job -- my lifelong dream: To be Normal. Woohoo!! And I am shocked and appalled at the shallow relationships that pass for Deep And Meaningful at work and in other "normal" social settings. I am used to being able to have serious, in-depth conversations, whether with my grown sons or in some online forum. Most of what I discuss with people at work and other IRL settings is trivial and there isn't time or opportunity to get into anything more than that.

So it seems to me that people probably post stuff like this online because you can. It's not like you are likely to have a bulletin board up at work with this kind of info. It gives people a better idea of who they are and where they stand. Are they "normal"? Does their life look pretty good compared to that of other people? etc.

I think people crave intimacy and information, both of which seem largely taboo in most social settings. So it ends up on the Internet.
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"This way, they can charge customers twice for 3G wireless data: Once for the iPhone, and once for the iPad."

How braindead would a customer have to be to fall for that? Alternatively, the customer could just be super-rich and not care.
Isn't it 2^10=1024?

It is not important for the story, but there is some kilobyte sign missing :)
The first comment after the article, by Sh0rtWave has some good pro-Flash observations.
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That said, there are times when you want to price high enough to force the issue to the board.

Most importantly when the pain your product addresses becomes a corporation-wide priority. You want to get buy-in from the execs before your competitor does and knocks you out of a department level deal.
Yes. And there are reasons for decoupling certain classes of identifiers from the DNS. But, for many of the entities we deal with on a daily basis that is a useless bit of metacrap.

Dealing with metadata takes effort, for things that exist outside of the web that effort is worthwhile. For things that exist purely on the web, the URI is all the unique ID that is required, and if you need to move it to a different location in the namespace you can do so.

A web page or blog post is uniquely identified at a point in time by being retrievable from a URL. If at some later date that URL becomes nonfunctional or changes meaning that resource no longer exists. You can still refer to it by it's URI even though it is not retrievable using the URI as a URL.

I agree with you, it's just that unnecessary indirection offends my aesthetic sensibilities.
I think Java developers everywhere were happy that Sun opened up Java, but does anyone think it was a good business decision?
I think that android offers opportunities but still you are locking yourself in another vendor. What I plan to do to develop for mobiles is to have a common web interface accessible to all phones. Then you develop an app that is more enhanced that loads the site but also persists data using HTML5 and AJAX.
PS.I really hope that the Author doesn't clutter your android apps like your website.
I'm making one iPhone app in one week.
What are peoples views here on using Flash for rich internet applications? In particular, what do you think are the benefits of using Flash/Flex?

It seems to me that development for prototyping and proof of concept is cheaper and quicker in Flash/Flex and is still usable by a massive portion of internet users, even if it will not be in the future.
How else are they going to get 3G access?

AT&T is going to say, "sorry, we can't give you a micro-SIM, because your plan is for the iPhone" or "sorry, we can't give you a normal-SIM, your plan is for the iPad". End of story, as the 3G radios only work on AT&T's network.

My guess is that the 3G version is just not going to sell very well. It's super-expensive initially, and has a super-expensive monthly cost too.
I got a similar response on why Google Talk's standalone Win32 client can not be open sourced: because there's a GlobalIPSound module in it.

But still I think FlashPlayer/GoogleTalk can be open sourced, just leave the proprietary module as a stub, just like the Chromium without H.264 and Bookmark Sync.
This is not what I read at all. They just did a bookkeeping mistake, that prevented the fix from coming in the security releases, which I can only assume has a quick release cycle.

> The mistake we made was marking this bug for "next" release, which is the soon to be released Flash Player 10.1, instead of marking it for the next Flash Player 10 security dot release.
Keeps the hits on their server down while you're zooming in, though. Maybe the refresh button should just be more prominent after a zoom.
Is it possible to get the same data plan on multiple SIM cards?
Isn't it also possible that the next iPhone will have a micro SIM as well, and that Apple is simply going for (eventual) parity across their product line? I certainly think that interior space may well be at a premium in the next iPhone, necessitating the need for the smaller form factor.
I have been thinking about this last week. First I thought it was some sort of "conspiracy", to make us all buy new data plans. However, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense: Apple just always goes with the newest and latest. They have changed their display ports about 4 times over the last few years, as new standards erupted, while the old would have sufficed.
Why not do that for sim cards?
Also, it's not really an issue, as you can just cut your current sim to fit the iPad. I'm sure as soon as the iPad gets any traction, there will be tools for this, as well as cheap plastic adapters to fit the uSim in your current phone.
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Looks like a nice opportunity for someone to make a micro-sim to sim adapter. That can't be that hard, it's just a mechanical adaptation.

Manufacturers have used incompatibility to achieve business goals for the longest time, check out the print cartridges and the diagnosis plugs on european cars.

Now if apple would have come up with a proprietary sim card that would be (bad) news.

It's pretty clear they don't want you to use your Iphone voice plan on the Ipad anyway because it can't make voice calls.
"In fact, the whole problem is that the IPCC panels appear to have incorporated non-peer-reviewed papers in a few locations in the reports about impacts and mitigation."

There's no "appear" about it, they've been forced to admit it.

Saying they used garbage "in a few locations" severely understates the damage, e.g. they shouted from the rooftops that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 (which turned out to be a terrible mistake for them, since India had no choice but to take a rigorous look at their claims ... which the Indian head of the IPCC then claimed was "voodoo science", something he later had to apologize for).

Peer review "is not falling apart", but it's taken a severe body blow. No longer will anyone be taken seriously who stakes a claim on the basis that it was peer reviewed.
Anything Stonebreaker does is interesting, but I don't know enough about VoltDB to have anything to say. Definitely curious where it goes.
i'am also interested in knowing what a microcode is {wikipedia doesn't have much on this} what's it written in ?
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Thanks for the comment, but it's a red herring (http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redherrf.html). Whether the money comes from an angel or a VC or a bank or China or your dad, you still need to stop, think, and discuss before you do choose to take outside financing, under what terms, from whom, when, and why (three times). That's the point :)
Yeah, redis is pretty interesting.

I think we'd have to add some sort of client side caching on top of it so that we're not fetching the same objects over and over. Tend to saturate our network if we don't do that.

The other thing is that I think we'd have to add some sort of object migration so that when redis servers come up or go down we could re-balance where things are stored.
Well ... while The Lancet is in theory peer reviewed, it has had a very poor reputation for a long time. Anyone who takes what it publishes without a large grain of salt deserves what they get.

(Unfortunately in this case, by trashing herd immunity they've killed quite a few children with e.g. measles (yes, you can name names with a little Google fu).)
The chips these days use flash memory which can be written into like RAM chips, except these keep their contents without power.

In days of old, ROM chips would be mass produced with their contents literally hard wired as an intrinsic part of the chip layout.
If a large SIM can be cut with scissors and turned into a small SIM, the small SIM can be slid into an insert (purchased for a buck or two, or simply cut out of plastic or cardstock) and turned back into a big SIM.

I think it more likely that the sheer hassle of swapping out SIMs every time you want to switch devices (or take a phone call while using the iPad) will mitigate against doing this all the time. But there's no reason one couldn't do it.

I'm leaning toward the "buy a WiFi iPad and an optional MeFi box" option at the moment -- that way I keep my phone a phone, diversify my wireless options, and get WiFi for my laptop as well as the iPad. But I will need to do a bit more research and budgeting.
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It's interesting that everyone seems to accept "we can't make this open source because of H.264" from Adobe far more than they accept the opposite "we can't use H.264 because we're open source" from Mozilla.
Which assumes that, this time, the Peak Oil crowd is right.

I see no reason to give them any more credence than the last N times they've claimed this (my personal knowledge goes back only to the"Limits to Growth" '70s, but you can go back many more decades).
"I'm not the administrator on my own hardware (without jailbreaking)"

I'm an android user and definitely think Android is the better and more open choice, but this point is just as true on Android as it is on an iPhone. Getting root may be easier than jailbreaking; I've never jailbroken an iPhone, but the point is that even on Android hardware which you purchase directly (not subsidized by carriers), you're not the administrator on your own hardware.
They really are beginning to sound like a whining child trying desperately to get it's own way now, and all because Apple doesn't want anything interfering with their app store cash cow.
"You can't "own it"."

Well sure you can... you can patent it. In that case, making use of even an F/OSS implementation (such as x264) doesn't guarantee that you have not infringed upon MPEG LA's patents (where they are applicable/enforced).
Barely on the market and it's an iPad killer. I like the way you think.
Somehow it sounds like "Why I'm leaving Windows for Linux". j/k
Muggsy Bogues could learn to ride a horse pretty decently in a year or two...
I know you're kidding, but that's actually happened to us before. There are a large number of bugs in .NET's mail handling that, if you call Microsoft, they'll say they've fixed for an upcoming point release. And, to be honest, I do believe them, insofar as there is some repository, somewhere, where a programmer at MS checked in a fix. It just doesn't do a lot of good to you if you're trying to ship software now instead of next year.
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Precisely. The article has a strange inability to look forward in time.

I also wouldn't trust these journalists and their crack team of wild guessers to know for sure that space isn't a premium even in the iPad itself. You can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't judge the internals of a piece of modern portable electronics by squinting at the outer case. The engineers have to pack a lot of stuff into these devices, in a specific configuration, as well as leaving room for the next generation of stuff. (Does anybody doubt that the iPad will someday grow a camera? That it might someday need a CDMA multiplexer?) And the size of the SIM may well have ramifications: It affects the size of the access panel that leads to the SIM, for example. It also has to be placed in a spot on the motherboard that makes it easy to omit, since not all iPads will have a SIM, and such space may be at more of a premium than we think...
I suspect you are right. It totally makes sense:

* Audience of non-nerds.

* Potentially huge impact.

That is precisely what Google needs for Chrome right now.
(Warning, major simplifications here, and mostly from '80s knowledge of the field.)

Real microcode is below the level of assembly language. E.g. a horizontal microcode will potentially be controlling the function of each gate or sub-block in a microprocessor.

The clock frequency of a synchronous design is generally the time it takes to execute each microcode instruction. So one machine code op code may translate into several microcode operations to achieve the desired outcome.

Writing microcode is hard.
if you fire someone today and then hire someone else two years from now when things pick up, you've saved two years of salary/benefits over just keeping them on payroll through the downturn.

The problem with that thinking is that there are costs involved in laying someone off and hiring anew two years later. And you have paid those costs to get no productivity out of them. I read an article some years ago that indicated that one company which paid top salaries for its industry saved money by doing so because they spent so much less on the hiring process and on training, and also because of general quality of work and customer satisfaction, because their employees tended to stick around. I have also read that one company/industry which laid people off suffered 10 years down the road when they found they had no one in the pipeline to fill managerial positions as they came open. So the (potential) costs involved here are not just the salary involved.
Not true, you may have been thrown off by the fact that s orbitals are generally shown as spheres; but the radial extent (probability amplitude) of the wave function goes to zero for small radii, for all s orbitals, see http://www.chem.umass.edu/people/botch/Chem121F06/Chapters/C....

A classically-behaving point particle with the same charge as an electron would drop into the nucleus, but the wave nature of real electrons forbids it. Due to the uncertainty prinicple, there is a nonzero chance of finding the electron in the nucleus, but to say it is substantial is false.
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