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Most static pages still get pulled by hosting providers when faced with that kind of traffic. That might be what happened here, or the authorities could've asked them to pull it.
Agree, The way I see it is that if its a criminal act against the government it because terrorism. Had he been out to kill someone in that building it would have been a criminal act. This was terrorism.
I've been using it for a while, but it's nigh uselss to me. I can send and recieve SMS and get voicemail but, being in the UK, I can't do anything else. VOIP involving Google Talk would be the absolute charm.
I think it is interesting that the IRS treats certain workers differently:

"This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work."

(this was cited in the letter)
There are nice, clever and ethical people at Microsoft, some of them are very dear friends of mine. But ignoring the fact that some sub-criminal psychos ran the company for a large part of its history is remarkably naïve.
I suspect they were not legally obligated to take it down (without a court order or a National Security Letter, anyway). But they also, of course, had no obligation to keep it up. I'd probably take it down if I worked there.
And write a shorter rant.
Different administrations have different policies. My issue is the contradiction between this event and the Christmas underpants bomber. The only excuse I can come up with is that it would be politically impossible to not call that one terrorism.
I could understand for dynamic pages, but static? Do they think they are getting attacked?
if the guy's name was Mohammed instead of Joe... think people would say, 'awww, that's just a patriotic guy standing up for his right to not pay taxes'?
I consider myself a power-user of this app and make heavy use of nearly all the features. My girlfriend (non-technical) also is able to use Google Voice with ease.

Custom voice mails for specific callers make my day when she sets up a special message just for me.
I assure you that your counter examples of an ebook, web app subscription, or top 10 iPhone app do not have a zero cost.

Since when is anyone's time free? Good books are not written overnight, and neither are top 10 iPhone apps. Good web apps have similarly thousands of man hours of coding behind them.
Would you be so quick to assume the terrorism label if he hadn't used an airplane to commit his crime? I do think that's going to color a lot of people's perception of this wording issue.

I suspect they don't believe the term applies because he didn't claim to be acting on the part of an organized group or even a very specific ideology. His note made it pretty clear he thought of himself as some kind of lone warrior for justice.
I remember suggesting this idea way back when I was an intern with them a few years ago. While I doubt this is a result of that (I was merely a lowly intern-peon, and I doubt that the right people heard me).
According to the FBI terrorism is:
"Domestic terrorism refers to activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state; appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."

Flying a plane into the IRS building would certainly fall into that definition.

Link: http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terror2000_2001.htm
Initial reports said it was stolen, actually, but it seems they've taken that back.
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thats what they had said earlier I guess it has changed.
If you haven't seen the article below, it is a great resource to forward on to your brother. To quote it:

For the background part, I like to see what someone has done.

Not been involved in, or been part of, or watched happen, or was hanging around when it happened.

I look for something you've done, either in a job or (often better yet) outside of a job.

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Upgrade your Idea skill into Design and you'll be worth something.

Anybody can come up with an idea, many less can design how that idea will be executed.
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Your assertion that the housing bubble was quote "government fuelled" is not obscure or expert knowledge -- and it's certainly not a fact, it's an opinion propagated primarily by those with material or ideological incentive to blame the crisis on quote "government".

A systemwide financial meltdown of the sort that we avoided would most likely have put your employer in danger. I don't know your business well enough to say for sure, but I think most people would agree that it's a reasonable assumption.
Oh. I had the impression that gconf only dealt with Gnome's internal "registry".
This is user settings, so it shouldn't go in /etc. But some where in ~\

And then gconf is text-based and scriptable and standarized (xml)
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did you actually read it or just skim it?

It made perfect sense to me. I see exactly where he is coming from, and why he did what he did. I have been wondering how long until someone did something like this. I would bet this will be the first of many things similar, where people start to rebel against the government. The less violent the better however.
iPhone apps are compiled down to ARM machine code.

.NET managed code is bytecode for the CLR virtual machine.

That's a significant difference.
huh? Is that a joke about the predisposition for strong men in latin america, who often have devalued currencies? Many, many countries have experienced extreme inflation. Even the US in the 70s and early 80s was pretty extreme. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...
Here's a little bit of background about that provision:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/25870.html
It was not stolen.
Sounds like someone in school administration sat in on the highschool students' reading of 1984 and picked up a few ideas.
Will this make it possible to have multiple portable installations of dropbox linked to separate accounts for cheap misers (like me) to have more than 2GB of free storage?

(Note, don't actually want dropbox to lose money because of this and hope that they will see this and fix the installer appropriately)
Shortened URLs are already suspicious and frightening, but these are amusing at the same time!
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Spam. Page has a blurb about the generic advantages of SaaS that looks like it came from the Wikipedia entry of SaaS. Company sells IT consulting services.

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Does it matter what his name was, or where he's from? This sure seems like an act of terrorism to me.
Maybe. But there are probably all sorts of annoying details to deal with.
For example, the pagination of the document could change, and so that would lead to further editing to fix it. Then how does line-breaking work during that editing phase, or in general after applying the menu item?

I don’t actually use a WYSIWYG editor any more, so I’ll leave my speculation there.
Interesting ideas - I was trying to think about creative but still useful SEO techniques... something Yelp-like. This might be it.
Why is it terrorism? Are you now living in terror that it will happen again?
to quote bruce schneier:

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.

this guy wasn't a terrorist. he wasn't trying to inflict terror on anyone, he was pissed off at a specific target (the IRS) and took out his anger on that specific target.
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What I meant was that they have a single fixed cost (which may actually be very small) and the cost to manufacture an infinite number of them is near zero, despite charging a pretty penny for each one.
Huh? Why not just use web access?

Isn't a thumbdrive something dropbox hoped to get rit of?
I meant user apps. Servers don't need unified storage that much and they don't belong to user accounts really. Ok, so skipping server stuff (and remembering that the question is "examples of what it cannot do"):

Skype is not really a part of the linux environment... they do what they want and they would probably prefer to just port the windows solution, but I don't see anything they could not store in gconf.

Sound settings - gnome-volume-control uses it, same with gnome-sound-recorder, gstreamer too - sound server itself is system-wide, so it doesn't have place in gconf.

Vim uses scripts, same as Irssi, so fair enough it cannot be done

Firefox could use gconf - it just needs a key=value set.

Apache, postfix, wifi, sound daemons - those are servers/system-wide providers... From the project site: "GConf is a system for storing application preferences. It is intended for user preferences; not configuration of something like Apache, or arbitrary data storage." But I think I lost the main point somewhere - here it is: of course you cannot do everything in gconf (scripts), but most of the app preferences fit this model perfectly - and many of them do use gconf - just check the list of apps using it on your system.
Direct link to the referenced article, print version (I should have posted this): http://hplusmagazine.com/print/1093
Ah, another input method I hadn't thought of. Thanks, will consider.
Actually, the repayment only includes money that was directly loaned to Goldman. Everyone forgets about AIG, who paid their counterparties (which included GS) 100 cents on the dollar for what are probably worthless assets. Since AIG will likely never repay the full amount of its bailout, we as taxpayers effectively subsidized all the crappy bets taken by the major financial institutions.
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The most common definition of is usually along the lines of the one I found on google [http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&...].

> Terrorism is the use of violence, especially murder and bombing, in order to achieve political aims or to force a government to do something.

This was a single, possibly mentally unstable, man crashing a plane into a building. He may have thought he was trying to achieve something politically or to force the government to do something, but without any larger organization behind him it seems silly to label this as a domestic terrorist attack. It's giving the guy far more credit than he deserves.
Haven't looked for wine, but for beer the concept exists:

http://beerriot.com/

Apparently I haven't rated enough beers to get recommendations yet... but perhaps if a bunch of HN people sign up and add their own likes/dislikes, it'll have enough data to get started.

Also might be of interest that this is by one of the Basho (Riak / Webmachine / Erlang_JS / etc) developers (and a friend of mine):

http://blog.beerriot.com/
OK, technically it is different. In practice, it isn't. If you want to build on the iPhone, the SDK gives you an API to use the phone's features. If you want to program against WPS7 you're getting a version of Silverlight with APIs to give you access to the phones features. Both are abstractions over a lower-level. Both are native to the phone (as opposed to web apps, which is the common distinction made on the iPhone).
a Mac Mini won't run this well. iMac would though.
I take it you are not familiar with "Build and Analyze" in XCode.
I don't think there's any way at all to share the whole registry file even in the same endian machine. It wouldn't fly anyway since it's very machine specific.

The way you'll share parts of the registry will be using .reg files, those are just plain text so could easily be read anywhere.
Egad. Cost to produce = (Fixed cost / total units) + marginal cost. That's why design-heavy items like software, music, books start out expensive and get cheaper over time as the fixed cost is amortized, while "manufactured" items like cars or wine are heavily dependent on marginal cost of each item.

For items where the cost per unit is dependent on marginal cost of each item, it's 'fair' or 'efficient' if it is priced with a reasonable markup over the marginal cost. Whether high prices that pay for marketing are justifiable is a different discussion, because the heavily marketed product is arguable more valuable to the customer because they don't have to take the time to discover it.
Put away your pitchfork and torch. I was responding to the GP's assertion that "screeds" and "polemics" are "valuable". My point isn't really changed by what other people think of the article.
Well the fact is that every time something like this happens there's a huge media splash about it, it's analyzed to pieces, and (as far as I'm aware) there's almost never copycats of the same magnitude or scope.

If you're looking to take some kind of memorable action to get people to notice you, probably the least effective way is to do the same thing someone else just did.
So your point is that avoiding danger is pointless, because once danger kills you, you don't care?

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That's interesting to see from an administrator point of view, but also quite disturbing.

The school I go to now has a similar program (Macbooks for every student), and the Remote Desktop program is used on our laptops as well. It used to be a serious point of contention between the administration and the students. A large number of students actually covered up the webcams on their computer with tape or similar to stop people from watching them.

In theory, the requirements for monitoring were that every once in a while, everyone's computer would have its desktop monitored without their knowledge. If they were doing anything that they weren't supposed to (e.g. on Facebook (via proxies), or looking at porn) Photo Booth, the webcam application, would be opened and a screenshot would be taken, capturing both the offending behavior and the offender.

I know that on a computer provided by the school, any preconception of privacy should be abandoned, but it still seems like a bit much. It seems to me that simply logging activity and then punishing the student after it had been reviewed would be easier and more transparent.
> Finally, it's not clear at all who is seeing what.

And when people went and figured it out, they have clearly said that they did not consent to that (or at least intend to consent)...which is the problem.
I would like to be able to use an iPad at college for class notes and drawings. As well as this while im jotting the lesson is being recorded with the built in mic or a bluetooth one.

It would be nice to be able to group the notes to a Lesson name say 'Maths', 'IT' so you can have more than one and then the dates with a title of your choice (Lesson name). The ability to export the notes as an image and the recorded lesson for review.

This would then allow me to stop using paper in class and if I miss what the teacher said I can review with the recorded audio.

Does that sound any good. MD
Oh yeah, more anti-Flash karma tax. Thanks, HTML5 fanatics.
I think he has a point about the sloppiness and unresponsiveness of the government -- although the sloppiness and unresponsiveness of a large, bureaucratic organization hardly justifies carrying out his own miniature September 11th! Doubly painful in that the people he killed probably liked the IRS no more than he did -- few workers in government bureaucracy _enjoy_ what they have to put up with...

Killing others and committing suicide are both very serious matters, so I hate to say this, but his rant on the IRS reminded me of nothing so much as Timecube. What have we done wrong in this society, that we get people like this, especially the deadly ones? I don't think it's a political, moral, or social-outlook problem; but I hardly know what it is. A more honest and competent government would have removed this man's particular grievance, but it wouldn't have fixed the root problem; someone in his mental state is probably going to find something to be aggrieved with regardless...
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This is false. All the Earth's crust occupies less than 1% of Earth's volume, and it is formed by the lighter rocks. And oil is only a very little part of it.

Technically the moment of inertia change, but the effect is very small and impossible to measure.
Usually by the enemies of the banks, though. It's at best propaganda for the other side, if at all.
Didn't Edison say that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? I think he's right.

I get cool ideas for things to do every day, probably enough to fill a few man years. I've got to filter that stream down to a very small list that fits my available time and resources. Since I've got a long backlog of my own ideas, I'm not all that interested in develop other people's ideas -- unless they're writing me a good paycheck.

People's time in evaluating your ideas isn't free; turning one of your ideas into a rough estimate of the resources needed to execute it, and of potential market prospects, can be hours or days of work.

One of my big complaints about X-Forge and X-Hub open source sites is that they encourage people to put out huge volumes of software out there without documentation, marketing materials, or even an elevator pitch that explains what the software does. I suppose some of that software could save me a lot of development time, but I know I could spend hours a day downloading, compiling and testing software that I'll never use... So I don't, not unless the people put some effort into marketing the project and explaining why I should care.

The 'math deficiency' particularly concerns me, largely because of what I experienced when I used to teach Physics. One of the most common things I'd hear from the C-and-under students was "I understand the concepts, but I can't solve the problems." Well, helping the student was a process much like debugging an expert system: and inevitably, along the way, I'd discover what the student had in his 'knowledge base' and find that he didn't understand the concepts at all.

I've got a superpower which may be similar to what you've got: I can research a topic for a shockingly little amount of time (sometimes even 20 minutes) and impersonate an expert.

I've given talks at conferences on all sorts of subjects -- if I had 3 days to prepare, I could be a stand-in for any speaker at TED and pretty much get away with it. That's despite being (historically) two standard deviations below the mean on appearance and many other skills related to presentation. I'm just really good at attacking a body of literature, building a knowledge base, and telling stories about it.

That's a skill that kept me out of academia, despite my PhD, because it calls the whole system into question: why do you need to give people tenure and put them through so much training when this guy can come in and 'pass' for one of them.

What am I doing about it? First, I'm targeting those areas where my interpersonal skills are weak. Second, I'm working on breaking down my narrative reprocessing skills into something a computer can do, to create something like an 'amateur system.'

Now excuse me while I go execute my idea...
A large portion of the bottled water sold (2/3? can't find source) comes from municipal tap water sources.

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On the same note, in Montreal, you guys are missing the SAT (http://www.sat.qc.ca/). Also, most of the gigs from ILoveNeon/HighFood http://iloveneon.ca/ are missing.
Haha - I wouldn't complain... I've got a few ideas around SEO and a few more popped up here, so I'll see what I can do to make the site easy to find with Google again later on.
I think this is a great example of what pg wrote about in "The Power of the Marginal".

Link: http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html

I aslo like the quote from the article:

“There’s alternate ways of growing food,” he said. “I don’t want to push it down people’s throats, but if someone’s interested, I’d like to show them you can do this with cheap parts and a little bit of Yankee ingenuity.”
Nothing like the one I got: http://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_s4a9_b00bs

Now that is scary.
It made perfect sense to you? Did we read a different note or something? The one I read seemed to ramble and drift and eventually lose the thread of logic by the end. I saw no great injustice perpetrated that necessitated the need to fly a plane into a building.
Dunno where you're from, but I've never seen government-sponsored software that actually worked properly.

(I remember reading the unemployment insurance website for Illinois once... it only works in IE. Error page: http://www.ides.state.il.us/idclaim/alert.asp )
Good point, he could have used a truck filled with fertilizer!
"I believe in intelligence over populism, capitalism over socialism, and correctness over incorrectness."

What's happening in the financial industry at the moment is definitely not capitalism.
He sounds more like someone with a "If I can do it under the law, it must be perfectly moral to do it" sort of personality.
By that definition there are pretty much no terrorists, anywhere.

I'm not in a state of terror about Osama, are you?
The student the OP mentioned was given a laptop by the school. I fail to see how a _second_ laptop is anything other than a luxury.

I take exception to the implication that the student's parents are stupid for not seeing the _obvious_ need for a _second_ laptop.
The mention of the specific use case is helpful. I assume you'd want as output not only the time, but also the corresponding date.

I want to think carefully about how to add dates because I'm trying to keep it simple and quick.