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Sometimes they don't even bother having you sign up. I had a bottle of this crap show up in my mailbox about a year ago indicating that I had two weeks to cancel my subscription before they started charging me. However, I had never even heard of them before, and I certainly didn't order them.

I changed my credit card numbers, just in case they had somehow hijacked the numbers from an online store. (I know I could have disputed any charges, but it's easier to avoid them in the first place, as far as I'm concerned.) Just for kicks, I went to a public phone to call them and see what kind of scam they were running. When I called them, the automated system said to enter your 16-digit credit card number to reference your order. /facepalm At this point, I figured it was time to get the authorities involved.

I contacted the California Attorney General's office, and they have apparently seen a spike in this sort of scam. I wrote a letter back to the company telling them to fsck off with a copy of the letters and responses from the Attorney General's office. Thankfully, I've had no further contact.
It's so sad that we, our society, haven't figured out how to put a stop to obvious injustice such as this. To think of all the people who must spend collective lifetimes locked away by abuses of power, and yet we seem powerless to put a stop to it. Fear takes it's toll on society exercised in ways such as lax oversight of law enforcement, demeaning and abusive behavior tolerated among our border guards towards pretty much all people depending on the mood that day, unwillingness to reform a prosecutorial and judicial system that is politically compromised into the cat and mouse game of the reds against blues, a game where the unwitting losers end up in prison or worse.

:(
Like most living systems, Jellyfishes are self organizing systems. But the difference is that a jellyfish is quite minimalistic in structure and their neural system is simple too. And most certainly, it lacks emotions of any kind.

That is what amazes me about jellyfishes: a very, very simple system genetically programmed to for reproduction lacking any "purpose". And, now they say it can even go back to its proto stage. Wow, evolution is fascinating.
All this fun fiddling around to do what is, on the surface, "simple" math brought back happy memories of reading about the "Carmack" approach of doing inverse square roots in C: http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas... as found at Hacker News about 18 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166
I suspect it's because the wall is very twisty. Or wikipedia is incorrect about the wall's length :)
Are they really still calling him that?
I moved the buttons around, so hopefully it is a little more clear how to control the items ('Something bigger' replaces the top item, 'Something smaller' replaces the bottom item).
You would think.

I took a course at Caltech named Philosophy of Science, and we spent weeks discussing what a "law of nature" is.

I think the article title is incorrect though. The law wasn't broken (that'd make sense if it was a legal system law), the law had been disproved, perhaps.
Neat concept - and it looks like it could work in IE8+ (with some code changes) and everything else.

One thing which may speed it up over many iterations is not setting the var fn and instead doing:

timeouts.shift()();
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I wonder if this kind of immortality would be that great. Most of my
motivations to do things now come from the time limit factor. If I
were immortal with unlimited memory, I think I'd just procrastinate and continue to postpone
all the tasks I have to accomplish just because I can.
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Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents
Not in the list but my vote (on the funny, rather than educational front) goes to Monzy (http://www.monzy.com/) with So Much Drama in the PhD. He even did a gig at Stanford! Audio on YouTube: http://youtu.be/JimUMZTiAjo

MC Plus Plus (http://www.mcplusplus.com/) is good in the nerdcore rap scene too.
I wonder if different types of apps are suited to different frameworks. Is Cappuccino robust enough to recreate most desktop apps on the web?
Dang, getting a review is tough.
I had read it before, and with the year I would not have re-read it.
I knew a lot of these types of drug dealers when I was that age in the mid 90s. It's mind boggling that they got so big so fast. It starts to get pretty dangerous by the time you're moving just a couple thousand a week, first from gangs, but then from the DEA. They're lucky they didn't get killed.
I think you guys would both agree that the "laws" of nature are descriptive as opposed to prescriptive.
Most detractors don't want to know that this world exists and sure as hell don't want to have anything to do with it.

I just can't relate to it at all. It isn't so much that I don't want to hear it exists as I don't know how to believe it exists. To me it sounds like a culture self inflicting damage. I've looked a little for something I really like in hip-hop, but can't find anything I really like. Radio hip-hop causes me discomfort. I don't like t-pain (how I wish for the death of auto-tune). I can't listen to lyrical music without listening to the lyrics and I can't relate to hip-hop. (Actually I really like Lupe Fiasco, don't always relate, but with him it's okay.)

Also, ob-la-di-ob-la-da isn't non-sensical in the same way 'my sharona' is. It's a non-sense phrase that gives weight to the light hearted music and simple message of "life goes on" leaving the listener to imply the 'just keep going's and 'life is good's.
Any reason not to help gcc generate the good code by default?
Not X programs.
The overhead of setting the var is negligible compared with the other things happening in the event loop.
No other language seems to want to steal from Perl, because "it's Perl"

It's funny you say that, because Matz, Ruby's creator, has openly said he modeled many parts of ruby after Perl, including my beloved -n CLI switch.
I'd hardly consider binary patching to be "brute force". Definitely unconventional, but clever and very, very cool.
Which bash do you use? I get the "batch job" message about half the times I ctrl-D a Cygwin bash.
haven't figured out how to put a stop to obvious injustice such as this

Actually, we have. It's called jury nullification. This jury did not want to nullify; 12 ordinary people agreed to support this law. This is as fair as it gets.

It is a dumb law, though, in my opinion.
Keeping a journal probably wouldn't help. Take the case of Clive Wearing, who developed anterograde amnesia after a bout of encephalitis. He can conduct an orchestra, but he can't remember what he did 10 minutes before.

He keeps a journal. It's a timestamped log of him saying that he's "finally awake" over and over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

In addition to robbing you of your past, amnesia makes the future unknowable. Amnesia traps you perpetually in the present with no way of improving it.
Strictness and obnoxiousness are orthogonal.
Very impressive how resilient society is, if you combine this article with the current economic recovery. The sheer number of checks and balances keeps it going.
As with any threat to the Establishment, you have to be discreet. Of course the Establishment is going to get upset when you take an end-run around their procedures. So don't tell anyone you are doing it; convince the other jurors with facts from the trial, and if they can't be convinced, you can always hang.

(Remember, it cuts both ways. Nullification can prevent unfair laws from being applied. But nullification can also let the white supremecist go free for lynching a black man, if another racist is on the jury. This would be a horrifying miscarriage of justice and would put society in danger, so it makes sense that there are safeguards that help prevent this situation.)
It's strange. I remember jury nullification from my Constitution class, which is required to get a high school diploma in the US. Actually, it may have been required to graduate from middle school.

Do people really forget stuff like this?
Basically, jazz musicians were replaced by DJs.

At some point, house parties didn't invite a piano player. At some point you could just have someone "putting on some records" for people to dance to at a wedding reception or big event. At some point musically-inclined kids started getting turntables instead of a trumpet.

Good times and jazz used to be in the same places, but by now they only see each other on special occasions. Too bad, because jazz was made for good times and it's not the same otherwise.
really?

Wasn't the case that they audited their suppliers and remedied the issue of children working for them.

Apple are gaining lots of black marks in my book - but I think they don't deserve the crap they've taken from the kids working issue.
A fascinating story, but singularly disheartening. One of the main characters regrets nothing of leading a life of crime, and the author is willing to give him the final say. This is moral laxity. He plays up the drama to the point where the story is entertainment, and therefore transmits nothing.

Let me write my own end then: some people will never regret their evil actions, even if they are caught. These people should be avoided because ruin travels closely on their heels.
That is what I would do. Sure, arrest me. Then my rights are well-established, and if my rights are compromised, the penalties imposed on the police are severe. (In the US, anyway.)
What? Why does something have to be perfect for somebody to get angry over it?
Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that since Obama took office, things have gotten a lot better. Every immigration agent I have met over the last year (ORD and BOS) has been quite pleasant, which has not been my experience in the past.

I was even searched by customs once, and the guy was quite nice, even though I pushed back a little bit. (Honestly, I was kind of hoping to be arrested for not revealing my crypto password. But the agent didn't seem to care much; a quick inspection of my backpack and a bit of conversation about ebook readers, and I was on my way.)

Maybe I am lucky, or maybe things are getting better. I hope it's the second one!
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I've grown increasingly annoyed with Thom over the last two years. The man is an ego-maniac.

The problem is that there's no standard codec for HTML5. The main contestants are H264 and Theora, and so far, it seems like on the browser side of things, Theora is winning out; with a Theora video you can cover Firefox, Chrome, and Opera users - whereas with H264 you miss out on Firefox and Opera users. Since Firefox is by far the largest HTML5 browser, encoding your video in H264 alone is shooting yourself in the foot.

Theora isn't in any position remotely favourable. And definitely not "winning out".

It helps that H264-specific chips are available on just about any mobile device, whereas Theora (or other possible patent-free contestants, like Dirac) does not have this luxury.

Dedicated mobile hardware is a necessity, not a luxury, not until li-ion batteries are superseded by a new breed of whatever with 10 times the charge.
To be fair, that clause of the JSLint license is idiotic.
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Which is exactly why the crimes are so loosely defined. The prosecutor loads up a defendant with every conceivable charge, in the expectation that they'll plead guilty to avoid an absurdly long sentence. Only the bravest, most foolish, or truly innocent will risk a jury trial. Plea bargaining is illegal in some countries for this reason.
Convertible notes are very company-friendly and institutional angels will use valuation caps to balance the risk more in their favor. Since the caps are really best guesses of what future valuation might be, they don't affect stock pricing for the company going forward (a reasonable explanation of how they work can be found here: http://www.spartina.com/items/20685-convertible-note-cap) and so the valuation question actually does get deferred in a legal sense.

In the deals we do, I tell founders to avoid using caps and they tend not to be used since they create complications for the downstream funding by working to give unduly steep discounts from actual Series A valuation in some cases.

Surprisingly, however, the issue usually doesn't even come up in most cases because it is the institutional angels who will tend to insist on caps and my clients normally avoid such angels, preferring instead to work with the "successful entrepreneur" wealthy individual type of angel (who will either be fine with using convertible notes without caps or, if he insists on putting a value on the investment, will just push for a straight Series A investment - again, if done on "friendly" terms, which these easily can be in such cases, the cost associated with the investment might be $5K or so, thereby not constituting any serious drain on, say, what is typically a $200K investment or so).
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And this would be completely unnecessary if the JS code didn't run in the UI thread or in connection with the page (via user events). The reason to split up work and play with setTimeout() and friends is to avoid UI/page lock-ups or triggering the script max run timeout.

It's effectively co-operative multitasking where I trust the responsiveness of my browser to some random web coder.
I think part of this is culture. I grew up in North America, and when I visited the Philippines later in life, and went to watch shows in concert or in clubs, I was shocked at first because the audience would, without fail, applaud or cheer when the singer would sing the first line of the song. On account of my western upbringing (especially with regard to classical music), I was somewhat scandalized, and almost felt upset at my fellow audience members. I soon learned that, in doing so, they did not intend any disrespect, either to the performer or the rest of the audience, but rather were showing their support, appreciation and enjoyment of the musician's offering. A sort of "two-way" concert experience.

I suppose that, if most of the audience wants silence, it's respectful to keep silent during performances. At the same time, if most of the audience isn't concerned about that, I suppose it isn't that big a deal?
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A heavy-handed IP process does not necessarily help user experience and product quality. In fact, in the Eclipse community, it can demonstrate the opposite effect.

Because of licensing issues, Eclipse.org won't host the plugins you need to install Subversion support in the IDE. Recent releases of Subversive try to remedy this with a pop-up dialog to download & install the connector plugin when you first try to connect to a repository, but it's a different process, it looks and feels different to the user than normal feature installation, and if it fails for some reason, you'll have to start googling.

The smaller members of the Eclipse community should be able to manage their own IP risk without having to adopt the extremely conservative risk tolerance of IBM, government agencies, very large companies, etc. I think there is definitely a need to support the conservatives, but it shouldn't be at the expense of innovators and early adopters.

How can a community strike this kind of balance?
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Why Starbucks? I don't think I've ever seen them selling cigarettes, but I don't smoke so I may have just not noticed.
Please elaborate on (support) your assertion that jazz songwriting and soloing is lazy.
We see patterns in the universe and label them "laws". Is it because the universe is by nature patterned, or is it because our limited minds, in trying to understand knowledge so vast, has to resort to patterns as a heuristic to approximate the universe?
Dealing marijuana doesn't make you an evil person. You should reconsider what you believe to be a "life of crime". He took advantage of a system that doesn't work (marijuana prohibition) and got rich for it.

Laws against marijuana don't make sense. Millions of people are incarcerated for simple possession. Prohibition simply raises the profit margins for it, pushing dealing to organized crime, and eventually violence.

Who in the story was hurt by marijuana directly? No one. No one was evil for dealing drugs, just young and stupid.
I twitch every time I see a site using the Sun favicon. It's less and less these days, but my bank still hasn't fixed theirs...
Coffee and weed ala Amsterdam cafe's.
The button layout is as far from the Mac layout, as it is from BeOS. It's a new layout, with unprecedented degree of unfortunate in it. The placement of the control group, the spacing, the visuals, and the proximity to other critical controls makes it nearly unusable.

OS X controls are nothing like this.
I suspected so, but I thought I'd throw that in anyway (who knows - maybe it would matter on IE). I prefer not setting variables if they're unneeded regardless.
This writing is kind of silly. It goes from waffling May Have Broken a Law of Nature in the title to the definitive a law of nature had been broken in the first paragraph.

(I'm not a physicist, so I may be making an ass of myself. But...) If it was already demonstrated back in the 50's that the weak force violated the parity law, then it's not much of a law, is it? Tune in next week when law enforcement agents from the Dept. of Nature identify Zaphod Beeblebrox as a "person of interest".
Chores like this are a good time for multitasking. You can sit and stare out the window and think, or you can walk to the store and buy office supplies and think. In the second case, you've done two things at once; spent some time thinking, and got your office supplies.

My apartment is very clean because I like to do something while I am thinking. Cleaning involves no thought on its own, and it's nice to not see any messes. For me anyway.
I think that you should refrain from calling them "evil actions." He was just a pot dealer/smuggler that got rich, then got caught because a rival 'kingpin' decided to escalate things to the next level. If anything it was the guy that escalated things (and ended up dead) that should be pointed to as the 'evil' one as well as the guys that he hired to hit his rivals.

If they had moved into dealing harder drugs, I might agree with calling their actions 'evil,' but not much comes out of pot other than a possible psychological addition.

> One of the main characters regrets nothing of leading a life of crime, and the author is willing to give him the final say. This is moral laxity.

You're also reading an article written for Rolling Stone magazine. Have you never heard the term "Sex, Drugs and Rock'n Roll?" Is it any wonder the tone of the article? I don't turn on Fox News and expect to hear things with a liberal slant to them.

You also seem to be falling into the trap of reading an article that has a spin on it that is the opposite of your own principles and wishing the article author to write the article with a spin on it that you approve of. Shouldn't we just be looking for journalism that has no (or little) bias in it rather than arguing which is the correct bias to use?

{update} As an addendum, do you consider the people that ran illegal alcohol operations during Prohibition to be evil people? What about the people that run/ran legal alcohol operations after Prohibition? Does your definition of 'evil' come down to "what the government deems to be legal/illegal?"
They might not have even realized they could choose not to support the law, with impunity. Jurors are often given demands like "you are bound by the oath that you took at the beginning of the trial to follow the instructions that I give you, even if you personally disagree with them" that lack any constitutional basis, and the judiciary does its utmost to prevent jurors from even hearing that nullification is possible (much less any arguments in favor).
Like the author says it will be cool to upload encrypted data to the cloud for computation without worrying about the data being compromised but it will be a while before enough people learn the math to start working on practical implementations.
Frankly, despite him teaming up with Schwarznegger, I don't think he really cares about other people anyway (the only reason he cares in this case is because he experienced it). He's just another business man which for some reason gets praised.

There is very little evidence that he donates or helps the needy (one article can be found from http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/0... ) and he seems more concerned with his companies image than anything else.

It seems that the guy can barely breathe without the media twittering it to us. I really don't think we should be placing him on a pedestal for being nice. He really doesn't do much...
I feel that this piece plays with contradicting ideologies. It pushes a left-wing agenda of "more government" as a way of protecting "vulnerable" poor people (who are made out to be stupid enough to need protecting by "corporations, governments, and nonprofits") while suggesting a comparatively right-wing solution:

Rather than viewing the poor primarily as consumers, people interested in economic development should approach the poor as producers. The best way to alleviate poverty is to raise the real income of the poor by creating opportunities for steady employment at reasonable wages.

Great idea, and corporations have done this for years. But who defines "reasonable wages?" Leftist policies on workplace regulations (including minimum wages and time limits) make it harder to employ "poor people." (Note: I'm only using this article's terminology for simplicity. "poor" is a silly term, IMHO.)

If you can employ a qualified, capable worker for minimum wage (and right now, this is easy), why would you employ someone who is "poor"? If the "poor" worker is as ill-equipped as this article suggests, he is likely to be less productive - yet if you can't pay under the minimum wage, you may as well not hire him. If you do hire him, if he is so stupid, you are more likely to need to fire him - resulting in higher costs, potential increases in unemployment insurance, and more.

Since leftist regulations (which I am partially in support of) have caused "poor" people to be too expensive to employ, corporations instead outsource a lot of labor intensive tasks to countries where it's cheap enough for outsource companies to hire the really poor (with the lack of workplace protections and regulations to boot). This leaves our poor even poorer, all for want of getting rid of a few regulations.
Democracy is a damping utility: it pretty much guarantees that nobody too horrible will damage the country or organization but it also pretty much guarantees that nobody really good still can't make appropriate progress easily. Democracy is kind of the safe, average choice of how to rule a group of people.

A good dictator would be really effective and could do tremendous amount of good. The downside is that generally in a dictatorship, the ruler could also be an evil dictator and cause lots of damage.

In business, the owner is the dictator but luckily, he can only crash his own company, and people are voluntarily employed by him. Dictating what the company must do is often called the leader's vision.

If the vision is any good, the company will thrive. If it's bad, it will go down under.

However, if it's about the damn close button, we can only watch how it goes since Mr Shuttleworth has the final say and he will go up or down by his decisions. I don't understand peoples' moaning either: the buttons in Metacity are configurable and even if they weren't, people are not so stupid that if they want to use Ubuntu in the first place it would all break down because they can't close the damn windows.
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