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"SB102-002 TITLE: Handheld Apps for Warfighters"

Just a few days ago while playing battlefield:bc2* i was thinking how easy could it be to build a military tactical support application running on commercial smartphones.
Issues related to network/gps availability in a war scenario could render it completely useless but, how hard could it be to built something that provides GPS tracking with position sharing a la latitude + objectives highlighting/enemy pinpointing or the ability to store and retrieve basic objectives description (info on map)? Collect various data (collected directly from the usual device sensors or from some external peripheral connected to it) from this devices and present it in some tactical "management" overall view should be quite straightforward too.

Maybe it's too easy to build and the cost to implement it per soldier is too low too... this makes me think of that 50$ application that was used to intercept UAV video feeds... scary scenarios ahead.

* Every player has obviously a map view, can view other players in his squad and pinpoint enemy locations.
They really only need to show one thing, the Google translate extension. I have it set to automatic now and I often don't even realize I'm looking at a page that's not originally in English. That's some serious Star Trek universal translator business going on right there.
Some do, some don't: there wouldn't be any airlines in business if it wasn't extremely profitable. All that post 9/11 "we're going out of business!%!%#@!!" madness was mostly a TARP-style bail out quest.

The reason you see so many commercials on TV for travel-related sites such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Priceline, etc., is because the margins and volumes are so large.
I hope they "acquire" shared hosting that doesn't go down every 8 minutes. They advertise robustness ("designed to handle large spikes of traffic with ease") but then some networking problem on their end, unrelated to traffic, causes all your sites to go offline anyway.

Of course, I'm just being snarky — every host has their share of problems, and the customer service with MT is the best I've ever experienced. This is good news – they do some cool stuff: http://mediatemple.net/labs/ (virtualized Xserve hosting? Neat.)
Which South American country exactly would you move to that is both better governed and less taxed? I don't think the author has visited many SA countries.

That's not to say that there are no reasons to move to South America, just that you don't go there for the model governance, wonderful taxation scheme, or regime/economic stability.
Well it is after all a city largely driven by the finance sector.
Until you get to multiple-word anagrammatic phrases, when it becomes a search problem.

(You could index a list of phrases the same way, but users wouldn't be able to type in their name and find out what phrases it jumbles into.)
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I think it's bad aesthetics. There must be ways to make bills similarly difficult to counterfeit while still having designs that don't look like they were designed by a committee of blind bureaucrats.
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I will argue that looking good is subjective because their form factor looks a lot like a big sidekick which has been around since 2002. As for good hardware, they have the same hardware as Nexus One which has been available since the beginning of this year.

To draw your analogy, its like two cars being released 4 months apart, the new one looks hideously ugly with same speed as the old one - but getting raving positive reviews (without anyone even touching or driving it).

I am pretty confident that these are paid posts and staged leaks.
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This is exactly the kind of approach that a smart company which cares about business would take.
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Firstly, "white flight" is not due to "people [moving] out of the city because the burden it is placing on them does not match the value of the services they are receiving." The most correct explanation is that "it's complicated" and has to do with issues of class, mobility and race, but has little to do with the city "failing to provide" in fact, the reason white flight exists is because it is possible to engage the city without actually living in the city. A good example of this is detroit in the past hundred or so years.

I love that this article is essentially predicated on the idea that you should retain an american salary and live in a depressed economy where that is disproportionately large in relation to the average. This sort of white flight actively diminishes the tax base and local revenue in a negative feedback cycle more significantly than the increasing population of "poorer people."

I mean, if you want to leave the country, by all means, but don't expect it to take care of you once you're gone.

I'm reminded me of the closing paragraphs of a recent [NYT poll][survey] on the Tea Party movement:

> ...nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

> But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

> Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

> Others could not explain the contradiction.

> “That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”

[survey]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html
Minus the cost of X, Y and Z

X : Paid to founder of the phone
Y : Dammage apple will claim
Z : Cost of law suite
Those renderings do look very nice. After seeing this http://9gag.com/gag/20351, however, I have to say I've gotten pretty skeptical of renderings.
"provide 50+ percent of our tax dollars to the military complex."

I think he meant that a lot of his tax dollars went to the military (or maybe he was talking about Americans?), not that he was taxes at a rate of 50%.
Maybe jjs wants to combine Apple's industrial design with Android's open software.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
I can't believe someone would compare our supposedly high taxes to a historical atrocity. There is no comparison between paying a few percent more in taxes, for causes that benefit the common good, and having your country conquered. None whatsoever.
While White Americans made up roughly 75.1% of all persons in 2000, 87.93% of all households in the top 5% were headed by a person who identified as being White alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
Because an iPhone app that tells you your flight is delayed can model the effects of ash ingestion by jet engines?

I think the EU was just playing it safe. Two planes have flown into ash clouds before. Both were essentially destroyed. Do you want to be on the plane where you hear the engines go silent and the captain announce, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped."?
How is the term outdated? Last I checked, economic parity between black and white Americans was a ways off yet.

I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but from here it looks like you're objecting to a pithy truth that you don't want stated.

Which is a worse signal to send, for people concerned about racial inequality in the US -- Thought Police, or Vocabulary Prudes?
I have few sites with MT that I have been lazy about moving from them. I was absolutely sick of constant downtime and overall speed of their systems and the recent massive security incident (they changed database password of all users second time in the last 4 months for precaution).

In their defense, they recently improved their stability and speed with their last hardware/architecture upgrades (at least for now it seems).
-3 +3 now you are even ;)
I've made a number of comments about why I believe it qualifies as industrial espionage (though an opportunistic rather than a conspiratorial variety); I have never owned an Apple product and nor do I wish to. I'm just not into their design ethic on any level.

I still think that Gizmodo's abuse of their IP is appalling.
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agreed on their service - everyone that picks up the phone knows their stuff
Many gyms have lots of TV's in front of the bank of bikes/treadmills etc. Each one tuned to a different channel and a FM radio frequency below it. This allows you to listen to the sound from the show you are watching.
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Is it too early to consider 3D html?
I bet the carriers are interested in app updates happening over WiFi and through syncing with the desktop. They would rather someone else foot the bill for that bandwidth.
Oh goody, a legal analysis by a non-lawyer. Great reading...
It is. (This has always been the silliest part of Apple's posturing-banning apps that with the ability to access adult content, even if that was not their intended purpose.)
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Did you read TFA ? What happened perfectly fits in the legal definition of theft and handling of stolen property.
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Hello Paras,
the blogs that have good communities of returning readers have best results in terms of monetization. So the answer to your question would be long-tail yes, but high quality one. And you are absolutely right that the quantity dilutes the quality. Fortunately most of our publishers are very reasonable when it comes to that :)
Considering no charges have been filed, it's far from clear that anything illegal happened.
I guess it depends on where you live.
I'm in Europe and in my part of the world public radio is pretty good and without ads. I can't stand radio stations that airs ads every few minutes or just have mindless jingles.

At my old job we had a visitor from your headquarter, some head of department from TI. Someone asked why we didn't include FM radio in our chipset and his reaction was the same as yours. He was a bit surprised when he asked who of us still listed to radio and everyone put their hand up.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, I don't think it's the user's transferred data they are talking about:

"At Bump we have a diverse collection of data sets: network performance, user behavior, social network data, and many types of handset data [...]"
Apple is one big PR nightmare. That company is so evil I wouldn't touch one of their products except to stick a defectivebydesign.org sticker on one.

That said, did Apple even win these lawsuits, or were they just a baseless threat?
You don't get this 'public interest' concept, do you?
Confirming information as true in a situation like this is pretty insignificant once the information has been widely reported as fact.

Besides, getting someone fired by reporting "tagged" information that they willfully gave to you is not even in the same ballpark as publishing his name, putting up a big photo of him and linking to his Facebook page.
This is a big surprise to me given my poor experience. I was on their (dv) — a VPS offering. Their customer service was really, really polite, but not fast (12-15h wait, on average). They never once helped me resolve my problems (they tried, but they seemed about as clued in as I was, which was close but not enough). I upgraded to a $150/month option and my site was still thrashing with 15 sec load times. I left them for my current host, where I have the same Apache and MySQL settings, pay $60/month, and have never experienced the same problems again despite hitting peak traffic season a few days ago.

My point is not to rant, but instead to suggest that these folks should seriously consider doing some internal improvement if they hope to retain the customers that they will soon acquire.
> Obesity Pill Passes First Human Trial

Comes out alright.

(Go ahead, shoot me - but first flag this also.)
> I can't believe someone would compare our supposedly high taxes to a historical atrocity

You must not have been on the internet long:-/ It seems that even on sites like this, which have a fairly "high quality" user base, the path from intelligent discussions to flame wars is a perilously short one when the subject is politics, which is why I continue to argue for their abolishment from this site.

Not that the article in question starts from the best position, either: the number of people "renouncing their citizenship" last year was in the hundreds, whereas every day, some 10,000+ babies are born in the US, just to put things in perspective.
It did bring attention to the fact that these pages weren't as secure as people thought, and that others on Wall Street might be sniffing pages for financial gain.
I was about to graduate graduate school, I had finals, final papers, and interviews. I had 2 companies which had hiring puzzles, and interviewed at 5 companies. I was really interested in ITA, unfortunately I couldn't schedule in the time to work on the hiring puzzle within the 2 week window this occurred.

I sort of imagine that these puzzles have an outlier effect: it removes the top and bottom users from a selection pool. Maybe that's okay, personally I was a bit disappointed at the missed opportunity.

One way they could improve this is by giving the puzzles expiration dates, removing the fear of completing one far ahead of the interview process, and having it expire. You'll still miss out on those who haven't heard of ITA until the near-graduation career fairs, but it will at least improve the situation.
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I think that hugely ambitious companies that achieve insane exits (pref IPO) could make a dent.
Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death.

Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.
Most carriers have enough network capacity to not really care. It's just AT&T that doesn't have a decent 3G network; Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile are fine.
I never liked the practice of hiring puzzles. I love coding useful things. Working on a hiring puzzle feels like jumping through hoops which is something I prefer to avoid.
Are you joking? Lets see... unprofessional behaviour , poor judgement, no results, poor track record and bad reputation.

Sorry to be blunt, but in the investment community past perfromance and reputation are everything. These guys are done like dinner. For their own sakes, and for the health of Vancouver startups, they should pursue other careers.
youre missing the point. matt is pointing out that the paradigm of creating a business for the purpose of getting on a specific investor's radar is completely fucked. instead of pandering to avc/cdixon, people should create for their customers.
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I find it hard to believe any site is getting $5 CPM.
I wonder if this really works long term, how people's leptin resistance confounds its efficacy, etc.

I still remained shocked at how effective carb restriction is, assuming you swap in lots of protein and fat from non-processsed food sources. The hassle is that it takes more time to construct meals, etc., but if you eat less than 40g of carbs a day, you can eat to satiety and lose weight with relative ease (at least, I did, as did many other people I know, so sample size of n=~8, obviously, not conclusive).
This is ludicrous. We don't see Swedes and Finns leaving their countries over taxes. They take pride in their welfare states and relative lack of poverty.

The counterargument is that "we're different". Sure: we're a lot more nomadic. It's not unusual for an American to live 1000 miles away from where he was born, and for a lot of us, living overseas is attractive, but I still don't see this as a mass threat.

Besides, if conservative whiners want to leave the country in droves, I'm fine with that. We'll do fine without them. After blocking universal healthcare in '48 (Southern racists didn't want to desegregate the hospitals) and bringing us Nixon's ridiculous drug war, the utter failures of Reaganomics, and a crass consumer culture, I'm surprised we haven't kicked them out yet.
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Really Short Summary: A new non-letahl weapon automatically adjusts the projectile's muzzle velocity to match the range of the target so it can safely deliver the same impact at long and short ranges. (Current nonlethal weapons are only effective at a very narrow range. A non-lethal gun ranged for 50m shots will kill at 5m and ineffective much beyond 50m.) Uses methylacetylene propadiene gas as propellent which is a commonly used in commercial products like nail guns.

About damn time if you ask me. This will help reduce the danger of using nonlethal weapons. Also, using a commercially-available propellent that is already sold in convenient canisters is a definite plus.
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Does anyone really get that bent out of shape over this anymore? Everyone learned about it 3 years ago.

I'll bet most people can't even tell what the actual icon is when they are browsing on their network. There are tons of icons in OS X with minute details that you don't notice in normal usage of the OS. Ever notice the Lorem Ipsum on the Dictionary icon? How about "ie sucks" on the CSSEdit icon?
"But, you do make nice hardware. :)"

The sad thing is, I've come to realize more and more that they don't even make the hardware. They just package it well.

Don't get me wrong, that's a big portion of the appeal. But at the end of the day, Apple has simple become effective at putting together other people's hardware into a pretty container.

Note: I'm ignoring the software end of this, which I realize is a big factor for many people as well. I'm merely focusing on the hardware end.
Most of my apps are tiny in comparison to the actual amount of data (map tiles, images, youtube vids, web pages, etc) that I download. Streaming music is another big drain. I don't think the apps are even a rounding error in the whole bandwidth picture.
Sorry but I call "old man argument". It's the same argument that my dad makes. "Things are bad, it's better abroad" which more or less leads to his "the world is going to end" diatribe.

I think this "white flight" premise is a lot more to do with the older generation who among other things earn more money and thus pay more tax and more easily fall into "the country's gone to pot" way on thinking. In the UK You certainly saw a number of people nearing retirement age move to the continent (Spain mostly) on the back-end of the housing boom.

I don't think "the current situation" has changed one iota, its only that you've aged and now see things differently. I would suggest you help out the younger generation by staying and helping them pay the tax bill and possibly generating some jobs for them.

Also the US has lotsa undeveloped land. So idk what you're talking about there.....
This kind of thing really makes me sick. At the very least we should see an offer of monetary help for the startups that were dropped.
Ie he should help out the people he financially hurt even though they dont matter to him anymore. That action would win him points and get him on the way to regaining his credibility.
It's not perfect. Whenever I go on a page in Scottish Gaelic, it says "this page is in Irish - would you like to translate it?" That could cause some trouble.

The languages are admittedly similar and there's some level of mutual comprehension, but they're not similar enough for Google's translator to work across both - it emits gibberish when you click "yes".
I'm not replying to all the mis-characterizations of my article -- aside from saying I'm not racist nor planning on moving out of the country any time soon. But I found your observations very interesting.

It IS complicated, and (I think) still a matter of debate why people actually leave a city. I don't claim to know the answer, I was just wondering if those generally-agreed-upon trends would amount to the same kind of exodus seen in the cities over the past few decades.

Particularly I liked this phrase you used:

because it is possible to engage the city without actually living in the city

This would seem to be the basis for cities like Washington, D.C. threatening to tax commuters for "allowing" them to come to work in the city. Perhaps also this is the basis for the U.S. continuing to tax citizens even if they don't live in the U.S. or ever visit.

Question: does the internet allow us to "engage" the rest of the world to the extent necessary to make this geographic proximity less important than it was 20 years ago?

And for those who wondered, I can't remember all the countries this startup was dealing with. Their business model was providing an internet portal for Americans looking to retire/live overseas and get the most out of their remaining savings and income. Costa Rica comes to mind. As does Chile and Brazil. If I remember correctly, one of the services they provided was a annual survey of countries and how friendly they were to American ex-pats. Also lots of advertising from resort and retirement communities from all over the world, along with real-estate listings, business opportunities, etc. It looked like a cool idea, but I didn't really think about the larger trends it was based on until reading the ex-pat tax article on HN a few days back.
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Maybe God sees it that way, but the world and most juries aren't quite as forgiving. Just ask Conrad Black, Matha Stewart or Bernie Madoff.
but given that a guy recently committed suicide for such a fault, i give Gizmodo a pass.

Having your major screw-up exposed for the entire world to see is liable to make you less prone to suicide? I hope no one ever decides to be that kind to me...