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The mistake you make is in assuming your judgement of what is irrelevant is sacrosanct. Again I give an example...

Let's say a Conservative reporter is in Iraq and for whatever reason he's the only reporter allowed there. Let's say he finds out that there were no WMD but says to himself "That's irrelevant because President Bush thought there were WMD so there's no reason for me to report on that". Would that be right?

Of course not. But the reason we have rules against reporters using their judgement to omit details is because it leads to situations like the above.

Now back to this situation. I'm not saying this is true I'm just putting forth a possibility. That said what if this is a person who serially does things like this? What if he could be linked to several leaks over the past few years? Wouldn't his name be relevant then? But how could you know if that was the case if reporters decided to omit his name every time he was involved? That's just one example of how this one fact that you think is irrelevant could in fact be very relevant
I think we need to remember that boarding passes aren't just for the traveler, but are required by various staff members frequently (any inquiries being made, security checkpoints, etc).

For that reason I think any boarding pass that is to be successful needs to have the same information in the same places - the guy at the X-ray machine should not be reading entire paragraphs just to verify which flight you're on, nor should the gate agent you're asking question to.
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Does anyone know of a proof that this really is an $O(n log n)$ sort? I can sort of see it intuitively, but I can't quite convince myself it is true.
There's a difference between what is valuable to me and what is valuable to someone else (like my company). Yes I've misplaced things that are valuable to me but when I did I only hurt myself. I did not have an obligation to someone else that I did not fulfill.

This engineer had an obligation to his company that he disregarded and his only excuse is "I was drunk and thoughtless" (which really isn't an excuse at all).

Again, I'm not advocating he be fired because I think people should have the right to make mistakes but I find it appalling that the attitude in this comment thread has been that being drunk makes it ok to be derelict in your duties.
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As you say, it might offer a competent alternative within a year, but it doesn't now and there is no competing device running Android right now.

I hope Android does offer a good alternative as I wouldn't like to see a market with a single dominant player, regardless of who that player is. Diversity is good for everyone.
I don't think you'll be their customer much longer.

You could have been describing me. I got on the Mac bandwagon 10 years ago, when Mac OS X didn't work properly yet, and just recently got off.

Ubuntu is a better Unix desktop now. I laugh at the Ubuntu community arguing about their sleek new icons in the top bar. They're not quite consistent, use slightly different shades, some legacy ones are a different height from the rest. I remember reading the exact same arguments about the Mac OS X ones yet even the Linux guys assume the Mac is infallible in this regard. Any reader of Gruber should know otherwise.

There's pros and cons and everyone has their own use case but Ubuntu is gaining them, and the Mac is losing them as far as I can see (e.g. it seems like Ubunutu works better with iPods these days, crazy as that sounds, just by not implementing anti-features that stop you doing things like copying your music off). You know Ubuntu is going ship three upgrades in the next 18 months, whereas news has just come out that Apple has reduced the 10.7 team to a skeleton crew (which has happened repeatedly to other interesting projects within Apple) which means even its optimistic release date of 18 months is in doubt, as is how much they'll charge you for the upgrade.

I bought iPods because they were perfect for me and Apple were years ahead of the curve. They're not any more. I nearly bought an Apple TV, but if your life doesn't revolve around iTunes it doesn't make sense. I bought the iPhone, a bit more reluctantly, if I was going to carry a phone anyway, I might as well have one with a great browser, and they were a couple of years ahead of the competition. They're not anymore. I'm not going to bother with the iPad (or anything else Apple again) because they're not that far ahead of the competition and they won't be for long.

I don't need a pad, I want the same low-power ARM hardware plus a keyboard in a standard netbook form factor running Linux. If it's not got access to the "Apt" store, then I'm not interested.
Show compassion does not mean omit facts. In fact, the article you quote says just the opposite.

Beyond that this is not a tragedy. This is someone dealing with the consequences of their actions.

Finally publishing photos off someone's social networking site is not invading their privacy.

Again I point out that you didn't read the whole article you quoted. You zeroed in on the points that you think support your argument and ignored the rest. Maybe you should take more than five seconds and read the whole article
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I'm not sure Mr. Powell is paying attention to the continued coverage. If he is, I'd like to offer a couple of words of encouragement.

I think Mr. Powell is the only one in this story who stands on firm moral ground. He made a simple, honest mistake. All indicators point that he behaved courageously, presumably coming forward and admitting the device is missing since Apple shut it down remotely the next day. Yes, Apple management will be upset and may decide to let Mr. Powell go, but he has fulfilled his professional obligations to Apple and shown considerable courage in doing so. Future employers hiring intelligently should realize that their employers will make costly mistakes and someone who has demonstrated he openly takes responsibility and is willing to work to fix the damage they've done should be a valuable asset.

The actions of the person who found the phone are morally dubious. I don't see how you could possibly justify "playing around" with a phone you have just found while presumably waiting to return it to its owner. If this person is interested in defending their actions I'd like some proof that they did not shy away from contact with Mr. Powell (I assume he tried calling his own phone when he found out it was missing) and that they did in fact call Apple trying to get through to someone. I would also like an argument justifying their disclosure of Mr. Powell's personal details to Gizmodo when handing over the device. Something in the whole story seems a little fishy.

Gizmodo has clearly overstepped their bounds by publishing personal details about Mr. Powell. It is clear they are getting traffic and therefore benefitting from doing so at the expense of Mr. Powell. It is also clear that this is mere gossip and therefore of no journalistic value.

Apple is a large, public technology company. Applying moral or ethical principles in their case is nonsensical. What I can say for sure is that the leaked content may not have as huge of an adverse effect as perhaps anticipated. I already know a number of people who are committed to buying the new device when it comes out. I know, Steve Jobs doesn't get to announce it and blow everyone's minds at the keynote, but apart from that there may not be much harm.

Last thing. Let's have a little bit of perspective here. We're talking about a phone. And yet we have a person possibly stealing personal property, violating someone's privacy by looking at content on the phone, selling the device and the personal information to a media outlet, who then publishes both publicly, undermining Mr. Powell's career. All of this so that we get to find out about a new phone a little bit earlier. I haven't fleshed out a lot of the ethical details in my head yet, but this seems like a lot of tech geek douchebaggery.
His job was to make stuff at Apple, their job is to report stuff about Apple. No moral outrage please.
You read too many tabloids.
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If you say to your enemy, "I won't help you say nasty things about me, and I won't permit you to say them on my property", that is completely within your rights. That is not censorship.

It's only censorship if the government is doing it, and that's something we cannot allow - it's a violation of individual rights if the government prevents you from speaking your mind to a friend or using your property to communicate with many people.
I've seen several articles on this phenomenon, but none of them seem to address the real issue.

I understand that banning the iPad from a network may be necessary in the short term. But over the longer term, if single device can wreck your network just by using an address for a bit too long, then there is something wrong with your network.

I'm still waiting for the headline that says, "Security hole found in DHCP[1]; iPad accidentally exploits it". Hasn't happened yet. Why not?

[1] Or wherever the root problem turns out to be.
There isn't any competition for the ipad because it's a pretty yet aimless media toy. Everyone else is wrapped up in making something that has a clear and productive purpose with the perceived convenience of a touch screen.
Gizmodo overstepped no bounds. They are allowed free speech and compared to most reporting these days their story was actually accurate.

The ONLY person at fault here is the guy who found the phone and didn't call Apple.
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The author says that students won't take science courses because the average GPA is lower. Well that isn't the reason -- this is merely a consequence of students perceiving science classes as harder and requiring more work.

The solution should not be to make science classes easier or less work, but to increase the difficulty of humanities courses. The culture of hard work is important to establish, whether you are a humanities student OR a sciences student.
And if you do it enough times, you realize everybody's got something to be unproud of.

"Forgot my cellphone" has got be way down on the list of engineering failures.
Good point. :)

I guess SE could have provided a good way to have a ready-made, slick interfaced 2.0 with hosting and everything put together. I dunno.
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When their "job" comes into conflict with state laws concerning theft, moral outrage is appropriate. Gizmodo traded in property they knew was stolen (according to California state law), and that alone is enough for anyone to be angry with them.

The way they treated Gray is awful and immoral (if not illegal). I won't visit their site again, and I don't think anyone else should, either (morally speaking).
I never claimed they broke the law. I claimed they overstepped ethical bounds accepted in professional journalism. Arguments about why they did can be found elsewhere in the thread.
Not much that I can say to that, but I beg to differ. :-)
Ok, i agree that the name shouldn't have been mentioned.
But that's a lot fuzz. It's not like Apple doesn't know he lost his phone. So, if he is to face consequences, than it's with or without the article.

Seeing that Gizmodo called him, they probably even asked for the permission?

I can even imagine that companies are contacting him now, in case he loses his job (who doesn't want to hire an engineer who works on the next gen iphone).
The solution should also include making classes more interesting. That's another reason to avoid a class: it sounds boring. And what doesn't sound boring when it's in the context of signing away your time at specific hours every week for half a year and committing yourself to homework assignments and exams? I realize this isn't directly relevant to the trends in sciences vs. humanities, but it may be that when the whole paradigm is so dull people feel more incentivized to just choose the easiest path.
I agree with the article. Other manufacturers have had a decade to inspire people with tablets, and failed. People don't want a desktop pc in another form factor.
Yep, it does. Usually OSX gets everything right immediately after connecting my MBP to a TV, although sometimes (rarely, in my experience) it needs adjustment, but that only takes a couple of clicks.

I'd love to get one Henge Dock, but it seems they're only available for Unibody Macbooks. :(
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I totally agree with your criticism. His designs look nice, but it seems like that has been the focus rather than conveying the important information. Something like the missing terminal is an excellent example of this.

Also, why have a map of the US? Would he have a map of the world for international flights? There would be an awful lot of white space where the font wouldn't show up.

On all the trips I've taken the past few years I have checked in at home, and printed the boarding pass. The next time I will definitely use the 2D bar code on my cellphone. It's nice to have the information available, but I have that in the confirmation email, the boarding pass is (to me) just to prove that I'm allowed to get on the flight.
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Report stuff about Apple, not about Apple engineers. I can understand if you think it's ok for Gizmodo to buy the lost/stolen iPhone (I don't agree), I absoluly can't understand how you can think it is ok for Gizmodo to drag Gray into the public.
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Hi,

I have a site, where users may create their own accounts identified by the username (as usual :)
I been receiving "cease and desist" emails from one source asking to delete one of the accounts as the username matches "lindblad" which seems to be owned by the source. I've been trying to find more info about it in some trademark databases without really finding the proof of their ownership. It would be very easy for me to just "delete" that account, but honestly I don't want to do it, at the end it's just a "username" without any intention to impersonate anybody.

What would you do?
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Citations needed -- the sources I find don't match all your rankings.

Also, I live in California, and used to live in Houston and Austin. I admire Texas in many but not all dimensions. My criticism of California's budget and economic mismanagement is driven by the hope the legislature can be shamed into improving -- or that a consensus for more radical structural reform can arise. Otherwise in another 20 years Texas will pass California, even by your chosen measures.
I suppose so, but frankly humanities classes will always be more interesting than science courses to many people because they relate more to our everyday lives (as ironic as that sounds, since science is all around us).

As a science student, I routinely loaded my schedule with humanities courses and hardly had to spend time on them (for the most part). There is no good reason why these courses were so easy in comparison to science courses, in my opinion.
Well, you are doing nothing to dissuade the apple haters that stereotype mac people as smug, conceited hipsters.
I wonder if Gawker get moral outrage over news about Paris Hilton?
Neat.

But I would much rather have a docking station which let me still use the MacBook screen so as to run a Dual Screen setup
You must be new to the internet, the phone leaked, the story of how it happened leaked, it was only a matter of time before the name of the guy leaked, gizmodo or not, it's obvious that many people knew who it was.
No. I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't do very many planned leaks and certainly not to Gizmodo.
I'd guess it is generally O(n log n) for random data, but not mathematically. At least seems to me that an for an inverted range (n, n-1, n-2, ... 0) the algorithm will come down to O(n^2). I could be wrong though, didn't really think about it for that long.

Edit: I might be in the wrong here. I did some quick tests with this code (http://yagni.com/combsort/combsort.py) and did not find it to be much slower when data is a reversed range vs. sorted range. So much for that intuitive thought.
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Yes they do. It's called a laptop and is (I believe) now the dominant form of personal computer.

You're right that they've rejected the TabletPC as offered. But we don't really know whether they want a big iPhone either. Time will tell if this is an iPod or an AppleTV, iPhone or Airport.
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Every large electronics store I've been to in Europe has mp3 players from a good half dozen companies prominently on display. So while the iPod may dominate, it's not like other players are in any way hidden or hard to find.
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I was talking about myself, the poster, and geeks in general rather than "the desktop" market. You'll notice I was using Mac OS X when it wasn't ready for the desktop either (and you could argue it never was if you look at global marketshare numbers). Drivers for hardware was their big issue too, something Linux still beats them for today if you compare the difficulty of building a hackintosh to building a Linux box.

However, if you can't even get an image to show with Ubuntu then you're doing something very wrong. Not taking advantage of all the features of the card without installing proprietary drivers (offered, but not forced on you, with a single click in Ubuntu), yes that's common. Not being able to view anything with a recent Ubuntu on a desktop machine is a very unusual situation.
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Calling him Christian as an epithet doesn't add to your case.

You wouldn't do it if he were Muslim or Jewish.

How about just "criminally insane"?
This may be obvious, but they rely on all the needed ports being on the same side. On my non-unibody Macbook pro, power is on the left side and video is on the right side.

Also, I suspect a mini display port is much easier to snap into place than a DVI port.
Well, there's this: "The next-gen iPhone is shooting for that caliber of resolution — not merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices, but to rival the optical quality of print." He doesn't belabour it, because it's obvious: high quality text is really pleasant to look at, and that will sell more iPhones.
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So, you are saying that every tablet that is now released is released because of the iPad? Apple is the big innovator here?
That's so ridiculous. It takes more than 2 month to build a tablet. There have been tablets before. There has been multitouch before. Combining the technologies of today is not the genius innovation you think, it happens everywhere.

Second, you are living in this strange alternative world, it makes me sad.
Of course there will be people not buying the iPad because it can't do flash. If you don't think so you are just ignorant to reality.
About the Desktop OS: There is actually no reason to built a good Tablet with a multitouch friendly Desktop OS on top of it.

It's ridiculous. You are just repeating what Apple likes you to think. Can't people take an objective view on things?
Just because Steve Jobs says that Flash is bad and that you shall not have a real OS, doesn't make it true!

People won't throw away their iPhone. But in a not so distant future every major OS for smartphones will support Flash (and Air), except for the iPhone. Adobe will have nice tools to build platform independent apps and games from one source. So, eventually developers will start to make those apps for the majority of phones, not for the rather small market share Apple has. And (hopefully) people won't buy the next iPhone but the next non-Apple phone, as Steve fucks the customers on a daily basis and every apple customer is just begging for more.

Of course Apple doesn't want Flash:
- They don't let app competition on their major platform, the want the money for themselves. That the customers lose choice is well accepted by most apple customers.

Of course they don't want the real Mac OS X on the device:
- The iPhone OS is so tightly integrated with the appstore that literally everything you want to do, you will have to buy from the appstore.
Are you kidding? There are plenty of quality mp3 players that can actually read free and quality formats such as flac and vorbis. I'd never get an ipod because it doesn't support the formats I use (and lacks an FM tuner last time I checked, may have one now) and what dagw said.
That's an emotional response as a developer, not a user. Not a logical response. You may dislike what Apple's doing politically, but if you limit yourself to using other, inferior products - well that just doesn't make sense, really.
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oh the karma police, here we come. folks it's humor mixed with political insight. i was riffing on the recognition of the pattern of comparing a big Liberal state government's activity with a big Conservative state. Nobody in the thread seems to know exactly what bills the respective states passed. I was just riffing on a pattern I see in the messages that come from so-called conservatives when they argue their case. Humor + insight = good thing, just relax, it's ok really :)
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Could you at least verbally disagree? It's the reasoning wrong?

The style is provocative but just to get some attention to the idea.
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