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I don't know - I doubt it. I've dealt with situations like this before. The clerk is told by his boss what to say. In this case he probably is not allowed. He phrased it very specifically if you notice. "All I can say is..."

It probably is all he can say.
An apartment building is effectively a large grouping of houses that are not directly connected to a road. People carry couches, or TVs. Maybe apartments are not like this where you live? Where I am, there will be a couple of square blocks of buildings that are all considered one complex...inside of that complex is a parking lot, and you walk to your building, then your apartment.

It wasn't meant to be snarky.
I'd just like to point out that Harvey Mudd College is a liberal arts college. As is Pomona College, where I got my (BA) degree in Computer Science.

So, yeah, the post is funny, but some of us have both a liberal arts degree and an ability to do utilitarian things.
>I think it is more "efficient" as it usually minimizes my mouse movement.

Are you left handed? I tend to keep my cursor on the right presumably as an extension of the desktop metaphor - reaching across to the right means a far larger movement.

However, I can see theoretically that if you have your application launch button ("Start", "K" or what have you) on the left that you'd want to push other things that way. However I'd rather move the "pin" and "menu" buttons to the R of the menu bar.

I trust if KDE ever went that way they'd make it an option.
Cause then popularity would just be about how good the title was, not the actual contents of the article.
It sounds like he was part of the 'urban golfing' group. He wasn't arrested for hitting the guy with the ball:

Arrested instead, based on victim identification, was
security researcher and computer cryptologist David
Hulton of Seattle. The city attorney dropped the
misdemeanor assault charge, but only after Hulton spent
$2,500 on a lawyer. Hulton has joined Rachner in his
project, helping to pay for attorney Stockmeyer's
expenses, because he said, "I want to effect change."

The guy that got hit by the ball also didn't seem to think it was as big of a deal as the police made it out to be:

The sponge ball victim Gabriel Scott Clark, then a
Seattle coffee house worker and now living in Miami,
said he was surprised by the multiple arrests: "I didn't
think it would be that big of an issue. I was just mad
at the one guy."

The police never even got the right guy:

Marcus Johnson of Los Angeles apologetically admitted in
an interview that he sliced the ball that hit the victim.
Police never detained or identified him, but he and others
said Johnson was "in the thick of things" when police
arrived.
Again—seriously? You can't compare one of the country’s largest electronics retail chains with a guy buying up iPads by the dozens and selling them on a gamer forum. Selling through Best Buy is clearly a strategic partnership that’s been negotiated as a component of their larger retail strategy. The guy buying iPads is not. Sure Best Buy's a middle man, but the point is that Apple can do whatever they want. There is no discussion about whether they should be allowed to do it or not. The fact that they bring on Best Buy as a middle man doesn't mean they somehow have to let this guy skim some cream off the top too. They haven't released the iPad overseas yet and what he’s doing is in direct contradiction to their launch plans.
Heh, nice troll.
Isn't the close button issue completely unrelated to the notification area issue? They don't depend on each other. Rhythmbox has the notification icon, but closes on 'X'-click.
> hitting passers-by with foam balls and laughing at them

There's a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole cop -- a pretty big one.
Also in the case of Wii, Nintendo probably was expecting a sales downturn "any day now"
It obviously depends on the local, state and federal laws where you live. In this case, the Supreme Court of Washington State says that it's unconstitutional because it gives too much power to law enforcement. It could be different elsewhere.
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from commets to TFA:

To everyone belittling his 'waste' of 5 years of his life on a pointless endeavour, remember that in life, everything is essentially pointless, you are born, you live, you die. And thats that.

You may in life build the perfect Simcity city, or refurbished a muscle car, or discover electricity. But at the end of the day you end up dead, and its all irrelevant.
I know when I upgrade applications I want to hesitate since some previous upgrades have changed the user interface significantly enough that it does take a while to "relearn"
the interface.
Mozilla might try to query those who have upgraded to show that "down time" is at a minimum, if seen at all, and one can contribute to the growth of the browser by doing so.
They didn't erase the tapes though. It sounds more likely that they just automatically err on the side of 'provide the least amount of information to people outside of the precinct as possible.' So when someone submits an information request that's past the '90 day retention policy' they just automatically deny it without checking whether or not it really was erased hoping that the request ends there.

The rest of the lies are just a bunch of PR backpedaling because someone called them on their bluff.
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Google Confirms Free Turn-by-Turn Directions Coming to iPhone
I agree Apple has to limit the number of unit purchased per individual, but a lifetime ban? On an undisclosed policy?

The "undisclosed" part is what bothers me more. I was banned from AdSense for some reason Google can't tell, but when I asked them to check if whatever I did was really done, they came back a week later saying "yes, we checked it and you pretty much did whatever we said you did, but we still won't tell you what you did"

If someone writes me a letter stating I am in violation of such and such policy, I go in and fix whatever is wrong. I can't fix stuff they don't tell me.

In the end it was good. My blog makes a couple times more money now than it did with AdSense.
It seems that the best situation combines the two: a BDFL supported by an active community.
Microsoft: Windows consumer growth rate outpaces Macs
why do you not recommend a list comprehension?
I'm wondering if Apple could pull off the continuous auction approach with new products?

It would have worked like this for some period of time after the announcement but before the official release dates Apple would sell you a numbered product at a multiple of the announced retail price, the earlier the date, the higher the multiple. So the very first iThingy would go for say $100,000 and the next batch might go for $50,000 each, and the third batch would be priced at $25,000 and so on. This would let them practice almost perfect price discrimination; most customers would pay what the product was worth to them...

There are of course very good reasons Apple does not do this.
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Why we're a titleless startup
Chromium Re-add HTTP scheme.
It appears the HTTP scheme is back in the chromium dailies. "http://" is showing again.
But the only reason there is a demand at 3x the price is because the tickets are believed to be scarce because the scalpers bought all the tickets to sell at 3x the price because when the tickets are sold out at the venue it gives the illusion of scarcity.
Water vapor tends to rise, CO2 will sink. This stuff is hugging the ground like CO2 is known to do. Mist on the ground is usually only caused when water is evaporating off that surface.
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You've never heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

I'm not saying it's right - just that it's not new.
I submitted no data and it still said I failed the test?
My point is that when your average Joe buys an ipod, iphone or whatever theyre not buying a piece of hardware. They're buying the cultural cache of owning an Apple product. They're buying the seamless user experience (which comes more from the software by the way). They're buying the ability to show off a new toy to their jealous friends.

They're not buying a box of transistors, a quantity of RAM, a camera etc. The hardware is just a box used to deliver a shipment of easy to use, cool enhancement. That's what people are buying. Not hardware.

Apple could never charge what they do if people were just buying hardware. You buy comparable hardware for a fraction of the cost but it doesn't have the other emotional/social stuff and that's where Apple makes their money.
No, that one is the Korg app I believe. This one [1], however, does allow you to create your own OSC controllers.

[1] http://hexler.net/software/touchosc
The meat of the site is this page: http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/check.html
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Then combine both actions?
"Marc Maiffret...now works trying to find security flaws in Microsoft's software...". I wonder who pays him? No surprises as to why he finds Microsoft more secure than Apple and Adobe.
> They didn't erase the tapes though.

But they said that they did. I'd prefer it if they'd be in more trouble for destroying evidence on something that is ongoing than claiming a retention policy. This would provide an incentive for them not to claim that data is destroyed.
You make money from a film about Hitler and you're worried about goodwill?

Oh vey
Actually given the stated time span, I think this would have been an occasional side project.
I guess you're not supposed to submit these kind of forms, even if empty.
Actually, by most accounts we did fine without them for 200,000 years.
>should they be allowed to ban people in the UK from trying to obtain the US version? Trying to artificially create segment markets to suit your business goals like this goes against the entire idea of a global marketplace

Indeed, they resort to technical means to effectively "ban" people (region codes). IMO the reverse situation should arise that the companies are prevented from imposing artificial segmentation by any means if they wish to retain copyright protection.
This is stuff of science fiction. I remembered Arthur C. Clarke for having written this, but apparently H. G. Wells was first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Science_fiction
Oy, but I like being able to minimize my rhythmbox, tweetdeck and pidgin to the notification area. :(

I'll suspend judgement till I actually use whatever they come up with though.
I always thought it was taboo to use the default samples that came with an app, but she seems to be perfectly fine with it. I thought one of the things DJs prided themselves on was their ability to find unique samples to integrate into their shows. However, I'm guessing at this point the default sample library is pretty extensive...
You've got some big assumptions of agreement there with the whole consistent and friendly thing there.
Nah, I'm just lazy and didn't write any JavaScript to validate the inputs.

Edit: yeah I would normally never use JS for validation.
"but do you prevent users from storing a file where they want it because of that? "

There's some new "pad" thing that does exactly that.
Or we can just not care about Ubuntu and develop for all the other platforms...which all have system trays
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At some price 'X' you won't find any more people wanting to buy the tickets - and the race stops there. Even if they're scarce, people won't be interested in tickets costing more than 'X' anymore, or you'll be able to do only X+5% so it's not worth the time.

But if you sell the tickets assigned to a name in the first place, there is no issue anymore. As long as venue sells "blank" tickets, they basically say they don't care if anyone is reselling them at much higher prices.
Re: Verizon 3G data. Agreed; my Mifi is a godsend.

Re: touch screen accuracy, it's been pretty well documented that none of the non-Apple hardware vendors have paid enough attention to this issue.

E.g, http://lifehacker.com/5501814/iphone-touchscreen-accuracy-be... .

Re 2): Could this possibly be true? I'd go nuts rebooting either the simulator or the iPad/iPhone just to test a new version. It only takes about 3-5 seconds to recompile, download and start my current app on the iPad hardware.
Yes, but Apple has a smaller install base so they are targeted less often. In practice, I think you are more secure on OSX at the moment. If their install base grows, I expect that will change.
That's exactly why I used that example. Plenty of people think that DVD region coding is unfair and wrong, so I don't understand how this is any different.

Saying that this guy somehow 'wronged' Apple is like saying that someone who buys DVDs outside of their region code (and uses a region-free dvd player) is somehow 'wronging' the movie studios.
Some many reasons have built up over the years for the educated user to not use Ubuntu:

-- The pulse audio fiasco

-- The network manager that couldn't manage anything but vanilla networks (I hear that's changed now, but I'm not about to sacrifice any more nights of my life to Ubuntu for finding out)

-- Massive and arbitrary changes to the windowing buttons without so much as a nod to keeping the actual community involved

-- Brown, then purple

-- Core application that deletes your whole drive if you don't supply parameters. Now that's pretty bad...but the clincher is that when questioned about it, the senior Ubuntu developer gave us a most excellent entry to add to the encyclopedia of bad ideas

-- And now, no system tray, "we don't like it so we throw it out" haha

I have a feeling the revolution will not be Ubuntu-ized.
To be fair, you have the 6th highest karma on a discussion site on the Internet that, on a good day, 0.0001% of the world's population looks at. Not criticizing.. jus' sayin', is all ;-)

I know, I know, I'm only envious :-)
And this would be protected if it was a parody of Downfall - what isn't protected is using a third party's work to parody something.

It's like the difference between a protest at city hall and a protest at the car dealer because they wont drive you to city hall.
But if they really care about your opinions on things and you start posting good news about special offers on Sprint Christ plans, then they will cease to care really quickly.

If they care enough you may be in for some hate mail.
The point is that you don't know about the people who were just as smart and worked just as hard, so you have no way of judging. Ability and hard work are necessary but not sufficient conditions. To disprove that thesis, you'd need a complete sample of people with ability and hard work and, before you know the outcome, be able to select who would succeed.
Interesting concept!

I'd remove the negativity from the start. Putting "This is a test, you have failed it" right in front of folks is an instant turn-off, and might lead people away from your page instead of to the helpful content below.

More bullet points. There's not a whole lot of text there now, but anything you can do to get the message across with fewer words is a win, especially when dealing with non-technical folks.

Under "look at the address bar", you have:
A common phishing trick is to have a domain like amazon.com.not.ru, which steals your credentials when you try to log in. The actual domain in this example is "not.ru," but people often only check to see if the string "amazon.com" is anywhere in the address bar.

I'd change that to not use the word "string" since non-tech-folks don't parse that very well, and maybe include screenshots of an address bar containing the real Amazon.com and a phishing site disguised as Amazon.

Still though, good idea!
1> Didn't say patent reform. Also needed, but not related to this conversation.

2> Copyright reform could remove prohibitions on cracking the DRM, allowing people to install whatever and allowing third parties to legally install whatever and to legally bypass the signing and "licensing agreement" which is clearly a license of adhesion, especially in many states.

3> Cell phone law reform could mandate "install whatever" on devices be legal.
Right, I think up-votes done by people that didn't click on the link is an interesting case to look for.
Thanks for the suggestions. If you want to make changes, you can fork http://github.com/pquerna/darwintest .

Edit: I used the "you fail" message because I think it makes people more likely to remember it. I wanted to say something like "your credit card has been stolen. kthxbye." but that would have caused some false alarms.

It's hard to have a memorable message without it causing offense or panic.

Also on my TODO: add a counter for those who put 16 digits in the credit card field.

Extra edit: nfriendly: Thanks for the styling suggestion.
The idea is that Pandora is a somewhat hard concept to explain to new users — before it existed, people didn’t have their own personalized radio stations based on similarities between artists and song.

Last.fm always generated you radio stations based on your scrobbles or by tags you type and predates Pandora
Very nice pitch for RDF (which I agree with).
PETA wants Zynga to reconsider adding animals to Mafia Wars
"If asked for your password, do not give it out. Real websites will never ask you for your password. (Login forms excepted, of course.)"

This is confusing, in my opinion. It's hard to explain the difference between a login form and a page asking for your password, so it's probably worth just leaving this out. Any phisher worth his salt makes the page asking for a password look like a login form anyway.
Right, not surprising, but this touches on the difference between security and safety.
You rely on JavaScript to validate your inputs?

Edit: although I suppose you can have an exception in this case :-)
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But he could made one step, say reducing number of varibles involved from 1000000 to 999999. And someone else could reduce this number too...
Online music composition collaboration
Damn but that was a good game. That was the one and only time I've ever listened to a sports event of any nature on the radio, and I managed to get to a TV just in time for that play of Johnson's - fantastic even though I was in Indiana and rooting for the Pacers!

Thanks for reminding me of that. Wow!
Design fiction is a fact
Strange that you can jump while moving OR turning, but not when moving AND turning.
I saw a guy buy a meat cleaver the other day. Is it possible he is a psycho killer?
What an intriguing idea is fostered by the longnow.org. I've heard of slow food but this moves it all on to a much longer time frame. Thanks for shining a light on these endeavours.
my history is hazy, but I remember the chat protocol was a good help when doing the handshake on a new user entered a group session with multiple users.

the merging user actions basically worked by keep a revision number of every object they store, when you make a change you broadcast with an incremented revision, if you recieve an out of order revision you ignore and the broadcaster needs to revert their change on receiving an in order change, this means you need to ensure the order of the message to each client so everyone gets the changes from A before they get it from B, otherwise one might keep A's change and ignore B's, and another will keep B's change and ignore A's

you can trade off memory with the granularity of what you store revisions against, so you can store a revision for the square X, or for the width of square X, a finer granularity allows people to change the background color and move it at the same time, if you store the revision against the square as a whole then those changes conflict.

again this was quite a while ago so might not be the best advice. but hope it helps
This doesn't matter. If the connection is intercepted, the credit card inputs suddenly can be part of the form.
Well, at least he warned others.
I'm not convinced that this will help so much here. Assuming that victims won't be checking for SSL, getting someone to an insecure copy of the site will do. I don't see how this would be your problem, though.

Security is a strange beast.
What are the odds of actually stopping an asteroid? I suspect that asteroids small enough to be escaped by evacuation wouldn't be detected soon enough, and I highly doubt if we could do anything to divert or destroy a larger asteroid.
"Apple is making products nobody has imagined before."

I beg to differ. They execute very well, but calling them that visionary is a little overboard.
Its always sticky around the numbers. People like to talk around it for a long time being uncomfortable to address it head-on. Its probably best to avoid conflicts and waste of time on the front end.
Where are the open edges?
Boring "pictures".
NCSA launches something called a 'web browser'
I don't understand how to benefit from their checking. Are you saying I should expect all my add-ons to work or that there is a place where they say which add-ons will work? Or does the installer give a warning before installing about which add-ons won't work?
Scoble's video is cool, but I'd like to hear Rana play an actual one-hour set with these (and live mixing of various audio tracks.) I'm a little skeptical as to whether or not it'd be really repetitive and/or possible to really rock a full set with iPad controllers unless they're controlling Ableton or some other DAW/DJ software. The lack of MIDI sync from iPad to iPad also has to be a huge pain point for any serious controllerism.
Maybe, but I'll sometimes see something on the new page that I already know what it is (because I was thinking about posting it), or that obviously adds information about some existing story.
How can you not capitalize a name like JERKER?
To What End?
When I click the 'x'-button on rhythmbox, it doesn't quit, it stays open in the notification area. Ubuntu 10.04
Also today: the Hitler parodies getting taken down from YouTube.
But they are always ditching features everyone else is convinced are vital – hardware keypads, removable batteries, floppy disk drives. In that sense they're doing the unimaginable.
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this reeks of armchair commentary,

ubuntus network manager has been first class for ~2 years, I have less problems on ubuntu that I do with my mac in regards to broadband dongles, its audio has also been long fixed

the aesthetic changes (purple to brown) are a large improvement that everyone asked for, the window buttons really dont matter that much (and they can be moved back)

the core application was very much a niche issue for those messing around inside a bootloader, its not like opening notepad ran rm -rf /

and as for the system tray, im not particularly fussed either way, but I am glad that someone is worrying and doing something about ui issues instead of sticking to the status quo
Why not link directly to the source? http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-b...
ahh ok, then I will make an app :)
So? A $2500 computer will be obsolete in a few years. A $1400 desk will (hopefully) last at least a decade.
One of the things that has been missing from RaphaelJS that annoyed me was the arrow function. They even mention it in their documentation, but as an empty function. I finally got my version working so I will hopefully post it on HN later tonight. Lots of math involved, probably why it was never done in the first place!
The form that you submitted contained no fields, only a submit button. It has no way of knowing that you didn't type in any data.
> No competent designer, sitting down to design an operating system from scratch, would say to themselves “I know, let’s have two completely inconsistent ways to hide windows”.

heh, this quote reminds me of one of the most fustrating things about osx, theres like 4 ways to hide a windows

1. minimise to dock
2. "close" but dont quit
3. hide
4. quit

I think I might be missing one as well, and they all work completely differently when you want to being the windows back.