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I think some interesting commentary that was only touched on a bit by the EFF post can be found here http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/gizmodo-warrant-s... (linked by parent).

I think what may be the interesting question here is that the police may have taken far more information then would be necessary for evidence gathering, thus constituting unreasonable search and seisure. The EFF article also notes that the search warrant doesn't state a probable cause for why Chen should have been searched, and why specific materials should be searched in relation to the presumed crime (which they don't actually state). From what I gather, this could make the evidence they gather (if any) inadmissable in court.

What's more, since the constitution guarantees freedom of the press if Chen is considered to be a member of the press that would likely make his 4th Amendment protections more stringent. The article points out that last year the 9th Circuit adopted pretty specific rules about what could be searched and those rules will likely have to be followed.

Even if Chen committed a crime I think that this was indeed an over-reaction. The use of a broad search warrant could make all evidence gathered inadmissable in court and turn this into a circus of finger-pointing.
If the police are going to confiscate, why would they confiscate the whole computers, and not just the drives? Furhter, why not provide the option for the guy being served to get some new drives and copy the data to them before the police confiscate the original?
>I'm pretty sure in England the legal term for what was done to Turing is constructive manslaughter.

The legal term would be something like "proper application of criminal law". You can't claim that it was constructive manslaughter to apply the law at the time.
I think this means more of the salt hits your tongue on the way to your digestive system, i.e. from the fine article, "A Wall Street Journal story later reported only about 20 percent of the salt on a chip dissolves on the tongue, and the remaining 80 percent is swallowed without contributing to taste."
So if you're one of the 25 companies on REACT's steering committee (including Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec and pretty much every other large tech company in the valley) then you don't get to take advantage of their services?

BTW React isn't multi-state it's multi _county_ focused on Silcon Valley.

http://www.reacttf.org/2101.html
While I don't like global menus in general, it makes a lot of sense for netbooks, I think. I look forward to seeing this one come to fruition. That said, I agree with one of the commenters on the OP that pointed out the difficulties posed by toolbars. Hopefully, Ubuntu can come up with some good solutions to the toolbar problem, too.
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OneSuite doesn't let me send faxes. For receiving it seems to be fine. So if they enabled sending that would make them awesome. Since they don't, next time I have to send a fax I'll try HelloFax.
From the article:

When is the last time you rewired struts application inside the struts-config.xml so it did something different or reused an action and forwarded somewhere else when you were done

Uhm, never. That's exactly why I hated using NHibernate with C# and ASP.NET, and precisely why, if I have quick and fast-changing web requirements I go with PHP and Kohana instead. It's all in choosing the right tool for the job.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Is "attempting to keep track of business rules in a system other than your code base will cause more problems than it will solve" true even if you track business rules only on high level? I.e. let's say that such auxiliary system does not track how often certain check is performed, but it does inform that such checks exist? In my case that means that we periodically check your website to see that the webpage targeted by the campaign is still up and containing certain information - do you feel like capturing such data outside the codebase is hopeless?
If you're really making a compiler, it's unlikely you'll use a parser generator. Most production compilers use hand-written parsers for a variety of reasons: speed (e.g. folding more logical passes over the AST into the AST construction in the parser), semantic resolution of grammatical ambiguities, flexibility for compatibility (e.g. toggling different syntax rules dynamically), etc.
If it was that important Apple should have been more careful than to let their engineer take it out and about. Given that people are prone to losing cell phones, how could they expect that not a single one would be lost?
> And I'm not sure you can try to avoid mutable state and still do OO.

Check out Erlang's parametrized modules, a form of functional OO.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58....
The root of the linked side, http://llvm.org/ , should be considered the authoritative source for what LLVM is.
Thanks for the link! To sum it up: it is possible to argue that the Shield Laws as written in CA protect Gizmodo, but the result of that interpretation would be "weird" (their word), in that it would essentially protect journalists from prosecution for their own criminal activities.

Extrapolating: we won't know until a judge (or, most likely, series of judges) interprets.

[update: more fodder, some of it from Volokh, none of it particularly comforting for Gizmodo: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003539-37.html?part=rss&...].
I've never seen someone straightforward enough to say that they'd rather be polite than logical.

Try the average husband. When the wife asks "does my butt look big in this", there's an immediate and well acknowledged convention to be polite rather than logical ;-)
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The problem I have with American-style capialism is that for 25 cents of extra gain tomorrow, they are ready to loose 10usd after a month.
Second, he must not have directly committed a crime himself

It looks like he is not covered by the Privacy Protection Act unless the iPhone prototype considered "documentary material" (similar to "photos and video") which doesn't sound likely. However, the paragraph discussing "California Penal Code Section 1524(g)" says the government is not allowed to seize "'notes, outtakes, photographs, tapes or other data of whatever sort,' if that information was 'obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public.'" No restrictions to that law are mentioned.
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Memristors can function as both transistors and storage, so we could end up with a lot less concern about cache misses.

They can also mimic the function of neural synapses, so a neural net coprocessor is a possibility.
Nope, but I use Linux-VServer which is basically jail for Linux. It works well with little performance penalty.
How do you get searchyc.com to honor the quotation marks? It never seems to do so when I try.

Having said that, I've tried the search via a number of routes and got about 35 or 40, but many are similar to this one:

> ... and when I want to send stuff ...

which I don't feel is in the spirit of the original question.

Having said that, yes, I've probably used the words "I want." I probably mis-spoke myself and intended to say "I only use 'I want' for effect, or when it's not in the sense you intend."

But that's post hoc and I'll hold my hands up and say I was wrong.
The entire premise is flawed. Microsoft gets called out all the time in the press for bugs and security flaws.
Usually the answer is that police, generally, have no clue about computers - enough to seize machines but not to safely remove the drives. Clearly that's not the case in this specific incident.

But there are other reasons. Firstly, when you remove drives from the machines you have to open it up, photograph them in situ, remove the drives, image and replace them. It's a reasonably time consuming job (and I doubt you'd want police in your home for hours doing it :)). Secondly there may be issues imaging the drive; wrong connectors or just fickle drives. Usually in such a case you can fire up the original machine with the drive attached and load a forensic imager from CD to pull the data (in other words it's a fail safe). And finally you have to photograph the computer CMOS time next to an atomic clock to help validate any timestamps on the hard drives.
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Shit happens. No measure could have prevented one prototype from being lost eventually. And mobile phones have to be field tested before release.

There is a measure that could prevent a prototype from being stolen or sold to a blog that would take it apart bit by bit and post videos of it: it's called the law. I think they passed that a few hundred years ago.
This makes me feel really disappointed with the EFF, as they're a charity and they're wasting time (and resources) on this matter. Sure, it's a point worth investigating further: are bloggers legitimate journalist or not?

However, they seem to be have ignored what this case is about: is it illegal for journalists - or anyone - to buy stolen goods?
The Pirates of the Caribbean track was a nice touch.
Yes, "conflict of interest" is not quite the right term. He probably meant something like "source of bias".
I'm looking at the Mozilla example on my laptop without a mouse, and I get a little bit annoyed when I'm hovering a certain node trying to click on it and the visualization keeps on moving and makes it hard to click on it. So maybe it could be possible to have a simple option to freeze the view?

And maybe an easy way of instantly changing to some near optimal viewpoint for viewing the data in terms of a given axis? (Ie. CPU or memory usage).

But this, combined with normal alerts would be cool. Oh, and what about showing trace lines once I've selected a given node? :)
IMHO there are problems with arranged marriages - for one thing I personally don't believe that a few supervised visits are sufficient to really determine if you want to spend the rest of your life with someone.

But, the numbers do speak for themselves - divorce rates are much lower for arranged marriages. Perhaps there is social pressure preventing divorces in that context, but IMHO the objective, neutral third-party assessment of your potential partner plays into that as well. "We love each other so things will work out" is a nice thought, but often not reality.

That being said, I'm culturally ingrained to find my own mate, so that's that for me :P
No, the Na:Cl ratio should still be 1 to balance off the charges.

It's probably reducing the size of the salt crystals so that it disolves in your saliva quicker, allowing for the same taste with less mass of salt.
I don't think you know how strawberries really taste like, if you never ate them outside US... the same goes for Western Europe
Two funny little notes from the movie:

1) I thought "Hmm, the soundtrack here sounds like it could be from a generic Jerry Bruckheimer movie", and then it went to songs that were unambiguously pirated from identifiable Jerry Bruckheimer movies. (I own the Pirates of the Carribean soundtrack. Sue me.) Man, you can't even get the multi-billion dollar weapons conglomerates to respect licensing anymore...

2) Amusingly, the good guys were red and the bad guys were blue. (This is the color convention in Russia and China. Historically, it is the opposite in the US.)
Fine I'll reveal a past success. It ranked 480 on Alexa at its peak.
People here seem to be very distrusting so I'll tell you one of my past success's that isn't up anymore.

I was the sole founder of MovieForumz.com which reached a best rank of around 480ish (global) and had profits in the millions.

I'll post a link to my blog in the comments incase anyone wants to read it. I'm using it to share experience, information, and insight while taking SinkFloat from a no-name, worthless website to a multi-million dollar success.

http://www.sinkfloat.com/blog/
What makes you think they are using enzymes?
Seriously Ars Technica? That was one of the worst articles I have ever read. The mental gymnastics required to equate network neutrality to mandating "search neutrality" for a search engine made me question the validity of anything in the article.

There is nothing hypocritical nor dishonest about Google's stance. The interests of Google are luckily perfectly in line with the interests of every internet user in the world. Preventing the telecom monopoly/oligopoly from abusing their non-competitive market has nothing to do with controlling the content of any given website.

Was this article intentionally absurd? I'm genuinely confused how anyone could put forth such a fundamentally unsound and illogical argument.
I'm sure Cola will be that much healthier now. Not...
If someone purchased the stolen Mona Lisa the police would be down on them like a ton of bricks.

It's all a matter of relative value. This iPhone prototype was worth a lot more than the parts inside (which was obvious to Gizmodo since they paid upwards of $5000 for it).
Alright so the blog that got downvoted to hell before was http://www.sinkfloat.com/blog/

A few people contacted me with questions so I wanted to make this thread so they could ask them and maybe it could benefit more people.
And they do use such limitations in cases where it'd be difficult/unlikely for them to be altered, such as timestamps kept by a third party. For example, subpoenas demanding that Google turn over email from a Gmail account usually specify a date range (I think there's even precedent that they're normally required to).
Definitively being a lawyer. Last week ago I hired a lawyer to look for some documentation for a house I was planning to buy, and about its owner.

He showed me I think more than 20 prints of web apps that he had visited, and on each one he sometimes typed his login, sometimes searched for a number, other times the name of the person, other with his state of residence. He could have reduced his typing to just one.

Also, if you don't believe this particular anecdote, I have dozens more. I've built web apps for law offices during 4 years. And when I left the company the TODO list for what I was working on was still huge. Absurdly huge. Software is never done.

Programming manages information and reduces repetitive computer tasks, and lots of professionals have this problem.

Now, should the owner of a fast food restaurant learn to code? Maybe not. Should he hire someone that knows how to code? Maybe not. Should he buy somekind of software to manage his operations? For sure.

But it's the same necessity: There's a problem, you can either solve it yourself or pay someone else to do it. And the problem is managing information and time.
So we pay taxes to support such force out there, that serves only the corporations?
Working in a multinational finance company in an asset servicing role I can tell you this works up until the point when you are expected to do all of your day to day work in addition to helping out with any trivial task someone would like to automate.

Saying that, if I could install anything more pleasant than VBA I'd probably be happy.
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I understand what you're saying, but what the iPhone really excludes is unapproved malware.

Which has always seemed like an elephant in the room for Apple, legally speaking. By aggressively vetting applications, aren't they warranting to their end users that the applications are free from harmful or illegal side effects? What stops me from writing an app that only turns into malware after a certain date, for instance?
I don't see why so many people took "the guy found it and was trying to return it to Apple and they didn't want it" at face value. I'm not saying the Gizmodo story definitely misrepresented things, but Gizmodo and the guy who acquired the phone had incentive to paint it in a certain light.

Innocent until proven guilty and all, but just because the guy says he found it doesn't mean he didn't steal it. I'm not accusing him of pickpocketing or anything, but his story as presented doesn't add up, and he sure has incentive to lie about it.
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> If your using a display that doesn't implement HDCP than you don't see the video, therefore you don't have control of where the stream goes. Netflix determines that for you.

I've used Netflix over composite and VGA cables with no problem. While DRM can be used to protect things in the way you mention, that doesn't appear to be the case with Netflix.
When you started your other projects that gave you your current claimed capital did you start from zero or did you already have other sources of money (investors, inheritance etc).
Because he is the one who (allegedly) received stolen property.
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I was deliberately matching the way I thought jrockway was using "bad". The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; this is in no way intended as criticism of your guide for the first step.
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Not very explicitly. When have you heard some journalist write an article about a "Windows Worm"? They're always always always "PC Worms" or "PC Viruses".

Microsoft gets big credit for releasing a patch for many "PC Worms" or "PC vulnerabilities", but the vulnerability in never ever a "Windows" problem.
That's a great question.

I started with pretty much zero. The first one is always the hardest because you don't have many connections or money. It's a lot of hard work but it gets easier the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time around, unless of course you're burnt out.

When you start with zero it just forces you to think a different way. Instead of just throwing money at something, you have to be creative and strategize.
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What does skill have to do with anything? Pure programming is an answer in search of questions. Programming helps solve problems, but without knowledge of other fields, a programmer, no matter how good, has no idea what problems to attack.

Programmers know a whole lot about... programming. Some people therefore write development tools, IDEs, text editors, compilers, operating systems, and databases. This seems to me a relatively small niche, though. Commercial development tools often live and die by free and open-source competition.

Otherwise, without actual domain knowledge, a programmer becomes a tool for people who do possess this knowledge. Typical programming jobs suck because they boil down to pushing data from point A to point B, while transforming it in a way specified by someone else. For example, in the financial industry, a non-quant programmer is just a cog. Possibly a highly intelligent and competent cog, but still never the person who designed the underlying process. On the other hand, a quant with programming ability actually has a chance to do something original. Even traditional "computer sciencey" work is rarely just about programming. Computational biology, computational geometry, robotics — those are real fields, where programming helps solve problems.
MovieForumz.com sounds shady (and was http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://MovieForumz.com).

I wonder why you'd link to this. Everyone here tries to figure out if you're a hoax or not, linking to a (illegal) sharing site doesn't really help.
Story lines up: (note talkburst in the email):

whois movieforumz.com

Administrative Contact:
Corp, Gimado talkburst@gmail.com

Domain Name: MOVIEFORUMZ.COM
Created on: 10-Dec-06
Expires on: 10-Dec-10
Last Updated on: 08-Dec-0
The purpose of the raid was to determine who sold the phone to Gizmodo. Hence their defense using the journalist shield law.
I wouldn't say they have no marketing. The Signal vs Noise blog, Ruby on Rails, and their books are very effective marketing tools. That being said, the quality of their products does seem to play a large role as well.
Marketing: You can analyze and check your data 100-1000x faster than your co-workers. Hell, you can make entire vendors obsolete. Additionally: Making graphs without opening Excel shaves days of work off your year.

Biology: You can catalog and simplify your workflow by breaking things up and correctly keeping them all organized while doing things the fast way.

Author: You create smart searches, web spiders, pattern recognition (to capture your repetitive sections) and you learn formatting. Additionally, the text editor skills are very nice for some types of writing.

Automotive/Racing: Calculating gear ratios? Analyzing race data? Optimizing pit stops? Not everyone is a formula one racer.

Small Businesses: Automated Scheduling of Clerks/floorpeople, inventory managment, loss detection.

Fashion: Modeling (no pun intended) cloth usage by shape cuts, number of seams required, etc.
I prefer Diva. It implies I have skill. :-)
I can't see how it falls to the naturalistic fallacy ("that which is natural is good").

Surely a neo-darwinist sees the only goal of life as perpetuation of a specific genetic code. If an only off-spring chooses to take sexual partners that prevent the perpetuation of the parents genes beyond that offspring's generation then the parents genetic material will cease to be passed on. This is negative not because it is merely natural but because it destroys the only apparent purpose in such a system.

I can see how you'd argue against such a position but I can't see how you can see it is not rational.
This system in the hands of rogue states must be a nightmare for the US. Especially if the claim that it can bring down a carrier craft is true.
According to Compete, MovieForumz currently has around 5000 unique visitors a month. Did you sell the site, or is it still bringing in money - albeit with a smaller audience?
Somebody should start a company making fake, but credible Facebook identities to sell.
You guys didn't even give me a chance to defend myself really. I was downvoted a bazillion times and couldn't post anymore.

Rough crowd in here!
You're 100% correct, but quite often I find that Wikipedia offers a broader view of what something is than the official website's description.
Hahaha. Sorry about that. He's gone now.

I have no idea about who Håkon Wium Lie is though. That must be some kind of misunderstanding.

Thanks for all the comments.
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This project's naming system is ... confusing; scroll down to the last bit of real content to find out that:

"Bloom ("BlOOM") is the BOOM language."

From earlier: "BOOM stands for the Berkeley Orders Of Magnitude project, because we seek to enable people to build systems that are OOM bigger than are building today, with OOM less effort than traditional programming methodologies."
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MovieForumz is a past success of mine and is no longer running. It has been closed for probably 2 years now and still receives about 5-10 thousand uniques per day even after all this time.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/movieforumz.com make sure you have it set to MAX and you'll see when it was ranked very well. It received about a million unique visitors per day.
But he works for Gizmodo and I am sure he did not pay that $5,000 from his own pocket.
That's only patronizing if you take yourself too seriously. Otherwise it's just direct and simple. That makes it easier to read and makes sure that the prose doesn't make things seem more complex than they actually are.

Another way to put that is the complexity/simplicity of the prose attempts to match the complexity/simplicity of the exercise.
Bullshit. You can make gobs of money as a contract developer with very little risk.
I guess one of the questions to answer about ease of installation is what makes Linux software different from the majority of OS X software.

[note] OS X does have a package format for more complicated stuff
Any attempts to "prove" free-will is circular non-sense. FW is presupposed by the concepts "proof", "knowledge" and (human) "consciousness" and even "researchers". Attempts to prove it are in fact a denial of it. They should save their money and read the works of Ayn Rand.