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I just finished reading this: http://www.nthposition.com/thelastcargo.php

Very interesting. I especially liked the term "cargo prophets."

The article paints cargo cultists as performing, with fervor and rigor, a "magical repetition" of an "inexplicable complex of delusions."

And the cargo prophets, being the messengers, expound new canon to the "John Frum" myth which further glorifies and necessitates this "inexplicable complex of delusions," or rituals and methods.

The methods and rituals these cargo prophets ask followers to perform are NOT reason or integrity.

I could go on with my thoughts on this, but basically yes. I do see a very clear parallel.
According to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=16042... - it sold for $2,550
One issue with this is that if you pull out the "I don't wish to comment without my solicitor being present" line as soon as the cop starts talking to you then they can just detain you (ie not arrest you) and take you to the police station to give you the opportunity to get your legal counsel present so they can continue.

Saying that you won't comment without legal counsel doesn't mean the police officer is going to go away. It just means the s/he will have to make a judgement call on letting you go or taking you in for questioning (detainment, not arrest) and so you are risking a loss of liberty if that occurs.
My iPod touch is most often used as a remote control for media player classic on my PC. I still use my nano for music though. Click wheel is much more usable and device is much smaller and lighter.
I see the tide shifting from an unrelenting awe of law enforcement authority to a far more astute and cautious state that regards police with a guarded circumspection.

This is actually a healthy thing for those interested in American liberty.

All children should also be trained exactly opposite of what law enforcement teaches in the public schools. My kids talk to me first- NOT the cops.

Also, something not touched on in very many places is how close to get to law enforcement when they are out of uniform. My suggestion: arms length always, unless they are a close family member or you are as boring as a bag of green beans.
Public school students don't have full first amendment rights. If the speech interferes with the school's ability to conduct classes, the administration can stop it. I don't know the case name, but this was established in a case with a high school principal censoring the school newspaper.
Web Servers that Live in Your Browser
I work with cops, for an ex-cop and have been arrested a couple of times for "kicks" or through false accusation. So this is my experience...

Generally the idea of not saying anything without a lawyer is sensible and advised. But I think you have to be pragmatic about it.

For example we were stopped entering a country once (by the police not border guards) and asked a few fairly routine questions about drug importation.

I answered them because there seemed little danger and got released with an apology in about 5 minutes (probably even less - they just pulled us to one side into little alcoves). But my friend clammed up and asked for a lawyer, "no comment" etc, had to wait about 40 minutes for one to turn up, got told to just answer the questions and was there answering them for about another 20m. Pointless...

You have to remember that for the most part cops are people (I need to remember that myself sometimes because they can be the most infuriating techno-phobes too :P) and usually aren't out to get us.

I advise - if you're worried, don't answer questions, but stay polite and engage in small talk if you feel safe (i.e. they aren't leading you somewhere with it). If you're confident just answer the questions and be helpful - it saves everyone time.
Saying Facebook has a hand in the ecommerce market is still very speculative at the moment. That may happen but right now it doesn't even look like they're moving that direction really.

And also, Amazon attracts me definitely for their vast inventory but primarily because of their reviews which falls under the social interaction / peer-peer trust you ascribe to Facebook.
Yeh, absolutely. I'd say if a cop stops you in the street - just answer their questions if it seems reasonable. Or refuse (don't mention lawyers) if not.

Never had any issues myself with this approach.
There might even be some room for auto-moderation with regard to the both the quality of the content (for links) and the subject matter (being the tenth post in an hour linking to an article on the same subject would result in a lower position on the front page). I'm working on a maybe-startup involving text classification that might be able to do just that.
If Microsoft goes after RIM and leverages their enterprise footprint they could quickly become viable. If they compete in the consumer market with Apple and Google they are toast.
Won't anyone think of the CHILDREN!?
In a Land of Cynics and Saps, the Skeptic Is King
For what it's worth this is what I would say...

Look, I’ve been told in the past that it’s not a good idea to talk to the police without a lawyer present. The people who told me this were experts on this sort of thing and the point they made is that innocent people have been convicted by accidentally saying something that implicated them. They also made the point that this has happened even when the police officers themselves believed the person was innocent because those officers turned the case over to a District Attorney who really just wanted a conviction.

So while I know you’re just doing your job by trying to get me to talk to you I need you to understand my outlook on this which is that my life might depend on me keeping my mouth shut right now. What I will say is that I’m completely innocent of these charges and I think you’re wasting your time talking to me. Beyond that I’m going to keep my mouth shut from this point on and wait for my lawyer. Thanks for understanding.

...As far as any false claims the police might make they don't have the right to do anything without a warrant so I'd use vaguely the same speech as above but substitute in "I've been told you need a warrant to search my person or possessions"

Edit: I just IMed a friend who is a lawyer and he made a good point on searches. When the police claim they have the right to search your person or possessions you want to do two things. First, explicitly say you forbid them to search unless you are legally required to allow them to do it. Second make them take physical action (e.g. if they want to search you tell them you won’t empty your own pockets but you won’t resist if they search your pockets). Do these two things and you’ll never be searched unduly.
Perfect on Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta Mac.
I get the same problem. The burn out problem is mostly due to the fact that you 100% immerse yourself towards that issue.

One solution is not keep a balance between 3 different projects and allocate time to each if necessary.

By splitting your free time between the 3, you diffuse the burn out. That said if 2 of them feel right and one annoys you, move on.
Duck Duck Go = Perfect search engine for programmers
How young are you? I blew through probably 15 projects in 4 different spaces and by the time I was a sophomore in college I had only completed 2. One was a c++ game, the other was a web site I ran for worms Armageddon.

Why did I get bored and quit? I had tackled the most challenging problems of the project (the ones that initially got me excited) and what was left was the non challenging stuff. Maybe you are similar, you enjoy and require steep learning curves and challenges. Maybe one day that challenge will become completing a project

you will make an excellent contractor or entrepreneur. If it's challenge you seek, you will find it
If our end goal is to offer everyday guides on what foods to eat, nutrition science has a really hard time offering anything useful.

The predictions are necessarily minutely targeted at particular nutrients in isolated trials. It's really not possible to come up with a diet plan that replicates those isolated trials. I guess what I'm saying is that we don't (currently) have the capabilities to run studies big enough to examine the whole system in all its intricate pieces.

You can do surveys - and I think they are probably the most broadly-useful current nutrition studies, because they give recommendations like "food-related disease is significantly lower in people who eat a mediterranean diet". That's an actionable prediction.

As another counter-point to my argument, isolated experiments seem to work well in providing recommendations like suggesting to stay away from carcinogenic foods, etc...
except Google and errrm maybe users? count me as happy.
Reminds me of when Microsoft started to give away its browser, thus dooming Netscape. You used to have to pay for browsers in the old days.

I can't see MS coming back form this, they will be another Palm WebOS, with maybe more backing (MS is still a big name).

Do we have room for iPhone, Android, BB, Palm WebOS, Windows Mobile, Nokia?? no.
Steve Jobs: Starting this summer, porn will be blocked from all Mac browsers.
Manual Nexus One update to Froyo for the impatient
Everyone assumes that SSL search will be ever turned on by default (seems unlikely). I think it would be most natural to make SSL search opt-in. Anyone who cares about his/her privacy will be able to turn it on and webmasters will still have most of the data they need.
I'm not sure that's true. The Google I/O conference made a pretty compelling case for Android's Enterprise chops and Microsoft has (ironically) backed itself into a corner by making Exchange and other servers open to non-Microsoft clients.

As someone who runs an enterprise's It dept. I'm not sure I can see Enterprise features that Microsoft could compete on (Security, Exchange Support and Remote Wipe are my real concerns and all seem to be covered by Froyo)
And even beyond that...

You're supposed to refuse to talk until "your lawyer" is present. Now, I've used a lawyer's services for making a will, and my boss's wife is a lawyer specializing in environmental matters. But I don't have any sort of connection with a lawyer that would handle criminal matters.

Should one make contact with a potential lawyer today, before anything happens, and carry the lawyer's card in your pocket? Should you just call any lawyer you know at the point you need it, and ask for a referral?
By far the coolest data structure is the soft heap (http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/15859-f07/papers/chazelle-soft-he...).

From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_heap

In computer science, the soft heap, designed by Bernard Chazelle in 2000, is a variant on the simple heap data structure. By carefully "corrupting" (increasing) the keys of at most a certain fixed percentage of values in the heap, it is able to achieve amortized constant-time bounds for all five of its operations:
for any given skip list implementation there is most probably an encoding of balanced binary trees that outperforms it

Not just probably, absolutely. Skip lists are probably pretty balanced, which is always less balanced than actually pretty balanced. Their sole claim to fame is their simplicity in implementation compared to actual self-balancing trees.
I know it's a parody, but Jobs has really stated in an email that the Apple platform offers a number of freedoms, including "freedom from porn".

http://www.appscout.com/2010/05/jobs_apple_offers_freedom_fr...
I would say yes, the vast majority. Of legal music buyers anyway.

Apple is has been the biggest music seller in the US for the last 2 years, it is now bigger than the next 2, Walmart and best Buy. It has over 27% of the market. Amazon is at something like 7% for digital+cds.
This seems obvious to me. Put it this way, if you're ever accused of a serious crime your life will hang in the balance. So how much research would you be willing to do to save your own life?

Now if you get arrested for a serious crime you'll have one phone call and no time to do research. So yeah, I'd at least ask around and find out who the best criminal lawyer in my area is (and make sure I have his number handy)
I recommend two authors, listed below with Amazon links to their most famous books:

C. J. Date
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-C-Date/d...

Joe Celko
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-SQL-Smarties-Programming/dp...
"Coerced psychologically" means precisely nothing. Everyone does everything because they are coerced psychologically to do it. If you object to this particular form of psychological coercion, explain why.

No, it doesn't mean nothing. No, everyone does not do everything because they are coerced psychologically.

The second claim - everyone does everything because they are coerced psychologically - is a great example of a statement that is either false or vacuous. False, if you interpret "coerced" in a non-trivial sense. Vacuous, if by "coerced", you mean no more than "because they have (some) desire or inclination."

Compulsion is real. Psychological compulsion is real. If you have never been driven to do something by fear or desperation, yet still very much against your will, I'm glad for you. But that doesn't mean everyone is so lucky.
So, you get to visit the station until your lawyer arrives, I guarantee it.

If an officer asks you a simple question and you give them the third degree, they'll respond in kind.

"I don't know" is a valid answer and will work in all those cases where there isn't any hard proof that you do know (or a tip-off).

If you do know and there has been a tip-off (so they know you know) they'll press you pretty hard for information.

I've travelled all over the world in cars with foreign plates and that's a great way to meet the local law enforcement types (Canadian plates in the Southern US states for instance seem to have some magical property that attracts police vehicles), on the whole policemen (rather than 'cops') have a job to do and if you make it harder they'll make your life harder.

If you feel you are being treated unfair simply shut up. Going lawyerly on them is going to backfire on you.

The police can be really annoying in some countries, and any advice in this thread should be adapted to local customs.

Not volunteering any information is a good start and is probably universal.
I've watched this video three times now and can't decide if my 'disturbed' reaction is stronger or weaker than my 'amazed' reaction. Both are quite high.
Actually i blame nokia for the sad state of mobile user interfaces until the iPhone came along
For Rails you should run nginx + Passenger

No, that's for a production website and requires setup. They just need to replace webrick with thin.

> gem install thin

then

> thin start

instead of

> ./script/server

Simple.
"I need you to understand my outlook on this which is that my life might depend on me keeping my mouth shut right now."

I wouldn't say that, it implies guilt (by the letter of the law and justice an innocent person's life wouldn't depend on them keeping their mouth shut).

Further more, the specific phrase "my life might depend on me keeping my mouth shut" could be interpreted by a cop as being more than what you mean - eg maybe you are harboring a criminal who has threatened to kill you.

As geeks, I think we have a tendency to 'front load' a lot of this as we try to explain our logic. A short "No comment" is best and the more you say, even in trying to justify your logic, opens up opportunity for a cop to use something against you.
Why?

I got stopped in Canada, and was asked that same question. I said sure, go ahead, took 5 minutes and I was on my way again.

Same happened somewhere in Texas on a road trip, same outcome.

I asked my lawyer in Canada what would happen if I did not consent to a search, and he said they would probably have taken that as a reason to stop me again a few miles down the road for some infraction and would have searched the car top to bottom with a fine comb.

If you have nothing in your car it's quite ok to have it searched, what specific reason would you have not to consent in the knowledge they can force the issue if they want to?
That much makes sense. But do you think I should just find out who he is and store his name and number in my phone?

Or is there some standard process with a lawyer, where you contact him ahead of time and ask if you can keep him on file just in case?
A friend of mine got in trouble once so I have had the inestimable pleasure of being interviewed by police.

Here's the thing - there's all sorts of technicalities they may or may not use. If you totally stonewall them? If they have any leverage, they will use that leverage. You want them to lose interest in you.

A traffic stop you just comply politely, decline to be searched and say: there is no sense having a right to privacy if it is not exercised, Officer X.

Here's what I did:

0) Officer : Keefe, I hear X happened, what about Y?
1) Keefe : oh, I dunno...mumble... I'm so embarrassed... this is so embarrassing <looks at feet>
3) Goto 0

After a while, he lost interest. I saw the police report afterwards where I was noted as "uncooperative". They don't know that you're not a social reject or something, just refuse to interact.
Microsoft will be 3.5 years late to the smartphone party when windows phone 7 series will eventually be released. People would have already made their choice between iPhone and Android.
I have to disagree with a lot of statements in this second article. For instance:

"Amongst other things, growth is needed in a capitalist economy to offset labour productivity – in other words, to provide new jobs for people made jobless by the economy’s relentless drive towards increasing labour efficiency, which itself is stimulated by the need to grow in order to outcompete others."

Productivity doesn't create joblessness. When people are able to spend less on one thing, they can spend more on other things, things that people must work to provide.

Efficiency doesn't create joblessness. It creates wealth. And the more efficient things are, the less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.

And less time it takes to produce the things we need to live, the more time we spend considering the effects of our activities.
good question. I would suggest:

a) you might have passengers in the car who have something ilegal on them. in many states if a passenger drops drugs in your car so that it is not on their person, and no one admits to it, then it is considered the driver's property. Yes, even good friends might rat on you in this situation.

b) If the cop is looking to find anything to make an arrest to help them go with a hunch about you then they can start inspecting your tires or placement of a GPS on the window (illegal in many states) and could then drum up a charge of driving dangerous vehicle etc.

c) rental cars - you can never 100% check a rental car and it has been known for innocent people in Las Vegas to get stopped and the police find traces of cocaine powder etc in the ash try or coin holder, etc that belonged to a previous renter

In my case... I drive a sports car and so I keep nothing in the car in order for it to be as light as possible (no junk in the back, no crap on the floor). I have nothing in the car, I've never been in the possession of a controlled substance, I know my car is in top condition, etc... and I still wouldn't let the police search my car.
Hah, I never knew there was a name for it, thanks.
The Pirate Bay has ‘stolen’ 46 times more dollars than exist on Earth.
But would your situation have been any better if you had just declined to speak to them? The amount of time wasted on your part could have been far greater (let alone expenses for an attorny)
Probably yes. As your temperature approaches the outside temperature less heat enters the building, so there is less heat to pump out. (Non-linearities probably abound though.)
A Facebook advertiser could make the same argument about having access to more user data. Most people probably think their searches are private already.
If you have nothing in your car it's quite ok to have it searched, what specific reason would you have not to consent in the knowledge they can force the issue if they want to?

Your last phrase is not true. They need probable cause for a search, and a speeding charge will not give them that.

Reason #1 to refuse: The possibility of being framed.

Reason #2 to refuse: There could be something in the car that you're not aware of. I remember an old movie called The Star Chamber (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086356/ ). As I recall the plot, a man's van was stolen and used to commit a kidnap/murder, then returned to its initial location. A subsequent illegal police search turned up the kid's shoe under a seat, something the owner really had no clue about. This is a one-in-a-million occurrence, but it's you life we're talking about.
I'm currently 28. I cruised through college because of the lack of 'real world' application and have been working for startups in NYC for the past three years.

I definitely am ambitious when it comes to challenges. Solving them does make me happy, but I am seriously feeling at the moment like my ideal job would be to sit in a room, have a bunch of budding entrepreneurs (or experienced businessmen) come to me with their problems, and spending an hour solving them!
The last is definitely the case. It's just a question of persevering.
A 'one-in-a-million' occurrence from a movie and the police framing a stranger from out of state?

I'm pretty paranoid on the whole, however that seems a bit extreme even to me.

I'm the guy that will go over a rental car to make sure that someone didn't leave a surprise under the carpet or in the boot and I'll board the airplane with nothing except for what I can carry and keep my luggage in view at all times.

This sounds a little over the top to me though.
They're correct if you have your appearance settings set to Graphite instead of Blue.
I'm pretty much suffering from the same myself. I started to think that success stories of other people are probably doing more harm than good and I'll now stop reading when it looks as a success story. I need to write a success story about me first.
German High Court Declares All Software Potentially Patentable
I am current taking the search engine for a spin and it has made a great first impression. I particularly like that instead of paging the search results it displays the results on demand using ajax. I prefer this interface because with less effort I see more results. I've found that with Google I tend to not to move past the first page and by doing that I probably miss out on information that may have been useful to me.

I wonder if Google has ever considered a similar interface for their search results.
Agreed, this is great advice. I tend to not do #1 because of my non-linear approach to problem solving.. which basically means I try to solve whatever I see as the biggest problem rather than the 'easiest' or 'most boring.' I'll try this one next week :)

On #2, I've definitely seen this happen for me but it's usually more like 2-3 months later. I wonder how I'd feel after a true two week break ala a vacation with no internet. I bet that would be phenomenal.
a) is a good one, b) is something I didn't know about, thanks for that one (currently not visiting the States, possibly never again, but a good warning all the same), c) I've been warned about and I check rental cars thoroughly.

Probably not as thoroughly as a police search but more than good enough to spot the vast majority of items left behind by previous occupants (and I should probably make a listing of that some day, it makes for interesting reading).

The most annoying stop ever was one in Germany in a relatively fancy car, when I was still young. They couldn't quite match the skinny kid in the jeans and the t-shirt with the car unless there were drugs involved and they took they time about it. I think they spent a whole hour and when I drove off they still thought I'd tricked them somehow.

I've never before had my peppermints checked for illegal substances :)