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It is especially interesting to hear this from a Cocoa developer, by the way, considering the rate at which Cocoa apps are pirated. (I'm not calling you a hypocrite; no, quite the opposite. "Suicidal" might be a better epithet here.)

There's nothing I can do about piracy. The options are to either (a) treat it as the enemy and fight it or (b) accept the benefits it brings and write off the losses.

Judging by the progress the RIAA and co are having with option (a), I think option (b) is a far more rational alternative.
I think this article is missing the long-term changes Jobs wants to see with TV. It's pretty shortsighted to say that Apple should just build a better TiVo (with more input options), which is essentially what this article argues.

The talk that he references is very telling of how Jobs thinks about this space, but he's wrong to think that Jobs was hinting at the new Apple TV as the solution to the problems he was discussing. The Apple TV announced yesterday is still just a hobby, and Steve obviously knows and acknowledges that openly.

The decades-old model of TV channels with scheduled content broadcasting is on the chop block here. That is what needs to eventually change. It's going to be a long uphill battle for Apple to affect that change, since all parties involved are so heavily invested in the current business models. If Apple were to embrace the status quo (like TiVo), that would be counterproductive.

So instead they continue to pursue Apple TV as a hobby and they hope to prove to the content providers that they can make as much (or more) money by renting out their content and streaming it over the internet. If they eventually succeed in amassing all the content currently provided by cable and satellite companies, consumers will buy their device en masse. I agree with those who predict that the Apple TV, at that point, will actually be a TV instead of a set top box. That's what Jobs was referring to when he said "tear up the set top box" and "nobody's willing to buy a set top box."
I've got a strange feeling that they could leave the sites in one piece if they allowed users to completely remove some tags. Right now you can ignore some stuff, but that doesn't always help. As much as I'd like to ignore-but-not-remove some questions (like Ruby-related ones - I don't use it, but would be glad to keep an eye on what's happening there), I also want some of them to disappear completely. For example right now there are ~10 iphone / ipad / iwhatever / obj-c related questions. I don't have any interest in those technologies and they just get in the way. To lesser extent this applies also to flex, asp.net and java-ee for me.

I'm really surprised this option is not available and I think that for many people this would be sufficient to actually remove many off-topic questions from their view. No need to split the community, since people might actually see something random they know answer to, even if they're not interested in the area normally - for example many sysadmins could give quick answers to most of the "programming" bash questions.
I think most people use "homeschooling" in the sense of re-creating a school environment at home - assignments, textbooks, tests, etc. At least one of the parents is expected to take on the role of the teacher, with all that implies.

"Unschooling" does away with most of the conventions of traditional schooling, and tries to give kids as much freedom as possible to explore and learn on their own, under the assumption that kids learn better that way.

There may be more or less structure involved, at the discretion of the parents, but the parent is more of a facilitator and less of an teacher. The theory is that the trappings of school get in the way of actual learning, so unschooling tries to remove as many unnecessary obstacles as possible.
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<- hasn't been paying attention, apparently. It's time to look at the Palm again, it seems!
Doesnt EVER win. They will just ambush your ambushers. The best you can do is just let it pass.
But isn't legal (even now) in the UK. Though I believe they're reviewing copyright law, atm.
If nothing else, having a Congress and President of different parties probably would have changed the situation where this would have dropped off the map on the priority list given the current economic realities. Particularly since McCain is also a Senator who has never been a governor of a state which means he (like President Obama) hasn't been through a real budget cycle or done legislation from the executive side. Aides are great but don't seem to be compensating.
Here I don't mean to focus on the methods to get the finished product, but rather copying the product for use. The OP explains that since nothing is actually removed it's not theft. I disagree. If I want to open source some of the code I write, I'll do it. Aside from that no one should be able to copy and use the code I've written (and open it up to possible distribution) without any regard for my opinion on the matter. To me I'd consider that theft.
As far as monetary value of the IP/source-code I agree, but I know one failed company whose founders are now extremely regretful of the whole situation, because they produced a bunch of interesting stuff that's now locked up. They'd like to open-source it so what they spent 7 years of their life on can at least influence other software, get them some recognition, and maybe be used by someone, but the investors aren't willing to, and aren't willing to sell it for anything close to the market value (which is pretty close to zero). There isn't really any prospect of a buyer, but from the investors' point of view, if they keep ownership of the IP of failed companies, they might get lucky with one of the IP bundles turning out to be valuable. Even if the chance is very small, it's at least a better chance than the guaranteed zero chance they'd have if they open-sourced it or sold it for peanuts today.
So, I'll assume you're above the crossover point. In Sweden, we tend to think that everybody should be able to be home with their kids, not just the ones with enough income to save up..
It doesn't matter how much you spent to develop it. All that matters is how much it's worth. So if the highest offer you can get is $1,000, then offer to buy it for more ($1500).

If you can't afford to buy the assets yourself maybe you can find a new investor to buy the assets on your behalf.

Otherwise: yes, you should just move on.
At the risk of sounding like an Apple apologist, I strongly suspect the content providers are the reason for the Apple TV's reliative lameness. I don't think it'll be possible to build a truly great settop box until the TV networks stop with their fantasy that if they're stubborn enough, things will go back to the way it was before the internet.
You're correct, and that only makes it worse.

On one hand the reporter is blaming Craig for providing the canvas for people to write bad things; on the other the reporter is actually doing the lying and manipulating to get paid.

This is like blaming the business owner for the comments graffiti artists put on his walls. Even if he does his best to wash them off whenever he finds them.
Ping is probably centered on becoming the platform for culture/entertainment. It will disrupt a lot of startups if and when it becomes web-based.
What's there to handle? You owe a fiduciary duty to your shareholders to notify them of the offer. If you're in a tailspin, presumably the VC is going to control the board decision, and you can safely expect them to act in their own interests. $1000 is irrelevant to the VC, but if you're being forced to entertain $1000 offers for $100k investments, your BATNA isn't great, everyone knows it, nobody's ever going to give you a good deal, and the VCs are pretty much paid to understand that.
Regarding the overloading of Ctrl-C on Windows - The story is actually a bit more complex.

In DOS, Ctrl-C command was not originally overloaded. Ctrl-Ins was Copy. Shift-Del was Cut, Shift-Ins was Paste. Both Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break were abort. Macs, however, did not originally have the Ins or Del keys, and thus needed different shortcuts. Besides, Jobs would never have copied DOS. He didn't even want arrow keys on the original Mac 128K, but finally acquiesced.

As Windows began to mimick the "look and feel" of the Mac OS, they adopted the use of the Ctrl key as a substitute for the Cmd key. In other words, it was because Microsoft was copying pre-existing commands from Apple, but transposing them to Ctrl, that they ended up with ambiguous commands.

Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins continued to work for several versions of Windows. At the same time, newer versions of Word and other Microsoft DOS applications began to support the newer Windows shortcuts.

Since I was thoroughly used to those shortcuts from my use of QuickBasic and Word for DOS, I continued to use the original shortcuts in Windows until they no longer worked, and only then did I switch to Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.
CNN is invested or in a joint venture with Washington Post, right? Have they cleaned up the "massage" ads that their own columnist figured out were a front for prostitution in 30 minutes of research? Any timetable on that? The article was, hmm, ten years or so ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...

p.s. Lest I be misread, I am not defending Craigslist here, just annoyed at persistent MSM claims to moral superiority.
> You shouldn't rely on the HTTP request parser to save you if you have security issues elsewhere

This doesn't make sense. Why should a particular piece of the application not be coded with security in mind?

> You should fix the security issues.

One part of this is sanitizing user input. Why would you not do this as early as possible?
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I've been trying a bunch of things on a side project of mine (NotaryCRM.com) to have it rank higher for specific terms -- I've basically followed all the tactical advice that others have given about keyword placement, title tags, etc.

I know this is something that takes time, but how long do you guys usually wait between "tweaks" to decide if something worked or not?
Here's the list, can you tell me which question you thought was stupid, and why?

1. Can people trust that children are not being sex-trafficked on Craigslist?

2. What are you guys doing to protect these girls?

3. [Craigslist says its screen these ads manually, but] look at this ad. It says young, sexy, sweet, and bubbly. Clearly here she writes $250 an hour. I mean what do you think she's selling in her bra and underwear? A dinner date? And she's in her bra and underwear?

4. Why do I have the responsibility to report this to you when it's your Web site?
I somewhat feel the same way about twitter's hashtags. All it does it eat up the limited space already allocated. Why are you not putting words related to the topic in your tweet already?
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Airwolf is the word we should use to describe things of beauty, intensity, and majesty. Shakespeare is airwolf. James Brown's music is airwolf. Sex so good it makes your spine tingle and your knees buckle -- that's airwolf! And there is nothing more airwolf... than Airwolf.
The Windows key came into being around Windows 95, right when Windows and OS/2 were at the height of competition. IBM didn't implement it then (while most of the rest of the industry did) and then, even once OS/2 was dead, just never got around to making the change.
A key point she made was that law enforcement never got a call regarding underage girls. She asked if he ever contacted the police as they'd promised to do. He gave no answer then and none in this whiney response. Whatever your feeling is about prostitution aside, they promised to crack down underage girls. Maybe we should give the geek a few more minutes to think it over...
look up 'fiduciary duty'

if it's a vc it's not their money (99%) and they have a fiduciary duty to their investors to get as much of their investment back as possible.

that's why...

you could always offer $1,001 of your own money to buy it personally, etc.
Shame they didn't just support the existing wireless standard for sending audio/video: DNLA/UPnP
Nice work guys. I'm really impressed with the App updates today and the website update. One thing I was surprised by was that you don't have an option for "Allow Notifo to send me information about service updates and new features" and then have this announcement out to peoples devices.
The other thing is that if you're going to use Paul's blog for announcements then it would really pay to have a mobile friendly version of the blog given your target market.
Agreed 100%. VCs aren't in the risk game. They're in the risk-mitigation game.
True, but some types of tries sidestep this problem completely -- I'm a big fan of the radix/Patricia tree (mentioned in the article). It uses less space than a hash table, and has a similar asymptotic runtime when you consider the cost of hashing the string itself.
Thank you! Now if someone could tackle the rest of the variables in startup funding in the same easy-to-follow manner, they'd get some seriously good karma (not points, actual goodwill).
Generally for me I wait at least one "turn" of the PageRank and possibly two. Closely monitor when Google does a PageRank update and check your PR then to see if what you wanted occurred.
What's interesting is that iTunes would never have existed if not for MP3 downloads, but also because of Napster-style ease-of-access to a large catalogue of music.

This popularity seems to have been the big catalyst for trolls trying to make a buck, which means the whole blasted thing is deeply mired in a lot of people's long-term interests.

To me, this means the whole thing is going to be completely lacking a sensible view for decades -- both POV's that support "in the public good" (e.g. being able to use excerpts of copyrighted material for publication/research/etc, make digital backups of your property) as well as being compensated for the service (e.g. selling copies of your music to pay the bills so you can write more songs).
Good post. The original Mac actually did ship without arrow keys and no current Apple keyboards have Ins. Not sure how long that's been the case...
At Sonicity, we built a content distribution network in a box, optimized for RTP-style streaming delivery and FEC file transfers with FLID/DL-style congestion control (we did this before there was a FLID/DL, so I'm kind of proud of it). I owned the "router" component, which was tens of thousands of lines of Quantify-optimized asynchronous C++ and ran multicast routing over an IS-IS-style link state routing protocol (the product started out as "IRC without netsplits" and, uh, metastasized).

In the last 6 months at the company, we managed to refactor the design so that the hairiest routing and group management code could get hoisted out of C++, and most CDN participant hosts could just run a tiny stub forwarder that was simple enough to be kernel-resident (a design I awesomely rejected when one of my cofounders proposed it at the start of the company).

The whole source tree was many hundreds of thousands of lines; it was cross-platform Win32 and Linux with graphical clients on each platform and IE integration. There was a lot of good stuff there. My friends Danny, Kneel, Andy, and Tim all worked on it at various times and they are, unlike me, ridiculously good.

Poof. All gone.

This is what happens when you take VC and your company fails. What's better is that by taking VC, you drastically increase your chances of failing; VCs need you to shoot the moon. Our VCs decided what we should do with all that code was to go head to head against Akamai.

You may get lucky with a very, very cool investor who gifts your IP back to you. But you're not entitled to that and you probably won't get it.
Man, I'm so glad I'm not the Craig of Craigslist, because I when she asked,

"What are you doing to protect these young girls?" I would have probably answered along the lines of,

"Protect her from what, getting $500?"
Really reminds me of the fictional Mandelbrot Monk: http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/udo.htm
We would love to do notifications about updates, new features, etc, but that is against the Apple APNS terms... so we can't. We can, however, add a 'nag box' inside the app that will check with the server about new version numbers and then tell the user to update (that has been added to this new version, so it won't be seen until the next version).

Agree about the mobile version of Stammy's blog. I'll keep nagging him about that too :)
What staunch said. If you can't afford $1500 to buy your code back, you're not serious enough to be arguing with your VC's anyways. I'm embarrased that I wrote 100 words up there and didn't just say this myself.
How can you call bullshit on the notion of people paying when they can pirate instead? Everybody's aware of file sharing at this point, and nearly everybody has internet access. Somehow, the content control industry keeps getting money, mostly from sales of their content. What is your explanation, if it isn't that people pay for stuff they like despite free options?
According to the video, the full solve took 10.75 seconds, so it was actually under 11 seconds. Just sayin.
Activities that are actually theft do not require this little semantic pas de deux every time they come up.

Sort of like how anything that is actually a science doesn't need to include the word in its name.
The current price is high because the supply is constrained. If CA Proposition 19 passes, the price is probably going to drop by an order of magnitude. The dreams of the tax revenue rescuing the state are going to vanish. (No citation because I pulled this out of my nether regions.)
She was talking about underage girls being sold on his site. Even if they were paid $500 the pimp wouldn't allow them to keep it.
So, from what I understand, it's a period of months... rather than weeks or days? If so, what do you do in the meantime?
The OP explains that since nothing is actually removed it's not theft. I disagree.

It depends whether you're referring to your own personal definition of "theft" or a legal or common definition (of which there are many). If the former, no-one can quarrel with you, of course ;-)

If the latter, in some jurisdictions, permanent deprivation of property is required for "theft", so copying files would not count. Where permanent deprivation is not required and non-tangible property counts, then sure, it'd be theft.

Even forgetting the definition of theft, sure, no-one should be able to obtain and use your code without permission, but if they were to do so, it doesn't necessarily mean they have committed the legal offence of "theft." You are free to consider it such but legally it may not be such.
To be honest, I have a hard time feeling bad for Craig.

Craigslist made him millions (yes, yes, we all know the story about how he wants to keep CL intentionally small, spurning potential hundreds of millions in profits - but still, he's a millionaire). Part of his money-making strategy is charging prostitutes to post sex ads.

So he can use "I'm a socially inept geek" excuse as long as he wants, I think it's only fair that he is asked some tough questions about it.
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The tags on the very front page need to be improved. "Ignored" tags on the front page just fade the text, rather than filtering.

However you will probably be happier using tag-specific views. Questions tagged as Ruby:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby

Questions tagged Ruby AND Javascript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby+javascript

Questions tagged Ruby OR Javascript:

"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby or javascript" (or rather http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby%20or%20javasc...)

I suspect many Stack Overflow answerers do it this way round with a large number of tags, rather than trying to ignore tags they don't like.
Apple's successes in the music and phone industries have both been accompanied with a radical redefinition of the role of the content/service provider. All this article really says is that the Apple TV can't take off unless it is accompanied with a similar revolution for cable companies, and that the author is skeptical that Apple can engineer a revolution in that industry. I think Apple would probably agree to a large extent.

The complexities of living room hardware are a result of a reluctance of certain companies to abandon the broadcast paradigm for video. Devices like DVRs and SlingBox are either completely unnecessary or vastly simpler when all video is on-demand. The new Apple TV is what those devices will have to become if the traditional cable business model of transmitting every channel simultaneously to every house is replaced by an all-IP solution. (And that switch will eventually occur, because fiber to the home internet services will eventually force cable providers to reallocate all their channels to IP service.)

Once traditional broadcast services die, there's no reason to keep the concept of watching a new show at the exact same time as your neighbor (except in the case of live broadcasts, which Apple demonstrated yesterday that they probably have a solution for).

The difficulty for Apple comes from the fact that the whole pricing structure will have to change. Instead of spamming a vague number of viewers with commercials that lengthen the viewing time by 30%, and charging subscribers fees that subsidize content they never watch, providers and consumers will have to deal with real, accurate numbers: how much it really costs to produce a show, how many people are willing to pay to see that show, and how many people really see those ads.

This change is far more significant than Apple's wresting control of the iPhone software from the cellular carriers, and far more predictable than the shake-up that resulted from $0.99 songs. Apple can't manipulate all the players in to making this transition happen, so they have to rely on the market forces that already exist and position themselves to be the first and best ones to fill the niche that the Apple TV is waiting for.
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That's just slang! You can't actually steal an idea!

Once someone has made it possible for the idea to be shared -- even if they wrote it down and locked it in their safe -- then the information is already potentially accessible!

Breaking-in to someone's home to steal the paper you wrote your idea on is explicitly the theft, and getting the idea written on it is a side-effect.
Or heck, offer to buy it for a little less, since I imagine selling it to a member of the company would be less complicated and you can extract that in the price. (Though perhaps I'm wrong and it's easier to sell out of the company?)
And gist.
If Craigslist itself claims that it can and does screen these ads, then why is it out of bounds for CNN to point out that it apparently can't or doesn't? That's not CNN "misunderstanding large-scale websites", that's CNN trying to expose a claim from Craigslist itself as false.
I wouldn't say they're so much competing with myspace or last.fm as they're poised to dominate a wide open space hobbled by those two companies poor execution. Nonetheless, I effectively agree with danishkhan.
Personally, and I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I think you can help yourself by not socially norming piracy into a badge of geek cred. But then, I don't believe in the supposed benefits of piracy.

(Actually, piracy directly benefits my line of work, and nets some interesting intellectual challenges for me and my field, since it's driving plenty of businesses into the arms of DRM-style schemes. It will not surprise you to learn that I also believe the pirates are going to lose the technical battle over DRM in the long term, too. So, in behalf of everyone who enjoys writing kernel debuggers and hypervisors: thanks for the extra billable hours!)