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I think paying for porn is easier than torrenting it if you have any discrimination at all in what you're after.

How would a generic account be any better than a credit card? How about a pre-paid credit card? Unless the account is usable for purchases other than porn, it will look just as odd on a credit card statement / bank transfer etc. Paypal is a mess as it is, and even still Checkout is doing a poor job of competing with it.

I also suspect 99c videos wouldn't be competitive with current products. If we're talking impulse purchases here, such that free porn clip sites aren't doing it, I think there's something else going on. Porn vendors have to walk a tightrope: show enough of what's available to encourage the purchase, but not so much that the customer gets satisfaction too early. I think the way they prod the customer over the line is by promising a lot in return for the commitment. And of course, they're betting that the commitment lasts longer than is in the customer's best interests.
Let me sum up that page in two words: Do it.

Obvious, don't you think?
You don't give your password to them...It's stored on your hard-drive (and so is the search index). They just didn't communicate that clearly. You can find a lot more information regarding Cloud Magic here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjztU-TjcU&feature=playe...
Pretty sure the 1-2 acre number is quite relative to diet. Perhaps for heavy cattle grazing, bush meat, etc. but not for a vegetable based diet. For an alternative reference see: http://books.google.com/books?id=hwAHmktpk5IC&pg=PA819&#...
eBay's not the winner everywhere. Here in New Zealand they got comprehensively beaten by Trademe, so nobody here uses eBay at all. Now who's going to make the Trademe killer!
I think you could have made that point better without the lol-rhetoric :-)

Is there a MITM attack against HD technologies that works without breaking encryption?

Please enlighten someone who is not up to speed with his disk security circumvention.
The harder problem IMHO is customer acquisition. Many companies have built (and still have) link graphs of reasonable quality, but they all struggle to gain real customers.

I started out before those APIs existed, and did all my own crawling & indexing. When they came out, I decided to focus on my value-adds because I thought that was a quicker path to customer acquisition.

Furthermore, I don't use Yahoo/Bing straight up, e.g. I re-rank, omit, etc. I also mix them with my own my index/negative spam index from my own crawling efforts.
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Is there a tutorial, for those not so familiar with electrical engineering? Also I would like to know how exactly DRAM or SRAM works, is it possible to illustrate using this simulator?
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This reminded me of the pre-Google days, when pornographers really loved the web. Porn sites were extremely effective at gaming search engines, so several of the top-10 results for most search engines were usually porn. That sounds harmless, but popup blockers didn't exist yet (or they were unknown), and IE4 and IE5 had no problems letting popups spawn. Landing on one of these pages led to a potentially irreversible sea of porn popups, and a chance that your computer would be infected with a virus. Since this was pre-Google, odds are good that every popup window was profitable via ad platforms that paid per impression. Those were the days.
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I think you need to teach these things at an early age, and teaching "algorithmic principles" while sound in theory is probably also a good way to make an entire class of children ignore you completely.

The best way to teach people procedural awareness is probably to teach people to tinker with something they can start using right away.

Things like automatically programming your phone to reply to your parents via SMS with some plausible responses when you're out drinking, use the Facebook API to get info about your friends that they thought wasn't accessible etc. Show how you can use rtmpdump to download your favorite music from some closed video site, or write a script for uTorrent that'll have downloaded your favorite TV episode by the time you wake up.

The most important thing is to show people that procedural awareness will be worthwhile for them in their everyday life. It's easy to demonstrate that, and it's actually true for most people, unlike other some other subjects at school which'll probably never be pertinent to the average student.
An intermediary-free broadcast system can easily be implemented by setting up a memory segment that is shared between processes. One process writes to the memory segment, and many other processes can read from it (usually after being signaled to do so via a condition variable).
I hope Cuil is open sourced!!

Would love to learn from from Cuil 's cuil code :)
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Well, tube sites have ads going to dating sites. Dump the porn, click here to find someone and screw each other's brains out. Tube sites will always have someone buying ad space.
The solution, if you ask me, is interactivity. Wanna know what it's like to do it with pornstar X? Buy the interactive DVD. That's impossible to rip on tube sites. Even a dvdrip torrent is useless because it destroys the interactivity.

Making sure everyone buys and does not pirate? Simple, offer some sort of hardware enhancing interactivity. Without it it's not fun anymore. There you go - torrents, tube sites, anything is down the toilet.
Maybe there will be a new problem, people who clone the equipments and sell them cheaper, but that's already a different story.
Most porn companies are registered (and listed on credit card statements) under innocuous-sounding names anyway, partly to prevent wives/girlfriends from finding out and partly so you don't remember to cancel your subscription.
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Designing, manufacturing and selling computerized sex toys is the simple solution?
They can be the long tail of search engines, an army of Google beaters that are used by people that would never consider using Yahoo search.

I don't think the ordering of the results is Google's competitive advantage anymore it's branding and habit.
Speaking of legacy, wonder if there would be interest in Cuil as a apache project...
who knows what might arise from its ashes! :)
You are right, the title is somewhat enticing but it is true.
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Yes, simple as in "sureshot" :)
Also, keep in mind that you only have to design the hardware once and only the content you sell is different.
Debugging the hardware isn't something you do with every DVD/BluRay release.
Isn't it rather:
Do it REPEATEDLY.
KEEP doing it, even if you're bad at first.
LEARN TO LOVE doing it.
Do it GREAT.

So yeah, i have to admit, in the end it all boils down to: Do it.
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Great idea re the case studies. The aim is to make the dashboard as easy to use as possible and use standard connectors to many services (authenticated via OAuth where that option exists) and have a "reverse API" to allow you to upload your custom data straight on to your status board also. I have a way to go to properly explain the potential benefits.
RIAA and MPAA really need to come to their senses. They just can't buy more black hat firepower than disenchanted script kiddies will unleash against them for free. This is almost identical to the repercussions (having their websites defaced) of their attempts to pollute P2P networks with virus-infected seeds. They're really not good at this wannabe cyber-warfare game, and should be held responsible for misconduct, like any other netizen.
The only way they can get out is to hire 4chan.
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Anyone going from HN? I considered, but personally I like to go to a dev/designer oriented meetup at this point.
Green tech is certainly a bubble. Have we even seen any real acquisitions? At least DotCom made some people rich...
Step 1: Run AnyDVD (or whatever).
Step 2: Set a breakpoint in decryptBlock
Step 3: "print key"

(Yes, it's more involved than this, but the point is... if your computer has the raw bits, you have the raw bits.)
blog spam. It's not like this hasn't been covered in countless websites, magazine articles and books.
These kind of weekend projects make me feel insignificant.
But then I see that author is on Chrome UI team so he is familiar with technology required (App Engine, Chrome HTML5).

Without that context it is just magic(and even then idea and implementation is great). But I think there must be something many of us can do in a weekend that will look like magic. But it was possible because of months/years of experience.
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Keep in mind that that "Why Django Sucks" talk was given by a guy who very much loves Django.

I doubt that the Python community will ever spawn a web framework as slick as Rails. I think that the people who choose Python tend to have a very pragmatic, engineering bent and I don't think they value the slickness as much as the Rails community does. Keep in mind that Python is one of the few languages that Google writes code in.

Probably if Rails closed up shop today, more of the people that value that would move to python. Rails tends to draw what I would call the "web 2.0 crowd" who make very slick, very stylish websites. You can do that in Django too but you have to be willing to hire a designer. Ruby/Rails tend to see that as a core competitive advantage. Python has a much longer history and therefore tends to be more conservative. You can see that reflected in Django's release/deprecation schedule. Neither of those approaches are bad things. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

I think both of those languages/frameworks are better for each other although Python frameworks are better at borrowing ideas from Rails than the other way around. That's probably true of many frameworks though. They're not all that different, and I think you should probably learn and/or try out both.

I think both Django and Rails need to look out for the winner of the web battle in what I see as the up-and-coming language/framework: Javascript/Node.js

This is all, of course, just my opinion.
Hard to beat, but not impossible. As far as auction sites go, NYSE/ARCA was (about 15 years ago) pretty much the only site providing double auctions for stocks. Now there are lots of them - BATS, BSX, assorted darkpools.
Agreed. Even if you can't include certain low-cost carriers, any information that you could provide about these flights would be better than any other site has attempted, and would make your search results that much more useful. If I understand correctly, the actual flights don't change too often, so if you could simply put somewhere in the sidebar that Southwest (or RyanAir or whoever) provides a flight for the same route, it would be fantastic.
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Dear RIAA/MPAA,

Although Anonymous is not your personal army, and when Jesus asked them their name, they replied "My name is Legion, for we are many", and by many, they mean over 9000; and they're also a front for the Marcab Confederacy....

They take large sums of unmarked, non-sequential large denomination bills, and don't skimp on the briefcase. Deliver it to moot's beachfront property in Mexico.
I might be missing something here but surely a web presence is not vital to either of these organizations, and while it might be satisfying to DDOS them it doesn't accomplish much.

Also www.aiplex.com appears to be back up.
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For the young guys out there, you should know that DOS is illegal. If an individual is caught doing this, they could end-up in jail or in the least get a criminal record. So, if you want a decent job and to be a productive member of society, don't DOS websites.

Your IP address is not anonymous.
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Oddly, while giving a tutorial on how to be a part of the DDoS, the article misses out the minor detail that it is in fact illegal.
Evolution can be stuck in local maxima determined by some path it went down a long time ago. If life happened to evolve an inherently inefficient metabolism, it would be stuck with it forever because you can't really go back on something that fundamental (we share glycolysis mechanism with bacteria).

And, even if evolution automatically did win, plants did not evolve to feed us. They evolved to reproduce themselves, and we have incidentally hijacked them to use as food sources.
Yeah, "practise it" would have been what I should have written. I had it in my head before visiting the site but then it changed to "do". Meh. :)
The article doesn't get very concrete, and given the origins of "'pataphysics" as parody I'm not sure how seriously to take this.

On the other hand, treating software systems as realities in their own right – with only incidental mappings back to our reality – is a fascinating idea. (Obviously an entirely self-contained reality is no good; I/O are pretty fundamental.) I guess the question is, what happens when we stop requiring software model things, and instead let it be things?
You made it sound like something anybody could do in their living room. The vast majority of pirates don't know what a debugger is, much less use one.

Also, what is "decryptBlock"? some kind of vendor specified memory region for storing security routines? ;-)
If anybody hasn't yet read Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", it's really worth checking out.

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True, but hopefully if they are allowing unofficial apps, the official one will be allowed.

If it is not allowed by Apple again, maybe the "clarification" promise of the new App Store rules will officially tell Google what Apple doesn't like. At that point (i assume) Google will do one of the following:

1) Make the requested changes and get it approved.

2) If they don't like the requested changes, they will make a very public post on the Google Public Policy or Voice blog like they did about their complaint to the FCC about the original app rejection (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/09/our-complete-...)

Also to note, it is possible that the original Google Voice app submitted last summer would not work with changes Google has made to Voice in the past year. So theoretically now that they know (or found out) that Apple will accept gVoice apps, Google could be working on updates to the app to get it to work before re-submitting it to Apple.

Either way, I think (hope?) that at some point in the near future the official app will come through.
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Back in the optimistic quarter century after WW II, this was probably quite common. A women with an expensive degree from a good school got to keep a household running, maybe typing theses for income, while a man, not necessarily better equipped for academic work, got a Ph.D. I suspect that it was part of what gave the emerging feminist movement such a fund of well-educated, articulate, and pissed-off women to draw on.

I guess the writer is fortunate, and I hope that his good fortune will continue. I seem to know an awful lot of folks who married at 21 and divorced before 30.
Create one edition of Windows at each release - at least keep it simple (stupid). Peope rarely figure out exactly what the differences are, what with abstruse spreadsheet explanations. When they finally get their hands on a version that isn't Ultimate, they are left with the feeling that they don't get the full experience, which detracts greatly from the joy of getting a new version of Windows.

In other words, it's detrimental to the brand and marketing of Windows - and Office, which seems to suffer from the same. There is no "Windows", "Windows 7" or "Office 2007" there is Basic, Somewhat Basic, Student, Enterprise, Ultimate, Blue, Purple, Turqoise, Cyan edition. I don't want Microsoft to be Apple, but just consider how easy iWorks and Mac OS X is to market by comparison. And fit into just one page.

I like that you'll call the next version of Windows "Windows 8", which, to me, is a step in the right direction. But the aforementioned is one of the many things that ensures that "corporate" will always be a part of a sentence about Microsoft.

I'm open to something along the lines of a "Private" and "Enterprise"/"Business" version, but I find it hard to believe that private super users won't want the features in the E/B edition. If you have to create separate versions, maybe you could make a "Basic" and "Advanced", which separates the users who don't need - or understand - the exclusive features from the companies and super users who do, and allows them to get a cheaper version without all the complex dingus.

(FWIW, I use Windows 7 and intend to do so for a while, but I'd love for Microsoft to be more of a start-up than a corporation. It feels complacent in some respects or just out of touch, which I assume is because it has to appeal to many platforms and customer types at the same time - but does it really have to show so much?)
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As much as you've got going for Xbox and Live, you're getting known as the people who always, gosh darn it, have to monetize everything in the Marketplace. No such thing as free downloads and updates, be it new maps, avatars or other content packs. Valve and other altruistic developers have often mentioned this problem.

This makes me, either as a consumer or a developer, to like PlayStation 3 all the more, even though your online store and service seems to beat theirs handily by other measures.
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It also occurs to me that while 'bad' teachers can often still hang on to their jobs (I've had more than my fair share), very few bad entrepreneurs can still hang on to a business!

I guess the point I was trying to make was that some people are very good at teaching (or blogging) even though they may not have necessarily done what they teach about. For example, I've had great teachers - politics teachers, English teachers, professors in law school, etc - who didn't practice what they taught i.e. my high school politics teacher wasn't a politician, my university film studies professor didn't make movies, my law school professors were not practicing lawyers or judges (in fact my contract law professor was brilliant yet had only practised law for a year before turning to academia), etc. So it is conceivable that someone could teach or communicate something of value without having the personal experience of practising the profession they're teaching about.

Having said all that, when it comes to someone making grand statements about what constitute the keys to success, etc this may not be something that you can truly and credibly teach purely based on persoaln observations or academic study (as would seem to be possible regarding subjects such as politics, film and law to repeat the examples given above).

This seems more like someone attempting to teach or make statements about what it takes to successfully climb a mountain. Mountain climbing is one of those subjects - to which I would definitely add building a business - that can't really be taught by someone without personal experience. These are subjects where the 'lab' is the real world, so unless someone has been in the real world, they really don't have helpful lessons to offer.
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Interesting that he mentions "we made one big site for all programmers and told them to use tags and, lo and behold, it worked." One of the most frustrating things about using stackoverflow.com is finding a good question and having it be marked off topic or moved to another site to die.

I was recently trying to compare ereaders (with the iPad in mind) for technical PDF's. I thought stack overflow might have other programmers asking the same question, so I searched and found the page/question I was looking for. However, it was moved to superuser.com. Then, it was moved to some gadgets stack exchange. By the time it was on the gadget site, nobody was adding to it. Now, the gadget site is closed due to inactivity and I can't find the question's active URL (if there even is one anymore).

For reference, I think this was the original question on stack overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3000902/e-readers-for-pdf...

Overall, a very frustrating experience.
This post only touches on the actual way that Shazam recognises music. The meat of the algorithm is in the feature detection, which must be much more robust than what the author did. His way is very sensitive to noise and maybe other manipulations (e.g. dilation), I didn't take too good a look at it.

Basically, to get good features you need to find a set of candidate features (points in the image that stand out) and then filter them according to some desirable properties (in standard image recognition, for example, you want them to be resistant to rotation, translation, stretching, etc). There exist very good algorithms for finding these features, which is what Shazam uses. Of course, after finding the features, you need to hash them in a way that is able to match any time in the song, resist noise, etc etc, so it's a very interesting application.

I was very surprised to learn that the best way to recognise a song was to convert it into a picture and then try to recognise that picture. It seems like a roundabout way to do it, but it works very well.

You can find more information in this paper: Viola and Jones, "Rapid object detection using boosted cascade of simple features"
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Seems that adapting Buddhist practices to general tasks became a mainstream. ^_^

Yes, there are detailed guides how to avoid distractions, concentrate, focus and enter so-called "flow" by trying again and again.

btw, recently I've seen a very simple quote on the wall of Sri-Lanka's Immigration department - "The secret of success is a hard work. That is why it is still a secret".

Nearly 70% of population of Sri-Lanka are Buddhists.