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You are right, I was sure that the title was "Multiple-certificates...", not "Multiple-domain UCC certificate".

That's what I get for not reading the whole thing, sorry.
Why is it misleading?
Just finished this book a few weeks ago. It was very interesting, especially the chapter on wealth, where he introduces that wealth does not equal money, but rather wealth equals something that people want.
Apple's market cap tops $300 billion
Here is ticker guy's take on it.

"Facebook: Looking For Bagholders: Don't let it be you."

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2337946
I'm not so sure I'd want to take a job having just made my new chain of command look like incompetent idiots

A chain of command that's savvy enough to really want him despite that is one you'd actually want to be in, though. An organization that focused on results would be all edge like the fictional Maas Neotek from Gibson's Neuromancer.
i know, i saying that getting multiple single domain certificates won't fit the bill. That's why a UCC was needed
!m is even shorter.
Did you try out /ruby ?
Just create a list of banned domain names. And let the users do that as well.
This says consumer debt, which I assume excludes mortgages, right?
Whether ethical or not a lot of companies write it into their EULA or contract. It at least gives them some grounds to respond to a take down with hey it's in out contract. 10 to 1 no one is going to complain if the product is not of a questionable nature, they are just going to assume that someone somewhere in the org approved the use of the logo. Said product company usually relies on this and then takes down the logo should someone complain. With it written into a contract or EULA and with a policy of taking the logo down if a takedown notice is issues most companies have enough wiggle room to not end up in court over the practice.
If SSL was the default and sending headers was opt-in, it would probably add some weight to your argument. What Google actively promotes to the typical web user, however, is not SSL or anonymous search but rather features that collect user data to an ever greater degree, e.g. Toolbar, Instant Search, and the Chrome browser.
More than a little. And I didn't think consumer debt included debt used for investments like a mortgage, so it seems like this is just a case of wolfram alpha not interpreting a query correctly.
Naah. Every major security layer they had in place was broken or ineffective. That's usually a sign of deeper problems in the development process.

That, plus the serious problems they had at the launch of the PS3 Fat might indicate that a lot of know-how has leaked out of their organization and moved onto better things.
this is not exactly true, there has to be a reasonable chance that this is a profitable enterprise defined both by your effort/intention and at least some profitability over a period of time. if it doesn't meet these standards, it's a hobby and you cannot deduct associated expenses. see here: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=169490,00.html
My understanding is that all new hire grants @ facebook are given in restricted stock units (RSU) not options, in part to avoid the 500 shareholder rule.
I think so, I know I tried /rails though. I was looking for some ActiveSupport methods.
Whilst you're at it: consider removing all the "test" posts. If you want to post test questions in a public environment, post actual questions, even if you're not at all interested in the answers.
by definition, mortgage is still a debt
That's not the consumer debt figure. Consumer debt, which is credit cards and other unsecured, mostly high interest debt, is $2399 billion.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/default.h...

That comes to $2399 billion / 307 million people = $7814 per person.
Generally, mortgages are an amount less than an asset someone has. It would be kind of absurd to consider a person with a $500k house and $50k in outstanding mortgage to be worse off than a person with $0. Mortgages also generally (depending on the state) are non-recourse; if your mortgage is for more than the property is worth, you can hand in your keys and walk off with no additional liability.

I agree from a cashflow perspective, a mortgage even if you have substantial equity can be bad, but most people don't get into debt trouble from mortgages, unless they got some kind of absurd mortgages for close to the value of the property, resetting ARMs, and fundamentally have more house than they otherwise would have purchased. True, a lot of people did this, but it's a historical anomaly.

But I'm sure you knew all that and were just trying to make a point :)
Perhaps it is important for them to maintain an aura of neutrality and cold calculation. Though if we are supposing that Google is intentionally crippling it's algorithm, would it be so much to suppose that they would just clandestinely run the spam sites themselves to eliminate the middle-man? Though perhaps the cost of secretly doing it themselves is higher than the AdSense payments made to the sites.

This all assumes that Google's reputation remains untarnished by merely linking to spam rather than filling their own site with spam, but I don't think that's quite the case. Google's reputation is intricately tied up with the quality of the results it gives.
it is hard to game pagerank rapidly because the rest of the web needs to link to your site

Not really. Some people own different websites, purchased through different accounts, hosted on different servers. They, then, link between those sites.
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Photoshop has been in the news lately, except not for the regular reasons you might have guessed. More and more blogs are focusing on Photoshop because there’s an internal battle. A battle between designers who work in Photoshop, and those who choose to ignore it for the browser. I’ve grown out of Photoshop for the bulk of my work, and there are three key reasons a designer must focus on to understand the benefits I’ve gained.
Experimental evidence, sample size of 1: a single layer of ordinary aluminum foil completely enclosing the card prevents a "normal distance" (4" square) reader from reading my card.
I always ask first. Can't think of a good reason not to.
Is there an investment opportunity around this number?

For example, $43,100 in consumer debt per capita seems totally unsustainable, and one way it might get corrected is through very high inflation, which would make our past debt more reasonable by comparison. So investments that perform well in inflationary periods would make sense... Other ideas?
I didn't get into what I would call the "product management" aspect of the question in that post, but if it doesn't bore you to hear it, I have participated in interviews where this question was asked of non-technical people, specifically a product manager and a web designer.

I don't remember if "fun" was specifically discussed, but the discussions were more focused on what users would do and see, very much in keeping with your second paragraph.

The product manager was also asked to consider the exercise from a competitive perspective. What could be done to differentiate a new site from an existing, popular site? is the strategy to be simplere and easier? To cater to power users running into limitations of the existing site? And so on.
Yeah I'd take that with a giant pinch of salt.

"90% of respondents said they pay little or no attention to online ads."

eg the respondents are in no way a representative sample.

It also sounds like an entirely loaded poll - eg "Would you like more ability to opt out of online tracking".... "um... yes? I guess".

There's so much FUD around the issue - "should advertising networks be allowed to target products to you based on tracking". The term 'tracking' sounds bad. It sounds like they are monitoring everything you do, when in fact they're just storing a cookie and noticing which other sites you visit that also carry ads from the same network.
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The table titled "The US web search market share and volume" doesn't look convincing. The share for 2010 only shows October and November. How did Bing/Yahoo perform before?
I'm not sure that Haskell could, given time, subsume dynamically typed programming. But even if it is possible, why would it be desirable? Most Haskell people don't think very highly of dynamic typing, and the extensions to the language reflect that. They generally add more typing, e.g GADT's, multi-parameter type classes, extensible kinds e.t.c. And dependent typing is certainly not a move towards dynamic typing! Casting it as such shows poor understanding of both concepts.
I don't think that statement renders the poll invalid. That is to say, I think 90% of people in general would say they pay little or no attention to online ads.

But more generally, I don't know if there is any poll that would satisfy you. I've been watching you make these comments for years :).
Another good one on Stack Overflow - "What should a developer know before building a public web site?"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-devel...
rofl so lame XDD
installed the extensions.. don't really care about anything
I think this blog post by the flask author is pretty relevant http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/6/14/opening-the-flask/

I can't really respond to the GAE thing as I don't have experience with it.
These papers by Luca Cardelli are quite good:
http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/TypeSystems.pdf
http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf
Bing traffic is up 52% year-to-year, Yahoo's up 15%, and Google's down almost 3%.
I never went beyond the basics with both git and bzr, so, they both look the same from here.

In no small measure, I am happy I never gave them a serious problem to solve.
Is it even possible to bring this figure down to $0?
Asking them implies that saying no is a possible option. If you don't ask and they complain you can act like they're behaving strangely and unreasonably. If you've asked them for permission before you've sent them the signal that having a problem with you using the logo is not strange or unreasonable.

By asking you're also bringing the fact that you're using their logo to their attention, which they might not otherwise notice.
Try http://tipfy.org. It's based on WSGI and Werkzeug, and it has many extensions like Jinja etc. It's only a thin layer on top of GAE.
I assume they have various methods. One of the methods I noticed by accident was that they add their affiliate id to Amazon links in search results
Well, that finally worked for me. For the longest time I've seen the DDG "ads" on here and thought, "meh, Google works fine for me." Focusing on the privacy angle appealed to me, mainly because I like the idea of decoupling my search and email histories.

But - if you are so focused on not-tracking then how do you know if an advertising campaign such as this actually works? Presumably this is not the only campaign you are currently running. Must be the referrer string from donttrack.us, which is so amusingly ironic that I can't help but twist the corner of my mouth into a smirk.

Nice site, by the way, I found it clean, clear and readable. Scrolling and justification are no matter to me, I liked the simple single-page look.
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Text messaging app is really dreadful on the N1. Worst bug I experience is hitting the messaging app brings me to the browser and the only way to get back to message is either going to a contact then going to view all threads from their or restarting the phone.
Why do you assume the price of energy (and solar panels, for that matter) would stay constant as investors flock to blanket the earth with them?

I like your general logic - but I disagree strongly with your prediction that buying solar panels will generate 40% return on investment (in year 1!) in 2029.
heh true, true.

I think generally though, a very very vocal minority make a ton of noise about privacy.

Look at adblock. If you were a newcomer to the net and just read comments here or at reddit, you'd assume everyone uses it. But the figure is more like 1 or 2% at most have adblock or similar installed.

There's this big elitist movement that supposes that only idiots click on adverts, that they only click because they're confused, that adverts are all bad and irritating. But there's no real evidence to back that up.

Nearly everyone clicks on adverts. Nearly everyone buys stuff as a result. Consumers find stuff via adverts, Sellers sell stuff via adverts. They work.

I appreciate what you're trying to do though, and hope it does pay off for you, the time is right for some google competition.

I'd be satisfied I'm wrong if adblock usage jumped to 50%+ or if more than a few thousand people used Tor or whatever the usual figure is (extremely low).
Techcrunch should show how much of their own traffic comes from google vs bing now. I would guess they are ~90% of search referals.
Why wouldn't everyone add that flag then?
Sounds a bit more accurate, but pretty much just as scary. If you add in your share of the national debt, it gets really scary. Politicians likely won't have the backbone to deal with making cuts/raising taxes so the likely outcome is sustained inflation.
>"...which can often uniquely identify you" makes me feel like this is playing on fear a little too much.

A browser signature is somewhat akin to a physical finger print.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

bigebonybooty.com can sell your data too.
This particular SEC reg is designed to protect the investors, not the integrity of the market. Are we now expected to believe that Goldman --- or any private client of Goldman --- is getting snookered by Facebook?

The same logic used by the SEC suggests that every limited partner of every VC that invests in any startup should also count to the total number of investors.
You also gotta remember that Google employees are the kind of people who will stand in front of Mike Arrington's car because he's talking on the phone while driving. I don't think it's very likely that people like that would remain silent about directives to give favorable treatment to spammers.
Yes, but it's a special kind of debt. There's a reason why you pay 25% interest on credit cards and 4% on your house.
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Mortgage debt is secured.
Their current top-of-the-line processor (that you can actually buy) is i7 980X, it costs $985 ($900 on ebay).

The server ones are even more expensive.

Intel Xeon X5677 = $1663

Intel Xeon X5680 = $1570

Intel Xeon W3680 = $1057
If I was trying to MITM you while you called forth a git clone, I'd first make the network connection unstable. Then, while that happens, go look at what package you're getting is and then feeding you a known bad, but signed, package.

But it's signed :/
I agree with your handwaving point.

But there is one point worth underlining a bit, which is that you can't start with (traditional) Lisp and then build in something that can only be built based on total, guaranteed restriction, because Lisp always lets you out. Haskell's STM is probably the best example; so far I don't think anyone has built a successful imperative STM because if you let people out even a little bit the STM abstraction tends to break. You have to be restricted for that to work in practice, even if in theory you could load that all onto the programmer; the constraints are too hard for a programmer to just implement, let alone a team.

You can write macros in Lisp to implement these restrictions, of course, but they will be hard to make water-tight, and then you will be left unable to use anybody else's libraries because they will not honor these restrictions.

If there is anything Lisp can't do, any language in moderately common use that it is not strictly superior to, it is Haskell. You can not just turn Lisp into Haskell with a few well-chosen macros, or even a lot of macros, without making it Not Lisp Anymore.

It may have taken a while, but we finally have a modestly practical language that is not merely Lisp warmed over or Lisp horrifically subsetted and bastardized; it's genuinely something different.
Thanks! When companies work with recruiters, at best they get an introduction to a good candidate, at worst they get a severe distraction and brand damage. For the best case, the whole transaction is overvalued: Companies pay headhunters 20%-30% of the candidate's first year salary if the candidate is hired.
I'm still dreaming of a search engine that parses regular expressions. When that happens I'm there. Yesterday.
Great point about internships - will keep that in mind.
I experienced a text message going to the wrong person just last week, running android 2.2 on my Evo. Completely unacceptable for a communication device, as discussed in the article.
newservers.com delivers servers with bare metal os installations with no vps.
"In the past it has not been possible to serve SSL requests for multiple domains from the same IP address."

This is a plain lie. This article just describes a technology that has been available for years: using Subject Alternative Names to declare all the host names in a single X.509 certificate. As far as I can tell, real CAs have been signing these types of certs for years (one random example: https://www.rapid7.com is valid for "www.rapid7.com" and "rapid7.com" without using a wildcard cert). The article call these certs "UCC SSL certs" but it is nothing more than a marketing name to sell Subject Alternative Names.
I'm aware of some of the disadvantages; my understanding is that if I buy a Krugerrand, it appreciated (even if it's just keeping up with inflation) and I sell it, I need to pay a higher "collectors" tax rate rather than capital gains.

However, my understanding is that this is fairly easy to get around, either buy going for a ETF like GLD, buying stock in a company that owns gold 'in the ground'
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SSL adds latency, because you're setting up an encrypted connection. Google hates slowing down users, and we don't want to slow down every user unless it's a clear win. That's one reason.

When Google switched to AJAX-based search, that temporarily stopped sending referrers, and lots of people screamed bloody murder. For example, http://getclicky.com/blog/150/googles-new-ajax-powered-searc... said "So what can we do about it? If you run a blog, write about this. Submit this story or your own story to large tech blogs like TechCrunch, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, etc - no large site has written about this yet, and one of them needs to. ... Do anything you can to spread the word and let Google know that this is not acceptable."

Or see http://www.seobook.com/Ad-Networks-Partners-Hoarding-Publish... or http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/3240-google-ajax-bad-news-fo... or http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/02/04/google-update-breaks-t... . So we heard lots of complaints.

SSL as an option provides a nice choice for people who care about these issues and don't mind taking a tiny hit in latency.
Who is matz? Everyone seems to know..
I was a bit disappointed that when I changed the "s" to "k" (and tried variations on that theme), Wolfram didn't have the answer.

I want to like WA, but I feel like its data is so sparse and often spiked just for demos like this. I'd really love to use WA to do a consumer debt comparison for the western world, but they don't ingest most other country data.
I am not sure what the site is about. Do a quick video explaining the concept of the site. Also make the homepage a landing page that educates me, gives me a preview, but enticed me to join.
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Love this article, and the willingness to share hard numbers is greatly appreciated.
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How is this more cheaply produced as a separate chip? If that's the case then AMD could exploit it. I thought the point was that producing this would be cheaper, passing on the cost savings to the consumer, while at the same time offering better perf than low-end GPUs.

Everything I've seen seems to indicate that this is true. Did I miss something?
Do Apple still have the problem of not knowing what to do with all their money? I recall they had an absurd amount of money lying around that they needed to invest to get some decent returns on.
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Google has 23,000 employees ... . I'm pretty sure they could stay ahead of the bad guys if they wanted to.

In the past there were people within Google who had the skill, knowledge, organizational connections and authority to quickly and gracefully reduce the problem of link spam without harming the bottom line too much.

I think we all loved their early work, and our love helped propel their little company to multibillions-per-year.

I don't think that kind of unique early experience and subsequent problem-solving effectiveness is snap-in interchangeable.

Some of those "rock stars" work at Facebook now. Google might not be capable of fixing the problem gracefully without them.
I started to write out what I was asking and then I realized the flaw... never mind.
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While consumer debt does include mortgages, the term covers about any other form of credit given to consumers. Consumer debt includes secured debt as well, such as auto loans and certain kinds of household goods such as furniture, appliances, etc.

Looking at the figures you linked, you've got $800.5b in REVOLVING debt, which is the unsecured, credit-card type debt people are really worried about. That works out to $6,971 per household (114,825,428 households) or about $2,600 per capita.

The non-revolving, or installment debt, typical of auto, furniture, and appliance loans, is about twice as large, at $1,598b, or $13,916 per household and $5,708 per capita.

Nowhere near as bleak as they'd like to paint it.
I actually think this is an incorrectly attributed number.

If you multiply $43,100 * 300 Million people (remember the population number is 2008) you get around $12.9 Trillion dollars. That's around where the National Debt Clock would have been in Q3 2010 (http://www.usdebtclock.org/)

So this is each U.S. citizen's share of the U.S. National debt not Consumer Debt