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>When did they back peddle? All the cases I heard of where >someone decided not to settle and went to court, the RIAA >went along and crushed them.'

proof?

>Most cases settled because most people the RIAA went after >were guilty, and knew it, and realized the the minimum >damages they would owe if they lost in court were quite a >bit higher than the RIAA's settlement offer.

That's exactly what they want you to believe. That's why they pursue these lawsuits. It's good old FUD. They can't sue everyone, but they are hoping to sue a handful and scare millions into obedience. It's pretty damn successful at that, too. I know many people who won't download anything for fear of a million Dollar lawsuit.

In a just system, the RIAA would be able to sue for me for damages amounting to revenue lost - $20 per film they catch me downloading. But somehow, somewhere, things went awry and people are getting sued for absurd amounts of money. That alone should be a tell tale sign that this is nothing but a big scam. Dressing it in fine legal language doesn't change that.

The RIAA is the enemy of the people, plain and simple. It's a corrupt organization which mainly benefits itself, and marginally benefits the artists it's claiming to represent. Because there is very little legitimacy to anything they do, they need to make lots of loud noise - that's the only way they can survive, after all.

Nothing good can come from electing what we must assume is a puppet for this organization into an important office in the US government.
70-02 period is pretty irrelevant in today's world though. how did such portfolio perform during Great Depression, which is more like what we face today?
> The internet would be a sliver of what it is today.

The American portion of the internet would be a sliver of what it is today.

Keep in mind that the world is a bit larger than just the US and that whenever the US decides to shoot itself in the foot like this some other entity will take its place.

This will likely continue until the US wises up to that and starts to move with all the resources they've got directed at recovering the lost ground, which I'm sure they'll be able to do fairly rapidly.

Software patents, the situation around copyright, it's all the same thing, a temporary disturbance. On a human lifespan scale it looks like things are moving with glacial speed but since the web as we know it is not even two decades old you can bet that given the changes it has already brought about you won't be able to recognize the information landscape in another hundred years or so.

This is just a delaying action, in the long run it won't mean anything. Now if we could make it not mean anything in the short run is up for grabs, vested interests will always fight to the death to keep their gravy trains rolling.

When Gutenberg made the printing press it took another 100 years or so before the implications were really felt far and wide give it some time.

Incidentally it only took very little time after the printing press was invented for the first primitive copyright legislation to follow.
For authors with established audiences (at breadpig we stick to webcomics) the Internet has been a fabulous publishing boon. We're approaching 35,000 copies sold of xkcd: volume 0 (now available in meatspace!) and Randall is getting a majority of the profits.

Breadpig isn't the first publisher to do that, but it's going to be really hard convincing popular webcomic artists to take a typical book publishing deal.

And for now, there are still plenty of us who enjoy reading deadtree versions of our favorite webcomics - delicious irony!
What about the upfront cost of production? It's all well and good to say each additional copy has tended towards zero but that still doesn't cover the production costs.
I'm willing to take the bet for 5 bucks. Signed up, let the gaming begin! :)
It is very rare in NYC outside of Manhattan, at least and when I've seen it the selection has been fairly horribly neutered.
Looking forward to Mahalo 5.0 and their next pivot.
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To add to it, it is not that I want to switch from GAE to AWS now. But, to know that it will be easier in case I need to, makes it good news.

I also believe competition which facilitates such migrations not only validates the space and the standard (write for GAE, you can host it on Google or on AWS), but also helps drive innovation and service levels.
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Hadn't considered that. Can you expand a bit? I'm really into YouTube and would love to hear your theories.

I think it is a little harder to spam YouTube (with content) than the web. On the web, you can just parse feeds/spin text. On Youtube, you have to upload things. According to the presentation, they built out studios and are recording videos at a fast pace (and they do have thousands of videos on their channel, all with a signature white negative space backdrop). It is totally possible to make bad videos, not denying that. But it's a bit harder to trick systems into thinking there's something there that's not/misdirect.

Not saying there aren't other places in the system to abuse stuff (On YouTube you can friend spam, Fave-spam, etc), but it's hard to do with content.

Were you thinking content spam?
The problem is that there are two "costs" of production:

* The cost of reproduction - which in terms of software, music, and now books, is essentially zero.

* The cost of producing those goods in the first place, which is very high in many cases. These are called 'sunk costs'.

Prices are tending towards the cost of reproducing stuff, and people are struggling to come up with ways to cover actual production costs, which haven't really changed much.

Now, certainly, in the past, there were no guarantees that if you wrote a book over the course of a year, that you'd be able to make up for a lost year's worth of wages, but at least you had a shot at it - and also a shot at earning several times that if you had a hit.

If, instead, you spent a year writing a book, and it were easy, legal and acceptable (we're not quite there with all three) to just copy it all over the internet once it was released... where would you get your money from?

This is all described pretty well here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
I've got a macbook pro with 4 gb of ram, a linux laptop with quad-core + 6gb of ram, and a CR-48.

On the mac and the linux machine, it was too slow to be usable.
You can easily integrate it with postfix

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...

That is awesome. So even without third part libs supporting this API I will be able to use this service
4.0 as in four steps ahead of Google in the art of spam.
I hang up on telemarketers with no qualms of being impolite. I don't read content behind paywalls (and don't complain about them - it is readily apparent that I'm not in their target demographic).

I treat people that know me courteously and they like me.

:-P
Wait, what? Where was I unpolite? More to the point: if anything is rude, it's tricking users into looking at ads instead of the content they were promised when they clicked on a link.
I think they aligned their prices with Google App Engine (they charge the same $0.1 per 1000).

Why are you going to switch from the other providers to Amazon? Because of price?
The first thing I notice is the bad spelling; "continuosly" infers amateur who doesn't proofread or run a spellchecker.
If you're in Chicago or other covered areas out east, Peapod has been delivering groceries for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peapod#Current_Locations
Speaking as an employee of $bigcorp, I like the idea of a short period of fairly-compensated work before committing for the long-term. Like going on a vacation with a romantic interest before moving in together, or something. If you go to work for the USG, your probationary period is the first year, which seems unnecessarily long; a week seems just right.
Right, because those are the only options. Either fill the top half of your site with ads or go bust.
I can't find it but can you send attachments as well?
As do Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury. Allow you to order online to your home that is. Its more common than uncommon amongst the larger chains. It also seems self-check out is more prevalent/caught on quicker here. Tesco also has an API i think.

Curious what dynamics influence grocery stores from different regions to adopt tech with such varying levels of hesitation.
Books of artistic or academic value never made much cash, to my knowledge. Detective books - well, they can have Dirk drink a bud light and talk it up for half a page for all I care (and many fictional detectives already do express brand preferences every five pages). So no great change.

Perhaps they can start writing by hand, copying the world of painting and sculpture, in which people happily 'invest' in products which have nominal future cashflow potential other than future speculation.
I had this idea - rather, an idea for something very similar to this - right after the first iPhone came out a few years ago. Never did anything with it. Should have. Let this be your daily reminder to execute on your good ideas!

Also, I'm totally in.
Don’t look to the Valley (*all of the time)
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Don't all the major UK supermarket chains provide online ordering and delivery?
Will 1000 players be enough? I feel like you'll hit the limit by this time next week -- if not tomorrow (I signed up).

I understand that 1000 players will be a lot for you to handle, but that being said, if this thing seriously catches on, you'd be completely justified in charging $1 per month recurring, and I would definitely pay it for the increased density of spies in my area.
I wonder who's going to be the first to announce a SMTP proxy for this?

More seriously:

While I can kind of understand that Amazon has their API and probably wants this to work similarly, but there is already a wide-spread protocol for sending out email (SMTP) and I just can't understand why they can't provide an endpoint for that.

Many applications which I really see making use of this already have built-in SMTP support (and are using that today), so why force developers to work with another, completely different API to send email over Amazon?
Kubrick's version makes no sense at all unless you read the book, and it left me with a lasting dislike of all of his works and a bafflement that people consider him such a great director.

It's a story first, and a work of art second.

I suppose some (lots?) of people like art that makes no sense, but not me.

And I think Ebert never mentions Arthur C. Clarke because Ebert didn't read the book either, and like everyone else has no clue what's happening in the film.

There is an actual story here. A great one, and Kubrick was unable (or unwilling) to actually include it in the movie.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, do yourself a favor: Read the book first, then watch the movie.

In the book I read Arthur included a preface that explained how the book and movie were created together.
Can you please explain how the RIAA crushed 'individual rights' and 'innovation and personal freedom'? I mean, from what I know they only got it to be illegal to copy movies/music, right? And the DMCA was passed unanimously by the Senate, so it's clearly not just the RIAA that is interested in 'crushing innovation and personal freedom in the United States' as you claim. What am I missing?
"The unfavorable interpretation is that ... what America needs now is corporate tax cuts and across-the-board deregulation."
All of the simulated sunrise alarms I found before I cobbled my own together were out of my price range and limited to one bulb. I like my solution because it uses long strings of colored lights which politely brighten the room.
Instead of low-quality articles meant to get search traffic and AdSense revenue, these are low-quality videos meant to get search traffic and AdSense revenues. YouTube is the second largest search engine and also has a lot of space in Google SERPs.

It's also almost identical to Videojug, if you want to see how something like this plays out.
I'd much prefer ads over a paywall.
That was quite a long write-up for something that I thought was obvious just from using the iPhone for a bit of time.
(liquidity premium as well as risk)
The ads seem to be way down, maybe they are trying not to look like a content mill while there is a heap of Google attention on the issue.
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Removed the limit, as you're right - it will be more fun, with increased density of spies. I'll come up with a way to handle the load :D
But I wanted to say something else. Many people how don't know about BitTorrent would still not pay.
Could anyone explain the usage of 'white label' here? The Wikipedia entry (+) doesn't help this foreign speaker.

(+) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product
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Not quite. According to the article, the Japanese deployed a solar sail with a Venus probe. This, though, is the world's first solar sail on a probe designed for Earth orbit.
I think white label here means manage and package aws services under one bill

Edit, which could also mean a custom interface
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To be fair, that is a VERY specific skill-set. I'm sure you know that, but I'd bet that most of the people with that skill-set are already employed somewhere (someplace like Intel would be my best guess) using it and not as amenable to moving on as, say, Johnny Rails-Developer would be.

It sounds like a very interesting and challenging gig, though. Out of curiosity, what's the salary for something like this?
now they are live streaming demonstrations
Yes, but I am an Ocado shill. (just kidding, didn't realise everyone offered it. Not in the target market.)
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Resell services under another name, maybe in another package. In this particular case, with a fixed price :)
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You are totally right about the ads being down. That's why it's so unfortunate/confusing that the how-to pages still feel cluttered. Visual clutter on sites like this are often just to make places for ads that "blend" in with content. But the new Mahalo has few ads.

As I wrote in my post: there are multiple sections of interesting information... presented in a disorienting manner.

I feel like the new learning mission is sincere, but am waiting for more tweaking.
Silicon Valley is overrated and hyped just like quora.
"White label" in this context would basically be a middleman. Customer pays the white label for the AWS services and the white label pays AWS.

The white label would obviously have to offer something of value and in this discussion, that value would be predictable pricing and maybe simplification of the services.
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So can google. Supposedly Sergey even suggested to start a Hedge fund, but it would probably be insider trading if they would do their decisions based on the user data.
There is really no excuse to not launch a web application!
I don't think the whole "above the fold" mentality is as relevant now as it was a few years ago. Monitors are bigger, and people are used to scrolling up and down a page.
Sure, there should be something above the fold to entice the user to scroll, but to keep your content above the fold is just asking for a cluttered design.

You're scrolling now, aren't you? :-)

See http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
In my opinion (and personal experience), if they want to endanger the monopoly of MS Office, they would need, first of all, to provide 100% compatibility with the MS Office formats [read them and write to that format flawlessly].

At least for me, that was the reason my repeated evaluation of OpenOffice always failed - it couldn't handle more complex MS Word files I received from my colleagues, and it just didn't make sense to use both suites. I gave it a chance again and again, but it never worked for me despite my honest attempts to like OO.org.
The article cites the decline in music sales, but ignores the fact that a large part of the music sales in the 90s was people buying CDs of albums they already owned--an artificial bubble which burst independently of any increase in illegal copying.
These are not really comparable products.

MailChimp is an email broadcast and subscription management service. It's for sending things like email newsletters and marketing campaigns.

SES/Postmark/Sendgrid are more for one-to-one type communications, e.g. delivering your application's forgot password email.
Sendgrid is essentially an Amazon white label e-mail service now.
Clever, but the title here says 'do nothing for 24 hours'.
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Would have been easier for them to allow people to say no to Windows when they buy the laptop, rather than do polls and other stuff.

I would be interested in:
a) easier windows refunds and
b)GNU-Linux compatible specs.
Intriguing, but with no way to gauge what's minimally required to participate I'm finding it difficult to commit...even if it is cheap. Bear in mind that I'd say the same thing even if it were free. I don't know what to expect, or to what I'm potentially exposing my family.

Don't take this as so much a criticism. The lack of specifics certainly adds to the intrigue, but I think it limits your audience exclusively to young singles as a result. It would certainly benefit me if you provided a few more breadcrumbs.
I read the book before the movie came out (I was 12 at the time; I vividly recall begging my mother to take me to the bookstore to buy it, at which time she presented it to me because she'd already bought it for me for Christmas or my birthday (not sure what month it was)). So, I have always understood the movie in light of the book. And yet, I love Kubrick's films -- he's my favorite director, and I think I would have loved 2001 even without having read the book. In that case, I think my interpretation would have been a lot like Ebert's, although I wouldn't have been able to express it as well. But, I'll never know, because I simply didn't have the opportunity to have that experience.
Integer programming is sexy
Sysadmins are being replaced, but guess by who? The fancier term "System Integrator". Now the sysadmins design 'solutions' for businesses. Case in point: Look at all the telecom solutions being deployed.
Just noticed that - it's definitely faster than I expected. No spinner.gif waiting.
New meaning for "a new lease on life!"

Perhaps we'll see "life lease" companies - I'll have the mid-level engineer package please!
The season 2 finale of Castle used an idea similar to this, only with an excursion-style agency where people were given elaborate missions, equipment, etc., for a hefty fee.
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If they use SMTP, they run the risk of a compromised server sending spam through them. With the API, it makes it a bit more difficult for a compromised machine to start spamming, unless it already has API keys for this service.
Sounds like "The Game" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/ from 1997. Quite a good film, hopefully this game is not that sinister. :)
Attachments aren't actually a separate field in the email. They're base64'd binary data at the end of the text field.
If this was posted anywhere else I'd assume it was a pyramid scheme chain letter.
See: Heroku

AWS is awesome for exactly that reason, one can build a more integrated package on top of the individual parts and sell it.
Yes, but it's not like if you stop for one day then the rest of the world gets ahead of you. If that's the case either you're working on something to be the first (nothing against that), or you are solving the wrong problem to begin with.
Close button on the right is one of the many reasons I use Seamonkey.
Check this out: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...

You can configure SES to work with Postfix or Sendmail. It's at least close to what you're asking about.
IIW (International Intelligence Agency)....? Bad start, BIG turn off.
Yes, there's a SendRawEmail action (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/APIReference/AP...) in the API, which allows you to send a multipart MIME message.
In the book the first one is tool user, the next one encourages space travel, and the third transports Dave to a distant galaxy where he is changed into the Star Child and is responsible for helping Earth.
By the way, it's "involved" not "envolved".
Yes, there is. RVM stands for Ruby Version Manager, and in addition to virtual environments with separate sets of Ruby gems it has ability to manage Ruby versions itself.

Having one command (`rvm install 1.9.2`) is extremly convenient, not mentioning there are lots of fancy functionality (like `--static`).
Precious fusspot.
I agree, good managers are supposed to manage people, not tasks.
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Except when it isn't!

Sometimes during the initial phase of building a product you realize you're on the wrong road and it's actually faster to toss out what you've got and start over. Typically I take about three tries to get it 'right', the first is to get a good feel for the problem space, the second when I have a first working version and the third one will actually last for a long long time.

The first two last for respectively as long as it takes to type them in and a couple of days to weeks, and I think part of the secret here is to actually plan to throw away that second version instead of hanging on to it after getting past the point of no return in terms of sunk cost.

Most 'rewrites' are not done for valid reasons but simply because a new guy was brought on board that has not yet learned to read code in order to understand it but whose gut response to anything they didn't write themselves is to trow it out and do a rewrite, even if that means killing the company.

Just look at netscape to get an idea of what that mentality will do to your corporation.
Was it just me who thought that this headline meant that some 'sysadmin' had written yet another tool to automate stuff? ;-)
The Planetary Organisation tried to deploy a solar sail back in 2005 ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cosmos_1 ) but the rocket failed.
I think if you did have that experience you would hate him :)

I watched the movie, thought it was horrible and incomprehensible, read the book, then watched it again and enjoyed it - somewhat, I kept getting annoyed at how unwatchable it was without the book knowledge. But except for the warp scene the visuals were great.
EmailLabs/Lyris decided to invent their own XML-over-HTTP API format rather than use REST or even SOAP or anything else you might already have a library for. They combined this with a very poor understanding of how XML is supposed to work (lots of <DATA> tags) and return results that aren't guaranteed to validate. Dates are represented in one of six different formats depending on which particular function you're calling. If there's a problem, you might get an error, you might get back nothing. I could go on.

Silverpop is similar.
I guess this is a great opportunity for individuals to provide services like aweber, mailchimp etc. Think about it, now you don't need to worry about the hardware. Provide a killer interface, make it super super easy and have a low monthly fee and let the user pay the amazon bill. ofcourse there are multiple revenue models but now is the opportunity.
The probe in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
I'm curious about the numbers as well. I couldn't imagine surfing without it (or Privoxy or Junkbuster in the days of yore) although I do disable it for a few sites I support.