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Obama already claims to have the power to commandeer networks in the form of an obscure provision in a pre-WWII law relating to communications base stations.

People in the US government are becoming painfully aware though just how dependent every bit of our infrastructure is becoming on continued internet function. Nobody is really sure, for example, just how much of the phone and power networks would stay up if all IP routing is shut down.

So more than likely, any new laws passed are going to have the effect of giving the president the fine-tuned ability to tamper with specific websites, addresses, protocols, etc. even if that's not the how the bill is sold to the public.
That's not a problem with Chrome, it's a problem with Windows. Tooltips on Chrome in Ubuntu last indefinitely until you move your cursor out of the element.
Really, this one is going to go down in history as one of the most boneheaded moves ever by decision makers out of touch with the basic realities of modern life.
Why don't we make an open education revolution as we did with software?
Then I applaud you for having awareness of issues outside your immediate domain. I know quite a few UX people who know nothing about implementation and think everything is easy to do.
A huge thread. You might just pick through the Linus Torvalds responses and find:

• ARMs are slower than Atoms, benchmarks that show them close are suspect if they stay in L1 cache.

• ARM architecture fragmentation is an issue

• He considers the ATA TRIM instruction to be worse than useless. (I missed the segue there.)

• He thinks * is an idiot. (name redacted)
I have two friends with kinects, and thinking about picking one up myself.
It looks very "geeky," I'm not sure the average use will appreciate this more than the iPad's UI.
This was a common business model during the first dotcom boom. And it led to a lot of people losing their shirts.

If and when I decide to raise money for an Australian dotcom, I will actually go to Perth first. The city is flush with mining money and has a large pool of investors used to investing in mining exploration -- probably the business most like tech startups in life cycle.
Absolutely. The group buying things are insane - There are 28 different sites in Toronto right now for group buying, with some of them having different deals for different areas of the city. One of them actually markets themselves as a "platform" giving new deal sites the ability to literally launch in a day.

In this type of business it is basically who can get their name out there the fastest in a local area - do that and you can walk away with this 40 million...

So the question is what's the next big (local) thing?!
...college life has become a variation on The Temptation of Saint Anthony—a never-ending assault by the demons of gluttony, envy, sloth, lust, and pride.

Hell, I thought everybody already understood that this was actually the point of college, but I will defer to Frank Zappa on this one: If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Americans may be docile, but businesses and corporations are not. What do you think the proprietors of the thousands of POPs across America are going to tell the feds who come to shut them down? What do you think Google or Microsoft or Facebook are going to say when the government tries to cut off their primary source of income?

Do you really think the same corporations that extensively lobby the government now are going to sit idly by while the government shuts this Internet thing down?
One nuclear bomb, set off at the right location and altitude, could wipe out the Internet and most consumer electronics for most of the continental USA. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse. And this is with no direct physical injury.
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It wasn't simply suggested as a superior solution. The article states that you should "never" use a popup and instead have an undo mechanism. That's a bit absolutist.
actually, people in my lab are recently trying to put a kinect on a quadcopter: they got two kinects just in case :)
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by what metric?

I assume it's average sales over a period of time, but who decides on the period? 1 week, 1 month, 2 months or 1 year?

assuming all these 8 million were sold to consumers (and not just 'in the channel'), then that's a bit over 133k/day which, while still a massive amount, is still less than what the iPhone 4 is selling

I'm not trying to downplay these figures, just saying if you're going to award yourself an accolade like that, you need to be able to specify how you measured it
Another corrupting influence—anxiety over college costs—could be removed entirely by making our institutions self-sustaining through productive labor.

The author is ignoring a significant advantage that actual monasteries and convents have on this point: they are exempt from taxes by law and longstanding tradition. It's not clear that an institution lacking this advantage could really become economically self-sufficient.
I think this is linked from the wiki article, but it's a good read for various general info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Building_a_Rural_Wireless_...

I haven't set one up myself but if the government did kill the internet I'd take it as a good time to start creating a city-by-city mesh, hopefully hooking up with other people with the same idea. If the government leaves the regular lines off for too long, it may actually end up being a good thing. I don't think the kill-switch strategy would work so well in the US, so long as it's not short-term, but it's possible the people who want the ability of a kill-switch haven't thought it through.
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That’s a bit typical hyperbole. Don’t seek conflict where there is none.
> Take out a few core locations and you'd have a very hard time getting to google, or most other sites for that matter.

Definitely untrue. How familiar are you with how the Internet works? Google and other major websites are massively multihomed: they peer with tens or hundreds or perhaps thousands of other ISPs and backbones in as many different peering points around the world.

> All it takes for the vast majority of the internet to become unusable for the larger fraction of the population is to take the .com, .net and .org TLDs down.

8.8.8.8 is an easy enough number to memorize. So is 8.8.4.4. How long do you think it would DNS admins there or anywhere else to fix their servers not to flush their caches? Certainly less time than it would take the US government to shut down thousands of redundant peering points.
Its a great idea. Congratulations on getting it up and working. One feature that might work well is allowing the user to do "flow control" by replying to the email you sent.
It's the same games high school girls are socialized to play with each other. Some people (men and women) just never grow out of the social games they play in high school.
I don’t really understand how undo adds complexity.
What I was trying to get at is that this is often not a "Best Practice" decision. As if the developers didn't think of implementing undo functionality... Implementing such a complex feature such as undo if often a business decision, if anything else.
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Plus the sleazy sites that one would most want to avoid wouldn't be stopped by the filter. I'm thinking of those sites that pop up with, "WAIT! DON'T LEAVE! I'M SELLING YOU SOMETHING!" when you click the back button.
Does anyone know of a good alternative to Techcrunch?
I want to follow the startup scene, just want to know what else is out there.
Australia has a pretty small domestic market compared to the USA. There's only about 9M people between the ages of 20 and 50 (just guessing that range is the Groupon audience). If you get 10% of that market, you've only got 900K users. This is pretty good, but nowhere near the scale of these sites in the USA. Even if you get every existing Australian in that age range to sign up, you're still not even half the size of Groupon.

An outcome like selling to Yahoo for $40M is probably the best possible outcome for an Australian Groupon clone. Unless my back of the imaginary envelope math is way off, I don't think the company could really objectively be "worth" more than that. Especially since Groupon clones are already a hyper-competitive space in Australia. Microsoft is backing a company, Cudo, that already has ads on network TV.
Straw man argument.

'You don't need a good idea' != 'You don't need an idea'
I'd bet you five bucks that whole foods has better margin on it's "whole" butter than the safeway where I shop has on it's cheap off-brand margarine.
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at least 7 or 8.
It's indicating the root of the site. Documentation for further reading at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
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1 ctrl-^ go to buffer 1

2 ctrl-^ go to buffer 2

3 ctrl-^ go to buffer 3

ctrl-^ toggle this buffer with the last one, quickly switching back and forth.

[Of course, ctrl-^ is actually just ctrl-6, you don't need to use the shift key.]

If you have used a tiling window manager before, this is very natural.
This reflects my experience in Japan; overall, people here are terrified of change. Even within most companies, the tiniest of changes need to be communicated and agreed upon by every separate group, before anything can actually happen.
That's not a good comparison. iPhones don't belong to the consumer electronics category. Also, the majority iPhone sales are on an upgrade of a previous version as well.
I see this argument get a lot of play.

These sorts of things are important because ease dictates more of what happens in life than posibility. Make it easier to turn off the net, there is more chance of it happening, and it'll take less resources from the controlling party to do it.

Like you said, 'they' could already turn off the internet. So why bother with the effort to make a killswitch? Because the resources it'd take to kill the internet manually matter.

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An similar argument might be, "If someone can always find a flaw in crypto implementations, why bother with cryptography?" or "You can walk anywhere a car can go, what's the point of having a car?"
There's a lazy solution: do what Gmail does. Rather than have an actual undo stack, especially for those pesky things like removing information from the database, just delay action for 5-30 seconds and offer an undo button until the time expires.
I think there's some merit to this proposal, but it's too riddled with an infatuation with a certain brand of Christian monasticism for me to separate out what is good and what is bad.

"As we all know, for the virtuous student, college life has become a variation on The Temptation of Saint Anthony—a never-ending assault by the demons of gluttony, envy, sloth, lust, and pride."

That's confusing "virtue" with something actually relevant to academic involvement. I agree there's a lot wrong with the current system, but it's not that students are having too much sex and sleeping in on.

"Members should cultivate nonviolence, humility, and ungrudging obedience to just authority. Speech should be used in moderation, and only for some purpose. Instead of gossiping at meals, edifying books are read aloud. There are no private possessions, only two meals a day, and vegetarianism is the norm. Clothing is simple, utilitarian, and uniform."

That's not going to happen. Once again, we have some confusion between this weird form of self-denial with caring about education. It's perfectly possible to be committed to learning/research/etc. while still wanting to talk to your friends during dinner.

This isn't even getting at the daily ritualistic prayer, the claim the current academic zeitgeist is "decadent", the fact that a lot of research requires expensive equipment, something unaccounted for under this scheme, the suggested "withdrawal" from the rest of the world, etc.

EDIT: Not to mention, there's the problem of people with families. Does the rest of the family have to join in also? What about children? If they don't, how does the member provide for them? Are only single people allowed to join? What?
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I don't even think it takes knowledge of implementation, just respect for it. I've had engineers ask me to fix certain design problems that would take weeks of prototyping and user testing to actually nail down in a meaningful way. Good devs appreciate the difficulty and we find a solution that fits the schedule, bad devs think design is easy to do. It runs both ways. Let's avoid making needless blanket statements and concentrate on working together.
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I like Gruen's idea. Try this one on: We could have size investors continuously publish their postions. A 10000 investor x 10000 securities matrix would be more than enough. Price vol would drop like a stone.
Goes with how you define "fun". I went through a Hay Maze last year and realized half way through it that it was designed for "fun" which made it a lot easier. Wrote up the experience with some other notes for the curious.

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2010/01/hay-maze.html
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The additional infrastructure would permit it to be used sooner than it would if they only had "armed men" to do the job. Strawmen aside, if it's available, it will be used. I don't think it should be easy to do something like this.

EDIT: removed Emergency Broadcast System analogy.
Indeed,

It seemed self-explanatory here.

I was being perhaps a bit sarcastic...
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The iPad shipped a year before the competition. Sure it doesn't have a multiuser operating system... it was based on smartphones. Apple faces engineering tradeoffs too. They shipped, they delivered, and they will add this if it makes sense when they can.
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And if it is?
Vim certainly seems to have phenomenal potential. One problem I have, however, is the discovery of options, plugins, and "best practices" which lead to high productivity in vim. Basically, I want to pair program with some vim experts and talk about how they use vim.

Incidentally, in relation to your last paragraph, I don't see any advantage to vim's keyboard usage because I use a Kinesis Classic with a Dvorak layout. My arrow keys, home, end, page up, and page down are all within reach from home row. And of course, the Dvorak layout makes some vim shortcuts less intuitive. As for the mouse, I hardly touch it while coding.
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No, no they wouldn't.
It's a problem under OS X as well
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create a Wifi-only (in other words, non-3G) iPhone? This would still be highly useful, and would likely persuade millions of cheaper folk to get iPhones.
The reason is that Oracle inherited the stewardship of so many important projects when they bought Sun. After the purchase they have not said 'OK guys, new management; we don't do the open source thing; so long.' Rather they put the knife into various projects in different ways, seemingly at random. This behaviour taken in sum has an unsettling effect on the outlook of any project that Oracle is still involved with. How long will Netbeans itself survive? It's anybody's guess.

It's not just one case of support being withdrawn. It's Russian roulette.
I agree, it would be nice to have a resource focused on STARTUPS and not on well established web giants - such us facebook.
I get both ends of this.

On one side, I have trouble getting information out of people ("It had an error" ... "What did it do?" ... "I don't know anything about computers, so I clicked okay. Can't you just fix it?") and on the other, some of the people I report things to aren't willing to even try to reproduce bugs ("I need 8,000 different files, screenshots, etc. of the bug in action, which will require you to shut down production for an hour" ... "Can't you just look at the code for X? It fails every time with the same behavior." ... "No, I really need you to waste a lot of time on this because I'm way too busy to implement any kind of logging." ... "No wonder you won't let anyone else have access to your bug tracker. Something tells me it's a sticky note or whiteboard based system.")

I completely understand how people can fail to report enough information to give anyone any hope of finding the bug, but it's frustrating when you know you've got a good bug report and the developer doesn't want to listen to you.
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I'll be happy to give it a shot. I'm using a Web Site + solution for my current job though, know if it handles that? They're a bit weird. I'll certainly give it a try for more "normal" .NET coding, there's a lot of utility code to be written :)
Mint.com is probably among the worst offenders.
I'm not sure the philosophy/AI crossover in the 1980s and 90s was all that useful. Things may have improved, but I doubt it. You're better off studying applied statistics if you want to get into AI. Even Wittgenstein told his students that studying philosophy is a waste of time and they should become car mechanics, instead.

"If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life." --Steve Martin
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Hopefully there will be further job creation that comes from all this frothy early stage funding down the road. Time to scale.
That's all very interesting. I'm primarily a desktop C++ developer, so I don't run into the headaches of things like VS's database connectivity.

I recommend giving 2010 a go. If I recall correctly, 2010 was the version where they drastically reworked Intellisense. In previous versions, even my moderately-sized projects would break Intellisense upon reaching x lines of code. I don't think the multi-monitor support is any better, though. You can drag documents to their own window on any screen, but I can't seem to group them into sets of tabs.
...good luck?

Engineering school makes even the most dedicated student wonder why they're even bothering at times. And now you'll take away getting laid, fucking off, bitching, and Starcraft. And you'll have them do additional manual labor on top of that.

I think part of the reason these monasteries have such sterling reputations is cause we never hear about the failures. No one really bothered recording the number of people who joined, and then ran away, or even the number of successful for which monastic life was actually an improvement. I mean sure, you gotta read all these books, and plow a field, but at least you have a bed (albeit hard) and roof, and the lord isn't out to tax you all the time.
But when I close a program, most of the time I want it to go away and go away quickly. If the program hangs for a few seconds while it saves data that I've already told it I don't want on the off chance that I decide I really do want to restore it later, then I am likely to get annoyed with it to an extent that I'll stop using that program and never find out what a useful feature that undo functionality was.
That's an iPod Touch isn't it?
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If you buy your iPhone directly from Apple it cames with no plan (you need to find yourself a telephony provider) and you can use the iPhone with your home Wifi. I suppose you want one for programming and you don't plan to use it as a real phone, no monthly fee for you ...
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I guess we should all figure out how to broadcast over ham radio again =)
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Simply untrue, the number of upvotes to this saddens me. The * register exists explicitly in the default implementation for the purpose of yanking text into the system clipboard. Open your nearest vim and do :he gui-selection or :he quotestar

Also, the + register has similar intended uses.
I'm relatively new to Chrome, and it's still not my default browser, so I hadn't heard of this "about:flags" page before.

I just checked that page out, however, and didn't see this "Confirm to Quit" setting. For someone who has a cat that constantly runs across his laptop, Firefox's warnings have been very handy, and greatly missed in Chrome.
It does matter, because the government can kill dissent without declaring martial law and giving legitimacy to protests. It's a far more preferable option for them.
It's also pretty easy to create a large scale business by taking shortcuts like streaming copyrighted content. Look at Grooveshark, Stage6, or any of the hundreds of popular torrent sites.

For someone who's used to creating normal web products it's shocking to see how fast a site can grow with copyrighted content.

It's not "make something people want" it's "give people what you already know they want but can't get for free".
There is a mod on Cydia enabling user accounts for the iPhone, not sure how it's implemented though.
> I feel like someone whose dad was murdered would be offended by the same principle.

Actually, my mom was murdered gruesomely. I have better things to do than getting offended too much over people's word choices when I know that they're just venting and not actually trying to insult me personally.

That said, there's plenty of awkwardness when people assume that a person your age should have living parents and you always end up having to explain what happened when you get to know new people.
Dang, just missed it! Anyone got a cached copy?
They have one: it's called the iPod touch.

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/
You're taking this too seriously.
agreed on this end, especially with all the new voice solutions?
It is not so easy--large networks will have a lot of redundancy built-in. Consequently, even shutting down a single large BGP autonomous system is not a simple problem and would have a lot of unintended consequences.

Wikileaks is not a good analogy. Wikileaks is more analogous to black-holing one small AS.
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The iPad is too much fun. It's slightly better geared for single-tasking than a PC, but at any moment you're still three taps from every piece of attention-sucking media in the world.

Although reading books works fine on an iPad, reading books is the only thing that works on a Kindle. And reading books is the behavior most critical to learning and becoming educated.
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