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> what stops the government from just getting the ISPs to turn off traffic?

Something like Xnet in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. A mesh network where you send your requests into the 'mesh' and it encrypts the information and sends it out to the wider internet through exit nodes that are hooked up to ISPs. Were such a network to exist, then the mesh would extend across borders, so E.g. the US government would also have to convince Canada and Mexico to shut down their ISPs as well. The parts of the mesh that connected to Canada and Mexico wouldn't be able to route all casual internet traffic for the entire US, but it would be enough just to get information into (or out of) the country and onto the mesh network. Once on the US portion of the mesh network, the external information could be distributed amongst the nodes since the mesh network is independent of government control. The mesh network would also easily be able to allow people within the country to coordinate things like protests, etc. Shutting down the internet in instances like Egypt isn't necessarily about cutting off access to the outside, it's also about cutting off the ability of the people easily organize themselves en masse.
Does recreating UITableViewController to be slightly more flexible really constitute a new approach?
Here's the thing, a tiny microchip sorting numbers at a speed that a human can barely comprehend IS impressive.

Just like flying through the sky in a metal tube, talking to someone on a different continent in realtime, or converting lightning into high-energy photons and cooking your food with it.
In 15 years of experience where Java sadly pays the bills, for example, systems written in that language that had a modeling approach that tended toward immutability and tended to limit the visibility of mutable state throughout the system were also more understandable, more amenable to change and therefore better than those that weren't. Irrespective of concurrency and parallelism!
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Re: "What if someone with double the money we have can execute in half the time?"

See Henry Ford working, by himself, after work, late into the night, for years and years, on his prototype car, while others with more money were doing the same thing. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric.
When an attacker uses state of the art techniques to get through your security, you curse them and then redouble your efforts at security.

When an attacker uses rudimentary techniques that have been well known for many years and have straightforward and low-cost counter-measures, then you should rightfully be disgraced. More so if you are a security company.

It's not as though the attack against HBGary was like some expert safe-cracker routine. Rather, it was more similar to someone walking up to the front door, finding it locked, then finding a key under the doormat and letting themselves inside. There's no excuse for that. Not if you have any sort of obligation to maintain a level of security and secrecy.
Even considering that, I don’t know what exactly makes it less impressive than Deep Blue. Watson correctly knew 84% of the answers in the second round. Looking at past games, that’s very much competitive with humans. To me, this is much more impressive than Deep Blue, even considering the fast reaction times.
>Without altitude and temperature a Mach number is rather useless

Actually, no, it's the most important number. See http://womanpilot.com/?p=61 (near the end) for why.
But unlike the Windows upgrade cycle, this costs nothing.

Even though there are usually feature updates mixed in with the bug fixes and security issues, many people (especially non-techie people) lump the Chrome updates in with OS updates as a necessary part of maintenance like changing the oil in a car.

Upgrading Windows beyond XP currently adds very little of significance to most people though, particularly corporates with many many desktops to upgrade (and people to support when they do) and home users with limited cash.

From a designers point of view the "just upgrade already" argument can't wash. We can't force our users to upgrade there OS (we can only just get away with cajoling them into upgrading their browser or occasionally (but increasingly) choosing an alternative (though this is less of an option for corporates for the usual reasons).

The accusation is that MS is trying to make IE9 one of the reasons to upgrade (and therefore pay for that upgrade). This is the same accusation levelled at them with DX10 and later, and it is equally correct (and equally understandable from their commercial PoV). In the case of the browser though this is seen as more onerous because your internet access method is more ingrained in your life and much more potentially damaging when there are security issues.

A large client of hours (a major bank) is rolling out IE8 to their users (who are currently stuck on IE6) in a few months time. If IE9 had promised XP support they might have planned to roll that out instead, though a little delayed as they would need to wait for at least the RCs to start their main roll-out testing - so IE9 not being available on XP is definitely going to have an effect on the number of people still using the irritations that are IE6/7/8 in corporate environments.
Hasn't this already been done by several different hackers? I am quite sure it has been.
I don’t know what exactly makes Watson’s performance unimpressive. Being able to answer 84% of all questions correctly is impressive, reaction times or not.
Designers use a GUI tool like Dreamweaver, or do not code at all.

Developers can make a program or web site using a text editor.
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That wouldn’t be Jeopardy anymore. Timing matters. I like the 200ms solution.
> I still fail to grasp the argument of IE9 not being released for XP. I mean, the OS is ten years old, upgrade already.

Trying telling that to our corporate clients.

Or a home user on a limited budget, who doesn't want to switch to Linux because their games won't run and doesn't want to switch browser because they think they'll have to relearn stuff.
If they have nothing to worry about then why the constant sniping? Shouldn't they be focusing on the real competition...that is Chrome and/or Safari?
Am I seeing right? An IE developer is claiming that modern browsers implement features/standards when they are ready?! What are we talking about, is this about the web that Microsoft had been trying to block for years? How dare!
Do you know that? How? Stats?
It's a 10 year old OS with a 42% marketshare because Microsoft has been one of the better, if not the best company out there supporting their old products, much more so than Apple. Microsoft worked very hard to maintain backward compatibility for newer OSes and to avoid newer products breaking on their older OSes. Really.

If Microsoft had stopped supporting their olders OSes, stopped backporting new features and just shipped security updates, the figures would probably have been different.

Ask yourself: What incentive does Microsoft have to support users who paid them $15 for an OEM license a decade ago? I genuinely don't get this entitlement the users of legacy-Windows seem to have here. I've yet to see users of Slackware 8 cause massive uproar because Compiz haven't been backported to their 2001 OS. So what's different about XP?

If the mentality that "people are using the old product so Microsoft should fully support old product and backport and make everything work there" were to rule, basically Microsoft would go bankrupt since nobody would ever need to buy a new product from them. That's not how you become one of the worlds biggest software-companies and that's not how you get your OS supported in the future.

Microsoft may have themselves to blame for the remaining large Windows XP userbase having provided too good support in the past, but that in no way translates into obligations to keep on doing that in the future.
84% of the time.
As I've said many times, Watson being able to come up with correct responses that often is impressive. Watson winning Jeopardy! is what's not impressive.
Do you honestly believe that the president has the power to reverse the TSA, cancel the PATRIOT act, close Guantanimo, end warantless wiretapping and spying on Americans, etc.?

He can raise the issue, make public statements, try and push through legislation, etc., but he can't just do all that as simply as you're making out.

He desperately wanted health care reform and he didn't have the power to do that in the way he wanted. What makes you think the president can do all this if he wanted to? It's nowhere near that easy.
If you had only 4 days a month off, and your friend only have 4 days a month off, then you have a 1.8% chance of having the same day off each month. It equates to having one day to go out with your friend once every 2 years.

It's probably Sunday or Monday. So they'll probably meet. Also they can meet intra-day to launch or dinner.
Very cool stuff !

I think something like this, but bigger and wall mountable would be very neat. The obvious use case for startups is to use it as a dashboard with your most important metric for display - for example your google analytics traffic stats.
There's no way to know what portion of the clues the human contestants knew the correct responses to. I've watched Ken and Brad play extensively though, so I very strongly suspect that they easily knew at least as many as Watson.
That seems to be a contradiction. Being able to answer 84% of the questions seems to be about champion level.
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You aren't joking. I took a few minutes and wrote up a bayesian engine in mathematica. I've got a pretty good start on that already, and as the IBM stuff notes it's embarrassingly parallel. It seems to me the entire problem is parsing. If you can parse well and feed a well formed input to your data layer (and you've fed it enough data) you're golden.

So who wants to build a real Q/A site based on this? Call it hal-18000.
How many years of your life have you spent working on a software with a large user base?

I humbly submit this number must be very low, because fixing a bug in a widely deployed product is not as easy as you believe it is.

For instance maybe fixing the bug in crashie8.com would break a lot of websites relying (indirectly) on that bug.

It's easy to have your very own definition of "modern" and then say "This is not modern, because modern means having a yellow status bar".

Actually when you said that PHP is a modern language I must say that your definition of modern sounded pretty different than mine.

Lastly, I challenge you to find a single currently working crash-the-computer bug in IE9. Crash the tab, yes. Crash the browser, maybe. Crash the computer, very unlikely.
When I wrote billing systems for telecoms, Feb 31st was a valid date... after a fashion. Billing cycles were stored as a cycle period "monthly", "quarterly", etc, with a "bill day" offset which was a number 1-31. If your "bill day" was the 31st then in February you would be billed on the last day of the month along with the customers with bill days 28-30. It was rare to do actual time calculations treating the bill day as an actual date, but not considered particularly strange.

And there you have it, at least for one small corner of the software world.
It stands to reason that Apple is the second biggest stock in the world, and the largest tech company.

Steve Jobs basically made Apple into a MEDIA DISTRIBUTION company. Whether that media is music, podcasts, movies, apps, or now -- news.

The world produces a lot of media and pays a lot for it, and Apple wants to draw as much as possible onto its distribution network get a 30% cut of as much as possible. It curates the platform, and it calls the shots.

Clearly this is great news for Apple's stockholders. I think one of Apple's biggest competitors will be Netflix. Basically, content creators of all kinds, as well as publishers, will partner with distribution networks. I just hope these distribution networks won't have exclusivity contracts! If Apple forces exclusivity on publishers then THAT is when it will become evil -- because everything will be centralized. Until then, it's just another distribution channel, and it's pretty awesome. More than Nintendo, more than Sony, Apple has made a profitable platform from the ground up. It is the largest company partly because it's built everything up from the hardware, and cultivated its brand. When it learns about the internet, it will be a huge powerhouse to reckon with.

No wonder Google invested so much into open source alternatives to Apple's platform. This is turning out well for all of us :) The only way it could go awry is if patents get involved...
There's a ridiculous amount of a lack of information in that "news" entry.

"Rebuild the Internet"... how? They're evidently not planning on wall-warts to route the Internet. "would decentralize information and power" how, precisely? There's absolutely squat in the article about wtf the thing would do.
I would like some stats about that. As I said, Watson could have correctly answered 84% of the questions, nobody could answer 6% of the questions. That leaves a very thin margin for the humans, if past games are any indication one that is probably not large enough.
> The difference is that I notice when Windows updates, and I don't notice each time that Chrome updates.

Erm... the preferred configuration is unprompted and unattended installation of Windows updates, you only "notice" them in the sense that you see a Windows Update icon appearing and disappearing in the notification bar if you're there at your set update times.
In game development, we're all developers. Designers, programmers and artists are subsets of developer. Maybe producers too depending who you ask. They're certainly part of the development team.

Is that not how it is everywhere else? In my brief non-gaming employment, I don't think the word "developer" really came up.
And this is ignoring my corporate clients, who are using software that is integral to their business, that hasn't been updated in years and does not run correctly on Windows 7.

Not refuting the rest of your point, but Windows 7 comes with "XP mode". It's literally a virtual machine running Windows XP.

Saying something which works in Windows XP "doesn't work" in Windows 7 is obviously misguided or wrong.
I feel like different applications for different programmes really shows off the personality - or DNA of each programme.
Are there alternate ways of passing this test for people with disabilities? For example, I have some form of face blindness and wouldn't be able to pass this test, unless I could remember the pictured event itself.
They're pretty close to having a monopoly on paid digital music downloads, and perhaps portable music devices, and they're shutting out competitor streaming music services with this move.
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I've switched to using Arq for my backups. It's not a service like Mozy/Backblaze, you purchase the Arq client (30 bucks) and then it backs up to your own S3 account.

The fact it is not a service has lots of positive benefits for me:

The company can die and I can still recover my files (there's an open source recovery tool on github - https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore

It also does away with some of the stupid restrictions typically found with Backblaze/Mozy with respect to backing up network drives.

Incremental backups are lightning fast.

It keeps a "Time Capsule" style incremented history of your recently changed files.
To be fair, HTML5 is a mix: a mix of stuff which already exists and was standardized (from a number of browsers) and of new stuff which was built from ground up for the occasion.
I think the math is bit off. Let's say you have the 1,2,3, and 4th of the month off. Assuming total randomness in the days off (unlikely, as csomar commented), your friend has 1/30 chance of having the 1st off, 1/30 of having the 2nd, ... so in total 4/30 chance of having a day off at the same time as you do in a given month.
"Most Q&A sites (StackExchange included) let the community vote for the best answer, when really the person whose opinion matters most is the one who asked the question."

I'm not sure that's correct. Didn't the person ask the question in the first place because they didn't know the answer? In the case of a technical question, someone might give them an answer which produces the correct output but in a terrible way, the person who asked the question might be tempted to mark this as the best answer and move on.
Not really, they should've tested the site themselves and there's evidence that this actually happened on the main site but not federal. Normally a company contracts an external company to do the work for them and either asks the external company to independently check the security of the output or organises it themselves. In the case of federal it may have been the case that neither happened.

> If they were selling hand-made baskets, nobody would blame them, but they sell "security" and charge big bucks for it, so they deserve the ridicule.

I disagree. Anonymous were a highly motivated persistent attacker. It doesn't matter whether or not there was SQL injection involved, they'd just keep on going until they get in regardless. If there wasn't a SQL injection bug there'd be something else. Tptacek's company has been hacked into, our website got hacked into years ago (through having shared hosting - someone else had a SQL injection bug on the same box and the hackers defaced every site on the box. The difference is that we did a risk analysis beforehand and decided to never to store sensitive data there nor use the same credentials for that account anywhere else). Given a long enough timeline, everyone gets hacked. While the SQL injection bug was the way in, the real schoolboy error was Aaron Barr using a weak shared password for Google Apps admin.
4chan has many boards, /b/ is the only one that is obnoxious. The other boards also have anonymity, yet they don't have the same level of obnoxiousness. This is because 4chan started out as a board with a bunch of obnoxious idiots on it, and /b/ was the place were they were 'allowed' the let loose. As the site gained in popularity, this obviously 'blossomed' as more and more people joined and participated in the pre-existing culture.

To say that anonymity breeds obnoxiousness baseless, especially since there is anonymity all over the web, yet 4chan is the example that everyone loves to use. Where are the other examples? What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futaba_Channel or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel (4chan's inspiration)? It also provides anonymity.
Yeah, sorry my initial reply was borderline knee jerk. I'm even questionable on even largest, but it's all on the back of my own experience.

The successful relationships I've had were always ones where my partner had their own, multiple criteria for happiness. I want to be at most say, a third of someone's life and contribute as much to their emotional state.

Between work, hobbies, social circles, working out, etc etc, I've always found relationships to fit into that but they place about no. 3-4, and anecdotally, its always made for better outcomes. When they hit no. 1 or 2, it means we're both giving up on something that's a significant part of our character, and I've never found it to be a positive indicator.
Anything more verifiable than an "industry analyst"?
Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate was released and FF wanted to make a point that regardless of what M$ says, IE still sucks.
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Not news, but pressure and the fine art of telling the truth. It's to keep MS in check, transparent. In my opinion.
I am using devise and auth_logic for authentication and authorization.

But I am struggling with rolling my own, so was wondering if there is a gem that does it.

I found one - https://github.com/linoj/saasramp - but doesn't seem to be written for Rails 3 (and hasn't been updated).

Know of any others like that, but for Rails 3 ?
You probably don't qualify. Entrepreneurs should only accept money from an accredited investor. If all you have is low tens of thousands, very high chance you're not accredited. Meaning no one should be taking money from you.
Facebook should really use face recognition to make sure that there is actually a face on the photo.
Ok, so Watson couldn't yet answer "How do you change the oil on an 77 Corvette?" any better than Google could, but it could conceivably answer the question "What size sockets do I need to remove the oil pan of a 77 Corvette?" Is that trivia? I guess. But it's also practical knowledge that's time consuming to find in Google search.

Also, I could be wrong, but I imagine a large percentage of searches are for trivia. It wouldn't have to be all or nothing. Perhaps Watson answers trivia like questions in clear english. For everything else he returns all the resources he has that he thinks are related to the question, like Google does. Heck, maybe Google partners with IBM to license the tech. Google's already trying to answer some trivial questions outright in search, such as when you ask for a definition, unit conversion, or simple math. Watson could take that to a whole new level.

As far as a business model, I don't see why slapping an ad on where to purchase the correct size sockets you need online beside your answer wouldn't work.
Ask him hypotetical questions, ie. what would be your reaction that some of product managers come and say that you have critical bug that needs to be fixed NOW, and all other developers are not availaible (eg. weekend)...

That should help you to undestand how that person is thinking, and how will he react in different stressfull situations.