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> How can you even remotely vindicate his behavior?

Nobody's defending his behaviour; people are pointing out that the way in which the federal government apprehended him was clearly illegal. There are legal ways to stop him from infringing; let's see more of that.
The patent (and copyright) system is constitutionally mandated, specifically to promote "Science and useful Arts," by giving people temporary exclusivity on what they create.

Since this kind of activity doesn't appear to actually promote science or the useful arts, I argue that the fact that our allows this kind of behavior using our patent system is unconstitutional.
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Instead of scared, they crash :)
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The code is public domain (but also kinda sucks – I wrote it). http://canvaspaint.org/blog/2008/02/code-released-into-publi...
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I regularly use epicurious.com. I often find myself scanning multiple recipes for a particular dish and using some combination of them to create my own version.
A slide will usually have a generalization of the point that the speaker is making, not a word for word rehash of everything he says.
Well now they are asking for Prime duplicates, and if they keep it going fo the next week, you could end up with some complex puzzles.
Second this. I am as critical as anyone of the naturalistic fallacy, and don't generally subscribe to the idea that what worked for cavemen will work for me.

However, the metabolic science is there if you read it, and I can't argue with the profound effect switching to a diet based on meat, eggs and other sources of saturated fats has had on my body.

I eat as much as I want, whenever I want, I'm never really hungry any more, and I've been losing fat and gaining muscle without thinking about it at all. It's pretty incredible.
I understand they have more visibility in an other wise hidden market.

However, short term advertising and pricing only moves you on the same demand curve. Unless you end up converting those discount buyers.

I think Groupon is a great way to get your business known, just don't put your eggs in one basket is all I am saying.
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Hmmm, perhaps this is the first of many in a dystopian future of human CAPTCHAs... "Please solve this equation in 200ms or less. Sorry, no humans allowed."
Exactly. Obesity goes with poverty because both are a result of a high discount rate.

High discount rate reduces the propensity for work (most poor don't work much, if at all), particularly work with a career path. Why work hard now just to have a middle class life in the future?

Similarly, a high discount rate cuts against a healthy lifestyle - why suffer through a run in the park and hunger right now, just for future health?

(Also explains correlation between poverty and: drugs, alchohol, unprotected sex, probably other pathologies I can't think of.)

High discount rate is the cause, everything else is an effect.

Of course, a high discount rate has nothing to do with the cheapness of carbs, fat and sugar relative to meat or veggies. Money is not the limiting factor. Willpower/preferences are.
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They don't have ie7countdown or ie8countdown.
Obviously you haven't asked many Chinese whether they think their government is a "brutal dictatorship".
> All those foods that you mentioned, a 19th century mom would recognize as food.

Doubtful. I mean, the vegetables aren't cooked. That can't be healthy!

(Before anyone downvotes me: Look up how we used to cook vegetables. 'Boiled to a mush' just about sums it up. That's neither tasty nor healthy.)
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Thank you for this - I attended the talk because of this post, and it was excellent.
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Always On would probably solve the slow startup issue better, but it's a premium feature.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/instances...
Come on, can you discuss it seriously?

I've used both, and actually started using Erlang prior to Ruby. My name is in the 'thanks for previewing it' for the O'Reilly Erlang book for having had a good look through it before it was published.

I'm not making any claims about scientific metrics, I'm talking about what I've seen and the feel I get for both.

Think how much less boilerplate there is for a Ruby class versus an OTP server, just as one example.

Yeah, yeah, apples and oranges, but you can't both say how Erlang is "really object oriented" and then not compare what those "objects" look like in practice.

Also: I mostly say this stuff because I like Erlang and am a bit frustrated at not seeing it go farther than I think it could.
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When in doubt: whois ie6countdown.com

Sure, but how many people know how to do that? Or even how to find out that information on the web?
Piracy might be one of the reasons. But there is another possible reason - underpowered machines. Unlike the western world, owning a computer is still a luxury here (India). Most people are stuck with old machines where firefox and chrome are terribly slow.

I was expecting India to have a much higher share. But as statcounter's stats[1] suggests, chrome already has ~25% share. IE in general and IE6 in particular are losing market share drastically. This is a welcome trend.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201002-201102
That's certainly one factor. I remember how annoyed I was when developing a hostel website for a friend that I'd have to support IE6, due to the wide install base. Then my friend tried using it in this weird new browser which she said was popular - I was happy that Chinese people were being persuaded to switch from IE. Then I discovered that Maxthon used the Trident layout engine and had inherited all the IE layout problems. Aaargh!

Still, I don't think Maxthon explains everything - I have seen a lot of cyber cafes with only IE6 installed. I'll try and make an extra effort to promote Chrome/Firefox/heck, even IE9 next time I'm over there.
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Maybe older versions of Windows were easier to pirate or more widely pirated, and people avoid upgrading in case they run afoul of anti-piracy measures.
How are you getting around same-origin-policy issues with this script? I noticed the javascript debugger is reporting failures for every request: "Origin http://www.cloudping.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.". Are you just counting on the request failing, but recording the time that it takes to do so anyway?
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I don't know, one wonders why GeoTag filed ~400 patents at the exact same time, but the basic idea of an R&D only company that makes money by licencing its discoveries, or even of a company that makes money by buying other peoples patents, seem to be logical extensions of having any agreeance with the patent system. Bad patents, of course, are another matter (or being sued for something you 'invented' - isn't that supposed to be impossible?)
A lot of the times ordinary office jobs consist of low morale repetitive tasks.. I agree with you, being engaged is a fundamental need of humanity.
Reminds me of the China Study
where the author argues that we spend so much time and money figuring out what individual nutrients do that we don't pay attention to the type of food we eat anymore
The article is actually quite forthright. Singhal implies that the core of this uses some form of machine learning. Looks like a binary good-bad classifier that can give confidence or a probability in its predictions. Negative ratings have a higher threshold. I'm thinking what is more important than classifier is what features are chosen. I bet the breakthrough was a clever way to choose or identify these features.
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That's because the incentives are completely screwed up (to put it in the nicest terms): more page views (no matter how these come about) = more ad revenue. So what do you expect many to do?

It's a sad state of affairs because the "business" folks are now resorting to more controversial and in-your-face material that is complete garbage much like cable news and other ratings whores on television. Think about the AOL memo that was allegedly leaked. That's what the internet is turning into all at the expense of high-quality content.

This wouldn't be a problem if everyone else didn't do it, but when you can't easily monetize online, now you even have the likes of the New York Times with huge display ads that scroll down to cover up most of your screen when you visit their home page. Disgusting. Someone needs to change this. I'm looking into it.
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Thanks robbinwarren. I've been thinking on how to do this
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That article says Kobe does power cleans, which are riskier than deadlifts for back injury.
If you twist your perspective a little, you can change how you view the stack; instead of looking at it as a literally linear blob of data, consider it the 'data' or 'scope' pointer of a closure (frequently implemented as a pair of data and code pointers). A key element of this closure is the continuation closure, which is implicitly passed in to closures when they get called; the 'RET' type of CPU opcode is the normal way of calling this closure.

If one carefully adds stack splitting and duplication capabilities to an ordinary procedural language, it amounts to a conversion to continuation-passing style. Not only does that cut down on some of the drawbacks of massive multithreading on 32-bit (address space exhaustion, though not the expense of context switches), but it also permits interesting implementation strategies (e.g. making call/cc work in C or languages implemented in terms of C, which can in turn be applied to implementation of stateless servers).
Or the recursive version, upon sorting:

function find_dupe(a){ if(a.length==0) return -1;
if (a[0]==a[1]) return a[0]; else return find_dupe(a.slice(1,a.length)); }

BTW, are loops more efficient than recursion in JS? It sure seems like a lot of JS libraries out there including jQuery avoid recursion like plague.
Can multiple people draw on the same canvas at the same time? That would be interesting..
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I don't know what software you use for RDP on iPad but I use Wyse Pocketcloud Pro and it is available for ipad too.

Honeycomb does have the good feel although it is different obviously from iOS feel.
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Well you ought to apply to www.betacandy.com
They have a service dedicated to connecting beta services/products with early adopters
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Recently found http://www.notakeout.com/.

It is a beautiful site, the recipes are great (unique and tasty), and the instructions and step-by-step instructions are awesome.
Interesting, but a bot can take CSS into consideration -- or simply render the page to see what your users are seeing, no?
The biggest danger is an overreaction, which a computer is much less likely to do (if programmed correctly of course). Newer luxury cars already save you from yourself when you try and overcorrect, so I suspect this is already a solved problem.
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1. I don't have a problem with my host and while I get the lesson part, why would that change anything in terms of me knowing who the host is.

2. I'm still curious regardless of what the point is, who's the host?
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This is super-old, you guys. Still useful may be the bits that talk about how to use web-sniffer.net to determine whether your site is serving manifests with the proper MIME type.
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Insurance is easy: Google provides the insurance. Looking at the market share and market caps of Progressive and Allstate, which together have an 18% market share, Google is larger than the entire US auto insurance industry.
Nice job...well done. I've just downloaded this and reposted it to min.us:

http://min.us/mvjf9pl
If anyone wants to do something with it, microsoftcountdown.com is available...

edit: it's no longer available.
>I once trained for a 5k race by doing just squats. I beat most of my "cardio" friends.

How fast were you?
Hi, Can you explain what is all this?
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I did :)

JSON.parse(p.innerHTML.split('\n')[2])
It's more that we're taking health risks by eating novel foods (things that weren't available as we evolved). There is a lot of evidence that insulin response is responsible for metabolic syndrome. There is also some evidence that the lectins in grains promote malabsorption of dietary nutrients.
This is a good example of how A/B testing the wrong things can kill your product.
you could save after each stroke and hit the back button if needed
Suggestions:

-> Vector mode (straight lines)

-> "New" doesn't re-load, just replaces the script. Makes it faster, lowers server demand too.

-> Embed in other websites

-> HTML5 Storage.

-> Download as.

-> Scalable features for UI based on user preferences.
What if we use JavaScript to generate this dynamically?
Before we get to being stuck on IE9, first we're going to have to survive being stuck on IE8 - the last version of IE supported in XP.

One of the reasons for being stuck on IE6 is that it's the last IE supported by Windows 2000 (and there are plenty of Windows 2000 workstations still out there).
That sounds like a sensible way of doing things.

> I hope you learned a lot about your problem domain in Ruby because otherwise that's a pretty big waste of time.

The biggest problem most startups have is no market, not being "web scale". You'll figure that out faster with Rails or Django as your web code. Clearly there are some areas where Erlang is really, really unbeatable, but... my whole point was that I see other people muscling into them, like node.js and Scala. Are they there yet? No. But give them some time and momentum and they'll get most of the way there; far enough for most people.
If we countdown to IE8, we will be able to finally use real XHTML and SVG, but it is too early to do it.
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I don't agree, I don't see the value for businesses in a fundamental shift in the demand curve any more than 1 euro hamburgers have that goal. Getting more customers in the door is a customer acquisition tool, hopefully getting those customers to return; or even better, upselling them something. It's not part of a fundamental change in pricing strategy, it's a short-term marketing tool.
This is exactly how Windows allocates the stack. The address space is reserved, but only the first page is comitted; the next page after that is called the guard page. Touching the guard page causes an exception, and the first-chance handler for that exception commits the page, sets up a new guard page at the next position, and resumes execution.

Compilers targeting Windows need to generate stack touching prologues for procedures that allocate more than 4K of local variable data, or else they risk code first touching the page beyond the guard page, which will cause a much more unpleasant access violation.
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These are standard data structures and algorithms coded in C++. Pretty useful for programming competitions.
IE8 is going to be the IE6 of today, but way way way worse and for much longer. Talk about legacy code.

While IE6 has been a pain for 5 years, IE8 will be a pain for 15. We will see a HUGE portion of people not upgrading from WinXP.

Really our only solution there is to get them onto a new browser or convince them that this unsuspecting "Chrome Frame" plugin is the right thing to do.

We have to, really.
And I thought I read somewhere that a lot of captcha's are being "solved" by humans in other countries and then sent over to the spam bot to input?

Any one else recall seeing an article on that?
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hmm... thanks a lot, was just reading all that.
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Not really; to be useful it doesn't have to do everything all at once.

I'm not in the market for a new car, but if I were, and there was one available that could drive itself in good weather only, on an expressway in reasonably good condition, then it would be worth a small premium.

Most of my driving is on the interstate or other expressway in relatively little traffic. A car that could handle this would make the daily commute, or weekend visits to friends that live 3 hours away a lot more pleasant.

On the other hand, I could care less about automatically driving in the city, since I don't live there and go very rarely.
Fun, but I'd prefer if it were simply "iecountdown.com".
But the group says it isn't acting to kill a competitor. It said it's simply offering a service for patent holders and is agnostic about which video format prevails. "We are effectively a convenience store" for licensing patents, said Larry Horn, MPEG LA's chief executive. "We have no dog in that fight."

So, MPEG LA has no interest in extracting maximum possible amount of royalties for its patent holders?
They're great, better than the complimentary ones I listed, but not strictly necessary if you do the Big Three.

The areas you mention are covered by the dead lifts, especially shoulders and upper back. The bicep is a relatively tiny muscle that we tend to over train because of its "reputation" so to speak, but at a beginner to intermediate level, it really does get enough from just the dead lifts. You might want to re-evaluate that when you can dead lift at least 2x your body weight though.
What's the purpose? Like, what are my votes to be based on? FaceMash was based on hotness, or something. What is this? I see a picture of a C3-P0 helmet versus a picture of a VoIP phone. Am I supposed to just vote for the picture that somehow touches me the most?
You only made a case against the lipid hypothesis, which Michael Pollan also criticized in his book, so you have fallen into his trap of eating healthy and didn't even know it.
9 out of 10 people are just window shopping and will contact several other web designers with the same brief.

Additionally, you have the problem of people expecting you to be cheap because one of the few things your site tells me about you (other than showing me some sound enough finished work) is that you're based in a low income country and know how to use the right tools.

People that want a cheap offshore guy that knows their way around Photoshop go straight to the enquiry form. People that are prepared to pay more care about whether your design goes through multiple iterations before the final version, whether you'll work with them to make it reflect their company image, whether you understand usability, whether you've worked with the same clients over a number of years etc. - they'll probably skip your site altogether in favour of the next one with more marketing fluff.
Domains are easy for you to harp on because you have nothing invested in it and any claims you make do not actually apply to you. You'll happily fund places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and China because it's hard to avoid, but then come and post an effort-free comment about how someone else should act differently.

I don't believe it's a weak point at all. I think you're creating a demarcation to eliminate the cognitive dissonance in asking someone else to expend effort while expending none yourself.

Yes, cell phones are fungible, but my Droid X is not. Yes, keyboard are fungible but I can't get Dell to ship a differently branded keyboard.
The only memory-based effects of methamphetamine I've heard of have been impairment, not improvement. Do you have any citations?

Also, methamphetamine has a very high addiction potential. I don't know if this does - I've yet to even glance at the paper - but I would be willing to hedge money on your comparison being between apples & oranges.
No, a lot of services already do that very well, we want to keep scri.ch scary simple!
That's a blog entry linking to TFA.
I've heard anecdotally that Plenty of Fish intentionally does something similar on their search results. The user thumbnails are generally low quality and/or squashed into the wrong aspect ratio. What I heard from someone who talked to him about it is they tried fixing it (cropping instead of resizing, higher image quality, etc), but it resulted in fewer click-throughs (and fewer ad impressions) so they changed it back.
It wasn't Sam H. I don't recall his name.
Heh, I've been working with a friend on something similar for a couple of weekends, but it's not completely polished yet: http://awwapp.com/ (still a work in progress).

I made it because I couldn't find any decent full-screen drawing app for my tablet pc (which is NOT an iPad, so software is a problem), that both uses maximum of the screen real estate, and is touch friendly. So I wanted something that I could easily sketch on and then send/share the drawing result with someone.

(sorry for the bad "meetoo" form of the comment; I like the web whiteboarding/sketching, esp. now that tablets are more popular, and think it's great a lot of people are playing around with the concept).
Totally agree. I'm just observing there's a pretty big gulf between a non-techie and a techie when it comes to expectations of electronics.
That's how CANVAS works. Image data is made available base64 encoded. It's actually really convenient for sending around over HTTP.
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Nice, but if you can get it into Wolfram Alpha and back, you're probably human. :)
you forgot the TLD on showmethecurry.

http://www.showmethecurry.com
I got "find the least real zero of the polynomial: -7 * 4 - 7". Somehow I doubt "mu" would be accepted.

(That sort of think has only shown up once over multiple refreshes though.)
Yep. Nothing too serious, just some fun; which ever one is more visually appealing to you, or (as you say) touches you the most. It will be interesting to see which pics rise to the top this way.
That exists, it's called 'Compatibility Mode'. And by default (at least in IE8, at my current client's deployment) it uses it for all Intranet Sites. You can also use meta-tag 'X-UA-Compatible' to force a certain compatibility (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=vs.85).as...)

EDIT: Apparently the best you can do for IE6 is to 'emulate IE5,' which actually means 'emulate IE7 quirks mode'. Oh well...
You obviously don't work in a highly regulated industry :-)

Things that seem like "no brainers" to software developers are absolute show stoppers to regulatory bureaucracies like the Department of Transportation.

It's not impossible and it will certainly happen eventually, but it will take years of proposals and studies for a new set of regulations to evolve that these cars will have to follow. Liability is a separate issue that the car companies are used to dealing with. Changing minds at the US DOT (for example) will be a lot harder.
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If it was entirely evidence based and nothing else, I wouldn't be a fanboy, I'd just have the 'best available opinion to have'.

And where's the fun in that?

;)
They should retire IE7 too.
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If you keep reading, it's clear that MPEG-LA believes it has patents in the portfolio that cover VP8. If they expect to extract licensing revenue from those patents it's altogether possible that they don't care which format ultimately wins.