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because turning everything into either an emotional or moral appeal is the best way to have a systemically sound economy right? this illustrates exactly why populist systems don't work.
This is a dumb submission, the real headline shoule be some thing like "Flattr Do Not Control What Their Users Say".
Fake or not they did a very convincing job of making it look real.
Clever production, but wildly implausible: video frequency through audio DAC (best video compression in the world is still a postage stamp if you're trying to fit through a dial up modem); device sorts out screen characteristics; device sorts out picture should be split across four monitors; device so "powerful" to take over jumbotron yet so weak it has to be inches from bus stop screen, etc.
In portable systems (laptops and netbooks) the system should be able to work out its location from things like visible WiFi SSIDs and other onboard hardware. This would enable a few cool things:

* Tell the user that their normal WiFi router is probably turned off if it's SSID is not visible while others previously observed in the same location are present.

* Adjust settings based on location: When my laptop is in the office at work, I typically want the sound muted and the lockscreen active. When it's at home I want the sound turned up and the lockscreen disabled.
There are many really dangerous things going on there, but the explosion was relatively harmless.
"Reason 1: Haskell shines at domain specific languages.

"[...] if you can embed a domain specific language into
the programming language you’re using, things that looked
very difficult can start to appear doable. Haskell, of
course, excels at this. [...]"

Says who? Just because I can write `f(x)` as `f x` with full featured operator precedence and associativity tables doesn't mean I can introduce new syntax into the language. I can't even find a moral equivalent of ELisp's rx package for Haskell.

"[...] Lisp is defined by this idea, and it dominates the
language design, but sometimes at the cost of having a
clean combinatorial approach to putting different
notation together."

This is either weird nonsense or the old variable capture argument. You can write crappy functions in any language too, that doesn't mean we should take away the programmer's ability to write new ones.

"Reason 2: Haskell shines at naming ideas.
If you watch people tackle difficult tasks in many other
areas of life, you’ll notice this common thread. You
can’t talk about something until you have a name for it."

I applaud the willingness to appeal to natural language, but this isn't even close to true.

This blog post seems like an argument for Haskell's value based on specific times the author has enjoyed programming in Haskell. I call post hoc ergo propter hoc shenanigans.
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And we will all live longer (in terms of days anyway)! Who needs a fountain of youth? Just invent and earthquake ray. :)
Solar thermal is in fact a very interesting technology. I've looked into the pilot plants over in the desert in california and it seems like a real step forward.

Its also interesting that they seem to solve parts of the "baseload power" problem, ie. some plants store molten salt and can thus generate power for extended periods, but they would still have issues. For example, in non-equitorial climates I would assume it would have diminished capacity in winter, which could be a problem if a large portion of the grid was composed of solar thermal plants. Similarly you have efficiency losses/etc. associated.

Considering that the only alternative in terms of storing power involves pumping water up hydroelectric dams, though, it's certainly a step in the right direction.
I hope that he spends some of his time not commenting to fix his js so that it doesn't take 90 seconds to scroll down the page
What exact protections are you talking about? The market is already rewarding the most efficient banks.
Congratulations to Rich and company! That's a significant talent acquisition for LivingSocial, especially if most of the InfoEther team stays on board.
Fake or not, could this actually be done (perhaps w/ other device than an iPhone)? If so, how?
You can already easily do this using TubeMote (tubemote.com) without the need for all the hackery.
HiJack is for sensors, not video output. But yes, video output would somehow be possible. But I doubt it would be anywhere near the quality in this video.
This is an example of why I think the next crisis won't be many decades into the future, but much sooner. Basically, nothing changed after the crisis of 2008 - no one was punished, laws were not changed (they were tweaked at best) and the most important, the culture of fraud and criminality on wall street has only been emboldened.

I don't expect Wikileaks to change anything either. They may have helped the Tunisian revolution along, but no matter how complete and damning their evidence against BoA is, nothing will be done against BoA.
Ah ok, that makes more sense.

Will you assign the same alias to the same user every time, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon? That'd allow some kind of reputation system, at the cost of making it even easier to de-anonymize users.
I wondered this myself. While technically you could on a generic computer (a wire is a wire, digital and/or analog), there certainly don't exist any APIs to do this on the iPhone. It would make far more sense to hook up to the dock (for which I believe there are APIs for).

The second giveaway is that you definitely cannot get enough power out of the headphone jack to run any serious electronics, not to mention a transmitter that can apparently transmite hundreds of feet in a crowded place like Times Square.
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Yes, would he perhaps be "demonstrating" it on April 1st?
After an earth quake people can move back into the area.

Living in an area where a nuclear accident happened may not possible for many years.

If there is radioactivity released, then we are talking about large scale consequences. Tokio is just 240km away from Fukushima and there are living 30 Million people. Imagine if they have to leave the city behind.

Chernobyl had a certain type of scenario with radioactive particles released of a huge area in Europe. This has still effects. For the economy of the Ukraine in means that the have a region which can 't be developed, they have to pay for the maintenance of the broken reactor for decades and for example agriculture in that area is not really possible. Nobody outside the Ukraine will buy vegetable from them.

Check out the coal power plants. They had problems during the earth quake, but they fail and that's mostly it.

The nuclear reactors are full losses costing billions and need and extremely dangerous type of further maintenance.

I don't know many people who would want to work on Fukushima later. Who should clean up the site??? Which humans do we want to give these tasks???

In Chernobyl there was a lot of radiation released. Workers had a years of typical dose in a few minutes. I don't believe for a second that workers in Fukushima will not exposed to radiation. Even the US Navy pulls a ship away from the site, because it measured radiation in 160km distance.
One of my own https://github.com/jebu/websockets
For the curious -- I was wondering what the initial example:

hello = ^(name){ "Hello "+name }
repeat {times: 3} ^{
print hello {name: "John"}
}

... compiled to as JavaScript. Here's the output, which you can reproduce by calling "move.compile()":

"use strict";
var Move, _MoveKWArgsT, Text, extend, create, print, repeat, after, JSON,
hello;
Move = __move.runtime, _MoveKWArgsT = Move._MoveKWArgsT, Text = Move.Text,
extend = Move.extend, create = Move.create, print = Move.print, repeat =
Move.repeat, after = Move.after, JSON = Move.JSON, require = Move.require;
return hello = function (name) {
name !== null && typeof name === "object" && name.__kw === _MoveKWArgsT
&& (arguments.keywords = name, name = name.name);
return "Hello " + name;
}(repeat({
times: 3,
__kw: _MoveKWArgsT
})(function () {
return print(hello({
name: "John",
__kw: _MoveKWArgsT
}));
}));

For comparison, here's what the same example in CoffeeScript:

hello = (name) -> "Hello " + name
for i in [1..3]
print hello "John"

... compiles to as JavaScript (which you can reproduce in the "Try CoffeeScript" console):

var hello, i;
hello = function(name) {
return "Hello " + name;
};
for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
print(hello("John"));
}
>This is similar to the digital billboard panels on the sidelines at sporting events.

Yes, those are called Jumbotrons.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jumbotron
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I've always had to resort to right-clicking the title bar and hitting "Resize"; this shortcut to do the same thing is very helpful.

But I agree with everyone else in that it shouldn't be necessary to go through this just to resize windows, but I've always blamed myself for not learning awesome.
Why not? It's not like the US SEC is pitching in with JDF and the Red Cross. Hopefully, they start and investigation now and in a few weeks, or months, charges will be brought.

I'm fairly certain people can handle more than disaster porn at any given moment.
I guess some people last Windows exposure was Windows ME. That would explain a lot of comments in these parts.
What's the difference? I thought anybody could claim to be from Anonymous, and merely making this claim automatically makes this true.
Completely agree with this. On the other hand, all their safety mechanisms so far have failed. Electric, diesel based and the automatic steam based. Which is why they now manually try to pump in sea water (according to what I have understood from the news). I'm not against science, but still, it seems that the situation is surrounded by a fair amount of uncertainty. So, to my way of thinking the most wise is to treat it as an uncertainty, until we know more from official sources.
Are you thinking about things like patents and copyright? It may help, but it probably won't be sufficient: being big gives an influence that tend to feed on itself. Monopolies for instance, may last long.
I use ubuntu as my main OS, for development and 2D/3D graphics design.

Really like what I have seen of unity.

A small detail: I don't like the drums and the jungle default sound effects, when starting ubuntu. Windows & apple are far better in this regard.

In applications, I don't like plain text menus. I think it would be a great idea, to add a some by default way, in wich all the applications plain text menus could be collapsed inside an icon, like in firefox4 or google chrome.

As always, make the default theme to look brilliant.

Ubuntu is great, just keep the awesome work.
do the math:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/japan.us.nav... says the USS Ronald Reagan has been 100 miles away when "airborne radioactivity" was detected, and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthq... says that U.S. Navy crew in relief effort get a month's radiation in just one hour. From wikipedia: The worldwide average background dose for a human being is about 2.4 millisievert (mSv) per year, which is 0.2 mSv per month. i.e. 100 miles away they measured 0.2 mSv/h which, if we assume a r-squared dependency, 2 Sv/h within one mile at the reactor. Let's be conservative and assume linear dependence, then we still have 0.02 Sv/h which is a rather significant dose per hour. A dose greater than 0.5 sievert (Sv) is considered to be a high dose of radiation. With absorbed doses of 1 to 2 Sv and above, mortality is expected to be about 20%, according to radiation medicine specialists. Above a dose of 7 Sv the survival rate is zero.
So a few things... the video through the audio jack, probably not at the rate that the video is displaying...

Notice also in the begininng demonstrations that he has to get the device super close to the screen in order for it "to work"... and when he moves it less than a foot away, it stops.

Now.. when he ties it to the balloon, it would require that the balloon would happen to fly within less than a foot of the screen. Errr..

So, the next clue is the muxing couldn't be accomplished without having input to how many screens there are. For example, he holds it up to the video screen with 4 screens... How would the device know to map the video across four screens? It would have to be doing 4x the work as well.

Clever video, funny.
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> - make window movement and (more importantly) _resizing_ easier.

Alt+left (move)/middle (resize) mouse button. I'm not aware of any easier/more comfortable alternative in other distros/OSs.
I'm sure it isn't 100% accurate (Linux has some complexities to it after all), but I welcome any constructive criticism. I want to improve my low-level understanding before forging ahead to the higher level details that I'll write about in the next few weeks.
It's interesting to note that Eric Holder was a lawyer and represented UBS at one point, and won't touch the case.

This is bad? It's exactly what he should be doing.
I use Ubuntu (10.10) almost full time on my personal machines, and am part of a movement toward Ubuntu at my day job (from RHEL5.1), where I use Linux between 25 & 100 percent of the time, depending upon the projects I'm working on in a given period.

10.10 is most of the way there, and, if all the panels and launchers properly auto-hide in 11.4, I have hope that it will only add polish. Great job so far!

That said, I have a gripes and wishes (which I may post about later, if I have time), but my single greatest annoyance is quite simple really: the window manager has no option to keep focus from being stolen.

I know that both Gnome and Canonical are allergic to options, which is indeed the best default stance from a UX standpoint. However, this is right up there with mouse activated window focus behavior, which you do have an option for.

Especially on my netbook, where I'm running many apps full screen and process startup is relatively slow, I rage every time I start a couple programs, start working in the first that comes up, then get pulled away to some f'ing trivial dialog in the next, losing keystrokes. Worse, occasionally dismissing a dialog I didn't intend to.

I know that apps can be written to be less rude, but part of the beauty of *nix windowing is that the window manager gets the final say, so even rude apps can, at best, whine a bit (i.e. blink their window header and/or their button in the window list panel widget.
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Sorry, but even Paul Krugman, as well as every other Nobel Laureate in economics, supported TARP. A collapse to the financial system would've wreaked havoc to the economy (ala The Great Depression). "All we have gotten now" is a stablization to the system that didn't collapse, and didn't cause massive bankruptcies and unemployment.
I use Ubuntu every day, both at home on my laptop, netbook, and at work for an IT consulting company.

I have family using Ubuntu (it makes support a hell of a lot easier), and yes, I'm one of those, "My grandma uses Ubuntu," guys.

I have a small, spattered list of some things:

At the office, I am familiar with our Microsoft Exchange 2007 settings. I am still unable to get Exchange support using Evolution outside of our work network. I forget what the exact (incorrect) version error was, haven't played with that since Maverick's release, but is holding me back from true Exchange support. I think Evolution needs a little love. I saw that some bugs were reported upstream, but it didn't seem like they were being taken care of.

Consistent Quit/Close/Applications-that-minimize-to-tray is something, from my understanding, that has to be taken care of per-application, but it would be nice to have it consistent with what minimized to where. Currently, on Unity, closing Skype sends it to the tray, which isn't visible in the indicators. I have to either remember to minimize it and not close it, or throw it on a different workspace.

Of course, Windicators are something I'm looking forward to.

Also, I don't know that a Terminal Server Client (currently TSClient, but I read somewhere Remmina was going to take over, wooo!) is completely necessary on a default install. For an everyday user, they might not need to connect to a Windows RDP or anything else via VNC. No, it's not a large package to have on a default install, but I'm not certain that it's required for mainstream, everyday use (You know, similar to reasoning behind Gimp).

Perhaps there's something of substance here that may help.

Thanks for the hard work, and I'm excited to see the next release, and I'll (as always) be sure to run the bleeding-edge and report bugs as necessary.
...some good news out of Egypt today :)

On a more serious note, this is an interesting trend. Google and Microsoft are ramping up investment; previously companies like Yahoo have also made major acquisitions (Yahoo! buying Maktoob last year for about $100m)
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Have a look at this: https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare

It's using git as a backend to sync.
It depends how hard you find it, and how well you want to do. I know some people can get through with a good mark doing 3hrs a week 46 weeks of the year, and 80hrs the other 6 weeks (before exams and dissertation hand-ins).

I wouldn't recommend this though. Slow and steady wins the race, procrastination then working like mad makes you STRESSED
This is not an educated guess. Filtering of civilian GPS can be used to back these displacements out. See the comments under:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315839

The history of science is full of instances of precise measurements uncovering new phenomena by ruling out all known explanations. So it's important to understand these changes in day length (mass distribution, really). These calculations are actually being done on a regular basis, someone just decided to make a press release out of this jump because of the obvious interest.
Regardless of whether the results (hacking the screen) are real or fake, I have to say this would be close to number one on my 'things I wouldn't have the courage to do list': Hook an electronic devie to a balloon and send it skyward in Times Square while my friend films me and holds up a mobile phone with an electronic device poking out of it.
The iterator is consumed in C using any(), instead of the Python bytecode being executed to perform the loop. I don't know if it'd work for "any Python function," but I'd definitely look at it for long-running iterators.
Wait and see. We're not even close to out of the woods yet.
Reminds me of this Dutch guy on youtube, who'd pretend to hack all kinds of stuff. Quite funny, but clearly fake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcmmFQGxMNU (subtitled)
treating liabilities (demand deposits) as assets, using theoretical selling prices of assets to leverage. in this they are protected by legal tender laws and FDIC. banks basically get heavily subsidized insurance for their investment business at taxpayer expense.
Why don't you email me instead Tremt, and I will investigate. No point in launching a public witchhunt :-) I'm at naval at angel dot co.
As you noted above, a foreclosure might fail for more reasons than simply foreclosing on someone who doesn't deserve it. Every case I've read about has simply involved the bank screwing up paperwork and a real estate speculator being permitted to keep the house even though they failed to make payments.
I feel it worth pointing out (with no disrespect to parent) that this was written by Emo Phillips, the paraprosdokian master of our time.
Well hey if they just stop exploding I'd be a lot more comfortable. As it is right now lives are being lost to big explosions, a considerable cause of worry.
Reverse Van-Eck Phreaking?

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Well I doubt that in such an acquisition they would forget lockins.
It'll basically just be a huge signin bonus.

I'm still not sure I'd acquire a consultancy team to work on a startup.
For anything like this to work remotely, there would have to be some point where the video the screen is playing is being transmitted wirelessly that you could overpower. While I obviously don't know how those screens work, I would be very surprised if it wasn't wired all the way; why add the vagaries of wireless to all the other possibly problems you might have with those, even putting aside the security issues? Even when it's playing a TV station back I would imagine it's conventional cable, not pulling it in over the air.
I agree... there's a jarring effect everytime I run Gnome. Especially due to the fonts and the excessive spacing(on things like buttons) around text.. feeling like a lot of screen space wasted without gaining anything in return.

Maybe I am too used to the other OSes but font rendering always seem weird. Eg. See the screenshot here http://lh5.ggpht.com/mihaiolimpiu/SQh2WqXOQaI/AAAAAAAAASQ/mH...

The fonts seem stretched horizontally. I always get the feeling, even in the new versions. Maybe it's just me. As a sidenote see how the column headings are cut off in the Deluge windows.

I was told a few years ago that this was because of patents on TrueType fonts etc and copyrighted fonts. Is this still the case?
I doubt that being a graphics designer is the key to figuring out how to transmit video

Film-making and HDSLR does not translate into "graphics design". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSLR
"...while every single one of the 19,000 tax cheats who diverted billions in taxes are free..."

Maybe because we live under a rule of law that says you're innocent until proven guilty.
I'm so old I can remember when Krugman was an economist, rather than an op-ed columnist.
I'm not sure how the opinion of a columnist (and not just any columnist, but one well known for being dishonest) qualifies as "evidence of serious criminal activity".
Maybe one reason to encourage comments in source code is not to waste the time of good programmers who write clear code, but to help everyone who has to deal with unclear code written by not-so-good programmers.
I don't think that this is a criticism of Eric Holder, I think it has more to do with the fact that someone besides the Attorney General would have to take the lead on this.
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Fair point. Yet another example of the original Twitter team being able to find value and capitalize on a constraint that today would probably be ignored or even frowned upon.
Should be "Video Editor with Adobe After Effects takes over Times Square screens".
Could you please explain the down vote?
Desktop sharing with Compiz enabled. Currently you can share an Ubuntu desktop (System->Preferences->Remote Desktop) easily, but viewing these shared desktops doesn't work with any of the regular VNC clients (vinagre, xtightvncviewer, etc) if Compiz is enabled...which on most Ubuntu desktops is true by default. This leads to a confusing experience for the non-technical user.
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