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I think it's the other way around. It's pretty crazy that trafficking drugs allows/drives them to construct such complex vessels.
Don't you think, that it's obviously immoral to force others to pay for the benefits, if they don't want them, like governments does? And to forbid the competition in providing of such services?

Plus if i charge different amount for the same service, i will be frowned upon. If government does this, nobody notice. Probably the only fare tax - is when anyone pays proportionally to services they got, not proportionally to income.
Why shouldn't a city be able to build out a network, if the citizens vote to do so?
Seems like it'd be easiest to work on extending http://eidogo.com/, which is open source.
I think the downvoting in this case is equivalent to saying 'your point of view is dangerous'.
The following line from the article in question leads me to believe that he did not purchase the second laptop from the same store.

"I returned that laptop to the store where I bought it and bought a higher Samsung model (R540) from another store."

I will wait for confirmation/proof in either direction before drawing any conclusion regarding possible "defamation" on the authors part.
So, has ANYONE verified this independently yet?
Unless the BIOS knows how to install Windows keyloggers in Windows root partitions and Linux keyloggers in Linux root partitions.
Guys I put the questions and my dealing with the situation up here:
http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-and-aftermath....

If you want to check it out
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a strange article for a strange question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Skype has noticed that there is a discrepancy in quality between the two versions, and has decided to make the two versions more similar to each other. Unfortunately, instead of making the Windows version of Skype better, they’ve decided to fix the discrepancy by making the Mac version of Skype more like the Windows version.

This is the number one reason that I prefer Mac-only products to products that are available on both Windows and Mac.

Invariably, the companies decide that since they have 4x the sales on Windows as on Mac, the correct course of action is to build a product that is identical in almost every way with just a very thin GUI "skin" on the outside that is Mac or Windows specific. I don't know if this is because they think that the Windows sales "validate" the UX design or if it's an attempt to save money by having a single code base (or both?), but the results are invariably awful on the Mac.

Windows users are not interchangeable with Mac users. What "works" for someone who was given their PC by the IT department does not work for someone who deliberately chose to buy a product with a tiny market share.
Unless of course he needed to install any video,network, chipset, audio, bluetooth etc drivers from Samsung's site in which case all bets are off.
Logic rarely enters into these types of decisions. The short answer is, citizens don't have good enough lobbyists.
I tried to put as many of them up here:
http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/questions-and-aftermath....
This is a limitation and something we will be fixing. In fact, Gene, our CB manager has been asking for it for a long time.
Lack of attribution is precisely what TFA is complaining about. Plagiarism is claiming others' work as your own, not necessarily copying. So lack of attribution is really what defines it.
My personnal favorite article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_in_Somalia

Ever since reading that one, I have been following Somalia news much more closely.
I am, as a neutral!
I am talking about the security of banks (online and physical) vs. your average windows PC. It is a LOT more likely that you will have bitcoins stolen from your PC than all the cash from your bank account, assuming bitcoin were as ubiquitous as bank accounts.

In fact, let's put it this way: to steal all the bitcoins from my non-techie friend's PC is going to be much easier and less traceable than stealing all the cash from his bank account.
I don't think founders are conning employees to exploit them. Employees should be well aware of what they are getting into. There are plenty of well-paying normal jobs available out there.
Perhaps he wasn't getting any response from Samsung, and posted this to prod them into action. Still this seems like a really terrible way to end an article:

In the next article, Mr Hassan discusses how Samsung responded to his discovery.
AFAIK, no one is claiming that plagiarism is a crime. It's just unethical, and those who do it should be called out.
The Economist had an interesting story on GPS jammers. Apparently truck drivers use them so their employers can't track their movements, but they mess up anything nearby.

http://www.economist.com/node/18304246
I agree that these types of questions can lead to false positives, but what about the negatives? Don't these have some value as filters? After all, if I can't answer a simple question like string reversal, it suggests that I can't code AND I'm not enterprising enough to do some rudimentary Googling to practice technical interview questions.
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I wonder sometimes if there is some way that you can have an open store, but keep out malware. Or does keeping out malware always entail some sort of app review process? If it does, then, yeah I would much rather have the closed, app reviewed store than the open one. Getting a virus on my computer somehow doesn't seem as bad as getting a 'virus' on my phone. That's just me though.
We see this behavior on high pps routers -- but isn't this why you have multiple CPUs and thread-based interrupt handling?
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Not only have the profit levels been driven up so that the suppliers are willing to build and use submarines, they are ok scuttling them after a single use. Submarines are a disposable tool to the drug trade. And they can survive interception of very high ratios of their shipments by simply sending more shipments. I agree, this prohibition strategy seems to be fundamentally flawed. Truly mind-boggling amounts of money could be spent on harm-reduction strategies and still be cheaper than this.
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To clarify a particular slide, the person mentions that Windows "silently installs" a certificate to the user's root store without prompting.

I contacted Microsoft about this, and this is by design as documented here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx

Windows Vista does not include a mammoth list of root certificates by default and instead when it encounters a new one, it checks Windows Update for the CA certificate and downloads it automatically as needed.

This is in contrast to Windows XP, which maintains a mammoth list of Root Certificates--which you can verify in the Certificate Manager of any XP machine.

This is why visiting the site adds to the root store silently.
As well as sheep-like behaviour, we're often also egotistical and care deeply about the tokens that are used to pass judgement on our place in the world; tokens such as karma.

I think you're right, but don't forget the irresistable temptation of playing the game. Imagine you build a box with an LED display that shows a number, let's say 42. On the box are various switches, sliders, levers, knobs, &c. You place the box in a public area, suitably hardened against vandalism. Inevitably some bored person decides it is not a bomb and flicks a switch. The number goes to 50. He plays with the controls and the number rises and/or falls.

I put it to you that people will treat it as a puzzle where the goal is to display the biggest number, even if you don't say so. Some folks will try to display the smallest number, a little like trying for the low hand in hi-low poker.

As I said, I think you're right, but I wouldn't discount the number of people who simply treat karma as a game simply because... It's a number they can influence through the knobs and switches of submissions and comments.
I wouldn't be surprised if the people who build them don't actually go inside of them.
How one donwvotes? I do not see a downvote link?
No the whole point of radioisoptopes is that they aren't forever. The mercury and cadmium that will be released by all the new coal stations that will replace the nukes is forever. But unlike plutonium which is heavy, insoluble, doesn't spread very far and is only a danger if you breath in the dust - the mercury compounds injected into the atmosphere will still be poisoning life on the planet when the sun goes out.

And just for fun - the coal will also release lots of uranium (with a much longer half life) than all the reactors and bombs every built.
The first comment is fairly legitimate, if phrased vapidly. Social CRM is a real topic of discussion for anyone playing in the CRM space. If you look at classic customer acquisition and retention strategies, they are based on the data we were able to capture 5-10 years ago. It takes a while for "new" data (social media activity, in-depth demographic and financial information) to work its way into the practices of CRM users. There is a lot of opportunity to improve acquisition strategies by targeting the friends and influencers of customers (ie. Social CRM), but most of the major players have had trouble delivering on that promise in their products. The acquisition is a big deal and other CRM vendors will have to respond. The second quote you posted is indeed meaningless.
QUESTION: Am I crazy to go with www.get[nameofproduct]app.com?
I'm really into the name for my new web app but can only buy the extension of it with 'get' before the name and 'app' after. Is this crazy? Or, should I just come up with a new name? How much will it really effect my traffic and overall marketing?

Examples of products with extensions:

Flow-www.getflowapp.com
Highrise-www.highrisehq.com
Harvest-www.getharvest.com
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this is exactly correct. kudos to Apple for having the foresight on this one.
Why, then, even bother checking their HN karma score, GitHub commits, WoW gear score or Stack Overflow reputation points?

Either their comment is useful to you where you live today or its not. You don't have to justify your judgement by yet another subjective.

(By a... checking... 3.4 karma/comment user who was sub-1.0/comment last week; not having changed his opinions or commenting style.)
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I've never understood why Buzz faced an FTC investigation but Facebook never has. Or has it?
>With the malicious apps installed, the developer was able to gain access to the customer’s IMEI and IMSI, product ID, model, partner, language, country, and userID. In a statement released by Google, they said it’s believed that only the IMEI was compromised.

Number one, who cares.

Number two, they were revoked and remote deleted.

Number three, nothing about Apple's process actually ensures that this can't or doesn't happen. It may have some affect, but there have been mistakes made in Apple's store as well.

I don't find the conclusion to be appropriate. "Most people just want to feel safe."?

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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So you can just go ahead and suck my cock with your collectivist claptrap.

That's real eloquent of you.

Yeah, I'm sure you only benefited from services that are directly taxed. How wrong I was... If this is the level of farsightedness in the bitcoin community, I'll know to stay away now, thanks.

To remain nominally on-topic: unless you live in a place like Somalia, Afghanistan, or Iraq, I'm pretty sure you are benefiting from living in a country with a stable government and enforceable laws and contracts and all that. I'm also pretty sure you'd like someone to go after those who might all of a sudden take off with your retirement savings (unless you have them in Bitcoin) or that prevents a gang of armed thugs from kicking you out of the home you were planning to give to your kids. Well here's the news, take away your despicable, tax-stealing government and all those things go away.

I'm pretty sure that there's a very strong correlation between a government funded by general taxes and the presence of said benefits. Show me one example where there's functioning rule of law without a functioning government. And a government does in fact cost money to run.
(nitpick: Fremont)
Great point, but I wasn't aware that there are "usual, legitimate" reasons for downvoting, and that these are well-known enough that you can call them the usual reasons. Seems like everybody just uses their best judgment.

That said, I didn't downvote him, I simply didn't vote. I don't feel a need to vote on everything, and that extends to downvoting.
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Depending on the country, maybe. Every website is hosted somewhere, though.

The reason a bitcoin bank needs to be insured and secured is so that someone doesn't gingerly walk in, pick the computer up, and take off with $40,000,000 of your customers' money. Part of the point of a bank is security. That's why people who earn no interest don't keep large sums of cash in their homes.

And yes, using a gun to force someone to give you a computer with $40,000,000 in it is likely to happen. Clearly, I have read and understood what I wrote. Have you?

You can encrypt a hard drive, sure, but do you? If the bitcoin bank isn't regulated, they don't have to encrypt their drives. Depending on the encryption, the same gun they use to steal the computer can be used to force you to give passwords. Or they can eavesdrop on you, or the account holder, or both, or an infinite variety of other things that I am not going to go into.

I'm done with this argument; you are trolling.
Perhaps I'm naive, but when I see companies that work like this I assume they either don't know any better or are just scared stupid. Or perhaps it is a macho startup thing.
It's a popular mantra made by politicians any time they want to introduce a new anti-privacy measure. This mantra and his version especially is so farcical, I think it's obvious to the majority of readers that his tongue is firmly in his cheek.
Some of the frontend... I think it's out of the backend.
* having tax-subsidized government entities competing with private business doesn't exactly lead to a vibrant competitive marketplace

* I'd rather not have any facet of government in an easy position to monitor my internet traffic.
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"Something I’ve noticed even casual Skype users do is to send URLs by text chat during a videochat. Well… How do you do that in Skype 5?"

That burned me in a Skype call yesterday (first time using it since the new version upgrade). I had to send the link by email instead. I also couldn't figure out how to hang up a call, so I had to quit the app!
Set agreements in stone as early possible. No matter how much trust there is, and no matter how awkward it may seem.

And I can't help but draw parallels with The Social Network, which incidentally is also an account by an 'ousted' co-founder.
> If you were expecting an honest review of your product and got back a dramatised narrative you'd probably be pissed off too.

We're talking about a car company here. Are you suggesting that a car company are going to not understand what Top Gear is about? The sort of show it is and the significant chance that the review will be dramatised and tongue in cheek?

If Tesla sent them a car believing that then they should fire their marketing people who should have made it absolutely clear and then resign themselves for ignoring what 15 seconds thought would have told them.
I have used the Feedback function to complain, and they fixed the spacing a bit from beta to release.

I can "fix" the windows version by turning off a lot of the "Today screen" and superfluous information bars everywhere. To make it look more like the old Mac version.
I agree with the fact that Apple made a smart move by controlling submissions to the App Store, but I think some responsibility lies in the owners hands in the case of Android. Too many download apps and never once look at the permissions involved before installing. For example if a ringtone app asked for geolocation, something is probably fishy.
One thing to consider is whether the tablets will quickly become commoditized to the point where it doesn't really matter which one you buy. Unless the app market really takes off the tablet could become a pure consumer device like a TV - most people don't really care whether it's a Sony or Samsung. I often can't even remember which one I have since I just click the button and watch. In that sense it might not end up a big market for MS.
http://www.oldversion.com/Skype.html
take with grain of salt -- if you have a profitable hedge fund, unless you are trying to raise money, publicity is bad.
According to Wikipedia, you recall wrong. Gates wrote the interpreter and Allen wrote the emulator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History
If we lack discussion, it is only because there are not enough good questions, or those questions are too hard to detect.

Maybe we could get better results by identifying unanswered questions.
A big chunk of your taxes are not paying for the benefits you receive. At least 47% are direct wealth transfers to other people [1]. Unless you believe that there is < 4% graft in the budget, that means the majority of your taxes are taken and given to other people.

The basic, vital services you need (police, fire, roads, water, government administrators, etc) amount to only 24% of the government budget and a much smaller fraction of the federal budget.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2009_US_total#u...

(Education and the military make up the remainder.)

I draw a line at 50%. When >50% of your taxes are simply taken and given to others, I think it's morally legitimate to evade them.

Your morality may vary. I'd be curious to know where you draw the line. Is it ok for the government to waste 75% of your tax money? Is it ok for other organizations threatening violence to do the same? I.e., is it morally legitimate to evade Mafia protection payments if they spent 50.01% on publicly beneficial services?

[1] I'm counting SS, medicare/medicaid/etc, welfare and mortgage interest deduction as "direct wealth transfers". I don't know how to allocate interest on debt, so I'm excluding that from the total. There are probably other categories of direct wealth transfers that I didn't think of.
More like "oh, you've got a Tesla? Isn't that the car company that sued Top Gear? Hahaha!"
I've got an R580, had a quick look in the Windows folder and can't see any SL folder.
Why spend more money on robotics when you have an almost unlimited supply of patsies. A 2 weeks trip originating in narrow Jungle swamps and transiting deep ocean water would require serious robotic control. But if they keep making so much money I wouldn't be surprised if they went all Mars rover on the subs. Hell when I first saw these things a few years back they were just fiberglass boats with no top, that Feb 1st craft was a legitimate submarine.
To me, it's less about the protected app store and more about the fact that the protected app store is the only way to get apps on your iOS device. Allow sideloading, and suddenly the protected app store is not really an issue.
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If it does, then, yeah I would much rather have the closed, app reviewed store than the open one.

I wouldn't object to a stronger review process for the Android market, specifically because Android allows the option of installing apps from outside the market.

Getting a virus on my computer somehow doesn't seem as bad as getting a 'virus' on my phone.

That seems to be the general feeling, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. Your computer is at least as likely to have sensitive information on it as your phone, and is more likely to have stuff like business and financial information. I'd really like somebody to ask Apple "since it's so important to remove any possibility of malware, how can you justify continuing to allow Macs to run software from any random source"?
If the mac version is like Windows, there is a row of icons at the bottom of the call screen. One of them is a chat bubble, which opens a chat with the caller.

EDIT: I should read the article - it has this in there.
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I'd be so scared to make that 30 foot dive in the deep ocean in a homemade sub. I wonder how many have gone to 30 feet and just kept sinking.
This is a straw man argument. Apple's rarely been criticized for a restriction that safeguarded the user. In fact, most of the criticism of the review process isn't criticism of an individual restriction at all but criticism of the fact that Apple doesn't publish its policies. So you don't know what you are and are not allowed to do.

As for Google being open doesn't mean you have to be reckless. Nothing about doing a basic security check contradicts a policy of letting every legitimate app into the store.
I think the main initial sin of buzz, is that they launched the service from Gmail without any warning the people were going to have their contact lists suddenly exposed without oversight to other people on their contact lists.

There were several horror stories about violent ex-husbands suddenly seeing the new boyfriend's contact information and the like.

Gmail users hadn't signed up for "a social network", just an email account with a contact list they had every right to assume was private.
I don't have anyone to do a test video call with right now but I'm pretty sure you can drag the divider bar at the bottom of the window up and it will reveal the chat box again.

Can anyone confirm?

P.S. I personally think the new Skype 5 for Mac is a disaster
Even a short "about" would've been nice, even if it's closed. Knowing that it's a decision making site already tells a lot more than one could figure out just by visiting it.
Wait, your free time is supposed to increase as you get older? I must be doing something really wrong.
Absolutely. We're using Salesforce's Chatter internally, but if a Google Apps (internal-only) Buzz were present, it would have been a no-brainer.
Regarding the ethical standards of earlier generations of journalists and copying, see INS v AP, 248 U.S. 215 (1918) where INS rewrote large numbers of news articles they acquired from AP through bribery and other means, without attribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._A...

This is the origin of the "hot news" idea of short-term copyright, balancing the effort of the original writer with the public's need to know the news.

The linked scenario, however, is quite different.
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