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I just finished watching Sony's PSN Relaunch Announcement. It kept on making me think: Why not just hire Geohotz?

Let's just say Geohotz accepts the offer and works in PSN.
I think the general public will be convinced that PSN is now secured by the top elite hacker in the world who pointed out Sony's security flaws. Furthermore, Sony will appeal to consumers that they're humbly admitting their mistake and are dedicated to improve their security.

Yes, I know the root key and identity theft are completely different. Also, whether Geohotz actually does anything to Sony is irrelevant.

I'm strictly talking within PR scope.
Via Slashdot [1], comments there have a few good bits as well.

[1] http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/153228/Do-Geeks-Make...
Considering that for 90% of the life of the site, the home page said "for silicon valley" in bold, h1 headers, I wouldn't call that gaming. Now to take your valid criticism into consideration, I added a mention to the FAQ.
That sounds creepy.
well doesn't some of those iOS developers make a huge amount of money when their app somehow makes it to the top 25 or something and then get featured?
Just have a fantastic idea for anything, an app or website or whatever and soon enough if your lucky you might make that random number of one million.
Learning to use a text editor(or atleast trying) is easier than learning to touch type but anyway people kept touting the power of Emacs and how extensible it was and I decided to give it a shot. On trying Emacs, I loved features such as being able to run a shell, a really good python mode and the extensibility using .emacs files.

However since Emacs has a lot of key sequences for navigating between text, modifying text and doing pretty much anything involves not using the mouse, it got really frustrating looking at the keyboard every 2 seconds courtesy my typing illiteracy. So I decided to learn touch typing just so that I could use Emacs properly.

One interesting little tidbit.. I had tried around 3 or 4 times previously to learn touch typing but failed. However after I started learning both Emacs and touch typing simultaneously, I succeeded. So I guess the relation is somewhat symbiotic, learning to touch type helped me learn emacs and vice versa.
You might have a point if we were talking about mass (is that 9.7 grams or 9.7 kilograms?) or length (9.7 feet or 9.7 meters?), but if you're talking about voltage or current or power or time, and using floating-point numbers, there's really only one reasonable default unit you could be using in each case. And the millisecond it is not.
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Actually Sony brought this unto themselves longer than that, starting with the Sony-BMG rootkit. I've actively avoided buying Sony products since.
Note: This has nothing to do with servers or the expansion of data centers in the United States.
Practical Django Projects got an updated second edition in 2010 which would be a good thing, but...

It's unfortunately sort of half-finished. The author clearly lost interest halfway through. The accompanying github repo was never finished, but luckily at least some readers forked it and finished it.

It's a very decent book for the most part, but I hesitate to recommend it.
Flip is not "extremely negative." It is a reality in many business transactions. As I wrote in my parent post the term "flip" carries a negative connotation, but the end result is that someone took on a greater risk than the other guy to buy into a business with the sole purpose to resell their share at a greater value. Anyway you look at it, that is a flip.

And I'm cool with that. Good for Ben.
I thinks a water storage dam to periodically flush the river would keep the river in its present course much longer.
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Ivy is a safe, concurrent language, fully interoperable with C.
Microsoft could easily subsidize these to compete with the carriers, as they would be running via BING (producing them revenue in ad clicks).

Also with regards to the Wifi issues obviously, the networks would have to be improved with regards to WIFI offered by companies and Microsoft would have to most likely invest into improving the network as well but, with billions lying around. It is worthwhile to go BIG on a market where it has huge potential than trying to milk its dying cash cows forever, until the company completely burns out.
From way back but I found it after enjoying his ,mother earth mother board, article so much. The man is brilliant in the long form essay genre...
"Robbins doesn't offer up any data to back up her claim about the link between standardized testing and a narrowing definition of popularity."

This is an artifact of competition, not standardized testing per se. The research cited by Alfie Kohn's book No Contest shows this clearly, although he doesn't exactly look at the problem through this lens.
I have created a write though cache for mongodb based on memcached. ( mongoid supported currently. ) http://bit.ly/mfdIN7
(Which is broken.)
Do you think he'd accept? Would you?
its use beyond the original hacker is not the issue here..if it was we would never have encrypted email because at a certain point in time US gov outlawed all private encrypted software..when pgp was first programmed before it was released it was illegal to have any software that encrypted..and than the US gov agencies finally relented and allowed commercial software that encrypted..

Another example, If I hack the US ID card to see what data is stored on it..am I now a criminal by what the popular use of that hack is?
Umm, the system was open when we first bought it...
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IIRC Tagged got big that way and BranchOut seems to going down a similar path.
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But we already have Polymaps?!

http://polymaps.org/
But when the iTunes store is down, I can still play Angry Birds and Splinter Cell, to make a much more appropriate comparison.
India has high interest to try to cover up high inflation.
Firstly, half of the time the guy bitches about flaws with the compiler, and not the languages (Page 0 to 6).

Most of the bitching is about language features which exist. If you don't like auto_ptr then DON'T use auto_ptr! C++ at least allows you to ignore features without paying a penalty. Which is why it has a virtual keyword; and does not make every method virtual like Java.

The at() versus operator[] is also an example of the above: bounds checking can get expensive in a tight loop.

It seems that the author has never seen a large, well-written C++ project. In fact, that is the case with many such C++ bashers (I used to be one too). Once one sees how C++ makes it easy to manage a 500000 line project, they will probably think again.
"Let's just say"
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DCA: A simple, unpatentable cancer treatment?
Does PSN have any nines at this stage?
I realize this isn't an "adds a lot of value comment," but...

If you can't figure out how to make comments work properly on a blog, do you really think you're ready to roll out nationwide service for PSN again?
Hurray! At last, real IPv6 support.
10% of one year is 36.5 days, so they still have time to be completely up before they're below one nine if you use a rolling one year window.
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My rebuttal: private certification organizations that, over time, reduce the effectiveness (strictness) of their testing because they are (e.g.) afraid of getting sued (libel, slander, discrimination, etc) by people that have been denied.
This is not actually a question of the law, but of ethics. Geohotz did not break any Federal law in doing what he did. If you know that providing something (the root key to the PS3) will enable massive piracy, should you do it? Here is his original post regarding the supply of the root key:

"
~geohot

props to fail0verflow for the asymmetric half
no donate link, just use this info wisely
i do not condone piracy

if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3.
it'd be fun to be on the other side.

...and this is a real self, hello world
although it's not NPDRM, so please wait to run...
shouts to the guys who did PSL1GHT
without you, I couldn't release this

first piece of homebrew you can run
put in service mode, put on usb stick, boot"

So, in that initial post, he does not solicit donations (although he had before and does after). He then announces that he doesn't "condone piracy", then he solicits employment from the three major console manufacturers. What reason would they have to employ him? What he's doing just enables homebrew software, right? They don't really care about homebrew now do they? No, they care about piracy. So what he's really conveying here is this: "I just enabled massive piracy on the console that so far has been hardest to crack. I don't approve of it, but I know that's what it will actually be used for. Hey, why don't you give me some money so this won't happen again?" Sounds like extortion and accessory to theft to me. But our laws don't really work out that way. Yet. I don't want our laws to enable that. I want people with Geohotz' skill to be responsible and actually work with companies like Sony. Is it partially Sony's fault that he didn't? Maybe, but that's a tenuous conclusion at best (does anyone know if he ever privately gave this information to Sony? or if he even attempted to?). On the other hand, it's patently obvious that he knew exactly what his work would be used for, and released it to the masses anyway.
Can't you go into recovery mode and reinstall the previous version of iOS? Or is that just for jailbroken devices?
Ironic indeed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315366
My latest blog post. Any thought and suggestions are highly appreciated.
tl;dr Great library, thanks for helping the Pythonistas keep up with the rubyists, can't wait to try it.

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I've been developing a DSL for acceptance testing (not unlike Cucumber, but more pythonic and with further bias towards on web acceptance testing) while concurrently implementing a test suite for our startup's web application.

A tool like this has been seriously lacking within the Python community and I'd like to take the time out to say thanks!

I'm probably going to stick with my own selenium + mechanize scripts for the first version of this suite, but I'm definitely going to check this library out as we move on. I'm sick of writing multiple tests for the same functionality.

As for people who are complaining that this isn't a Cucumber replacement... you're right! However, the point of this library isn't to replace a framework like cucumber, but rather to enhance it. The idea is that if you write your cucumber/whatever tests using this library, you won't have to repeat yourself w.r.t. the various types of test you might want to investigate (e.g. a mechanize test is much faster than a heavyweight selenium run).
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I doubt the same people handle both issues.
And it's gone: Until we get the comments functioning correctly, we’re putting all comments on hold. I’m sure Jitender would appreciate not having people put words in his mouth ^_^
I've re-installed various versions of the iOS software. You just go in to iTunes and shift-click the Restore or Check for Updates button and choose any version. I am not an iOS developer and have had no issues in going between 4.2 and 4.3 versions of the iOS software.
How are they able to break down the restoration by state? Are they doing it by IP? By account? (I never told them where I live)
IIRC in Ontario (Canada), you need a license to serve alcohol, though I believe it's basically just a series of classes to make sure that people all have a baseline level of competency in things like "determining if someone is too drunk" or stuff like that.
Skype fits well into Microsoft's collection of assets. Its stronghold on the enterprise market will make Skype even more dominant. Moreover, this is a piece that might help Windows Phone 7 more competitive with iPhone and Android.

A key determinant of the value of this acquisition is how well they can execute the integration of Skype with their other products.
I was thinking of trading one day of code against one day from a graphic designer. Is that a trend, bartering for skills? This could be a great way to help each other out.

The way I would make sure the bargain is fair is by basing it on time. That's why I say start with one day. Then it's just a question of how skilled we each are, but worst case, I lost one day to code in exchange for an ugly design. I can live with that.
The text of the article is poorly written - with a focus too much on conspiracy theory rather than on actual science. The linked article is from 2007, and only reports on preliminary research.

There's a reason we have the scientific setup that we do, and it is to filer the noise, and protect the authenticity of the science. If these guys from Alberta are able to come back with good results on human trials, then other labs will independently confirm the result. The fact that drug companies aren't picking up research at a preliminary stage on a drug that won't be profitable shouldn't be surprising, but it also doesn't mean that the research won't go forwards.
I think that the implication is that the designer is acting as the architect, and just directly hiring the carpenters/etc. I don't know if this is true or not though.
Minor nitpick - there's a misspelling in the newly posted FAQ: "althoug we'd love..."
The article seems filled with errors about basic biology, so here's the actual research: http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca
Encouraging, but read this too, particularly the edit at the bottom, along with the link to ualberta.ca dated May 12, 2010:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/19694/has_cancer_been_cured_bi...
Would the smoothness of your pen affect your creativity?
An interesting discovery I found today: the smoothness of my pen actually affected my creativity when I was writing an essay for school. I don't know if this is based on any scientific facts, but I could definitely write more and make more sense when using a black pen which is very smooth (although a little too dark).

Does anyone have the same experience as I do?
Huh? The standard behavior in Python is to throw an exception if the key does not exist.
I also noticed the 2007 reference. However, further checking the Univesity site on News & Updates, one will find that it went further to Clinical Trials and a new article in 2010 shows interesting results for glioblastoma (a type of cancer).
Hmmm... perldoc.perl.org doesn't have 5.14 as an option yet. I assume that the 'r' option is meant to prevent things like this:

my @list = (... stuff ...);
my @other_list = map { s/SOMETHING//; $_ } @list;

(The result of this is that @other_list and @list are equal because the substitution destructively affects the original list.)
Thanks for posting the real deal link
Choice is bad? Polymaps (I haven't looked at Leaflet's ability) seems to be able to use more than just cloudmade's maps, and it would appear that Leaflet is more cloudmade specific
Yes, Steevdave, I'm with you on that! I agree that it is unfortunate that Sony removed the install Linux option. But why did they remove that? Why did they add it in the first place?

They added it because they knew that the PS3 could be used in cluster computing and that it could be an interesting feature for Linux enthusiasts that wanted to use the PS3 beyond its original capabilities (e.g. as a better, crazier home theater device, or as a desktop replacement even). Then people started to get closer to being able to run pirated games with certain versions of the "Other OS."

At that point Sony realized that it would be better to drop that feature from their hardware rather than risk massive piracy. But what did the removal of that option really entail? Did it mean that all those massive compute clusters could no longer run? Nope. Did it mean that people that were using the console with games that they bought up until that point couldn't play those games any more? Nope.

It just meant that if they wanted to play new games, or play online, that they couldn't have that option any more. No killswitch. Nothing too awful. Protecting their business interests. And who really forced them to do that? It was the crackers that were trying to enable piracy, err... sorry... "homebrew." Sony is not against hackers. They want hackers. They don't want crackers and thieves.
Wonder what they have been doing, for a service of this size, seems to be one of the slowest responses I have ever seen. If a startup had similar downtime they would probably find themselves out of business. Luck Sony has network effects and the large outlay people have made on the console and games I guess.
>the solution

I mean the complete solution. I know there are hacks that can help, described in this paper too..
Thanks - fixed. I think we got that thread off-topic enough for the day.
That's exactly why.

(Incidentally, perlcritic will warn you if you have a map that modifies $_.)
But when somebody says one particular car is "300% quieter", most people would assume they're comparing it to some other car, not saying that it's quieter inside the car than if you were standing in the middle of the freeway. Honestly, I think that's at least as reasonable an assumption as "Somebody made a profile for you" -> "Somebody has posted a comment about you."
Yes... That's exactly where I ended too. The main page of the site, http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/, still points to the 2007 research/article. Maybe they didn't want to break the optimism.
The problem with open education is that unless you are using it for self fulfillment or self-driven applications, the general public does not recognize or appreciate the learner's efforts. For example, I am considering to go back to school for a graduate degree but I have all of the courses that I want to take available for free online. Heck, there is even other non-university affiliated material on the web like free ebooks that I am really interested in studying. But the problem is no future employer will recognize my studies if I go the free open route. If I spend the next two years self studying, saving thousands of dollars in tuition and learning from the comfort of home, every employer would look at it as wasted time. But if I spent the same exact time commitment and had no part-time jobs but learned all of the material in an institution then in the eyes of the employer I didn't waste time and I productively went to school. This is annoying.

I guess what is needed is a free certification program that corresponds with the open education movement. But I don't want a certification program that looks cheap. I want certification that is prestigious and representative of my intelligence and hard efforts, just like as if I was to get a graduate degree from stanford.
I bet game developers hate this effect, years of development time to effectively try and market a game into peoples hands in the first couple of weeks whether they like it or not.

This I much prefer the path many MMO's have taken or a game like TF2, continue to add over time to keep a solid value proposition for years to come rather than the 2 weeks after it comes out.
I interpreted it as being quieter than the previous model, and can't really see how "its new model was three times quieter" can be interpreted to refer to the inside being quieter than the outside. So I suppose that there's room for confusion.

As for why you should care about it being quieter from the outside: because noisy cars are extremely irritating to pedestrians and everyone else who isn't in a car (in the same way that people playing ridiculously loud music while driving in a car is irritating).
They have one nine at the moment (for the year and overall).

If they stay up for another 2 years with absolutely no additional downtime then they'll reach 2 nines of uptime over the entire service life.
Has it? The other day, the latest MacPorts gcc46 gave me:

warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'std::_Hashtable<std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int>, std::pair<const std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int>, GraphNode>, std::allocator<std::pair<const std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int>, GraphNode> >, std::_Select1st<std::pair<const std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int>, GraphNode> >, std::equal_to<std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int> >, std::hash<std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int> >, std::__detail::_Mod_range_hashing, std::__detail::_Default_ranged_hash, std::__detail::_Prime_rehash_policy, false, false, true>::size_type'

After a quarter century, is it really that difficult to use the type I wrote rather than this hideous expansion?
Microsoft Activation puts enough down to try and convert more sales without getting in the way to much of legit customers. I think it's a good compromise, only other thing I would do maybe is try and identify pirates and try and get them to pay say $50 or something, they aren't going to pay the full windows price but I think a lot would pay a lower amount that aren't paying at all at the moment.
Would be curious to hear why you were modded down. The fact is, cash-strapped states and municipalities are going to see property owners as sheep primed for the shearing over the next several years.

As a homeowner you may be able to avoid paying rent, and you may even be able to avoid paying interest, but good luck avoiding the property-tax increases that are probably coming your way.
I hope you enjoy both the games :)
What browser are you using? That's a critical piece of information.
is mytimelibrary.MINUTE what you're getting at?
Wow. Not only are they attempting to create a virtual blacklist/battleground and fuck with peoples' employment, but they want to tie it to people's real identities via facebook.

I feel like if someone pulls this off, it'll be a society changing event. I hope defamation laws would stop it before then, though.
Isn't approving structural changes why we have PEs?
Is Morse Code really a puzzle? That's the first thing I think when I see dots and dashes, specially if there are "..." or "---".
A conversation about open source licenses
Monoprice's cables are very utilitarian, and they are extremely awesome at doing what they're supposed to do. However, if you want a thinner cable, smaller connectors, or different jacket for environmental or aesthetic reasons, they're probably not going to have what you want. They do have a wide selection of colors for HDMI and Ethernet cables, though, so even when buying a cable that needs to look good, I always check Monoprice first.
Flip implies selling quickly without adding much value.

Skypr has publically been on an IPO path for a while, and that is no flip.
> With C++, you don’t see the writes, because it says
`some_func(whatever,the_int,SOME_FLAG);` and it can still write the_int if it’s a reference. In C, it would be &the_int, which is easily recognizable.

I don't understand why people do this. C++ has not abolished pointers; it's still possible to require the &, and it increases readability considerably; why ever use references (to value types; objects are different) as function parameters?
I suspect that such a service provider will be hit by an avalanche of lawsuits.
oops. sorry (lack of sleep), thanks!
How about a hex nibble or byte so you don't have to draw individual x's and .'s (this leaves out velocity entirely)
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We are witnessing the marriage of eastern spear-phishing techniques with western social media marketing.

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I'm not sure the propaganda that MS cash cow's Windows and Office would stop anytime soon. All this post-PC bs Stevie feed people through their extravagant TV ad campaign surely have brainwashed the uneducated self-proclaimed pro-sumers.