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IE9 actually takes care of this to some degree. For example, try pasting javascript:alert(1) into your address bar and hitting enter: the Javascript is blocked. To bypass it, you need to paste part of the URL into the address bar and manually fill in the rest (specifically, you can't paste a URL starting with javascript: or vbscript:). To the best of my knowledge, IE9 is the only browser that implements this kind of protection.

Two thoughts:

1. Disabling Javascript execution via the address bar is not something Facebook is capable of doing, any more than a random web developer can disable your ability to view the HTML of a page. Protection at this level is up to the browser developers.

2. That being said, I believe these kinds of phishing attacks demonstrate a lack of understanding on the part of end-users regarding what javascript: URIs can do. It's hard to protect users from themselves. ;-)
I find it interesting that while there tends to be a lot of "higher ed isn't worth it" posts that trickle to the top of HN, everyone replying to this thread is recommending going to MIT.

I also think you should go to MIT. Especially given your description of your self-motivated history. I didn't go to MIT, but I would expect the caliber of education and, more importantly, the higher level of the other students at MIT will be worth it.
> I'm surprised that you don't have access to dsl but do have access to 3G.

There are quite a few locations (including mine) where the remote infrastructure is fractured (for lack of a better term). The remote box out here, a Lucent Mod 5, is quite capable of housing a DSLAM, and I am certainly within a functional distance from the Lucent box (4k-5k feet). The problem is the distance from the Lucent box back to the CO (6 miles) which is on copper T1 circuits. No fiber out here. The ILEC, AT&T Florida, appears to have no interest in replacing the T1 cable with fiber, nor to populate the box with a DSLAM.

There is an ISP that has deployed 2.5GHz WiMax, but I'm on the fringe of the range, plus I have vegetation issues.

When I see a title like the one at the top, I always cringe, because I know full well that saying 'everyone' will get this is hyperbole.
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I would add to the list "It is too frustrating".

I've contributed to several open source projects in the past (Linux kernel, gnome, etc.), but doing so is hard work, even if the changes are trivial and you don't have a reputation in the community for the project. Most recently, it took almost a dozen emails over 4 days among 3 different people to get a 3 line patch committed to a driver.

The truth is contributing to open source is a social problem. You have to get to know the maintainers, build their trust, and over time, it gets easier to get patches in. If you can meet the maintainer for an hour or so at a conference, it lowers the bar but maintainers of popular projects are often swamped at these events.

More often than not it is easier to fix the bug for yourself and move on, using git to keep up to date with new releases.
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Asia has been doing IPv6 internally for years, out of necessity, and somehow they still manage to see us.

Dual-stack isn't the answer when you've got no IPv4 addresses left to assign.
As has been mentioned, there are many communities who still are only served by dialup, or slow-ish cable/dsl connections.

I wonder if the telecoms are waiting to roll out fiber optics to the everybody, and potentially skipping over installing the intermediary fast dsl/cable connections for the rural communities.
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Majority of the people who pirate music are not going to use Amazon cloud drive to pirate music because:

1.) Amazon cloud drive does not offer music pirates any significant advantage over what they are currently using.

2.) People are already using alternatives for decades, it's hard to get people to switch.

3.) It would be easier for record labels to track down and take down infringers on Amazon cloud drive as oppose to other services.

4.) We've seen this before, it's called lala.com, and it did not become a hub for music pirates.
Both Colourlovers and Adobe Kuler have non-commercial palette API´s. I know, because I thought about supporting them in this - http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace

So they must be totally paranoid about traffic numbers, social hooks and brand dillution. And it seems to be a winning formula. Impressive.
I can't help but draw a parallel to computer games. I find myself buying computer games less and less for this exact reason. If I get the game off a torrent, I will have a better experience. Every time I sit down to play a game I actually purchased, I feel cheated: "insert the disk, connect to the internet, and jump through this hoop please." How about the $60 I just payed? Not proof enough? Piracy is the publishers problem; they insist on making it mine.

In fact, I buy more and more Indie games for this reason, even though I don't play them that much. I just like the fact that some still have the balls to offer their work DRM free to ensure a good experience for the paying customer.
Uh.. it still works. http://i.imgur.com/jQOwU.png
Why do sociologists break their own rules when it suits their ends? "More ethical" doesn't have a meaning in a world where morality isn't purely objective. Either this article was written by an idiot or his sources don't word good. Wait…washington post…it's both.

Damn you, hacker news, for linking to this crap. I was hoping it would be interesting. Is there a way to neg rep the OP or is that just a forum thing?
It's just bad business

It's actually quite logical, if you agree with their assumptions:

1) The increased availability of digital music will lead to an increase in piracy, and

2) An increase in piracy will lead to less money being spent on recorded music.

(Both those assumptions can be argued, but the music industry believes them to be true).

Given that, the following argument is logical:

1) At some point in the future the money being spent on recorded music will decrease to a point where it is not a significant source of income.

2) The longer that point can be delayed, the more money can be made from recorded music in aggregate.

3) Anything that makes digital music inconvenient for the consumer will delay the collapse of buying recorded music because it will reduce uptake (!!)

4) Therefor, fight anything that makes digital music better/easier to use.

5) Meanwhile, try and develop new sources of income (360 deals, streaming licencing, game licences etc)

From their point of view it's not bad business at all - it's the safest course of action.
I found out after far too much time, that a huge part of my personal success with a programming language is whether or not I "click" with its syntax. So my previous attempts at learning javascript failed miserably because I just never got over the syntax.

However, after getting into coffeescript (http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/) I've actually started to enjoy doing javascript related programming.

So you might take a look and see if its syntax appeals to you. The big downside is that it assumes a prior knowledge of JS, so you'll still need other resources to really learn what's possible with JS/CS.

And my even more niche advice is that, for me, what really built up my momentum was to rewrite someone else's JS site in coffeescript. It's definitely a roundabout way of learning, but I basically got to learn coffeescript and javascript at the same time as I pored over this other person's code line by line as I rewrote it.

I don't know how common my syntax "hang-up" is, but if you do start looking at other languages, I would advise that you seek out sample programs so you can get familiar with what the syntax looks like. And then pick the language that makes the most sense to you even without any programming knowledge.
Having contributed to a number of open source projects in the past ...

Understatement of the day.

https://github.com/wycats
Yeah, I'm not a big gamer but it seems very similar. The simple fact is, a percentage of people will break the law and steal these things, and many of those people take pride in doing it when it's more difficult to accomplish. Meanwhile, the honest people just want to buy the product and enjoy it, and we're constantly penalized, even though the efforts of these initiatives rarely make a big impact on theft.
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The trouble isn't in installing git, or interacting through mailing lists. The trouble is in getting started. In order to contribute to something(fix a bug/develop something new) one has to understand what the expected behavior of the software is, how is it deviating from the current behavior. How and what can one do to correct it.

This involves understanding of many things. Technology, the programming language and some CS areas. All of this most of the times a little out of reach of the ordinary day to day to programmer. The problem in simple words is 'The barrier to entry' to contributing most Perl/Python interpreter kind of projects is too high. You need to know a lot to do anything there.

I think that prevents most people from contributing even if they want to contribute.
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Sort of off topic, but is there anyone else getting a lot of telemarketed automated calls recently --- any correlation with the sony attack?
Between Steam and iTunes (and equiv for Android) there's not much disk inserting and stuff to be done anymore.

I will say some games are utter shite though with requiring internet - like C&C4 where the game is deliberately married to it and doesn't run without it.
The problem is that there are $9B in recorded music sales. A small percentage of people actually steal music (I believe it's like 9%). You have a bunch of people who probably don't buy much music because it's inconvenient. Then you have other people who would buy more music if it was more convenient. The % of people who steal isn't likely to go up just because storing files online through Amazon's PAID service (keep in mind these people are stealing because they don't like paying for things) makes it easier to access your music. But the potential for the $9B worth of customers you have increasing their purchases is completely mitigated by this nonsense. If I am not an example of a fairly typical consumer in this area, I don't know who is.
Did you type it in or copy/paste? Only copy/paste is blocked. Also, keep in mind this is a new feature in IE9.

Edit: Just tested again on Windows 7. Pasting javascript:alert(1) caused the javascript: part of the URI to be stripped.
The pilot study is like creating a minimum viable product in a startup - you spend very little time and resources to get a working product in the hands of customers. Then you test to see if you got it right and iterate.
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This is true when you buy retail, but I find it hard to begrudge Steam. I can buy a game and have it ready to play within the hour. And when I go to the parents' house, I can install the games I bought onto their computer.

It's not without its issues, but at least Steam offers added value with its DRM; more than you can say for EA or Ubisoft.
Interesting... I wonder what Lookout or Mobile Iron are doing in this space?
Some really helpful comments in source :-)

count++; // increment counter
http1.close; // Close the connection

Maybe this is all part of the ruse.
Now need to combine Traceur with CoffeeScript :)
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I see many people comparing to consumer data plans, or even linking to Telstra's plans. That's pointless.

The power company is not using one of the standard Telstra plans. Think about it--the cheapest plan linked to is a minimum of $30/month. Does anyone really think the power company is going to be spending $30/month/meter to collect meter readings?

Of course not. They will have some kind of special rate structure where they pay a small or no monthly fee, and either have a small data quota, or perhaps have no quote but pay a fairly high rate per byte starting at the first byte.
When the process to doing something becomes easier it acts as a catalyst to doing things(Increases the pace of things, makes people less stressed out). But that itself doesn't increase the total number of new projects.

Doing something new is totally different. What it takes to do nobody knows very clearly. This question has eluded humanity since its existence. You don't find Pyramids like the ones Giza in all ancient civilizations. You don't find literary works like that in India in any other ancient civilization. Sure the process to do anything in those societies may have been a catalyst.But starting something new totally depends on the quality of people who are there and in what many volumes they exist.

While git might have made contribution easier, it will not make number of new projects higher.
Those who don’t believe in God are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry. They can’t join the Boy Scouts. Atheist soldiers are rated potentially deficient when they do not score as sufficiently “spiritual” in military psychological evaluations.

This last bit is probably because atheists would naturally score higher for psychopathic and sociopathic behaviors.
Thanks for all your contributions! Indeed, a rare perspective on HN (or anywhere for that matter).
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If you want people to show you how to contribute to open source, be an internet loudmouth and complain that you don't know how to contribute to open source.

Seriously, these are amazing comments and I hope it's OK if I compile the best ideas into another post for others who are as adrift as I sometimes feel.
I don't understand this point of view. I question the assumption that iPads are primarily devices of the wealthy. We're talking about $500 for a lifetime of learning, not thousands of dollars. And the portability and durability of iPads makes them easily rentable and transferable.
So she's cool being part of his obvious movie piracy operation until she finds out he doesn't own the SIM card?
Yeah, I understand and empathize with your viewpoint. I wrote the article and felt like the detractor captured some of the weaknesses I possess that led to its writing.
:: raises hand ::

Only if no one else ever saw that part of history, right?

:: shaky eyes ::
Intel acquired StrongARM from Digital (DEC) in 1997 (after DEC sued Intel over Pentium). Intel turned StrongARM into Xscale.

You are correct that Intel sold part of their Xscale business to Marvell, but they also kept the Xscale storage processors.

http://edc.intel.com/Platforms/Previous/Processors/IOP/

All the generations of XScale are 32-bit ARMv5TE processors (ARMv5TE ISA without the FP instructions) manufactured with a 0.18 µm or 0.13 µm (as in IXP43x parts) process.

I think the reason for Intel selling off most of the Xscale business to Marvell is that Marvell has an architecture license, and ARM, Ltd probably didn't want to sell one to Intel.

Apple helped develop ARM, so it likely has a less expensive license than anyone else.

Given that Intel knows how to get an ARM5 into 0.13, getting a theoretic A6 into its 0.22 process is likely straight-forward.
I still play games I bought ten years ago. Can you definitively say that the same will be true for content you purchase using Steam? What about 20 years from now? The value of your purchase is now directly tied to the success of the company. In other words, their choice of using DRM is taking actual value away from you. Arguably, a pirate wont have these issues.
Amazing way Chinese recycle millions of cellphones every year
I guess sometimes there is a fine line between a product that looks like a science experiment and a product that you design interatively like a science experiment :)
Why is this news to everyone? I've seen it twice today on HN, once on reddit and my friends are sending it to me like it's big news.

I've been seeing these "copy this JS in your URL bar to get free cookies/sex/money/nothing" for over a year now.
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Man, you are so, so wrong. You should really learn to respect design so much more. You'll get the same quality designers off 99Designs that you will coders off eLance
There is a lot of stuff where if no one puts there hand up to improve it will just languish because no one really encounters it in a way that motivates them to patch it for their own needs. So a lot of documentation stuff that would require a lot of time to fix up. A good example I guess was PHP6, without reading to much in it it seems that making all the string functions UTF8(16) compatible was one of the very time consuming tasks that didn't have a lot of momentum behind it.
One of the ideas I like to explore when presented with the idea of immortality are the effects of a longer lifespan on our decisions. To me, our lives aren't long enough to really live with the effects of our actions. My optimism makes me think, "If we could extend our lifespan by, say, one hundred years, then people will grub much less for near-term pleasure and focus much longer term" (thus we would start investing more in programs which might guarantee our standard of living instead of leaving it to the next generation).

I just wanted to throw this thought at the HN community -- let us know your thoughts!
Unfortunately true. This seems to be a pop-sci cover of some data mining and semantic clustering algorithm for scientific publications. The author claims the groupings may be better than citations (less political, for instance) in showing how ideas impact a given research community.
For reference, here's a screenshot of the offending page:
https://skitch.com/3141/r7xca/bin-laden-execution-video
Blast from the past. I don't remember paying attention to the author of that blog in the last decade, but I used to always read rec.humor.funny, which has been collected at http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/.
I think school is especially bad in this regard; you are expected to perform only tasks that you have been taught to perform. It's hard to make the adjustment to more goal-oriented work.

I still think it's often worth working with someone like that and the effort of training them up because school teaches people to be good at things I'm not very good at. Like follow through. And following the rules.
We must leave the obsession with the iPad aside for a moment. The whole idea is to deliver educational content through a hand held device. The thing here is there are many parameters attached to it. First is the device, then the content delivery itself has a cost(Internet subscription et al) then the maintenance of devices etc. So the cost of the device is not the only thing. There are many incremental costs.

Most of this is definitely out of the reach of the people who actually need it. $500 is a lot of money for people in my country. Most may be earning only 1/5th of that in the whole month. Average salary of a teacher in India a around $150 a month. Which is around $5 a day average.

How do you expect mass technology adaption with these sort of expenses?
I was going the other direction, and that is somewhat meaningful. That is, a well educated person, e.g., from Harvard, is skeptical.
I think this is an excellent decision -- the "toggle" design seemed seriously unsafe. Consider the list of TorButton bugs that have already been fixed: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?group=priorit... How much would you bet that there isn't at least one more anonymity-compromising bug in there?

The new design seems much less Rube-Goldbergy. That said, I still think this style of interface offers only quite casual protection, since it relies on (the forked version of) Firefox not having any bugs that leak information. So any adversary who has enough resources to obtain a zero-day Firefox exploit that allows arbitrary code execution is able to completely deanonymize you. This is probably good enough for e.g. the masses in Iran, but not for would-be Wikileakers.

What I really would like to see is a virtual machine setup that lets you run your webbrowers in a VM, and provides the guest OS with a simulated network interface which actually connects through Tor. That would make for a much smaller attack surface. But last time I looked, I couldn't find one.
Huh? How can LSD be "worth it" when it has been proven to cause brain damage and hallucinations?

(Good bye karma)
Nathan went to one of the Clojure meetups in S.F. I didn't get a chance to talk to him but somebody else did a demo of Cascalog there. Cool stuff, I agree, and a good example of the flexibility of Lisp.

I think a lot of people would still balk at the syntax though, and prefer something with similar functionality and more comfortable syntax, even if it was a lot more work to implement such a thing.
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I would lean towards staying in your position longer, possibly up to the year to receive your bonus, and build a larger cushion or even have something lined up before you quit. It will be difficult to disguise your attitude to prospective employers and there's not a huge need for junior marketing people with minimal experience. Finally, you're going to find politics and bureaucracy in any organization with more than 1 person.
Mascara (http://www.mascaraengine.com/) is a much more mature project that implements ECMAScript Harmony, though it's not open source.

What is Traceur? It doesn't claim to be an implementation of ECMAScript Harmony, though it looks similar to one. The choice of a non-ECMAScript media type (text/traceur instead of application/ecmascript;version=harmony or something similar) lends me to believe that they want to create a new language entirely. Also, text/traceur doesn't isn't registered, so the private type, text/x-traceur should be used instead. It's unfortunate that library authors completely disregard media type registration nowadays. In order for text/traceur to be registered, there actually has to be a formal specification of the Traceur format, since it's on the standards tree.

It's great to see work in making Harmony more accessible to everyone, but it doesn't make sense to make it another language.
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lol - you downvoted all my posts b/c you're mad - nice.
I own over 200 games on Steam, from big name titles (Call of Duty) to small indie games and I have never had a problem with DRM.
A drop of water compared to the volume of Earth's oceans is about one part in 2^84, so your analogy is a bit of an exaggeration, as there are only 2^64 /64s to be handed out. Still, there are plenty of allotment sizes larger than /128 that are still not scarce enough to bother charging for unless you have some other leverage (lock-in or a unique advantage on some related product).