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I've wondered about that too. I am genuinely curious if there are laws that concern removal of federal/state/local "equipment" from your car, or if "they" would simply charge you with theft (of official property) or "tampering with ..." or somesuch thing if you were to find one, and reattach it to someone else's car, or throw it out or something.

Especially so if you had not previously given any authorization to PUT such a device on your car. I assume most rental agreements have some clause in them if the rental agency has a tracker on their fleet, or if you're under some sort of house arrest and that's part of the deal.

But covert surveillance? Can you be charged with screwing up the authorities in that way?
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That's not a reasonable comparison, though.

Pandora or YouTube access isn't being censored by the German government. It's being withheld on the other end due to old-world notions of regional broadcast rights. Pandora and YouTube haven't paid the rights holders for the right to "broadcast" in Germany, so the licensors insist that they cut off access to Germany from the source.

What is being discussed in the article, however, is indeed censorship. If EU State Security gets its way, it will indeed be like East German radio.
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Make a keyboard / form-factor that does not have the front edge pressing into my wrists particularly when I am at a table or desk that does not have the "correct height" (café, conference room, etc.).

If the thing is not comfortable to use, the rest doesn't matter.
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> Also not clear why the trunk is ruled out...

I think for the relatively inexpensive GPS' out there, they require LOS to the satellites. That said, my phone gets a GPS lock fairly reliably in my house, so yeah, good question.
Anybody aware of anything remotely similar for OpenCL?
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review on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp85rWLCsmc&feature=related

it looks pretty cool, but the truth is that you dont need it, unless you have some bucks and you dont know how to waste it
You can, but general attitude from windows programming community is to do one "right" way.

I had real hacking feeling with windows development only when I was doing some assembler windows programming. But this makes sense, since I was communicating in the same community where real (virii, malware writer) hackers were asking/answering internals-related questions.
A bitcoiner argued comparison to the gold standard is dumb:

http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/2011/05/09/the-bitcoin-paymen...
Psh, Cappuccino had this over a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1233681
He's more of a Jeremiah, live-in-horse-dung type of prophet. We don't listen to those prophets.
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Back in the day, when processing payments for online transactions cost the earth and pre-auth was but a twinkle in the eye of the bank API developers, knowledge of the Luhn algorithm allowed one to test services via their free trials without having to give up one's credit card number. These days it's only useful as a pre-pre-auth sanity check.
Also I added climbing. While jumping, run against a wall and hit Space again. You will "rejump".
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Why don't they apply at all? They just don't apply because no-one has made them apply yet.

Years ago one could get copied tapes and access banned materials in flea markets and back rooms. It was illegal and yet people did it.

Neo-Nazis traded banned reading materials just as Christians traded illegal bibles in China.

While the internet has made the flow of information easier, it's not the case that it invented the practice which has probably gone on since the invention of speech.

All the internet has done has given us the ability to get involved in illegal practices much easier than they did before.
I was taking HCI courses under both Dr. Davide Bolchini and Dr. Anthony Faiola while they were working on this research. It is fun to see it progressing.
If showers are not a part of your routine, then, when showering, your mind will be preoccupied with things like "how to shower," "how not to slip," "how not to get burned with hot water," "how to control water temperature," etc., and will not be able to achieve the state of relaxation necessary for generation of new ideas.

The key is that the activity has to be both relaxing and routine (double "r"...). For you, it's bathing, for others it's showering, yet for others it's walking in the woods. If the activity is not relaxing, you will be preoccupied with how to control it and with resulting stress. If the activity is not routine, you will be focused on its novelty rather than letting your mind wander on its own.
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Doesn't that explicitly mean it's legal? At least for the time of the exemption.
I don't think that's what the article assumes at all.

Success for bitcoin as a currency is a question of whether you can buy things with it. It could reasonably be a successful trading currency, or it could go further and become a successful consumer currency.

I'm not convinced that either are likely and i think that keeping in mind criticisms of bitcoins and currency systems is a good idea. This article mentions issues with both.
when i was looking for a sleep monitor, i considered fitbit and wakemate. wakemate uses bluetooth and its battery lasts about 24 hours (about 3 nights).

the fitbit tracker uses ant+ and its battery lasts a week or two, even with all of the extra monitoring it does throughout the day (as a pedometer) and wireless synching every time i'm near the base station. i was going so long between charges that i'd forget about it, so i made the fitbit low battery notifier (http://fitbit.jcs.org/) to send me a text message when the battery was low.

from what i've heard, fitbit will be extending their products to include heartrate monitors and other things using ant+.
Early on I learned that Juggling was a great way to get my conscious mind out of the way of my subconscious so that I could actually retrieve information from it about solutions to problems.

Like a lot of people I know, my brain works on coming up with solutions to 'problems' 24/7, whether I want it to or not (much to my spouses dismay sometimes) And while effective getting those solutions out of the queue require either isolation (camping is great, the shower is ok if a bit short) or to have my conscious brain not focused on trying to pull the answer out.

Juggling (and as it turns out for me piano playing) has the property of applying a temporal focus to my brain which prevents it from interfering with my subconscious. Weird I know, but folks I know who study such things consider it fairly normal. I know a guy who plays FPS video games when he has a really hard problem he's working on, same sort of thing.
This is enabled in the blackberry playbook by default, which is a really really compelling reason for me to get one.

I have wondered 1. why it isnt enabled in android webkit by default, 2. how hard it would be to enable given the source, 3. if any android devices are coming out with it enabled.

but I havent had enough time to do anything more than wonder, weinre is doing an awesome job in the meantime
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Sure, I know, but still, thanks for pointing this out explicitly. Its true, I tried to provoke a bit and its not a totally faire comparison.

However, its still against the idea of the Internet, when I can only access certain content from certain locations, no?
And its also somehow censorship, though the proper term may be "regional broadcast rights". Its true, that the German government does not actively support this, but I don't see them fight it either. For instance they could insist, that different regional broad cast rights, especially online, should be baned by the WTO. We do similar thing for inter-EU trade all the time.

This new law, like so many, who try to come over the backdoor of European law, is definitely on a different level. I just wanted to point out, that its already far from roses and unicorns here.
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The Los Angeles Times is one of the best- http://latimes.com
The Guardian is good too- http://guardian.co.uk

Drop me a line if you're working on anything newspaper or journalism related and you'd like to chat about it- my username at google mail.
Well, if you can't trust Ken Thompson, who can you trust?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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Indeed. It's versatile, too: I actually had to read it for one of my visual/interaction design classes.
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Dissent IS crime though. For example, stealing is dissent from the accepted notion that property can be owned. It's an assumption so baked into your brain that you accept it implicitly, but it's not a law of physics or anything.

Any deviation from the rules of the system is a challenge to those rules. I think the distinction between crime and dissent in your mind is actually just whether you agree with the person doing it or not.

Civil Rights activists were criminals. Until they weren't.
> Luckily for most people the ZoneInfo DB is part of the OS and gets updated with your system updates

Actually, that's NOT true, because most people use Windows, whose TimeZoneDB is horribly implemented, and only cares about the present (and only if you updated recently). If you ask it about 2003, it will answer with today's rules, not with the rules that were in effect in 2003.

While this is just a little bad for the US (rules changed only twice in the last 50 years), in some countries they have changed every other year, or they cannot be expressed with the rules that Windows has.

Windows date and time handling is a joke.
Code craft is the book I normally recommend for people starting out. Code Complete which several other people recommend is a great book, but it's one of those books that make much more sense after you've been programming for a year or so.
Can someone please explain why I'm STILL "hellbanned?"
A week or two ago I realized my comments/submissions no longer counted. Everything I was submitting immediately went "dead." I posted a few topics on the matter, e-mailed pg, and received a snarky reply from naner. As far as the response I received from the community here, people basically told me to shut up and create a new account. So I did. And it turns out that account was immediately "hellbanned" too - I'm assuming because I'm using the same IP address. Everything on HN still loads painfully slow unless I'm using a proxy or I'm not logged in as my original or new account.

This is all absurd because I did nothing to deserve the "hellban." I simply defended the PHP programming language and pointed out some obvious truths about certain haters of the language... and a user clicked the "flag" link because he didn't agree. From then on, my account and any posts from my IP have been rendered useless. And I continued posting for 20 days afterward because I had no clue. Granted, once in a blue moon when I've had a bad day and I'm in a bad mood I may be politically incorrect and speak exactly what's on my mind, but surely nothing that constitutes a ban. And I'm sure a number of you will try to nitpick at my posts and convince yourself that "hellbanning" me was just, because surely this elite community you're a part of can do no wrong! You must defend its honor! But in all seriousness, you won't feel that way when someone "hellbans" you by flagging a comment of yours they don't agree with.

As it turns out, I just noticed that I can't post a topic (that doesn't immediately go dead) on the matter from the original "wrongfulban" account (account #3!) and proxy I had used to discuss it the first time, because a week or so ago when I posted a topic about it, someone basically told me to shut up again and flagged my submission.

I would very much appreciate it if I could have my original account (and IP) back to working status.

As it turns out, I've had to find yet another proxy to post this because someone (again!!!!) flagged my original... so all posts from that proxy's IP are also now rendered useless. Please STOP so this can be resolved. This is a serious issue.
I fail to see what connection the article has to poor people. Poor people are neither "uncooperative" (indeed, they tend to occupy some of the most cooperative jobs where they are told what to do and then do it), nor "parasitic" (they tend to work very hard at jobs that benefit society), nor do they deviate from the "social norm." Nor, in many societies, are they a minority.

I suspect you have confused poor people with criminals, dissenters, or activists.
I've found some truth to this in my own experience. I've actually given up on having cable/satellite/some other system where I can just turn on the TV and be inundated by crappy content. However, I still have a few shows a week I must watch in a timely fashion (via non-cable sources) and then a large DVD library of past seasons that I can use if I feel I need some sort of background activity.

My productivity is huge with this set up but I still get to watch my favourites.
I have to disagree with this definition, because it doesn't have to be breaking a law. It just has to be breaking a 'rule'. Breaking a rule doesn't necessarily equate crime.

As an example, it may be a rule to be on the job by 8 am. Being late can get you fired, but in most cases it's not going to land you in jail because being late to work is not illegal.
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It depends on what your specific needs are with respect to persistence and other aspects of your application. Take a look at http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/ and read about RabbitMQ and ZeroMQ to see if either sounds like a solution for your problem.
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Great job on the site. Congrats. It looks very slick. Here's a few things that could probably help make it even more awesome:

1. Rich text editing capability for description--at least with <p> tag so it can be more readable than just a big block of text.
2. http://upout.com/auth/s_profile and http://upout.com/auth/s_customize don't seem to add the "active" class correctly
3. http://blog.upout.com/ make the logo go back to upout.com rather than the blog root

What are the technologies behind this? Again, good luck!
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The usage of the term 'dishonest', is, by very definition, a moral judgement. Saying a word means something else doesn't make it true.
A least, the Eschatology's unusual :

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while i don't disagree with the article, i always assumed the shower was particularly potent because it's first thing in the morning, after a full night's sleep. so you've got a whole 8-10 hours of subconscious activity to catch up on.
I'm not sure I understand to which of my musings your conjecture is directed. Are you saying that without sufficiently many honest and competent people we cannot have great government because we need those people to run the government or to choose it? I think you're saying the former and also maybe taking the position that all we really need to do to fix the present situation is to elect enough honest and competent people. I don't fully agree with either of those points (I think there are ways we could employ technology that would greatly mitigate the damage caused by incompetence or malice of government officials), but also I'd point out that the common failure of our current system of government to get honest and competent candidates elected is itself a failure of government that has room for improvement.
The problem with inspiration-based problem solvers is that it's always extremely difficult to predict when they will solve a problem.

This has been a real issue for me and the fact that my off-focus activity of choice is arsing about on the internets and pretty much everyone I ever work with thinks all I ever do is slack off.
To take your points one by one:

The software center is easty to use, yes. It is also a hugely important part of the experience, because its how you get new software...if you can find it in the software center. (often you can't..more on that in response to your last point)

Most commercial liscenses are remarkably simmilar to one another. The gist is 'don't infringe my IP', to the extent that you can plug different IPs into one by word searches.

I do mean free as beer software, as in response to the argument that avoiding credit card charges is a benefit of Ubuntu..there's plenty of widows capable free software. (and open source). Incedentally, many of the open source applications I've found have an option for a windows download. Lots of users in windows, after all.

Walled garden from the end user's side. If your access to software is through the software center, then you'll discover that there are plenty of things not supported by cannonical. Its an app store, and one with fairly limited supply. (33,686 on display, as opposed to over 80,000 in the android) If you consider that the average user is not a person who knows how to make from source, or even navigate the terminal (and I'll lay good odds not willing to learn), the software center is the -only- way anyone is likely to get decent software.

All right, only is rather extreme, but other sources of apps are so frequently rather difficult to install in this OS, where accepting a liscense agreement and pressing the install button is anything but.

The point being is that the average user won't see an open source repository, or the source at all. they'll see a list of apps they can install from what is, essentially, the ubuntu market, each app chosen and vetted by canonical.
I don't feel that people are generally good or evil - they are simply self-serving. I have no doubt that the people involved in this sort of activity have thought about what they're doing, but at the end of the day it comes down to the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense:

"I have a mortgage to pay."

It's not just the FBI - this argument has been used by Wall Street bankers peddling sketchy derivatives, dishonest car salesmen, and programmers writing code that will be used to screw customers.
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I get the best ideas when I'm not trying to come up with an idea, which is a paradox. Though never had an idea in the shower that I remember. :)
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"Bohr was God, and Oppenheimer was his prophet"

Physics has had its share of prophets. If you care to learn more about one read "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer." Superb book, winner of the Pulitzer prize.
No, he's just shifting from Schneier's original point out to "no system will operate 100% correctly", then from there to economic inequality.
There is a temptation to use MySQL message queues to provide more complex queueing strategies - prioritization, retries, folding multiple queues into one table, claim tokens to avoid the global lock, and in the very worst case keeping all of the queue data to double up as log records. All of these must be resisted - they scale and perform poorly.

If they use MyISAM as the table format for the queue, it may crash and require repairs. If they use InnoDB, then the queue is no longer very lightweight.

Queues in MySQL certainly can work, and are pretty straightforward, but they'll need to be replaced with something else eventually.

"The right tool for the right job" and all that. I just wish AMQP didn't seem quite so sketchy ...
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Thanks for doing the math. Unless you are currently a shareholder or options holder, market cap is a much more meaningful number then price per share. I'm surprised tech crunch didn't mention it at all.

Three billion might seem low compared to Facebook, but it is actually higher then I expected. I will be a patient outside observer for this IPO to see how Wall Street treats and values social network stocks.
I don't. The lack of popular iPad-specific sites was not due to a lack of trying. There were several that tried. None of them gained a lot of traction.
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We wouldn't have borders if we could teleport to any place on earth. The internet is the closer to this scenario than the classical country model.
My work day is usually 8 hours of implementing whatever idea I came up with while in the shower that morning. If nothing comes to me during the morning routine, I'll have a really crummy, unproductive day.

I might be able to take an hour for a walk around the neighborhood to clear my head to get ideas, but generally even walking around trying to not get hit by vehicles or other pedestrians still distracts me.
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So what if they do erect this "virtual wall"? People will just access those sites through some non-EU based proxy. Unless they block access to each and every non-EU based proxy, of course.
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The Samsung Galaxy S2 uses a non-pentile OLED screen, so these screens are on their way out. I have one of these on my Nexus One and the only time it's noticeable is when you use very small red text (8sp IIRC).
My complaint/concern has to do with deeply recessed keyboards. Whenever I'm not in an "optimal" location, e.g. a conference room, café, etc. where work surface heights tend to be higher, the front edge ends up pressing into my wrists.

I've found it frustrating that so many laptop designs have incorporated this aspect. Smaller body sizes tend to help, although the 13' Mac and Mac Pro nonetheless still seem to have it in spades. Also, widescreen formats have made the overall "depth" that they have to work with, when shoving that keyboard to the back, less -- although I'd prefer more vertical in the screen dimensions, and designers nonetheless get the keyboard too far back for my comfort.

(I strongly dislike actually having the thing on my lap.)
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What, you mean for all the other devices we take apart that regularly phone home to their manufacturer, who would show up at a moment's notice in a black helicopter to put an immediate halt to our technical analysis?

Of course! We have to block RF transmissions all the time!
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You can actually just push any content with a link trough the API (see http://tapirgo.com/#docs > Push API). So with a deploy script that takes the content and pushes it, you can already do this right now!
Next up: malloc

Ok - now I'm convinced it is a joke. Dry humor, indeed.