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Oh, I wouldn't say that you should not stick with one. In the end, I ended up with just doing Java for university and learning a co-language (Ruby) for personal pleasure and fun. Pick early on. You can also pick based on the support you gain from the community for your special problem. But at least have a look at some of the tools that are handed to you instead of blindly picking one.

The problem I see is that a lot of people stick with the first language they ran over, even if it was not fit to solve their initial problem.
How do you solve the problem of users signing up/logging in with say their Twitter, but later also signing in with Facebook after logging out?

Wouldn't there be a user account collision of some sort? Sorry if it's obvious, I haven't had a chance to check your site out.

Good luck and wishes of great success to you.
I heard from someone that it sold out. But I've seen pretty much no "hacker presence" online - which suggests lots of people bought them and then put them in the drawer, or use them as something mundane rather than worth writing about online.
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However, the water company will most definitely come looking for you if you start selling water to the neighboring town that has higher water prices, since then you are profiting from your subsidized water.

The real problem is that somehow the wireless companies, unlike residential ISPs, have gotten away with not being labeled as pure data transfer companies. It should be none of their business what data you send, but unfortunately that's not (legally) the case.
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They'll find other ways i.e. looking at the UserAgent in any unsecured HTTP request would signal tethering
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Being oppressive doesn't remove your legitimacy.

As long as you can hold on to being the government (guns!), you make the laws and are by definition legitimacy itself.
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> The problem I have with the system, the problem I see making the masses balk once they've been convinced to give it a try, is that, simply, things don't work out of the box with linux.

Indeed, I think this is the number one issue of converting users to Ubuntu, and that there are two types of not working that turn off potential users:

1) Learning a new workflow. There are tons of viable open source alternatives to proprietary software, but new users can often be overwhelmed by the idea that they're going to have to transition to a different workflow.

A year or so ago, I agreed to help my mother's secretary with her malware infested XP installation, but came to the conclusion that only a nuke from orbit would suffice. I told her that I could install Ubuntu on a separate partition, which would allow her to access her old files. However, learning OpenOffice proved too much for her, and we ended up doing a clean Windows' install.

So, users' need to be made aware of recommended alternatives to Windows' software and they very much need stellar documentation on how to complete simple tasks. It seems like many Windows' users just internalize a set of steps to complete a certain task and have a very hard time adapting when presented with a new environment.

2) Lack of out-of-the-box hardware support is still a serious issue, especially for notebooks. Many of my semi-technical friends/co-workers have expressed that they would like to try out Ubuntu and that, inevitably, they would like to install it on a notebook computer.

I typically caution them against it because of the not insignificant chance that they will end up with missing hardware support, usually wireless, which is critical to basically every notebook user. Sure, it's often possible to install proprietary drivers or firmware, but this is definitely not a task that someone new to Linux can reasonably be expected to overcome.

Something like lack of 3D acceleration is not a huge deal (maybe more of an issue with Gnome 3, not sure), but lack of wireless support, significantly reduced battery life, and broken suspend-to-RAM are serious issues that plague Ubuntu (and Linux) installs on the notebook. Canonical needs to make serious in-roads with hardware vendors before they can reasonably expect to reach 200 million users.

Again, I think it's not "Linux isn't ready for the desktop", but "Linux isn't ready for the notebook" that Canonical needs to be concerned with if they don't want to be left behind in our increasingly mobile-leaning future.
Are there any statistics regarding the penetration of iOS 4.0 compared against an earlier version?

Are there compatibility issues [i.e. if i built against an older version, would that run on the latest version of iOS]? If not, why would people have to rebuild? I'm specifically looking at this statistic: "186 apps were built with pre-4.0 sdks"
I think you'd be surprised by how much people can rationalize when unemployment is near 10% and they're looking forward to an early retirement with a civil service pension.
> The overall issue is that it's pretty clear the term 'dishonest minority' was chosen for the shock value, not accuracy.

Yes, indeed. Either Schneier displays his old, astute, successful writer wit at work; or maybe it's his evil editor's influence :)
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This should get better in Qt with the big modularisation effort that's happening.
The fact that they didn't pot it is interesting. I hadn't thought about that. Potting seems to be on the decline over the last 10 years from what I've seen.
anyone actually knows what the old unlimited contract says about this?
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I haven't played CounterStrike in ages.. didn't know they even had a Mac version..
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Very cool. Have you all done any firmware/software hacking?
If your referring to the 100% approval article posted today, that was about the FISA court. The FISA court is interesting in a lot of ways, one of which is that surveillance can be conducted first (i.e. without a warrant), and the warrant can be applied for up to 72 hours after the fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...
The device torn down was one given to them by a woman who kept it after being tracked in 2005: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/
I'm curious what their definition of "multitasking" is... To begin with, iOS doesn't really support multitasking in the general sense of the word. You can save application state when the app moves into the background and restore when the app comes back into the foreground, but, in general, there's no way to run two apps at once. So, in essence, if you compile with a newer SDK, you've effectively implemented "multitasking" by conforming to the new APIs. As others have pointed out, though, there are a lot of apps for which there is no need for "multitasking" in that sense. So, is their definition apps which explicitly save state or something else? To me, it sounds like a relatively meaningless statistic. The more interesting statistic is the percentage of apps built with old SDKs...
I think everyone here is only worried with the breaking of legs anyway.
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I enjoyed this and quite an inspiring alternative to solving problems.
It even works well with Wine in Linux.
This story gives background on Karen Thomas, the environmental activist who was tracked by the device.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/

The FBI demanded the device back and she said no. Amazingly, that was the end of the story—until the Afifi story came out, and she decided to give Wired the tracker.

The interesting legal question (in addition to whether you need a warrant to do this sort of thing) is who owns something attached to your car?
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What's with the windows bashing?

"The only thing you learn using Windows is to click the .exe file to install the software and use it."

really? is that the only thing you can learn on windows?

"if you are aspiring to be a web developer, you’ll need at least basic knowledge of Linux"

again, that's just plain misleading. Will web not exist w/out LAMP? Are web apps hosted in IIS (or on any other OS than Linux) inferior to the ones hosted in Apache?

"Linux also allows you to customize stuff the way you need them to be."

what stuff?? you can write your own web server on windows.. everything in .Net framework is extensible and substitutable. You can write perl, php, or python apps. You can provide your own http handler implementation that will do whatever you tell it to.
3gs is being sold at 50 bucks [with 2 year commitment]. Are there any android devices at that price point?
I'd bet there will be kiosks on site to find names, and there already is a website to find names that will point you to the panel: http://names.911memorial.org/
I am sure they could find one. When dealing with the government it's heads they win, tails you lose.

edit: I still think it would be worth it. One of these cars for maximum effect: http://homeland.house.gov/about/membership
Do you see any strong patterns in terms of different kinds of clients preferring certain levels of detail?
Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report.

As for your issues on printing: thank you.

I had honestly not given printing very much thought -- as I don't really use it myself.

Your ideas make a lot of sense, though; so count on seeing them implemented.
I had to drill it open. There's a video of the process here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps-video/

Re: software—we linked to the reference design, which includes a lot of information about the software. There should be plenty of information available to start investigating their implementation.
Potting is still used heavily in industrial electronics and a lot of appliance work (think of washing machine control boards). I would think the military uses it a lot as well.
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And the "certain instances" when you can run things in the background are incredibly limited... You can finish network calls or set an alarm, for instance, but you can't actually run your app in the background. When Apple first announced multitasking, I was really excited, only to learn that it was more or less 4 new, very limited, API calls. IMO Apple pulled a bit of a bait and switch with the term "multitasking."
I almost had a tear in my eye while watching that video.
It makes me feel like we're back in the 90s creating IRC bots, but come to think of it, it's a simple and working solution to some problem.
Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report.
yeah, i only remember the initial fuss - can't remember seeing any results.
Yeah, that was the first thing I noticed. Some of the solder joints look rather suspect.
Now that is a killer idea. Something as simple as showing the hands count down to your next calendar event would be way more useful on a wrist than checking the phone.
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Could you estimate the price of this thing, as the FBI told him it was expensive (and at least the batteries seem to be).
When do you expect to find one of these stuck to the bottom of your car? ;)

In all seriousness, do you believe it would be possible for the FBI to make a similar device to use on bicycles (inside handle bars), motorcycles, scooters, or Segways?
Yes, that was the one I was referring to. Thanks for citing the links.
quickly, explain how using data on my unlimited data plan is violating my contract.

the tethering plan is a facilitator fee since greedy apple agree to limit features.

it's just like buying an app instead of writing your own.

if you can get your own way of using data you pay for, good for you.

now, forcing you to pay a facilitation fee for something you already have, seems a little mob like.
I agree with you about the names -- and I really wish I could've thought of something clever when I first named it; unfortunately, it's a bit late now.
There's also a map for Call of Duty 4, see http://www.tek-9.org/forum/call_of_duty_series-46/call_of_du...

(Tek9 is one of my company's sites, happened to see that while testing some advertising stuff this morning. I would link to another source instead, but by the look of it the map is actually being made by a Tek9 member who only announced it there.)

As to why it's CoD4 (a relatively old game in the CoD franchise), Tek9 is a competitive gaming community, and gamers who play in CoD tournaments chose to stick with CoD4 for the gameplay, rather than always chasing the very latest graphics.
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They do. I played it on Mac a few years ago.
Thanks knes - I've seen the dropbox.com videos, but never soluto or evernote.

Yes, only looking at "take a tour" pages. We've solidified our landing page, contact page, plans & pricing... need to put together the "magical" tour page. Tour rather than features page seems to break down idea of functionality vs. usability, and the suggestions you provided are good starters.
I seem to recall that a few years back, there was a company building and selling game maps based on battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. I can't remember what they are/were called.
So this tracker does NOT use cell connections? A receiver would have to get whitin range to download tracking data?
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The resources of the world are finite (as is it's energy allowance), so i'm afraid that toilet paper supply is indeed limited. You're about to see this in a very real way as food prices dramatically increase in the following years.
Pavlov is clearly implying they must have plans not involving all that heavyweight stuff on low-end devices, not that they're going to just jam it on anyhow.
Has the large Verizon data outage in Mass been reported on?
Sure, and of course my phone company knows which cell tower I'm using. Starbucks knows where the device with a certain MAC address that signs in with my account has been. That's not the point, though - the question is, will the government has easy access to that data and will they use it for anything and everything?
Agreed. I'm a South African who likes to travel. The Schengen visa system is hands down the worst visa process I've ever had to deal with (USA included).

The thought of those clowns getting their hands on the internet is terrifying.
You just think you're more productive because you get to slam "jjjjjjjjjjjjlllllllllll" to position your cursor.

Use the mouse for what it's good at: pointing at things and selecting text. Use the keyboard for what it's good at: entering text, such as regular expressions to transform the code you just highlighted.
TV is the biggest mind-suck. Sure, it's partly my fault for allowing myself to be distracted etc., but it's no help that TV specifically has been purposefully designed to be the easiest and biggest distraction on the planet.

I was a coke addict, sure it was my own fault for getting into it, for enabling my own unhealthy habit. But it wasn't enough just to "stop blowing coke." I had to sever relationships with bad influences, I had to "throw coke out the window."

With that in mind, I'm going to of chuck my TV out the window, and despite what you might argue, I'm not just lying to myself. I'm improving my life.
I don't want to trivialize how scary it is that the FBI does this, but what I found interesting about this story was the insane capacity of the batteries. Why aren't more consumer electronics(especially iStuff where they aren't user serviceable) using this technology?
Off the cuff BOM for this thing is on the order of $30 in 1K quantities (maybe add 20% for government bureaucracy).
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How about the people in the NSA who spied on their wives, and listened to strangers talking dirty? Some people simply don't have class or shame, and thinking of my own workplace, I people I would trust with that kind of power and those whom I would not.
>That little battery could power a 60W light bulb for an hour

It's a useful 'analogy', but it's not actually true. They are 3.6V, max continuous current 250mA, so max continuous power is 0.9W
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Am I the only person whose taste for these sort of games has fallen off a cliff since Afghanistan and Iraq? Don't get me wrong I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with games based on current events. Its just more of a depressing reminder of reality now instead of the fun escape it used to be.
The say so at the end of the article, but it's a repost (original: http://ignco.de/240). Still all valid points though.
TV is the biggest mind-suck. Deniers will try to justify its value but honestly, when you look at the hole you choose to fill with TV, there are so many more productive you could be filling it with.

I'm not immune either, I have been trying to cut down on TV but I still watch maybe four or five hours per week.
Lithium thionyl chloride batteries are not rechargeable. You get 2-3x the capacity of a rechargeable battery, once. Makes sense for this application but not consumer devices.
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I think we should be funneling new programmers to languages that are easy to recover in. I have a few years of programming experience, but I've been taking a course that taught in C++.
Do you know how easy it is to write syntactically incorrect code in c++ that compiles yet dumps upon program execution? Do you know how hard it is for someone with little experience in the language to diagnose segment faults without a line number?
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At the Vietnam war memorial on the national mall in DC, the names are listed by date of death, but there are phone-book style guides that list the names alphabetically with the wall location.

Presumably this will offer something similar.
True.

I bet it would release its energy a bit more quickly if you dropped it into a nearby fire.
Do you know the maximum range the transceiver can transmit? The datasheet gives lots of design guidance, but nothing specific.

Data sheet: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Datasheets-40...

App note: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Datasheets-31...
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Is there a legal way to block them? Either the GPS signal, or the transmitter? (I'm assuming tampering with the device directly is illegal).
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I'm pretty sure this is why google made a visual change to green shading in their latest version of android.
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I suspect many law enforcement people take the attitude that if someone hasn't done anything wrong, they have nothing to hide, and if they have done something wrong, they should be brought to justice. Also, the use of electronic surveillance doesn't normally inconvenience a law-abiding person, but it can help catch dangerous criminals.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I'm sorry, but responsible TV users do exist. I watch maybe 5 hours per week, and I enjoy the down time. Sometimes it's nice to be entertained after a long day of entertaining users.
That's been Steve's managerial style since he started Apple. I'm worried that once he is no longer able to come back(I think the current medical leave is temporary) that Apple will become a "good enough" company. People tolerate Steve berating them because of his charisma and I am not sure that Tim Cook will be able to get away with what Steve can.
It might be more effective, and more legal, to just sell your car as soon as you become aware that you've been tagged. Bonus points if you sell it to someone who is either taking a cross-country drive, or shipping it overseas.
I'd be more interested in someone trying to make convincing arguments for Bitcoin.
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Does it use military mode (the one that is even more precise than regular GPS)? Now that would be great reverse engineering project :)

Where was the GPS receiver mounted? These things need view of the sky, no?
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Do you have a link to even one of these? I tried looking for these and couldn't find one...
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Thank you for being a voice of reason. TV is easy to hate because it can't defend itself, but it's not the enemy. The enemy is always within.
People are encouraged to use the original headlines, and someone who tries to de-sensationalize a headline will complained at (and article-flagged and downvoted) more than someone who posts a sensational title as-is.
Reminds me of this RPG that came out for the Columbine Shooting: http://columbinegame.com

Counter Strike is not a funny game. It's full of morons and trolls who all use hacks. Halo 1 for PC is a much better designed game with a better player base.
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Hanlon's Razor really should only be applied when you don't have other evidence. In the case of tech crunch, I'm fairly well convinced that they will take any news event in the most sensationalist light possible, regardless of their knowledge of the facts.
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It sounds like you have addiction problems, and I'm not saying that out of cruelty. But if you find yourself in several similar addiction patterns, perhaps it's time to take a deeper look at what's missing, else something else will creep in to fill the void.
The article indicates that court rulings have been mixed as to whether a warrant is required. I suspect the FBI doesn't want to force the issue, in case they lose.

If the tracking were completely legally sanctioned, I can't imagine that the trackee would have any claim to ownership over the device.