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Unfortunately this is not just a UK thing. Every EU country is forced to do this.

A similar law was passed in Sweden just the other week and will come into effect on July 1, despite heavy criticism from pretty much everyone.

So how could they pass such a law? It's from an EU directive, more specifically 2009/136/EC [1]. A directive is something that every member state is _required_ to implement into national law, whether they like it or not. AFAIK every member state is supposed to have implemented this by now. Sigh.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
One of the things that I find really cool about this is this happened without using a copyright license (i.e. GPLv3) as a bludgeon to force HTC to do the right thing. This was done using simple market forces, and not the anti-Tivo clause of the GPLv3. Which has been the Linux kernel developers' objection all along to the GPLv3....
Argh!

99% of people have no clue what a "cookie" is used for and just hear that it is "evil" and such. At the same time, these same people have no problem exhibiting themselves of Facebook or tracking their positions on Foursquare.

@gov: Just make something like this (http://www.networkadvertising.org/ > "Conumer opt-out") legally binding for tracking networks (not for individual web sites!) and the whole "Cookie" paranoia is solved.
Not all businesses are the same. What you're talking about is the standard business school definition of a business. In reality, businesses vary as much as their founders. Some are altruistic and genuinely want to help people and solve problems. Others are ruthless. If it's a public company, they may be bound by fiduciary rules, but private companies can mostly do what they want.

There exist real businesses whose primary goal is to help people, even to the detriment of profits, and many of those that don't have it as a genuine secondary goal. Those that have helping people just as the "party line" are dishonest. I would hope that people would shun those businesses.
We don't understand exactly how gravity works, but I'm pretty confident that being "enlightened" will not allow you to fly. Similarly, although the exact nature of time is apparently up for debate, I'm pretty sure it's not entirely man-made.
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I have a slightly related experience. My wife is from Sri Lanka, and while she haven't herself lived in poverty, I recognize the social structure keeping it in place.

As a trivial example, in Sri Lankan culture, you don't say "thank you", "you're welcome" or give anycompliments. Instead, it is common to tell someone they look fat when you see them after a long time.

Interestingly, the Internet is changing this. My wife has a lot of her school friends in her Facebook, and people are starting to complement each other on the uploaded photos. I believe this is a result of internationalization (many Sri Lankans have moved to Australia, Italy and France) and the percieved freedom when not having to talk face-to-face.
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I'm surprised Putin paraphrased Mussolini (anyone who isn't a socialist as a teenager doesn't have a heart, anyone who is still a socialist as an adult doesn't have a brain)...
To be fair, I think it's based on a European directive that all European countries will need to enforce sooner or later (unless it gets changed).
I love the look of that Lunokhod rover.

It reminds me of Russian author Victor Pelevin's wonderful satirical mini-novel "Omon Ra". The Soviet moon missions carried a heavy secret...

There's a free English translation of Omon Ra available online:

http://a7sharp9.com/Omon.html

I don't know about the quality of this translation, but I'd absolutely recommend the book to anyone who's interested in post-Soviet Russia... And can stomach Pelevin's sprawling irony, which may be the only appropriate literary tool for approaching contemporary Russia :)
How do you add the icons and the related information in your database? Do you do it manually? I am always confused about how people manage to put so much of data on the web with inconsistent formats on their website.
The Internet is a really big part of our current society; the concern of a lot of people. You'd expect that the advisory board of decision-makers of such important things would consist of the smartest and most knowledgable persons available - the persons who invented the web, the persons who are making it work and who are taking it forward.

I haven't done any research. Does anyone know who gives these guys advice?
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The term "banana-republic" means a failed state with a corrupted government, the banana joke was mostly likely not meant to be taken literally (but more like "it was so bad that it was like banana-republic without even the bananas").

The whole banana discussion is missing the point.
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Couldn't a site just declare a single session ID as essential, and store everything else server side? Or is the problem that you usually don't keep server side session data indefinitely? I suppose you couldn't use client side JavaScript on your cookies in that case either.

Does this apply to HTML5 localstorage too?
'evidence based' is also used to refer to mainstream medicine as opposed to quack medicine like homoepathy and crystals.
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From the linked page:

> Currently our website contains one cookie that we do not use, but is essential for part of the site to operate. At present we have left this in place across the site, as we’re unable to remove it from one part of the site without affecting another. This session cookie is set on a user’s arrival to the site - at which time they’re informed that the cookie has been set - and is deleted when a user leaves the site.

I'm fairly sure the advice from the ICO that I read earlier was quite blunt about cookies that were not strictly necessary: you can't set them without consent just for your own convenience.

There is a silly box at the top of their page that asks you to accept cookies and tells you off if you click "Continue" without doing so, which seems entirely contrary to the principle of this new law to me, before you even get to this mysterious cookie they apparently set anyway.
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Except, what if I'm buzzing by your lab at speed c/2. What frequencies will I hear, what will be the relationship of my ticks to your ticks? =)
Actually it's a neat idea. I was skeptical while reading the description but I used it quick and it all came together.

I like the non user account based setup, and the idea is great, have a firefox plugin so I can save my bookmarks into it ?

Only downside... what happens when i lose my private bin link ?
I wonder how this is going to play out?

And can the govvies even understand what they're doing, tech wise?
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> To do so would violate the uncertainty principle.

Not if we don't know the exact location of the particle, right?
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I take it you didn't read the comments on that post then? The ones that explained why the upfront cost of £585 is not at all unreasonable.
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The important bit is "but is essential for part of the site to operate." To me, that clearly falls under the "strictly necessary" banner, albeit that it probably shouldn't be set until you enter the part of the site that requires it.

Government IT moves at a glacial pace, and just like everyone else they're still trying to figure out how this stuff should work. That's why they've deferred enforcement for a year.
I suspect part of the subsidy is the expectation that you'll make some calls/data/texts which they miss out on if you switch networks.
There I upvoted you. Perfectly valid comment.

FPGAs can be programmed to give the answer in the time it takes the gates to propagate which is usually damn quick. None of these "cycles" things that CPUs use up.
That’s actually my view, too.
Of course, a refusal to confirm or deny the US's involvement in the Stuxnet worm isn't an admission. After all, it's possible that Lynn simply doesn't know if the USA was involved - and doesn't want to be caught on film denying something which later turns out to be true.

Or it's possible that he's not authorised to deny the US's involvement for reasons best known to the higher echelons of US politics.

Or maybe even the USA, were involved in Stuxnet but Lynn realises what a monumental sh-t-storm that would create on the international stage so he thought better than to confirm it on a CNBC documentary.

Or maybe Lynn knows the US had nothing to do with it, but admitting that would make it easy to tell when they do have something to hide.
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Currently, 5.5.0. And we have used every release in the last 4 years, from 4.6 to 5.5.0.
Politics is reps vs dems, liberals vs conservatives, and so on. Partisan nonsense.

This is a warning and discussion about the misuse of government power.

Yes, it is totally off-topic, like patents are, in that they're arbitrary legal nonsense. But, they're enforced nonsense and thus relevant.
This seems a little backwards to me. Wouldn't you want to make sure you're using every possible byte? Isn't this why Linux essentially uses all available ram for I/O caching? Obviously you don't want to waste memory, but if it's sitting there unused you're probably missing some caching opportunities.
Economist Samuel Bowles and his colleagues have found the single most important determinant of economic success in America is "one's choice of parents".

I blogged about Bowles & his work here:
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I really liked the look of it as well, but the thing that got me thinking is how similar the wheels/suspension were to the NASA Opportunity and Spirit rovers.
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The previous implementation of the law was opt-out. It didn't work, because most users were completely unaware they were being tracked.

The real saviour will likely come in the shape of browser support for Do Not Track [1]. While it's not fine-grained enough to be used as the sole mechanism for gaining user consent for all non-essential cookies, it at least covers the 3rd party tracking cookies that were the motivation behind this law change. Note that DNT specifies that the default MUST NOT be opt-in:

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Imagine millions of websites greeting you with a cookie acceptance dialog ...
.. as have most other companies.
The network is important in part because of the dominant cultural norms it has. Those norms will be anti-economic for the poor. Moving into a network where you become immersed in pro-economic cultural norms can make all the difference.

Also the pro-economic network will create & broker economic opportunities, whether they be internships, jobs, startup co-founding, access to investment etc.

The work of Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis touch on this.
The Linear Predictive Coding used for compressing speech does it at a much lower level than "technology" versus "techcrunch" - it uses a physical model of the human vocal tract (I've actually implemented the LPC used in the GSM codec).
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I have personally experienced a slight bias towards women (esp. married women having children). Throw in unemployment, and the picture is doubly glum.
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Because the site may continue to function, but with reduced usability. I don't believe the new law says anything about analytics, just cookies which are not (waves hands) "strictly necessary". Just how much of a degradation in usability is acceptable is presumably a question for the lawyers.
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Markoff and the NYT talked about Siemens at Idaho National Labs in February, Langner said it out loud at TED and Wikipedia puts it straight on the US and Israel. I'm pretty sure we dropped the question mark a long time ago.
I am not sure how but I hope Google beats the heck out of PayPal.

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> Yes, it is totally off-topic, like patents are, in that they're arbitrary legal nonsense. But, they're enforced nonsense and thus relevant.

So... by that definition, pretty much anything is fair game.

You're playing "7 degrees of hacker news".

How do "nonsense" laws being enforced make them "hacker news". Does it just apply to nonsense laws? I think a drinking age of 21 in the US is nonsense, and it's enforced - does that expand the purview of this site to articles about that, too?
But you always know at least some information about the location. For example you know it's in the visible universe, which puts an upper bound to its location, and therefor it's momentum.

But don't forget the Time<-->Energy uncertainty. If you know the energy of a particle very exactly you don't know how time will pass for it.
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Half my rake tasks in production will NOT work with this hack in place. I amended my similar comment.[1]

Rake 0.9.0 is extremely broken. I recommend reverting to 0.8.7.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2572790
I would also like to here about this. Right now I am checking out the gscan2pdf project. It promises to run a scan and then run OCR and output a pdf. So, if it does what I think it might, it could be a key part to the equation.

I got really excited about backblaze when I heard about it, but alas, they do not have a linux client yet...
Swimming around in self pity, trolling around with patents .. u know the usual...
Yeah, we first get commercial adverts, kinda like in TV but usually more elaborate. Then movie trailers. When I still went into the cinema it was common for the movie to "start" at 2000 and then actually start at 2030 to 2045. Which is just one reason why I do not feel bad about pirating movies.
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How do they check if you have cookies enabled without setting one? Aren't they breaking the law in the process?
Lots of places have daily incomes below $2 a day.

That said, there isn't a huge overlap between those places and cheap electricity, internet and computers.

But I guess China is one of them..
This is my experience(not coming from a poor family, but from closely knowing poor friends at various times) as well. Even if you mean the best for yourself, after growing up in an impoverished environment, you get trapped in a prison of your own creation - low self-esteem, violent rebellion, drug or sexual abuse - that leads you straight into poverty again.
Nate Lawson on in-browser JS crypto: http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...

For example, you (or any powerful-enough third party,as you don't even have HTTPS), could anytime throw in any malicious JS code to get whatever data he wants.

And, given that PIN is limited to 4 digits, it's not a protection at all, just a snake oil.
The difference between many of the corruptions in China vs the USA is that in the USA it's legalized corruption with lobbies that pay congresspeople, legally. So the corruption is out in the open, the average person just doesn't have a chance in hell of changing anything.

In China the corruption is actually illegal but hidden and therefore the abuses even worse because thy are undocumented and unprovable without great sacrifice to somehow prove what happened (and then they will still get away with it).

Forced prison labor is somehow perceived as "okay" in the USA because it's documented and in the light and some people can say "OH THE PRISONERS DESERVE IT, THEY SHOULD PAY US".

In China the same people say its not okay because it's not documented and the cannot feel good about why the people may be in prison (in the USA apparently all people in prison are very guilty of moral laws, regardless if the law is just or not, because there was possibly a "jury").

But the USA has political prisoners too - on the mild side for example, not paying your taxes - isn't that political after they have taken all your assets to pay the debt? Should Wesley Snipes be forced to work for 23 cents per hour now? What about if you are arrested at the DNC or RNC for protesting and the patriot act or similar is thrown at you and you have to serve in prison for year? Is it okay for that person to be forced to work for 23 cents per hour? Aren't they a political prisoner?
Probably not entirely viable nor wanted, but this did give me the idea of Google Translate using steganography to detect translated text through Google Translate to spot abusers. Just by translating the texts a little bit different for each user.
I think the person who wrote this article should read about the history of imperialism and colonization of the non-white world. The quote: "...doing what we can to teach kids from impoverished backgrounds not just how to read and write but how to become upwardly mobile in their networking" really demonstrates a lot of historical ignorance.

Anyway, regarding this topic, there's an entire field of academia which regularly studies intergenerational economic mobility (Sociology). Would anyone familiar enough with the field like to provide us with a paper on this topic? (Preferably about the US)
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I wonder what they consider 'abuse' to be. I was thinking about writing a dictionary app, and hooking into that API as a secondary translation would have been nice.

I wouldn't consider that abuse... Not even if it was the primary translation.

But I can't figure what people would be doing that was abusive?
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Yes, I was intentionally simplifying it to only what was essential to this article. Do you have a better one-sentence explanation?
I guess Jack Trout is meant, an author of some marketing books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Trout
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Original research paper: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~amw/resources/hooktonfoniks.pdf

It's a facinitating piece of research, and a great collaberation between the CompSci and Linguistics depts of this University.

The title above is linkbait, as the paper is about analysing any variable bitrate audio stream. Mobile phones and enterprise VOIP solutions could be just as vulnerable.
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