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I'm glad he went I guess, but I think Cory Doctorow had the right idea. All this will serve to accomplish is give the summit an air of legitimacy and they'll just make the invite list more exclusive next time. Meanwhile none of these pig-fuckers are interested their arguments being challenged on their merits. They know what they are about, and it is decidedly not the best interests of society, or even creative expression.

"Speech has to be free but movies cost money."

I doubt he even meant this to be a double entendre. He is literally trying to be reasonable by suggesting that people should not have to pay blood money to 20th Century Fox in order to post something to their blog. He is seriously trying to illustrate benevolence here.

So I doubt that trying to reason with these people serves a purpose.
From the second article:

> I lost seven pounds in the first week, mostly from going to the bathroom as all the accumulated dairy mucus was cleansed from my bowels (now I know why cows need four stomachs to properly digest this stuff)

WTF? Does he think cows eat dairy? Or did I parse that wrong?
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Yes, but that does not keep those same people from claiming the authority to "regulate" and "change" it. Though I am wondering how they are actually going to enforce all that on something as vast and international as "the internet".

And, let's be honest, all this was and is about absolutely nothing but the music and movie industry crying over allegedly lost sales. Only the wordings used to describe it have changed. (now it was "a more civilized internet"... that sheer smug-ness is hard to miss.)

How can two expendable industries have that much influence on politics??? Even with all their lobbying and "donations". It is not like we would suddenly lose our western culture without them.
The thing that strikes me whenever I hear those crusty old old-media guys talking is that the reality of the generations growing up today is so entirely different. Nobody I know in my generation, regardless of where they stand on the political spectrum, gives a shit about copyright. Nobody. Everyone downloads music, movies and TV shows freely and without thinking about it.

That's not to say they don't ever pay for stuff, just look at the success of iTunes or the record-breaking opening weekends of popular movies. But the young generations fundamentally do no have any respect for copyright, especially if it restricts their abilities to enjoy consumption of content.

The times, they are a-changin', whether "the industry" likes it or not.
http://www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Publications_files/Job...

Just skimmed it, but in this study 60 students were given tasks and those who believed that willpower is a limited resource made more mistakes after doing a "willpower-draining" activity.

But I wonder if people who were already willpower-drained before taking this test would be more likely to report that willpower can be drained than well-rested students.
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What people here don't seem to realize is that a doctors' scale or measuring tapes are not used for precision measurements anyway.

If the doctor sees the patient only every few months, individual variations (kids will grow, adults will gain (or, sometimes, hopefully) loose weight)) in body height or weight will exceed the precision you can get even out of the cheapest scale or measurement tape.

And as for the purpose of the measurements: The doctor will use the values acquired from the tools to categorize patients in categories: E.g. a obese person has a higher risk of cardiac arrest, someone looking quite anorexic will have other problems with his blood chemistry... And here a few kilograms/centimeters don't influence the general statement at all.
They are intervening at the '.com' level; you'll have to move to a different TLD to get away from it.
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Arguably, civil rights would also be a winner of such a lawsuit. This doesn't mean that it's suddenly profitable for these sites to enter a long court battle, of course...
A Turing complete machine can require a manual intervention for each step. But yes, if you keep clicking an infinite number of times it can be.
TL;DR: CouchDB is nice because reliability, no JOINs, Javascript is untyped, no SQL injections.

This article could fit in a Tweet, and wouldn't even exist if you took out all the non-points: SQL is reliable too, nobody forces you to write JOINs, there are languages better than JS, use prepare statements/stored procedures.
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I wonder whether this has any practical use. Touch screens already remove physical feedback and it's very hard to use them with your eyes closed when you can't confirm your actions in any other way than looking, unless you have accessibility software.
Now, with this "invisible touch screen", not only can you not see the phone, but instead of moving your fingers on a smooth surface, you use something that is neither smooth or comfortable and it certainly isn't the same shape as an iPhone screen.

Besides all that, when the technology can detect any gesture, why limit ourselves to arbitrarily tapping our hand. It would be a lot more useful to just bind a few simple gestures to features that you use often.
They have a ton of money and cultural/legal obligations which drive them to manipulate legislation and law enforcement in their favor as much as is practicable (and it turns out our governments are corruptible enough that it is infinitely practicable). This fight will probably continue for as long as these organizations exist on the surface of the Earth. Or until they win.
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NoSQL doesn't mean No Injection attacks. Just ask Patrick:

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1. Is it the competition to get more karma points and thus self feel superior to others
2. or the desire to have extra previleges and rights than others
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Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/

PyCharm http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Those are two options that in my opinion most closely match VisualStudio for .Net. Having said that, and coming from same backgroud as you do (.net), and trying to find the same thing you do (except I switched to linux, not mac) I ended up with Vim.
Sounds more like a problem with their selection process than anything else. Rhodes scholars are by definition not representative of students. It may well be the case that people who want to be Rhodes scholars are no longer the people the committee wants to be Rhode scholars.
I guess your last point says pretty much everything.. What is interesting is not what they show here, but what can be done with it.
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I was blown away by the google IO session. The idea of writing a game in Java and then having it converted to multiple formats, javascript/canvas/webgl, flash, android.

Quite amazing!

If they could add conversion to run on apple devices then this could well be a glimpse of the future.
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He asked how to find out what language and frameworks are used to build websites. If there is a service that goes about detailing how these frameworks are used to construct websites, then I'd definitely like a link.
I wish I could vote this up more. It isn't the 'SQL' in 'SQL Injection' that is the issue, it is the 'Injection'.

If you don't properly understand your database (or any other tech), assuming it doesn't have security issues because it is 'different' is the height of naivety...
This article is unreadable. And that may be the point.
A simplified example day:

07:15-08 Wakeup, shower and breakfast
08-09 Commute+reading
09-19 At work, includes lunch and snack
19-20 Exercise
20-20:30 Grocery shopping
20:30-21:30 Commute+reading
21:30-22 Dinner
22-23:30 Hacking
23:30 To sleep (slightly late)

This routine gives a small amount of extra working hours to use for time off later. Cutting work to 8 hours gives 2 hours of which 1 usually goes to a longer exercise and 1 is retained as free time. So these days get 2-2.5 hours free.

How does that work out for you?
I totally agree. I can't help but feel like they're holding on to "the way things were" because they've been through it. Children born today will - as they should - have a different perspective on IP and what it means and that's reflective of the movements that have been made in the last few years. These dinosaurs on stage can't comprehend change because they're so out of touch.
Nice idea, I think it's better implemented by http://instabam.com/
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Agreed. A tool in bad hands can be used badly whether it is SQL or NoSQL, just as a tool in good hands can be used well.

Also, Java may be verbose, but the way I see it, the programmer didn't have to write more than a few letters out of each word before letting autocomplete do its job, and has the added benefit of an IDE that can reason logically about his code. I'm not anti-dynamic language by any stretch (I love Python), and Java is almost never visually beautiful, but extensive machine-assisted code reasoning abilities can be awfully useful.
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this article talks about some tips to book a limousine service..
The article says that the agreement will not work in court, but even if it will, why can't somebody (your relative) who know the situation and have not signed the agreement post a bad review?
I contacted Google about this issue in November of 2008 - I only received an automated response. (Matthijs mentioned that was why he posted the previous post[1] on the topic prematurely)

Perhaps with the increasing awareness of this issue, Google will be forced to act.

[1] http://blog.cyberwar.nl/2011/05/google-profiles-exposes-mill...
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Why act, they make great effort to explain that the data is public. You can even chose if you want to be indexable (search visibility).
France not involve--French govt is...

Somewhat dubious..as like most Democracies the financial-industrial complex is in political power...

I think a more accurate description might be that while French govt and lobbyists are involved the common French people are not..
This whole "If I don't trouble others so troubles won't trouble me" philosophy is very Chinese-ish.

This is the exact reason why Chinese won't overthrow their govn't. Everyone assume being good citizen can make a totalitarian organization behaving nicely.
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Can you please explain, why do you think that replacing face-to-face lessons is bad?
To play the devil's advocate: How is this related to technology news?

I don't come here to be depressed, thank you very much.
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And now we're in a bubble. ;)
yes, most definitely ... I saw the need for this, and amazingly 3 years later, still do ... whether or not the endeavour is successful, the benefits of DIY'ing it far outweigh the benefits of just paying someone else to do it ...
That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?
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> I think Cory Doctorow had the right idea. All this will serve to accomplish is give the summit an air of legitimacy[…]

I think this is debatable. It depends on how the summit is eventually presented by mainstream media. If they say there's EFF co-founder, and the panel concluded that we should lock this IP leak machine that is the Internet, then Cory and you are right.

But I've already heard news on the radio (France culture, in France) which talked a good deal about freedom, and let speak a spokesman from LQDN. So there's a good chance that the actual report from a good deal of the mainstream media is that the industries said one thing, and the EFF said another. They may even report that the EFF said the e-G8 is something the EFF doesn't approve of. In that case, Cory and you would be mistaken.

In the end, however we probably need both. Someone who won't go to avoid legitimizing this farce, and another one who go take the heat to secure a minimum media coverage for dissent.
> "No person belongs to any state"

Excellent words!
How much energy does your has-happened-but-not-yet-three-times memory use?
C has modules all right. A .c/.h file pair is essentially what many other languages call a module, and have all the problems that the modules in Joe Armstrong's fibonacci example also has.
Of the 3 products you mention, Firefox is the only one which I have kept, since they have at least the option of turning on the menu bar.

Until there's an option to turn on the menu bar, Office and Chrome (and everything which mimicks their mistakes) have no place on my machines.
I remember a trick from the early web days of halving the resolution of a JPEG and then expanding the compressed result back to the original size. It'll be blocky, but much less blocky than just reducing the JPEG compression level for the same fize size reduction at the low end.

I believe WebM does (or at least the format can do) this automatically in low bitrate situations, without the external user needing to understand what's happening on the encode or decode end. I don't know if WebP inherits this trick and that explains it's low bitrate performance or if it's just better in other ways.
In Canada, it is illegal for news organizations to report on anything less than the truth.

Not exactly -- it's against the law to publish facts that the publisher knows to be false. So the standard isn't truth, it's honesty.

It's very hard to prove a journalist is being deliberately misleading. So it's only been used in the case of Holocaust deniers and even then the Supreme Court ruled that the law was not compatible with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The government has shifted the false news law to being a regulatory requirement for broadcasters, but it's unclear whether this isn't still unconstitutional.

FOX News, in my estimation, does seem to cross the line when it comes to repeating statements they know (or should know) to be false, often over the course of several days. So I can see why they want even the regulation withdrawn.

More details: http://openmedia.ca/blog/false-news-and-crtc-who-asked-what-...
What makes you think they are different?
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If this is a real problem, I would suggest reintroducing the study of philosophy right across the board. It deals precisely with all the "meta-questions" that fall outside the scope of established disciplines.
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While calves do consume milk cows don't need four stomaches for that. Ruminants need them to break down plants enough to be processed and digested.
Wow, I'm so happy I stopped commuting and got a job in my home town. I went from being away from home 7-19 to being away from home 7.30-17.30

Now, I don't exercise but I spend 2x30 minutes bicycling to and from work.
I find the comments people make on YouTube around this non-understanding somewhat interesting. The "stealing" metaphor seems to have led to the unintended consequence that people are confused by what "copyright infringement" even means, thinking that maybe it only applies to something like plagiarism--- "stealing" a work by claiming that it's yours when it was actually made by someone else.

So the solution is to still post the video, but with a confusing disclaimer like, "this video isn't mine, all music belongs to [artist], no copyright infringement intended". Saying "no copyright infringement intended" while still uploading the video is strange thing to be doing, unless you have a nonstandard understanding of what copyright infringement means.
Your competitors in that market are people like Daxtra (my former employer) who do CV parsing and extraction.

They also do CV reformatting, and because they've got structured data to work with can even entirely recreate a new CV based on the candidate's data.

If you want to move into that market as a stand-alone reformatting product, you'd need to integrate with the range of CRMs in use (Adapt, EZAccess, Itris, etc - some of these have CV reformatting built in, too). This is a market where they want it all to 'just work', and you'll end up dealing with some really really demanding people.

And you also risk an established player deciding to extract out their reformatting tool as a stand-alone product and leveraging their existing sales network to block you.

Which is why I was suggesting OEMing it to CRM developers, which would let you side-step companies like Daxtra. If the recruitment agency isn't doing enough business to afford to get Adapt or whatever, then they're either just starting up (and will drop you for an integrated solution as they grow) or about to fail.

Edit: just looked at your profile, and I'm pretty sure you'll know all about Daxtra. :o) If Volt aren't using it already, ask your account manage for a demo of reformatter, and keep in mind that Daxtra could turn that into a stand-alone SaaS offering pretty easily.
1) 10 hours at work? Cut that to a healthier and more sustainable 9 including lunch hour - less if your lunch break is shorter.

2) grocery shopping every day? Order it online or do it once a week (or both) - another daily half hour gained.

3) daily exercise is laudable, but maybe you don't need a whole hour every day. Half hour after waking up should be more than enough - unless you're doing weight lifting for muscle gain, in which case you should only go 3 times a week.

That's a couple of hours a day recovered there.
I'm sorry you're irritated, but have a little empathy for business guys. Have you ever tried to hire a programmer? It seems like sturgeon's Revelation applies: 90% of everything is crud, and 99.99% of the self-proclaimed anything-guys (business, ideas, programming, investing, whatever) are full of it.
Some countries (such as Norway) do precisely this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examen_philosophicum
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nothing new:
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I've seen this, in situations where a link is set to become bold when the mouse pointer is hovering over it. The result is that the text becomes bold, and redistributes itself. Having redistributed itself, the bold link is no longer under your mouse pointer, so the link shrinks back to normal font weight. Now the link is back under your mouse pointer so it becomes bold again. Repeat.
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You're joking, but if Quincy Jones says that to Rod Temperton, you can bet there's a number one song coming out of this :-)

Of course, Quincy was a successful trumpeter and band leader before becoming a musical "idea guy" :-)
Dependent typing has some interesting things to say about modules, or lack thereof. Cayenne[1] is a functional language that doesn't have modules as its type system is expressive enough to cope with the necessary encapsulation -- you can create the module structure just by using types.

Unfortunately, dependent types make typechecking undecidable so there are drawbacks to this approach...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayenne_(programming_language)
I'm usually very critical of and sensitive to any privacy issue. But the Google profile is a public profile, which is made abundantly clear on every occasion. This is what you see when creating the profile:

"Decide what the world sees when it searches for you. Create a public profile to display the information you care about and make it easy for visitors to get to know you.
[...]
Your profile will be visible to anyone on the web, and anyone with your email address can discover it."

I fear that this kind of completely spurious criticism discredits anyone who has real privacy concerns.
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Does living with people you dislike really increase your productivity, or are you suggesting to live alone?
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I use the +tags format for testing email on my website. As a consequence it's supported completely across the board. It's very useful for testing.
That is sorta where I loose it - that should mean that people who drinks lots of sugar would never be willpower deprived, right?

But they are not those most likely to loose weight.
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This mailing list post (and the Google IO video linked within it) is probably the closest thing to a roadmap that exists, though it's vague on timelines:

https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webp-discu...

I personally am relatively comfortable with Google's throw it at the wall and see what sticks approach. I understand that others aren't but hope that Mozilla engages constructively so that WebP improves in a measurable way even if you/they have no intention of adopting it.

The "we need it to sit in ISO committees for 10 years before we can even think about implementing it" approach reminds me too much of the bureaucratic process trolling that Microsoft are so good at. It's good trolling because it's also a natural response and vaguely professional sounding, while still probably being either non-productive or actively detrimental to the technical outcome.

Note that from my amateur readings (notably http://sites.google.com/site/dlimagecomp/ms-ssim-results) JPEG-XR seems to be suffering from the exact problems that WebP is alleged to have (i.e. being designed for PSNR to the point that it's actually worse than venerable JPEG in SSIM and subjective tests). JPEG-2000 seems to have the same issue to a lesser degree. If Mozilla can bring some automated metrics to bear on this (and any parallel JPEG improvements), and metrics seems to be one of your/their strengths, then I'd be very happy, since it seems the JPEG-XR and 2000 teams may have been misled by their own metrics. Having multiple eyes on the problem, particularly those looking to find fault from the outside, would be great regardless of whether the result is WebP being improved or scrapped.
Uh-oh. What's next? The API?
Back to Firefox, so long Chrome
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