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and never tell the screeners anything its a massive waste of time (better to just make another call) and closes more doors than it opens.

If you're chasing big accounts, you're going to have to talk to the exec asst--thats different.
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But we're not talking about distinct sites -- if by "sites" you mean "domains", not "urls" -- we're talking about distinct webpages, or urls.

Even with 100 distinct webpages per day, my point is still valid -- fully half of positives are false positives. One could just as easily argue that the number of one malicious site per day is large -- it certainly is in my experience.

Also, Chrome isn't just for people at work; people use Chrome at home too. Especially early adopters, of which I imagine Chrome's audience is made up of in greater proportion than the population at large. Early adopters would view more pages than the average person anyway.
I'm curious about that sort of thing for offices too. But I'm also curious about a home version.

I've thought that it would be cool to equip the living-room screen (formerly known as the TV) with a camera and connect it with similarly equipped screens in the homes of members of my social network. Obviously a privacy mode would be there, but people in small towns and neighborhoods used to do all sorts of stuff out on their front porches (maybe they still do in places), basically advertising to other people they knew that they are open to some conversation. So there is at least a little reason to think people would turn on a "my available friends live" video channel. I'd like to break down the effects on my social networks which space unnecessarily imposes.
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Here's the thing: it's fiction, and short of Ayn Rand's speechifying characters, fictional characters aren't necessarily mouthpieces for the author, let alone reliable narrators.

Are you irked by the fictional father's mis-read of history, or by the fictional lawyers who distorted the truth to put together a micro-lawsuit for reparations? Or is your assumption that Paul Ford doesn't know what he's talking about?

(FWIW, I'm inclined to believe that the Congo reference is an unintentional sleight and a throw-away example used to make a few points about the reach of these micro-lawsuits rather than a troll, but I don't find that it detracts from the illusion because it sounds pretty representative of the understanding of the issue some upper middle class dad might actually have.)
We are gonna come out with http://myownstream.com :)
I don't really know what the normal level of secret activity is at Apple stores.

Why would Apple release an iConsole and not just add those features to the AppleTV?
A bit sad. I can understand the desire to prohibit the streaming of copyrighted material, but taking infringement of any sort (especially streaming media) to a felony level is a bit ridiculous. This is just lobbyist nonsense. You're elected to protect the American people, so do it.
Removal is still a problem, if the bill is referring to parents removing their older kids' accounts. Teenagers should have access to an online life that their parents can't just delete on a whim.
As a human being, it's hard not to be touched by that story.
The closer you get to the ideal situation with software IP law the closer you get to copyright style and the further away you get from patents. Software patents could work. It would just mean applying them more sparingly. You can patent the specific crank you've created, but not the whole idea of rotation.
I am against patents in general, and especially against software patents. I wasted a lot of time from ~1990 to ~2000 with RSA alternatives, and then there was the whole Chaum and Brands patent mess which was another bottleneck for anonymous cryptographic token electronic cash (think bitcoin but anonymous, and even better).

I am really kind of sad that I'll be getting some for my new company; it's a waste of $100k, time, etc., but it is the prudent thing to do.
The definition of downloading was written into law before streaming became widespread; likely, when the former was used to prosecute someone for streaming copyrighted material, the defense pointed out the inadequacy of the existing definition. There's a distinction in law between downloading in the sense of saving something to your hard disk and just having it in RAM. Obviously, if I go to your website and see something on my screen, I have 'downloaded' in some fashion, but if just passing through memory was considered a download then running a program or opening a file would be considered equivalent to making a copy.
I'd put my money on an entirely new Mac model. It's already known that the Mac Pro is being updated with a smaller form-factor, but there's still a space between it and the iMac that could stand to be filled. Something screen-less, more expandable than the Mini, but less powerful than the Mac Pro.
Automattic followed this practice and I think it worked quite well. When I was there, the company grew fast, but at least it was growing with known goods. When I'm back with Raffi Inc one day, I expect that I'll follow this practice too.
Yes you can. Lexus, J Crew, AMC tv and many others have proven you can. THe poor and tasteless go for the Crap while the wealthy/farsighted go for the quality/design.

Technology is an echo-chamber. Step outside it and look at what other people have done, then learn from their success.
I'm not sure if you can access its state programmatically, but Android already does detection: the WiFi status icon is green if the system can make a connection to Google's servers, and grey otherwise.

IPv[46] have nothing to do with it. "Captive portal" pages are meant to prevent you from getting to the larger Internet, until you do whatever magic is required to dismiss them.
Whereas "alarmists" were right:

March 27, 2011: "This all fits in well with my discussion Criticality Accident? Unfortunately."

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2011/03/worst-case-scena...
Yeah this is giving me new respect for Carmack. I'll definitively be buying Rage for PC as soon as it comes out (well was planning to do it anyway) I don't think I've missed a single ID software game except for like Hexen one.

I'm still amazed at how engine like the Quake 3 engine were scalling as computer got better. Some engine just stop improving with time but that engine just kept taking as much juice as it could from the machines.
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The fact that this law is being pursued in the interest of private corporations, namely the music and movie industries, makes the evil government conspiracy argument invalid.

This is about corrupt ineffective government, not evil mastermind government.
Would love to have a Ipad App for Shopify.
Approximately 2 millicolors, I think.
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why do they need to enter the console market? They already dominate the handheld market, which is a better thing to dominate. It may just be me, but I play games on my iphone far more often than I play stuff on any of my consoles.
sorry, i deleted my comment before (i thought) anyone had replied. i felt i was being too forceful without checking the facts, and i didn't have time to check everything.

for the record, my argument was that the real problem is not fact-based, but a social issue related to trust and transparency. a chorus of how wonderful nuclear power is doesn't address that; it just makes you look uncaring and out of touch.
To answer all of your questions: Don't use someone else's wifi if you don't like how it behaves. Your sense of entitlement makes me sick.
Don't try to get technical info from InformationWeek; link to the primary source (FTC complaint) or nothing.
If you're talking about small amounts ($200/month, not $250,000), then you really mean affiliate sales. Look at Dreamhost for a good example.
That's a meaningless argument. Any crime that draws a sentence of more than a year is a felony. It doesn't mean all felonies are considered equally serious, or that violence is an inherent characteristic of felonies.
While the Apple TV could certainly offer game features, its appearance doesn't appeal to the target audience (the Xbox and PS3 definately look much more exciting).

Therefore, Apple will probably have designed the iConsole in a somewhat more exciting look than the usual Apple products, which are all quite minimaistic (which I like, BTW).
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actually, Sex Pistols was more of a marketing project of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood :)
That wouldn't work so well for me because I like to keep my system configuration files like apache's in my configuration folder as well. But I can see why that approach appeals to you.
The article seems to be linkbait anyways, but if it were true I would be entirely against it -- I am just pointing out where the argument for home network monitoring falls short when both parties are aware of the monitor being there. I suppose the key to having one, for a parent, or for someone building one, would be to leave a kid completely unsuspecting.
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Why specifically were they trying to screw Adobe?
That would actually be very nice, it would be a nice upgrade from my old MacMini.

What I also like to see are non-glaring screen finishes as an option for the iMac models.
In response to this summary of FTC complaint, I'm just not sure how Dropbox have violated their agreement with the customer.

One of the strongly emphasised features of Dropbox is deduplication (i.e. so you won't need to re-upload massive files if someone else already has), and if you are particularly security conscious, presumably you would have made the effort to read about how Dropbox stores their files and considered whether this method was adequately secure for you prior to use.

I'm assuming the single key is related to deduplication, and although I don't understand why you couldn't simply store a key per user, I'm not even sure whether that would be more or less secure given that insiders with access to the encrypted files can probably also get access to the database of encryption keys.

As far as some select employees having access to your files, surely this is to be expected - the alternative is they get sued/charged by the authorities and are forced to implement an even more compromising solution than a couple of Dropbox employees having access (e.g. a backdoor for the RIAA).
Only JCrew is in a commodity market. Lexus is really more like Apple. While made by Toyota it generally have very different designs, for example the LS460. AMC TV is clearly not a commodity at all, even less so than Apple.

JCrew is clearly in a commodity market, but they're not exactly upscale. I'd consider them the $800 laptop. Not Walmart/Netbook, but certainly not expensive. And there are expensive clothing manufacturers, but there's a reason why Gap sells hundreds of millions in jeans, while $500 designer jean brands come and go like the wind.
I realize that a lot of people feel deceived, and they should have been much clearer, but isn’t this kind of expected? TomasSedovic and I have commented on this before, but I still think there are so many features that suggest that this is exactly how they protected files. Some examples:

1. While the various clients (desktop, iPhone, etc) could probably do per-user encryption, the web interface doesn’t spend a lot of time decrypting files in JavaScript (or Java or Flash or some other way of doing it).

2. Even large files can be instantly moved to “Public”.

3. The fact that it’s possible to instantly share an entire folder with someone else.

There’s probably some way to do each of these with proper encryption. For point 3, maybe having a separate key for each folder, then giving others access to that key when you share. And with some creativity there are probably ways to implement every Dropbox feature in a fully secure way.

But to someone who is somewhat familiar with security issues, all of Dropbox just “feels” like a service where they have access to everything (with proper access controls of course). Thoughts?

I’ve certainly been a lot more careful about what I put in my Dropbox, unlike Backblaze where I trust the encryption more (but not fully).
I would love to see this nationwide. Every time another 3" thick unwanted phonebook is left by my mailbox it just irritates the hell out of me. I can't believe there are still enough businesses that want to advertise in yellow pages to make it a viable industry for ONE providers, much less 3 or 4.
Possible vector for some sort of attack?
The ncsi service that requests www.msftncsi.com is presumably very simple, but then...
Why is it better to leave it open?

You both agree that there is major variation in how much "effort" goes into producing patentable work. Your problem is you want a very clear-cut definition specifying what is patentable, and since effort is hard to measure, you'd rather just throw out all patents. You assume this would be better than the current situation (which, I think, takes the other extreme - most things are patentable).

But why do you think the way you suggest is better? Just because the current system sucks?

(Forgive me if I misrepresented your argument).
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If it's perfectly reasonable, then I'd say it's not trolling.
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I suspect most of us are software developers and we are well aware that the patent process does nothing for us but punish us for innovating.

Those who profit from the current system will try to justify it by saying that it protects us (the developers).

Poll 100 developers and I bet you won't find a single one that has benefitted from patent protection, at least not directly.
"the WiFi status icon is green if the system can make a connection to Google's servers, and grey otherwise."

That's interesting. How does it detect it's at Google's servers?

I've often had occasions on my non-rooted, gingerbread, nexus one, where the phone believes it is on the net, on wifi, and shunts all activity to wifi, and yet, it's really stuck on one of those captive portal pages.

It even happens if I am just driving down the road.

I had thought that perhaps a small bit of technology would fix that, perhaps by turning the wifi off, or by automatically checking in on starbuck's router, but I am beginning to see I may just have a sick-making sense of entitlement.

Without being terribly cognizant of the RFCs I am surprised these portal captures are within spec.
Really depends on what you want to do with it, doesn't it? He mentions character limits in URLs as a motivation, and at reasonable lengths for that I imagine Maze62 in Python will be plenty fast....
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If you don't mind using - and _ then the implementation is very simple. I posted an example in Python and CoffeeScript to SO recently for doing this exact thing.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5940416/compress-a-series...

>>> bin_string = '000111000010101010101000101001110'
>>> encode(bin_string)
'hcQOPgd'

>>> decode(encode(bin_string))
'000111000010101010101000101001110'
Good post but I think you're probably wasting your time. If it makes you feel any better the Japanese public's reaction for the moment is basically 'Hmmm... we'll have to temporarily put off building a few of the reactors we had planned until we can better verify their safety.'
I'm a fan of that particular legal theorist, but I think you'll need to go a bit farther than merely mentioning the title, which refers to life in the USSR under communism. He's not saying that everyone in the US is actually committing 3 felonies a day, but rather arguing for tort reforms, better sunset provisions, and a more responsive legislative process. A great deal of law finds its way onto the books because 'it seemed like a good idea at the time,' and very often such laws are the result of populist pressure. Some are engineered by people with selfish motives, many are simply misguided.
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I don't really care whether Ayn Rand's an ignorant boob or his fictional character is. I'm an irritable man and I irk easily.

For example, I am irked every time I hear someone use the phrase '5 times more', because then I'm always left wondering if they whether they really mean '5 times as much', or '6 times as much'.
Yes please. Now I sometimes have to close the lid of my Air a bit to find a certain key with help from the glow from the screen.

That being said, I find the speed of the Air adequate for the stuff I do with it (development).
It might be easier to have a quota or a teir system. For example 3 sales/wk = $300, 6=$700, 12 = $1500 and so on. Most good sales people will quickly look in the middle and say, thats easy to hit--and then look at the top bumps and get excited. A good commission structure should allow you to hire many sales people at the same time (since you don't have to pay them if they don't do anything). However, if you don't have a good handle on what your costs are or how much profit each sale is worth you will bleed to death.
FYI, it seems to be known as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_applications
I'm not worried. Ars Technica digs up at least one of these scary bills going through Congress each year and nothing ever comes out of it. Our lawmakers may be in the pocket of big content, but they aren't stupid enough to pass something as draconian as this. The real things we need to worry about probably won't be as obviously draconian.
yo, no offense, but MIT is pretty much for fuckin retards.
If this is true... MS has failed. They know that WP7 is dead in the water. They cannot turn around and improve it quickly enough. They have no advantage and every month Android and iOS edge them out. But wait! They have cash! It is all so clear now! They can just buy themselves a successful smartphone platform. Take Nokia's hardware. Add Skype as a built-in killer feature. Mix in some cloud magic and viola! You have the iPhone/Android killer. I imagine that this will drag down everyone involved.
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They'll be able to come back within the year probably.

The land is not contaminated at all, and no one died, so no, it's not much of a disaster as these things go.
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Hmm. I must have been mistaken about the check fraud - or things have changed in the last 20 years.

disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct have a felony versions when weapons or drugs are present.

The point is, stealing $5000 is a big deal. Streaming $5000 dollars worth of unlicensed music for public performance could be a big deal too. However, i have a hard time believing a criminal court would value a streamed song at much more than a few cents each. You'd literally be streaming thousands of songs a day.

This isn't (afaik) streaming your stuff to your family, it's cloning pandora and not paying license fees.
You're right on DNS, I was not thinking clearly when I wrote that part. I will fix up the article.

The prime scenario that caused me to think about this problem is indeed URL components, and in particular object identifies for RESTful protocols.

The other thing I was thinking about were cookies values, which I have had problems with in the past.

EDIT:
The most annoying part about base64 is that different systems have different restrictions. With Maze62 I won't have to think about which system my data will end up in.
children have always had less rights than adults.

One of the things I've learned in the year I've been a legal adult is the amount of rights I suddenly was granted. It took a while for me to adjust to both the freedom, and the idea that I can actually screw up my entire life with just one/a few bad decision(s).
MIT is great, if by great you mean it fucking sucks.
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It serves approx 32 bytes but it serves it to such an enormous number of machines that I have been curious as to how it is set up.

Netcraft says:
F5 Big-IP	Microsoft-IIS/7.0 213.199.181.90

But I am curious as to what the real details of the setup are.
Hey I've been using fitocracy for a few weeks now (same username) and I'm wondering if theres any plan to add extra functionality for groups?

I believe (could be wrong) that there isnt actually a point to groups other than seeing each others updates. Are there any plans for group leaders to create their own quests for members or anything like that?
I don't really think BitCoin will be made illegal, simply because there's no real reason to do so. As a concept, I find it interesting; however, I consider the execution to be flawed in several ways (namely the entire concept of mining).

In order to become a force which could get attention, BitCoins would need to be used en masse for nefarious or questionable purposes (the definition of those being whatever politicians decide they are). Right now the volume is extremely low and quite frankly you're not going to conduct large scale illicit activities in that system easily. If it hits $50bn in volume however, then something might happen.
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Looking at the other side of the view. What I am trying to tell someone in this blog post is that there are cheaper options while you look at programmers.
I have personally hired a team of 3 developers who have developed softwares for me (to automate few tasks) and they costed me a total salary of 1200$ which any native person from the west would had charged me atleast 3x the same amount.
Since, there are other options ofcourse and if any developer who reads this post will under value outsourcing or systemizing the work in this manner.

Anyways, for those looking for some open suggestions. I just did that. :)
I expected disagreement, but didn't expect it would be so strong as to lead to down votes without discussion.

I am not trying to 'troll' anyone here, but I think if you look at the truly innovative business processes, technologies, and sheer inventions, Nokia as a company has Apple beat hands down over the last few years.

Yes, in some sense, building a better mouse trap is innovation, and no one can deny Apple's success as a company especially over Nokia's, but I would still strongly contend it has more to do with sheer execution and market positioning over sheer innovation.
I see your point but one could ask is experience as important as vision and drive? If they were to open it up they would then be inexperienced engineers trying to learn to manage a community of engineers.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible to do in anything less than square time, but I don't have the prof with me.
Can you expand on that?

How is my wanting to either turn my wifi off, or automatically checking a terms and conditions box at a starbucks, or library, or school, or courtroom, or hospital router demonstrating a sick making sense of entitlement?

I would think many people would want such behavior from their phones, but I can see that you and whomeever voted my original question down are genuinely disturbed I would want this.
I'm not sure the "evil government conspiracy" argument and the "evil corporations conspiracy" argument are mutually exclusive. In Atlas Shrugged (I know, it's terrible that I suggest anyone actually read that book, but bear with me) the problem is almost exactly as you observed: Some companies are able to write the law, and everyone else loses.

I've spent a fair amount of time around left/right libertarians and anarchists, and it bothers me that they spend so much time debating this. One side will say "The problem is the evil corporations," and the other will say "The problem is that the government has too much power," but the argument is pointless because they are both correct.