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> An uptick in users installing adware on their computers (yes, you have to manually install it) is a far cry from having a platform blighted by drive-by infections and autonomously spreading worms as Windows was in years past.

Well yes, but lately how are these drive-by installations happening? Mostly through holes in third-party software. My concern, as a Mac user, is that there's no fundamental reason it should be any harder to attack OS X this way; it's just that up until now Windows has been a vastly more profitable target. And that is changing.

If you're a careful and conscientious user I'd honestly say you're safer on Windows at this point, because Windows is used to being attacked. It's used to defending itself against this kind of threat. You have this ecosystem of powerful antivirus programs like MSE or AntiVir that update themselves constantly, and innumerable other third-party tools such as Secunia PSI as preventative measures, and these just don't really exist on OS X yet. Windows also yet has some exploit mitigation facilities that OS X lacks, such as ASLR and kernel patch protection.

It will be a while before OS X has developed such an ecosystem of its own, and we just have to hope the adjustment period won't be too painful.
Learning as we know it will be going the way of the dodo.

Software eventually will be good enough to take over and mass customization will produce unparalleled results for a fraction of the cost.

Life as a kid is about to get a lot less boring.
I spent some time as a contractor working for a "Social/E-commerce" startup. They were heavily customer development driven and found out early on that chasing after Blippy, and similarly Swipe.ly (who was doing the same thing at the time but looks pivoted now) would be a waste. They found this because everyone (potentiel customers) they talked to showed no signs of interest in the idea at all.
As the userbase here tends towards software-based startups, people often forget that there are many markets where becoming a seller requires very large initial capital.
Here is a link to the commenter's full comment: http://lwn.net/Articles/441867/

He's precisely considering your 16-core case. Now think about what happens when your dataset grows and you need more cores than you can reasonably fit in a single machine.
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That link is not helpful in that it does not remind people the shocking reason WHY they terminated her account. One might think she actually did something bad. What happened is that other people ganged up on her apparently when she disagreed with the audacity and hypocrisy of them praying for someone's death.

Much better summary: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20101116.html

Not sure why bipolar comes into the question, what they did to her was wrong and I am not sure why the secret service did not investigate the original posts she was disagreeing with.

In the end though, people are always better off WITHOUT a facebook account.
Neat! Distributed computing with JS is an awesome tech trick, some friends and I did something similar back during Node Knockout (MapRejuice: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/maprejuice).

Curious to see what you guys think of the ethical side of it though - do you let this run on mobile, etc? This will almost definitely cause extra battery drain on mobile devices, you think it's fine to have this happen without user consent? ;)
Not only that but Microsoft has an anti-virus anti-malware application. AND as part of Windows Update they regularly run the malicious program removal tool.

And I suspect MS would ship antivirus built into Windows if they could. Unfortunately, antitrust makes packaging things that make sense a non-starter if other companies sell it.
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Well, those who considered themselves to be "building socialism" killed 100 million people and drove their nations into poverty. Would you agree that China only emerged from this situation by embracing a fairly strong pro-business ideology?
Jonathen Lebed:

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Same deal here. Ironic that a discussion about the coming nonlinearization of learning is only linearly accessible.
Negative. You miss the entire point of the article.

Why are people consuming 6000 calories? They are always hungry and eat too much food.

Why are they always hungry? They eat and drink too many carbohydrates. Too many carbohydrates leads to high blood sugar which leads to too much insulin. After the insulin does its job, the blood sugar crashes causing hunger. The cycle repeats, causing problems including insulin resistance, excess fat storage and type 2 diabetes.

What is the solution? Don't consume carbohydrates and avoid the hunger/sugar/insulin cycle.
Agreed, it is far from the future of super computing. But it provides an interesting first iteration for a potential future model of income off of websites.
That doesn't make sense, bitcoins relies on insufficient processing power with cryptography to generate bitcoins.

You could just set up your own IRC server.

Or if you want to go fancy (locally): http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY
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way, way less than 10mhash

s/mhash/Mhash/
this is awesome! it's really very close to a native experience (on iphone 4 at least). my hat's off to mr hewitt. for a comparable experience check out gmail in mobile safari, it's also very convincing.

apologizing for my ignorance, does anyone know for sure why these libraries are necessary? it seems like it wouldn't be hard to offer a standard way (or even a meta tag, i appreciate that pinch zooming is a reasonable default) to get smooth accelerated scrolling of fixed and/or overflow:auto containers.
I don't think the fundamentals are sound here. Advertising spurs commerce, which creates value. This wastes electricity, slows down users' computers, and does no valuable computation.

It seems closer to stealing from your users (with enormous inefficiency) than something that creates any real value.
'but lately how are these drive-by installations happening? Mostly through holes in third-party software'

nope. by the user running an installer when requested by a browser ad popup.
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for now.
webcl support is not far off, and that's when this could get quite interesting
Ah, time for one of my favorite lines...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

> An argument that appears to be scientific is said to be not even wrong if it cannot be falsified (i.e., tested) by experiment or cannot be used to make predictions about the natural world. The phrase was coined by theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or sloppy thinking.[1] Rudolf Peierls writes that "a friend showed [Pauli] the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli remarked sadly, 'It is not even wrong.' "[2]
If you have an average consumer box and leave this running during the day, a few USD a year at current exchange rates.
Actually, regular CPU miners are nearly 1,000 times slower than GPU miners. I wouldn't be surprised if a JavaScript miner was several orders of magnitude slower than that (ie. a million times slower than GPU miners).

What about using gamers' excess GPU to mine Bitcoins in an installable massively-multiplayer game? Is anyone trying this?
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The purpose of innovation is only to relieve pain? Seems rather bleak.

And if we don't know that we have the problem, how are we supposed to find out besides speculating and experimenting?

I'm sure Blippy thought they were improving people's lives somehow. They just guessed wrong. It happens.
Apple lies about the capability, strengths, and shortcomings of their products all the time, and have done so for as long as I can remember. It just seems to be their standard practice.
Using http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php :

On my computer (netbook running Chrome in Ubuntu), bitp.it clocks at 2.2khash/sec. Using this, I'll give 2000hash/sec/user as a conservative estimate.

If you had 1M daily visits, averaging about 1 minute of interaction (high, but assuming you have long-form content), you'd have 12000Mhash/day, or about 2.77Mhash/sec.

Plugging this in with current rates, this ends up being $0.08/day. For 1M views. This is about 3 orders of magnitude lower than just AdWords.
... the platform with one of the best security track records running.

Have you forgotten that Darwin is by and large derived from BSD? Apple is standing on the shoulders of giants with this one.
Oh they absolutely would. Heck, Windows Defender is the same engine as MSE, they just had to limit its functionality to keep from getting sued. They were even threatened by the third-party antivirus companies when they promoted a link to MSE in Microsoft Update.

But hopefully they can take a more proactive course now that the DoJ's oversight is ending:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/04/department-of-...
while i agree that there are ways in which native user interface controls are currently more compelling than their web alternatives, shouldn't we all be diligent in hoping for and working towards the end of that situation? it might not be as impossible as it once seemed, they're doing angry birds in a browser now!

either way i can't imagine that an iOS monoculture in high-end mobile applications really serves anyone but apple in the long run. i think there's a general consensus that it didn't work out that well with windows, and there's arguably a lot more at stake this time.
> and hopefully the antimalware situation on OS X will improve before progressively

I don't think antimalware is anything I'd ever want to run on a computer I control. Unfortunately, I think we're being pushed into a world where all applications are vetted and purchased through a trusted marketplace, eliminating this vector.
Looks promising! It doesn't work properly yet on the Droid Incredible, but I'm sure he'll work out the kinks.
By your logic gold mining is overrated, too.
The other big thing that people end up missing is that most of your weight isn't from the food you eat. That's just where the energy came from. Your weight is oxygen / carbon / water / etc.

Also note: a giant tree doesn't dig out a giant hole where it grows in the ground. The dirt isn't the bulk of the tree's wood.
Libraries like these should not be necessary, but since Apple has not implemented proper scrolling of elements and iframes, we're left to do it ourselves. Perhaps iOS 5 (just two weeks until wwdc!) will solve the problem and make this project obsolete (I hope so).

Even if they do, libraries like these may still be necessary for more advanced scrolling mechanisms like those that snap to page boundaries or involve scrolling/zooming hybrids (like photo viewers common to many apps).
Why not embed a Bitcoin miner in a regular, installable MMO game and use their GPU? A single gamer's GPU could be worth more than thousands of casual gamers' browsers. Also, MMO gamers can be just as "dedicated". Bonus points for using Bitcoins as an in-game currency.
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This isn't about an exploitable, remote attack vector. This is about giving someone instructions on installing software to hijack their computer and them willingly complying.
Be self taught, or study psychology.
I imagine Android could easily display Activity switching and Activity Stacks as webOS-like cards. RIM engineers quietly admit they stole the PlayBook's app switching GUI from webOS cards.
> nope. by the user running an installer when requested by a browser ad popup.

I agree that this is how most malware happens in general, but I was talking specifically about the subset of malware installations that are drive-by downloads, i.e. which are performed without user interaction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download

What I mean to say is that most of those are exploiting third-party software (Java, Adobe Flash and Reader) rather than Microsoft stuff these days.
As far as I'm concerned, when I read this I had no problems with what Apple is doing. They got a memo stating that Apple is looking into it, and don't confirm/deny malware.

That's what they're supposed to do, no? This is hardly a cover up. Apple is simply reminding their support staff to not make promises they can't keep. This is a holdover till they have a solution. If their permanent solution is a cover up, that's a whole other story.
FWIW, it's about an hour. That said, I agree, that's really annoying.
Vimeo offers one the worst video experience for people in 3rd world countries like me with slow connections. Even if I opt out of HD it's still very slow and I can't skip or come back to a moment in the video so I have to reload the whole thing, horrible. With youtube I can switch to the 240 resolution and skip and bookmark to anywhere. Please use youtube instead, it's just an interview, I don't care about the picture quality.
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But who would get the coin?
> I don't think antimalware is anything I'd ever want to run on a computer I control.

Why not? I mean this as an honest question.

EDIT: If you're concerned about performance or system resources, try a PC with MSE sometime, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how unobtrusive good antimalware can be.
"after two or three rounds" : What does it mean?
Amen. You spend, on average, say $1-$10 to acquire a customer, but you lose them in a dramatic, angry, disgusted fashion by trying to steal $0.000001 from them.
WebCL makes about as much sense as AwkOS.
Not according to cost/benefit analysis.
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Honestly, I'd consider getting a subscription just for this:

"When I was at Amazon, we used a squid reverse proxy ..."

"Dan, you were an ad sales manager at Amazon."
Thanks very much for those additional details on this case. The original article's viewpoint seems to be suggest that a crazy person sued Facebook for frivolous reasons and the judge rightly dismissed the case. But that's not what happened at all.

The article you link to has such an astonishingly different viewpoint it's almost unimaginable that both articles are talking about the same case, situation and person.
And you get tons of angry visitors.
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Tyler is the county seat of Smith County; that's why it has 100,000 people. For comparison, the Tyler/Longview (nearest city of size that isn't a suburb of the other) area has about 415,000 people. The population of the next-nearest major area in Texas? Dallas/Fort Worth at 6.6 million people. The question of what makes up "small town America" is somewhat fuzzy, but Tyler, compared to an 70 minute drive (not at all unreasonable for a state the size of Texas) west, fits the bill.

The other point from anamax about the city slicker teaching the yokels how it should be done is very apt. There is a reason why hackers gravitate towards Silicon Valley: people like to be with other people who are doing the same thing. Tyler is by no means dumb. As the author--who admittedly also posted here that he didn't want to debate the article--points out, there are two universities (University of Texas-affiliated, I might add) and two junior colleges. The area is also home to pipe and robotics companies. It is also very insular, especially when it comes to "being shown how things are done" because the Dallas area has been the older, wiser brother to Tyler for decades.

Oh, and "nothing about local politics?" I guess the reporting from KLTV, the oldest television station in Tyler, doesn't count.[1]

1 - http://www.kltv.com/category/74361/politics
In the 60s everyone thought that expert systems were the future and if we could just figure out all the right rules we could do anything. In the 90s the pendulum swung all the way towards the kind of statistics/calc based learning that they are complaining about here. It already came back a little bit when people realized that you should always exploit domain specific knowledge as much as possible if you expect to get good results.

It seems like a lot of whining to me without any real grounds or ideas about alternatives. Not even any real direction about research, just "we want groundbreaking and prolific results instead of incremental research!"
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This might be possible; it's similar to Namecoin. I'm not sure how you'd create the incentive to mine, though.
fantastic work and thanks for the quick reply. i'm eager to show this to some of the guys i work with as they're working on similar stuff. http://www.npr.org/webapp loaded on an ipad 2 is pretty slick, particularly in terms of multi-finger scrolling.

i'm sure i speak for a lot of people when i say thanks for working to advance the prospect of truly first-class web applications on mobile. these are exciting times!
These pearls of wisdom are no less than PG's essays. What I find most impressive about his wisdom is that it had withstood the test of time....it's not just about finding the next big idea and executing it when you are 20/30 something and then do what? It goes much more deeper than that. It is about how to maintain genuine interest in programming, over a period, measured in decades(spanning all different type of envmts) and not years/months...To me that is the ultimate measure of success(for a hacker atleast).
Let's say you earn a percentage for running the screensaver.
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I agree... although it would be nice if they would step up for their customers in this regard, I just don't see a scandal here. (That's just The Register's style of reporting I guess, not to diss them or anything.)

However, the letter itself is interesting in that it confirms Mac malware is becoming a real issue.
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Thanks for your feedback.

You raise a really good point. We want our content to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible.

We'll look into switching to Youtube as our video player.

Thank you : )
Well, Markdown to LaTeX is possible in pandoc. Otherwise, you could just write in org-mode (which supports many of the features of MultiMarkDown, if not all) and export it.
Why is the focus on the "terminal" as an application? This isn't about the terminal; it is about changing the convention by which many small programs interact with one another. To fetishize the "terminal" aspect of this is to ignore the fact that these tools are used most often in non-interactive ways. Should these tools use a different contract? Maybe. There have been much better thought out attempts to do so.
I live in Madison right now, and I fear that I'm being spoiled on good beer. Between New Glarus, Capitol Brewery, Ale Asylum, and Lake Louie the selection is amazing.
I went down to Orlando for a conference not too long ago, and found that the only thing drinkable to me was Guiness.

When I went to London a couple of years back, I found that the beer was actually quite enjoyable, though I can't remember which beers I had while I was there. (More as a result of time rather than of the beer)
I wonder when will the bitcoin mining viruses appear. If done stealthily they could use spare resources and fall back when other GPU/CPU intensive task is launched. Such virus could be quite profitable if it spread widely enough.
I'm not sure I follow you here.
Aside from a medical condition you're not gonna accumulate water. And I'm not sure " breath less" would be a popular or effective diet technique.
Yes, your body needs water and oxygen as part of using food, and turning into muscle or fat, but it's the food that does all the damage. A very brief evidence of this fact are those that exercise all the time (hence have both elevated breathing and water intake, and yet don't gain weight.)

Regarding the tree, you're absolutely right. If only you were a tree that would be a useful comment. Unfortunatly the metabolic process of a tree (all plants) is different to that of an animal. A plant requires water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. Throght the process of photo-synthesis (which only plants can do) carbon is removed from the atmosphere using sunlight as the primary fuel. So, if you like a plant "breaths" sunlight, "eats" air and defecates oxygen.
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Malware might bring money in, but that doesn't make it a business. You can't exactly corner the market or rely on word of mouth; your targets are largely random and diverse. When you have a random choice, the only rational decision is to pick the most likely option: Windows.
Amended complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49805523/Young-v-Facebook-Inc-Amen...

aaaagh my eyes

The actual issue seems to be in paragraphs 69-70 - as she hit 5000 friends Facebook advised her she had to set up a 'public figure' account that would give her less access to others' personal information than a personal account would. This was apparently such an injustice that she had to jump in her car and drive to California, a journey which proved fruitless when she failed to make any personal contact with Facebook about her problem. There's also the thing about a petition to have some anti-Obama page removed, but as far as I can tell this is incidental to her complaints about the lack of ADA accommodation.

At first I thought it was a shakedown but the more I read the more confused she sounds. Poor woman, she needs a psychiatrist more than a lawyer.
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I am no psychic, but seriously - when this came out I knew, I said to myself "this is retarded, this is going to fail -- too many people are actually afraid to let people know what they spend money on - how much they have."

I am not surprised at all - and honestly, I think that a service like this adds absolutely nothing to the world.

What value would this add? Clearly - nothing.
Any hints?
Joe has done some amazing development in his time. But, honestly, that page was a real eye sore on my phone. It ran like crap.
If such a notable engineer can only develop an app of lacking caliber with the html/javascript, what does that say for web development on mobile?

PS, yes, I'm that Koush of Android. I'm a little opinionated when it comes to mobile development. :)