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I understand that the media actually does that because if they don't they can get sued for libel if the person in question is in fact innocent. It's no great moral stand they're taking in applying the label.

Also, I agree that the legal system and suchlike should presume innocence, but there's no reason private citizens can't advocate their believe that someone is guilty as sin.
A heroic effort, that game deserves to be in the museum. Just brilliant.

That said, my all-time favorite is Heroes of Might and Magic 2. I always return to it, and am just overjoyed to see the open source project there.
> proven means of payment

Yeah, for example, a shared secret (credit card details; shared with everyone you pay to, or just a random guy behind your shoulder who had a good memory) is way better than Bitcoin's crypto.

And PayPal works only in some countries and is proven to sometimes ban upright accounts.

Are there any alternatives to Bitcoin, which are non-discriminating (in a same way paper cash is) and fairly secure to exchange online? I believe "real economists" had failed to provide any solution in this field.
What commodity-based currency has a "stable" exchange rate?
A further point is that digital distribution does NOT relieve the author of the responsibility to pare down a book. An 1800 page PDF is just as bulky and opaque as an 1800 page book, even though I don't have to lug the PDF around with me.
On a side note... this is great PR for Hidden. I just spoke to a friend in New York and she said that she followed a similar story there couple of weeks ago on Twitter. It could just be coincidence. None the less good to see the laptop recovered!
Rest in peace.

Ironically, the odds on an InTrade bet might have warned him that he was not expected to survive. The crowdsourced research about conditions and the likely physical ability of Mr. Delaney would have exceeded his own and might have led him to delay or reconsider the trip.
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More likely, institutions would license the patents and the field would move still move forward, just with more friction.
Nokia Calls Report of Microsoft Deal 'Baseless'
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That confused me too. But the silver thing on the couch isn't the Macbook, probably a remote. The laptop is apparently still open on a table or something while he is asleep and somehow catching him perfectly in frame (yes, I am still skeptical of this).
Why Do Companies Build Mobile Apps Rather Than Mobile Sites?
Well that's just irresponsible.
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I'm sorry for you. Many of his rants made me laugh to tears. And more generally, did "Learning Python the hard way" make you sad, really ?
With the iPad Still Winning, Non-Apple Tablet Makers May Be Slashing Production
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> Don't forget that when you have children you're not just propagating genes, but memes as well. Kids raised on Jersey Shore will tune in to Ow, My Balls!

...right, which would make it irrelevant whether high-IQ parents are having kids or not (they can still work as educators, scientists, leaders -- much the same situation as now), which in turn would make that opening scene of the movie a non-sequitur.

> These are messages about cultural priorities, not genetic limitations.

Yes, but they are also the only feasible remaining strategy left given the resources at hand at the end. IIRC, the lead character was tested as having the highest recorded IQ in the world, so it's not like his strategy for solving problems could be "go find high IQ couples and mate them in a high-IQ zoo".

Maybe I'm wrong. I only watched it once, back at a time when I thought the world was doomed and the movie was prophetic (so I didn't really pay close attention). OTOH, a quick search online finds that I'm not the only one that interpreted it this way, so at the least it was less clear than it could have been on this point.
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To me, it sounds like while its sending the BTC to you and the blockchain is being built/verified, the client somehow puts your wallet.dat in a limbo state where it doesn't have the correct data in it.

(I am not 100% how bitcoin works, but that's how I read it)
Too bad authors get paid by publishers by the number of pages, and publishers push the books to education, where the attention economy takes care of the rest.

Good thing that programmers are more often self-learned, which makes the problem relatively benign compared to say, economics books.
By stealing this Macbook you hereby agree to these Terms and Conditions which allow the rightful Owner of said Macbook to write and publish short stories and prose illustrated with your likeness captured by Hidden app.

"My name is Hernando. I have your bourgeois lap typing machine! I have it here, in my lair ... my love lair. So come and get it! Come, come here and taste death! I spit on your bourgeois typing machine! Pah! There! I don't want it! I don't steal because I covet! I steal for love. For PASSION. For the eternal animal within. AND ... why does this little dark circle above the screen keep lighting up? Um, maybe I should put a shirt on."
I emailed the author with a link to Ur-Quan Masters for Star Control 2!
I found Little Schemer to be too elementary. I feel comfortable with lexical scoping and recursion, I was actually looking for more meat (let vs. let* vs. letrec). I'd recommend "Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days".
That incident involved a tool called Prey.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/01182814258/one-ma...

Prey is free BTW:

http://preyproject.com/
I'm surprised that this feature wasn't in there to begin with. All social networking (which is primarily what Github is about - the source control really isn't anything new) should include bilateral confirmation.

What they've implemented is adequate, but I'd rather see something much stronger, like active confirmation from both parties before being added to a project.
You know how when you play things you played as a kid, they don't feel like you remember them, because your standards have unfortunately changed?

First programming I ever really did (in terms of understanding logic and its effects on end product) was Doom PWADs when I was a kid.

15 years later, I can get:

- Doomsday engine on my Mac

- 500MB of high-res textures hand-crafted to replace all the original walls and ceiling/floors.

- MD models for every object and monster

- High resolution re-sampled sound and music

- My original WAD - me and a friend made one of the largest (and highest tech - deep water, transparent textures on doors, invisible platforms) Doom II wads ever - lost it, but the internet still has thepath.zip

And play Doom II like I remember it, not like how it was.
If you have taken the NLP course, you can work in many interesting areas that have practical applications e.g. improving the performance of a Named Entity recognizer for web data, automatic classification of web pages into predefined categories, natural language parsing for grammar transfer in translation etc.

You should also learn some tools of the trade: regular expressions, machine learning, statistical methods, neural networks, minimum classification error training etc.
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In what country is this arrangement lawful and enforceable?
Why Bejeweled Blitz Remains Addictive
I think the point is that the GPL has hurt open source because of the businesses' reactions. Of course it's vaguely good when businesses learn to be careful with software licensing, but if being careful entails not using open source, open source loses /because of the GPL/.
Why Has H-1B Visa Demand Plummeted?
children learn to pronounce the th sound quite late. And this is generally a give-away for of non-native speakers

The working class accent for where I'm from (Dublin, Ireland), prounounces "th" as "d", so "the" can be said "de".

A german friend advised his mother (who's is an english teacher (in germany)) to teach her students this, since it's easier for germans to pronounce!
You can't (any more than you can know the actual amount of cash in circulation)
The next version of the Linux kernel will be declared v3.0
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In reality these bitbanks would probably have time delayed "safes" that only unlock the actual bitcoins after a waiting period. Transferring money between the banks, and even to prepaid visas would probably be done with reversible bank credit from one account to another. So the rouge employee is a minor issue whose cost could be absorbed into the profits of the bank. True, this isn't "real" bitcoins, but the system's pillars would be built upon something stable and (sort of) anonymous.

As for the massive hack scenario, the same fears of large scale loss hold true if someone hacks Dropbox or Facebook/Gmail and everyones files or personal messages get leaked. I would rather lose $1000 or even $10k than have my
Dropbox & Gmail hacked. Even in the extraordinarily unlikely case where cracker hackers get into the bitcoin equivalent of Citibank three thinks should happen: 1. Automated systems that detect higher than normal activity and begin immediate shutdown until the cause is resolved. 2. (Barring 1, somehow) Free market deposit insurance. 3. (Barring 2, somehow) A reversal of the block chain to some stable point.

Yes 3. would require a massive amount of consensus and the relative value of bitcoin would go down against USD, but I don't even think that is likely.

The mafia & gangs exist due to a lack of freedom and they have very little trouble moving money today. You can carry out millions of dollars fairly easily in jewelry already.

As for bribing politicians, that is an angle I haven't thought of before. I'll think about it, but I'll grant that it is a very valid concern, although synonymous with bribing politicians with expensive jewelry or art or transfer of anonymous investment corporations (Nevada iirc) or Bearer Share Corporations.

The biggest weakness of bitcoin in my opinion are some implementation details. For one, the way the difficulty rate for the miners is determined I can construct a scenario where a clandestine intelligence agency or a medium wealthy individual could take over the transaction history. By flooding a time window with gpus they could force the difficulty rate for the next time window way, way above the cost of electricity. Then they would have almost no competition in the next round because anyone with a utility bill would stop mining, so they would be left free to corrupt the block chain. The difficulty rate should have been a continuous function of the current hashing power.

Anyways, good debate. I have code to write, though. I hear you on a number of points (specifically the c compiler one, wow that is nuts), but they aren't enough to stop my libertarian nerd glee :)
Do you think it is understandable that someone might know all of the facts of the suit and still consider it a farcical lawsuit, if not a textbook example of one?

I ask because those facts are often presented with the presumption that the person crying frivolousness hasn't considered them before forming his opinion.
There is also a counterpoint book, by Anatoli Bourkreev, called The Climb[1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Climb-Tragic-Ambitions-Everest/dp/0312...
Except it's exactly my mattress, which I'll be hiding my dedicated device under.
Paris Hilton aún no supera el trauma del video íntimo publicado por ex enamorado
Please please don't put labels inside text fields. Once you've entered information you don't know which field it is, especially after you've filled out the entire form.
In these freelancer threads i always see a lot of SEEKING WORK but not much offers, wondering how the contractor doc performs...
Shens. Shame on BGR.
Who Is Going To Replace Google Translation API?
Busywork is not Fun [Game Design]
"Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy ( http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/ ) is an absolute gem, in my opinion.
Perhaps by spending the coin you put your backup copy of the wallet in a state where it disagrees with "the network". In which case he's making a very important point: backups are not enough, they have to be realtime synchronized backups.
You didn't take even a minute to think through before writing.

> And usually, there's considerable advance warning before attacks so you could prepare.

The key word is "usually". How usually is usually? When Nazis attacked the USSR, was there an advance warning? There was none. True, major attacks are rare, but when they do come, I would say about 50% of them are without warning. Yes, they are usually preceded by some diplomatic hostility, but not always. There were some 45 years of diplomatic hostility between the US and the USSR, yet there was no attack.

But the biggest thing you are missing is this: attacks on a major power by another major power are rare precisely because the country being attacked is a major power. Attacks of a major power on a minor country happen about every five years or so if recent history is any guide.
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If you are adding your own salts, you are doing it wrong.

There is no secure password storage scheme that doesn't randomize.

What you are saying is morally equivalent to "if you want to use a preexisting block cipher that's fine, but don't confuse people about the need to use nonlinear substitutions". No, if you are designing your own s-boxes you are doomed. Use AES.

This isn't worth arguing about except that you strike me as one of these people that think they're doing it right because they add salts to their hashes. No, you aren't.
Absolutely correct. There is no way you can lose your Bitcoins as long as you have a backup of your wallet. The only way to lose Bitcoins is to:

A. Send them to someone else, which will create a new block in the chain that is confirmed by miners.
B. Lose your wallet.dat completely and therefore your private keys forfeiting any way to access BTC that are yours.

A very legitimate way of backup up BTC is to just copy your wallet.dat and blockchain to a thumbdrive and store it in a safe deposit box offsite. If you ever lose your main computer for any reason, restore the backups from the thumb drive, let your blockchain catch up to current, and all your money is still intact.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I mean making it more clear in the UI that there's a separation between projects where you're a committer, and where you're just invited (to use another poster's words). If an (apparently) Github employee feels the need to wonder how often he's going to have to explain it, it seems that there exists a common confusion in the distinction.
I would assume that they are rare enough to make study easy.
If I were an intern, I would want to know, up front, what I was getting out of the deal. I suspect your interns know they're not going to get paid, but they should get something out of the deal. Are you giving them individual attention and making an effort to build relationships with these kids? That's a common benefit of an internship - connections. Are you giving them active technical guidance, helping them develop as engineers? That's another common benefit. Is GoRankem something I should have heard of that I haven't? Yet another benefit could be brand recognition on a resume. Tales of one former intern who got an equity stake of dubious value aren't going to set people on fire if you aren't able to scratch their immediate itch.

If I were you, I'd figure out what your interns want and make damn sure I was able to give it to them. Otherwise, you're going to get this tailing off scenario where the interns realize they're getting a raw deal and just make time until they get out.
Did you actually dive at sea? You may feel the narcosis at varying depths, depending upon the temperature, your fatigue and some other parameters. You may usually dive at 50m breathing ordinary air without problem, and some other day get completely stoned at 40m. This happens sometimes, particularly when you dive for the first time after the winter break for instance.
…in the (not unlikely) event that a malware incident on your machine…

I believe it's even worse than that. The normal instinct as shown by this response is to centralize security into a "super secure" bank. I think that's exactly the wrong thing to do. I would put some on a linux box in my closet, some on my mac, some on my flash drive, some on my windows PC. People would lose money all the time in a system like this but it would be better than having a big fat juicy target in one location.

I would be nervous living in a country where we're one data mishap away from not knowing who rightfully owns what, especially given our collective track record there. If people are serious about bitcoin, they need to get serious about adding identity into it.
PC rental company accused of spying on users via spyware and webcam
Pretty important distinction: The people reporting bugs probably aren't paying your salary out of their taxes, nor have they granted you and your team a monopoly on wielding the tools necessary to perform an essential service.
I've never heard a case where the do-or-do-not decision regarding a software project hinged on patents. That they are somehow needed to encourage innovation is a myth.

Besides, they're unfair. A typical software product might have perhaps 1% patented matter, and 99% copied from the "standard requirements" of the market segment it's in. The competitors spent the money developing the market to figure out that 99%, so if you use a quid pro quo measure then they have an automatic right to the 1% innovation the new player brings to the table.
Ha! nice work. Hope twiter fixes quickly.
Would it help if I linked to various Bitcoin forum posts where I found descriptions of these proposed transition plans? I don't have a very good feel for the reputability within the Bitcoin community, and I feel that simple technical reasons will limit the range of possible proposals.
That didn't take long. Just saw the original story about this this morning, predicting gloom and doom for this feature... And here's the proof of concept.