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Why make an unsubstantiated link between the hacking incidents and the South China Sea conflicts? The South China Sea has been a source of territorial conflicts though-out history.

In modern times there have been brief shooting conflict between China & Vietnam in 1974, and 1988 [1], and there have been numerous incidents since.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea#Territorial_cla...
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note that it's a draft and some pages are missing.

There is a course by one of the authors with good lecture notes: http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~vishy/introml/introml.html
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Ya, that sounds about right. The sad truth is that defending our cyber space, or cyber space in general, is a Sisyphean task. No one can do it, least of all the government. There are just too many vectors of attack and too many targets and, frankly, not enough people who know anything about cyber-security. Even people who do know about security are routinely hacked, see Google, RSA, Lockheed, et al.

The only rational way to combat catastrophic cyber warfare is to disuade our enemies from engaging in it. Some say it has worked for us before, MAD[0] (note section on criticism, which obviously plays here). As mentioned in the WSJ[1] a few weeks ago:

"One idea gaining momentum at the Pentagon is the notion of "equivalence." If a cyber attack produces the death, damage, destruction or high-level disruption that a traditional military attack would cause, then it would be a candidate for a "use of force" consideration, which could merit retaliation."

This notion that a cyber attack could result in a real military response must be delivered to the highest levels of decision making throughout the world. We can only hope that the message is received.

Obviously, we must do all we can on defense but no defense will be foolproof. It is just not possible. Stating our intentions in the event of a devastating cyber attack is the only real option we have.

Everything short of national catastrophe should be dealt with in other ways. Industrial espionage is a major consideration but that should be taken to arbitrage at forums like the WTO. I'm all for free trade and everything it has to offer as long as there is an even playing field. At the risk of conflating issues I will simply say that China's ongoing espionage is an extension of unfair trading practices that work to create an uneven playing field between them and everyone else.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

[1]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230456310457635...
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What? He didn't say anything about paying for Facebook. He was speaking about Color.
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I'm getting tired of hearing that same claim over and over again

"Apple’s second theory of exclusionary conduct claims Nokia falsely promised to licensepatents on FRAND terms, and that Nokia then breached this commitment by asking for “excessive” royalties during negotiations (ACC [DI 21]
¶¶ 68, 91). The sole basis for this allegation is that Nokia and Apple, years after Nokia made its declarations, were unable to agreeon terms. The counterclaim contains no plausible factual allegation whatsoever that, at the time that Nokia submitted FRAND declarations, it intended not to abide by them. Nor does it plead facts demonstrating any lack of obligation to or genuine interest from Nokia in negotiating a FRAND agreement. To the contrary, Apple concedes Nokia engaged in more than a year’sworth of negotiations with Apple and made a number of offers to Apple"

Starting at page 20

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28285432/Nokia-s-Motion-to-Dismiss...

I read that as "What? We're not going to pay that much for that. Doesn't matter if anyone else does. We're Apple. Screw you guys. We're going home."
I think you overestimate the prescience of these investors. They are probably very good at increasing their chances by investing in a lot of stuff and letting the winners run.
Not sure I agree with the rampantly offensive part. If I remember in Duke Nukem 3D there is a strip club level. I wouldn't call that the best way to represent the empowerment of women. Of course, that was never the intention of the series. The game is very conservative through and through. Duke even sounds kind of like Ronald Reagan.

On the issue of the gameplay, this game is really bad. It plays like a cheaper version of Doom 3(another poorly delivered, over hyped game). They really should have taken a look at Serious Sam if they want to know how to make an old school shooter nowadays. By the way Serious Sam 3 is going to kick some serious ass, unlike this game.
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An API would be amazing. Could make a service that tells you if any of your Flickr/dA/Picasa photos are being used anywhere else on the web, etc. I'd pay good money for that service (as a photographer who has had photos stolen/used-without-permission).
Is it just me, or does the top-voted answer -- from Mr. Patterson himself -- not answer at all the question of why there is a 14-year cycle?
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Are we at war with Pakistan and we do not know it?
Agreed. I have a background in mathematics and formal computer science, and a great grounding and feel for algorithms, yet I work as a product manager and hack on stuff in my own time; in fact, I think "hacker" was completely overlooked in this list.
What else would you expect a lawyer to recommend than something that makes lawyers money?

Should app developers with, for an example, revenues of $5,000 to $10,000 a year pay a patent attorney their entire annual income from their app for just a cursory (!) look at the issue (far from the cost of searching for prior art etc., which is way higher)? How practical is that?

Why doesn't the article talk about the cost of such legal defense and the risk of an East Texas jury handing a multi-million dollar damage award to Lodsys?

Why doesn't he compare the low cost of Lodsys's license for the average app developer to the cost of legal advice (let alone legal defense or damages ordered by a court)?

How can app developers without the resources in place to defend themselves ever even get to the point where they can seriously challenge Lodsys's claim chart?

How can one be not profoundly concerned when Lodsys sends a letter, given that Lodsys has already sued 27 entities and is embroiled in seven lawsuits in three different states?

And why does a self-proclaimed open source site like Groklaw promote a patent attorney who vigorously argues in favor of software patents on Twitter?

By the way, the same Patrick Igoe doubted in an email to me a few months ago that Nokia was in a position to turn Apple into the net payer. I predicted it in March, I reaffirmed that prediction in May, and I was proven right yesterday.
It's fun to bash something, but I think Color has a lot of chances left. They have a rockstar team and the money to support themselves for several years. Their current product isn't very good, but it's a mistake to write them off or call them "troubled" this early.
I can't possibly be the only one that read your text in a pitch perfect Paul Graham voice, can I?
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Between 2000 and 2010, computers should have gotten about 100 times faster (assuming speed increases by 2^(10/1.5) - yeah I know that's not really Moore's law, but let's assume it's almost reasonable).

Your server class SS20 was about 5 years ahead of commodity boxes. This was the days when servers (or workstations) were much faster than consumer boxes.

A computer these days will spend most of it's time at 1-5%. That's with a heavyweight OS, multiple applications open, and modern applications (which are not built to be frugal).

So, while your computer would be almost capable of running a modern workload. It would hang, now and then, if you tried compiling or running a badly written flash app, but otherwise would be fine.

Most of the last 15 years of performance gains have allowed consumer computers to catch up with workstations, made occasional tasks (like importing documents, and compiling small programs) almost instantaneous (rather than annoyingly slow), and allowed programmers to fill up the screen with eye candy.
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To elaborate with an excerpt from http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html:

"It's worth trying very, very hard to make technology easy to use. Hackers are so used to computers that they have no idea how horrifying software seems to normal people. Stephen Hawking's editor told him that every equation he included in his book would cut sales in half. When you work on making technology easier to use, you're riding that curve up instead of down. A 10% improvement in ease of use doesn't just increase your sales 10%. It's more likely to double your sales."
> The only rational way to combat catastrophic cyber warfare is to disuade our enemies from engaging in it.

Well, there is one other way. The Chinese have a proverb for it - "以毒攻毒". Fight fire with fire.

No doubt the Chinese government is doing the same sort of stuff to other governments as well. It may be possible to gain leverage with them by socioeconomically isolating by exposing their misdeeds. If we're good enough, we could even stir up foment within China.
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To ensure a heatmap does not “eliminate the element of time”, the heatmap could show later-looked-at spots with more desaturated colors.

Of course, this has the same problem as the main point – that you can’t tell whether a spot is medium-saturated because everyone looks at it in the middle of browsing or because some people see it at the beginning and others see it only at the end. Still, this problem, like the article’s, could be fixed by moultano’s suggestion of making a heatmap for the variance as well as the value.

Or you could sacrifice the display of time, and display variance as saturation – less-variant, more-sure spots would have more saturated colors. This would be easier to read than two separate heatmaps for value and variance.
All you had to do was use it, and you were hooked. As to the eventual size of Google, maybe not. As to the product, yes.

(And that might be a lesson to those guestimating future valuations.)
If they wanted to do that, then I don' think they would announce it.
Offering someone a bunch of private data, 0 days, credit card info, but then making it useless in a few hours because you announce it to the world, hardly seems like a viable/profitable business.
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From the article: "The targeting of specific U.S. officials is not something that a mere hacker gang could do."

This is patently false. Anyone could target a U.S. official, and many could even succeed. Nevertheless, the other arguments the article presents are sufficient to support its conclusion.
The English have a proverb - "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".

China spends a lot of time and money keeping their internet, um, secure.
I had to ask myself what MySpace was and clicked on the link to find out, then I remembered. Wow. It's like remembering that other old website Digg.

MySpace and Digg, now its Facebook and Reddit, what will it be next? HN still seems to be too intelligent for the main-mainstream to invade luckily.
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The pentagons posturing on using force in retaliation to cyber attacks, would be a hard sell [to the public] to ever actually perform one of these retaliations... Especially with such a prominent target as China.

Rather than an arms race in cyber-warfare, is it possible to work out why these attacks are occurring?
A militarily non-aggressive nation (outside of its own borders) continuously attacking external targets for no reason, feels like we are missing some of the story.
I think you're missing the point. It's not that the US doesn't spend enough time and money on security. It's that hacking a system is a lot easier than securing it. A hacker only has to find 1 hole to exploit - the security expert has to find (and secure) them all.
There seems to be something of a disconnect between the tech community and everyone else when it comes to Groupon. Investors clearly love it, it seems plenty of businesses are using it, and equally gazillions of people are buying them. I suspect, popular HN stories to the contrary, they'll successfully IPO later and won't collapse as fast as some hope.

Sure it's not for all businesses, and some will have a bad experience. Some business owners can't do math - some just aren't well suited to a group on model. Does that invalidate the whole company? I think not.

Sure, as a Groupon buyer you'll get plenty of deal offers for stuff you're not interested in. Well duh! I'm guessing that's been the case since day 1 anyway and it seems to be working regardless.

So why all the hate on tech blogs and commentaries? Might it be just a little bit of sour grapes? After all Groupon raised over a billion in capital (so if _I_ can't get a lousy million for my idea, what does that make me?) Worse most of the billion was not so much capital raised as a straight share sale. The reaction to other VC spends lately (notably the 40 million for Color) seems to fuel my hypothesis that most techies hate the success of others. They're playing this as some sort of zero-sum game.

It's also hard to get excited about someone else's success when it seems like such a simple idea. After all anyone can enter the same space - the barrier to entry is low (as plenty of clones will attest to.) But while clones always exist there is only one eBay, one Amazon, one Facebook, one Twitter. I suspect there will be one Groupon. As with most of these things, they're simple ideas, but require a lot of traction and good implementation to do well.

I say good for you Groupon. I say, let the seller of Groupons do the math before doing business, and let the buyers take advantage of what appeals to them. And maybe, just maybe, us techie folk could stand up once in a while, and say "well done" without begrudging them their success.

Of course Groupon might fail. Of course their IPO might suck. That can happen to any company. But we're acting like spoilt children, stamping our feet and complaining that life is unfair.
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Blasphemy will be illegal world-wide, soon.

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Some people mistake God for a network.

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>Microsoft has attempted to make a successful cloud platform - their commercials all proclaim, "To the Cloud!" - and yet, they fail, while someone else takes their technology and (potentially) succeeds.

I don't really think that MS has targeted Windows Azure towards the general consumer market, though. It's basically the same as Amazon Web Services. Apple using that tech gives them an incredibly strong marketing tool, especially for companies that are trying to decide between using Amazon or something else for cloud-based services.
Just to prove they can, perhaps.
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Oooh, I like that one. Simple and effective. And I wasn't aware you could use {content: attr(attribute_name)} to pull from the node.

This gives me ideas. Thanks for the link!
Lets just presume the web is simpler than app store installation, does that difference actually matter? I'd say it doesn't. As soon as you've reached a certain level of easy becoming easier doesn't give you as much gain. The advantages of native applications certainly outweigh the tiny extra work on installation.

App store installation does have one other advantage: a sense of ownership. The user feels they own the app rather than merely visiting it -- psychologically that is a powerful difference.
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If you look at Paracel Islands, yeah, maybe China's close to it. But if you look at Spratly islands, which are very much territories of either Vietnam, Indonesia or the Phillipines.
And China is to claim it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_China_Sea.jpg

Plus, the attacks happened around Spratly islands, 2 days right after Shangri-la Dialogue, with the participation of top military bosses, including Robert Gates, where China promised to use peace talks to resolve the problem.

My 2 cents here:

1. China has always been a world of its own, it acts by its rules and what it promises is just what is says, what it does is another thing.

2. China has become BIG, and worse, it IS aggressive. We'd better be prepared for a coming war, be it cyber or economical or traditional.

We might be under a much bigger threat than what the media could convey, like that picture by David Gothard
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AN742_clarke_D_...
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But typically those are taken with SLRs, which still take better pictures than phones or point & shoots, especially in low light. Plus they are still the only way (with a big lens) to get the shallow depth of field that people like.
Perhaps this kind of thing is going to eventually fundamentally change the way we build software? In most of the common development stacks is an afterthought if it's addressed at all. If even security "experts" are getting hacked something is deeply wrong.
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All those dollars aren't for equipment or even for salaries, they're likely for marketing/advertising in order to do a big rollout in the already crowded world of mobile social networks.
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Well, the difference is that when someone fires nuclear ICBMs everyone typically knows unambiguously where the missiles came from and where they went.

To me, drumbeating over hacker threats is just a preparation to give the government yet another carte blanche to do whatever they want. At some point, there will be a grave "cyberattack" which the government detects and there will be lies, lies, lies, and more lies about it, which nobody external will be in a position to contradict, and the government will take it as political justification for retaliating in whatever manner they wish against Iran, China, North Korea, or an as-yet-unnamed enemy of the day.

As a citizen of the USA, the only way I would be comfortable treating a "cyberattack" as an act of war is if there were some kind of transparent, independent, and obviously competent commission evaluating the attack, and I have no faith that such a thing would ever happen in the event of some attack on government information.