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Anyone know if this update applies to Google Voice? And whether it will now be possible to initiate a standard RTP stream via XMPP? That would make SIP interoperability with Google Voice practical. At the moment it's held back by the fact that Google Voice requires some custom ICE packets to be exchanged on the RTP sockets before it will commence sending RTP. Which means there are no SIP clients that can talk RTP with Google Voice when the call is initiated over XMPP :(.
How often is an individual sued by a corporation on a free speech case, compared to the number of times individuals sue corporations because they've been harmed? I'd guess that ratio is something on the order of 1000 to 1 or more in favor of individuals suing corporations. Unless you're Oprah, it's pretty unlikely that a corporation is ever going to sue you for something you say.
And if he needed money, he could take out a HELOC for a few million on the place. Or a reverse mortgage. He's wealthy.
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Did you get the feeling before from your time there that they were this kind of people?
Truly amazing things take a while to do. I think most people will attest to doing a bunch of experiments to test the waters before they dip into doing something crazy and hard for the long run.

Even that simple example of buying the diner so they add hash browns to the menu is a good example of that. Buying a building, not to mention one already occupied, is not exactly a 5 minute transaction. I think it just comes down to the fact that rich people tend to understand the relationships between time, money and potential returns.
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Well, you're obviously not going to take my word for it, nor would I want you to, so please do go and read up on some of those other ideas. You're quite right that it takes more up-front work in a process like Cleanroom, but some of that can be repaid in practice in quicker testing cycles before shipping and in keeping delays to fix bugs fewer and shorter. But as I said before, please don't get too attached to Cleanroom or any particular figures I've mentioned. They're just examples, to try to demonstrate that some popular assumptions don't always stack up when faced with the facts.
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Nit: Employees don't vest stock. They vest options.
When I played Runescape, we had similar massive riots over the removal of free trade and the old pvp system (wilderness pking). The pkers were on average decidedly less mature than the average player, so there was really poor communication from them, but also from the company Jagex, who struggled to explain the 'why' behind the changes.

Can anyone who plays Eve comment on how the company is responding?
That's a good point, but I think it's a similar issue to computer security. Yeah, changing your SSH port to a custom one isn't going to keep out someone who scans your ports, but it will keep out the millions of losers who are looking for easy prey and not bothering with a portscan. With each security measure that is potentially crackable, but harder, the pool of crackers that are going to put in the effort gets smaller.
Wow. Interesting that I was downvoted. I wonder why?
Change is painful! However, for some, so is learning to ride a bicycle without training wheels. And I say this in all seriousness.
Yeah, the demo is probably not good at all. But in terms of building up a few hundreds likes in order to get social proof for later folks, it's an option at least.
I just made it up, but others have probably noticed it. Insurance contracts (in the US) seem to always start at "12:01 on January 1". For some reason, our legal system can't get its collective head around the idea of "midnight" being the dividing line between two days and belonging to neither. I've heard there was actually a supreme court ruling that a street sign which read "12:00" was ambiguous. One of those things someone told me that I'm not sure to believe. "12:01" isn't any less ambiguous than "12:00" in that respect, yet it still seems to be used for some reason.
A lot of fraud has been perpetuated by people shaving fractions of pennies off payrolls etc. Of course it adds up, and nobody's going to be rounding down anything. If a product costs 1.37, you will pay 1.37 with a credit card, and 1.40 with cash. And yeah it's the blue collar slob with two bankruptcies whose going to get his pennies shaved off.
I think your comments just help the argument: directly comparing mobile app usage to web apps is like comparing apples to oranges unless you figure out what to do about games. The fact that I now spend 10 hours a day playing tetris on my iPhone instead of my GameBoy, my Super Nintendo, or even my desktop PC (whether native, JavaScript+Canvas, or Flash), says very little about the argument most people are having when trying to compare "mobile vs the web".
Maybe different lists can be prepared for different career tracks. The items enumerated in the main article obviously has a Web development feel to it. For perhaps another track, I feel that the following tasks, actually performed by someone, can be re-formed into a similar list.

* modifying the Linux implementation of strace to implement system call interposition for CDE

* modifying the official C implementation of the Python interpreter to create IncPy and SlopPy

* prototyping Python interpreter extensions by hacking on PyPy, a Python interpreter (written in Python!)

* enhancing Klee, an automated test generation and bug-finding tool based on the LLVM compiler infrastructure (written in C++)

* performing quantitative data analysis using SQLite for data storage and retrieval, Python for ad-hoc data munging, and the R project for statistics

* creating lightweight interactive data visualizations using HTML and JavaScript with jQuery

* writing lots of Python scripts to automate routine tasks and to administer computational experiments

* writing a custom memory allocator for C programs

* creating dynamic program analysis tools in C using the Valgrind code instrumentation framework

* building components of a software simulator for semiconductor tester hardware using C++ within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

* creating an interactive image filtering application in C++ using OpenGL and GLU for image rendering and Qt toolkit for GUI.

* building graphical applications for Palm OS handheld devices in C using the Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDE

* writing a GUI for a handwriting recognition application in C++ using the Qt GUI toolkit

Programming, and indeed all of computer science, is a very mixed bag!

Source: http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/academic.htm
Also, the time it takes to keep people accountable. It's very easy to be taken advantage of in any business relationship if there is a lack of oversight. My friend's cousin stole tens of thousands from his business over years before the paper trail caught up to her.
That doesn't work when most hardcore Eve players aren't paying for it in cash, they pay for their subscription with in game currency.
Okay - but what if the argument is literally "I can't - the keyfile is lost"

or

Ignoring the details of this case, what if the court is ordering you to decrypt something that isn't even encrypted? It's just random data? They assume it is. You assume it isn't.

I suppose in this case, the fact that the someone of authority already saw unencrypted contents gives them enough reason to be confident the drive is encrypted and the defendant has the ability to decrypt it.
The illustrations look like they were made in MS Word 97.

The first tutorial, "Version Control System (VCS) Requirements: What every VCS must do" looks more like a rough outline of a first draft than any comprehensive introduction that would make sense to a beginner.

I find the other sections to also be generally incomplete.

Maybe this will get better, but I'm not going to point any newbies there given better options right now (like http://gitimmersion.com/ ).
Look at who pays the bills at Reason. That's who would benefit from any policy recommendations they have. "Fair" has nothing to do with it.

If you want to make it "fair" then reform the rules to where no party to a case can spend more than the other. If I bet my friend that I and a friend could beat him and a friend a two-on-two basketball, and he shows up with Kobe Bryant, would that be fair? What if that bet stated that the loser pays the bills for dinner at the winner's choice of restaurant? Is that fair? Yes, it would be a stupid bet to make. But the proposed policy change makes that bet no longer a choice but a matter of law.
I don't think you've listened enough, because 37signals has stated repeatedly that it prefers customers to outgrow the services (as is your case) than to intimidate new customers.
There's been a large influx of food trucks appearing over the past few years. PBS's Need to Know did a story about it in October 2010 (~8 mins):

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/street-smarts-t...

Restaurants hate them, since they don't have to pay the overhead of rent/property taxes. Plus, they can park directly outside a restaurant and steal their business. No need to deal with any landlord. It's getting political though; brick & mortar restaurants are very much against them for obvious reasons.
I'm pretty sure the IRS cares though. GAAP don't allow you to just adjust numbers.
Video here http://thedailywh.at/tag/emily-good/
This looks very interesting on a technical level, but I'm not sure it really solves the problem of people using bad passwords, and it has some serious usability problems.

As far as I can see, this method is likely good enough to help in cases where people choose short but otherwise good passwords, but not in cases where people just plain choose bad passwords. Computers are getting increasingly good at solving captchas, and you can get human-solved captchas done very cheaply [1]. When the most common passwords are in use by more than 1% of your users [2], just trying those and using a combination of heuristics and cheap human labor still gets you a pretty large number of compromised accounts.

Even in the cases where it works, though, it comes at the cost of a really awful usability problem: users need to read and retype a long random string from the captcha every time they log in, and people hate catpchas. That alone is likely to prevent this being used in any application that depends on getting traction with a large number of users. Slow hashing algorithms like bcrypt or scrypt do a good enough job of protecting short-but-good passwords for most purposes.

The only cases where I can see this being actually used are in applications with very high security requirements, where people have no choice about whether to use the application, and where there are mechanisms in place preventing very bad passwords from being used. However, high-security applications are likely to have much lower traffic, which means that setting a very high bcrypt or scrypt work factor will accomplish much the same thing. That might take a bit more computational power for the application server, but if the traffic isn't very high, that cost isn't likely to be an insurmountable obstacle, and then you get to avoid all of the usability headaches that complicated captchas come with.

[1] http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/08/price-captcha

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-med...
This was a great letter, and Drew handled this perfectly. I am impressed.
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In EVE (and many other MMOs), unsubscribing doesn't immediately deactivate your account, it just stops adding time to it. Quite a few players have unsubscribed. By using their remaining time to protest ingame, they're ensuring that other players see their protest, not just CCP.
Different-sized notes also defeat counterfeiters who bleach smaller denominations and print a higher one.
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I'm a (retired) director of one of the larger corps in EVE, and I've been discussing the points of contention with members today.

Most of it stems from the fact that those rioting feel the prioritization of the walking-in-stations expansion and the addition "vanity items" is poor judgement. There are bugs, missing features, and new changes that are viewed by the rioters to be of far greater importance than the time spent on this latest update.

There's a semi-offical "voice of the riot" here:http://eve.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse.html

And CCP's response here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=932
:) I like how you outlined the discussion.

Now, there are many different Zombie scenarios, but I can understand why you see Zombies corresponding to a fear of loss of technology. Although I always took the fascination with Zombies as:

(besides being the "post-apocalyptic scenario" where you have to figure out how to survive)

- a fear of losing individuality/being slave to society, or the sort.

- people feeling others in society are some sort of "monster" or "animals" consuming each other,

- which makes people feel frustrated, creating a schism between wanting to see it all destroyed (especially if you're a "forever alone"), but at the same time seeing those that reflect what you are/were and your friends and loved ones, becoming something else; join them or psychically "kill" them ("disconnecting" the bond).

And the end product (hitherto): stories about it (or a proletarian revolution?).

Regarding "Also note whose skills become fearfully useless in the Zombie apocalypse - the programmer."

Dude. If the dead starts walking and your worries are finding a job then maybe your problems lies elsewhere.

... Code. Need to code...
The bills have one more security feature that /you/ can check

And how many more that I can't check?
Someone in a previous discussion mentioned that the internet was still very much 'the wild west' with regard to security. I thought it was interesting that the story told here seems like something right out of an old western movie.
This guy got rich investing small amts in young kids. he is a douche. douches are not awesome.
His stupid post just proves his douchiness
And now that you've read that, I'll keep my opinion separate: I think the riots are out of line and unnecessary. CCP does need to do a better job at addressing the complaints (requests are listed here http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/November_2010_Prioritizati...) and explaining their prioritization... but I think the riots have trouble focusing on the real issue, which is simply communication.
"Save the Greenback ultimately prevented a phaseout of the dollar bill thanks in part to Trent Lott (Mississippi's cotton industry makes the dollar's fabric) and Ted Kennedy (Massachusetts' Crane Paper Co. produces the dollar's paper)."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-stei...

"Kolbe and many other coin supporters said politics has also been a major obstacle. Prominent Massachusetts Democrats such as Financial Services ranking member Barney Frank and the late Sen. Edward Kennedy have been ardent defenders of Crane & Co., which manufactures the cotton-based paper used in U.S. currency."

"One-dollar bills represent nearly half of Crane’s currency business, and replacing the $1 note altogether would mean the loss of hundreds of jobs, the company said."

"Clearly they had an interest in maintaining the use of the paper,” Kolbe said. [Pay big attention here>>>] “Crane was the only company that could qualify as the producer.”

http://www.rollcall.com/news/Dollar-Bill-Coin-Coalition-Lobb...

And just to add to how much a paper dollar costs compared to a coin: A dollar bill costs $0.04 and is remade every 18 months. A dollar coin costs $0.08 and lasts 30 years.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/lca_coins_notes.php
Having lost the key for several of my spare drivers in the closet... How can that power abuse you describe be avoided on innocents?
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There are no specific requirements to be considered fair use. There are four factors that are weighed: the purpose and character of the new work, the amount copied from the old work, the impact on the market for the original work, and the nature of the old work. None of them are binary yes/no requirements.

The purpose of the new work is commercial (point against fair use) but it's also a transformative commentary on the old work, bringing new aesthetics to it (point for it). (In fact, one of Maisel's complaints seems to be that it has been transformed [1]). The amount of the old work used is the entire work (point against it). The impact on the market for the old work is minimal -- it's not an adequate substitute (point for fair use).

The final factor, the character of the old work is a factor that is very hard to predict how a court will analyze. One common distinction is "fact or fiction". A photograph of person is closer to the factual category than fiction, though the category division doesn't make much sense to apply here. It is well known and iconic, so this use doesn't "preempt" the first public presentation, which some courts have considered as relevant. Overall, I'd say this factor argues in favor of fair use, though not necessarily strongly.

It clearly meets some fair use factors, contra your claim. Enough? Well, as I said, that's not going to be determined outside a courtroom.

[1]: Maisel told his lawyer that he would never have granted a license for the pixel art. "He is a purist when it comes to his photography," his lawyer wrote. "With this in mind, I am certain you can understand that he felt violated to find his image of Miles Davis, one of his most well-known and highly-regarded images, had been pixellated, without his permission, and used in a number of forms including on several websites accessible around the world."
But it wasn't evidence when you encrypted it, right?
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And now Steam gets even more customers.

Brilliant move. Steam has consumed a lot more of my money than any other store like it, and TF2 is a fantastic hook.
It's been successful in keeping most server OSes similar, I suppose.
Really, people are getting this raged about shit in an online game? Take to the streets, my friends. Fight for the real world, not an imaginary one.
What's the most intimidating?
No offense, but I do not think you understood what I was talking about. If you read the thread from the initial post we were discussing the possibility of having two versions of the contract a legalistic one and a plain English one written in the same document. As I said, this is unlikely to happen because there is too much danger there will be a real or perceived difference between the two versions which will cause ambiguity down the line.

Of course if it is possible to write the entire contract in plain English only that is to be preferred. But that is not always possible. There are certain things that simply cannot be worded in plain English with sufficient precision.
Hahaha, this is so fucking telling. I love how in depth Eve is because it makes players mirror real world issues.
Never fear! It costs $105 in US dollars - by next week, that'll be about 15 cents anywhere else.
No one is withhold/destroying evidence in that case. it's there for anyone to see... encrypted.

Can I go to federal prison if the police ask to me translate some paper in foreign language I happen to have in my pocket and i refuse/don't know the language?
I wonder if Concorde will destroy their ships and camp whatever station they're around, forcing them to stay in the same place for bloody hours, deprived of resources needed to stay alive.
I already had that in my notes. They are in no particular order, they just caught my eye at the time for whatever reason.
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Thanks for all the feedback guys, your comments are noted. We're working hard on the next iteration of the website as well as trying to ease general concerns about whether we store passwords etc at this point. Please drop twitter: @dagrz a line if you have a direct question or want to keep up with how we're tracking on the project! Thanks for the discussion all!
Is the idea just to make brute forcing slower, or am I missing something? Because bcrypt and the others already do that and they don't make the user read a captcha.
Indeed, there's a balance to strike between retraining and familiarity.

_The Humane Interface_ discusses the balance between delivering something with "optimal usability" from an objective and scientifically validated standpoint vs. delivering a product the target audience can quickly familiarize themselves with and transfer their existing domain knowledge to.

So, while the Canon Cat may be a revolution in word processors, the average user will do better with something similar to Microsoft Word because they know it and can apply what they already know rather than learn a whole new way of word processing.
Access to OnLive is free, just like having a Steam account is free.

Some games can be bought. So long as the OnLive servers run, they're yours and you don't need to pay a monthly fee (as with Steam games).

Some games can be rented. For a few dollars you can get full access to the game for a time-limited period (24 hours or a few days). The first 30 minutes can usually be obtained free as a demo.

Some games are available in a playpack. This pack has a monthly fee like Netflix. So long as you keep paying the monthly fee you can play any of the games in the playpack (there's about 50) as much as you like.
Obvious solution would be to use empire/hauling alts. Although I noticed a fair bit of laser fire in the live feed as well, missles seemed to be a minority.
I'm not about to second-guess PG, or any other single person. Maybe the capital they have isn't liquid enough; maybe they have other obligations; who knows?

And it's worth pointing out that doing more awesome things doesn't require wealth. Why don't more poor people clean up their neighborhoods? Why don't more startups choose to solve problems that would really improve peoples' lives?

We should never point our fingers at anyone else before looking hard at ourselves.

All that said, the accumulation of wealth tends to require a mindset change that is not conducive to working on awesome things unless there's a reasonable chance of those awesome things making even more money, in the future if not immediately.

For one example: I recently moved in to a house, which I'm renting, which was a real dump and eyesore in its neighborhood. It was located next door to a nice Victorian bed & breakfast; most of the places in the neighborhood were a lot better by comparison. In the last 7 months I've completely transformed the yards, repaired or replaced plumbing, put interior walls into the garage -- all out of my own pocket -- with the help of my friend & my girlfriend. We often get comments from others in the neighborhood; those with more money tend to ask us if we're planning to buy it, and those with less money tend to just express appreciation that we're doing it.

So there ya go.
What should be the share distribution strategy?
A small Software Company, founded by 2 developers is working on outsourced and freelance project.
And now 2 new developers (including me) have planned to join in as co-owners.
After this point in time, we will be working on a Product to sale as SAAS (we have few ideas for it).

Now my questions are, Considering the total new path taken by the company,

- What are the things that need to be considered for evaluation (beside company resources)?

- What is the best way for share distribution in the company now?

- Do the first 2 founders deserve (considering the totally new path of the company) more of the company share?

I am totally new and confused in this regard. I'm seeking for valuable suggestions from you experienced guys?
What if you pass phrase was "I have child porn on my hard-drive", then could you plead the fifth?
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