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Gmail's voice and video chat now supports the main Jingle standards, XEP-166 and XEP-167.

And there are two open source implementations that it works with:

http://code.google.com/p/libjingle
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/
It's more common than not for large organizations to prevent regular users from installing software, via group policy. Getting a copy of it isn't the problem.
But what do they have a monopoly on (isn't a monopoly required for antitrust investigations in the US)? Good taste? Surely that's free for anyone.
Why are you going to your family doctor's office for a quick visit? Whenever I need something simple - check for strep throat, ear ache, potential broken bone - I find a nearby clinic, and they usually see me within a few hours.

In Dallas it was even easier - CareNow had a web check-in form, so they'd call you 30 minutes before your time and you show up and usually wait no more than 10 minutes before a doctor pokes and prods you.
So, if lulzSec are a group of Americans, then couldn't they not only be charged with breaking internet security laws and such but, also treason?
+1 for RH. They are awesome and I couldn't be happier. I've never had problems except when AWS went down.

Also, they offer git, mercurial and SVN.
I think the big reason universal health care isn't viable in the US is because of the system we already have in place. Big insurance and high-cost health care are firmly entrenched, and it would take an act of god to change this without upsetting the entire economic apple cart. I'm not really sure what the answer is at this point, but I agree with you when you say it's not a viable long term solution.
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My own experience as an American in London was euphoric. After abandoning a flight home do to illness, I checked into a hotel and asked the concierge to recommend a medical center. What a surprise when she said she would call a doctor to my room. Even better, the doctor provided me with medication on the spot. Still better, I wasn't charged.
The jingle portion of WebRTC comes form libjingle, and is usable right now with Google Talk. There is also a second open source implementation that works with Google Talk called "telepathy".

http://code.google.com/p/libjingle http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/
There is also no iPhone or Android app, but there is a pretty decent web interface.

Not the case any longer, iPhone app is available (I haven't used it yet): https://www.jungledisk.com/iphone_app_backup_share_files_man...

I'm sure an Android version is in the works.
Maybe we don't want a filter that sucks, plain and simple? Whether the filter sucks or not is completely subjective, but it sucks for me, so there.

Changing the language not that intuitive in Google, it's a drag. I have to do it all the time when I clean my cookies, and sometimes I still get crappy "pt.wikipedia.org" results on top instead of "en.wikipedia.org" just because my browser isn't in english and I don't want to change it just because of Google.

I might want to type www.google.it and search for Berlusconi news in Italia, but it won't let me, because it just show me brazilian news. So yeah, I can't even get to another bubble.

Also, apparently Google filters by IP, since searching via Tor or a VPS renders very different results. I dislike this for personal reasons because it breaks the internet for me.

Also, I might not like the fact that Google collects stuff about my search habits, which is also a valid concern.

So, there, it's an issue for me. Might be an edge case, might be an exception, but I think that I deserve to know why this happens and the alternatives.
I'm really worried about what happens when Jobs leaves or dies. My money is on one of:

1) Some MBA apparatchik takes over the company and does what all the Business 101 books say to do: puts marketing in charge of everything, including design. As a result, their industrial and UI design goes to complete crap.

2) Ditto the MBA apparatchik, but instead they decide to start "monetizing" Apple's leveraging opportunities in a "proactive" manner. As a result, the company becomes full-on evil and I have no choice but to dump them completely and go back to Linux on inferior-design hardware.

Combinations of 1 and 2 are also possible.
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Why is it that universal health care is not viable in the USA?
I don't see the parallel. Quite the opposite; he's displeased with what he sees as GitHub's high price for their lowest-tier paid account, and developed an alternative that costs less and offers more of the "bare bones" stuff (more space, unlimited private repos) instead of focusing on the higher-level collaboration tools and web interfaces.

How does a reference to someone finding little friction to paying multiple tens to hundreds of dollars for things while cringing at a 99-cent expenditure have anything to do with this?

GitHub bothers me, to be honest. I read a lot lately about how many people are using GitHub as a sort of "programmer's portfolio", and, more importantly, how many startups are asking for your GitHub URL as a part of your resume package. As if how many active repos on GitHub you have is some sort of even remotely useful metric as to how good a programmer you are. There's a lot of pressure to have a strong presence on GitHub, while their product offering doesn't seem to meet the needs of a lot of people. Not to mention there's tons of talent that uses hg or bzr as their VCS of choice; nobody asks for your bitbucket or launchpad URL.
Bernstein Research surveyed consumers to ask whether they would prefer a 7" screen or a 10" screen? That does not have anything to do with iPad branding. Would you prefer a 70" TV, or a 100" TV? You say 100"? Well, since Sony manufactures the only popular 100" TV, I will infer that you prefer Sony brand TVs.

The second half of the Bernstein release states that "Fifty percent of respondents preferred Apple over all other brands." That is EXACTLY HALF, so feel free to spin it the other way: "Fifty percent of respondents would not choose Apple over another brand."
Fight Club is my go-to example of a film that was better than the original novel.
I'm still learning github after subversion. I don't believe there is enough mindshare left in this space.
+1. As a "cable cord cutter", I have no way of getting their content. I would gladly pay an ala carte subscription, or even buy episodes of the show on Amazon.com or another online VOD site (as I do for many other cable shows that I enjoy). I have seen all the arguments for the "franchise fees being their lifeblood", but if you wait until it's too late to explore other sources of revenue, it's going to be just that: too late.
I'm also interested in seeing how quickly iPads start to penetrate other verticals beyond the traditional consumer market. Education, Health, are two of the commonly cited areas where a lot of growth is expected, but I'll be interested in seeing how quickly they penetrate low-end retail as well.

I was in Santa Barbara this weekend, at "La Tour Wine Merchants" - Purchased every thing there through an iPad + Square.

One thing important to note - the transaction took under 5 seconds for him to process, + 3-4 for me to sign. Receipt was then automatically filled out with my email address (I'd used square somewhere else) - and, from the time I handed him my credit card to the time I was done was under 10 seconds. It felt a lot faster than normal credit card transactions.

So - every single person who comes into that Wine Merchant is going to have the iPad marketed as hyper efficient (and low cost transaction fee) credit card processing platform to boot.

Not to say that the Droid Tablet's won't get square soon (if they don't already) - but the solution is certainly going to be well regressed on the iPad more quickly.

Popularity sometimes results in a network-effect of quality improvements resulting in further popularity - I think that's what we're going to see with the iPad.
And those are some reasons why having tshirts can be good/cool/useful for the company. The key is how you're framing it - as a piece of a larger puzzle, not an end goal in and of itself.
Visit Europe some time. Universal health care clearly is viable.
I am unsure of how your healthcare system works. Is it possible to pay for more timely service from a private hospital or private doctor?

If it is possible but not feasible because of cost, then an American, speaking practically, experiences the same thing. Not enough money to pay for medical service. However there is an important difference.

An American must pay something out of pocket. The financial burden may lead to bankruptcy and ultimately no medical care at all. I've noticed that you did not raise concerns about bankruptcy but instead your concern was over slow medical service.
The Netherlands also didn't have the HUGE healthcare cartel to contend with when their system was implemented. In the US, insurance has allowed healthcare providers to charge enormous fees because they knew it would be covered. US healthcare is among the most expensive in the world, and it's not because of superior quality. Now that many people would like to change this, it's almost too late.
>The conventional wisdom was exactly the same 2 years ago concerning android phones vrs the iPhone.

The difference is that the iPad doesn't have the same constraints (namely available only on AT&T) that the iPhone had. Would Android really have had the same success it had if the iPhone was available on Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile (and assuming Apple could keep up with the volume) from the start?

Anecdote: everyone I know who has an Android phone really wanted an iPhone but didn't want to leave Verizon. Now that the iPhone is on Verizon, most of those folks intend to switch to an iPhone once their contract is up.

(FTR I don't own an iPhone, iPad or an Android device)
Personally I think that universal health care is undesirable for ethical reasons. How are we supposed to evolve if we don't let our species' least capable members get weeded out by natural selection?

There's nothing "ethical" about allowing folks who can't pay for their own health care to get it at someone else's expense.
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I did not think of that angle, and am now appropriately recalcitrant.
No, here's what I want:

I want a flat thing with a screen that I can read in sunlight, isn't buggy, and doesn't subscribe to this "wow 100000000 apps!!" nonsense.

I want to read text in whatever format I want, and not be limited by the programmer's clever "oh, that's a CSV, we don't know how to open it," but rather let me pick an application to read the raw text with.

I want a chrome browser on it, and I want it to fit nicely in my hand. I expect to get enough battery on it that would get me through a four hour train ride or a boring flight.

That's it. I want a file reader and a browser, that's what 90% of us want.

10% of us want an apple pad or a google whatever or a microsoft blah. 90% of us want to spend fifty bucks on a browser and text reader that doesn't totally suck for usability.

And I really don't need the company telling me how to use my device, where I can use it, or even when. I especially don't need them to keep track of where I physically am or what I do with the thing.
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that's hilarious, monits?
Ask HN: How to get Wiki-Leaks releases?
I am interested in reading the materials that Wiki Leaks has posted to date. How can I obtain it? I see Archives at wikileaks.ch but I dont see where I can download all the documents they reference/release.
Hg is marginally slower, but not so you'd really notice. If you're crunching 20,000-line files on a regular basis it might be a concern. On repos of that size, I doubt you'd notice.

Git is a great tool for what it was built for and the group of users it was intended for--that is, rapid, tons-of-merges-and-pulls development on a gigantic codebase, for users for whom it is acceptable for man pages to serve as reminders rather than instructions. However, I appreciate the additional attention paid to tooling and user-friendliness in Mercurial-land that make it more pleasant for me to use.
I realized this question was discussed on HN previously, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2547254 but this submission is pointing to a specific answer.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

In conclusion, flaggity flag flag flag.
so the "extremist" Richard Stallman was right all along?
I wonder what would happen if a few dozen (few hundred?) health care advocates coordinated a series of "heists" like this in a single city.

If nothing else, the police dispatchers would have quite the WTF moment.
Disclaimer: I believe the "healthcare system" in America is flawed and should be changed.

However, this is a man who put 20 years of work and taxes into the system and never got to use what he put in.

Let's think about this for a minute. When you say "put 20 years of work ... into the system" what do you mean? Was he not adequately compensated for the work he did? Is free healthcare in perpetuity assumed to be part of compensation for work that you do? Should it be?

As far as taxes, the article says he "looked into filing for disability. He applied for early Social Security." but only qualified for food stamps. I find that portion of the article to be either misleading or not complete - it doesn't say whether he actually applied for disability, or say anything about applying for the food stamps. The earliest you're eligible to receive SS benefits is age 62, so I'm not sure why (or how) a 59 year old would apply for early benefits.

Regardless, the "system" is indeed broken. However, I don't think the path to fixing it includes emotion-filled appeals about how many years of work someone has "put into the system".
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I'm a moderately experienced professional developer. That in no way means that I'm going to pay money for Github, a less-valuable service compared to one that has all the features I regularly use* that I get for free from somebody else.

Also, git annoys me. Thus, Bitbucket, and life is good.

* - Which is to say, source/diff browsing, a markdown-based wiki for some projects, and that's it. Github has a lot of features, but it also has a lot of completely useless features.
How is this not a free health care hack?
Even better, reimplement the interpreter with modern data structures...
I think attractive profits will attract. Perhaps more slowly than it should, but.. I suspect there's more movement here than is obvious. :)
"But here's why some people probably don't like personalization: It's invisible. There is nothing on the results page that tells you whether your results are personalized or not."

Sorry, this is just not the case: we do provide indication on Google's search results page for personalized results. Here's a couple links that talk about how we surface whether results have been personalized: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... is our support page and http://searchengineland.com/google-now-notifies-of-search-cu... is an article on Search Engine Land from 2008 when we started surfacing information on how results were personalized.

Here's a simple demo. Do a search in Chrome incognito mode and go to the bottom of the page. You won't see a link that says "View customizations." Now do a search in regular Chrome and check for that link. When I did a search for [matt cutts] in regular Chrome, I saw the "View customizations" link, clicking the link gives this message:

"Search customization details: matt cutts

When possible, Google will customize your search results based on location and/or recent search activity. Additionally, when you're signed in to your Google Account, you may see even more relevant, useful results based on your web history.
The following information was used to improve your search results for matt cutts:

Web HistoryOne or more items in your Web History were used to improve search results.
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If you're curious, you can see what a search for matt cutts looks like without these improvements.
The 'More details' link on your search results page can be used to display this page for approximately 30 minutes, after which it will no longer show this page."

In other words, not only can you tell whether a search results page was personalized, you can click a link right on the search results to see exactly what criteria were used to personalize the results. And that page has a clear link to run the search again without personalization.

As I mentioned before, personalization is typically a minor effect in Google's search results and it's almost always an improvement. But for people who are worried about potential "over-personalization," we do provide easy ways to see when a search was personalized, why it was personalized, and do the search again without personalization.
Don't let anyone tell you that universal health care is "not viable", especially in one of the world's wealthiest countries. Such statements are really just political manoeuvrings of a disreputable kind.

In the UK universal health care has been viable since the NHS was founded over half a century ago. There is always controversy over exactly what services are available where, but at least everyone has access to it.
Personally I think that universal health care is undesirable for ethical reasons. How are we supposed to evolve if we don't let our species' least capable members get weeded out by natural selection?

I'm a big Nietzsche fan, but that my friend, is fucking disgusting.
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If you could get every single person that has ever made an accepted change to the Linux kernel to agree, sure. Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure how that would work out.
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So this is what it has come to... I'm glad I live in Canada.
Universal, socialized healthcare is here now, in the US. It exists fully and completely.

The middle class ignores free clinics and medicare facilities unless they become destitute or desperate.

The infrastructure is here, now. This overt dissonance will end eventually, and the US will catch up to the standard quality of life other first world nations enjoy. I hope it happens in my lifetime.
I don't understand these.

For example
"Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. "

What is the purpose of this type of story? Is it supposed to be funny, shocking, insightful, or just a time killer? I find it to be mostly useless. I read a few of them and they seemed like boring short stories.
I didn't understand shit about all the high level math/CS stuff you two just discussed. But what I do understand is this. Whenever there is a possibility of government or terrorist organisations gaining immensely from something more often than not one of them is involved. This can either be a false alarm operation or something done by terrorists. But apart from that there are many small ways they can be involved. Like the government will ignore such activities (not investigate it fully to their power) then let it grow to such large a proportion so that they can justify their new restrictive Internet act.

OTOH, the terrorists may not be involved initially but they may send in some of their cyber force to help organizations like LulzSec so that they can help american people take down their own infrastructure. We should not forget that AnonSec did take down many payment portals to some level.LulzSec took down sony also. What is stopping LulzSec to go full blown DDoS on payment portals? If Al-Quida or other cyber aware terrorist organisation gives them a botnet or two god knows what they might do.
I use rsync.net with git:
http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/02/git-and-subvers...

Works pretty well.
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If tax is for anything it ought to be to help the less fortune in society. Once you start discriminating on who is the most deserving of basic medical society you have to start questioning the society you live in.

The state funding some basic form of healthcare for all is civilizing, and has other benefits. Healthcare is not an incentive to do well: it does not work as an incentive at all. Those who want better healthcare pay for it even in countries where there is a basic provision.

It's perfectly possible for state healthcare provision to co-exist with private healthcare providers too.
I don't like the direction Google is taking with Search. My view of "improvement" is very different from Google's view. I have the feeling that the more features they add to Search the worst the service gets. I miss the old simple Google Search. I think there is a big oportunity here for another search engine focused on: simplicity, speed, relevance (algorythm) and unfiltered. Back to basics.
I think the reason you're finding it difficult to sympathize with characters is that you're trying to evaluate their decisions objectively. My favorite part about this show is that no action, character, or decision exists within a binary black/white, good/evil way.

Try to get inside the character's head, think about what perceived injustices they have been wronged by, what their stake is in the decision, how their decision will influence the way in which they are viewed by their peers, etc, but most importantly, view it within the context of the character's emotional state at the time the decision was made.
"[...] he's displeased with what he sees as GitHub's high price for their lowest-tier paid account [...]"

And I'm arguing that his displeasure with GitHub's price comes from the fact that he's underestimating the extra amount of time he will have to spend as a user of CodePlane because CodePlane is not remotely as polished as GitHub. I'm arguing that this extra amount of time will not be worth the difference in price.

"[...] developed an alternative that costs less and offers more of the "bare bones" stuff (more space, unlimited private repos) instead of focusing on the higher-level collaboration tools and web interfaces. [...]"

It's not just collaboration and web stuff, it's reliability and security. Would you seriously trust a tiny service like CodePlane to store your code? Both ensuring it won't be deleted and that it won't be hacked into? If DropBox has trouble with those issues, would you trust a low-budget one-man-operation with your 50 repos?

"[...] There's a lot of pressure to have a strong presence on GitHub [...]"

When people evaluate programmers they often have to rely on far-from-perfect metrics, like university credentials. Putting emphasis on GitHub and ignoring the other forges is not ideal, but it's such a big improvement over the old ways. It's hard to get new metrics accepted into the mainstream.
Upon HP's release, the top three brands known to consumers in the US in the tablet market will not be running Android. Samsung is the best known of the Android unless Sony decides to show up.
Basically, a web forum. It has anonymous posting and a few other features that can't classify it as a forum, so BBS works well.
I love the irony that while everyone was going long, someone sacked the quarterback.