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Even when Microsoft debuted WP7, my feeling was that UI prettiness was "where the puck is" and not "where it's going". In 2011, a phone with a pretty touchscreen UI and a bunch of basic apps is more "where the puck was". Even if we assume the software runs as smoothly in the demonstrations (a level of trust that Nokia's last few flagships have not warranted), there's little that would impress an iPhone 3GS user 2 years ago.

A pretty phone does not put you in the game anymore. It's staggering how behind this is compared to the competition, who have advanced tablet ecosystems, deeply integrated video-calling and messaging, deep cloud services, massive application libraries, extensive content (magazines and books), powerful video/photo/audio editing...
I suppose this makes sense... the US government doesn’t really care if you get fleeced buying or selling British pounds, and the British government doesn’t care if you get fleeced buying or selling US dollars.
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Dammit. I was counting on the market not realizing this.
It's hard for a site like that to not focus on the heavyweight firms. I remember scanning Slashdot in 1999 and found that most of the links went to bigger sites; the story that some small site would get in Slashdot and get a huge amount of publicity was the exception, not the rule.

TechCrunch wouldn't get the audience it gets if it wasn't focused on brands that people care about. If it was all about tiny obscure companies, TechCrunch would be a tiny obscure site.
Religion, UFOs, horoscopes, karma: belief that human beings or other types of vaguely humanoid intelligent beings (aliens, angels etc) are special and possess special powers; rooted in propensity to worship individuals.

Other things you list --- those probably originate in our desire to rationalize everything that probably has to do with our need to win arguments.
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I looked at TarSnap and I dont quite get it. I am using Dropbox now. Do I keep my files in the same structure and manually tar them and upload? Does the tar and upload happen automatically? The site doesn't quite explain how I get my files up...What about the always in-sync features like DropBox?
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Engadget added hands on videos if you want to see a real device in action.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n9-first-hands-on/

The UI appears to be extremely smooth. There's also a demo of transitioning audio from phone to external speaker using NFC.
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Yeah , Its Ryan , who arrested : UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind : The Hacker News ~ http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/uk-police-arrest-suspec...
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> I have a feeling the chrome developers have a better idea about how to sandbox a browser than John Carmack does, as awesome as he is

In fairness, we have no idea of the extend of the authors expertise, I would bet John Carmack as an insanely intimate knowledge of drivers and their issues.
Or "too big to fail" even if he alienates everyone with it?
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Can nobody on planet earth read?

That Google paper specifically said that they significantly refactored the algorithm to be more "scala-like" and got a much cheaper implementation than the canonical way it was implemented in other languages.

So, no, Scala is not faster than Java and probably won't be for a long time.

But yes, picking your algorithm is more important than language microbenchmarks.
There are a fair number of people that live in Mississauga/Toronto as well.
UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind : http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/uk-police-arrest-suspec...
We don't really want to be indexed by Google for this thread.
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Just so we're clear, you're suggesting that LulzSec is actually a front group for Sophos or maybe Mastercard?

That seems fantastically unlikely.
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Like it. Good work,
looking forward to trying it out.

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Where are you getting the specific idea that they're ignorant of 2600? Is it something they've said, or just because of their general disregard for what one might hesitantly call tradition?
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someone at work just asked me: what's a better alternative? any suggestions? they are reasonably technical, so can cope with something a little more complex than dropbox, but they want secure, easy-to-use, long-term reliable...
Wouldnt a simple IR filter strapped to the camera lens neutralise the system?

The filters are really not that hard to get - most cheap webcams use one because their CCD are actually very sensitive to IRs
Tail recursion has nothing to do with garbage collection in F#. You're going to have one allocation per iteration if you do e.g. a map over a list. In an imperative language you'd probably mutate the collection in place.
Could you elaborate? It is my understanding that 99.9% of Java syntax is valid Scala syntax. How does that correlate with your statement?
great job with the interface.. I can see myself doing some quick mock-up for my client using this tool..
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Definitely worth adding. Thx, TL.
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Question from Channel 4 news (UK): "Hackers: menace or public service?"
Part of me thinks that if we see the "worst case scenario" tech bubble pop, combined with the "Aol Way" brand of journalism, Techcrunch will fade into obscurity over the next five years.
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With every technology one must weigh its benefit against the risk of abuse.

Giving someone else the ability to shut off my camera doesn't help me at all (and is in fact something I want not to happen), so all that is left is the risk of abuse. For me that's an easy tradeoff to evaluate.
"There are 7 different apps that respond to “fb259197467584”"

From [1] we know this is a Facebook app with appID 259197467584. From [2] we know that the app is something called AppMakr which from [3] looks like some sort of crappy iOS app generator.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk

[2] https://graph.facebook.com/259197467584

[3] http://www.appmakr.com/
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The compilation path is Scala -> JVM bytecode [-> x86 assembly], not Scala -> Java -> JVM bytecode [-> x86 assembly]. At least, that's what I think your parent comment was saying.
I tried a similar technique a year ago, and I had similar results. I found myself straying from the 25/5 by 5, 10 or more minutes.

Ultimately, it was beneficial because it forced me to focus on the tasks and how much time I was allotting to breaks.

Once you get the habits down, I would suspect the timer would be needed less and less. Similar to how people who count calories get used to it and know caloric values of what they're eating, so they eventually stop counting calories (or get sick and tired of trying to keep up with it).
Yes to be honest I shouldnt have made that part of my point, none of us apart from the author and John Carmack know how they familiar they are with the issues involved in sandboxing browsers and driver reliability, and even then they could both be wrong.

We should just discuss the points made, not who is making them.
In other news, I've been waiting for Opera support for years and I still don't see it in the list of supported browsers.
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Is there any actual evidence that tablets are a luxury item, that doesn't equally apply to the iPhone?

Here in Australia the number 2 carrier recently did a sale on their self-branded version of the ZTE V9 tablet (7", Android 2.2, surprisingly good resisitive touch screen: http://www.zte.com.au/optus/V9.htm) for $99 including 3GB of pre-paid data. It sold out country-wide in less than a day.

The ZTE V9 is no iPad, but the speed it sold (in non-trivial numbers) indicates significant demand, at the right price. Some manufactures are willing to meet that price.

Coincidentally, the same thing happened with the 7" Samsung Tablet. Samsung dropped the price here to under $300, and suddenly you can no longer buy it because everytime stock comes in it sells out immediately. I don't think that's the market behavior for a luxury good.
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Yes like perhaps the cops don't want you filming them, they can turn off cameras within a certain radius...
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Sure, but all these examples are about technologies that introduce freedom, not restrictions. The thing about more freedom, is that you have the right, not the obligation, to exercise it. You can choose not to use the phones if you don't trust whoever's running the network. In contrast, the idea behind restrictions is that they are obligatory, not optional.
It does not make sense for the Bitcoin client to do so, because you can only use this information if you know all Bitcoin addresses of the sender (as any one might potentially be used as sender of the Bitcoins).

In addition, even the (typical) sender does not know all of his addresses, as some of those addresses are only internally used by the Bitcoin client.

Still, if you send the money to any of those addresses it will appear in the wallet of the sender.
Clearly our users are choosing our competitors because they have better features and more customization options

How do you know? Did you ask? It doesn't sound to me like you asked: Go ask.
It's a bit of a story, but it's got a point that relates to this.

Back in vanilla WoW, when Naxxramas was new and wonderful, my guild hit Thaddius. He was the big Frankenstein looking guy with lightning shooting everywhere. His big gimmick was polarity. If two people were near each other and had opposite polarity, we'd shock one another to death pretty quickly. However, if you had the same polarity, you'd increase the amount of damage you could do. This meant you wanted to stand next to people with the same polarity while keeping away from people with different polarity. Of course, this changed every 30 seconds, and ~10 people had their polarities changed. If you didn't move fast enough, you'd shock people. And with 40 people in the raid, all it took was one person to be slow on their feet and they'd shock the entire raid. Of course, this is going on while everyone is trying to maximize DPS and keep the raid healed up.

Anyways, the strategy was simple: positive on the left, and negative on the right. The debuff icons we had were blue for postive and red for negative, and the original idea was people would equate red with right. Association. This work well when people had to get into their initial positions. However, once we were engaged and everyone got to their initial spot, polarity changes were troublesome. People would move as soon as they knew they had to move. However, they had to think about it. The thought process worked like this.

1. Polarity changed happened.

2. Did my polarity change?

3. Yes. What color?

4. Red. What side am I on?

5. Left. I need to move to the right.

6. Move to the right.

That's a lot of work. A second delay, and considering you only had 3-4 seconds to react, coupled with a second of lag, and you'd burn people.

The problem wasn't people reacting. The problem was the thought process. How to get people to react quickly.

I finally caught on to the solution. The problem was thinking too much. What I told people to do was to initially setup on the left or right like normal. However, after that, ignore sides. Instead, follow one simple rule:

Change sides when your polarity changes.

Change when the icon changes.

Simple enough. You don't need to worry if the polarity doesn't change. You don't need to worry about going to the left or the right. You simple move to the opposite side.

The difference was dramatic. The very next attempt, we got him so low we thought we were going to kill him, but someone lagged out and caused a wipe. Regardless, the effect was clear.

Understanding now only the problem, but how to approach that problem and make it easy to learn is important. It's hard to understand where the problem lies with people. I was proud of this. Oh, it was just a game, but it was a clear example of being able to understanding a problem with how other people thought, and being able to come up with a solution.
Hmm. I bet it has conventional "electric power plug" mode charging too. When using this netbook outdoors while sunny you'll get some very long battery life indeed. :)
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The article hints at this possibility.
The law clearly is on the side of rolling back the transactions. Just like Amazon.com can refuse to fulfill an order for an 50 inch LCD TV that was accidentally priced for $1[1], and a bank can withdraw money from your account that was accidentally deposited there[2], and just like the NYSE can nullify mispriced orders[3], its clear Mt Gox can legally do the same. Transactions can be rolled back and are in the real world all the time. It has to be that way, to maintain fairness in the system.

Do you think this guy deserves $5 million worth of bitcoins because of the work of a hacker? Uh no.

His rationalizations for his behavior are astonishing. Assuming he is not the hacker, he got caught up in the excitement of buying cheap bitcoins (as we all would have), realized after the fact he probably did something wrong, and through contacting Mt Gox and coming out to the community he was hoping to get away with at least some profits. He shouldn't be able to keep any of it. Sorry Kevin.

[1] http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?thre...
[2] http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/BetterBanking/B...
[3] http://www.thestar.com/business/markets/article/806459--regu...
Not easily. It looks like there's only 250 and you have to apply on a developer program: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3597
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Whoops. Replied above instead of here, apologies.
"Why should somebody buy this instead of an iPad?"
> - silverlight might be completley different division of microsoft company than IE. and have nothing in common.

Not relevant. Silverlight is shipped by the same company and provides the same capabilities with no significant differences/restrictions

> - i dont recall silverlight is included in IE either.

Not relevant either, silverlight is shipped by Microsoft and some microsoft websites prompt for its installation, so Microsoft as a company does not seem to have much problem with Silverlight and its 3D capabilities.
This could be done using geolocation too (e.g., if you're inside the GPS coordinates of the Pentagon, camera is deactivated). Of course, all you would have to do is turn of location services on your phone.

Or, depending on how the tech works, point your camera at an angle such that the infrared light doesn't hit the sensor in your phone's camera.
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> For SQL use prepared statements exclusively (never let "oh, it's just a number so I don't need to" fool you)

I cannot vote this up enough. Also, depending on what database you are using (eg Oracle) if you don't use prepared statements (aka bind variables) you are guarantee killing your DB performance.

People have argued with me in the past that for things like sorting the data they cannot use bind variables. In that case, use the user input to select which safe string to use, eg:

if user_select_sort == 'by_account_num'
return 'order by account_num asc'
elsif user_select_sort == 'by_transaction_date'
return 'order by transaction_date'
else
return ''
end if

Then if someone sends in something tricky, it will just order wrong.
BitCoin sounds like the world's craziest bar exam question. (Which generally involve something like this: http://abovethelaw.com/2010/07/a-bar-exam-parody-hypothetica...)
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You use both an under quilt and a top quilt to insulate the hammock, which is of course suspended above the snow. I haven't tried that yet as I'm more of a fair weather camper, but comments on various hammock forums suggest that winter camping in hammocks is common.
Strikes create leverage by withholding a service. A discount that put their service on par with taxis in effect provides replacement taxi service.
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I think it's ad-hoc location-based social networks. So attendees at a conference would form a social network and share comments, photos, etc. In fact, every presentation could be it's own mini-network of people in that room. They could sell ad space to the vendors at the conference.

They just need to find a killer use case that motivates early adopters to use it. For example, it could be used at colleges to form networks around classes, sports events, parties. This app would be very useful during disasters, but you can't build a business around that. ;-)
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I trust Apple for many things, but not that. Patenting ideas is something that is certainly not always done for sake of using the tech. So I wouldn't assume they're going ahead with this. Likely an engineer came up with the idea and they patented it.
I love that you give a quick video to show it in action, huge plus. However I wish the video did show a bit more usage. I think almost a quarter of it is someone creating a bunch of cards for the demo. That's a little nitpicky, good work overall.
> Frankly, I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people in Redmond that secretly approve this move.

It is no secret. MS themselves have gone as far as putting up "anti"-IE6 sites and not supporting IE6 in their own online office apps. IE7 can't be far behind. IE prior to version 9 is an embarrassment to them compared to IE9 and versions of other browsers from three (or more) years ago and they'd like to sweep them under the carpet and get users running IE9+ ASAP.

MS will draw the line at IE8 which Google (and anyone following a similar pattern) may not (they may drop IE8 support soon after IE10 is released if sticking with a "current and previous only" model), as MS won't want to lock off XP+IE8 users (at least until April 2014 when XP with SP3 completely falls out of extended support anyway) because that might further encourage shifting to Firefox or Chrom{e|ium} as an upgrade to IE9 is not possible on XP.
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They wrote "grey" hat rather than "gray". Or is that spelling less unique to British English than I thought?
Here, see MS security at stake here https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ .
How about that: Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83164092998758400

:D
I think a lot of it is short development times and/or lack of code maintenance.
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Pretty much what it sounds like I suppose?
Indeed security is never prefect, however "its hard at it and we all suck at it" does not mean that everyone sucks at it equally.
The 'need' for breakthroughs in physics isn't quite the same as the 'need' for medicine.

That said, 'back off man, I'm a scientist'! I just don't think the general public gives a damn about things that don't directly affect them... things like CERN. I told my parents the other day about the breakthroughs in quantum superposition and they could not possibly have cared less. Now if there were some miracle weight loss breakthrough they'd be all ears!
It's already mandatory (Korea/Japan) for phones to make sounds when taking a picture. It's one of the aims to curb perverts. [0]

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Camera_phone#...
Head of the hydra and all that....

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83164092998758400
And then what!? what will you do with your informed choices!

I think you are assuming too much.
As I understand the register article, it seems that the website was cracked, but no false certs were issued.

Sounds like success story about a responsible operator with the information we have so far.
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To be blunt, and along the lines of most other posts here... I'm skeptical that you're targeting the needs of your users.

Feature creep comes out when you want to target what 100% of everyone wants to do 100% of the time. You probably need one rock-solid platform that 80% of your audience wants, and make it so much faster, easier, and intuitive than everyone else.

You need to get your users addicted to your software, not huck out new features and hope one sticks.
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