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Though I would never condone such a strategy (nor do I think getsat was stating his beliefs), there is some truth in it. A man is brought to think twice before engaging in any activity when they know that their family's safety is on the line. This has been (and continues to be) one of the means employed by tyrannical states to strike fear in the hearts of dissidents. You may be brave enough to sacrifice yourself, but you'll never revolt if you knew we'd go after your family.

That said, the statement, however, may not be completely relevant to this particular story.
I handed in 50% of the homework and got 100% on the exams. Most courses I took had 10% of the final grade based on homework.

And no, I didn't study; but I did read the textbooks cover-to-cover before the first day of lectures, so I already had a firm grasp on the material before it was presented to the class.
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I'm not the author and obviously don't know for sure, but bit.ly can be a poor man's click tracker. Here are the stats for Rich Hickey's reading list on Amazon: https://bitly.com/hIlovG+
So small?!
OTOH, I am now in the odd situation where I can view the videos about iOS 5 as a free account developer, but I can't view any of the web pages: "You must be enrolled in the iOS Developer Standard or Enterprise Program to access the development resources for iOS SDK beta."
> (others' reports, I'm not touching that torrent)

This is ridiculous, thousands of people are downloading that right now and the details will be on the news anyway.

> If [when] they get caught, they're going to prison for the rest of their lives or worse.

Only if they're from the US. In most of western Europe, maximum is 20 to 30 years and only for murders or specific crimes. For that they'd probably just get a few years.
The urge to crap on this is so, so strong. Fortunately, I powered through and read the whole thing. As it turns out, they've actually sold some of this technology.

"With just the partnerships they have in place, Oblong is already cash-flow positive (and have been since last year). They haven’t raised money since the $8.8 million Series A in 2007."

Cash-flow positive? Hrm. I'm assuming that means profitable? Maybe not, but it's something. They've actually sold and installed this at some customer locations. That's pretty amazing. I'm curious what it's used for.

When I saw who it was, I immediately thought, "Oh no, not this crap again," but there is some new stuff here:

* The company is "cash-flow positive" (as mentioned above)

* They have an actual product, Mezzanine, that has sold to actual customers

* They have a software SDK that will (presumably) allow mere mortals to build actual apps for the thing; and there is also an app server

* It doesn't rely on the cumbersome gloves any more; it works with "wands" and iPhones/iPads

In addition to all this, it seems that Underkoffler has a somewhat realistic expectation of the time scale involved here: 3-years-ish.

"'All of us who read TechCrunch have a reasonably large amount of screens we use, so we need to get there,' he continues. At the same time, 'we’re not nearly finished,' Underkoffler adds. 'It’s fair to say it will be about three years until this is fully into consumer electronics devices,' he continues, noting that the biggest inhibitor is simply cost and bringing it down to a reasonable level for consumers."

Although I disagree with him about the biggest inhibitor. I think the biggest inhibitor is going to be finding actual uses for the thing. I'm trying to understand how this would fit in my anything I do during the day. Rotating 3D models in real time using a wandy-thing-ma-bob looks cool in demo, but it's serious "naval contemplation" type stuff in the real world.

Right now, I'm sitting here typing text in to a pretty plain looking website, and I'm really, really in to it. I could be doing other things, but this is what I choose to do. Why? Because the hope that I feel -- the hope that someone will read what I've said and respond to it -- isn't closely tied to the amount of wizardry used in the interface.
I've been using a system like this for a while. It doesn't need to be as complex as this article suggests.

Something like this would work fine:

Get the domain name, take the first 3 letters, reverse it, replace each character with the character that sits to the right of it on a keyboard. Append (or prepend) this to an already secure, remembered, password.

The only way a person can know which part of the password is variable is if they have access to two passwords generated by this system, from different sites. Highly improbable. Moreover, even if they do figure out which part does change, they have to try to reverse the algorithm.
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Of course, the other key thing is to avoid giving attackers offline access to the hash database if possible. Even with scrypt, if you let someone try offline, he will get good results on 100 password attempts per account. Users are often using such weak passwords that being only an online oracle and able to shut down after a number of tries on a password, or at least to do app level rate limiting, is still useful.
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They already claimed to have taken down a CIA website in June among other pretty high profile targets. I'm pretty sure they would have already been doing at least 20 years if they got caught and actually charged with everything they did even before this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13787229
No it does not. I once lived in a house and the owner went bankrupt, they (the bank) seized the house immediately. How is that even possible if the house was mine that very moment?

I agree that the information belonged to Instapaper.
This post is rife with bad assumptions. Here are some big ones:

1. Dexterity is NOT the "last mile" gap to having robots in minimum wage jobs. I don't care if the robot can flip a burger, can it recognize a grease fire (and put it out, and clean up afterwards?) Can it recognize a moldy bun or if the special sauce is spoiled? While low wage retail jobs don't require years of specialized training, they do take advantage of a lot of innate human skills. Most of the mechanical aspects of these jobs are already automated.

2. Good software is not created by people sitting in cube farms programming. In projects of any size it's more about communication among developers and between developers and other business functions than writing code in isolation.

3. Not everyone can be a programmer, and most that could be won't want to (and I predict won't have to). I'm sure you can invent trivial examples that anyone can do, but then you're not saying much. There are large classes of people that can't program a VCR or do long division, let a alone construct a slightly involved program. As someone who's been involved in research that attempts to teach average people how to "program", I feel confident that we will never see a large portion of people become programmers.
Well, they sold out ~5000 tickets in 12 hours. True, that's not small, but clearly there's more demand than they are providing for and a lot of developers got left out. It's the same size as Google I/O for comparison.

Splitting off OS X from iOS would probably help a bit but Apple won't do it.
> I also feel is a good thing that video card vendors will get a swift kick in the balls to get their act together and make their drivers secure and decent finally.

This makes me laugh because video card vendors could give a damn if their drivers are "secure".

What does security mean when you're talking about a processing unit.

Is the prevalence of virus's that work on the x86 processor giving Intel a "swift kick in the balls" and forcing it to "get its act together"?

In reality, NVidia will just blame the user, browser, and website in that order saying "we ran the code you gave us".
> "People believe the myth that they can say things that ordinarily they wouldn't be able to say just because they are online."

Is it really a myth?
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This about covers it.

- Read and highlight the textbook before class.

- Go to class, pay attention, take notes and ask questions.

- Go to TA sections and office hours. Come with questions.

- Do the homework with time (ie not an hour before it's due).

- Start studying for exams 2-3 weeks before the exam date.

But most importantly, you really have to want to get A's. Motivation is key. While your friends are out partying and getting drunk you need to be in the library. Sounds terrible, but that's the point. There is a tradeoff. I just graduated with a B+ average. I know I could have done better, but having a social life was important to me. (Also working for Techmeme took up a considerable amount of my time).
I'm half way through 3.0.9. But it's awesome you're updating the awesome tutorial book!
I'm speculating, but...Barrier to entry? If you're not familiar with the UNIX stack then getting up to speed on that just to play with node might not seem like a great idea (especially if you don't have a lot of spare time) or lack of applicability? It can often be really frustrating to get up to speed on something you know you're never going to be allowed to use in your current job. Some places are MS-or-the-highway shops...
If by INVENTOR you mean APPLICANT... It is simply first to file. If you filed a patent for someone else's work, that work has to be successfully applied as prior art to invalidate the patent. If the existing work isn't sufficiently documented by acceptable publication, it is difficult to use as prior art years later when the patent is first litigated.

But, I am not a lawyer.
Enough with the infographics!
This is ridiculous

You begrudge someone the desire to not accidentally get caught up in something they could land in prison for?
I wish you hadn't linked to a file containing passwords and other personal information - I was not expecting that and would not have opened it if I had known.
Probably because Wikileaks' owner is a bit of an egomaniacal douche
Under which definition of "allowed"?
Yet I still can't purchase the Ghost in the shell soundtrack.. A best selling film from 1995 and I still have never seen it in itunes, amazon, whatever. I had a cd shipped to me a couple years ago. But easy purchasing music, most certainly not. Also, I have yet to ever meet an artist that is upset about piracy. All of them make money on tours, not albums. Record companies make money on albums.

Secondly, the mass p2p shakedown schemes should give you a fair idea of what this agreement means. Some lawyer says you infringed a copyright and has some obscure document "proving" it There have been plenty of white papers written showing how completely misleading and fraudulent the evidence put forward by these lawyers are. Do you seriously think that this new agreement will be any different? Hell, they don't even have to convince a judge, they just have to claim there's a wolf and AT&T will be there to kill the sheep.
Most of their targets have been US based websites, and they have probably not made a lot of good will with European leaders. I would be very surprised if there was a European country that would not extradite them.
It's so complex that I'd rather use password manager.

Or better yet - actually use the same simple password on all web sites which are not important to me.
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There is an automatic hatred of the police shared by just about every lawbreaker. Just or not, I believe they basically see the police as their enemy, not the state.
The best way to shut these people down is not to give them an outlet. Few people seem to step back enough from the problem to ask, "do we need comments?" Rather, it ends up being yet another half-assed feature that usually adds intellectual and visual noise to a page.

But, hey, it drives visitors to return, so it has to be good, right?
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Sharepoint is going to be the end of us all. It's always just jammed full of juicy stuff like this.
FB, Google, etc all provide a nice procedure for LEO to query all desired info. It is not necessary to seize equipment. Example: https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/Facebook20... (pdf)
Or invading another country because...oh wait, that happened.
Andy could do a new Kickstarter to fund a short documentary about digital reinterpretations of copyrighted works. The profits could be used to raise money to pay off the settlement.

If you're reading this Andy: just make sure that you don't use the same image in your documentary! :-)
I agree. I think makmanalp's comment comes off as somewhat brusque, but it's a perfectly valid topic for debate.

I don't have a solution, by the way.
Your publication is part of the prior art, and will block their patent to the extent of your invention. They might be able to patent non-obvious improvements to your invention.
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What has Microsoft been smoking lately? They're worryingly enthusiastic about JavaScript.
could you be a little more specific about how you read entire textbooks cover-to-cover in the first day? Edit: Googling you up shows that you were a prodigy. Perhaps you knew everything already but just needed to review a little? Is that what you mean?
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Better idea: add an RFID reader internally, and carry an RFID tag on your keychain. When it can't read the tag for X minutes, then wipe.

If you leave your phone on the other side of the house a lot, just leave your keys with it.
So, it's known that gangs structure things such that any one member knows only a subset of the plans, misinformation is spread to separate parts of the organization so that leaks can be identified, etc. But this seems like it'd make communication overhead pretty significant. Does anyone have any resources on how gangs are actually structured, how well their communication works, etc? This seems pretty interesting to me, as it may have applications for structuring legitimate organizations/groups.
This would only be protection against thieves that steal your harddrives, if the US government had your drives they can legally compel you to divulge your password.
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> If a patent holder wants to ensure protection for their work, they need to file first and extensively publicize their filing as such no one can claim spontaneous re-invention as is the case with many software products.

In other words, billion dollar companies get all the SW patents.

HP can "extensively publicize" for almost nothing by piggybacking on other things that they do. Small companies and individuals can't.

IBM, for example, has numerous publications that would qualify. (They send them to every CS department library as well as other subscribers.)

What? You don't keep up with the literature?

I used to look at every tech report that Stanford CS received. That became impossible in the late 80s and things have only gotten worse.
The person you responded to (me) clearly stated that personal information should have not been released.
Not me. In this case the inflated ego leading to unreasonable aggressiveness is far more distasteful than the relatively mild sense of self-entitlement.

The more derivative a work is, the less it belongs to the original artist. In this case, the work was derivative enough for there to be a legitimate legal case either way. It's easily understood as an honest mistake, though it clearly was a mistake not to check the art ahead of time. It's understandable for the artist to be upset. But it's conflict that reasonable, respectful human beings should be able to resolve without a full-blown lawsuit.

The vengeful attempt to inflict punitive damage on the guy who, at worst, made an honest mistake? That's worse, in my book.
But you've simply pointed out the strength of the analogy. Siezing adjacent blades in a multi-tenant rack is just as nonsensical as siezing adjacent computers in a multi-tenant office.

Physical proximity is simply not a valid justification in either situation.

If the courts and/or the FBI are unable to understand this, the remedy is to get them educated and not to simply accept the consequences of overly-broad warrants or seizures.
> I am also assuming that well-designed language runtimes and compilers do not.

I guess the big point I was trying to make in other parts of the thread is that this is sort of begging the question. If you can assume that runtimes and compilers are flawless, then of course you should use the biggest, hairiest ones you can get your hands on, and furthermore you should argue for every possible piece of functionality to be put into the runtime, so that it will work correctly and not have any bugs.

In practice, though, that is not the best possible factoring of the problem. If it were, you wouldn't be using C++! So I don't think it provides a very good guideline to use for questions like "would moving from C++ to Java make our code more reliable?" I think that answering that question properly involves a lot more reasoning about the particular runtimes and compilers involved, as well as the structure of your application — or lack thereof, if you really have an unbounded number of places you might have written a buffer overflow!

What you say about compilers' formal correctness might be true in theory, but in practice, all compilers contain a large number of bugs. I don't think it is true in theory, though. Optimizing a piece of code is AI-complete, and verifying the equivalence of the source and target programs is known to be uncomputable, since it subsumes the halting problem — in theory, it's impossible to even determine whether the compiler has inserted an infinite loop into your program, let alone whether the rest of its semantics are preserved.

The string → string nature of compilers does mean that they can be highly portable and not spend much time interfacing with the rest of the universe, though.

> I don't think it's possible to specify the behavior of a word processor to the same extent.

Maybe not, but you can probably specify the behavior of its string class to have no buffer overruns. I mean, you can write a word processor in Python, right?
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This is not the first time a torrent containing breached information has been released. No one has ever been sued for downloading the torrent, not even with the wikileaks cable. Parent's post reads a tad alarmist and dramatic in my opinion but maybe that's just me.
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"DOSing a website, or leaking some emails is annoying, this could potentially get people killed."

Because the 39,000+ people already killed due to the laws the Arizona police are enforcing don't count.
They are not freely available as in: first you have to register with Apple as a developer and you can only view them after you log in with your developer account.

I'm not even sure if they are free. There used to be a way to become register developer for free, at the lowest tier, but didn't Apple change the rules in the last year or so and you have to pay $99/year for mac developer program and $99/year for iOS developer program, so to access all the videos you actually have to pay $200/year?
As long as no one gets hurt.
lol. You sound like a professor. Sadly, that is the way to (hopefully) get high marks and waste a great deal of time. There are lots of ways, many of which are completely legitimate and many which are questionable.

Case and point freshman year when you are joining fraternities. Pick one that has a few A+ students in your degree path. All (well most) fraternities keep old notes, quizes, papers, and tests on hand for new brothers. That and if there are brothers who are good students in your degree path, you'll have help at almost any time of day. Sure other people do it too, but frats are a sure bet.

That's just one method. There are plenty of others that work as well.
He said "before the first day", not "on the first day". Oftentimes the textbooks are announced and available for purchase about 2 weeks before the class actually begins, to give the students that order them online time to receive them.

It's not actually that hard. If you have 14 days and your textbook is 700 pages long, that's 50 pages a day, which is eminently possible, particularly if you don't have classes to go to.

Occasionally, I pulled a trick where I went to the first class, grabbed the syllabus, bought the textbook, read the textbook cover-to-cover during the "shopping period" where we could change our classes, dropped the class, and then returned the textbook for a full refund. All the material, 1/6th the time, and none of the money.

Actually, now that I'm employed and have an income, I do basically the same thing: buy the textbook online, read it, and don't bother taking the course. 1/6th the time, 1/50th the money (~$100 instead of ~$5000), and I learn just as much.
Mozilla doesn't have any "enterprise customers", it's a free download, they're users. Their customers are Google and all the companies paying to appear on the search input.
Now this is what I call an infographic!

Unlike many others which I have seen in the recent past, this infographic delivers a ton of data in a very clear, concise, easy to parse way.

I can't stand those infographics that just throw a bunch of numbers onto a canvas and expect it to make any sense. There was one on bottled water [1] that was a perfect example of this.

[1]: http://www.onlineeducation.net/bottled_water
Mozilla's position really makes sense to me.

Look how stagnant IE became/is, largely due to 'enterprise' fears of changing pretty much..anything. Most enterprises still run windows XP, for that matter!
You don't get it. If your account shows up in their database, then they'll have your email + password + phone number + any other data you provided.
Anyone else think this thread may be linked to 10-20 years from now when this thing begins to take off?
It's a 'her'. Helen Dale.

I linked you to a blog category page; there's no "brochureware" as yet.
+1 for the HasGeek job board. Kiran's done it very well. It's one of the best startup job boards I can find for India. HasGeek runs local tech events. There's one phpcloud coming up next month and another JS event in September.

Also if the OP and you don't mind :) InfinitelyBeta itself might be hiring a nice guy, atleast that's what your site says.

To the OP, if you can get a remote job and work 'from' India, there's nothing like it. But working for a local startup lets you to socialize with people here.
There's still a free tier; and all of the videos are accessible to those who are not members of the paid programs (but are registered under the free one).
Allow folks their small foibles and paranoia. You'll get along better with everyone that way :)
Greatest day of college was the day I stopped giving a crap about grades. Remember you're there to learn not get good grades. It opens everything up, you don't worry about taking difficult classes that will challenge you or overloading on credits. Took classes in every engineering field, economics, business, history, whatever I "wanted" to learn. Seriously it was the greatest realization I had up to that point in my life, never even opened a report card during my senior year or grad school. If you have a solid foundation to build off of learning new things becomes really easy later in life.

Still don't flunk, a B is fine, usually you can get 80% of the results with 20% the effort. Focus on what's valuable to you and forget about the rest.
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