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What should the copyright holder have done instead? Sent a polite note?

Yes. What's wrong with starting off with a polite note? Are you really backing the plaintiff's starting demands for $150,000 per use as a reasonable request?
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What about VMing Windows? VirtualBox works great for me and its seamless window integration is pretty good.

Also, I've heard good things about Crossover, but never tried it myself.
I agree with you on the energy balance thing, I don't agree Lulz is creating that energy.

What we're seeing is the consequence of letting docs you want to keep a secret out. Lulz is just fishing and reporting what they caught.

To the people who want to revoke more of our liberties for what is basically lousy security: I wish you good luck.
Did anyone else notice the YouTube player update?
Watch any video on YouTube, and you will notice it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U1vO-lMS0
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It is also another thing to worry about when governments go into mass-surveilance camera-placing frenzy on the streets.
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That might be true for console titles, but steam based games are a little different, due to the possibility of steam sales. By using the advantages of digital distribution (e.g. infinite stock, razor thin overhead) steam makes it possible to have sales of older games at huge discounts. This then generates a huge volume of sales which can generate substantial revenue (to the degree where steam-sales have actually rescued some game companies from the brink of extinction). Valve doesn't have to release sales figures, but it's a good bet that the revenue curve over time for TF2 has a much fatter and longer tail than for your typical AAA console title.

That being said. The advantage of making TF2 free-to-play are huge. Firstly, the hat-conomy generates plenty of revenue on its own. More importantly, TF2 could quite easily become a gateway drug for casual PC gamers to use steam. More users playing TF2 means more users looking at, say, Terraria for 10 bucks, or Left 4 Dead 2 for 20, or some other relatively recent game at a ridiculous price during a sale.
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This is a bit of a dupe, but it's the best written general article
I've found so far on this new research. Sure, it's very early work, but
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More information can be found on the USC website:

http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/restoring-memory-r...

You have to sign up for a "free" account (no confirmation email) but you
can download the paper here:

http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/8/4/046017
In Australia, there's a deterrent in civil suits that a losing plaintiff pays costs for a successful defendant. Does the US have that at all?

I'm not in any way experienced in law, but it seems like that would help reduce the number of fishing expeditions and barratry.
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TryRuby.org and Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby are good foundations for Ruby. Then RailsForZombies.com is a completely browser based interactive tutorial for Ruby on Rails, from there I too would recommend the Rails Tutorial which just got a Rails 3.1 Chapter today.
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I think there's a converse to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory—let's call it the Greater Reality Stick-up-the-butt Theory. Basically, in real life, we enforce social norms on one another that we don't actually see the merit in ourselves, because others expect us to enforce those norms and punish/shun us if we don't enforce those norms (think of the monkey/water story: http://freekvermeulen.blogspot.com/2008/08/monkey-story-expe...). Anonymity allows for the relaxation of those norms, because nobody's around to catch you not calling someone out for doing something that you would normally call them on, but which you actually see no rational reason to be calling them on, besides some vague sense of "propriety."

Basically, anonymity allows people to treat everyone around them as utter foreigners—you don't expect me to have any grounding in your culture, and I don't expect you to have any grounding in mine, so neither of us "needs" to be upset when the other does something that is uncouth. Because of this, discussion can concentrate more on facts, and less on signalling, which I (and I think many introverted people) find a less stressful mode of communication.

Tangentially, I think this explains why many people on the internet have a annoyance-trigger at the undefined name-dropping of specific locales within, say, the US (with the usual response of "we're not all from the US", even if the person stating that is, in fact, from the US)—it grounds the discussion in a specific culture, which increases the likelihood of some subset of the people in the conversation finding a valid means of conveying subtext—which then leaves others out of that subtext, creating a kind of I-can't-enforce-norms-I'm-not-aware-of anxiety which is projected into a problem with the context being introduced in the first place.

In a lesser way, this is also why people tend to overreact to women who identify themselves as such on the Internet: they're introducing an ambient cultural context that increases norm-enforcement anxiety. (Interestingly, there's a specific name for Internet-age gender-role-relative-norm-enforcement: "white knighting." It's quite common to see people calling the practice out, though usually even the people themselves aren't sure precisely why they're unhappy about it.)
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He won't use linux as a desktop OS because linux isn't windows.
as if node.js didn't make it trivial enough, it's built on top of socket.io, which now handles the concept of channels for you :P

Bi-directional message passing in real-time is a solved problem and I am not sure how many companies are willing to pay a license for this type of software if they can get away with using a hosted service like Pusher.
I want one. Pre-loaded with memories of Marilyn Monroe.
And so this justifies starting out with a legal sledgehammer instead of a polite "You don't have the rights here, please stop" letter?
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Worth pointing out that the Instagram launch was on October 6, right in the middle of that gap between Camera+'s banhammering over VolumeSnap and their December reinstatement. Talk about great timing.
1) So basically your explanation goes like that:
"Discrimination against immigrants is justified, because it's a law and other countries discriminate even worse than the US".

I hoped for somewhat better reasoning than that.
If you take "it's a law and it must stay unchanged" principle to the heart, then you would be dead by now killed as invader by one of American-Indian tribes.

2) "Opening borders to everyone" has very little to do with "Stopping discrimination against immigrants".
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House locks pickable from 0ft away via $15 lock pick set. Or, you know, a crowbar.

A lock keeps out casual thieves, nothing more.
A lot of hikers do that, or use a liner which is a lot like a sleeping bag, but attached to the hammock and unzips for cleaning.
He probably isn't. I wrote a login system for an ecommerce and b2b site a while ago. Got heavily into the salting/hashing side of things back then. Based on that... I think that most of the people pop-pooing salts in this thread don't know what they're talking about.

This security layer is the only code I've ever written that years later would still cause me to wake up in the middle of the night thinking "oh no! What if an attacker did X, Y and Z??!!"

Note: as far as I know, the security I put on it has never been broken. But it still caused nightmares even so.
I recently used the Apress book "Beginning Rails 3," and I thought it was very well done and easy to understand for a beginner. It takes you through the building of a basic blog application and touches on pretty much all the important areas. I found the more involved tutorials on the web a little hard to follow for some reason.

After you have the basic understanding from a book or otherwise, the best thing to do is just start on your own project and rely on Google/Stack Overflow when you hit a roadblock.
The quote "We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret" is interesting. Do the public and the authorities have a different attitude when you do this with physical security vs. electronic? Sometimes people have been threatened or even arrested for demonstrating vulnerabilities, as we know.
Government agencies can open doors in few seconds without taking a picture and creating a duplicate. It takes trained locksmiths few seconds to open doors without breaking it. Its only about will to get in.
Any facility secured by only lock and key is vulnerable to anyone with a pickgun or a lock pick set and a little skill anyway. Security isn't reliant on locks, it's reliant on behavior.
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What he means is this: you subscribe by telling the site your email. Then, if they ever find your email in one of the publicly released documents, then they will notify you by email.
This reminds me of the story from a few years ago when Diebold got itself in trouble for showing pictures of their voting machine keys online: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066

This also has me thinking about the "Light Field" story from two days ago. ( http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=2681554 ) If that technology becomes common, and camera resolutions continue to improve, I bet you could lift people's thumbprints from photos of them waving on Flickr. That sucks if you use a biometric thumb lock like they do in the shared office space I work out of.

Your thumbprint is like a password which you can never change. If your thumbprint appears in a single photo of you ever, there's no locksmith that can help you get that JPEG back from Lulzsec! :-)
While not built for his demand, Kubrick was also one of the first to use the Steadicam for full effect in The Shining.

I think he is a good example of someone who didn't want to settle with a "bigger horse".

I've seen his collection of film and foto equipment in the film museum in Berlin and it filled the complete main room of the museum. Kubrick was a true nerd for the technology he used, but usually used it for effect, not just for fun.
I believe that for a continually-updated game like TF2, they can continue to make money as younger gamers age into the game's target range (it helps that you can't really resell Steam games). I don't believe there's a strictly limited set of people who are willing to buy any given game.
Good for you. I've started working with Ruby and RoR about three weeks ago now, also from PHP. These are some of the the things I've read/watched to get a grasp on the whole:

Why's Poignent Guide To Ruby
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

I found the RailsCasts invaluable. It's great to just see someone code stuff, instead of finished examples:
http://railscasts.com/

Read every one of the Rails guides:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

I started reading Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby yesterday, which is absolutely awesome. I'm already half way trough. Wish he could rewrite every programming book I ever read.
http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio...

It felt really daunting at first, because it seems there's so much new stuff to learn (Ruby, Rails, Passenger/Phusion, Gems, Capistrano, RVM, Rake, db migrations, etc etc). But hang in there. As I said, I started only a couple of weeks ago and already feel like I never want to go back.
I don't think they've figured out what their job is. I tend to favor people over authorities because I've seen what happens when public servants become "we know what's good for you" rulers.
Same here. I think the results are very bad. They say it's not about the results but about branding. Well to be honest I can't remember there logo already though I read the article..
We used this, when I was at Apple, to make the Parental Controls web content filter (which I worked on), among other things. It works surprisingly well.
I'm totally not seeing it.
You'll find sample code in the iOS and Mac Developer Libraries. The prerelease libraries can be found at:

http://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/navigation...

http://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/navigation...

(Drop the "/prerelease" to get the publicly available, non-NDAd libraries.)
Don't make me invoke Godwin's law on you and your "I'm just doing my job" clause.
I don't know, there might be a way to do it still for Canada. For example cooks and chefs can get a PR card o_o, it would be good for your health to take up a 1 year cooking sabbatical or something (geek out about diet and such). Australia accepts computer professionals on arrival also under the software engineer category (60 points, pretty good!) with a skills test. Australians also have a TN like arrangement with the us, but it's a dual intent visa (E-3) so it's even easier to get the green card. The waiting period although is 6 years (5 years + 1 year citizenship test & passport generation). Singapore is also extremely quick if he has the gumption to start a consulting business there, or get employment, it's possible to get PR in 6 months and singapore also has a special TN type H1B. Singapore although is a 1 passport citizenship, it's major downfall. Mexico also has the TN arrangement along with Canada as a part of NAFTA and Chile also has a TN like arrangement also. The somewhat open secret with these TN visas is that even if they are not dual intent, if your willing to stay in the country until green card and renew inside until you have it you can still successfully for permanent residence. You can also apply directly outside of the USA for permanent residence under the EB-* visas. You'll be waiting years and have to have a really really nice employer/friends who's willing to wait that long. There are also the dual intent L-1A, L-1B visas. There are options for immigrating to the USA, even if it might take 20 years in the end...

http://canberra.usembassy.gov/e3visa/qualifying.html
http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/175...
http://www.guidemesingapore.com/relocation/pr/singapore-perm...
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Pidgin has a/v for all Unices and that may just include Mac OS X. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
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Watching the video right now. This seems enormously valuable if it works. I'm wondering how much of this research is in the public domain. Far as I can tell, what's smart about it is that it can find its own categories as well as classify documents into those categories based on nearest-neighbour. So in some sense it figures out that, say,"kitchen appliances" might be a category for some corpus, while "kitchen utensils" might be another... depending on the documents it's trained on. (for another, broader set of documents, these things might be the same category... "kitchen items" or something). Not sure how well this automatic semantic categorisation has been done (in public research anyway).
Sadly, I simply cannot agree. I absolutely understand Marco's desire to focus on developing Instapaper, but there's quite a bit more at stake here, and his willingness to move on without even a bit of protest is concerning.

He claims that there's nothing that can be done, but there are definitely legal actions one can take in this scenario. Sure, they might not ever fully compensate him, nor convince the skeptics, but it will at least reveal the details behind the seizure, and it will send a message to both the FBI and to others like DigitalOne that could prevent further "seize first and ask questions later" style operations.
That's disgusting. Only in America.
The last couple of years, Steve has said that he's sorry he can't find a bigger venue. Perhaps that's the problem? Which venue could the conference use to support more attendees?
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Exactly - I fail to see how this is news at all. Anybody with a camera and internet connection could figure this out in a few days.
This is way more complicated than just bumping the lock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xkkS2p7SuQ
afaik these are only in the paid versions.
You are pleading for the wrong thing here. I don't think a manager cares about how you think his employee should work. Or how "hollow" the success is.
I'd say that's an overly internet-communication-favoured assessment of the situation. Note that people from the same culture talking over the phone also tend to pay less attention to whether they're offending the other person involved. At least part of the difference in communication style is simply because it's easier to not care about how you're hurting the other person when you can't see them, or directly observe their reaction.

Anonymous communication over the internet (for all its many, many virtues) depersonalises communication, and that has both good and bad results.
They seem to assume Safari is the only OS X browser that can play HTTP live streaming on a Mac.. I'm pretty sure Chrome can (via Quick Time?), and I know for sure that VLC can.

Can't think of a way of feature detecting HTTP live streaming though, so even if user agent sniffing is bad, I guess it's better to show that useful error than having IE and others display a blank area with no error messages.
I have this weird vision that apps (and apps stores) are just a temporary solution for current lack of fast wireless connectivity and not so strong CPUs in mobile phones. I believe that in 3 years from now, apps will be so passée...
Picking/banging a lock leaves forensic evidence that a duplicate key would not, even when performed by experts. Google "lockpicking forensics" for lots of information.

Anyhow I guess your point is still valid. Someone wanting to get in and out of your house without living a trace could use some other means not necessarily involving the door, though most of the time they would risk looking suspicious to potential witnesses.
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> for showing pictures of their voting machine keys online

But how do you not show something online? If it can be seen, it can be photographed. If it can be photographed, anyone can put it online.
Great to see UC San Diego research on the front page again :)

a similar technology has been commercialized: http://dittokey.com/

also similar but relatively unrelated: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-duplicating-house...

These efforts are unaffiliated with the authors but provide a far more tangible result.
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Steam is completely integrated with the game. The server browser in-game is actually just steam, so it really would make no sense at all to have TF2 without steam.

What exactly is your critique of Steam, just that you are fundamentally opposed to DRM? I do agree that it's something that I don't really want automatically starting up with my computer (even though I'm a pretty heavy gamer, I don't use the steam friend chat or anything) but as a platform and a piece of software it doesn't seem too trashy.
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Yes, totally agreed.

The release of free TF2 actually made me realize how there may never be a TF3 -- or at least, not for many, many years. There's little reason to. The gameplay is very good and the engine they are running on is in no way a limiting factor.

The only thing TF3 would have to offer is graphics, and with TF2's "cartoonish" style, I have to wonder what there really is to improve upon there.
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So technically, I bought TF2 last month. But what I really bought was the orange box, which happens to include it.

I really doubt many people are buying TF2 by itself anymore. Anyone who hasn't played it will almost definitely pick it up as part of a bundle.
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I was going to say, a weekend studying lock picking (which is definitely a fun thing to learn) and you can probably pick open a great majority of the houses out there in very little time...
however, even if not practical this research is pretty interesting
I wonder if this also works for the Abloy locks which are the most common type here in Finland: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_tumbler_lock
The message is the standard "scratch your own itch", "work on something you're passionate about", "pivot", etc. stuff you've heard before.

NowJS had been doing some iPad app that improved the online shopping experience. That was going well, getting traction and good feedback, got them an offer for $1M of investment, etc.

But they realized (thanks to PG questioning them) that they didn't actually care about shopping that much, and they were a great team whose strength was really solving really hard technical problems, which also interests them more. So they were trying to decide whether to pivot away from a successful idea. After some indecision they gave the idea that turned into NowJS 1 week of their attention and built something very promising, so they gave it a bit more time, and then they decided to go with it.
It does assume that Firefox will become more like Chrome. In fact, the Mozilla foundation has explicitly said they want features that are very similar to what Chrome offers today. They're working towards a transparent auto-update mechanism, they just shipped a new add-on mechanism in FF5 (http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/06/21/add-on_sdk-builder...) that is much like Chrome's and is thus less likely to break on major upgrades, and they have explicitly stated they plan to release major new versions every three months. Just as with Chrome, they're de-emphasizing the major version number.

Expect FF6 soon and FF7 before the year's end. Expect the version number to become less meaningful.
Yeah I dispute this statement. i think MS release plenty of good services & research for public consumption, though off hand I can't point at any.

*edit
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/cs/w...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/wikibhasha/
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Nope. As a privately held company, they have zero interest in making their balance sheet public. They obviously have little trouble getting investment or making deals and have little to gain from publishing their finances.