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I wonder if the form would have worked anyways. People bring work laptop home that IT might have configured to not use ActiveX

Though you're probably right, probably would have failed.
"Could this be the dawn of a new 1960s?"

No. In the 1960s psychedelics were part of the counterculture, whereas today the research and interest is all (purposely) revolving around their potential as tools for the mainstream. In fact that's probably the biggest thing we learned from the 60s, is that if we want these substances to be accepted then we need to integrate them with our existing culture, institutions, and values. If you go to any of the conferences on the academic research into psychedelics then one of the first things you'll pick up on is how much most of them hate Timothy Leary, or at the very least his legacy.
It doesn't matter only you reach Google, Verizon, Twitter or Amazon status. Let's face it, very few will reach it and there's a lot of money to be made by others.
Ouch. That headline puts us in a bad light. Worse, it doesn't even convey any new information as people with Aspergers tend to be more concentrated in the computer sciences than other fields. Who hacks into things? Likely only computer scientists. But you knew that already. What you didn't know is that people with Aspergers are going to hack your website! Alert the presses! "Aspergers made do it! Mein leben!"

This headline is like saying "Rape suspect deemed to be a homosexual!" Even though it may be true in many cases, everyone infers the wrong association from it.

I'm disappointed the BBC chose to frame it this way. They could have conveyed the same information by focusing on what he did, not what they think caused him to do it.
I used to ride the Raleigh-Charlotte route often and regular riders would show up 2 hours late because they knew that's when it would get there from D.C.
Asif Zardari got married to Tanveer Zamani in Dubai
I'm sorry but this is a horrible argument. Granular security is critical to having a system that can actually be locked down. Which is why SELinux support is built into the kernel now.
You do know about the /win command, right? That combined with a window list [0] works great.

0. http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi#channel_statusbar_using_...
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Weekned Coding Challenge over at Forrst. Presumably for designers.
This reverse deal idea didn't make any sense when I heard about. But I have been surprised before, so would interesting to hear counterpoints.

The fundamental problems as I see it just starting with user persective: 1) I put in effort as a user to create a deal - with the high chance of no payoff - why would I ever do this the first time, let alone the second time 2) I have to wait for other people to join - so gratification is at best delayed 3) Very likely the deal will not be accepted by the merchant.

The ideal model for coupons would be take out the high cost of sales in this business. And getting businesses to go to a website and submit their deals by themselves. Of course SMB are notoriously slow to adopt new technology (many still advertise in YP). But over time, they will get there as well and the winner will be whoever is there when SMB begin making the move.
For one thing, it makes a lot of difference whether or not you have a safety net when you're on a tightrope.
I don't quite follow you. You seem to be saying that AT&T is smart enough not to do things that aren't cost effective, so there must be a reason for this.

I think that's overly generous. Aaron Patterson spoke at RailsConf. He said he works for AT&T, and to submit an expense report, he scans paper receipts to a PDF, emails that somewhere, which converts the PDF to a fax, which faxes it somewhere else to be converted back into a PDF.

That is clearly a stupid process. It's not there because AT&T has analyzed the business logic; it's there because a large, old business can accumulate layers of bureaucratic process more easily than a small, young one. There are more committees and more inertia. And maybe if you make billions, wasting thousands of dollars worth of employees' time doesn't make you sit up and take notice.

I'd guess this web form is a similar problem. If you have a 5-person company, everyone in the company hears customer feedback and maybe talks to customers personally. I doubt the CEO of AT&T even knows this form exists.
Can ICANN really be necessary?
That story ignores so many of the issues related to growing up in poverty. If poverty is all you've ever been around, it's never as simple as just "working hard and making good decisions".
Yes, the 'z' in hi-z and lo-z cables is the standard variable name for impedance (like 'v' for voltage or 'i' for current).

'AC' in this context means 'not DC', which is to say 'varies over time'. Instrument cables certainly qualify under that definition, though it is definitely confusing to call it 'alternating' (which we normally think implies 'goes back and forth between 2 states'), where perhaps 'varying' or 'time-varying' would be more appropriate.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176497

You can change the 'Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Yoyodyne' string to whatever you want.
Most very poor people are not young, athletic, with good physical and mental health, no dependents, and the background security of being able to leave their circumstances immediately any time they want.

The book is "Scratch Beginnings" by Adam Shepard, btw.
You can do this on Windows Phone 7 too (and I believe Android), but it's still very awkward.
Ignoring the triviality of the question itself, I am frankly more stunned by the responses. I assume it is a problem with Forrst demographics rather than a general state of affairs in modern programmer circles. Is it not?
Because the bottleneck is not the trains, it is the rails. The tracks themselves are privately owned by freight railroads. To truly make high-speed rail will require a new era of track building.
Audio signals are alternating. The voltage corresponds to the sound pressure picked up by the microphone, which typically looks more or less like a bunch of sinusoids.
I tend to ignore advice from people who I consider unethical because I generally find that their advice runs counter to my personal goals, my approach to work, and (obviously) my ethics.

Take your advice, for example:

One of my sites got closed down by a hosting company. Some stupid reason. I was thinking about closing down the other site hosted by that hosting company too - Didn't, Stuck with it and that site has ended up making me $440K over the last two years.

I've never had a site closed down by a hosting company. I don't even know why I would have a site closed down by a hosting company. I also don't know why I'd walk away from a product I'd developed if it was shut down by a hosting company.

To me, it appears that you (and Bob Parsons) have VERY different ideas about personal fulfillment, and as such, your advice (and his) don't really seem to apply to me, outside of the fortune cookies style generalisms ("don't quit", "push yourself").
I was struck by the part about the OSX ASLR implementation. I can't believe they only randomize library loads :-/.
here's the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_Beginnings
I'm on irc since 1994 or 1995. Currently running one irssi session under screen 24/7 on a bought shell account as well as Bitlbee so that I can access Facebook and Gmail chat inside irc, too. That means I don't have to leave irc or ever setup anything else to access my messages. Bitlbee is absolutely golden.

Generally, I'd say irc is much more productive than the now-more-typical IM solutions or the webchats of FB/Gmail.

First, it doesn't interrupt me: I'll have it running in one of the tabs in one of my terminal windows. My irc never comes to check on me, I'll go check on irc but only when I want to.

Second, it's persistent: I'm online all the time, I get logs of whatever happens or whoever calls me during my absence, and I can easily review them when I'm back online. Yet I don't need anything but a mere ssh client to access all my messaging.

Third, irc can help me keep it touch with my personal friends but it can keep me in touch with healthy communities as well. Never seen an online chat "room" or IM chat window that had a collective soul as many old irc channels do. I'm a frequent on a few channels, as time permits. I mostly just help (relative) newbies with programming problems these days.
Besides the fact that the idea makes no sense, I find it downright wrong that Loopt is enriching itself at the expense of local businesses. Establishments work damn hard to establish a brand, and here is Loopt going around shitting all over them, without consent.

This is where I'd hope trademark law kicks in. Here's hoping Loopt gets what's rightfully coming to them.
Group buying is actually a variant on an older practice called Tuangou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuangou), which Loopt is recreating here.
Tony blair webmail hacked
Malcolm Gladwell advocates being late
Greater fool theory. They hope to dump it on a bigger fool and make money
I mentioned it quickly on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ChromiumDev/status/76634744607096832

And updated the MDC docs on it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.setTimeout#Minim...

I'll get it added to www.chromestatus.com now.
I disagree. When it comes to highschools in the United States, things are so viciously easy outside of the AP/IB track that you can sleep through class and still get a high B or low A.

It's anecdotal but its confirmed by foreign students that I know who came from abroad to begin schooling in the US.
I was referring specifically to civil matters, not criminal ones. A relevant example would be a claim that D defrauded P; a finding that D intentionally destroyed evidence that would prove the fraud could be used to support a finding of fact that the fraud occurred.
In the case you're talking about, impedance means "characteristic impedance", i.e., one parameter which (along with speed of light in the given medium and length) defines the behavior of a transmission line. [1]

It is the same thing in the sense that mathematically both are a complex (i.e., Real plus Imaginary) relationship between voltage and current. However, a transmission line is a two-port network while a capacitor is a one-port network, so these two senses of impedance correspond to different physical phenomena. In a capacitor, the impedance defines the relationship between voltage and current at the port (i.e., between the two terminals of the cap; this is sometimes called the driving point impedance). For a transmission line, the characteristic impedance defines, among other things, the equivalent impedance seen at one end of the line when the line is either infinitely long or an integral number of wavelengths long and terminated at the other end by an impedance of the same value as the characteristic impedance.

Instrument cables do indeed carry AC signals, inasmuch as the signal on the line corresponds to the frequency of the note(s) you're playing. AC is just "non-zero frequency"---any signal which is not a constant, unchanging (DC) value is considered AC. So, 50/60Hz line power is an AC signal, the 2.4GHz signals used by your 802.11 network card are AC, and middle C (261.6 Hz) is AC.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic_impedance
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When I first read about this - it seemed like a new Groupon angle that might have some legs.

Seeing it in the flesh - it feels wrong. It's passing-off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
This is actually just the tip of the iceberg for OS X vulnerabilities.

On the enterprise side, it's much much worse. AFP is heinous. Their kerberos implementations are painful.

They actually have checkboxes in OS X server config screens that say: "Prevent man in the middle attacks? Yes or No?"
I think that's quite funny. If he really was poor, that unexpected family member becoming ill would probably have knocked him back financially / meant he had to take time off work to care for them whatever.
The fact that he could give up without consequence when his family member got ill is significant. If he was actually poor, caring for his family member could have put him back at square one again.

[Edit: oops, someone else beat me to it]
"In other words, he spent his money wisely and was able to vastly improve his lifestyle in less than a year."

He also had the privilege of a good education and good upbringing. You are making way too many assumptions to think that all it takes is wisdom and good decisions. What we can think and do is strongly shaped by our environment, and getting yourself out of poverty is harder than you think.
"I think it's appropriate vocabulary when attempting objective analysis of neurological/psychological phenomena"

Without getting in to a deep conversation on objectivity, neurology, and psychology, I'll just say that I don't think these issues are so clear cut as to allow anyone to definitively say that he's on the side of truth and the phenomena he describes are "nothing but X", whatever that "X" may be.

"When I said "real" in this instance I was referring to the physical existence of objects perceived, your ability to reach out and touch them."

There are plenty of things that, even according to the "scientific" world view, purportedly exist and yet can't be touched or directly percieved, such as x-rays and atoms.
Use the Index, Luke (CC licensed book on DB performance)
Agree Facebook is the player that could be a serious competitor to Skype.

But their strategy would indicate that they wouldn't implement federation. They would create their own closed system. Facebook is all about growing the value of their social graph, but with very limited interconnection or federation.
Andrew Carnegie would disagree. He didn't start out rich, but he ended up (very) rich.
It's not just typically a bunch of sinusoids: Fourier tells us that it is always the sum of a bunch of sinusoids.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
If every parent raised children that are polite, articulate, and compassionate, being marginalized in High School wouldn't mean much, would it?
As a FB user,I'd like to say that I turn off all applications that appear on my feed- no exceptions. This does not reflect on the spamminess or otherwise of individual applications. It just means that I only use FB to interact with other people. So you should not draw any conclusions about the character of applications from the fact that I removed them from my feed. I'm sure a lot of other users act in a similar manner.
Loopt is causing conflict with a business's potential customers simply by making such "deals" public when they don't actually exist and are meant solely to show businesses that customers want discounts. Off course people want discounts, but that doesn't mean the business is willing to give said discount.
In certain help channels, for complicated questions, you would be amazed with the quality of the responses you get from people just hanging out in channel. Being able to paste code and work with someone in real time to troubleshoot bugs has saved my bacon probably hundreds of times by now. Great examples of this are #jquery, #postgresql and #perl on freenode.
The article said nothing about search results going back to the board.
{ name = "#startups"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "yes"; }
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Apple has fewer advisories because it's their standard operating procedure to sit on security bugs for several months and then patch them all at once, even if their contemporaries are patching them as they appear.

If you look at the numbers for OS X as opposed to Windows XP, OS X has 1,544 vulnerabilities in 153 advisories (~10.1 vulns/advisory) and Windows has 472 vulnerabilities in 358 advisories (~1.31 vulns/advisory).

Unless you have a good reason to believe that bugs in Windows are nearly eight times "more unique" than bugs in OS X, please don't compare advisories.
>It isn't about lack of opportunity. It's about wise choices.

...and knowing wise choices exist. If you're brought up to just get by and the people all around you have the same mentality knowing that there's a superior mentality requires looking outside the box. This is where mentorship and real education (beyond education that conditions you to just show up on time) are valuable.
I'm from Argentina, and high school is (or used to be) a nightmare for nerds here. At least it was for me.
personal opinion about security is all well and good but they wont make you any more or less secure

either for what its worth osx really provides nothing impressive on the security front
personal opinion about security is all well and good but they wont make you any more or less secure

either for what its worth osx really provides nothing impressive on the security front but apple seems is however trying to catch up with everyone else it seems so that's good...

quicktime, itunes their pdf rendering system, how their updates are handled and now they respond to and treat security researchers .. I mean just look at the permissions on the binaries in your applications directory or plugins in ~/Library seriously?
Logic Studio. There is Cubase on Windows that comes close in functionality but is nowhere as intuitive and easy to use.
Stephen Jay Gould, Samuel Morton and Investigative Bias
OnSwipe is the new scribd
You might be dead before you get to spend it.
Uh, how is a browser plugin different from a client-side application? They're both running native code. I don't see any technical problem.
My weekends look like my weekdays
As an engineer (though admittedly one at Microsoft), Steve Jobs seems like he'd be a /horrible/ boss. All appearances suggest that he doesn't care about good engineering, but rather that he cares about good user experience, damn the torpedoes.
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Notational Velocity. There are Windows clones, but they suck really bad.

Really, with the Mac, it's the frameworks.

Acorn and Pixelmator are great and all, but I think that Paint.NET on Windows matches or exceeds them.
Conversation between Steve Jobs and Developers at WWDC 1997
Loopt seems like a democratized version of group purchase organizations (GPOs), which have been around forever and are used, for example, by groups of hospitals banding together to get bulk discounts on the things they regularly buy.

If you got ten of your friends together and put in bids on Loopt for a few different pizza places, it's not too different from the GPO process. You are basically saying, "I am willing to buy 10 pieces from you at this discounted rate." It makes me wonder if most of this talk about brand erosion etc is mostly alarmism.
Last I checked, the record for 2.4GHz links was something like 100km. Why are you skeptical?
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I'd be very likely to buy this for my mother or recommend it to others who need a simple and safe environment.

With a bit more polish, a Linux locked to a rigorously maintained package repository could also fill this niche.
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Of course it drives advertising revenue -- in the same way GMail does. More people using Google accounts every day is a plus for Google.
but that is micro-business formation where there debt load is not a penalty due to the low costs of setting up a micro-business, vastly different from a start-up where debt load is a penalty factor
Skype is a P2P based application so performance can vary considerably based on your location and network topology.
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ha! That cracked me up as I had the same reaction. I'll add that, while I agree with the gist of athst's comment, the advice was much better than the average for this kind of article.
ACL's are not even close to what selinux, apparmor, and smack are trying to accomplish.
Not everyone is Andrew Carnegie. Perhaps other mechanisms to reduce poverty will be more effective.
The point he was trying to get across is that Apple shares attack surface with other Unix operating system vendors, which -- given his assessment of them as derelict in resolving vulnerabilities -- increases the harm their users are exposed to while Apple is sitting on fixes that other vendors have already written and deployed.

No piece of software is synonymous with insecurity -- except, perhaps, Sendmail. ;)
>>> Are they not trying? Are they trying, but making too many bad decisions? <<<

I think that the answer is a combination of bad memes and human nature. I ask almost every auto-rickshaw driver whose vehicle I sit in about their income and how do they live. I then listen to them and offer them suggestions that might help them out. It turns out that things just aren't that simple.

From the article;

>>> Indeed, they may well be more driven by ideas, simply because they have less information about the world outside and, therefore, feel a greater need to use their collective imagination to fill the gaps in their knowledge <<<

It's crucial to understand that these people haven't seen any examples to the contrary. They just don't have access to them. They live in societies that are highly stratified and tend to learn, quickly, to obey the hierarchy when it comes to outsiders, because if they "step out of bounds" the consequences can be ugly. So, they simply don't have access to people with good memes, and their minds are shaped by that narrow microcosm. Neither do they have the means to understand how to attain something better, because for them that's the only existence they know and it is what it is.

This might be maddeningly annoying for you and me, but think about how your upbringing and the social circles you run in have shaped you to thrive in your environment. How can someone use those metrics and ideas to eke out success in the hierarchy of a remote african tribe? (I'm talking about concrete, implementable ideas not abstract ones)Well, you say that you'll learn them, but if no one is around and you don't have the means to teach yourself said memes how will you ever learn? Yes, you'll scrape on by, but you just won't thrive.

They just don't know any better. Moreover, they don't even know that can be changed.

Think about it.

Here's what I think is the crucial ingredient;

>>> They don’t just need nutrition that will keep them alive longer—they also need a reason to want to live longer. Being healthier by denying yourself the little pleasures you can afford, a cup of tea or a bowl of steaming rice, makes little sense if you have nothing else to look forward to, <<<

That man had something to look forward to. They don't.

For them survival is ugly and fraught with absolutely no meaning and it's been that way their entire lives. Anyone would ponder suicide in their environment at least once. This helps them to keep sane and escape the drudgery, which is a bit like the rich and the middle class taking extravagant holidays, or going out to get drunk etc. It's something to look forward to, but for us we have other options that give us the same satisfaction. They don't. Partly because they can't visualise them, but mostly because of the daily grind to survive.

So, don't judge them. They are real people just like you and me.
rcirc mode for emacs is all I use now. Makes it extremely handy to copy paste code to chat or vice versa using scpaste. Plus rcirc integrated with Bitlbee and libnotify to give me desktop notifications when someone says my name (or other configurable keywords). Does everything I need with aplomb while staying out of my way.
I agree. They didn't even say anything about asperger's in the article, it was just stuffed in the headline and synopsis. Using mental health conditions as link bait can't be good for the stigma of those who suffer with them.