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It's pretty astounding to me that if you write sometime in "code" (read: another language) you have to provide a way to "translate it" (into English I presume).
It's not my problem if others can't read my brain dumps.
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How do I stop being so damn lazy?
The slide is offensive

Agreed.

because it relates to objectification of women.

Assumes facts not in evidence. He doesn't like one particular woman; this doesn't generalize to demeaning all women.
Did you know the majority of car insurance firms (in the UK at least) will ramp up renewal prices by a few % each year? I did sales for one such company a few summers ago, and we were told this was intentional - and if someone calls in, and complains, we just offer them to new sign-up price.

I use GoDaddy because I manually renew all my domains at the same price as I signed up for. I agree their UX is awful, and they're not the most "good" company in the world... but it serves me for what I want out of a domain provider!

Renewal price hiking is a common practice... you just need to be a smart shopper if you want to save money!
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I am on Firefox 5 and I don't see visible differences between them anymore. Yes, Firefox 3.x used to be visibly slower.

I also don't see visible differences in boot time, but this depends a lot on how many extensions you have -- I only use Firebug and the Web Developer toolbar. And at least Firefox has plugins that aren't totally useless.
I always used whatever real animation tool (Anim8or, Blender, python+svg+ffmpeg) I was most comfortable with and rendered the animation to a non-looping GIF. Embeddable almost anywhere.
And I didn't manage to read it with Javascript and IE8. It seems that it's all because he uses http://sitebricks.org/ for his site. It is also unreadable the same way.
GoDaddy now owns nodaddy.com, what happened?
I just noticed that nodaddy.com, Fydoor's site collecting GoDaddy horror stories is gone. It is now owned by GoDaddy and has an IP of 0.0.0.0

Does anyone know what happened?

This has been my favorite place to point people to over the years when they start having problems with GoDaddy.
Same thing happened to me for a $200 dollar cert. I complained through their support ticket system and they issued me a refund.
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This is one of the reasons that I find the Fifth Amendment to be important. Without it, the DOJ could simply ask any murder suspect to reveal where they stashed the body and murder weapon, charging them with obstruction of justice or contempt of court if they didn't answer. This, of course, would be a serious problem if the accused didn't actually commit the crime.
That might warrant an entirely new circle. I suppose it's up to your tastes though.
"But I know that he deserves better than to wake up seeing this on the front page of Hacker News."

He is in almost complete control over this. Or he was when he woke up the morning of the conference.
I have an email list with 304,985 contacts:

34.5% yahoo.com

24.0% other

13.9% aol.com

9.9% gmail.com

2.6% comcast.net

2.2% msn.com
What is a product if not the sum of its features? Features aren't extraneous things, they are what your product actually does.

This article strikes me as one big platitude to be honest. Yes, simplifying your interface and creating well defined interactions are very good things. Yes, your product will be better (and more successful) as it gets easier to use. I agree with that, but that doesn't mean stripping away functionality is always the right approach.

Most here would agree that the iPhone is a pretty functional device. Its hardly "simple". It does a ton of things really well. It's not that the device has stripped away features, it's that they have implemented all of those features really well.

I guess I'm saying this: don't blame features for terrible UX. Blame poor engineering.

edit: I also want to address this:

You’ll never win on features against a market leader*

This might be true, but not always. Often you can clearly differentiate your product at some low level, but you still have to build out a commiserate feature set to satisfy customer needs. In the end you have a better product, but adoption is slowed until you achieve feature-level parity (at least on certain core features).
I might generalize that to say that "better to ask forgiveness than permission" just doesn't apply to customer relations.
Looks nice, but it seems to have a significant price premium over GoDaddy (seems to be $14/domain/year + $120/year for DNS). Is the benefit worth the premium?
I completely agree with you. My sister in law was talking about working for a high-profile lobbying group because "That's how real political change happens." I pretty much felt sick to my stomach right then and there.

Unfortunately, most of us (myself included) realize that's just the way things are now. I'm not defending this position - just commenting on it.
Prosecutors stressed that they don't actually require the passphrase itself, meaning Fricosu would be permitted to type it in and unlock the files without anyone looking over her shoulder.

I wonder if anyone has thought of using more than one keys as a decryption possibility. I've always considered it, but never figured there'd be too much use. Say, have one correct key to decrypts data stored in one way, and another key to either "decrypts" into a pre-generated text, or another variation of what's stored. I guess it latter might be too content dependent.
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Why Should Apple stop suing Samsung,Amazon and others?
I just used inkscape for the first time last night, worked out pretty well. See the first slide here:

http://www.iobound.net/iocopy-talk/

Another thing I experimented with for the first time is doing all the slides in html / css / js. The jQuery-Presentation plugin [1] works as advertised, and with css there was considerably less hairpulling when it came time to start tweaking layouts and positions. The content for each slide is written in markdown. You can see all the source for the presentation here [2].

[1] https://github.com/davist11/jQuery-Presentation

[2] https://github.com/acg/iocopy/tree/master/talk
yes, but lobbists determine which streets get paved..
I wonder what is the fastest growing online network ever? I'm guessing maybe Live
Um, lots of families do BOTH of these things.
I'm sure the OP would appreciate a Haskell implementation optimized for clarity (not for speed). I wonder how speedy that would be.
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The $12.99 price is a special price and always has been. You can still find discount codes and apply it to them when you renew to get it at the same price.

Godaddy can be insanely cheap if you never auto renew and always manually renew with discount codes.

Though yes you need to get off Godaddy. As do I. Just waiting for a little more revenue from my site to move to Rackspace Cloud :)
Windows PCs from about 1994 to now have been an example of "only execution matters". The whole industry is commoditized, and the only way to compete is on price. This has produced really low quality, lowest common denominator junk.

Since Apple's software was not compatible with the windows market, Apple had to build a culture of innovation. This innovation has served them well.

Google seeks to rip off apple's innovation with android (the multi-touch UI, etc.) and sun's innovation by copying java and "giving it away". A lot of people think this is "open" because it is "Free" and because google is open sourcing the code-- why not, they stole the technology in the first place. It doesn't matter that they clean-room duplicated it, they didn't have to incur the cost of discovering it.

The result is, predictably, a race to the bottom in quality and price for android handsets.

If you want to get rid of patents, ammend the constitution. What I don't hear much from anti-IP people is what they want to replace it with. Have you considered what things will look like when all this technology-- rather than being published openly for everyone to learn from and to use as a starting point for coming up with new things-- becomes a secret that is closely guarded?

It seems the anti-IP people want to be able to use other's innovations (Eg: Apple, Sun) but without having to pay the royalties for it that the patent system imposes--- and without also using these patents as a starting point to come up with something new.

If android had come up with something genuinely original, then the anti-IP perspective would be undermined by android starting with Apple's IP (Before coming up with something new.)

But since google just copied Apple, it sound to me like wanting something for nothing.
Don't know if I agree with this conclusion that people will pay more for apps now. What if iPad apps are raising the average? iPhone and iPod touch owners may not have paid a cent more than they did the year before for any given app.
With opression it's a little different, because you can be an opressor even if you don't want to. Yeah, that's not fair, tough luck, that's how privilege works.

A perfect illustration of ESR's point.
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw title, glad someone else linked to it.
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Do you think the government should have subpoena power in order to collect evidence? Do you think they should be able to search a murderer's home for the weapon?

Of course they should. But that's no the issue here. The issue at hand is whether or not the government can compel you to give them information.

Consider this. You have a box, buried in the Mojave desert, with some documents in it. You've memorized the gps coordinates of this box. Should they be able to compel you state those coordinates?

Sure, they could search 100s of square miles looking for your box, and they might stumble upon it. But they shouldn't be able to force your to tell them where it is.

An encryption key is the same. They can try to brute force it if they wish. They're just looking for a much smaller box in a much bigger desert.
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Agreed, although there's degrees of accuracy. Since carbon was formed in stars you could also say that fossil fuel is harnessing the power of the stars. Fusion is the primary mechanism at the core of a star and would also be the primary mechanism in a fusion reactor, that does make it a partially valid comparison. (Supernovas use a different mechanism.)

But let's not write off fusion over fission because the most common reactor in the solar system has a comparatively low energy output. It does kind of underemphasise the immense amount of energy that nuclear power generates per unit of fuel.

It would take a few kilos of seawater to power a family for a year (a single person drinks tonnes of water each year). It should be very safe compared even to non-fission options. The output is relatively clean, especially compared to non-fission options. Excluding initial R&D costs, it should be more efficient than fission in therms of $/W.
They have plenty of competent computer forensics guys and equipment. But even with all of that, proper encryption with a strong passphrase is infeasible to attack. Forcing the key holder to disclose the key is the easy, inexpensive first step.
Apple files suit against HTC over patents... again
Perhaps. But we obviously do care about it, for whatever reason.

If you're looking for media that cater to people in the mainstream, there's always USA Today and Reader's Digest.
Actually, that's not too far off. If you were hired pre-2010 your stock is probably worth > $1 million by now. That goes up by some constant multiple for every year previous to that.
Truecrypt has supported that kind of plausible deniability for a while.
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For her sake, she has a hidden & real TC volumes -- i.e. she has both a real and fake TC OS volume. I don't know of any other encryption methods that allow hiding a volume within another volume as such. Even so, if I boot up your fake volume and it's pretty apparent it hasn't been used in 8-months or simply has a blank My Docs folder, I don't know how that will go.

I suppose somebody could make the argument that all that unused space is slack or something like that ("Oh yeah I only use 20GB/200GB HDD). Though, as people have said, this is pretty new territory.

Perhaps I misread the article, but I didn't see a mention of whether this involved hidden TC volumes or not.

EDIT: Clarity.
The books are exceptionally good 'technique' work, especially the baking book.
You can also buy a RapidSSL cert from namecheap for $11 every year, no coupon codes.
I've never seen anyone use the word 'may' so many times. And a 'might' and 'perhaps' in the same sentence at the end really sets the tone well.
I just wanted to reflect on the point that $25,000 in the bank is "no personal savings".

To me thats 6 months at my current rate and a year being frugal. I'm aware its totally different economics than myself, but it just kinda made me laugh.
I was expecting

“iOS users buy more apps and pay more for them than Android users.”

but instead this is about

“iOS users buy more apps and pay more for them than last year.”
Yep, definitely over the cable not over the air.
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What's the point of this? I don't understand, why would I ever want a notification in the address bar that a G+1 link exists on the page?
Oh pedant, I thoroughly apologise for my ignorance. May my vegetables all die, my breath smell for eternity and my armpits flood with hair and engulf the earth.
The usual suspects are (in no particular order):

Namecheap
Name.com
Moniker
DNSimple
Gandi

I think i might be missing a few but these are the most popular i remember off the top of my head.
The thickness of the cards does sound like an appealing draw -- so far, my biggest gripe about the cheap memo pad is that the text can bleed through, plus it can sometimes be a pain in the ass to get in the margins.

Thanks for the tip.
all i'm saying is that you can't say a right cannot exist because it lets bad things happen.

in this case, there may be a right to silence. i don't know (i am not american) if that "really is" a right. but if it is a right then it exists even if it allows, say, a paedophile to escape justice (through remaining silent). it's not nice, but it's the price you pay to help guarantee freedom.

[edit: it's perhaps worth adding that you could make rights more complicated. you could say that there is (or should be) a "right to silence except when it's a password", for example. there's no prima facie reason why rights should be simple. but there is a strong practical reason why rights should be simple: they need to be simple so that they are easy to understand, easy to defend, and easy to use. again, this is because rights - real rights - are critical, might-be-needed-to-save-the-world things. and that is also why there should only be a few of them.]
Google Reader.

It lacks the ability to block multiple instances of the same article (from the same or different feeds).

It lacks the ability to to block by pattern (I really don't care about articles about Justin or Selena).
I think you're missing the conflict between allowing reasonable search and the right against self-incrimination when the thing being searched is an encrypted laptop.

At least agree that there is a conflict here; otherwise you're just being dense.

AFAIK the govt. cannot compel (legally) anybody to reveal the combination to a ticking time-bomb; or the location of a murder weapon etc. How the hell is asking for a passphrase any different? Do you really not understand the nuance here?

The other point is that AFAIK the govt. has never asserted the right to compel a handwritten note to be deciphered. The govt. doesn't assert the right to systematically read people's mail (even postcards); but they do so wrt electronic comms. I think we can safely state that almost all comm. is going to be electronic in the future. That's why this is important. This is yet another example of the govt. trying to trim back rights that the hoi polloi have enjoyed for a couple of centuries.

As to why this is important: you might have read the quote that six lines by any man's hand are enough to hang him.

Sorry, I meandered a little there.
She was clearly throwing it at the other attendees.
Suppose someone uses my wifi connection to hack into, say, a Sony server and retrieve a database of credit card information.

The government would have evidence and reason to believe I have that data. So, naturally, they'll get to seize my laptop and apparently can compel me to unlock it and allow them arbitrary access.

It seems to me that they don't know the stolen data resides on that laptop any more than they know whether I have a hidden volume that contains the data they're searching for. So if their evidence is good enough to compel me to produce a password, why would it not be good enough to insist a hidden volume contains the data and that I'm withholding the sought-after data?

If someone can simply say "nope, no hidden volumes here" and that's the end of it, it would be trivial to defeat a digital investigation.

In short, I'm skeptical about what defines the reasonableness of an investigation and this apparent power to compel arbitrary access to documents.
Perhaps there is room for a CSSLint fork that would more easily allow one to pick & choose the opinions they actually care to consider, a la http://jshint.com/ (a jslint fork).
There is no effort involved in putting people in multiple circles. You just drag them into whichever ones you want or click on multiple checkboxes from any of their profile chiclets.
Just wait until you climb the ladder a bit more, and begin to believe that you cannot possibly survive on less than $200,000 in the bank.

Expenses add up, and you make your way down the slippery slope of labeling things as "necessities".
" A common algorithm for succeeding in the App Store is take Popular App A from 2009 and re-implement it with new graphics and perhaps an additional gameplay mechanic and release it as Hopeful Popular App B in 2011."

Not disagreeing with you, but isn't this the common algorithm for most things? I can think of TV Shows, movies, books, websites etc. that use the same algorithm.
I totally agree with you. The same thing happened to me with another registrar/hosting company (ipage). Hosting for a year went from around $50 to over $100 with auto-renew. I did receive an email notifying me of the upcoming renewal but no price was included in the email.
When I confronted them after the fact they told me that the information was on their home page where it says something to the effect of "Hosting only $50/year" and then right underneath in small print "(save 50%)".
Maybe I should have assumed that saving 50% now meant I would be charged twice as much the next time but I guess I'm not that bright.
Also, when asked for an explicit price list in a chat session, they gave me a link to a page buried in the FAQ to which, they acknowledged, you couldn't get directly in any easy way.

I guess they're all the same.
"What the Debt Ceiling Really Means"

- from a conservative think tank's perspective. No one blinked an eye from the conservative side as deficit spending rose all through the Bush administration and the debt ceiling got raised 7 times.

Heck this article may even be technically correct but it skews hypocritical when it only becomes an issue during Democrat's administrations.
hearing these two posts made my a bit happier; to be honest. I'd felt that there is something "wrong" with me being not as comfortable in typing as I am with pen and paper. Yes, I am more productive with plain pen and paper and I will stick to it.
There's a big difference between job stability and personal risk. People who work in startups will sometimes have jobs that stop existing when the company goes under. So what? They move onto the next project, or join a bigcorp, or do consulting. There's a filter between business risk and personal risk.
I'm starting to realize that the success of Android is, in part, a triumph of open source and that's got people scared. And now their attacking it with everything they've got.
It sounds like you won’t accept the “you deserve it” argument

Good for him then. That's an argument I hear far too often that, in my opinion, appeals purely to greed and fosters self-entitlement as if it was a good thing.
I watched the demo video and went looking for a download link.

Really well done video, nice ideas, but no download and no mention of how/when we could try it? Does it exist?
Thanks Vanchi! Leafsnap is great and I enjoy using the app. When we launched the Project Noah app last year, this space was empty, but lots of new and cool apps/websites are out there now. Also check out iNaturalist and Scispy (by the discovery channel).
Federal investigators and prosecutors aren't dumb. For all of those scenarios that you mentioned, it would be easy to tell whether or not this was a laptop that she used frequently.

Where did she get it from? (or from whom? - she should be able to say.) In what condition was the laptop found, on her desk? opened? screen saver on? or powered down? in a pile, covered in dust? any fingerprints or other signs of use? Any removable media present? They can look in her office for passwords written down. They can check her mobile devices for password managers and compel her to unlock those.

Understand for the case to even proceed to indictment (which happened last year), they have done all of this work to make sure that their case is pretty solid. There are pretrial hearings, and depositions and other things which lawyers do to answer all these questions about whether they can prove that she really should be able to provide the password.
"Mainstream users don't care about Google+, if they've even heard of it."

that would probably come as a bit of a shock to my 40+ muggle friends on google+.
On the downside, if you can find exactly what you have here, somewhere else, the cohesiveness of "here" will dissolve, community spirit will be lost and the desire to defend what you have will dissipate. Why spill blood defending This Land when That Land over there is just as good?

I'm a pretty solitary guy most of the time, but I do feel we stand to lose a lot if the sense of "we have something special here, we need to cultivate and protect it accordingly" vanished.
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No one blinked an eye from the conservative side

Well, the Republican party might not have raised a big stink about it, but plenty of conservatives were definitely complaining.

Edit: colindoc84 almost has a good point, so edited.
As fellow history buff, I was fascinated to learn that decimation was used as recently as the 1930's. By Italy against Libyan tribesmen.

But, I agree with you decimate has long had alternative meaning of "destroy almost completely"
Perhaps. I do like to consider myself one of those people who think i wouldnt be like that, but obviously i'll never truly know until it happens. I remember when i had my first job, i thought my £650 a month wage was loads, now thats just my rent.
You still make the assumption that the prosecuted knows the password and is implicitly guilty.

Imagine for a second that I was less technically minded and didn't use encryption and I purchased a used laptop from someone who did, I then get caught up in the legal system (guilty or innocent for the charged crime, it doesn't matter, but I did not use encryption) and some prosecutor has a warrant to compel me to unlock that encrypted volume, else I be held in contempt. What now?