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I simply log in my university VPN...

So in your country does everybody get a taxpayer-sponsored university VPN for life? Or are you speaking from the highly privileged position of "current university student in a well-funded school?"

In any case, it shows a tremendous impoverishment of imagination to claim that Google Scholar is equivalent to an actual free market in research. I want the footnotes in publication A to be directly hyperlinked to the relevant sections of their associated references. Otherwise we remain in the position where random TV shows on Wikipedia have better public documentation than our taxpayer-funded research.

I'll put your 95% assertion to the test and report back.
Hmm; true. Maybe just passes with large, simple QR codes on the front of them, then? Then the device taking the picture wouldn't even have to decode them just-in-time; the data would be encapsulated in the picture itself.
> I have a PhD in economics.

Some anonymous internet user claims they have a PhD. Quickly, everyone, throw your brains out of the window and believe everything they say.

> It's working. Iraq's death rates are tumbling, and now it's even lower than ours.

Now I am not sure if you are serious or meant your post to be sarcastic. Maybe I underestimated your subtle sarcasm. But just in case it wasn't. I wonder why was Iraq having high death rates? Was there war going there? Maybe some sanctions were imposed too? Do you know? Or is recent history not part of the economics PhD dissertation.

> I wish you would rely on actual data and facts for your responses.

Or maybe just claim I have a PhD in economics so I don't have to provide any data.
Rust of course :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29
> Anonymous (...) could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive?

Anonymous has been involved in attacking Government websites from Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Siria, etc. Lulzsec has attacked also AlQaeda sites.
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Good idea! I've done the same. Good for when Cisco sales reps contact me as well.
Oh whoa is you. I don't respect the rights of multinational corporations. The horror!
You build it and the users will come.
Just to scratch my itch, I developed a service for all immigrants (http://ismyprioritydatecurrent.iklavya.com/). The service does not even show up on google results since I didn't market it at all. The only thing I did for marketing was to include it as an external link on wikipedia. And I was happy to see that 10 users signed up for the service. Just wanted to share with the community :).
Oracle is extremely aggressive about IP enforcement - and just because you haven't heard about it in court, doesn't mean that it isn't happening. Ninety-nine percent of these issues are settled quietly. I have been on the other side of licensing discussions twice this year alone.

It is not just patents - they are actively trying to monetize their IP, including changing license terms (see the evolution of the license for the JDK/JRE download, particularly the "Definitions" and "Commercial Features" sections), modifying support structures (see the modification of MySQL or OpenSolaris support prices and terms) to drive more revenue from what they bought from Sun.

I understand why they are doing this - Larry Ellison being a billionaire and all - and I am not calling them a troll (unlike, say, Intellectual Ventures).

Nevertheless, I would not shake Larry Ellison's hand without checking my pockets afterward to see if I had just incurred a licensing fee.

As to your question: There is a substantial difference in value between a patent family that is closed and a patent family that is open. An open family can have continuations that contain claims specifically modified to read on work-arounds, whereas a closed family can only be interpreted to read on work-arounds through broader claim interpretation or the doctrine of equivalents.
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... a piece offering in the form of a flash video?
I don't where you buy your fish, but my fish counter has a fishmonger behind it who is eager to answer questions. Any good fishmonger will know when the fish came in, how the fish was caught and a good number of them will know if they are sustainable.
Ha, hadn't thought of it that way, but I can see what you mean. I added it to play around with Canvas, while tying in with the half-tone dot motif in the header.

It could definitely stand to be a bit more subtle, though.
Paper #1: field: applied physics

Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 1095 (2000)

Result: no free link on Scholar. I can buy a copy for $29, or there's a new service called "Deepdyve" that will "rent" me a 24-hour glimpse at the paper for $2, no printing allowed.

Papers 2 to 20ish: works by the late Judah Folkman, field: cancer research

Here we have better luck; maybe 50% of the (very well-known) works on the first two pages of this search have free PDFs:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=J+folkman&...

Still not feeling the 95%, though. Of course, I may not have worked in the right fields. This is a big reason why I switched to software, after all.
We have a lot of ex-pats working in NZ (including my fellow co-founders at iWantMyName).

http://iwantmyname.com

You need to make a trip down here and get involved in the tech and business networking scene and meet some people. The start-up scene is smaller and more fragmented than in the Valley. You just have to get out and network.

I would also recommend reaching out to established companies to begin with. Most "start-ups" here are not venture funded, whereas larger firms are more likely to be seeking talent.

UP is an excellent tech community that runs some cool networking events. Also, sign up for the New Zealand StartupDigest.

http://up.org.nz/
http://startupdigest.com/
> what does the author propose as an alternative if not application specific passwords?

Actually restrict the "application specific passwords" to one application.

The definition of "one application" could simple like the protocol (IMAP, CalDAV, Chrome sync, etc), or complex like an application-specific "signature" that changes between implementations/versions, or restricted to an IP address, etc.
Also note - $1,026,647 unfunded liabilities per tax payer.
I'm not talking about multinational corporations!
I'm talking about the people, individuals that did nothing more sinister then reuse a password, who's personal information was released without their consent.

Whoa is everyone except you, who's rights you scoff at.
Can anybody clarify the last line of the blog article [1]? The author makes it sound like storing data using $.data() is an async operation. The API docs make no mention of this. In some quick tests using Chrome, I was always able to immediately retrieve the value that was stored.

I'm actually planning on using this method, so I'd really like to know.

[1] "Furthermore, storing data takes a certain amount of time, so you might get a null exception if you are planning on retrieving it right after storage. There are currently no plans to add a callback to the jQuery data that I’m aware of."

Edit: $.data() seems to be async, but $(el).data() is not. At least that's what I found. Maybe that explains the difference in speeds.
Not sure why my response wasn't enough to provide insight that your brief examination of their API has not. Nor do I understand why you'd like to focus on examining that one statement I made along with what was intended to be a brief aside. My aim was to raise the question of how well the API program has worked out for Etsy and developers overall. Whether the design of their API is technologically sound or whether PHP is a good choice or played a role in their API's successes or failures is only part of that.
Greece ^kinda defaults. More context in NYT, of course: http://nyti.ms/pyJ9Ho
is Greece in default or "kind of default"?

I don't see in other headlines news.
There is at least one reason that an itty-bitty sensor like this would be interesting - you could use all C-mount and possibly even 16mm or 8mm lenses with it. That is a world of lenses that is relatively unexploited in the APS-C and M43 worlds.

But honestly, unless this camera is both cheap and programmable, it's dead in the water.
As someone who lived outside the 10 kilometer radius, but did vacation there, I agree with you. I forgot about those last kilometers.
It mentions that they are sort of forcing bond holders to accept a lesser payment. That seems like a kind of default.
Seeing the title "Greece defaults" made me things had taken a turn for the worse compared to news I'd heard earlier in the day, but no, this is just the title of an opinion piece. Other news articles are more nuanced, and in particular, the Wall Street Journal asks "What Constitutes a Greek Default? And Who Decides?": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190346110457645...
I like the trails. I didn't even notice them until they were pointed out as I don't move my mouse around much.

I also usually put an exit() after redirects, just in case.
Sometimes it's hard to tell what ends up being important. Would you have valued scientific research into space travel in the 50's? Especially if there wasn't a cold-war powered space race? Because I sure enjoy GPS and other satellite-backed technologies.
That is one gutsy move by Greg Maxwell.
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Much discussion of Google+ has focused on the differences of the way friends and sharing works compared to facebook, and whether the difference is attractive enough to bring prospective users over from facebook. Google+ has other differences which stand out to me, such as design and the fact that it's not facebook (the fact that there is an XKCD comic highlighting this as well suggests it matters to others also).
Looks like their blog is down too (http://blog.ksplice.com). This was by far one of my favorite blogs. Good, long, articles about kernel hacking. I hope it comes back up soon and isn't gone for good.
100 years ago, yes, a corporation's actions would lay entirely at the feet of people executing them on its behalf. Now, though, a corporation is made up of just as much automation—web services, manufacturing plants, stock trading AI agents—as it is humans. A corporation could do a person a wrong with no human having any sort of mens rea, save perhaps for a systems engineer who signed off on the consequences of interactions of the project components.

For example, see the many cases where hosting providers have received automatic DMCA takedown notices because some spider detected supposedly-infringing content on one of their hosted websites. Did any person decide to send these notices? Is any human legally at-fault for these actions at all?
Whether they defaulted or not is actually quite key. You see, all the CDS (Credit default swap) holders get to demand the full face value of the Greek debt they hold from the CDS seller if Greece has defaulted. The CDS writers are going to take a huge bath if this happens. This is what took down AIG, except in that case it was subprime MBS (Mortgage backed securities) CDSs that did it.
It should come as no surprise then to hear reports that developers are pulling their apps from the U.S. app stores.

It begins. "Only in America" becomes "...only, not in America".
What does this have to do with gentoo?
As I can't be the only one: CPI is the Consumer Price Index. Basically how much what you pay for something will change over time. (if I understood correctly)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Price_Index
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Ah, yes. Cover your ears. Don't wanna scare the kids. More mass media brainwashing euphemisms.

Default -> Temporary/Kind of/Selective Default

Great Depression -> Great Recession

Worthless Mortgages -> Troubled Assets

Make dollar worthless -> Increase Liquidity
The media is full of GDP-based references. Laypeople can't related to GDP, so referencing it isn't very helpful.
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Finally, that took a while. Why didn't they do it earlier?
Are you serious!?

You've got it exactly backwards: media hyperinflates things to sell and get people to watch. Our "great depression" as you call it right now is nothing like what happened in the 30s. Comparisons just serve to fear monger.
FYI there is no such thing as a "kind of" or "selective" default. It's binary. You either pay back creditors what they are owed or you dont. It's rare that a company or country defaults on ALL obligations all at once. As a member of Wall Street, I appreciate the WSJ's noble attempt to sugar coat this (article below) but that doesnt change the facts.

Ditto watchandwait below.., glad it finally happened.

http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190355490...
There's Novell inside the igloo wheedling Tux into taking the gift. Yet, the cake is a lie. It really is.
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It would be much cheaper to develop space missiles 20 years later. Especially if saved resources would have been invested by private sector into more useful technologies such as chemistry, computers, machinery etc.
Mirrors don't flip anything.

Oversimplification (ignores angle of light from object observed to eye), but here:

Imagine standing in front of a mirror, both arms straight out. A photon leaves your left index finger, travels straight to the mirror, and is reflected straight back.

Now imagine photons leaving all your parts, traveling to the mirror, and reflecting straight back.

That's all.
The sample PHP code can be done with one call to the header function using the second parameter which allows you to set the http response code. Nice article though, learned something new today.
Well, yes. You bring up good points. However, engineers like ourselves caught up in the goal of creating a One True System often run into the dilemma of pursuing the "MIT way" of doing things.

I remember hearing that there was an MIT project that had many common goals with Tim Berner Lee's implementation of the World Wide Web. It never saw the light of day because the engineers were worried to death about how documents would appear if there was a connectivity problem. Lee sidestepped that whole mess by showing the good old 404 page. Premature optimization is the devil.

The prevalence of html + js today is a testament to the fact that the ["worse is better"](http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html) design philosophy has its merits. I don't think this common document format will take off b/c of the same reasons that every other document format that isn't html + json has failed. I believe that if the browser wars have taught us anything, it's that iterative approach is the only thing which will move us closer to realizing some of your goals.
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The EU sort of rescued Greece, now Greece sort of defaults. Portugal, Spain, and Italy are not that far behind. The biggest problem, aside from Greece's fiscal mess, is that Germany can't muster up enough political support to clean up after their mess more decisively despite the fact that they are now in the same monetary union. The catch 22 of these financial crises is that inaction will result in financial meltdown, decisive rescues political suicide.
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"burn it or do FSM-knows what with it"

Upvoted for mentioning FSM, in acronym form, and not providing any type of explanation. This implies an expectation that FSM is common enough knowledge at this point. I wonder how many people just skipped over it. Surprisingly, a google search of "fsm" actually brings up the relevant page in the first search result, beating out the wikipedia page for Finite State Machine.
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Well, M$ had VBScript in their Internet Explorer too, but we aren't all using VBScipt now.

Still, some pretty sizable element of luck is there indeed.
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Is this there any utility to this at all?
People propose that plan all the time. Here's why it can't work:

While programmers like coding, researchers hate writing (they like doing research!). While there are relatively few OSS projects, there are millions of research papers (yes, millions! http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=research&hl=en&b...)

There are wiki style projects out there for each major domain. For example, quantum computing has http://www.quantiki.org. These sites are great, but they will never replace journal articles because they do not handle history or citations well. Imagine if all we had was wikipedia to tell us about the Church-Turing hypothesis? Papers like that give us an insight into the scientists' mind that nothing else can.
First of all, I'd work on your list. While it's pretty clear what "functional programming" is, the definition of "functional language" is a bit more vague. Still, everyone agrees that Haskell is a functional language. Also, just about everyone agrees that Python and Ruby, while offering some support for functional programming, can hardly be considered functional languages.

When people talk about "functional languages", they mean things like Haskell, OCaml & other ML-ish languages, Scala, F#, and the various dialects of Lisp (EDIT: and, yes, Rust).

If you really want to expand/change the way you think, then I'd say Haskell is what you want. As for libraries, there is a huge amount of work going into Haskell libraries & bindings for existing libraries. I'm not really able to judge whether any of this work is any good, however.

Scala and Clojure (Lisp dialect) have also been getting a lot of attention lately. They both run on the JVM, and so should have excellent library support.
So you need to clarify things: The problem is not with the debt but with the government.
I guess that with the patent issue, Google evaluated the fact that it will be cheaper to fight them, using lobbying, and licensing, than to pay that much for them.
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The raping of Greece's assets will now begin. EVERYTHING will get privatized, just like a third-world country.
I haven't used SoX extensively since Mandriva was called Mandrake. It looks like the newest version of SoX has a very good converter. The comparison graphs I just found and linked below show that the different converters seem to optimize for different parameters; Shibatch SSRC appears to focus on passband width, while libsamplerate's Secret Rabit Code has better time domain response. If you're using SoX VHQ, you probably can't do much better, unless you find that its time domain response causes undesirable artifacts.

As for the 16kHz sample, listening to the .m4a files directly did give much better results than playing them through Flash.

Anyway, good luck with ZenCoder.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/SoX/Resampling

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Are you allowed to break into other people's property and use weapons to enforce your own system of rules on them? Nope.

Are you allowed to lock people in a cage for decades because they do something you disagree with? Of course not.

Is the FBI allowed to do this? Well, yes, but only because they're special and you have to do what they say, not what they do. Now what's this word hypocrite you speak of?
So you're making a semantic argument, which is, you know, great, but surely there's a difference between the relatively modest haircut that's going on here and the kind of classical default in which little or none of the debt gets repaid?

The author of the piece writes as if Greece is getting off scot-free here. Is not aware of the manner in which mobs have been rioting there for the past month? This is not a pleasant situation for anybody.
And this has stopped being a mature conversation.
Have a nice day.
I've gone through the News channel in topchan.tv, which has multiple sources. Out of 180 of news clips for today, only four are related to the Greek bailout. AlJazeera has more details and it mentioned partial default, in the sense that the lenders would take a loss.

france24: Fresh multi-billion euro bailout expected for Greece
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/1/News/2011-07-21.06.h/58

france24: Sarkozy and Merkel strike deal ahead of Greece talks
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/1/News/2011-07-21.06.h/59

Euronews: Nervous Greeks await their economic fate
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/1/News/2011-07-21.18.h/7

AlJazeeraEnglish: Greece's second bailout
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/1/News/2011-07-21.18.h/11
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cool significantly during the latter stage of the re-entry glide

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Makes me think of how people have picked up metorites that have just landed and noticed that they are cold. (Though that's because the hot part has been ablated away during descent and the inside is space-temp, i.e. quite cold.)
This is great, especially for NEON/non-NEON builds...
Not every person/device can update their Android OS.

Also, the quality of the reviewers on Android Market may be naturally distributed thus 50% would have below average intelligence ;)
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Exactly. I buy that we need a space program, but as far as I am concerned a government space program has had its chance.
The question you have to ask yourself is “What does it mean?” Will readers understand what “Greece Defaults” entails? If not, then it’s the journalists job to write something else.

A semantic argument won’t help you there. If it were my job to write articles about the situation I certainly wouldn’t pick “Greece Defaults” as a headline. I would mention the default in the body and explain what that actually means. Context. Not all defaults are created equal. And that’s actually kinda sorta important.
82 Million Soon To Be Very Angry Germans, Or How Euro Bailout #2 Could Cost Up To 56% Of German GDP

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Obviously they send a street view van by your home.
This illustrates the sad state of affairs. The technology is there to distribute this equitably (using torrents). Scanning these documents is a non-trivial task and most people would only need a handful of the papers in this collection for anything but intellectual curiosity. However, the pricing and legal restrictions put in place for the distribution goes against the history of scholarship. The only reason we have lots of ancient works of prose and scholarship is because monasteries of various creeds institutionally copied these works (by hand).
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I agree. And the fridge acquisition shows that they're not done implementing new ways to share yet. I think the trick will be to make it all easy to understand.

I think another non-trivial difference is that there no ads, at least not yet. Even if they add gmail-style ads, it'll be a lot better than FB. But more importantly, Google doesn't necessarily need to make money on Google+. They just need it to help make search better, so they can continue to make money on search ads, which is their real bread and butter.