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I see the exact opposite. I see a call to stop thinking and align yourself with an ideology. e.g,

"Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir."

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_true_believer
I never really understood talent acquisitions. They are still puzzling to me. If you only need the talent why pay for the company? A huge chunk of the money you are paying for a company goes to the investors.

Why not just offer the people that you like multi-million dollar signing bonuses and have them join you. But what if they want to stay in the company and believe in their product, you say. Well if that were the case why would they agree for their company to be acquired in a deal that shuts down their service?

I don't know, I must be missing something.
NASA, like most government institutions, is wasteful and inefficient. The private sector can develop cheaper, safer, more efficient rockets, in a fraction of the time. Elon Musk, among others, has laid out ambitious goals; much more ambitious then the previous goals of NASA.

This is not the end of space exploration; on the contrary - things are going to start advancing at a much faster pace.
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This is true, though I think the grandparent's point was more that it is still a strictly better security situation than before, in that they can't change the password and remove your access to the account, but you can instantly remove their access (by password revocation). I'm not sure if he/she actually meant that all you could do was read the victim's mail, but yeah, he's wrong if so.
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The old Unix hacker in me likes Ksplice, from a hacker point of view.

However, I wouldn't use it, except in exceptional circumstances (e.g., there is a patch we have to apply now but we can't do scheduled down time). I want to reboot after an update--even an update that does not technically require it--because I want to know my system is in a state that can boot.

It is very annoying to do some update, not reboot, and then a couple of months later a power failure takes down your systems and when power is restored you get some kind of boot error and you are wondering what in the last several months you did that broke it.

A few minutes planned downtime now in much better than hours of unplanned downtime at some indeterminate future time.
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It may be hard to reach out from here

2574 New Zealand companies with 1-10 employees are listed in Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/csearch/results?type=companies&k...

Largest discussion group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Kiwi-Scrum-51900?gid=51900

10 hn accounts:
http://hackernewsers.com/users.html?User%5Bcity%5D=Auckland&...
It is an extension of themselves. Any process that involves elections in the US is now basically corrupt and open to the highest bidder.

They sleep by telling themselves that the "enemy" is doing it too, and how they wish the world wasn't this way, but being a pussy about it isn't realistic and so why shouldn't I make a living. Same logic that says if I don't shove this Jew on the train, they might be shoving me on it.
Indeed I would think most bloggers would look for alternate sources.

I also find I tend not to follow links if they are identified as NYT, and the loss of the ability to push links to Instapaper has really killed NYT for me.
Why aren't clients fleeing Goldman Sachs?
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None of your links are working for me.

The only things in archive.org right now appear to be a half dozen issues from the mid-1800s.
Totally agree with your last sentence. This is an EPIC review, and drove me to clear some diskspace and buy and install Lion.

I like it so far, some nice touches, but there really are some serious usability issues, including discoverability, with Mission Control. Very unlike Apple, at least for the last few releases of OS X.
Impressive.. Just proves that age does not matter and you can achieve anything if you have the will..
I find that the easiest way to escape is to go incognito in chrome.
Actually uniques should have gone up from people dodging the paywall with multiple machines/browsers.
They should be if they are payed for by public funds the same applies to software. Of course that doesn't apply to defense or otherwise potentially dangerous software but the general rule should be to opensource government contracted development because if they don't have a good reason for not doing so they are probably doing it wrong.
html + js is already a computable document format, and it runs everywhere, not in a proprietary viewer.

Pretty sure this won't catch on.
There's a reasonable IT market in Auckland and Wellington. You won't earn as much in NZ as in the US and there are probably less start-ups per capita, but that said, I've worked for quite a few startups - they certainly exist.

The biggest difference I think is that in NZ, VC is harder to get and there's less of it.

Re: NZ - most of the beautiful bits and good trails are in the South Island whereas most of the IT work is in the North Island, so you probably need to be prepared for a little bit of flying (though, it's 1 1/2 hour flight from the northern most big city to the southern most one)
I personally like it, except for the flowers under the header that seem cut off, and the logo seems to need some clean-up. Maybe just leaving the top ornament on the "d" and the ending ornament on the last "e" could do the trick.
Interesting notion that you have to pay a license fee if you want to charge for the document. This means that if you want to do a consultancy report using CDF you have to pay a separate fee even if you already paid for the authoring environment (Mathematica). Maybe Microsoft should pursue this licensing model?
I can think of a few reasons. One is that Apple want to minimize cruft and crap bloating the install. I think my fresh install weighed in about 6 GB or so. Very nice, just 20% of a 30 GB drive.

Another is that software still built with old tools and compilers will still be using old deprecated toolkits, more cruft to keep running, and likely will be unsupported, potentially creating a crappy user experience.

It is really neat that really old stuff still runs on Windows, but why are people still running crappy old 16-bit software?
Where is the hole? How does an attacker use this "hole" to elevate priveleges?

Given a different title I might not hate this story/commentary so much. But this guy is just looking for his 15 warhol minutes...
All of the listed factors also apply to marriage. While I am single, it seems like marriage is HARD all by itself. It takes time, effort, communication, and patience. Adding a start up on top of this is going to make it more difficult (although I would never say impossible).

What's more, running a start up is a formative experience that will likely change you. It would be challenging, though by no means impossible, to have a successful marriage while the character of the two people who form its basis are changing.
I'd like to know if they wrote their DNS stack from scratch or, if they started it from an open-source codebase, if it's too affected by the problem.
What I find frustrating is the pervading opinion that all of Java = 2005 era J2EE
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You wanted to authenticate with your MAC to someone on a different layer2 topology?

You do realize that anyone can change their MAC address right?
> No, if someone gets the password you've set aside for your IMAP client, they get access to all services.

OK, I guess it would be an improvement to record the first-used service and lock it down only to that. Still, with the old model grabbing the password still gave you access to all services; this is definitely not a degradation of security from before.
Winklevosses lash out at Larry Summers over remarks
Ya, I think that's a good point; we can all agree that two factor auth is a significant win for users and it's good Google has done it.

I just think people should be clear on what the keys can and cannot protect you against. You mentioned revocation -- one thing that will motivate people to do timely revokes is being aware of the potential harm of leaving these keys active after they are compromised. From what I recall of Google's setup process, they don't prominently tell people to be sure to revoke their keys in certain situations, e.g. you lose your iPhone, you lose your iPad, you lose your laptop, etc. It's easy to get the impression while activating 2-factor auth that these keys are more limited than they are and that you don't have to worry too much about them.
Perhaps you're thinking of the ".mhtml" file-format, supported by IE since before IE6? It saves a web-page and associated files as one MIME multipart/related stream, much the same way that images are included in emails.
It's perhaps easier to go the other way.

Can you find this online? "Description of the Brain of Mr. Charles Babbage"

T1 - Description of the Brain of Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character (1896-1934)
VL - 200
SP - 117
EP - 131
PY - 1909/01/01/
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1909.0003
M3 - doi:10.1098/rstb.1909.0003
AU - Horsley, V.
Many of Britain's citizens aren't too happy about free speech, either. But we try not to pay too much attention to them.
Hi ! I'm a Kiwi currently living in Sydney - on "West Island" as we joke in NZ. There are some world class companies based in NZ, e.g. http://www.wetafx.co.nz/. Of course, you won't find a startup scene like Silicon Valley - but the commutes and cost of living are also far more manageable. Also consider that many emerging markets are located in Asia and NZ is better aligned to those time zones.

I'm not up to date on job opportunities, but would suggest that it's a great place to launch a bootstrapped startup from. The World is indeed Flat - the internet has abolished the tyranny of distance if your business model doesn't require shipping goods or face-time with people from all over the world. Good Luck !
If anyone is curious where the money to run arXiv goes, here is their 2010 budget and their business plan.

http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_budget
http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper
Some other physical comparisons that could have been included are actually the size of stacking 400 million people on top of each other, how big that would be, and also how much food they would eat in their lifetime, and how much oil and/or plastic goods they would consume. Other than that, I agree with a lot of the other comments here, big numbers are big. "I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..." - HHGTTG
From the Haskell X11 binding:

-- this assumes bytes are 8 bits. I hope X isn't more portable than that :(
This issue is being fixed & should be done by tomorrow or so.

It isn't affecting ALL domains. It appears to be an issue with CNAMEs/APEX only.
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Kinda lame how Microsoft does this, perhaps it's some underhanded ploy to assert there relevance?
SwipeGood Raising $8,500 to Build School in Kenya (YC Startup)
You, me, and a bunch of our friends are going to change the world in just one week by building a school in Kenya for hundreds of deserving kids. If we reach our goal of raising $8,500 in 7 days I will travel to Kenya to help build a school and report back to you exactly what we've accomplished. Let's make this happen!
Eurozone debt deal to allow 'selective default' for Greece
It absolutely does not. Have you heard of the QE* programs from the Fed?
Well sorta. You wouldn't be able to login to your Google account with these "application specific passwords", correct? So your mail/google docs are still protected, no?
Does that sort of technology work directionally? Typically the place was so crowded that you'd often have 40 other people within 15 feet when taking a photo, so it'd have to identify exactly the people in front of the camera, and not to your sides or behind you.
Turntable is how music startups should be done. Super impressed with these guys.
This is more about an appropriate response to the absence of laws. If a government arbitrarily enforces the laws and refuses to consistently follow them itself, the result isn't quite anarchy but it's getting warmer. I'm not proposing a law, because I'm not suggesting that due process ought to be followed in meting out the punishment. Due process need not be followed because if you can't provide a reasonable guarantee that it will be observed in any given case, there isn't much reason to have it at all, and in fact it starts to work against the public interest if it will be followed only when necessary to protect the powerful but disregarded in order to pursue and oppress the weak. There is a narrow but growing range of offenses in the US for which, if accused, you can forget about the courts. What we see here is another has been added to the list.

As an aside, my original comment has sparked quite a large discussion, for having so many downvotes.
Well at least now they're picking on companies that can fight back hard. The Rovio guys and everyone else on that list have the cash to really mess up Lodsys's schemes.
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Here are a couple of recent articles on New Zealand's startup scene:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-new-zealands-...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&#...

NZ's economic forecast is positive at the moment (unlike countries such as US or Australia) but our tech scene is still quite fragmented across the country (though it is a small size country compared to America).

Probably the biggest NZ tech startup is Xero (http://www.xero.com).
Actually, it requires the "Wolfram CDF Player". http://cl.ly/8gCn
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One of the most important factors to be added is the director Thomas Bezucha has managed to deliver some interesting films previously delivered yet another entertaining film A laugh packed joyride that had proved
Why indeed. It's just a publicity stunt, of course.
Stop using the words "left" and "right" or "up" and "down". You're confusing yourself thinking about "right" hand or "left" hand. In mirror you's world, those words have different meanings.

Instead, put a paper bag on one hand and stick your hands out. Look in the mirror. Your "bag" hand and mirror you's "bag" hand are both pointing the same way!

Now stick the bag on your foot. Look, mirror you's bag foot and your bag foot both point the same way!

Now stick the bag on your head. Look, mirror you's bag head is in the dark!

But seriously, everything in the mirror is oriented congruently with this "side" of the glass. The appendages wearing a bag always match up. "Bag hand" and "not bag hand" match just like head and feet do.
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The client has to support it though; can't think of a mail client I've used with oAuth support.
What is it about the Apple/Adobe dichotomy that causes the "post first, think later" mentality? I'll be forever wondering this I think.
There isn't rational thinking behind this. There's a lot of money and a growing fear of becoming irrelevant.

The people running a company like Google don't necessarily have wisdom you don't - see Microsoft, Yahoo! or (especially after dismantling Google Labs) AOL.
The wording on this article makes it sound as though this was NOT an acquisition of the company, but a "job offers for everyone on the team" sort of deal. To be clear, was the company acquired, or did everyone quit and join Google? How do investors generally react to deals of the latter form?

Edit: The Techcrunch article [1] states that the company as a whole was acquired, in this particular case. However, how do these deals work out for investors when the company is not acquired, but the entire team quits and joins Google? Note, this is seemingly what occurred with YC Summer 08 company Scoopler yesterday, as mentioned in the TC article.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/g-google-acquires-privacy-c...
I read that as: Please give me two time slots you are available for a meeting, and I'll pick the best one that matches my schedule.

I did not read it as: I want to pitch this over two time slots to you.
Given Oracle's recent activities, I would guess that Ksplice's patent applications are the real prize. There are two that are published:

The first is "Method of finding a safe time to modify code of a running computer program": http://bit.ly/ksplice-1

The second is "Method of determining which computer program functions are changed by an arbitrary source code modification": http://bit.ly/ksplice-2

These are just applications for now, so there is no telling exactly what the claims will look like when they finally leave the patent office. Nevertheless, you can assume that Oracle will keep these alive so that they can address every possible way in which these can be applied to patching running programs.
html + js doesn't have a standard way to be shared outside a website. Additionally, the skills to produce an interactive cross system compatible diagram in html/js is outside most people's abilities. Additionally have you seen the horrible code that most wysiwyg editors produce? I think this will have a niche purpose, but I doubt it will succeed without some big player picking it up and running with it. (MS Office, Apple?)

An additional thought, could probably take these documents (haven't looked at the spec) and generate an html/js representation easily enough.
in case anyone was wondering what the date is and how it was picked:

http://www.gatorlug.org/node/208
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So would that make this the first step of "embrace, extend, extinguish"?
i keep reading in the press that color had a "superstar" team and this was a main driver of the massive funding. Yet, I've never seen an explanation - why are (were?) these guys generally considered "superstars" ?
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That's cute. It's not always true, or rather, sometimes the strongest action is a public comment, statement or apology.
If you're curious about what these papers are, here is a hack at exposing the metadata in an easily searchable format. It would not be hard to scrape the PDFs to searchable text using unix tools (doesn't come out very readable) and render them as SVG files with inkscape for easy browser viewing:

http://robocracy.org/royal-search/

https://github.com/bnewbold/royal-search

Lots of good old stuff, such as "On the Double Organs of Generation of the Lamprey, the Conger Eel, the Common Eel, the Barnacle, and Earth Worm, Which Impregnate Themselves; Though the Last from Copulating, Appear Mutually to Impregnate One Another"

This is all available elsewhere, i'm just trying to demonstrate how low the barrier to search is with OSS tools; I hope all these papers end up on archive.org with full text search!
I partially agree with the author, this does seem like a big deal. I was ecstatic with this feature because I felt like the odds of my email being compromised was near zero but not so much any more.

I have 10+ application specific passwords and I was under the assumption that these were "application specific". I thought that my Google Talk application specific password was linked to the Google Talk services (and couldn't access other areas of my Google Account). The fact that my entire email contents can be leaked via IMAP if any of these generated passwords get out is kind of scary. Yes, it's still much better than before but not nearly as secure as I assumed.
I think this issue would be well covered by fraud statutes. I don't see how additional regulations are necessary.
I thought it was pretty sneaky to switch the base size of the tower of money in the WTC pic. For one thing including any rendition of the WTC is a powerful image, one that's usually invoked on purpose to stir emotion. Secondly to inflate, compared to the other pictures, the quantity on display is rather deceptive.

Is it someone with an axe to grind, or a political motivation? The WTC imagery + "WOW LOOK AT THIS DEBT WE SOMEHOW FIND OURSELVES IN ALL OF A SUDDEN" smacks of the Tea Party\far right to me...
No offense, but if you're writing them down or typing them, you're probably doing it wrong. (not to discount the fact that yes, applications are still storing it somewhere)

No really, I have a dozen application specific passwords and I've never, ever written them down or typed them in by hand.

Hey guys, Google's 2-factor-auth is not oAuth. The functionality that everyone is clamoring for... is the exact technologies used when using Google Accounts properly. Google, behind the scenes, uses OpenID and oAuth to authorize access to parts of your account...

But the application specific passwords are for the "legacy" applications that don't support oAuth properly. The sad thing is that Chrome is one of my biggest users for App-specific-pws.
If you have a seed image then Google Search by Images solves this to some extent.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html
This is true for what it's worth (and you acknowledge that there may not be 'good money' in solving this problem).

If you _really_ wanted a picture of yourself from the expo, you'd have gotten someone to take a photo of you. So your interest (given that it comes from after the fact friend-curiosity) is right at that marginal level.

If you just wanted some non-specific photos of the expo without any particular goal in mind, that's already easily done, as you saw.

So what you're looking at here is people with specific goals in analyzing a photo stream but who didn't, for one reason or another, turn up and take photos to meet these goals. I don't know if you can make any kind of money - good or otherwise - from providing a service to such a marginal set of customers.

The exception might be law enforcement - find some better photos of the guy who followed a woman into a bathroom at exactly 12:42, or the person who grabbed someone's purse, etc.
I think that the FBI isn't really the overblown privacy killing big govt overlords that this lil anon skirmish seems to paint them as. The FBI, for the most part, do a mighty fine job of enforcing the law and keeping the peace. Also the FBI operates largely on a case by case basis, they are not an intelligence or defense agency, they are in the justice department.

I think the orwellian big govt agency these hacker guys seem to base their doctrine against is the NSA. The 'we can listen to any phone call on the planet, imprison our whistle blowers, collect every bit of data on everybody, consume 1/4 of the power of the baltimore metro area for our data centers, have projects so secret you didnt know you didnt know about' NSA. Either anon knows this, and know they stand NO chance hacking the NSA, or theyve been misguided on who to target. my vote is a bit of both... I'm not gonna give you sources on this, but there is plenty of legitimate and credible reading out there to satidify your curisioty.

Also, hi out there to all you intel analysts reading... ;)
Money quote:

> Multiple APK support gives you a variety of ways to control app distribution. For example, you could use it to create separate APKs for phones and tablets under the same product listing. You could also use it to take advantage of new APIs or new hardware capabilities without impacting your existing customer base.

That is absolutely fantastic news.
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