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Their general counsel does indeed appear to be taking ownership of this strategy. I wrote a short, polite email to their Board of Directors address (in my professional capacity as someone who works in this field) asking the directors to consider reviewing the company's legal strategy in light of recent controversy about this case. I received the following reply, which I hope is okay to paste here, since I assume it's a common response they're sending out to all inquiries (not a private email specifically to me), and tells the story as they see it:

Thank you for your email regarding Cisco's legal strategy, which will be provided to the Board of Directors together with this response. We appreciate your input and interest in our company.

In the specific case you referenced, Cisco discovered what it believed to be theft of Cisco software by Mr Adekeye. We brought civil claims against him and his company, and reported the matter to law enforcement, as we customarily do when we believe we have been a victim of theft. After nearly two years of independent investigation, the United States Secret Service issued a criminal complaint alleging that
Mr. Adekeye violated the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 97 separate instances. As a result, a United States District Court judge signed an arrest warrant for Mr. Adekeye. The decision as to whether to prosecute any criminal matter must be made by governmental authorities, and not by any private citizen or company, and Cisco in no way controlled the bringing of criminal charges against Mr Adekeye, nor did we contact any other agency regarding the matter.

Separately, as part of the civil lawsuit, Cisco presented evidence that Mr. Adekeye repeatedly stole information and software from Cisco using a current employee's credentials to access Cisco's computer network. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California agreed with Cisco, and ruled that Mr. Adekeye's conduct violated the U.S. federal anti-hacking statute.

The Canadian judge apparently objected to the fact that Mr. Adekeye was arrested by Canadian authorities during a civil justice proceeding. This is a matter between the US and Canadian governments, and we believe any person or entity concerned about theft of its property would have acted as we did. We strenuously object to the judge's characterization of Cisco's actions, which was based on Mr. Adekeye's allegations in a proceeding in which we did not participate and in which we had no opportunity to present any information.

Again, thank you for your email.

Sincerely,

Mark Chandler

Senior Vice President, Legal Services, General Counsel and Secretary

Cisco Systems, Inc.
You know, I don't support unions as automatically as I used to. From my amateur interest in Toyota and industrial management, one of the major problems with unions isn't wages but inflexible work rules, seniority attached to certain very minutely defined jobs and no accompanying cross training/ rotation, and general bad attitude.
It seems to me that your kernel issues are more related to your predecessor's failures as an admin than to Gentoo. Nothing you can do on Gentoo can't be done on most distributions, including poorly-done kernel upgrades.
The first paragraph of this article annoys me.

> Although the concept of copyright is anathema to many free software advocates, ....

Only ignorant ones. (For those who don't get it: if you don't hold the copyright on a work, then you can't license it, under the GPL or anything else. Copyleft is firmly and inescapably founded on copyright.)

> Copyleft licences like the GPL subvert copyright to ensure source code is always made available, ....

I'm not sure how it can be considered subversive to insist that the original author's wishes, for how a work is licensed, are enforced by governments.

That said, the rest of the article has some worthwhile things to say.

> And unlike software licences, where there are some leading licences such as the GPL, LGPL, ASL and BSD, there are no leading agreements; companies and organisations have created their own documents to get contributors to hand over their rights, so to donate code meant parsing yet another document full of legalese.

An excellent point, one worth thinking about. This is especially urgent, now that Harmony is around. Rather than simply criticizing it, it would be good to offer an alternative (or to explain, clearly, how some existing idea constitutes a better alternative).
Article does not make me want to read the book -- all the anecdotes are about how his marketing education didn't apply to Google. Every one of his stories are "I told Sergey to do it this way, he didn't listen and was wildly successful."
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well, tomorrow is gonna be fun.
Better than Silverlight.
How does a Cisco get a prosecutor on board with something like this in the first place?
"Microsoft or Linux" -> "Microsoft and Linux"

Speaks to how far Linux has come. This might be just be my isolated geeky viewpoint, but does anyone else see a world without Microsoft more likely than a world without Linux?
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Delayed action though leads to speculation and uncertainty as was shown in the past few weeks. Nothing changed in the Italian economic policy since friday last week, but monday and tuesday brought deep losses and the Italian BTP bonds reached the highest spread against the Bund in recent history. Today, 3 days later, Italy is back to a less crazy spread (still pretty high) and _nothing_ changed in its policy, 100 base points less over 300 in 3 days is pretty crazy.

The problem is not an economic problem but a political one. The cost of Greece bailout is a rounding error in Europe's total budget, the test ahead is about how the EU can start unifying the economic policy and grow more cohesively.

Lots of countries gave up monetary control power but without a unifying economic government body it's absolutely impossible for the weakest links to survive with all their issues without some help.

Lack of real unification is the problem, not economy per se. I think this is your point somewhat, am I right?
If you are considering offering your services as a monthly subscription for your clients, my startup http://TaskArmy.com helps you do that (and promote your service across its directory).
If "We don't need them anymore", why are you "really pissed of each time I found an article.../internet does that better than they could ever do it"?

"Your failed business model is not my problem." <- Yes, people should work effectively for free so I don't have to pay for my professional development tools! Collection, reviewing, editing, and distribution of articles on cutting edge topics, consumed by a tiny audience is not cheap.
That argument is too powerful. What if we spent the money we're dumping into a rather ineffective space program on $RESEARCH_X instead? Who knows what aspect of $RESEARCH_X will be important?

You haven't proved money should be spent on the space program, you've proved money should be spent on X for all X. Though this does bear a certain resemblance to our budgetary priorities of late.
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"If you rotate the pole so that is facing you and you can now see the front of the card you see that the blue dot is really on the left and the red dot on the right.

This proves that the mirror flips left and right."

All it proves is that you've rotated the card. You've done the flipping, not the mirror.

Now, without doing any rotation to the card, if the card is seen from the perspective of the mirror, the blue dot is on the left, and the red on the right.

Depending on which perspective you're looking at an object from, one side will be on your left, and the other on your right. But no flipping takes place, unless you either move yourself to a different perspective, or rotate the object. A mirror does neither. It just reflects back exactly what's in front of it.. so you see whatever's on your right on your right, and whatever's on your left on your left. There is no flipping.
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[[TL;DR for this comment - Publishers are taking advantage of a prisoner's dilemma / competitive closed market to monetize the near-zero value they supply.]]

Professors don't get much money from direct publication -- in fact, many conferences charge the professors who provide the content. They get paid by grants and their schools. Professors don't want their research to reach a limited audience. The universities doesn't want this either.

The only people in the chain who want limited access are the publishers, since this is how they make money. But between researchers, universities, grants, and publishers, the publishers contribute the least value by far. They generally rely entirely on other professors to edit their journals and conference proceedings, and for all the content. They charge ridiculous rates - often thousands of dollars for a single annual journal subscription - and get away with it because the system is not prone to change. Researchers are rewarded for publishing in "the best" journals, so no one wants to take the leap to publishing in a free space where there is currently much less prestige.

That's basically why academic publishing is messed up. Because there's money to made in keeping it messed up, and money to be lost in fixing it. But the ones who generate the real value _do_ want things to be as freely available as possible. If a critical mass of top-tier researchers agreed to stop publishing in non-free journals and conferences, it would probably start a revolution in this area -- but that's a lot to ask.

It's a prisoner's dilemma, in that the "traitor" researchers who keep publishing in the old journals will be rewarded.

(This is all about academia -- I guess motivations may be different in industry-backed research.)
I know this wasn't the point but I definitely didn't know a 747 was that big.
As a researcher myself, I completely agree that taxpayers should not be subsidizing for-profit publishers. The government is wrong to fund the production of research papers with taxpayer money and allow the owner of some privately owned pay wall to collect a toll for access to them. Great work if you can get it.

It is outrageous. Whenever the public invests in something, the public should get a return if there is one. Suppose I made you the following offer. You can invest in my company by purchasing stock. If my company succeeds, your return on your investment will be the opportunity to purchase whatever I produce as a consumer.

Question: if you took me up on my offer, what would that make you?

Answer: a taxpayer.

That's the position of the public with respect to access to scientific research published with for-profit publishers. The publisher is assigned the copyright, and collects their toll.

There is no earthly reason the taxpayer should be subsidizing for-profit scientific publishers. I routinely refuse to review articles for publication in for-profit journals. A number of my colleagues have been doing this for years, and we're all over the political spectrum.
No, the phone book most specifically doesn't - which is why you get five phone books nowadays as competing companies try to sell ads all at once.
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It's a bit disingenuous to include "collection, reviewing, and editing" in that list because it's not these companies that are responsible for the majority of those tasks, especially the reviewing part, which is by far the most time consuming and requires the expertise that is the most in short supply.

Distribution in this case amounts to little more than a file server. Nothing tremendously unique there from a technology perspective.
Interesting post, but no one enjoys the "struggles and stress of acquiring funding". Everyone I've talked to says its a degrading and consumptive process.
Science research is one thing the private sector does poorly, and it's something NASA does a lot of.

Yes, but... NASA does very little space science compared to non-scientific human space travel. Their budget for launching humans into space (Apollo, STS, ISS, Constellation) -- for shits and giggles, basically -- is orders of magnitude greater than their budget for actual science. Icy Moons, James Webb, LISA -- real science, real discovery -- tends to get budget-axed to make more room for politically-savvy STS, ISS, Flags on Mars.

Icy Moons -- first substantial progress in space probes in decades, long-delayed trial of nuclear electric propulsion -- not important enough. (Wikipedia says it was cancelled because of "shift in priorities" towards manned missions.) Order-of-magnitude greater I_sp than chemical rockets. Massive (1.5 tons payload), high-powered (200 kWe available) science juggernaut -- exploring Jupiter's moons, one by one.
New frontiers in experiment capability: scanning mysterious moons with high-powered radars, spectrometers. Total budget less than the cost of cleaning up astronaut shit on ISS.

James Webb -- Hubble's successor is killed. Hubble has no successor! This is a national shame. A hundred times more powerful, the greatest space telescope of all time, so perceptive it has to be positioned in sun-earth L2 to get away from earthshine.

LISA -- undiscovered gravity radiation? Resolving relativistic emissions of distant black holes, making new tests of Einsteinean general relativity? Sounds like nerd stuff, who cares.

In theory, it is nice that we have a government agency funding pure exploration of the cosmos (any funding, at all). In practice, NASA is a case study of how badly putting science funding in the hands of a political bureaucracy can go wrong. Very few Americans, sadly, actually understand or care about the comparatively bland-looking experiments which are science, which advance human understanding, compared to TV-friendly astronaut acrobatics tripe. So science gets marginalized; the political nature of NASA favors useless shit.

I say euthanize NASA, it has no life left.
This is an excellent question--I'm also curious to see how CDSes are affected. Logic dictates the EU would structure this bailout so that, no, CDSes cannot be redeemed, lest we see a bunch of insurers go under as well.
Ask HN: Browser Usage
I'm currently building an app that will help designers and developers, however, it will rely on a browser extension.

I'm wondering which browser you use, so I can focus my attension to building the extension for that browser first (before the others).

Thank you in advance.
Motivation matters: New research on “The Psychology of Sharing”
Etsy Shakeup: CTO Chad Dickerson Takes Over CEO
Audit of the FED shows $16 trillion in secret loans
My high school history teacher asked this same question (yes, it is that old) and my answer at the time was: Left and right are assigned relative to where you are facing, while up and down are not regardless where you're facing.

The same part of your body is reflected at the same side in the mirror (paint your cheeks with different colors; the mirrored cheeks have the same color on the same side as the normal). However, we CALL the cheek left or right depending on where we are facing. The mirrored image reverses the facing so its left and right are ASSIGNED that way, though it's the same physical cheek.

Up and down are absolute regardless of where we face. A mirrored image only changes the "facing" aspect so up and down don't change.
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Additional link: http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4b...
>you didn't read the article you linked

Is this a joke? The article specifically states:

>It is not enough to assume that ALA exerts effects through conversion to EPA and DHA, as the process is highly inefficient in humans.

>with higher levels of ALA, no net rise in the level of circulating DHA occurred [2,3]. For example, feeding 10.7 g/d of ALA from flaxseed oil for 4 weeks failed to increase low DHA levels in breast milk of lactating women [4]. Some estimate that only 5–10% and 2–5% of ALA in healthy adults is converted to EPA and DHA, respectively [5], while others suggest that humans convert less than 5% of ALA to EPA or DHA [6]. The International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) recently released an official statement on the conversion efficiency of ALA to DHA. They concluded that the conversion of ALA to DHA is on the order of 1% in infants"

Now let's examine the actual context of your quote:

>"While there is discrepancy in ALA conversion rates in rats, these studies imply that dietary ALA could sufficiently supply the brain with DHA in the absence of exogenous DHA intake. It is important to note that the hepatic DHA synthesis rates observed for rats do not extend to humans [44]. The higher rates reflect a more efficient ALA elongation process in mice and rats"

It specifically states that ALA->DHA is only a phenomena that occurs in rats and not humans.

>Studies on rats are far from conclusive... but then why claim it's a human-health fact?

Exactly my point. The human studies clearly state it is not reliably converted, and you are claiming it IS based on a rat study. The whole article I linked is based on the assumption it is NOT, and from the perspective that we should be examining the health benefits of ALA independently from the health benefits of fish oil.
It's a pay wall. Which means someone is paying to get through the wall, where less people were paying before the wall.

What I'd like to see is total revenue per. Per unique, per view, per registered subscriber, per something.

It may (or may not) be that NYT has lost the battle but won the war for revenue and profit.
I wonder as well... are they trying to hint at something?
You should check out Firebreath at http://www.firebreath.org/display/documentation/FireBreath+H...

I've used it for writing a cross browser plugin that's working under IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari (Mac OSX).
Also, just about everyone agrees that Python and Ruby, while offering some support for functional programming, can hardly be considered functional languages.

Wait to see how many people here suggest Ruby or Python, or JavaScript, though.
Which shunts the cost onto the taxpayers.

A lot less cost than the current cost of paying subscriptions to that same content.
Judge criticizes Google and Oracle at hearing
As I understand it you default on a loan, you don't default as an entity. So it's doesn't really make sense to talk about Greece defaulting without saying which loans they defaulted on. Hence the "kind of"/"selective" etc.

I read this as Greece defaulted on kind of all it's loans, so defaulted on some and not on others. The others may have been renegotiations, longer terms etc.
Business school and MBA are not the same thing. Have you considered an AA or BA in (say) accountancy, or finance and economics? You probably need to learn the nuts and bolts of corporate structure rather than the leadership and vision skills touted by so many MBA programs, which are geared more towards meeting the challenge of expanding/restructuring an existing organization. If you want to build your startup or move up to a corporate business job later, work on the foundation skills.

There's a great set of college review books from Barron's covering business basics, which are some stupidly low price like $12 a pop on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dst... This particular series is produced to a much higher standard than their other study guides and seems to come from a different business unit - well written, properly proofread, and they make for accessible but challenging introductory texts. At this price, you might as well grab a few different volumes and see which ones you find especially interesting. You're a bit late if you were thinking of going to school this fall, so see where your curiosity leads you and then go into 2012 with a strategy.
Google maintains that Oracle deserves no damages.

"Zero is ridiculous," said Alsup, who rejected Google's argument that its ad sales should not be included in estimating damages from the Android system.

"They're totally wrong on that," Alsup said.

Alsup is the judge.
NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash
If only it were that simple. It probably won't only be the Germans who end up footing the bill for this. As I understand it, German banks bought Credit Default Swaps on these loans, so there's no telling who will ultimately end up footing the bill.
I'm actually taking time off to try and sort some parts of my life out, not to work on a side project.
Man. Those graphics are beautifully rendered. What would be the best tool to do something like that?
Doesn't work in Firefox. Note to web developers: CSS animations are supported now in Firefox; please use the -moz prefix as well as -webkit.
Let's hope it isn't. Otherwise Tux might just invent combustible lemon to burn Microsoft's house down.
"kind of default" doesn't mean "Greece sort of defaulted", it means "Greece defaulted in a specific way".
Minor point of correction: the second parameter is a bool asking whether or not to replace a previous similar header. The third parameter allows you to set the HTTP response code.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php
It just means that instead of having the train quickly derail, they're going to stretch it out like it were a Hollywood movie. Seriously. No one believes that debt is going to be repaid. The politicos are just praying that the train doesn't hit the ground on their watch. If you read the text of this, it just "says" they're going to extend all the terms.

But we all know the truth. Shit is going to happen. If for no reason other than that the Greek government is going to stop working because it can't fund itself.

[Edit: What diff does it make if they're going to practically indefinitely extend the terms? And at those rates? That's like hoping that inflation will make the debt go away. Except Greece is in the Eurozone so that's not quite going to happen.]
The most refreshing thing about iOS development after years of web work is that I can make a number of simplifying assumptions about the target device. This eliminates a lot of wasted time and, more importantly, means I don't have to worry about the lowest common denominator and can really push the UI. If I have to go back to writing a lot of conditional hacks and progressive enhancement I think I'd rather just go back to web UI where my potential market is still 10x as big.
what constitutes default will be pretty clearly defined in the contract - which is more in terms of credit "events" rather than just default. See for example the ISDA definitions: http://credit-deriv.com/isdadefinitions.htm
>html + js doesn't have a standard way to be shared outside a website.

Sure it does, just send an .html file. With the <script> and <style> tags and data: URIs to embed images, what more do you need?
Hell, you can even distribute sound: http://softwareas.com/offline-sound-no-flash-no-file
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Wrong. The way it appears now, the debt is going to be repaid over a longer period of time. Your confusion about this indicates that writers are not doing a good job explaining this to people.
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The use of circles suggests the iconography of Dante's Inferno.
Associated Press Will Start Linking Back to Original News Sources
Earlier HN discussion, before the blog post was deleted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254
Thanks for the help. As you say, original detractors emphasized that Greece was at most a little over 2% of the EU economy but we've all seen how one bad apple can take down the whole barrel. Perhaps they need a stronger ECB. DSK was doing a commendable job holding it together until he got stopped in NY.
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They say the format is open, but the spec is nowhere to be seen. And they could have wrote an HTML+JS exporter for Mathematica instead of creating yet another format that requires yet another viewer.