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No, the alternative, clearly and obviously, is net access the way it is in Europe, where it's both cheaper and much faster than here.

Personally, I think Comcast should be stripped of the right to sell net access at all. They're clearly a bad actor.
It can read and apply what it's read? This program is already more advanced than half my graduating high school class.
Just to clarify: your confidence in how dyslexic letter recognition works makes me think that you are a dyslexic, aren't you?
It’s all relative of course, but the problems facing well-educated young people in San Francisco are certainly different from that of entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

How about a program where entrepreneurs are given a chance to live and work in cities in emerging markets for 6 months? At the end of this time, they can submit an application for a startup in that market, and if accepted, receive another 3 months room and board and $16,000 in seed money.
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5mbps? You're lucky. I live in a densely populated area of another major city in the US, and I can't get anything faster than 3mbps from anyone, no matter how much I'm willing to pay...
I believe the appeal is withdrawn when you file an RCE. Great explanation otherwise though.
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>The author uses the phrase "from our experience," but I wonder what that experience actually is. At this point, it's not even anecdotal, because he doesn't supply the anecdote!

Craig is a very well-known developer and author in the Mac and iPhone developer community and works at Iconfactory. They're one of the first companies that was addected when the Lodsys patent issue came to light. Even if you didn't know that, the very previous entry on his blog is an open letter to Apple about the problems his company is having with the patent issues. It's a little disingenuous to call someone out about omissions in a blog entry while taking zero effort to familiarize yourself with any of their work.
Unrelated, but interesting nonetheless: the current software industry has a strikingly similar feel to the early texas oil prospecting days.

Independents are suddenly able to take a little bit of risk, take on some money (then: banks, now: angels and VCs), and work by themselves or in small teams to produce something that lots of people need (then: oil, now: good software).

Some of the biggest fortunes in history were made back then (1900 - 1930s), just as some of the biggest fortunes are now being made in this industry.

The digger I deep (no pun intended), the more similar these two stages of history look alike. I'm sure there are other eras that also share these common threads.
How about starting something like YC, but adapted for and conducted in emerging markets?
The author seems to conflate YC with all Silicon Valley startups. This is clearly not the case and I would argue that if you are looking for big, world-changing ideas and only considering YC companies, you're looking in the wrong place.
You're confusing the last mile transmission capability with the cost of transferring the data in and out of the network.

Let's say you and I go in to business together and build a microwave wireless internet service. There is commodity equipment available that can push 100 mbps pretty easily. We buy a microwave transmission tower and central office from a company that is going out of business at a rate that cannot be beat. We price out our customer premises equipment so that we make half our money back on the setup fee, so setup costs are minimal.

We're now ready for business. We can provide 100 mbps internet service to customers with minimal equipment cost. Sweet!

Here's the rub. Unless our customers are content to transfer data only between themselves, we're going to need some outside connectivity. We need to peer with all the major networks. So we try to set up peering agreements with ATT, Level 3, and UUNet. The problem is, they have no need to transmit data over our networks, so we have a huge imbalance. We have to pay for every single bit our customers transmit.

It's time to rethink our 100 mbps bandwidth policy, is it not?

Just because we can transmit at 100 mbps to the customer, doesn't mean we can afford for them to use all that bandwidth all the time. There is a cost associated with transferring data over partner networks, and someone has to pay that cost. Comcast's residential pricing model does so in a way that is dead simple for consumers. If you don't fit that model, you should purchase business service.
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As far as I can tell, saying "Nginx sucks at SSL" is actually not debatable and is indeed just plain wrong. Yes, the default SSL config uses a cipher that is, relatively speaking, more computationally expensive than others. That doesn't mean Nginx "sucks at SSL." Don't like the default cipher? Great -- change it.

I found the posts to be informative, but I get the impression that the "Nginx sucks at SSL" linkbait headline is what's rubbing folks the wrong way.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2320770&cid=367...
We're beta testing the product/item submission process now. Here is the link for the details http://www.begfor.it/contact
Compare $20 to the cost of

1. working out how to do it yourself

2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution

3. worrying about it 2am.

Totally worthwhile.

(edit: formatting)
That's where the money is. If you want people to do something, you need to pay for it. Want cures for various forms of cancer? Funding. A complete string theory? Funding. Improved transportation infrastructure, novel energy sources, dissemination of medical care to the impoverished, long-distance space travel, and sustainable food resources? Funding, funding, funding, funding and funding.

The ugly counterpart to this is that funding happens where desire is, and it doesn't need to be legislated if people really want something. If people really wanted cancer treatments / space travel / etc, they'd be paying for it, one way or another. Perhaps your complaint should be "consumers want to pay for their own entertainment, not the advancement of humanity". Don't shoot the highly talented messengers.

Incidentally, $activity for The Cure is such a joke. Have you ever seen anyone donate a substantial amount during such an activity? They throw in like ten dollars. Then they drop forty dollars on sushi to celebrate how fucking enlightened they are.
http://begfor.it and http://facebook.com/begforit I understand…
I was impressed by the simplicity as well. I think Gale & Shapley's intellectual contribution was not so much in proposing the algorithm, but in proving that a stable match is alway possible (and that this algorithm generates one such match).
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trademarks are within a field of business, so two different trademarks could use the same name as long as they're in distinct fields with little chance of confusion

I was thinking the 'field of business' would be mobile app development but my mobile app uses a different name so theoretically if the above statement is true I should be OK. Thanks for the feedback!
Great story. Care to elaborate a little bit more about the idea and the business you're running?
we're exploring more options on how to get people their thoughts back. We don't want to be a flashcard site, but we do want to be flexible enough that people can use it like they want to. Would setting a reminder time on a thought or hashtag work?
You're correct in your representation of the differences in the model, but I'm not sure anyone really wants the utility model. They might think they do, but they haven't done the math.

If Comcast has built a business around a 250 GB/month cap, they'd have to throttle your connection to 783 kbps to keep you under that cap (assuming you used your maximum connection all the time).
The sad reality is that if you make something of value, there are rotten people who will come and try to steal from you. The author thinks he's discovered something new. I don't think he has. "Patent trolling" might be a bit of a new angle but business has always been risky.

In some parts of the world, if you farm a little too much, gangs come by in rusty toyotas with AK47's and help themselves (and might kidnap your children for good measure). In our society, we've allowed these men to wear suits and pretend they are contributing members and in exchange, they no longer use guns. This seems like a valid compromise until we as a society outgrow this sort of behavior. (Here's hoping)

There are tools for managing risk. Create an LLC and have professional liability insurance. Sure bad stuff can happen. I had an over-zealous zoning official try to revoke the business license for my house because I was "manufacturing" software (and manufacturing is zoned industrial, donchaknow).

I wish there weren't patent trolls, but at some point you have to admit that you can't spend your life worrying about all of the bad stuff that could happen. Take a few reasonable precautions and then do your thing.
Speaking of fairness, how do you conclude that Ben is sniping at people for not using DHE? I've re-read his comment multiple times, and I don't see that in there at all -- explicitly or implicitly.
Conmcast should do this. Not cut off his service, but drop his speed to 1MB/s for 1 month. He will then be motivated to find the source of the problem.
I'm not sure that I totally trust this guy. We stream things all the time, and I actually don't feel like it affects our usage at all. I sort of wonder if things like Netflix, et al., aren't whitelisted.
Please, if you're going to bury my comment, point out what I've misstated. If you're sitting there in your chair, disagreeing with me, but you can't figure out why, you're just lying to yourself.

If I've made a mathematical error, or misstated a fact, I'm happy to concede the point.
To be fair, Silicon Valley "lean startups" can't get into many of the markets that are out there.

For instance, I know some folks who'd like to build a new kind of nuclear reactor that uses molten Thorium salt as a fuel. The kind of system could produce all the energy you use in your life with a ball of Thorium that you could hold between two fingers.

It would probably cost these guys $500M just to fill out the paperwork to build a test reactor... Even Silicon Valley investors don't want to spend that much cash. if you think the RIAA is bad just try the NRC.
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HA-HA-HA. Living in third world country (Moldova) i have real unlimited 20Mbs. 500Gb a month is the minimum traffic i have.
sigh

"Measure twice, cut once" - you mistake wisdom for being jaded. You will learn.

Also, another tip: flippant remarks like that about money are both arrogant and self-defeating. (Hint: if you had a real specification and allowed a third party arbitrator to be appointed, had proper legals prepared and THEN made an offer, well, it'd be an offer. You will learn these things in time.)

Good luck on your journey :)
I'm gonna see if I can get this working on my samsung chromebook when I get home, then try to do the same for linux to see how it goes.
I am recommending that people who do not understand the trade-offs and do not have the traffic for it to matter should probably leave those safe defaults alone. What the banks choose to do is unfortunate, but should not dictate behavior. If all the banks chose to jump off a bridge, etc.

Recommending people unfamiliar with configuring SSL leave defaults alone is only incompatible with our having non-default config if you are implying I don't understand configuring SSL. I doubt that is what you mean, as I am ever the optimist.

Yay!,

Lil' B
Why doesn't a revenue tax make sense? It may well take a lot more money to regulate an industry involving a great many transactions.
I love that music has become so portable that you could actually complain that this form factor takes up too much space.

Here's a list of album formats that were around before MP3s, all of which are larger in size than a button:

CD
Minidisc
Cassette Tape
8-Track Tape
Reel-to-Reel Tape
Record
Wax Tube

With only one exception above, music storage has gotten smaller with every new format. At this point it's essentially zero. Still, if you told a kid from the 80s that his whole wall of cassette tapes would one day fit in a McDonalds bag full of buttons, he'd be pretty stoked.
Umm, regulatory capture applies to legislatures as well, not just regulatory agencies.

Pick one and see what can be done.
No C? Seems like one would have done these in C instead of C++. Not that there is much to change, but it would suite a wider audience.
er, typo, should have read "apple ISN'T inventing"
Just patent the patent-related patent.
The words "indicate the author really understands implications of decisions about crypto is an article" were what set me off. I think I'm right; Ben doesn't really believe you need to use DHE, but for some reason doesn't think Matt rates highly enough to write a blog post about configuring SSL.
Is that so?

openssl s_client -host online.citibank.com -port 443

Cipher : RC4-MD5

openssl s_client -host www.bankofamerica.com -port 443

Cipher : RC4-MD5
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The commercial products Tunnelier and SecureCRT can do this for shell windows and their bundled sftp clients. Didn't check if they can support third-party tools like git.

But even for shells, I went back to PuTTY anyway -- It came down to cost + time setting up on new machines vs. using PuTTY's "Duplicate Session" feature with ssh keys loaded into Pageant.

Since then I've moved on to using a persistent X11 VNC session over a plink tunnel :)
Why wait? He posted the source code on github: https://github.com/Khan/khan-mobile
The first public web app I built does this : http://flataccounting.net/

I built it in mid 2008 to help the flat I was living in split bills. It worked well for us, as we were all geeks and were used to using web apps for everyday tasks.

I don't think anyone uses it, but it's been running for 3 years now.
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I know next to nothing about iOS as it relates to Darwin, but if the DHCP stack is part of Darwin, it'll be OSS, which means someone could patch the DHCP client to not exhibit this behavior.

How many people do you think would install that patch?

* Resolves potential IP conflicts when recovering from sleep

* Adds 10s to network availability in most situations
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Groklaw - Novell Answers Lodsys - What Damages Has Lodsys Suffered?
To be clear Ontario residents (really just in the GTA) refer to electricity as 'Hydro' because most(?) of it comes from the hydro-electric plant near Niagara Falls, and the company is called Toronto Hydro. Personally, whenever someone refers to the 'hydro bill' I have to internally connect the dots that it's not the water bill.

In this case, it's even less clear to those not in the know, because the next sentence refers to water pipes.
Or ask: what sucks about trying to use Dropbox on your mobile?
I use GWT (and SmartGWT which is based on GWT) a fair amount, and this is just my opinion:

GWT is targeted at Java developers who want to create rich client applications. The development environment (I use IntelliJ) is reasonably agile and there is a rich set of components to use. So, a nice developer experience for Java developers who don't want to use other languages (like Javascript).

That said, GWT seems a little heavy weight and for large and well funded projects it makes sense to hire Javascript experts and then frameworks like JQuery or Clojure probably make much more sense.
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PJ writing:
>>Novell asserts four counterclaims regarding the two patents Lodsys asserts against Novell, asking for a declaratory judgment of invalidity and noninfringement. And its affirmative defenses include failure to mitigate damages. That makes me smile, because Lodsys is in what business, exactly, leading to what damages? And that's Novell's point, which it makes explicit in another affirmative defense: "Lodsys's Complaint, and each and every claim for relief therein, is barred because Lodsys has not suffered any damages."
I don't think acquiring the patent portfolio had much to do with patents Google actually needed. The idea was just to hold onto enough patents that you could threaten other people when they come for you.

This is what Sun used to do.
It seems perhaps as disingenuous to think that because you know a (very) little bit about the Lodsys issue that the anecdote that all of a products profits can be consumed is true even in this instance. After all, Apple has been standing up in defense of individual developers on this issue.
Turning off DHE is safe. I assume you agree with this, because your SSL server appears unable to do DHE. But whether you agree or not, ephemeral DH is not necessary for secure SSL. As Adam Langley pointed out himself: enabling DHE without knowing what you're doing can create more security problems, because your parameters can be insecure.

I'm having trouble parsing the rest of your comment. I don't have a religious belief about what defaults are reasonable to muck with and which aren't, but: this particular one is fine to change.
This wasn't even the idea they applied with.
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Maybe it does make sense in some circumstances, I'm no economist. But it's not what we have. We have an income tax. So it doesn't make sense for people to shit on GE for this.
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Okay, I'll bite. Here you go: "Initial Tests Show Slow Nginx SSL Performance" Wasn't that hard, was it?
It seems Lodsys was able to successfully patent the hyperlink, U.S. patent system has some serious problems.
Patent trolling is not the only problem, the patent office granting patents, where the is no merit, is another big problem.
So glad to be a part of this amazing incubator!
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I have it installed on my phone and can assure you it's very real and works well.
On an iphone at least, I cache the maps for the area I'm going to be in, then switch to airplane mode with location services turned on. Free, international GPS.
RC4 is fine in SSL/TLS.

Nobody likes it, but until relatively recently, the AES ciphersuites were all CBC mode, which means they burned a couple bytes of padding for every record.

RC4 is also faster than AES, which was, until very recently, an issue for server performance.

We have AES-CTR ciphersuites now, but I'm not sure how widely deployed they are.
Google is and remains primary a for profit company, which has to report to it's share holders. But they are better compared to others. They made large contributions to open source, for example Android and Chromium. Neither of the two are generating direct revenue for Google.

Also they choose to publish their map reduce, page rank and other algorithms, in the first place. I think if it were not for Google, there was no Hadoop. Also if Yahoo was the first to develop map reduce, I doubt they would have open sourced it either.

My point is overall Google's existence is beneficial for the opensource and tech community in general.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I did read through all four of their patents. There's no way Lodsys can claim patenting the hyperlink. It's ridiculous.
Virgin mobile has unlimited internet plans that start at $25 a month. I'm not sure what the soft cap is though.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
Thanks! Didn't know they were on github
Most wireless routers offer some version of this feature, its not too difficult to use.

My newish (~$100) Netgear wireless router actually has a Traffic Meter feature which monitors my traffic on a monthly basis and can warn me when I get close to nearing that cap. Its a worthwhile investment if you're being warned about your traffic.
While I would certainly prefer to see the major players leading the way in adoption of AES by default, RC4-MD5 persists for at least 2 reasons:

1) Habit

2) As implemented/deployed in SSL, it still provides some security

RC4 has gotten a bad reputation in large part because of its poor application in WEP that resulted in keys being rapidly recovered by sniffing traffic. The Wikipedia entry is a good place to start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security (& numerous references for the original papers/pubs cracking various bits of RC4). The RSA response to RC4 concerns (from WEP) is worth reading, as well http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2009 .
"Unlimited usage for a flat, monthly fee" this would suggest that the authors impression of the services is exactly what you say it isn't.

If you read this you can see that Comcast does indeed try to convince the consumer that you can transfer any amount of data you want for a fixed monthly fee: http://consumerist.com/2010/03/comcast-unlimited-usage-doesn...

Comcast as what is essentially a public utility operates within a framework of the FCC which creates a non-competitive marketplace so that service providers such as Comcast can ostensibly focus on providing better service to the public rather than focusing on competitive efforts such as better marketing, customer service, etc. The deal between Comcast and the gov't is essentially "We'll take care of competition, you focus on providing great infrastructure to the public"

In a very close to completely free market such as a bakery I'd agree with you but Comcast operates in a different kind of market, also depending on when the person signed up one of the terms marketed might have been "Unlimited Internet" which would suggest that you could consume unlimited services for a fixed price. Also, if there is a 250GB cap then Comcast should just terminate the service for the remainder of the month, and change the wording of their marketing to "Transfer upto 250GB per month for a flat monthly fee"

In a non-competitive market fueled by public expendature I don't see why it would be inappropriate to force service providers to provide access to the infrastructure to all under the same terms.

For example: You pay a fixed price for a fixed amount of bandwidth and your service stops working when you exceed that.

Comcast is the Internet Soup Nazi: "No internet for you! 1 Year!"
If you were presently witnessing the car being broken into, then that would be 911 level.

Agreed, and for clarification, this was not the case for me: I discovered the break-in later; I did not witness it.

More irksome was the operator's suggestion (after telling her my laptop was stolen from the car) that I use a computer at the public library... which didn't open for another ten hours. If I had been robbed on a Saturday night instead of a Friday, I would have had to wait until Tuesday to report (worst case obviously... smartphones and friends, etc. but what if you don't have those?).

Not saying the policy is a good one, but I use it as an illustration of how people are coming to see internet access as universally available and constructing policy against that notion.