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Let me suggest the true issue isn't real vs. pseudonymous or common vs. contrived, but whether names are cheap and disposable.

When identities are cheap and disposable, lots of mischief becomes more prevalent, like spam and harassment.

When Google says they want 'common names', what they mean is they want names that already have a history of investment. That is, nothing created solely for the purpose of participation on GooPlu.

This benefits Google a lot: it makes you less likely to 'burn' your GooPlu account with one-time mischief. It makes it easier for other acquaintances to build out their 'circles' by finding you. It even lets Google loosely correlate data from other sources (like their web crawls) with your GooPlu presence (for customization and ad targeting).

Temporary, single-purpose identities are like masks. Society only welcomes masks in certain places and times. Even just a few masks in a forum that otherwise doesn't have them can change (or ruin) the character completely.
> There used to be web-based Rails debuggers, didn't there?

I'm not sure.. This is the first one that I've ever heard of. Well, remote debugging has been around for years for plenty of platforms, and this is the first remote debugging tool for Ruby that I have seen, and embedding it into Rack is kind of cool and useful. And sure, probably not very secure in version 0.0.5.

That doesn't mean "All remote debugging is bad and insecure, and you're stupid for even considering this," which sadly is the tone that people are taking. I can think of several ways that this thing could be made more secure. The gem initializer could take a private key, and the backtick command could prompt you to enter the public key, rather than just dropping you right into a console and executing your arbitrary code.

> So what's the win here?

Yes, normally I would just ssh to the remote machine and and "bundle exec rails console" too. OR far more likely, there is no remote machine, I just open another terminal window and keep a console running. (sorry I said "irb", though I meant "rails console" -- In my mind they are basically the same thing).

The win (at least, to me) is that I can inspect parts of the rails stack that change as the user (me) is interacting with the app, such as request details, session contents, controller variables.

>I just keep an SSH screen with "bundle exec rails console" running. I'm of the impression that this is what most people do.

>I bought a whole separate Macbook because I was worried about the attack surface that Rails runs with by default.

This seems a bit incongruous, don't you think? I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I read stuff like this and I just feel sad...
I can envision the board meeting now: "It's so much better for our users if we take 30% of the earnings on every sale".

No.
Depending on your country and postal service these are also known more generally as "non-denominated" or "non-value indicator" postage.
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Code and hardware for self-driving cars would go through multiple passes of design

I'm all in favour of space-shuttle levels of design, implementation and testing... but like the space shuttle, someone in management will find a way to cock it up.

Now, you make a good point: will it reduce the number of deaths? Doing zero research before I go to bed, my gut instinct is that yes, it would make a difference in countries where the requirements to gain a driving license are, in effect, the ability to write and sign one's name correctly.

For others... maybe, maybe not. Purely because I'm very pessimistic about how much money the car manufacturers would throw at the problem. Part of me thinks that the likes of Ford would, somewhat ironically, vastly outspend the likes of BMW.
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1,000s, 10,000s, 100,000s, millions. MongoDB columns are designed for serialization of rich documents, not store unbounded ranges of data values.

Even without tens of thousands of concurrent users, you'll eventually run into a deeply critical performance wall when MongoDB starts reading from disk. It's really best to think of it as an in-memory database.
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Amazon pays Apple $100/year to host the Kindle app, and only the app. All of the books that someone may buy sit on Amazons servers that they host and distribute. Amazon also manages its own payment infrastructure and everything else that deals with getting a book into the Kindle app. Both companies benefit from having the Kindle app in the app store. Apple gets to brag about how many apps are for sale for iOS devices (thus sell more devices), and Amazon gets to sell books.

We could always look at it from Amazons POV. They are providing the content that makes iOS devices more desirable for consumers. Why isn't Apple giving them a cut of each device sold?
If the LHC finds nothing it would be interesting but I don't think it would be a good step forward for physics. Of course any step in the right direction is good, but we would have no where to specifically look, and have just blown a lot of funding with no results to show off during the next round of funding.

A much better outcome would be to find something exotic that can spark research in the right direction. At the moment we have many ideas past the standard model but no way to know which to pursue with any seriousness.

Of course, discussion of what would be good or bad doesn't matter much. It will find what it finds (or doesn't)
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The Atom N570 costs $86, so unless ARM is literally paying people to use its chips, dropping $100 seems unlikely.
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It's all of those, of course. An egregious word choice could very well endanger a writer's career.
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I'm sorry, but how did Lodsys lose out here?
I've always wanted it to work this way. Even just a few years ago, I'd never imagine this would be accomplished by using a browser-based operating system.
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You seem to be implying that since, in this one use case, it's not useful, then it's not useful at all. That's a non sequitur. I already gave one concrete example of where it was useful in my past experiences.
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It wasn't inadvertent. It was by design. Lets get that straight. If, for example, you're running tcpdump(1) with a packet capture size of 1500 (I don't know if G was doing that, but I'm giving an example), then you can't claim that you captured the packets' contents inadvertently.

Many years ago, when writing web crawlers was the cool thing to do, I wrote one (like an idiot, I wanted to see how deep the web was). Unfortunately, I didn't have a good synchronization scheme, so it ended up beating on a poor website for too long. The operator of that site sent a stern email to our DNS contacts, complaining. And we shut the crawler down. Today, I fear I'd be indicted for "wire fraud"!
> In this case, though... It seems only 1 person has experienced this, and didn't care enough to even reply back. Closing it due to inactivity doesn't seem to be wrong, to me.

The blog post linked to two other reports of the same issue (all closed or ignored), and the author mentioned that he himself had run into it prior to turning up these abandoned reports on their bug-tracker.

And really, given the egregiousness of the symbol exporting issue, it would be nearly impossible for only one person to have run into it.
The picture in the article is eerily reminiscent of scenes from certain movies. (Probably because of the rule of thirds, and the left-to-right directional bias of western audiences.)

http://www.firsttvdrama.com/funstuff/tarkin/dsgun.jpg

http://www.starwars.com/img/theclonewars/guide/episode002/il...
I believe the main RS discovery channel is looking for a p pbar -> graviton -> e+ e- resonance, where p is a parton (i.e., quark or gluon).
Not in the vein of the topic but I figured I'd throw in my two cents: I just bought the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and I'm really incredibly happy. I haven't used an iPad extensively but from a basic standpoint of having a useful tablet device I think I made a good decision.

I'd say the only major difference is in app universe but to be honest I think the form factor reduces the need for apps. Just some thoughts.
Breaking the user experience for competitive apps and not even allowing them to explain why goes far beyond encouraging people to use in-app purchase.

For that matter, using in-app purchase is only favorable to users who stay entirely within the Apple ecosystem. One serious objection Amazon et al had to in-app purchase is that it (by design for privacy reasons, IIRC) didn't allow them to connect the dots between an iTunes account and an Amazon account, so they wouldn't have been able to give you access to your iOS-purchased ebooks on non-Apple devices. For that matter, they wouldn't have been able to give you access to your ebooks on a Mac for the same reason, which is particularly hilarious because Apple doesn't provide iBooks for Mac either (IIRC, you can buy but not read on the desktop).
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Actually, as of 2011 all first class USPS postage is non-denominated. So anyone purchasing new stamps should be covered.
Other than plotting to murder the president, I am not sure there are any crimes of thinking about doing illegal things.

Even if the DOJ has evidence that he planned on dumping the JSTOR archives on BitTorrent, until he actually would have pushed that data, (IANAL) but I believe that they can't necessarily persecute based on actions never undertaken.
They're out in the open...

They are not. You're thinking of the the torrent of public domain works released by Greg Maxwell, which isn't directly related.

Aaron Swartz downloaded much, much, more, and according to JSTOR's statement: "We secured from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and received confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed."
That's true. You'll forgive me if I drive as though it wasn't ;-)
It's a rabbit hole. You'd think that banning the name anti is a good heuristic given handles like anti Christ. But anti is a perfectly valid name in parts of eastern Europe.
The "Android Firefox app" is just Gecko, a bunch of C++ code rendering to an Android widget. That's like calling the Windows version the "Windows Firefox app".
I live in New York, where the average driving skill is one of the poorest i've ever had to be around in the western world.

I know that states are 'cracking down'. But till you see some of the PSAs that the UK and European countries have issued to 'crack down' on drink driving, you'll note that there's simply no question as to the laissez-faire approach to drink-driving in this country.

Whilst attorneys can still advertise quite so blatantly to help you 'get off' your DUI/DWI convictions, without any social consequence, and where major motion pictures make light of it (Bad Teacher recently features a scene where Cameron Diaz's character suggests it's ok to drive home as she's only "Buzzed"), it's CLEAR that the attitude here is inadequate.

To be clearer: there's now a healthy social stigma in the UK to go out and drink and drive; friends will forcibly remove you from your keys if you've been drinking - and it's ok. The punishment is also more significant, where drink driving is considered dangerous driving - not a misdemeanor or less.

And most importantly (which somewhat counters my arguments-- but only tangentially) much of the US land mass is a single, lonely road from a bar to your house. When you don't see another car for ages, it might seem ok to drive home when you've had a bit too much - what can go wrong, you might run off the road and take a nap?

But this doesn't apply in mountainous regions, or other places where you have to have your wits about you because the terrain isn't a wide, open plain.

and it certainly doesn't hold true when you're near/on Long Island (for example, as I see stories like this at least ONCE A MONTH), where you 'accidentally' get on the expressway the wrong way, and ram some innocent family's car.

[ and as an aside, to reinforce my signage point: off-ramps have "WRONG WAY" signed on the back of the exit-info signs. So that you know you're going the wrong way, if the angle of the ram and the difficulty you'll have experienced in entering it wasn't enough. Why there isn't the tire bursting heavy-duty spikes on off-ramps is totally beyond me. ]
The real standing up would be if Amazon had refused to remove the link and let Apple reject and/or pull the Kindle app.

Exactly. I was hoping that Amazon and the other large content providers would simply call Apples bluff. Let Apple shoot itself in the foot and remove all the big content reasons that people buy iOS devices to start with.
Google invests in Chrome. People use Chrome to buy things from web shops. Should web shops pay Google for this privilege? Are web shops immoral? I thought I paid for an app platform. Not a secret Apple sales platform.
I think the automatic car race would be really interesting. You'll have people fighting for the best safety numbers, the best comfort numbers (more smooth movements and such), etc. It would be an amazing bit of competition.
That's an interesting concept, but it seems like they are not alone in this field. Just recently I stumbled upon a web page by Moshe Sipper, who seems to work on a very similar topic "Darwinian Software Engineering":

http://www.moshesipper.com/finch/

He makes a rather grandiose claim -- “We believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to program computers by means of evolution. Not merely possible but indeed prevalent.”
Don't worry, neither do physicists. When people talk about 'quantum gravity' they mean some theory which unites curving of space with the idea of gravity being 'quantised' in particles. Only string theory does this consistently (and here the curvature manifests itself as a background of gravitons), but string theory isn't really a serious competitor for physics beyond the standard model.
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This is a FAQ; I should finish writing the FAQ, clearly.

We’re currently aiming at mobile/tablet devices rather than a notebook form factor. We’re looking to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs, and not only “high level” apps like word processors and presentation software. We also want to provide a stack that's open down as far as we can, and not just the browser-like top layer.
Interesting, seems the preview pages suddenly aren't showing reviews for any of the afflicted apps (Kindle, Nook, Kobo).
Copyright protects creative work. If you used creativity (as defined in case law) in choosing documents for your compilation, or got creative with your scanning, then you can claim exclusive rights.

Look for links in the phrase "such scans are often considered uncopyrightable" in the original article for more on this topic.
Visually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_per_line
Where is EDT? That means "Eastern Daylight Time" to me.
It's Apple's platform, they can do what they want with it. The market (including consumers, developers, and entrepreneurs) will decide whether their rules are good things or bad things. Long term, if Apple doesn't continue to foster development on its platform the developers will leave and then (eventually) the customers will follow.
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To be fair, they are both "new" computers -- IE not refurbished or used. My point was the intent of the OP could have been what he found on Amazon from the respective retailers -- in which case the price point was much closer to what he mentioned than to the price point shoota mentioned. I never meant to imply that we should compare a new Chromebook to a 2008 Model (or a used one, a refurbished one, or one being sold from a illegitimate retailer), which it does seem like it comes across as I reread my comment.

Its a stupid argument to begin with on my part, but I felt it was worth a meager defense.
Wouldn't predictable consistency with pre-established lines of thinking be more zombie-like?
What makes Angry Birds the case that "breaks the USPTO system to bits"? There have been plenty of similarly (if not more) egregious, costly, and publicized cases.
The problem with Apple's position is that they provide no easy method for the user to download applications outside of their delivery channel.
It's Orwellian that the name given to a mechanical bird that is inferior in nearly every way to the real thing is "Smart." Its sole redeeming quality is the ability to be put to use by the military.

The author of the article claims that these machines are "celebrations of life," but to me they seem much more like celebrations of human control.
Not really.. are you only thinking of people your age? Most of the world was from a different generation than you. When my father was going to college less than 25% were doing that - in the US. Think of what that would look like for the rest of the world.

Even today in the US something like 1/4 people don't have a high school diploma.
The greed machine is at it again. This is exactly why I hate patents. Innovate or take a seat and be entertained. Do not leech or you'll bring the whole system down.
MongoDB needs indexes to fit in memory, not the entire dataset. This is an important distinction.
>> Indian CEOs show a level of business ethics not seen in the west

I doubt it...
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People drive for reasons other than commuting, of course. I happen to like driving (especially since I learned to drive a manual). I'm sorry if you don't.

Your last point is certainly true. I used to commute to work via a combination of bike and train; getting a car cut my commute in half, and I am decidedly happier for it.
I'm willing to accept that a rewrite might have fixed my issue and am willing to accept a close resolution until I retest and reopen. In this case it's, "nope, I don't believe you and you're up shit-creek until you can really prove it to me."
Don't know how widespread this sort of approach is, but I applaud it!
It wasn't the ease of install or simplest-case-deployment, that's for sure. I did install it and kick the tires.

This was around the end of 2009, and i don't think there were many clients available (i see pycassa dates to 2010-04).

again, ease of development is much more important to us than performance; it'll probably be a long, long time before our db engine is the choke point, at which point we'll have resources to use a heavier tool.
Intent matters in law. For example, if someone is arrested with enough of an illegal drug, they can be charged with "possession with intent to distribute". That is a different charge than just "possession".
I remember at one point, Apple forbid pricing things higher on iOS' App Store to compensate for the 30% cut. Is that still the case? If so, then Amazon's choices are a lot narrower: kill the link or kill the app.
> > Friends let friends login.

> Every OS ever has had this feature. It's called "Users"

Uh, not iphones/pads (iOS)... so yes that is a big deal
Are there any representatives or senators working on fixing this yet? Is there a petition that we can sign? Some kind of site to raise awareness?
> What if you don’t feel comfortable revealing this information?

Don't use social networks that require you to do so. G+ is currently the 80th most popular social network in the UK. That means that there are at least 79 more that may or may not accomodate your specific requests. G+ is not the end-all for social networking.
I would imagine that, of all the "outside the class" activities that correlate closely with high working vocabularies, reading is a major one. Those who read for pleasure tend to read more (no surprise), but also more broadly -- thus covering a wider variety of subjects, and thus encountering many more words along the way.
Well, it looks like it's going to be merged. Check this email and the next one: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131145585729478&w...
But if they are Finnish, how is someone going to their (Finnish) website and buying something different from someone physically traveling to Finland and buying it? They don't have a 'physical presence' in the US, so by the same rationale that US companies don't have to charge sales tax in other states it seems they should also not be bound by this.

If I make a website containing content illegal in <some country>, am I committing a crime in <some country> if someone from there looks at my page?
Thinking back to that age, school and learning was not really much of a focus for me or my peers, we were more interested in what to do with the hormones flowing through our systems.
What about Hadoop? You can also use Hadoop as a backend for hadoop style filesystems. What about using Hive? Does it also require a fixed schema?
Much good can come from this project even if it never hits a 1.0 release. The work to generate implemented standard API's, among other discoveries and innovations, can be incredibly useful to the web in general.

While I am hopeful and rooting for ChromeOS, I also will be rooting for and supporting B2G. While they have different platform targets, moving common functionality to the browser is something they can compete and innovate with.

Having more than one is always a benefit. Even if the particular route B2G takes is not one we care for, we can fork and improve at any time.
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Web application idea - price threshold alerts for collectibles
Can't imagine that something like this doesn't already exist (perhaps as a feature of eBay?) but here's a free-to-use web app idea for anyone interested in such things.
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