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How can that be? Suppose our debt limit were hit. Law says we can't issue more debt; another law says we must pay social security. Until more taxes start rolling in, we'd be breaking one law or the other.
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That is precisely why people in this thread repeatedly emphasize its an entertainment show first, car show second.

There is a story arc for the show and car reviews. Nissan may have a well designed system to limit blackouts, but in this case it didn't play well with the entertainment/comedic elements of the show.

Honestly, do you think this is playing to the facts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZy87TmDcs

Do you think afterwards they should mention it wasn't real?

They have a narrative, and entertainment/comedy takes priority over car reviews. It only seems to ruffle the feathers of electric car/environmental group - and I posit it has little to do with "presenting the facts" (where is their outrage about the claim that the stig can blink horizontally or is non-human?) and all to do with advancing their agenda.
Without any intention to offend Americans, I must admit I am very suprised Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a good bunch of recent, lesser-known leaders are US based. It feels like in a snap a lot of similar companies (maybe hiring American and British staff for PR and marketing) could very well come from India, Israel, Brazil, China, etc. (Skype used to be a notable exception.)
hey,

The nav at the top, right hand background-image isn't rendering on my ff5/win7 ".details .tabnav li a span".

as so: http://imm.io/7KxD

Also, I'd stay well away from centered text if I were you.
And the Red highligthed text is quite disconcerting seeing as they arn't hyperlinks.

Hope that helps :) even if its not technical feedback.
Maybe DSL's make more sense in the context of a master/junior programmer setup, where the master programmer creates the DSL and the junior programmers write in it. I don't have enough experience to say with any confidence. Do you think that would work?
I was answering "Why is the ability to pay considered at all when it comes to the US?"

Perhaps I misunderstood your comment, but it read like "it doesn't matter because we can pay all debts."
The same could be said for just about every other participant in banking, real estate, government financing, etc...including individuals who bought houses at the top of the market. It ignores the ability to learn from mistakes. The point here is that the ratings agencies are going to be much more careful handing out AAA ratings in future, BECAUSE they messed up. It's exactly the collective short-term memory you refer to, in action.

An AAA rating should be conferred on an entity that is riskless. The recent debt debacle is very likely to be repeated in the near future. These are not the actions of a riskless entity.
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In 64k competition, data such as textures, models, samples/synth, etc. are either precomputed or generated on the fly. Most groups have their own tools or use tools available in the community.
Makes my 2011 MBP as hot as it did on my 2008 MBP.

Flash's ability to hog resources has scaled in line with moores law.
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Update: The app is currently number 12 in the top grossing list. Most recent reviews are crying foul and insist on getting their money back and Apple is yet to do anything about this.
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For the listing and internals documentation (by Knuth) for this compiler, see: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol58im...
You have to give him credit for the less-is-more approach to this answer, you summed up centuries of macroeconomics and people who dedicated their lives to finding the most optimal solutions in a very easy to follow <ol>, well done!
The US debt increases by billions every day, the entire economy is in the toilet, but the main thing the Treasury is concerned is finding holes in S&P's report.
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I think your point isn't actually about the beliefs (as Sinek puts it), but the marketing of those beliefs.

Are Apple products truly superior to everybody elses products? or is it that Apple has done a great job (much better than anybody else) of telling you that they make the most beautifully designed, and easiest to use products.

I think this is one of the huge reasons WP7 isn't gaining much traction in the marketplace. Nobody knows what it is about. I haven't seen any WP marketing. Though I do own a Samsung Focus and it's awesome.

Android had the big push from Verizon with the 'Droid Does' campaign, google did a great PR job with Android, and they are 'THE other' smart phone. Whereas WP, WebOS, Blackberry seem to just be 'other' smart phones.

WP7 started with a marketing campaign that was giving it a bit of identity with the 'really?' campaign. It didn't tell you much about the phone, but made a great point. If they had stuck with that it could have been something aspirational.
Thanks for the input/images, looks like the layout needs fixing sooner than I thought, I would like to go for something CSS, clean and basic.

Taking inspiration from something like server fault, however I am not a designer and finding a template that matches that is hard :)
If it leads to hyperinflation, yes it is a de facto default. However, the simple act of printing money isn't an act of default, and there may be valid reasons for it economically.
I'm confused. If you're on a terminal using bash, I guess you're in a POSIX system... why not using grep $PORT /etc/services?
Don't forget that when you eventually go under (or in your case if) some employees will usually stay on past the time when you can actually pay them. It is very hard to fire them because you will cling to the hope you can still make it.

In Austria there is luckily an employee compensation fund for insolvencies that pays out 3 months wages as long as employees claim the money in time. If you don't have that you will (might) be in for an even tougher decision.

Disclaimer: I don't claim your startup will fail with certainty but statistically that is what you are in for, so better think about what you want to do ex ante.
Our downgrades aren't about our ability to pay - it's about our willingness to pay. That has gone out the window. As S&P says, the Republican Party is now so rabidly anti-tax that their new baseline assumes the indefinite extension of the '01 and '03 Bush tax cuts, meaning that we will run structural deficits forever.
S&P's base case scenario assumes 2% consumer price inflation and a 3% nominal GDP growth rate. Their downside scenario assumes 1.5% CPI and 2.5% GDP growth. So inflating the debt away is clearly not the basis of their calculations.
I'd say US should try doubling their exports to $2.5 trillions.
Actually nobody's talking about actually cutting spending. They're just talking about maybe increasing spending less than they were previously planning to increase it. Crucial distinction, but sadly nobody's taking the media to task for their reporting on this.
> Nice tool. I would love access to the API once its public to write a bash script that allows you to search from terminal.

> cat /etc/services | grep " 80/tcp"
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I think Ballmer at number one makes the list. Anybody trying to make a statement at any point in time about which tech products will be relevant in the future will be hard-pressed to hit better than 50%.

Microsoft repeatedly throws good money after bad, chasing the latest fad but never getting any of them completely right or, more importantly, creating any game-changing innovations to speak of. They saw Sony making the PS3 and decided they had to build a competing product and threw away billions in the process. They saw Google, and assumed they needed to build the same search engine to remain relevant. I can't believe that Ballmer has managed to stick around as long as he has, but if I were a Microsoft employee or shareholder, I would want his head to roll.
My advanced algorithms teacher always told us to spend as little time as possible in front of the computer. Before you spend three weeks in front of yours, here are some things you may or may not want to consider.

Devoting an hour each day to algebra and calculus will make your life considerably easier once courses begin. Not having up to date mathematics skills can, in my experience, be a big hurdle for someone that has worked a while before attending university.

Exercise. Doesn't matter how, long walks or intense gym sessions, whatever. Exercise is always a great way to get clear thoughts in your head. Perhaps you will realize what you want to build?

Finally, three weeks is not that long. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to perform now. Why not spend a little extra time with family and friends? You wan't to start your time at university relaxed but eager to jump in.
Thanks! distint ports are defiantly on the to do list.

The API is actually live using JSON and someone has written an Android App for it already, just need to document it and make it public.
This is generally a terrible idea. TLS 1.2 is the product of almost 20 years of sustained attention and adversarial testing effort, 20 years of missteps, 20 years of design decisions argued over by people clearly not limited to but including some of the best cryptosystem thinkers in the field, and it still has missteps in it.

The idea of replacing it with ad-hoc encryption at the application layer carries with it the notion that the basic problem of "taking some bundle of application data and securing it so that it is encrypted in flight" is somehow simple, and that TLS 1.2 is overkill for it. But that's not true. To a significant extent, everything TLS 1.2 does that you don't do is a vulnerability in your system. You won't see it or fully understand it; extremely competent people have gone years staring terrible vulnerabilities in TLS in the face, even after those flaws were pointed out to them, and let them pass because the real-world practical impact wasn't obvious at the time.

And this is all before you get to the point where, to avoid the overhead and complexity and inflexibility (and whatnot) of TLS 1.2, you choose to build your cryptosystem in the most hostile possible environment for cryptography: the language runtime where no operation, function, or binding can be trusted, where every symbol table is potentially corrupted by any of 10s of content sources, many of them under the control of attackers, in a runtime that is being aggressively redesigned, optimized, JIT'd, cached, and transformed for performance.

So you can see that this goal puts you out in the wilderness on two vectors: one of attempting to start from scratch on secure transport protocols, when 20 years has shown us that the simplest service models for secure transport are surprisingly hard; and the other vector being "trying to implement secure crypto in a language environment that's hostile to the concept".

Skip it. Work on something that will make people's lives better in the immediacy, instead.
I don't own a MBP, but my mac mini (2.5ghz i5) is heating up pretty quickly (about 20-30 degrees warmer while playing a flash video).
I do not consider “It’s an entertainment show” to be sufficent excuse for deliberately mileading people. If you find that satisfactory, that is your business.
The informal and single easy rule is to prefix lines that begin with punctuation with a semi. In practice only [ and ( crop up, almost nobody begins lines with a prefix increment or decrement. If you use += 1 and -= 1 instead you sidestep that case.
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How about the US being insolvent? Is that enough justification?
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It's pretty obvious from the context that the OP was referring to omitting semicolons in Javascript, not in other languages.
For my iPhone 4, I was a couple weeks out of warranty. Just make an appointment with the Genius Bar and be pleasant with them, never make demands.
I've noticed the same lack of allegiance to iPhones too (non-fanboys of course). As a WP7 users, I've often been asked about the phone, and heard comments like 'I could just get another iPhone, but I'm curious what the other phones are like'.

I'm not seeing an iPhone devotion among many people that I would have expected.
I do. And it works both ways:

"That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything worse?"
The government can always pay its nominal debt with interest. I didn't say they were not going to inflate the debt away or that this would be OK. But S&P did not make that assumption in its rating. S&P assumes a 2% inflation rate.
Isn't it really only one edge case, that being punctuation at the beginning of a line?
And Linode has an outage in their datacenter which has brought down my site. Nice timing, Linode.
That reminds me of another place to find some more ports to add, completely forgot about that file :)
I think corporations have outsourced innovation to low cost countries.
Or, you could just add a semicolon. KISS at work.
Watch out or all the nutjobs who uses Crockford's broken compressor will come out of the woodwork to defend it.
I understand that government departments are led by political appointees. There's a very good reason for it. When we elect somebody as president we expect them to make an imprint on the rest of the federal government. So I'm cool with Treasury running it's own PR game and responding to other news items.

What I'm confused about is why the Treasury Department feels a need to get into a pissing contest with S&P. Nobody likes the ratings agencies, so I guess that makes them an easy target? And the U.S. will just print up more money, so it's not like the debt won't be paid -- the currency will just be trash. So there's definitely a bit of made-up drama here. But even with a math error and the flimsiness of connections to this being germane for Treasury, the overall news is still bad and it's not like somehow that makes the overall U.S. position more tenable. Instead it just looks like a lot of blame-storming -- finding the latest organization or person to point a finger at. In other words, it seems to continue drawing attention to a mess I wouldn't want any part of if I were in Treasury.

So it's not interesting that S&P made an error, or that the debt ceiling debate was so protracted. What's interesting to me is this political strategy of deflection. Can it go on forever? Isn't there some limit, some place -- perhaps if the market tanks another 5 percent next week or an election goes against the party in power -- where you just say "Maybe we need to do our job more and worry about blame a bit less?"

Regardless of the "facts" of the S&P decision, I just can't see that this communications strategy -- as a political tool -- is going to keep paying dividends. This is just like the "factual" chart the White House put out that showed debt as as a function of policies approved by which president -- true but completely pointless except as a tool to deflect blame. Every time there's bad news there's a follow-up story about how it's somebody else's fault. It might work a few times, but it can't keep working. Can it?
I've got 3 low quality VPSs, priced from $0.99 to $2.50 per month, that I picked up on a whim over the years from deals posted to http://www.lowendbox.com (no affiliation). On one server, I have squid running and bound to localhost. On my machine, I have autossh set up to maintain a constant port-forwarding connection established (via port 443 for maximum firewall/filter accessibility) with the squid server. I have my local web browsers proxying over that connection.

So I'm pretty safe from snooping by my employer, home ISP, or whatever 133t hackers are sniffing traffic at McDonald's when I'm browsing and sipping a coffee.

It's not the most elegant solution, but it does the trick. I supposed some day I'll mess around with OpenVPN (which I have deployed before, and do really like), but only when I'm bored or otherwise have nothing else better to do with my time.
The characters are largely irrelevant. If an attacker is an opportunist and (for example) just wants to run any traffic passing his house through something quick and dirty then it's going to boil down to whether or not his wordlist contains your password.

If the adversary is reasonably well organised they might use something like AWS to offload the cracking, in which case they may well expend more resources on a bigger and more wordlist. Cloud-based cracking is really interesting, especially when GPU support comes into play as most of the traditional models of attack complexity fall like a house of cards once your average joe can get the kind of supercomputing power only previously available to three letter agencies.

In all honesty I would just avoid PPTP and stick to L2TP or an SSL-based VPN. In TFA the author chose PPTP because he wanted to stick what was available on his router and compatible with his devices. I understand their decision, although personally I don't see this as being any more secure than running a password protected browser-based file manager and port forwarding it to the world. You'd still have to obtain a password, but it's not hard.
Hate to just post a +1, me too, but this, it seems, just isn't be said or recognized enough. The US, with one of the lowest tax burdens in the western world (the lowest?) can easily afford to pay down it's debts but without any support for raising taxes in the slightest, not just amongst republicans but from what it seems are a vocal and loud minority (majority?) of Americans, no one can really act surprised by S&P's decision here.
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No worries, I understand your reasons for choosing PPTP, but I thought it important to highlight the consequences.

It is clear you have put a lot of effort into it though and it's more well written than a lot of guides I've seen, hence my interest in the first place!
No, it really does not. Try it on any minifier that actually parses the JS and not some subset of the language.
Or, just add a semicolon and keep it simple. Why risk it? KISS at work.
Reason #1: Every time it comes up everyone who uses semicolons but doesn't really know why pipes up with their misguided and misinformed views on why dragons will eat your heart if you leave them out. Just look at the comments here.
Look at the entire comment chain. Many of the comments don't even address the post itself, but their personal feelings of Groupon.
Having just placed my fortnightly shop using Ocado's excellent iPad app, I think wandering round the kitchen/bathroom to check what I still have during the process of buying new stuff is the most compelling use for the iPad I've yet found.
Awesome! The library looks great, I'll be using it in my next Clojure program.
That's perfectly fine as long as you're honest about why you do it. Most people here are misinformed.
What about the shifting demographics of the US? Does this not play a role?
Interesting. How do you plan to handle the GPL constraints on OpenVPN? Are you just using your own frontend running the compiled binaries or have you pulled the source in?
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> The idea of replacing it with ad-hoc encryption at the application layer

Yes, I understand that this would be a terrible idea. That is why I only intended to verify signed, public content using static key. I don't indent do any encryption in client-side JS, not even to generate session keys!
I don't think anyone who is forced to "set priorities", meaning he can only honor some obligations but not all of them, deserves a AAA rating.
Predictions are trash in these arenas, regardless of the agency/branch/corporation/blog making them.

Just one data point, but there's some humor to be gained from it:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/speaking-credibility-here-cbos...
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I think they were very correct. It's five years later, the market cap is the same (and shrunk if you account for inflation), Apple is over 100 billion dollars bigger by market cap, Microsoft was several years too late to offer an alternative to iOS and Android, Bing is still hugely unprofitable, etc., etc.
Top Gear is entertainment.

"at no point were viewers told that the battery had been more than half empty at the start of the trip."

So? They're making television. They're showing a valid problem with electric cars. Their review of the cars was actually very positive, aside from the currently inescapable problem of long recharge times and uncommon charging stations. As it is television, you want to do so in a manner which is entertaining and not dangerous. Would the makers prefer that they run out of juice on a busy highway?

The rest of the article degrades into an anti-testosterone rant which has little to do with Top Gear. I was a teenage, aggressive idiot, too, and Top Gear didn't even exist then. They're actually very careful on Top Gear to follow rules of the road, and anyone driving like a fool as a result of it has only himself to blame.
I suggest that it's because of patent law. Martin Fowler wrote about it in his blog recently, and I certainly couldn't put it better myself. Although he is discussing software patents, I believe the same arguments apply across technology these days. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwarePatent.html
Yet another reason why people should be leaving behind Microsoft's .doc(x) formats!
this is a fine solution, and what i've used before.

it's worth pointing out that you only gain privacy for browsers and apps that _choose_ to use IE's proxy settings. your native IM client, even if it is using HTTP, may or may not use the proxy. Your remote desktop client probably isn't using HTTP so it can't use the proxy.

with VPN you just don't care, all network traffic is routed through the VPN at network-driver level.
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I fell in love with the demoscene after watching a couple of demoes by farbrausch. Loved the asd demo.
The first demo I watched was this:
http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/demos/groups/farb-rausch... was also amongst the first few that I enjoyed.