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Does it MEAN that, or simply imply it?

I don't think it means that there is a requirement to provide the most convenient method available. Cel phone service isn't even classified as an essential service. Never mind internet access.

They didn't stop communication, they made it less convenient. The protesters had to stay within range of a normal cel tower, rather that use the locally/BART provided repeaters. "Can you hear me now?" "No."

What's next? BART has to provide the paper and photocopying to the protesters for their pamphlets so they can communicate their issues?
Oh, I missed the builtin part of it. /slaps forehead
It's interesting to look at the companies that are mentioned. Pearl-in-palm is based in Beijing and has been around for seven years [0]. They make games and this one gets great ratings on the English store [1].

But very bad ratings on the Japanese store [2], saying things Google translates as "Amount has been exploited to gain unauthorized access".

Based on this and on anto1ne's comment about Chinese "gift cards" [3], my guess is that the company is legit and that someone sells iTunes usernames passwords to individual gamers looking for extra points.

There's another company mentioned in these discussions: Kamagame Poker. In fact, if you Google "Kamagame poker chip" the first two hits are people on Apple forums complaining about unauthorized charges. Same phenoma as above: great reviews in the US store, bad reviews in the Japanse store.

Perhaps the Japanese are not interested in these two games, so a larger percentage of their downloads are scam related, while in the US the majority of downloads is legitimate?

So here's an opportunity for some automated detective work:

1 - scrape all applications with in app purchases

2 - scrape US and Japanese reviews

3 - look for rating differentials (and of course terms like 'fraud', 'charge')

Follow up with more manual labor:

1 - where are most of the customers of these apps? (China?)

2 - are these companies related? (I have no reason to suspect these two, but the bigger picture might look different)

[0] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/sn...

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id428912410?mt=8

[2] http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id428912410?mt=8

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879423
If you read the post, he mentions examples where people buy someone else who can't afford coffee. That was what he encouraged from the initial post as well. Also I've seen many of my friends actually do something like that.
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I have to wonder why he's so concerned about the clone. From the responses in the thread, the problem seems to be that the copycat implements the same features, but at a lower quality. As a developer, this is a problem that I'd love to have. It'd allow me to compare and contrast my product against the copycat and show how my implementations are more polished and usable than the competition.
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I am surprised at the hate against Sam Odio.

Sam had the option of taking the gift card and selling the card and keeping the iPad. He exposed the vulnerability. If he hadnt you would have paid in for the card, but someone would have abused the system, and not disclosed it.

Here is a though experiment. There is a widely used piece of software which has a vulnerability. There are bad guys who are going to abuse it. A guy comes and abuse the system, to prove the vulnerability and expose the vulnerability. I s he good or bad? full disclosure vs responsible disclosure
I had almost the exact same setup, and ended up moving to a Macbook Air recently -- basically for a nice screen and a good trackpad. It's difficult to find decent screens in the sub-$500 price range.
Maybe I'm getting too cynical and pessimistic about society, but an abuse of the system seemed like a guaranteed result of this project. Jonathan's card is simply a redistribution of wealth based on the honor system (masked by words like "karma" and "good will"). Some people will throw ten bucks on the card because it makes them feel great, but leeches will always take part in the project, and at some point there will be more leeches than seeders. People have been abusing programs (government or otherwise) that do the same thing for generations, even without the honor system.

*I enjoy volunteering, donating, paying it forward, etc., I'm just trying to illustrate a point.
He wasn't the only one skimming money from the card he just got the most attention for it by publicizing what he did.

You might even draw the parallel to a white hat who publicizes a vulnerability rather than quietly exploiting it for profit.

edit: He did skim quite a lot to prove the concept. Maybe he was seriously considering that iPad.
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Sure, given that you have reception. Is BART obligated to provide you reception?

If you say yes, how about the USFS? When I'm up in the mountains in land managed by the USFS, I cannot always place a 911 call. Can I sue the USFS for obstructing one of my most basic human rights, access to rapid sophisticated medical response?
...how did you get ahold of a 120GB SSD three years ago for under $450?
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I will add that if BART had instead employed the use of cell phone jammers, this would be much murkier. On the one hand, you could argue a jammer is essentially "intercepting" your transmission. On the other hand (the view that I favor, knowing a thing or two about radio) you could argue the jammer is in reality simply "drowning you out"- which could infringe upon your right to be heard, except I don't know if such a right actually exists.

It would boil down, I think, to "letter of the law" vs. "spirit of the law". Personally, while I am in general a "spirit of the law" kind of guy, I find myself falling back on the letter for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc. Back then they meant what they said, and they said what they meant - with incredible clarity- and it's interesting to see how much sense a rigorous "letter of the law" interpretation of those ancient laws often makes.
what's next? click on links directly from your browser?
> a shred of logic behind they're actions

You should know that "they're" stands for "they are"
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googlecl is a great little tool and my primary interface to the big G's services. Nice to see it supporting the Discovery API now.
This also is one of the motivators for me. Simply creating that perfect little script, getting the computer to bend to your will and do things others didn't think was possible, is a great feeling, even if you end up not using it that often.
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I think we were all aware that the system could be abused. It was based entirely on the honor system since we don't know who was using the card, only that it was being used. The original thread was full of people talking about how it could be abused.

As far as what Sam did in particular, it'd be entirely different if Sam came out and said, "Hey, look! I was able to write a script that has syphoned off $625 from the card and put it into Starbucks gift cards. I could then turn around and sell those cards on eBay and turn them into cash. I'll be putting the money back onto the original card, but I just wanted to expose the exploit." Instead, he followed through with turning it into cash and wrote a snarky blog post about how yuppies buying yuppies coffee isn't all that interesting, and he had decided to redirect the experiment to "will someone buy a Starbucks gift card for full price."
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There's been a lot of churn (OSX, 64bit, Intel) in the Apple world the past few years, I'd be surprised if it continued at the same clip. And frequently you can install Linux once the OS ages too much.

Now that I think of it, many of my old PC laptops had to have Linux put on them as well because they didn't support the latest version of Windows either. Or rather there were no updated device drivers from the manufacturer. So the issue isn't as clear looking to the future.
googlecl is one of the main ways I use the big g's services. nice to see it supporting the discovery APIs now.
Hasn't stopped Lady Gaga.
Only the first use would need remote access. Assuming that the user just downloaded from the app store, that should be fairly safe assumption.

After the initial connection is made and the trial started, the trial end date can be verified via remote connection but fallback to internal clock for the current timestamp.
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I'd tend to agree, but the version of compiz shipped with natty is a disaster. I'd recommend maverick, or even oneiric if possible. Or even a distro more focused on reliability.
there have been several stabs at similar problems using unlicensed spectrum; you pay people to use wimax or wifi wireless routers running software you provide. Your software allows your other customers to connect to the internet through those routers. From there it's easy enough to provide voip phone service. If you control the software on the routers, it's easy enough to set up authentication so only third parties that pay you can connect, and to rate-limit those third parties to something reasonable.

But it's a difficult thing to carry off. Several companies, I believe, have tried and all have failed. (I can't remember the names of any of those companies right now; I don't know if that's 'cause I'm tired, or if that's 'cause I'm actually remembering a conversation about a business that someone wanted to start that never happened, or if I'm just making this up wholecloth. None the less, it seems like a direction from which you could attack the market using unlicensed spectrum. You would have many obstacles, but it seems possible, at least in high-density urban areas.)
techcrunch one year late as usual.

my android phone didn't work for crap w/out connection for exactly one year i have it. no single map or gmail action. no offline anything.
I have had my new Macbook Air for about 3 weeks now, I am primarily a Windows developer. Let me tell you something, after 3 weeks with Lion (with VMWare Fusion for Visual Studio) I am fairly positive I will never buy or make a PC again.

I cannot explain this, these are things I never thought I would even think let alone say. The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram.

The gestures and infinite desktops on Lion make it so much more usable than a default Windows machine or any other Linux variant I use.

I just wanted to chime in since you said
>decide I didn't like it or Mac

Which, trust me, if you care about productivity or are amazed by superior resource management, not liking it would simply be an unjust bias coming to fruition.
I personally have a Samsung Series 9. Besides the price tag and battery life (about 3-5 hours), I am happy with it. Unlike the Air, this thing has quite good linux support (the graphics work, but could be better; this is true of all sandy bridge computers). I know someone who used to run linux on his Air, but he gave up after all the crashes. These were related to his Broadcom wireless card, I believe. I used to have a Broadcom in my computer, it worked but I replaced it for a card with dual-band support.

On an Air, a lot of components (like ram and ssd) are soldered on the board. On the Samsung, they are easily replaceable. In fact, I have already put in a new wireless card and added more RAM. It comes apart easily with a Phillips-head screwdriver. In the future, I will probably upgrade the SSD (it has 128GB at the moment). A new 'msata' standard has emerged from all these Ultra-portables, which use the pcie plug.
Sure, but my mind has changed on things before, I like to give it the opportunity to change, so I'd probably try it. And yes, I would probably dislike it. If you had made the argument that I could resell it for more if it was sealed, I think that's a stronger reason not to try it.
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Only YC companies can make job postings on HN. The companies haven't announced that they're YC-backed yet.
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Quite true. Google does have a lot of data. But, I'd wager the NSA has just as much data, just from different sources. Maybe they couldn't fuzz Flash with the optimal set of .swf files, but they could mine vast numbers of voice conversations for correlations.

Additionally, years ago a friend of mine who I'd lost contact with caught up with me and told me he found a cached copy of a website I'd taken down in his employer's equivalent to the Wayback Machine. His employer was a branch of the federal government. I know my anecdote doesn't prove anything, let alone come close to addressing the difficulty of crawling the web without anyone noticing (intercept all http traffic in transit?), but the fact remains that there are literally tons of computers doing something for the government.
Allow me to ask what may be a silly question:

If you're looking to hire someone by posting a public job description, why are you unwilling to say who you are?

The older and more experienced I get, the more the notion of "secret companies" (aka stealth mode) seems absurd. The CIA might need to keep secrets. A web technology company does not. Like another poster said, nobody's suggesting that you have to reveal your deepest darkest technology special sauce in your job posting.

But why not at least reveal the name and nature of your business? It's fairly relevant.
Peter,

I believe the police will have to do some soul searching here too.

In particular, the killing of the Jean Charles Menezes, and the way some members of the police force managed to get off scot free with the death of Ian Tomlinson means that the "me first" culture must stop with the police force as well.

There are rotten eggs in all sections of the society, and the arrest of people with stable jobs amongst the rioters proves this.

Of course this doesn't justify the rioting and looting which we have seen in London. Most of which smacks of opportunistic hooliganism.

However, I subscribe to the tenet that good example must come from the top, and it is this type of good example that has been found wanting leading up to the riots.
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Performance Numbers :

Total number of Active Users :-
Number of Active Users per day :-
Peak Load Requests/Sec :-
No. Of Server Nodes For database/Cache/Webserver :-

Technology Stack:

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Caching :- Memcache/Redis
Database :- MySql/MongoDB/HBase
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No. The asian shops were targetted, just like in the LA riots. These are hardly rich, but the shopkeepers represented "model" citizens and what the ideal migrant looks like. The looters represent the reverse.
Calling BS on this. I just installed Lion on my 2006 MacBook. That's a 5 year old MacBook fully supported by Lion.
Wow, pretty amazing. They say bravery and foolishness go hand in hand, charging into enemy fire multiple times not to win the skirmish, but to retrieve fallen comrades, seems to emphasize that.

Maybe we'll be out of there by the time the movie about him comes out.
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Stealing a ton of money and then selling it on eBay is still wrong. If you rob a bank, does giving the money to charity make it right? If you shoplift a computer, does giving it to a poor family make it right? No, you still stole something you didn't own.
Come on. The "if I didn't do it someone else would have" justification for bad behavior is covered in Ethics 101. He acted like an asshole and got called out for it. Not just an asshole, a pretentious asshole (the worst kind) who put a picture of a starving African child in his post. This wasn't even some obscure vulnerability, and certainly not in some "mission critical" operation, so even that reason doesn't fly.
Well, if it's a definition it's a crappy 2-second one so I apologize for that.

I hear what you're saying here and I agree. In any effect, we can probably all agree that the end result of all this is overwhelmingly negative for the long-run productivity growth of the US economy, and that means more stagnating real wages, more structural unemployment, and more hardship for a lot of families. Some would argue that we need MORE central planning to lead the economy out of this hole, and there was a good op-ed in the NYTimes about why this probably isn't possible with our current government.

See Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/what-happen...
What about the fact that not only do I own my phone, but I am in a contract with the carrier to provide service for which I pay for. Thus, there needs to be measurable compensation for anytime the contract I pay for service of is inhibited by the carrier or any third party providers participating in the delivery off service governed by that contract.

This could be an important subject, where the service's impingement could realistically represent a violation of my constitutional rights.

The problem is that is will be argued that using their service is at will, being on BART property is at will etc.. etc.. -- but then this is a farked up loophole to the rights within the constitution whereas we are allowing for the constitution to only be upheld in a silo of presence, property and service I directly own.

Does this mean, then, that if I have a mortgage on my home - that truly it is the banks property and therefore am not entitled to my rights?

Why so, then, would we say that when I am out of my house, on public or private property, that my rights are suspended?

We need to either protect communication and speech throughout - or not. I do not see much middle ground here.

Finally I agree that such efforts to cutoff such a fundamental service is malfeasance in that it would prevent any notification of imminent danger outside the group.

This will likely be fought by only permitting 911 - but what if the threat is from the system itself. This is directly opposed to the constitution which is designed to uphold inalienable rights of the people against tyranical systems of governance... if the only authority you can contact is the one who is directly attacking you - this is entirely flawed.
I agree. If Sam Odio's post had a graph or table with the suspicious changes highlighted, and a conservative total of them exceeding the amount he took, I think fewer people would have given him grief over it.
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He recently changed it to use a random seed sent from the server instead of the client-side RNG. Over, I believe, unencrypted HTTP. Your suggested countermeasure would not have detected that attack; indeed, perhaps it was already in place before you reported no evidence of attacks.

It would, however, have made it harder for him (or your ISP) to tell whose password they'd stolen.
Yes, greatly slowed and that's troubling considering all the cash that American corporations are sitting on right now. That said, the indicators are still vastly different from what we saw in the last 20-30 years even of the Soviet economy, so the main point was that soviet bureaucracy worked hard to make up for a structural decline in productivity, while American bureaucracy seems to just grow with time despite productivity growth.
I love my Air (and my other Apple products); aside from excellent hardware and software, one of the big advantages for me is that there are Apple retail stores all over -- I can walk in and have a pretty consistently good experience (buying accessories, or getting service, or buying a replacement if necessary); far better than any other computer retail store or mail order process.

For a company, being able to fairly easily get ~30 correctly-configured machines instantly is great too -- with Dell, I'd be stuck waiting until they build and ship, and with HP or other vendors, trying to find a store which stocks them.
So ive always been a pc guy. But more and more lately ive been playing around with linux distros. It's about time to get a new laptop, and ive been looking around the market causually for a bit. i really want one with only linux (system 76 looks kinda good). but the more and more I look around, the more i'm drawn to macbooks. they are just SO.FUCKING.SEXY. Their case is perfect. the gui looks incredible. they just work. im pretty much to the point where im going to have to build my own to get what i want, or buy a mac. and its going to be hard to find any kind of case thats as sexy as macs, mostly cuz nobody makes anything like it.

pc companies, listen up. I want linux, on an ssd, in a case that SEPERATES itsself from all your other plastic junk, IN A GOOD WAY. dont be average, dont be consertive, do be a perfectionist. dont try to please everybody. I think this is macs biggest weapon, they dont try to please everybody, they build what steve wants. tfa hit the point perfectly with the hp calc comparisson, and i feel the same way. fucking grow some balls. this goes for cell phones too. Fuck I hate motorolla.
I saw this a while back - REALLY interesting! I definitely give this a +1 to anyone who has time to read it.