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"Otherwise known as the Maya Purple Hack, this is a fairly common hack exists in just about every game that incorporates invisibility. On RO--and probably most other games as well--his hack works because of unneccesary information being sent from the server to the client. There are semi-logical reasons for it, but in the end we have to blame it on poor programming."

I get that there are time constraints, code no one wants to deal with, deeply ingrained bad decisions, and who knows what else going on here, but I really think this point could use more elaboration. It IS poor programming. Why not fix the underlying issue and stop sending updates about invisible players to players that can't see them? While ingenious, detecting the mouseover requests isn't really fixing the problem.

"this is a fairly common hack exists in just about every game that incorporates invisibility"

I doubt the "just about every" part of this statement. But I can only say for sure that World of Warcraft does not send players updates for invisible objects (players or otherwise). Not that WoW hasn't had its share of attacks, but it hasn't had this one.
I had a brief experience with using Facebook's API last year. It was absolutely horrible. Documentation in the Wiki of features that no longer existed. Features that would just break with little or no explanation. Maybe it's improved since then but I would never try and use it again unless I absolutely had to.
To me the use of a harmless, modified HIV was the most interesting part.
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Mark Lemley wrote an entire paper on patents being ignored:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999961

> both researchers and companies in component industries simply ignore patents. Virtually everyone does it. They do it at all stages of endeavor. From the perspective of an outsider to the patent system, this is a remarkable fact. And yet it may be what prevents the patent system from crushing innovation in component industries like IT.
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Agreed, also how would you mix in the cost of failure with each of those providers? (just out of curiosity)

Amazom is fairly cheap and is popular so you have lots of support dev-wise from communities.

What about features? Do other providers support something like AMIs, etc?
I hesitate to prescribe speed-writing to everyone. Similarly, I am leery of such a teleological view of the evolution of a writer's "10,000 hours," i.e., the claim that all writers mature into speed writers after a certain amount of practice. Some certainly do. Others seem not to, and I do not think less of them for it.

The thing is, different writers have different modes of writing. Some are wholly capable of producing, in spans of 15 to 20 minutes, perfectly serviceable content on any topic imaginable. Others pore over every word, agonizing for possibly days on end. Nabokov, for instance, fell into that latter category; he was notoriously slow and picky about his construction, and his daily bursts sometimes yielded a sentence or two at most. Yet I doubt there's a credible critic around who would assail the beauty of Nabokov's results, or claim that he wanted for practice.
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Just to clarify, Nilay was a lawyer prior to Engadget, but he's no longer practicing.

Also, I believe his specialty was copyright, not patent, law.

Based on what I've heard him say on the podcast and read in this essay, it seems to me that his main objective is to show that this is a complex issue that can't be simplified down to "good" or "bad".
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15b.pdf

Basically if it's a "de minimis benefit" (generally, self-serve food is always included unless it's absurdly luxury), you're fine.

Serving it on business premises seems to be the key factor, at a dedicated cafeteria.
Well, that's why I asked the question in the first place, here, and I haven't been disappointed with the excellent advice and points from others.
...unless you want the accounts you use the same avatar on to be "linked".

Sometimes you do (when you're looking for publicity or make a name for yourself).
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I'm not seeing what its for either. Firefox 5 on Win 7. Not only do I not know what the site is supposed to do, I also can't figure out what flipstorm does as there is no description of the company without going out to one of the social media sites linked at the bottom.
Chrome/ChromeOS/Chromium(OS) is working on identity built in to the browser as well via multiple profiles:

http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles
Can anyone explain why the explicit memory metrics apparently regress between Firefox 7 and Firefox 8?
I've read it twice in it's entirety, and his main point is that he believes we would be better off changing patent law to create an explicit category for software patents and have different rules for those patents, rather than simply abolishing software patents (or all patents). This strikes me as not a horrible idea, but his argument sucks. (Primarily because it is predicated on the idea that everyone who disagrees with him is essentially a retard, but also because a lot of his points are hand-wavy or just don't make sense).

I particularly disagree with his between-the-lines assertion that nobody other than Larry Page would've figured out the Page Rank formula by 2018. If that assertion isn't true then he fails to establish that patents have any value to society, and there is no reason (provided by the article) to think we shouldn't just get rid of them.
Seems like the time to bring out the old Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Thanks for looking Colin. It's not doing a lot right now, but it's just the beginning!
From the article:

"Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research. Neither applicants nor funders discuss the reasons an application is turned down. But good guesses are the general shortage of funds and the concept tried in this experiment was too novel and, thus, too risky for consideration."

The keywords are "experiment was too novel, and thus, too risky for consideration". Unfortunately, this seems to have become the rule rather than the exception in scientific research. All the young folks (pre-tenure) are on a treadmill to get funding and publish something in the top journals/conferences. I wish there was some accountability in the system ... the geniuses who rejected funding this research will go about completely unaffected.
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We are working towards a new website for out b2b data quality and cleansing company. Part of our sales process includes an assessment of the potential customers existing master data. This is standard and necessary to even begin talking about a deal with said customers.

In our new site we are thinking about presenting the data assessment as a get your foot in the door tactic.

I'm looking for positive and negatives for using the word free to describe our assessment of existing data quality. What do you all think about the word "free"?
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It's an image, not a website. Nice image though.
Makes me think of the rectangles from 2001 Space Odyssey
As someone with a genetic disorder, this type of gene therapy is really amazing to read about.
For me, it's not the syntax errors that get me, it's the semantic ones. Oddly enough, I find that to be true when writing Java, also.
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Hmmm, "There's absolutely no question at all whatsoever." is a statement about the certainty of his answer, but it doesn't seem to be an answer to your question. Was the answer yes?

I think the occupation of lawyers and programmers are oddly similar. Both are paid for precise analysis and generation detailed interpretations. They just happen to speak different languages and their implementations run on vastly different platforms.
I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.

That's exactly the point. Which version of Gmail are we on right now? 477? Does that feel different from 476? I don't know. I just get performance improvements and new features as they come out.
I don't think this is true. I know a few people who are on facebook and use the same email address on facebook that I have them down as in my phone, and facebook mobile did nothing with their numbers (which they have not put up there).

Facebook had my number because you end up giving it when you try use the official mobile apps, and they add it to your profile at that point (which makes it available to all your contacts if you are not careful about your privacy settings). Are you sure that it doesn't have the numbers of people in your phonebook either because they explicitly added it to their profile or because they have used facebook's "mobile" options?

(unless of course this is something new: I've not touched the mobile apps for mobile version of the site as accessed via browser for some time, as to my knowledge none of them support the use of HTTPS instead of plain HTTP yet)
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I don't see how these posts are relevant for a general purpose comparison. It is one use case which doesn't fit CouchDB. Such articles give users a wrong impression. Fact is that MongoDB doesn't fit this use case either. Good solutions handle the following graph separate from the main implementation using specialized graph databases.
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Hacker group (sometimes hacktivist group) Anonymous has targeted Facebook for destruction on November 5. It's a change of pace for the group, which of late has concentrated on AntiSec, a campaign against corruption in government and big corporations.

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/anonymous-promises-to-kill-facebook-on.html
I'm going to be brutal - the graphic looks great, but the fact that you've just wasted my time by sending me somewhere that does nothing means I won't come back again.

You've cried "Wolf!" and now I won't take any further notice of you.

I strongly recommend you delete this submission and replace it with a question that better reflects the fact that it currently does nothing except look good.
If you had that much power, you should have gotten your team to write something fun for the remaining 1% users of the hack you uncovered. Something like mark each player caught clicking on an invisible toon, wait until a certain time, and then WHABAM: Everyone caught gets a 5 day un-cleansable debuff that removes x% percent of their max health per second, but never making the killing blow. Put a cryptic tooltip for the debuff icon saying something like: Those who weild the eyes of the devil are now paying with their souls. Also, if their health drops below 10 percent, start automatically making them consume their potions at 10/sec!
I don't think those words are very practical. For example, 4 consecutive runs produced:

shippon preannouncer half-hourly withgang
egotize baffs chapter monolater
photoengraver beachhead linguidental autoheader
hazeled defloration exhumate barretries

none of which seem particularly easy to remember (or spell even).
Ask HN: Why punish popularity?
It seems that there is a weighting algorithm in place that penalizes submissions that receive many upvotes from a common referral point.

For example, member jashkenas submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872831 earlier today and offered a HN link via Tweet. This article received a quick dozen upvotes but was quickly buried on the 2nd page and has since fallen into limbo.

Are all HN submission discussions intended to grow organically? Is there no room for directing interested parties to HN via a common source for the purposes of stimulating discussion?

I can envision a scenario where this would stop karma-baiting, but come on... there must be a better way. jashkenas is a valuable member of the HN community and it's ashamed that he cannot serve as a source for stimulating discussion through a (now) ubiquitous channel for communication.
That's some solid advice and insight. Thank you rob. My challenge is finding that fit now.
It's impossible. The server doesn't send a name packet unless requested. If they request it through individual packets, the requested IP is still recorded, and can be matched (we log all login-in events with an IP) to an account.

If I were to lead a game now, I'd definitely have things designed differently. You're right - a programming fix would've been desirable, but was unfortunately not a possibility at the time :(
A bug in how they were counted in FF7:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673851
Poor programming is a bit of a harsh read of the situation. The "obvious" solution of having the server simulate everything the client is simulating, then only sending the data that the client actually needs to display isn't free. It's a great deal more programming effort, with code that will tend to expose every bug in it. What features will you trade away for that? Will the lack of those features end up entirely killing the project?

It also puts vastly more load on the servers, even if perfectly implemented.

It also isn't easy even if you implement this from day one, and is usually going to be virtually impossible to retrofit.

The question isn't about "poor programming" or not; it's a call about the costs and the benefits. The costs are quite large, and as this article demonstrates, if the benefits can be obtained much more cheaply in other ways, it may be a bad engineering decision to spend that much time to do "good programming" on the problem. Quality code isn't free and resources are never infinite.
I learned C from Kochan (1st Ed) so it is indeed fair to say that it's a big assumption that every C programmer has read K&R, even for us grognards.
>If “the patent system is broken” is a lazy rhetorical cheat, then “software patents shouldn’t be allowed” is the most completely vacuous intellectual cop-out possible.

What an insulting and unfounded statement. The arguments against software patents are strong and coherent. Intelligent people can disagree in good faith about the issue, but labeling the anti-software patent position a "completely vacuous cop-out" is unjustified rhetoric. So far as I can see, he doesn't really provide anything other than "math is hard, companies spend money on it" to support a contrary position, and the philosophical point that physical inventions are based on mathematical physics is true but outside the scope of legal reasoning.

The whole piece irritates me, because it is really just repeating the standard arguments for the utility of the patent system in general which all serious participants in the debate already know. The implication is that opponents of software patents are just too ignorant to know the basic issues - which may be true enough of Random Internet Commentators, but is certainly not true of the many experts who are opposed to software patents.
>It's impossible to do that, unless they managed to write a new client.

Possible with ROPS.

Possible with OpenKore (a "new client" itself) in XKore mode.
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Hint: use multiple windows.

One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated again trying to open all these tabs AT ONCE. Poor thing.
The problem that I see with the certificate of origination idea is that then the patent trolls will file for literally millions of certificates of origination. Then they'll just send you threatening letters asking for a settlement and you have to do the costly vetting process to decide whether or not their certificate of origination has merit. Most likely you'll just settle.
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I think pharmacuticals should fall under copyright (copyright the compound, in the same way you do music or text)

copyright terms could use reform, though
Right, I didn't mean to imply that he's a practicing lawyer (since he's clearly a writer and editor for This Is My Next/Verge, but it was foolish of me to expect everyone else to know that) or that he was a patent lawyer.

What I meant by that part of the comment is that from what I've heard and read by him, he seems so thoroughly entrenched in his perspective as a lawyer that the system in place is just how it is, that he has trouble even understanding systemic criticism of the system itself.

And my reading of the main objective you attribute to him isn't so much to introduce the complexity of the situations so much as to tell people to quit arguing about things that they're not experts on. Leave it to the lawyers in other words.

I think that's a fair sentiment to a degree. People definitely do seem to join one camp or another based on very simplistic versions of arguments, with very shallow understanding of the subjects at hand. But it doesn't seem useful to me to tell people to stop doing that. What seems more useful to me is try to educate people on the complexities of the issue so that you can elevate the people who are amenable to education. Ignore the others.

It's perfectly valid to tell stupid people that they're being stupid. But does it add anything meaningful to the conversation?

I just don't see Nilay ever addressing the actual, valid, fundamental criticisms of the patent system.
Lua is significantly faster than most dynamic languages (LuaJIT is faster than most static languages as well), and the Lua runtime is small, portable, flexible and easily embeddable. Creating a runtime from scratch with these properties would be difficult, while targeting Lua makes it nearly free.

Many languages compile to an intermediate format of some kind. The complexities you cite are easily be hidden. MoonScript already makes compiling and error traceback invisible, and I expect direct debugging of MoonScript files will be doable at some point as well.

This is the first I've heard of MoonScript, but I've long wondered why more languages don't use Lua as a target.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

--Upton Sinclair

My own observation is that "The Law" (that class of people in charge of creating, extending and defending laws and legal systems) in the USA has crawled inside itself. The legalists like your patent lawyer and others will give very persuasive and logical arguments for laws and the current implementaton of laws. Unfortunately, the non-logical axioms and symbols they start with are all legal. The Law has come unstuck from reality. This un-reality is a bit more subtle than trying to legislate the numerical value of Pi, probably because they've dropped the axiom that The Law exists to serve society.
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I get your point that there is "ruin porn" in almost any city.

I don't think you get my point though. Detroit is almost entirely "ruin porn", there are no million dollar homes next to any ruins in Detroit, I doubt there are any million dollar homes in Detroit at all.
So you're advising against what appears to be a more practical and secure methodology on the basis that it's worse when you share your password? If you share your password, your exact problem is that you're sharing your password -- it's not how easy or hard the password is to remember. In fact, why does this even have any significance when the person you're sharing it with can just write it down?

Oh and if within a year's time you do not change your password, that could very well be another problem. I think you'd be better off just using easy to remember pass phrases and changing them every once in a while. Shouldn't be a problem because they are, after all, easy to remember.
It will work, Facebook accepted my landline number just fine. There is no need to have an SMS message sent.
Anonymous has already declared they don't indulge in such activities. Which world do you live in?
This does not work very well for me; if anything, I like to have an outline and miscellaneous file open. In fact, I meant to write a short post with screenshots of my current workspace embedded, but by accident I went away an hour ago and am back with a much larger post discussing many aspects of the article in question that just so happens to have some screenshots of the way I've been working embedded, along with explanations. Sorry! http://jseliger.com/2011/08/11/how-to-be-a-faster-writer-don...
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I can see your point in that the kolmogorov complexity of two lines in a song isn't much larger than one line. Similarly, 30 digits of pi and 300 digits of pi have very little difference in kolmogorov complexity.

What I don't know is if state-of-the-art password guessers are great at recognizing larger patterns in the entire canon of human knowledge. I.e. is there a "common phrases" attack that's analogous to a "dictionary attack"?
OpenKore wasn't working with Eternity's Silentium[1] active at that point.

[1] Silentium was Eternity's encryption system. I'll post the code some time in a later post, if anyone is curious.
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> I've always thought that the inventors (or patent holders) should be entitled to all proceeds that their invention generates until they've been adequately compensated for the opportunity cost

that is worse than what we have now (damages were, until very recently, calculated on 25% of profit from the part of a product that violated a patent)

also, there are already stringent 'use it or lose it' provisions in most jurisdictions - they are easily avoided, and you only need a single state to become 'patent friendly' to screw it all up anyway
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Indeed, 5 to 3 days might seem close/similar, but 5 days is 66% slower turnover than 3 days. IMHO, this data is representative
I've always admired JetBrains' approach to development and marketing. Most of their core development is done in Russia by exceedingly talented developers who do not have to relocate and can be close to their friends and family.

JetBrains is well known for their IntelliJ editor.

http://www.jetbrains.com/company/people/team.html
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"poor programming" was a quote from the article.

Also, it wasn't clear from the article itself what game was being talked about. After clicking around the site, I realized this was about a "private server" for Ragnarok Online. In other words, a reverse engineered fan-made server. Though there appears to be an actual company behind it, just not Ragnarok Online's actual developer, I'm not quite clear on whether there's a business here. Either way, I was thinking of this in a completely different context.

Indeed writing it properly isn't free, that's part of why people pay money to play these games! But in this case, people are perhaps not paying any money.

I wonder if the official Ragnarok Online servers have this issue?
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