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No, I was not waiting to jump on someone for that, and I would hope that my response was not agressive in tone. That really was not intentional, but I apologize to jmreid if that was the case.

I actually up-voted jmreid's post (before typing my response) because he raised an extremely important point.

If I may share something? I like to keep this in mind as I move around online. With the lack of faces and tone of voice to help, I find that it is helpful to remember: http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html
That's just the theory of the author of that essay. It has never been tested in court. The "judgement" the author claims at the start of his essay was actually a settlement offered by someone who thought $10000 was worth less than the risk of a court case. (Perhaps because he didn't want to be publically accused of downloading gay porn.) That whole essay is based on deception, and the author is a sleazebag.

http://torrentfreak.com/are-you-guilty-if-pirates-use-your-i...
You can use Control-down-arrow and Control-up-arrow to move by pages, and Command-up-arrow and Command-down-arrow like Home/End.

But note it is technically possible to remap key bindings for text fields in any way you want. Here is one article about it:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Basically, Cocoa methods exist for almost any imaginable text editing action (such as pageDown), and they can be mapped to any keys. I would also imagine there's a way to map them to gestures on the MacBook's trackpad.
This is fucked as usual.

Making a "copy" (or a real 1:1 copy, for that matter) itself doesn't add any value. Creating a design is an effort that is valuable itself (somebody might pay the designer) but copying a finished design or creating not-so-derivative works is an infinitesimally small effort. And no effort means no value. A copy of a design is worthless.

Conversely, Samsung still has to actually manufacture their tablets: that's a undisputable effort spent and that does create value. Sure their tablets might look same-ish (there aren't that many fundamental designs for a tablet computer) but they haven't created any value in their design. At best Apple should just be flattered to see competitors imitating their looks; however, in no sensible world Apple shouldn't have a say what other companies or people can spend their time and effort in.

Design is not property: there's no "intellectual property". Every time we try to treat mental works as property we fail majestetically, but then try to cough it up and cry for even stricter copyright restrictions.
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Let's get one more side by side: http://cl.ly/3h30350I0c0P0W401N3c

The obscure device you found is on the left. iPad which is an actual product, is in the middle. Samsung's Tab is on the right. The iPad and Tab are practically identical.

The left two are only similar in that they are both rectangular. The bezel size, color, texture, and material are all different.

You can't argue a:b :: b:c.
A 90% reduction in some crime stat is also quite drastic. The point is that if you started out behind, you have to go a long way just to get where the other guy was when you started.

I agree that desktop Linux is drastically better than it was in 1996, but unless you like hacking your system's innards or just have an ideological opposition to Apple (both of which are reasonable — don't get me wrong), I can't think of a lot to recommend Linux as it exists today over OS X as it exists today.
Yes, there is.

In most companies, the database is significantly more accessible than any encryption keys. For goodness sake, marketers typically have query access to the DB.

And the issue of emailing a password is different. The problem there is that if I gain access to your email account, I can quickly search "password" to discover your private passwords that a company, not you, chose to drop into your email account.

But to be clear, user-created passwords should be stored one-way hashed and never emailed.
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> Expunging it from memory with application-level semantics is a potential win because it can theoretically prevent you from ever hitting swap even after using hundreds of apps over the course of weeks or months.

Other than saving some disk space, how is hitting swap to page an unused app back in significantly different from loading the app from memory again?
Oh, if it became popular, I have no doubt that the government would happily ban baseball bats. Here in Glasgow, it's relatively popular to use a sawn-off golf club as an impromptu spear.

However, it shouldn't be up to a private company to regulate that.
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Any word on homebrew installing gcc?
Email is traditionally transferred using unencrypted connections. Once in your mailbox, email is often saved and/or indexed for easy search, which is often unencrypted and/or outright unprotected. And worse, your email provider can discover your password by simply signing in as you.
My old setup was a Mac, with keyboard and big screens, with an xemacs window open to a linux box. Then, I lost a hard drive on the mac (while time machine was in self borking mode). Migration ensues. (some of which was planned)

So then, I've got 2 ubuntu boxes, and a mac that needs rebuilding. Dev stuff has been moved from hw linux to a redundant array of cheap virtual machines. One of the HW linux consoles is repurposed to run vms, run the vm generator, and also do some ui stuff, since Xemacs and chrome are pretty much the same anywhere. All well and good.

So, linux box #2 doesn't like to have a keyboard plugged into it for any length of time. It starts to ignore it. (Why, I don't know). But it runs VMs like a champ, so there it is.

Linux box #1 does fine for months, until this morning, when Xorg fubars itself, and then proceeds to do it every 15-20 minutes.

So, now, I guess, I'm back to the mac. Since it's hd has been rebuilt in the intervening time. Though I'm still getting used to the terminals in Lion.

But that's not what I came here for, The real point of the story is:

emacs --daemon

and emacsclient -c.

So now, in the dev vm start up emacs in daemon mode. Then, you can connect to that process from any tty or xserver. With all your state. I like state.
Wow, you have a certain mindset and you don't want to change it.

> Standardization would be much easier for LEDs

No, it would be just as hard because LEDs are very new and the perfect format is not known yet. It'll be a decade or more before anyone can think of standardization.

> The additional cost may be negligible.

No, the additional cost will probably double the cost, and require extra material and energy to make it.

> That may be true now, but I personally don't care. Given the choice between replacing an entire bulb and replacing a small piece for slightly less, guess which one I'll choose.

Like I said, a certain mindset and you don't want to change it. Even if this is worse for the environment you would still prefer this? It's greenwashing, it provides no benefit, but it makes you feel better that you didn't throw something away.

You would pay more for the initial bulb, and the new component will cost more than a new bulb - so you pay more twice. And of course you are not paying for nothing, you are paying for extra material and extra manufacturing energy.

> Ultimately the cost of the electronics and the LED will be cents. Think about what's happened to LED flashlights. The cost of the aluminum and plastic fixture is fixed.

The plastic fixture costs cents. The expensive part is making it, not the raw material. This will be true even in some future where high power LEDs are cheap.
I think Apple has been backing away from that "promise" for a while now. Remember in Snow Leopard (or maybe it was Leopard?) when they disabled that white dot that used to show beneath running apps? That made it very hard to tell which apps were actually running, vs just docked in your Finder for easy access. I know a lot of people went and updated some plist to revert to the old behavior (I did, and also did so for my wife's computer). But it seems like that might have been an intentional move on Apple's part to make it less obvious which apps are running.
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Using TextEditor on Lion is a frustration and exercise in patience. Every time I want to start it and just type a quick note... I have to wait as it's disappeared or it's restoring previous windows. Sometimes it even gets in a weird state where it thinks a document is open, but it's not, so attempting to open it results in TextEdit being given focus, but not opening the document in question.
I don't think it's fair to think of Jordan as a particularly Islamist (which is distinct from Islamic; the former being a political philosophy, the latter meaning "primarily Muslim") country. Especially compared to the Gulf states which have lots of oil wealth, Jordan is a relatively moderate society, much closer to Turkey in terms of westernization than Yemen or even Saudi Arabia[1].

[1] According to the CIA World Factbook, female literacy rates are 96% in Israel, 85% in Jordan, 80% in Turkey, 70% in Saudi Arabia, and 30% in Yemen. That's just a single, relatively poor metric, but gives some idea of the state of things.
Care to elaborate on your setup? Which VM platform do you use? Doesn't it take up too much resources when idle?
I used Linux (Slackware, Debian then Ubuntu) since 2000, and as my main OS since 2002. Last year I had to switch to Mac OS in order to develop for iOS, I have several issues with Mac OS, mainly I don't like their window management at all (when I close a window I want the app to be closed, I don't like the menu bad not integrated with the windows, I don't like how works the resizing,...).

But when I see what is gnome on Ubuntu 11.04, I don't really know if I would like to switch back know. I don't know how to put it, but my desktop pc is _not_ a touchscreen, I don't understand why they changed everything as if it everything was an iPad... Moreover it seems to me that the state of Firefox (yeah I'm still rooting for FF) on Linux is largely lagging behind win/mac at least for its UI. And worst of all, I'm feeling that a lot of skilled developers have switched to Mac OS recently and putting their skills to develop .app instead of .deb now.

I'm actually a bit sad because I love Linux more than anything.
That article seems to talk mostly about the phones. When it was first written I recall this image being brought up in response:
http://photos.appleinsider.com/Sam.Apple.001.jpg
It's good to see apple stand up for their developers, but does the license Apple has apply to the developers? The developers are, after all, the ones technically infringing on the patents.
We implemented this (bcrypt) for https://www.blamestella.com/ (a web monitoring service for devs and designers)
Yeah excel seems easy when you've been using it since age 3. But I work with hundreds of creative-types - artists, designers, writers, etc - who couldn't figure out what to do with an excel beyond opening it and reading it like a document.
I'm using Windows and Ubuntu. Why? Because where I live (Croatia) a Mac Mini 2.5GHz costs the equivalent of $1300, which is almost twice the $799 price tag on Apple Store. Nuff said.
Are you seriously suggesting everyone else in the market should be banned from making tablets because Apple was the first one to make one which is publically recognized?

You may not have said so explicitly, but it is hanging out there, on the broad side of your argument.
Basically, it's like AirBnB for Laundromats
No, not at all. Because everyone who sees an eBook reader usually thinks it's a Kindle, despite the fact a Sony, a Kobo, and the original Nook look absolutely nothing like a Kindle. (The Nook Touch has a similar color casing, but has no keyboard. Plus, there is no white model.)
A nice choice. Also, the x120E with the dual-core processor (E350 chip), on Ebay starting at $400.

On a tight budget, my kids use the much older x60 and x61 (on Ebay for about $150-$200), and even the (quite old) x40 and X41.
Heavy use of virtual memory and swap doesn't make sense when your only storage device is NAND flash. Killing and restarting unused processes makes sense when you are shipping devices with low amounts of SDRAM but fast disks and processors. So these features aren't built for your macbook pro with 8gb and magnetic disk, they're built for your macbook air with 2gb and SSD.
In other news - lots of people put pants on one leg at a time and don't forget to walk the dog in the morning!
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Thanks for the suggestions - "we live in public" is on netflix instant so will watch it sometime this week:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/We_Live_in_Public/70112751
I think Apple should defend developers. Particularly because they were the one's who enabled the feature and made the API accessible to developers. And considering how closed Apple is about iOS and some of their natives APIs, allowing this particularly feature to be released is a big deal.
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Definitely all kinds of promises are being broken. Bottom line is that the Dock / Mission Control / Command-Tab / LaunchPad are a mess of mixed metaphors right now. As far as my mom is concerned though, she has no idea what is running or not. In fact, the Windows paradigm of closing the last window is more akin to her expectations even though she has never in her life used Windows.
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When I click on the "download it today" button, it forwards me to a not found page in the app store. :(
I wonder how easy a cheap, low tech version of this would be to make. A camera staring at the underside of a clear gel with an incredibly thin layer of opaque reflective pigment on top of it could pick up and translate a depth map if the surface were evenly lit.
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It is an interesting analysis and I hope he is right.

One of the comments on his post articulate my big fear:

"This time IS different Phil. The western world’s economy has yet to deleverage. What was a housing / credit crisis is now a global sovereign debt crisis. Massive stimulus spending, 0% interest rates & QE 1 & 2 have simply delayed the inevitable. The staggering bills must now be paid. There are only 4 ways the US & Europe can deal with them: austerity, higher taxes, default or inflation"

In 2008, the thing that saved the western world's behind was China's slowdown. I must admit, that one surprised me. I assumed that local Chinese demand would replace the lost exports for China. That didn't happen and China experienced a slowdown just like the rest of the world. All in all, we rode through that one. This time, China seems to have inflation and have deemed it undesirable. How will things play out this time, I have no clue.
An active attacker having access to the DB, may use encryption to his heart contents.

If encryption's badly implemented (for example, using algorithm prone to chosen-plaintext attacks, or encrypting without salting so same plaintext are always encrypted to same ciphertext) no knowledge of key material is required to gain access to fairly significant number of accounts.
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Prompt the admin for a password? So there's no way to do an unattended reboot of the application? That doesn't sound very practical.
Because what the app has in memory after running for a while is not necessarily what it has in memory when it starts up.
Which is why the USA today follow the traditions of Native Americans...
I completely agree, but I'm not sure if that would hold up in court. I would assume we would need more information about the license to know for sure.
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The obvious fix for auto-close is to make applications close immediately when, and only when, the last window is closed. Then the user can associate it with an action they took. But the business of closing apps because windows are minimized is just creepy.

As to auto-save, get over it. I never want to lose another hour of work because I haven't saved and a damn app crashes or hangs. The model that Google Docs uses works for me. It auto-saves periodically (the saved state is visible at all times) and the user can save more often if desired. But it would be fine with me if Lion somehow managed to save continuously (and performantly) and take Save out of my vocabulary.
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Suggestion: The style should stay user-independent, but the text syntax should be shared. I mean... it would be bizarre if one person thinks that they're editing Python and another is editing Java
I wrote about an idea to level up for the daily js(http://dailyjs.com/2011/07/25/alex-kessinger/).

tldr: Try to use, and understand a tool before trying to write your own.
Didn't know it was Dijkstra and didn't actually mean to insult anybody. I thought the 'GOTO' thing was just a community opinion that emerged sometime in the last century.

Anyway, I still think break and continue are OK. Maybe they are not as bad as GOTO, and also I never run into problems with verification of my code.
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It looks like somebody has taken yet another stab at re-writing 'The Pragmatic Programmer' :-)

i don't think you've really leveled up until you get past using phrases like 'Level Up'. You're not a 14th level Ranger with a potion of strength and +4 leather armor. You're supposed to be an engineer ( or software developer or pick your favorite name ) helping real people solve real problems.
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I find HN's comment quality relaxes on the weekends too.
So glad that Apple is finally at least trying to make some smart decisions around this. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to troubleshoot something on a friend's computer and they have about 20 apps "open" and no windows. Of course, when I ask why they have so many apps open, they have no idea what I'm talking about.

Since most apps don't implement "close when the last window closes" Apple is simply trying to do some smart checking for the sake of these users.
And the response to that image was to point out that its dates are completely wrong, and that the very first time the F700 was shown was at CEBIT 2007 (not 2006) in March, after the first appearance of the iPhone.
I agree the current system is broken, but asking users to remember hundreds of passwords is no less broken. As for KeePass, the problem is that I can't get integration with a browser on my phone or tablet, so I'm left jumping back and forth between apps every time I need to log into something. Not to mention there's no official KeePass implementation for the Mac (unless I want to run on Mono). I also frankly think it's unnecessarily complex, but maybe I should give it a try again.

I really don't understand how you can take the stance that it doesn't matter if a site has proper password security. Why are you bothering to use KeyPass if you don't care about security in the first place?
If a site is storing their passwords in plain text, it's a good indicator that they are either:

A) Incompetent
B) Don't give a shit about their users data privacy
C) Both of the above.
An ice-axe? You are aware, aren't you, that there is a difference between bludgeoning someone and brutally murdering them? Because with an ice-axe, you're going to have a hard time not engaging in the latter.
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that. Some people, myself included, don't take stuff that isn't ours or destroy property even when we know that there would be few if any repurcussions for doing that. Call it a moral compass, a sense of right and wrong, whatever, we just don't.

There are people who, given the opportunity to do so without consequence, engage in such activities for the 'thrills' (or the lulz I suppose if that vernacular applies to meatspace vandalism). When the Rodney King verdict was handed down in LA there were a lot of people who were very angry and lashed out. However there were also some people who could care less, but were clearly exhilirated at the opportunity to be 'bad.' There were looters in New Orleans who took some supplies to use while they evacuated, there were looters who destroyed televisons and stole knick knacks.

The bottom line is that when you shut down the legal system, effectively removing the rule of law for a time, whether by latent rage against injustice, or by disaster. There are some deeply, truly, evil people out there and they come out and they do their evil and it is not 'cool' and it is not 'fun' and it overwhelms the people who are trying to survive.

I thing gburt was just trolling here, perhaps there is some subtlety I missed in the phrasing.
When you buy an Apple-product, no matter how shiny and polished it seems right there and then, you support this shit. Your newly acquired, polished Apple-product just made your hands dirty.
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Nice, so now when I unsubscribe to an email list and still get messages for a few days, my mail server is being hacked? Excellent. I see a lot of jail time for email marketers in the near future.
The story only details the sending of a password in plain text. You are right in that this provides no evidence of the password being stored in plain text.

It is equally plausible, without further evidence, that pingdom is merely changing the password (a likely case if the password is not retrievable) and emailing the new password.

I tested this with my pingdom account for which I know the password. The email I received contained my password and not a new password. This confirms that pingdom is storing passwords in a retrievable fashion, whether that be plain text or some form of non-one way encryption.
Even if it weren't a term of their protection agreement with IV, it's not so surprising Apple isn't questioning the validity of the patents. Apple already pays for it, so if they get their protection extended to iOS developers, invalidating the patents would only be bad for Apple.
Exactly, it's not (directly) political. These are poor people without jobs and opportunities, and gangsters and criminals. These guys sure aren't protesting any issues.

Therefore I'd agree with mortenjorck, the majority of the rioters probably don't have credit cards and probably aren't the kind of people who order stuff from amazon.
All current smartphones are ARM based and have a floating-point unit. The original iphone had one, and it wasn't the first.
Actually another factor that you have to take into account is that aluminum compresses more than wood, causing a spring effect that considerably amplifies the force. This is one reason why major league baseball does not allow metal bats. Aluminum bats drive balls harder and faster than wooden bats. I am working from the assumption that this same effect would happen if someone was hit with an aluminum bat.
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