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The headline threw me at first, then I started thinking about how closely they worked with them on the Xoom, iirc they Honeycomb guys were testing and working on the Xoom exclusively (From the Google I/O keynote I think)

I wonder if we'll see more open (i.e. easily rootable, well documented etc) handsets coming from this deal.
Not entirely sure but I think the Nexus One was the last really transparent HTC Android device...
Thanks. Clearly, I'm still sleeping.
I hadn't really thought about it but your are right. This development gives the rise to the possibility of a "real" Google Phone.

If nothing else, this might mean it will be easier to root Motorola phones in the future, as Google seems to see rootability as a feature.
Yes, this could be a huge deal for games development. Especially if they somehow manage to not kill OpenGL before it becomes popular this could enable very cool things indeed.
Well, given some kind of power law distribution, I don't think the $5M are that far off.
In fact, this suggests that my guess may have been on the higher end:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in...

It says average income for top 0.1% is $3M and those 200,000 are exactly the top 0.1%.
I'm not sure where the huge discrepancy comes from, when it comes to the total personal income stats you posted and I hope someone can clear this up.
Patents are a big part sure, but it's more generically about strengthening Android's position overall -- partly in the legal system through patents, and partly in the market through Google having direct control of a major cell phone manufacturer with direct lines to the providers.
Sure they do - Google is the default search engine on most of those devices. Granted, not enforced, but still.
How can Google get away with not publishing GPL-derivative code from the legal point of view?
What makes this better than Little Snitch?
It's fascinating to see the behemoths (Apple, Microsoft, Google) positioning themselves for the fight ahead. The importance of this fight cannot be understated.

Microsoft won the last fight like this and they have dominated our desktops for 15 years (OK, maybe not all HN devotees) and pocketed gazillions.

Apple are ahead right now (manufacturing handsets, selling software, etc), Google are second and Microsoft are lagging behind in third, but this Motorola deal means that Google might be able to pull ahead of Apple for a period and alienated phone manufacturers who are using Android might flock to Microsoft, inflating their sails a little.
Thanks. I guess someone felt I was being caustic (which, well, I was). Indeed this is one of the recurring problems we've faced in large projects and "we" always wonder if it's something "they" learn in Business School, so I was expecting it to be on the list. Anyways, I'm sure I'm over-simplifying and the issue runs deeper than the academic background.
Einstein is an extreme example of such a case - when I read his biography the thing that caught me as very interesting is that he was able to immerse himself in physics irrespective of all the problems in terms of not finding a job, his mothers bitter opposition to marrying his first wife etc.You can hardly trick yourself into such concentration.He must be the lucky few who find such deep interesting topics that life is a pleasure even with all the hardships around!

Einstein's sister, Maja, recalled "...even when there was a lot of noise, he could lie down on the sofa, pick up a pen and paper, precariously balance an inkwell on the backrest and engross himself in a problem so much that the background noise stimulated rather than disturbed him."

Source;http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/23...
Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car
It is a vicious circle, I agree with you.

But it's not clear how Google can break the cycle by themselves. If Google were to say no to patents, without there first being major reforms to the patent system, then they would be slowly squeezed by their competitors patents until they ran out of juice.
> That's right bitches. The only thing more expensive has passed through the asshole of a small cat-like creature. You already know what it's called because you're a geek and you're smart. Hey, I like pussy, but that's taking it a little too far.

Was this part really necessary to make your point?

The rest of your post was spot on:)
What causes sticky wages?
Yes, but what of the charge that the FCC has consistently given preference to well-monied lobbyists (e.g. the National Association of Broadcasters vs. Low Power FM radio operators) when handling spectrum rights?
Is there a way of managing spectrum that is more efficient for businesses and more beneficial to consumers? We don't know, because the FCC is governed by increasingly antiquated rules.
Dealing with bad data sources is like product development 101. You're not supposed to "blame" the developer, but pointing it out and expecting a fix is fair.

It's a weekend project, but even weekend projects evolve with free time.
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Motorola != Motorola Mobility. Motorola Mobility is a recent spin-off from Motorola and encompasses the original company's handset business as well as its related patent portfolio.

What does Motorola do? Well ... cellular infrastructure is their core business, and they also have services/solutions for things like emergency response services (e.g. 911 in the US), law enforcement, and I think they still make walkie talkies.
And, sadly, another voice for patent reform is muted...
The reason I put fairer in quotes is because it is a term that can be argued over.

Yes two bands, with the focus on making it attractive for people to earn money and pay tax, ideally the 0% band would be just enough to clothe, feed yourself and pay rent in a bad neighbourhood.

Progressive is a word that seems to mean different things to the left and the right, I notice you didn't define it.

As I said a flat tax is economically progressive because it doesn't discourage people from trying to earn more money.

At the moment you have people buying houses they don't need or using complex financial instruments just to do something with their money because if they don't they will get taxed more. Investing this money for the sake of it is not always beneficial to the economy or society, I favour a persons right to choose what to do with their own money.

I am coming from this from a libertarian perspective, whether you earn 50k a year or 500k the government should not be taking a higher percentage from you than other people. Especially considering that with a percentage rate whilst the proportion is the same, the actual amount of tax high earners pay is greater (which is socially progressive enough for me, but perhaps not for you). I believe I am using the word proportion correctly here, but if not please feel free to let me know how I have got it wrong.

Here in the UK the top rate of tax is 50%. I doubt I will ever be taxed at that rate but the government taking half a persons income scares me a little, no wonder people try to move their money around so the taxman can't get at it.
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Google Pulls A Zune
I have just come back from a trip to Vietnam in which I visited homes in the Mekong delta. We're talking about a place where half the homes are made of palm, there's no running water at all, and the people are dirt poor. I've seen some of these palm shacks with large-screen TVs - older CRT types, admittedly, but it drove home the point that "big screen TV" is no longer a sign of opulence.

Similarly, the people aren't starving, but that doesn't not mean that they aren't poor - if "electronic gadgets and absence of famine" is all you need to define as "not poor", I disagree with you.
Sorry, the process consumed all the memory and got killed :( Wasn't expecting so much activity on a single board :) Was fun to watch!
@mention notifications for Skype Chat (OSX)
Because it's not GPL-derivative code?
http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html
Hi makeramen, thanks for your comment, glad it was fun to read.

I have been toying with the idea to write more publicly. If you'll follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/edo) you will be the first to know when I do ;-).

Cheers!
We did something similar for Django Dash a couple weeks ago: http://drawnby.jupo.org/

Knocked up in 48 hours with Django, WebSockets and Redis

All open source: https://github.com/stephenmcd/drawnby

Released django-socketio a week later born out of that project: https://github.com/stephenmcd/django-socketio
You took it backwards. Modern programmers usually start with an IDE. Then some of them switch to Emacs for most things.
Technically, yes. However, given how much other OEMs have invested into Android, any significant special treatment to Motorola will have the anti-trust dogs on them in no time. With the scrutiny Google's under right now, they don't have much of a choice.
"Quick and easy fix for all Android patent problems. Google should buy Motorola" 02 Aug 11, unwiredview.com:

http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/08/02/quick-and-easy-fix-to-...
Yep, this might be good news for the other "licensable" smartphone/tablet operating systems, which include WP7, webOS and MeeGo.

Samsung already has Bada, which may have ambitions to become a bit more of a proper smartphone operating system. But there is a bunch of manufacturers that may have to switch from Android because of this deal.
One interesting side note: Sprint/Nextel has always heavily relied on Motorola phones, and a few months back, Sprint and Google rolled out tight integration between Sprint service and Google Voice (http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/sprint-integrate...)

So now I'm wondering 1) Was Spring anticipating this merger, and 2) will Google's purchase of Motorola be a boon for Sprint?

I'm not a Sprint customer, but in the name of keeping more competitors in the mobile market, I do want to see them stay in the game.
Yes, this. I've asked the same question as the post you were replying to, but your response sheds new light on the issue.

Now that I think of it, it also matches my experiences living in lower income neighbourhoods.
I'm of the mindset that this is chiefly for the patents... But.

The real benefactors of this? The former Danger team that made the TMobile Sidekick, one of whom created Android.

If you recall, shortly after the last I/O the gang was announced reunited at Google working on a plethora of hardware toys. I think Google just bought them a new playground to play in.
Little Snitch wants to inform you about everything. Radio Silence obeys silently. I guess "better" is a matter of preference. I wanted to create the simplest possible solution I could imagine.

They both solve similar problems, but from different points of view. I'm personally not a big fan of programs that constantly pop up alert windows.
Was it plan B? Major purchases like this don't usually happen quickly. The Nortel and Novell stuff all went down in the last six months, and neither (separately or together) would have cost Google enough to make them back off an in-progress attempt to buy Motorola.

This could have been part of a Google patent blitz from the start.
"Pops" Brings Vivid Animated Notifications on android
Of course it's relevant. At his level, he can pay however much tax he wants, anywhere in the world, and this will always be the case. What he's calling for is other people paying more tax.
OnLive is doing that now, and says the biggest problem is bad monitors.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you; I'm sure it would help the process. Just saying.
The English copy on the home page needs a slight, but important once-over. "A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly whiteboard app..." should be written: "Web Whiteboard is a touch-friendly whiteboard app..."
Android Now On 150 Million Devices Worldwide
Yes, it was a fun five-minutes-community. (The first penis showed up 30 seconds later...)
Agoin Sports Mall - Sporting Shopping.
Firefox 6 available, version 8 to offer add-on control
Expiration time, password reset emails are typically one-time-use so it doesn't matter if they're in logs once the user has loaded the page.
> They're just, apparently, completely unable to actually get those initiatives through Congress.

There is a Progressive Caucus in Congress but they just don't have the numbers to pass anything, especially with a refusal for any sort of compromise from the Right. And there are simply too many Blue Dogs that will tow the line in the middle.

If someone were a "liberal", it would be best to get progressive candidates in Congress, not just any Democrats.
The DOM and 3rd party javascript - still insecure
Look at how long the average American has to work to pay for the housing that is considered socially acceptable.
You nées to pay the developer to create the workaround _and_ the litigator to prove in court that the workaround does not infringe.
ok, 24,500 patents. And - I know it's old-fashioned - how many employees?
The problem with Economics is that, in trying to get a handle on the enormous complexity of its field, they constantly over-simplify. GDP, for example, is in itself a poor indicator of wealth.
If I sell you something for $10, you sell it back to me for $20, and I sell it back to you for $30, GDP is up $60.

But in all of Stupidtown, PPP is the village idiot. First, which basket of goods do you choose? Whatever you select will favor some cultures over others. Second, what about the quality of goods? Butter might be cost the same in terms of hours worked, but for that same amount, the Swiss get pure, mountain-made butter, whereas in LA they get corn-oil margarine. Then there's the flattened world. It used to be that you would earn more in Switzerland, but a couch, for example, would cost more. But now, both go to IKEA and the costs are nearly identical. A tablet computer? Flat-screen TV? Car? Those things essentially cost the same everywhere. When the Swiss go on vacation, their better income means they get a lot more and they go to much nicer places. Then there's taxes. The Swiss pay about the same percentage as in LA, but for that they get amazing things: free university, guaranteed health care, etc.

Finally, there's the wet-finger test. If the weather models show that it should be sunny and you step outside and it's wet, please consider that despite what you read: it's raining. I'm American but I've lived in Switzerland, and I must humbly admit that there's nowhere in America that comes close to being as wealthy as Switzerland.

Visit Baton Rouge and then visit Zurich. You will laugh your ass off at the notion that LA is 10% off of Switzerland's wealth. You will then laugh at economists themselves as the poorest of weather scientists who simply don't know how to walk outside.
Generally you should always make sure to have backup plans but sometimes it's not worth it. Do you really need to maintain a backup strategy which requires a lot of resources for less than 12 hours of downtime per year ?
Other people with incomes of more than $1 million. Would you have the same problem if that were $10 million, instead?
Thanks for catching it! Yeah, not a native speaker, will ask someone to go through it (the wording on the "add to your site" could probably be improved as well)
Google acquires Motorola
Interesting definition of "now" ;)

"J. C. Raven first published his Progressive Matrices in the United Kingdom in 1938."

"all entrants to the British armed forces from 1942 onwards took a 20 minute version of the SPM"

edit Just found a copy of and tried the standard test. Very easy once you see what they're testing in each group. Basic pattern matching and boolean shape operations for the most part. Last question was visual arithmetic. According to Wikipedia this only measures the "reasoning" component of Spearman's g. I can honestly admit that my reasoning is pretty questionable, having found myself in numerous questionable situations in my life ;)
The mass erasure of 3:30 still haunts us all.
An interesting read is "Remembering Satan", about a small community torn apart by accusations of sexual abuse and satanic rituals. Many people confessed, some were convicted, no evidence was ever produced.

http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Satan-Tragic-Recovered-Mem...
Don't operators have to start with a lowercase letter?
Is there a kernel extension involved ? What about blocking process e.g. from the terminal etc.
It would be very helpful if you put a Clear button somewhere more accesible, but hard to click by mistake, such as in the lower left. Also, don't ask me if I want to clearn the page.
Google CEO explains reasoning behind Motorola acquisition (spoiler: patents)
... their pretending that HTML is capable of things that it is not.

That was unavoidable because HTML wasn't capable of doing the kind of layout that designers wanted. This was back in the late '90s, when the demand for WYSIWYG web design tools boomed but the HTML standard was splintered by incompatible vendor-specific extensions.

We can do much better now; hopefully Adobe Muse does.
It would be nice if it was in the Mac App Store (or if it is already you shall link to it)
Eckhart Tolle's ideas have a deep similarity of meaning with your idea: that the mind is part of you, and you are not defined by your mind. You need to control it just like any other part of your body. This concept has helped me immensely in casting off procrastination.
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Perhaps there is a strategy that doesn't require a lot of resources. If there is, I'd be interested to hear about it. Something akin to whipping up a linode box with a pre-made script.
Sad to say, I don't think employees count anymore. It's all about locking up the patents.

OTOH, X number of people now work for Google without having to take those quizzes.
At the risk of repeating myself: the "opinion" he is expressing is actually a theory of procrastination. When you make broad statements like "the reason why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life", you are declaring your belief about why a widespread phenomena occurs of the type which is either right or wrong (or partially right).

Making such statements without providing any evidence for them is not only intellectually vacuous (since if there is no need to provide evidence, then any claim can be made), but it leads to bias in others where people assume that because an argument was not made, that the information is "well known" or the person providing the information is an expert.

There's nothing wrong with sharing opinion. I'm guessing that the reason he came to the conclusions he did was based on personal experience (probably mixed with some reading); if so, then he shouldn't have said "the reasons why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life", he should've said "I noticed that I seem[ed] to procrastinate not because of (...), but because I didn't feel in control of my life". If his evidence wasn't introspective, then he should have shared whatever his evidence was. If he didn't have any evidence other than plausibility, then he should've framed what he was saying as a hypothesis (and ideally still explained his reasoning).

You don't have to back up everything you say with scientific evidence, but you shouldn't make sweeping claims, especially in fields like this one where the jury is still out, without either providing evidence or qualifying your claim. (And I don't buy the "it's too much extra writing" argument; he could've inserted "I have a hypothesis:" after "Dear procrastinator" and had it completely covered.)

And no, I'm not just being nitpicky; a number of well-known biases like the primacy effect, confirmation bias, the "trusting the confident statement" bias I mentioned earlier (which I can't remember the name of for the life of me), and wishful thinking (in this case, wishing for a solution to procrastination) mean that humans are very vulnerable to forming irrational beliefs when ideas are presented in this way. An ounce of prevention, in the form of stating the reason you believe what you believe at least when you're making new or potentially controversial claims, is surely not too much to ask given how easy it is and how far it goes.
I think RIM should now invest their remaining cash into making a REST IN PEACE board for their grave.
Seems odd that nobody is mentioning spectrum ownership. Maybe now we could start to see some areas with open/free access to high-bandwidth wireless data networks.
It's not a self-contained package because of the kernel extension, so can't be sold through the App Store. Otherwise it would be there.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886575
I don't disagree with that, but I am making a different point. Password systems, by their nature, require lots and lots of actions from users: making up passwords, resetting them when expired, making a keyfile and keeping it safe and backed up (if using a password manager), remembering a long and random master password, and the list goes on - e.g. remembering not to reuse passwords or use similar passwords. It's been proven over and over and over and over again that users will not do these things. It's not like password managers are new; they've been around for 15 years, and haven't made a dent. We can keep banging our heads against that wall, or we can give users a solution that doesn't depend on them doing and remembering dozens of technical actions. "This is the key to your bank account. Don't lose it, but if you do, call us." This can work.

And from a technical point of view, all password systems have a weakness of having long-term credentials - a stolen password can be used for months, at any time, until it expires. That part is not fixable.
I am not sure if Apple would ever be caught admitting that any of their products suck. They will always sell stuff in a more positive way (I mean they won't say "our product x sucked, this is what we do to make it better"). Why should Google do it differently.
> However, working people don't see themselves as fuckups (because they're not), and they don't have a lot of patience with weirdos. So they aren't going to feel comfortable with the gay marriage/ social worker part of the left (the old union guys were socially very conservative for the most part).

I'm not sure if this was always the case though. In the 60s and 70s it seemed that the weirdos and labor guys were able to work together because they had the same goals. And we have seen this recently with the labor protests in Wisconsin: they were started by university TA's but picked up by sanitation workers, cops, firefighters and the like.

I don't think it's fair for the working class folks to just write off everyone else just because they're "weirdos." Social issues can be just as important economic ones. Plus I think it's extremely shortsighted that someone will not be able to work with me on shared goals just because I don't go to church or eat ribs. I know these are just examples you brought up, but it's dangerous for people to never reach beyond "one of us."

The mistake of the Democratic Party was to abandon the unions and to embrace corporations as a source of funding. This continues to this day as Obama never supported the Wisconsin workers.
Deestan, that's an awesome point. I've included it in the article. I've also made a few other edits based on feedback.
Yes, there is a kext.

Currently, it doesn't block non-app-bundle processes. The main reason for the app's existence is to block nosy apps that discreetly contact their home servers. I can't think of many (or any) terminal apps that do the same thing.