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Fleets of self-driving vehicles nearly eliminate the problems with battery power; they can easily schedule when they need to return to the station to swap out their battery packs for fresh ones.

I still think technology is winning the resource depletion race, even if we ignore the fact that it's really starting to look like oil production isn't actually near the end of its road yet. And if we don't ignore that, the likelihood that gas (or more broadly "energy") will just be "too expensive" for people to want to jaunt about anytime in the next 20 years seems to be decreasing rather than increasing. A great deal of our current apparent shortages of various things are 100% self-imposed.
Damn, you'd think with 200k lines of awesome Java that needs to be documented with a manual that's hundreds of pages long that uses 3 other massive Java projects and released by a government agency that's done backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even backdoors themselves, that there'd be at least a plausibility of them putting one in.
AKA "avoidance behavior."
Each of the pair is a single codepoint; both combine to make one character.
That's why they should stop doing that. We aren't the smartest country on the planet anymore.
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Appropriately, it's the music from Top Gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8rZWw9HE7o
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My guess is that even if 44% is 'all iOS' and android matches only to 35% of that, the remaining '9%' of iOS devices plus all OSX installs are dwarfed by the remainder of all (non-android) linux installs, which I think was the original point.

Out of curiosity, I wonder what OS Apple's embedded devices use, such as the wifi access points?
A joke?! A JOKE?! You jest good sir. I merely put on my tinfoil hat and thought, "Hmmm, didn't this happen to OpenBSD, Windows, every crypto system ever, numerous databases, and probably SELinux?" Then extrapolated out to a very valid point.

How dare you claim I am not deadly serious about the NSA putting a back door in a database that is intended to be secure for the internet. How. Dare. You!
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It's the same as the answer to: Can I watch them in VLC?

Also I'm not actually going to watch the ads. It's not very hard to skip ahead. So how much can they really be paid for those ads?
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> I don't know if it has to do with US government ADA requirements or not, but I'm glad that across the board Microsoft tends to build accessible software.

For Visual Studio 2005, at least, this certainly didn't hurt, but we also had an incredibly dedicated and passionate group of people working on this issue, putting together brown bags educating developer division on MSAA and building accessible software, bringing in the creators of JAWS, logging bugs against every nook and cranny of the product, etc. etc.

I wish I could remember the names of everyone who was involved in this, but Sara Ford was instrumental. I'm glad I got to be a part of the whole thing, even though my contributions were focused on project management-type stuff.
The only thing really worth reading, as the rest is essentially excuses:

>As of September 14, Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes.

Can we change the title to be something more like "Google Desktop: being dropped"? Update implies 'something is changing', not 'everything is going away', and that's really all there is to this blog post.
I don't think it's nonsensical. There is a meaningful way in which it is in the past. Even if you turn yourself into photons, match positions with the supernova remnants, then return to physical form, the supernova is going to evolve though time for quite a ways beyond the current state we observe it in before your physical form has its rendezvous, even if the trip has zero duration for you.

Putting a specific time span on how far in the past it is without further specification is dubiously meaningful, saying it is in the past is not nonsensical. Everything we see is always in the past, even if it's just on the other side of the room.
As for me, a nmap scan of my Sony TV shows that it runs a Linux kernel in the 2.6.9 - 2.6.28 range. It's likely just used for the Internet functionality and perhaps for the on-screen UI. Port 12345 is open and responds to telnet, but it's password protected and I've never been able to determine what the password would be.
Gondor has been running for ~2 years as the internal hosting platform for Eldarion. A lot has changed (for the better!) over those 2 years, but it is not a brand new system. This is just a signifying of making it usable for anyone and not just Eldarion.
> I was recently kicked off my cable provider's ISP for excessive DMCA violations (torrenting) after DVRing and their OnDemand services proved too shoddy to actually watch.

I get around this by using a seedbox. Downgrade your internet service to save some money and share the seedbox with a few friends - you'll end up spending the same amount per month.

You can use SFTP to get the files from the seedbox to your computer and you'll be able to completely avoid detection by your ISP.
I can easily see them using a custom client

i.e. Hulu.
At least for me, that would ring hollow. Without the risk to your life, where is the thrill?
I get a kick out of www meaning "world wide web" but it's used on websites where I can't see anything due to my location in this wide world using the Web.
On modern buildings of course you want to build a ramp. But the cost of adding ramps to every already-built place accessible only by stairs is extremely high. At any rate, that isn't to say that it shouldn't be paid, in many cases, just that it's better (when possible and feasible) to develop technologies that let the disabled deal with it themselves. There are buildings with stairs and ramps or elevators. If you're disabled, it's good to be able to access these buildings when you come across them.

Along the same lines, the purpose of accessible digital text isn't only to help the blind, it's also to help the dyslexic and who knows who else, and generally facilitate content extraction software of all types. It's good when to do when it's feasible, but it's better to not have to rely on people doing it.
It seems like a pretty empty statement. Apple tracked the item to that location - but it wasn't there. No mention of whether the officers misrepresented that the other two men were not police officers, no mention of what evidence was brought forth to search this guys home, definitely not a warrant. I don't feel like we've been given a clear picture as to what really happened and it's a cover your ass statement.
Just curious, what backdoors have been discovered from the NSA?
You've written so many words I feel compelled to reply. Beagle, I am not arguing with you. Just pointing out that Americans aren't inclined to be outraged in general. Therefore you can't use the lack of outrage as a proof for anything, that's all.
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No, not a chance. A lot of people say that torrents are inconvenient or unreliable, but that hasn't been my experience. If you use a good private tracker, you are guaranteed good & fast downloads, no strings attached.

After not watching TV except when with friends and using ABP in my browser for several years, I've become hypersensitized to ads. I simply cannot stand watching them.
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Wow, that is probably going to help a lot, thanks. I've been using VS since the 90s and I still feel like I don't know half of what it can do.

I'm not sure how to fix this, but I am pretty sure the increasing tendency to release documentation as videos is not the answer.
I think they can still get paid pretty well for them. For one, if these releases occur, they're better than nothing; right now, media companies derive no advertising revenue from torrented files with ads embedded because they don't offer them at all. Even if they have to sell for a reduced price, that's better than zero.

Furthermore, "skipping the ads" isn't that big of a deal. People do it on TV all the time by getting up to go do something else, changing the channel, muting the television, etc., when the commercials play. Those with DVRs or VCRs fast-forward, as a VLC user might. VLC doesn't really offer much better fast-forward features than the VCR; unless you also download a pre-defined chapter file (and I don't think many people hate ads that much), this is no different than using DVR/VCR and there's no point in paying less for these ads. VLC users will still visually see your logos, commercial, etc., while watching and I think that has value too, and again, the situation in that respect is no different from conventional methods.

I think the real logistical issue here is that it'd be much more difficult to insert localized ads. Hulu et al can use IP geolocation to target local ads (I don't know if they do or not, but it's possible), but a nationally distributed mp4 file would only have nationally distributed advertisements. This causes some havoc on the current pricing system, as it cuts affiliates, who manage the advertisements on conventional TV, out of loop. Perhaps the corporate guys like this, but as long as terrestrial broadcasts are the predominant form of distribution, corporate is always going to be careful not to disrupt the affiliates' revenue stream too much.
That was a rather useless blog post. As a lifelong procrastinator, I was hoping for solutions, not a description of the problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

That's just from a quick google. Back in the day there were stories of "A Visit from Mr. Brown" or something like that. The NSA or "some agency" would go around to anyone making crypto or operating systems and ask to be given backdoors in exchange for deals on export restrictions. Periodically a government agency in another country would find them and we'd be embarrassed. These days it's not as common since crypto exports aren't restricted (much) so the threat of, "If you don't add a backdoor we'll label your software a weapon and you can't sell it to the world." doesn't work.

Then again, could all just be a huge conspiracy.....mwhahahaah.
Having done A LOT of accessibility work I've come to the conclusion that it's extremely difficult to achieve universal accessibility. At first it seems like a it's all about alt tags, but those don't help users with poor reading comprehension, for example. (Dyslexics, some deaf.)

Lately I've been wondering if a better approach would be to provide an API to functionality, and let the disabled or their advocates build interfaces for themselves. That way they'd get exactly what they need. Mouse-free versions, high-contrast versions, simplified text versions... All could be built ane everyone would be happy. Companies could even support these efforts with open source or donations or training.

What do you think? Could this work in practice?
I've heard the same thing for 15+ years now. "There's not enough time, I have to check it in." "I'll clean it up before we ship."

The time difference between writing clean code and crappy code is negligible. The main difference I saw was always in the attitude of the programmer. This is what you really learn from experience. There are lots of programmers out there with diva complexes who think it's beneath them to write easy-to-understand code, or love using 1-character variable names, etc.

Sure, maybe there might be situations where you don't have a lot of time, for example, if you are programming algos for HFTs and the traders are standing over you yelling that they need a particular parameter changed and they are losing a thousands of dollars per minute.

But in most other situations, it doesn't take much time to type "ptrCache" vs "ptr1", or add comments so that the next person who reads your code won't be scratching their head wondering wtf you were thinking.
Oop sorry, I replied wrong. Your answer is above.
I find it antagonistic on the OP's part to call this response "hostile": “we know it’s inaccessible, but we are not fixing it”. That's not hostile, it's honest. What more could you ask for than honesty?

If they had responded “we know it’s inaccessible, but we are not fixing it, because people with disabilities are a drain on society and should be put down”, that would be hostile.

Also: “it would be too hard,” (universally incorrect) is just not true. Unless his standard is "nothing is too hard for this noble cause."
I have found myself doing this quite often, according to a friend of mine who is a doctor it could be yet another sign of ADD.
August generally gets the biggest dip in traffic for most sites because of all the vacation and other non-in-front-of-computer activities. I would look into what changed from traffic sources but not really worry unless you don't get much of a bounceback in september.
I would definitely do that. I'd be highly attracted and would use it instead of pirate trackers because there wouldn't be any potential negative legal ramifications. I can't stand the streaming experience provided by most vendors; I find Flash the most detestable component thereof, but I also strongly dislike being forced to redownload data if I want to watch again or even make significant seeks. I don't necessarily have a problem with ads.

However, I would prefer to patronize a tracker that required subscription fees and didn't display ads. I have thought about launching a startup that would provide media companies with the platform to do this. There are a lot of interesting possibilities for both producers and consumers there.

At the same time, advertisement is so deeply ingrained in the operation of TV companies that I am not really sure they'd ever be comfortable moving to a model of distributing TV that didn't rely upon an advertisement as a revenue stream.

As jerf mentioned, these companies love streaming because it gives the same kind of control they get from "streaming" the broadcast to your television; all the content is retained server-side and the user doesn't get their own copy without special initiative (DVR/VCR). They are still able to consolidate control of distribution under the streaming model (or the iTunes model, where they ask Apple to remove the file and it's apparently gone forever) and I find it unlikely that they'll be willing to give that up.

This is primarily hypothetical as I consciously avoid almost all TV and movies.
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This approach has definitely crossed my mind. I would prefer the relative stability of a full-time gig (well, mostly I would prefer the 401k), but I think going the 1099 route might be my best bet.
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Bruce Schneier explains why that is not a back door.

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros...

So other than this, are there any other NSA "backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even backdoors themselves"?
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$2 seemed way too little to me, but I just did some back-of-the-napkin calculations, and it looks like two bucks would actually be a huge bump in revenue for some TV shows...assuming they were able to maintain the same number of viewers.

Case in point (and I know these numbers are a little faulty, but...):

The Simpsons in October 2010 charged $253,170 for a 30 second spot[1]. Meanwhile, during the previous season, they had an average viewership of 7.2 million per episode[2]. This works out to about $0.035 per spot per viewer.

[1] http://adage.com/article/ad-age-graphics/american-idol-spots...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons#Criticism_of_decli...
That's not actually completely true. Hotels with electronic locks are a major problem for Jews on the Sabbath.

Luckily most can also be used with a mechanical key.

Electric automatic doors are also a problem for hotels and hospitals (most other places would not be visited on the Sabbath anyway).
Is this using the iHackernews API or did you roll your own? (I'm guessing the latter, since you reference jsoup.org?)

The iHN API has been very unstable for me lately, but all other HN readers for Android seem to use it (or their UI is just so bad it borders on unusable).

Do you think the CPU cost of parsing the HN soup yourself is significant compared to pre-chewed JSON from an API (say, iHackerNews)?
The main problem I see with not doing the latter option is targeting ads. You simply can't give the same ad to someone in Boston as you give to someone in LA.
Oh, the great Bruce Schneier says so, so therefore it must be. How do you know he's not a shill for Microsoft and the NSA? Hmm?

The great thing about backdoors is, when they get discovered they have perfect plausible deniability. "Oh that key named NSAKEY isn't for the NSA it's for...uh...this other agency. Yeah that's it! It's not even a key. Right Bruce? Right?!"
How is it different from a DVR?
I still can't tell if you're joking.

I've seen a possible back door or two in this or that, but nothing like "every crypto system ever".

If you have evidence of a back door in AES, SHA-2, or anything NIST has standardized (other than Dual_EC_DRBG or openly weakened stuff like export SSL) lots of people would like to hear about it.
I honestly am not technically skilled/knowledgeable enough to know how to answer that. I did homeschool my special needs sons and have concluded that supporting "diversity" in some manner tends to widen your audience without specifically bringing up the issue of whether or not someone is handicapped. Many people who would qualify for some label or other have never been formally diagnosed and in many cases they do not want a formal diagnosis (because it is stigmatizing, could hurt their career and so on). Allowing for and supporting a wide variety of personal preferences can make things more accessible and convenient for a great many people in a way which does not make handicapped people feel singled out. Blending is often very psychologically important for people with handicaps and has significant social/practical benefits.
No, you are confusing relative time, with transit time (i.e. the time it takes for the information to reach you).

Relative time is a real thing, certainly and messes with the idea of simultaneous.

But transit time is not that. We and the supernova are more or less in the same frame of reference (we are not accelerating relative to one another, and there isn't much relative velocity difference either).

And because of that it is correct to say it happened xxx years ago.
My solution to this problem is to track everything I do. I use RescueTime and Toggl. Rescue time for automatic background tracking, and Toggl for tracking projects and tasks. I review my time sheet weekly and if I see a project or minor things take up a large portion of my time, I'll actively reduce that the next week and focus more on things that got neglected this week.

Before I started doing this, I often got distracted by doing productive stuff, i.e watching video tutorials, listening to podcasts or reading blogs, instead of getting down to coding the project. You gotta find a balance, monitor it and stick to it.
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Can't say that I would. I'd rather risk the small chance of legal trouble on a private tracker than have to skip ads or cut them out myself.

I would however consider paying to download shows without ads if they were cheap.
> Choosing the Earth as your point of reference, the supernova is happening exactly when we see it happening.

No, that is not true. You do not say point of reference, you say frame of reference - and for a good reason. Huge areas of space can all be in the same frame of reference.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_synchronisation
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If you set a reference point, then I think it's perfectly sensical to say two events happen simultaneously or "now," but without a set reference point those notions are completely nonsensical.

Most educated people understand the principle of relativity (which states that the laws of physics behave consistent in all frames of reference) and the fact that the speed of light is constant regardless of your frame of reference, but we tend to forget the resultant phenomenon called the relativity of simultaneity. Two observers in different frames of reference can't even agree on the order of events, much less the "exact time" they occurred.

Now, you can certainly propose the semantic axiom that "everything happened in the past due to the finiteness of the speed of light," but I find that axiom to be pretty useless in scientific discussion. You can suppose that millions of years of stuff has happened to that supernova after "now," but none of those events could have any causal effects on us.
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From Kung Fu: When Grasshopper feels the first stirrings of love (and sexual needs), he remembers his teacher's guidance on the subject: "To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance".
I'm in - and I'd be looking to experiment for somewhere around 50 years, give or take 20.

The major problem with something like that as I've seen it is that any arrangement or economy between people is inherently political, so the group would have to share a lot of goals and beliefs. Somebody needs to write a great book (or pamphlet) a few hackers could agree to get behind.
I imagine the findings might be statistically significant but the proverb will generally hold. Incidentally, I googled the proverb and it does sound better (funnier) in Yiddish: Ven der putz shteht, ligt der sechel in drerd
Does anyone know about what kind of optimizations LINQ gets in the VM? Does it do something like stream fusion? I wish MS had decided to make .Net multiplatform, there are a lot of really great things on there, but Windows just isn't my cup of tea.
This is from a year ago (wasn't really a relevant worry then, but even less so now).
I don't know exactly where it belongs/fits in this discussion, but some of the remarks here remind me of the example I have used on occasion that you see lightening before you hear thunder because light and sound travel at different speeds even though they both originate with the same event.
I'm glad to hear you took the next step in realizing the future you want, that is exciting/scary/wonderful.

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4-5 years isn't that long really. I've been at it 20 years or so and there's never been a time when I wasn't slightly embarrassed by what I was doing just the year before. Programming is fun that way, you're always getting better.
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