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They can't sue him, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Why not? I've been clicking around various US laws and have yet to see any mention about a login screen or "Go away, private!" messages being required before it counts as unauthorized access:

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=computerlaws/state-hackin...
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"you imply evolution is driving humanity towards some 'good' destination"

No. All I'm implying is that humanity, in its current form, cannot survive all possible natural threats to its existence. We're still competing with other species, and we're still vulnerable to things like the effects of climate change, so if we completely stop evolving, it's likely that in only a few thousand years, we'll be completely dependent on our technology for survival.
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huge glaring XSS vulnerability on a credit card company's homepage is not serious? This kind of stuff is a phisher's dream
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I apologise in advance for a lack luster comment, but seeing incompetence on so many levels like this on a monthly basis from financial institutions makes me want to be sick.

This is like putting a sign out the front of your house saying please do not enter though the back window, it's open.
It is about making higher level monads, with benefits in reusability. About monads:

One very good explanation on the topic: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

Monads are (quote) elephants: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/10/monads-are-elephants-p...

Monads can be implemented in OO languages, like ruby: http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/writings/programming/monads...
The court order was not misunderstood, it was executed exactly as written. The person(s) who made the final verdict are the ones that misunderstand the technology and that's not the ISPs fault.
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This actually happened to Jobs a few years ago.
(I didn't mention that there was a pregnant pause after she clicked the Admin Home link & saw the admin page in all its glory. I think the only sound was, as Scott Adams put it, the sound of eyeballs getting really big.)
+1 for the outsourcing proposal.

On a side note, it strikes me that Americans call 'administration' what we call 'governement'... It speaks a lot about how our politicians see themselves...
> Even though I feel that Safety on the roads is paramount and that there are way too many people that talk or text while on their phones

This law isn't about keeping people safer, whether you were on your phone or not the officer has the right to search it (apparently). I imagine the motivations for this law is the same straw men they always are: drug dealers, illegal activity, child pornography, etc. etc.

> I also don't want some random police officer rifling through my private text messages, e-mails and voicemails for the purposes of seeing if I should get another ticket.

I don't even think it is that clear cut; if the officer pulled you over, he already has a reason to ticket you. Looking through your phone isn't going to make that better/worse unless you are involved in illicit activity and they find evidence of that on your phone. Then worse :)

> Additionally, I often make short trips for lunch (.1 miles or less). If a police officer does go through my phone, how is he to know I didn't send that text just as I got in my car before I left Wendy's to return to the office?

You don't need to worry about this (not what the law is for).
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Funny thing is: he didn't even try that, because he didn't accept under any circumstances to communicate by phone, fax or snail mail.

He made this big, boldface disclaimer with twitter screenshots and all trying to claim "best effort is good enough" and "they won't listen", but all I saw was them listening and him refusing to speak.
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Tribute to STEVE JOBS
This type of hyperbole is disrespectful both to Jobs and to many important contributors. You can admire him and respect him, but it isn't necessary to fabricate cult-of-personality-like claims. This sort of thing diminishes the work he actually did do.
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Steve Jobs influenced the designer of Gmail 1.0, Google Calendar 1.0, and Google Reader 2.0: http://fury.com/2011/10/i-work-in-technology-because-of-stev...

Quote: While designing Gmail, the Apple mentality led me to approach design decisions from the standpoint of ‘what can I remove’ rather than ‘what can I add’.
I agree. We all like to say "Life is short, we have to live it to the fullest" but do our actions really reflect that? Some of us have the ability to do more, yet are complacent and happy with the status quo. Others are not in any situation to do more. Just call bullshit on anyone that says this until he/she really walks the walk.
What we can learn from steve jobs.
"I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate."

Beautifully written.

And I'm glad it took Gruber some time to post this after the news broke yesterday, it would make me glad to know that he didn't have it ready and waiting to be published.
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This morning @ musiXmatch we got an email from Android Team saying our Android Lyrics Plugin has been removed from the store due to their Spam, Content and Copyright Policy.<p>

Well, we spent 2 years to close all licensing deal with all music publishers worldwide in order to legitimate our app and 3rd party developers https://developer.musixmatch.com/<p> But Google prefers to keep mostly shitty and illegal apps on their store https://market.android.com/search?q=lyrics&c=apps&price=1&start=24&num=24<p>We asked explanation but no answers.<p>We had tons of downloads , huge reviews (4.2 on 5 stars) and 6 months development which could have been destroyed.
A walk outside in nature: something I can heartily recommend all the folk stoking up their teenage emotion tsunami while swamping HN with endless Steve tributes.
"I didn’t know Steve. I never met him. I never worked for him. I never even got one of his famous one-liner email responses."

Well shut up then.

Please HN give us a checkbox in the user options that is "stop anything about steve jobs copping it".

I've only created a new account so I don't get shot for venting.
Erm, no. Dude if I spend my time figuring out vulnerabilities to your system and don't exploit em, instead help you close them, and I am not even a cardholder... I will not jump through any hoops for any amount of my time. They owe me, I owe them shit. I am being kind and generous by not exploiting or giving the exploit to others, or using it to fuck up AMEX reputation.

Especially true if I want my anonymity preserved.

Jumping through hoops? Dude he got in contact with someone. Instead he got a "piss off" response.
From what I've heard from them, I think "better safeguards against regulatory capture" would cover a lot of it, though I have yet to hear that term specifically.
RIP Steve Jobs, we hope see some creative and inspiring people like him in the future.
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You know what? This code can wait. I'm going to take my son for a walk.
This is kind of a cool debug interface. Anyone feel like forking it and putting it on Github?
There's usually a procedure for reporting lost cards which results in immediate blocking, if you really want to secure those numbers. In Lloyds it's actually pretty strict - I found some wallet one day on a street but without any contact information - called up the bank responsible for the card so that they can contact the owner with my phone number, but they wouldn't proceed before cancelling that person's card. On on hand side I can understand that action, on the other I feel bad for causing that person to request a new card when I was already standing on the street he lives on.
All the more reason to make as clear and straightforward a declaration as possible. Not "I have vulnerabilities", but a DM saying "American Express is leaking customer information at this URL and it is imperative this is reported to your security department." It's their problem to escalate if they don't understand, but you have to give enough information to make escalation possible.
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I work at AXP and have escalated internally
Thanks Dove. I probably should read the posting FAQ or something.
I see those attractive young people protesting, and I can't help but wish for equality of appearance. Why should I be stuck with this body, when all of those people flaunt -- or worse, ignore -- their beauty?

Seriously, it's ironic that the same set of people who claim that "material possessions aren't important, it's the people that matter" are the ones who find money so important that they've got to redistribute what others have earned. But they don't give attention to the myriad other ways in which some people are better-advantaged than others.
Well, I didn't get a "piss off" response, I got a nice warm thank you. Perhaps he could have persevered just a bit? I had to do a bit of hand-holding to get the CSR to whom I spoke to understand the problem, but once she did, it was easy.
Thanks, Steve. You put a dent in my universe.
Steve Jobs’ Message To Internet Startups

Luck- Jobs believed that the longer time you spend developing a product or company, the luckier you become. Asked by Fortune Magazine (in 2000) what he thought of the younger generation of internet startups, Jobs’ response was

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: if they don’t really build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up. There were times in the first two years when we could have given up and sold Apple, and it probably would’ve died.

Steal great ideas - "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas," said Jobs in a 1996 PBS Documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. In fact, in Michael Malone’s, Infinite Loop: How Apple, The World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane, it was after a visit to Xerox in the summer of 1973, when a programmer from Apple laid the foundation for the Macintosh.

In a 2005 Stanford commencement speech, he said this about change-

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown of your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Yes, but do you mean on their death, or "at all". I seem to recall Asimov and Turing both having tributes at one time or another for event other than their death (obviously).
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Gruber's talent for writing never ceases to amaze me. It's always incredible that a tech blogger can write so well and, in this case, poetically.

Five minutes ago I had just watched Jobs' commencement speech on CNN for the at least the 50th time. I put work on hold just to hear it again. Every time I hear it I gain strength. I've never had a dad but I did have heroes. Steve Jobs is one of them.
These are pitfalls and usability concerns. Languages that make you actively work against the nature of the language are not good; programming languages should be making this stuff easy.

One-based indices stop being a "minor detail" as soon as you realize that out-of-bounds indexing doesn't fail, but returns nil. Time to re-examine all of your code. Combine this with the natural mathematical awkwardness of one-based indices and it can get really frustrating, really fast.

I had to do Lua for some game design stuff a few years ago, and these were the two things which stuck out at me almost immediately and bothered me during the entire ordeal. Maybe I've been spoiled by Python, Perl, Java, C++, C, and other languages, but it's deeply frustrating how wrong Lua is about this.
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if you're not meant to be there, you're guilty of an offence.

But how would I know? If someone's private property is not marked as such in any way, would I be a trespasser if I wander into it? Let's say it's part of a field or a forest, not a building with doors ...
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I don't think that's the point at all personally.

Protesting that other people have more money than you is just the same as a 2 year old throwing a tantrum.
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It seems the bigger the company is the more irresponsible they become. In UK in the bank I use, you can activate protection of your debit card / current account (usage analysis, higher insurance), but to do that you need to register with Experian (credit rating company). The process for that is: put your recent bill, bank statement and photocopy of ID in an envelope and post it to them via normal mail.

I decided to ignore that great offer and keep my account secure in traditional way. Apparently ignorance with regards to the internet sites is not what causes big companies to act in stupid ways. It's the whole mindset...
here is another robots.txt file: https://home.americanexpress.com/robots.txt
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I don't recall the 2008 election being between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. We had two sucky choices, and people on either side voted for what they thought was the lessor evil, relative to their particular value weightings.

Part of the problem is that we do not have instant runoff elections, so big money need only promote 4 candidates for each position, and FUD all of the others. That way, one of their 4 is almost always chosen (2 "sides" in each D/R primary). Barring instant runoff, perhaps we would be better off with proportional representation in Congress: if Green or Libertarian parties received 10% of the vote each, at least they would have some members present.
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I worked for Adobe and there are more than 100 licensed libraries and even more patents used in Flash. There's almost no chance it'll be open source.
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Do remember that for every real serious problem such as this, American Express and any other large company receives a hundred or a thousand calls for non-issues like phishing or minor issues like a compromised card number to cancel and reissue. The system is optimized for these common cases; the edge case of a real public vulnerability will require extra effort and it's not a failing of Amex that the system is so.
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I am not a big Gruber fan. Actually, I disagree with most of his opinions. But this text is just beautiful.
I totally agree with you here. It doesn't matter how much you drop on your fancy chair (and I can't believe how much people debate this endlessly). If you don't get out of it for a few minutes every hour, all your money is probably going to waste in the long run.
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Sounds like a run-off voting system. The French use a similar system to elect their presidents, as far as I know. Is that right? Have you looked at the French experiences?
Gruber uses the word 'Raconteur' in his Twitter Bio. I didn't know what the word meant, I looked it up. Well, for me, he is truly a raconteur (along with Joel).

RIP, Steve.
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I understand the frustration but are we so used to instant feedback that we don't even try to resolve our issues anymore before shouting out loud about them on the interweb?

You got an email this morning, shit happens. Try to reason with them and if, and only if, that fails and you feel you are right (as you indeed are) then mount an internet campaign.
Thank you for this - the first sentence helped immensely.
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Lua is not perfect. But saying you shouldn't use it because of 1-based indexes is an overreaction.

> Maybe I've been spoiled by Python, Perl, Java, C++, C, and other languages

Probably. :)

One of Lua's main goals is to provide a language easy for beginners to use for small tasks. This affects its design in some other rather annoying ways (like for example, variables being global by default rather than local) but they were pretty carefully made decisions.

The context of this thread is, "what could be a good replacement for PHP?" I think because Lua aims to be easy for inexperienced programmers, it's a rather good choice, even if some of its characteristics can be surprising or annoying to established developers experienced with other languages.
A more in depth discussion:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-...
I for one think it's a seriously unrealistic expectation to think that AMEX or insert large corp here will handle security vulnerabilities over twitter.

It's the equivalent of telling a teller or their doorman about it.
Max, I don't have an experience with the market, but did you get a detailed explanation on the reason for banning? For example, did you declare content rating correctly? If lyrics may contain inappropriate content for children, you might have to say so.

I understand you've been working hard this to make this possible. And as Jobs offered a legal way to consume digital music, you do so for lyrics. I truly admire your efforts.

Someone at Google might have misjudged your app, or you might have missed meeting what Google requires, act quickly but remain professional and calm.

I hope users can help this app developer to receive additional explanation from Google.
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It makes me think of this photo of Steve in a garden a few years ago. http://www.flickr.com/photos/katsanes/1636555794/in/photostr...
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I am surprised at how high the average development cost for a Mobile/PDA (non-Apple) game is. Almost as much as a Wii or PS2/3 game!

Can anyone explain why? Is it something to do with making it compatible for several formats (eg. different Android-based phones)?
A man died yesterday. He had a huge impact on our lives. Fred Shuttlesworth.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=d8niel

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Skeletor

Skeletor does have an email address.
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No. Many of the Steve Jobs stories are actually not saying the same thing.

Steven influenced so many different industries that reading about all these different perspectives on one man is both humbling and awe-inspiring.

I am sorry you feel the way you do, but just give it a day or two. Give many others a chance to express the same sadness that affected you.
A screenshot, for when it’s gone:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/390716/google.com-20111006-redacted....

The anchor text (Steve Jobs) links to http://www.apple.com/
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They said we didn't respect their spam (???) and copyright policy...
For those (like me):

rac-on-teur: A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.

Also, found this interesting site in the process of defining that word: http://www.theraconteurs.com/
From a service like Google, and for such a business delicate situation, once should expect at least a contact before an app gets banned, specially when there is a corporate behind it.

Or otherwise review the apps as everyone does.

Google strongly needs to get adult some day...
Seriously. Princess Diana level craziness.
Replacing "silicon transistor logic" is no longer about physics and material science, it is about economy of scale.

And silicon is going to be pretty damn hard to beat for many decades to come. Just ask the GaAs guys.
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Steve Jobs changed
But how would I know? If someone's private property is not marked as such in any way, would I be a trespasser if I wander into it?

According to this page (the first result I found in Google - there may be more reliable information out there), it's not an easy question to answer:

http://www.ucc.ie/law/odg/messages/060222b.htm

Can trespass to land be committed without fault? The answer should be obvious but I have found it surprisingly difficult to track down. I am referring, not to cases of involuntary entry onto land (there are clear cases saying no liability if you get pushed or fall unconscious), but to the sort of case where you (without carelessness) cross over someone's boundary in the bush (maybe more likely in Australia than the UK!) without knowing it
Funnily I got the exact opposite impression. I thought it was cheesy and kitsch.
Lock your phones. Do not consent to searches, saying it cleary and decisively. Ask why you are being held, and continue to ask if you can leave.
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Many years ago a colleague, Steve Holtzman, suddenly discovered he had colon cancer. Within a year he had faded away (it seemed almost literally) and was gone. He had money and access to the best doctors, but he wasn't vigilant (he had ignored odd weight loss and bowel trouble) and so it was too late.

Although Jobs didn't die of a "man's disease" there are lots of men killers out there that can be stopped if you look for the signs. But talking to men around me we are often reluctant to go and see a doctor for regular health checks.

If you have a smoke alarm in your home, it's not because you expect a fire, but because you want to be warned if there is one. Think the same way about your own health: a visit to the doctor for an annual medical is a smoke alarm for your body.

PS In the UK if you are over 40 then the NHS offers a free "Health Check" (http://www.nhs.uk/Planners/NHSHealthCheck/Pages/NHSHealthChe...) that screens for common adult diseases. It's free. Go do it.
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