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> It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now.
Depends on the discussion. I doubt anybody claims that the laws don't obligate facebook to make the data available, because they do. What people argue is that said laws are bad.

> And the truth is that Facebook is breaking our laws and need to be prosecuted for such.
That's what we are having an argument about. I agree that they are breaking our laws, but I don't think that they should be prosecuted. I think the laws should be changed instead, because they are bad.

> Why is it bad that users have a right to know what companies have on them?
Because it isn't the state's business what customers and companies agree with each other. If facebook states in its contracts with their customers that they will make this data available then they should be prosecuted for breach of contract if they don't.

I'm against the state (or the EU or whoever) making laws that deal with private matters because lawmakers are notoriously bad at thinking things through. This leads to a bunch of unintended consequences and ultimately is bad for both customers and companies and anybody else. E.g.: copyright laws, patent laws, immigration laws, drug laws etc...

Actually, they aren't bad at thinking things through, it is impossible to think things through.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1...

> Facebook is a victim of itself. If it didn't track users in the first place, it wouldn't be in hot water.

I don't want to defend facebook. Maybe what they do is bad, I'm sure that's an interesting discussion, I really don't know. What I'm saying is: Even if what they are doing IS bad, then the state still shouldn't intervene if they don't breach the contracts with their customers. Facebook doesn't force you to use their services, and if you do so voluntarily then it's on facebook's terms, though luck.
Alternative to what? Hosted email? Or the web interface?
If the latter: http://roundcube.net/
It access email through imap - so you still need a good mailbox server.
The best list I've seen: http://www.noupe.com/ajax/10-ajax-webmail-clients.html

But none really compare too favorably with Gmail. Zimbra was looking good before it went to yahoo and then VMware.
I suspect that #1 sign is that you go trolling for self-assurance in articles like this, or worse, by writing smug, random articles like this.

The best possible signs either way will be in your career so far.
As much as I sympathise with the guy for going through all this I can't help but think that it's all his own fault.

USA, like many countries, has a strict immigration system in which you must play by the rules and follow the process to become 'legal'. Just living in the country is not enough, you must apply for residency by qualifying in some way.

Unfortunately, it's quite tough to qualify to stay in the US for most people. Skilled immigrant visas are notoriously difficult to attain (there's no simple points system like Australia for example) and so you must look to marriage to a citizen, asylum or the green card lottery. If you think marriage is the easy choice you'd be wrong too.

As someone who is going through the process right now, it can be difficult, expensive, depressing, demeaning (having to prove your relationship is 'real') and downright frustrating but right now that's the way the system works so you must work with the system. This guy obviously didn't and now he's paying the price.
Definitely a valid point, we are currently working on a feature that allows you to sell outside of Twitter, like on your blog and website etc. Thanks for the comment, really appreciated!
Oops, thanks! Fixed
The point is there are rules. To come to the US you can either:

1) Apply to INS, wait in line, enter the lottery and follow the law.

2) Hop on a plane and hope they don't catch you.

He chose route 2, and is now paying the consequences. Just because he's an entrepreneur doesn't give him any more right to be here then any other would be immigrant, and it certainly doesn't give him the right to jump the line
Why?

That's his feeling, it is whatever he writes.

Whether it is full of hyperbole or not is not knowable, he'd have to admit to that himself or you'd have to scan his brain.
From the post, that is not clear. It opens with "After living legally in the United States for over 20 years [...]"

From the case file, however, it seems like they entered with a J-1 visa and before their authorization to stay expired, they applied for asylum.
why does this story seem like troll bait?
Wasn't the central reason for the US anti-trust action over bundling and distributing IE for free to undercut the paid stand-alone Netscape? Today this is Google's basic strategy for everything.

I was very much "against" MS in those days, but looking back on it now, I feel like it was the beginning of a big part the modern web/software business model.

It's not "stolen," just because we don't like how he earned it. Committing to give away one's entire fortune - and actually doing it - is hugely generous, our feelings about MS aside. It is very much charity.
dunno but 418 is still my fave :-)
There is a difference between criticizing your company, and doing it in public.
Some examples of successful sole founders:

Aaron Patzer (Mint),
James Dyson (Dyson),
Pierre Omidyar (eBay),
Jeff Bezos (Amazon),
Bob Parsons (GoDaddy),
Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
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As a European I don't feel this way. Unless you have a contract with a company that states you such rights, that is...

If you give up information voluntarily (even if you aren't aware of it) why should it obligate anybody who collects it to spend resources on informing you what they know about you? Morally, why does gathering information imply obligation to provide certain information? This is a total non-sequitur.
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That goes for lots of countries.

They want you to apply from the outside.

In Canada for instance that can get really funny, where applying from within Canada for a European is only possible by applying in the United States (Buffalo, for instance).

Within Canada there is no office that can deal with your application.
I love looking at new sites like this, I think it's great to get the chance to see what others are working on. It tries to tackle an important problem but has a few forseeable side effects.

The most important points I can think of...

It's placed in the signature, it doesn't apply to anyone composing a new message, which is probably a large portion of mail.

It relies on the person sending the message to decide if their e-mail is urgent or not (everyone thinks THEIR message is urgent)

Anyone replying to your mail is probably someone you are waiting for a response from, so really you NEED them to e-mail you, so you can get work done.

It would probably lead to a lot of 'queue jumping', getting phone calls starting "I saw your mailbox is swamped so I thought I'd just call to ask XYZ..."

I do love that it auto updates so that you can see the current status even on an old mail.

Maybe it would be more useful to display an auto updating sig beacon that contains autoresponder info. Your frequent contacts can see what you're up to, if you're about, at a different site, on hol etc. That's closer to the "Away" button on messenger. It would save people typing out a whole e-mail to just get a bounceback message.
Yes, and that's exactly what my comment is about.
I've had pretty poor luck with folks who do out-sourced recruiting, but I recently got headhunted by an in-house recruiter and ended up taking the job and loving it.
> ICS was just officially unveiled last night.

Android has existed without public source code for much longer than last night.
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On a personal note, I suspect that once the world's internet infrastructure comes up to speed, we'll all be using on-demand subscription models and the notion of buying content to keep will feel archaic. Even so, more needs to be done to protect the public from ham-fisted copyright industries demanding payment for everything.

By the time the infrastructure is in place, high-capacity media will be so much more affordable that one can cram hundreds, if not thousands of shows/movies/music and view them locally, without requiring a network streaming connection.

It is all about distribution.
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As long as you are in the process you are there legally.

Weird but that's how it works. Only after your deportation order has been issued and you do not contest it for an X number of days does it become final and then you have to leave.

If you are still in the country past that date you become an illegal and you can be deported. In the meantime you can basically continue with your life. But you are building on quicksand.

I think this man made the mistake of reasoning that he's useful to society so therefore society would welcome him.
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> Zimbra was looking good before it went to yahoo and then VMware.

Can you elaborate?
Touched billions of people ? Massive Human good ?
I love Apple, but cmon. Steve built awesome products for the industrial countries to solve luxury problems, shaped the computer industry and thats awesome, but saying he made billions peoples lives better is some steps too far.

In fact, Bill Gates probably did alot more good to humanity by being one of the most generous philanthropists on the planet.
hmmm Imagine this...

I am an Airman at a secret facility in Nevada and want to install a new secure OS to experiment so I download this new OS and install to removable media and answer yes boot the alternative OS....

But the whole alternative OS was infected with virus as the new malware rootkit so now we have keyloggers on all computers controlling US drone fleets..

Pretty picture is it not?
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In fairness, "so much" fits the "weasel words" category (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word). You and jrockway placed different values on the phrase because it is a "numerically vague expression". I admit to making similar expressions. :)
Non profit != no charge
Siri's a cute toy that I'm sure would provide a few hours of amusement but it needs to get to another level before I could make it a part of my life. If it's just a robot voice spitting out the same robot inflection over and over, I'd much rather just look at the damn screen. I don't know if the software will ever be that good, but I'd want an audio assistant to be constantly variable and natural in inflection otherwise it gets old really fast. Where are you HAL?
We have the same issues here in Austria, it always feels backwards when somebody well integrated gets kicked out "because the law is the law". It's also one of the main tools for populist politicians to mine for votes ("Fear!"). Although it might seem to be a complicated issue in the end it's not. It's just plain stupid.
Bought this yesterday, only half way through the first book, but wow - awesome stuff!

An epub version would be great though, if that would be possible?

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I'm American. My wife is Argentine. We live in Argentina in large part because when we wanted to marry in 2006, we couldn't get her a permanent visa to live in the USA.

Her fiancee visa was in fact quickly approved, pending an interview at the US consulate in Buenos Aires. We waited and waited, called, had our lawyers call, and the response was always "when the consulate is ready to make an appointment, they will call you." They never called, leaving us in limbo for over a year and saddled with thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Eventually we grew tired of the uncertainty. I moved to Argentina, we got married, and we've lived here ever since.

Argentina is not perfect. But the legal status of foreign residents here is much clearer than in the USA. As the husband of a citizen, permanent residency was automatic provided I didn't have a criminal record in my home country (I don't). I am allowed to vote in municipal elections. And, now as the father of an Argentine citizen, citizenship is also automatic if I want it.

You might think that Argentina can afford to be generous with immigrants because it has nowhere near the load of foreign residents that the USA does, and to an extent that's certainly true. But on the other hand, Argentina has fairly large immigrant communities (from Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia and China), more social welfare services (basic healthcare is free here), and a lot less financial resources than the USA.

Having now lived somewhere else and been on the "other side" of the immigration issue, I feel indignant and outraged when I read about how my country treats non-citizen residents.
That's not the case in other countries, my bureocratic-loving one for example requires you to pay taxes (social security to be more accurate) on painting your own house.

Bizarre but true.

http://www.elpais.com.uy/06/08/24/pnacio_233547.asp

http://www.lr21.com.uy/editorial/195936-fuera-murro-de-mi-ca...
Who cares what Brin thinks? He's a stupid rich douchebag with no credibility in the public mudhole square. Just because he can pee on yegge's healess corpse doesnt make him any more deserving of attention than the piece of poo that he is. He's just some guy that gets paid for opressing other engineers. Get over your fascination with his money cock.
Small typo: "Upgrade for $15/pm" should either be "Upgrade for $15/month" or better to be clear with "Upgrade for $15 per month".

"conversions are somewhat low and the bounce rate is higher than it should be." But "We definitely think that there is a market for it"

Why do you think that?
The sentence was a bit tongue in cheek, something that seems to have completely escaped those piling on with their indignant downvotes, as a way of exercising their frustration with the poor state of US immigration policy. "There, downvoted! Now I've done my part to make the world a better place!".

The US has had problems going back to when it was founded, and slaves - black people, mostly - were counted as 3/5ths of a human being. That's a sight worse than the stupid airport scanners, or many other modern stupidities in my book. There are plenty of other things to dislike about the place, too, that are not recent.

But plenty of things to like, and every other country has plenty of negatives too, if you look closely.

I disagree with plenty of things in the US, but I'm not so fond of sweeping statements.
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I smiled with the first line because I did knew about Steve's lengthy rants. I understood the second line as an explanation for an audience that might not catch the first one.

Also, the rant has no mercy with Jeff Bezos. The dismissive tone and the "that's the reason he wasn't fired" phrase might be just a way to say that Google, as a company, doesn't subscribe the views of an employee.

That's just my personal interpretation anyway.
From the Case Summary:
"Atanas Entchev (“Entchev”) entered the United States in August 1991 as a
nonimmigrant exchange visitor on a J-1 visa. His wife, Mayia Entcheva, and son, Enislav Entchev, entered the United States in 1992 and 1993, respectively. They were authorized to remain in the United States until July 30, 1993. Before their authorization expired, the petitioners applied for asylum. Entchev argued persecution based on his political beliefs in opposition to the Communist party, which ruled Bulgaria until 1989."

So they applied for asylum on political grounds in 1993, because the Communist party was dethroned 4 years earlier. Well...
Cannot sign FSF petition with GMail account?
Cannot sign FSF petition against restricted boot with GMail account?

I am talking about the petition at:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement

Filled in my name, surname and my gmail address and pushed sign. The next page tells that I will receive an email with a link to confirm the signature. I waited for the email, after some time I got suspicious and checked in the spam folder - nothing there. Thought might be a bug in the systems, tried it again - 3 times. Does not work.

Luckily I have another non-gmail account - tried with it and it worked immediately.

So what's going on? Is FSF blacklisted somewhere, or maybe FSF does not want to send to Google? Did you have the same experience?
Love it, great read - only half way through the first book, but so much useful stuff!

Any chance of an epub version though? Would then be easier to read on my phone and ebook reader.
If you get downvoted then probably for the tone rather than the content of your post. I do share your general feeling though: Jobs didn't know he would die the next day. Apparently he was feeling well enough that day to talk to Cook on the phone, so why wouldn't he? If he died two days later, no-one would make such a big fuzz about it. But now all of a sudden this call is presented as an almost heroic act. Strange.
Yegge already knew what Brin thought of his post long before Brin made that comment. You can't seriously think that this wasn't dealt with internally. The only reason that Brin is making jokes about it is because it is 100% water under the bridge for them.
Perhaps by "living legally" he meant he'd never been in trouble with the law? That he was a productive member of society?

I don't necessarily agree with the immigration laws in the U.S., but I think you have to live within the laws a country has instated.
Why does everyone seem to miss that Brin is right? If you want to get the CTO of a company the size of Google to read a memo, you do make it short and to the point. It took me like half an hour to read it, it was a good read, but if I was an executive I'd much rather read "this guy says we need more APIs and interoperation and a couple of other smart guys agree."

Short and to the point is not what Steve Yegge was doing, it's not what Steve Yegge generally does, and it's fine because I'm pretty sure he didn't write his post aiming at the C-level and expecting them to read it.
There's way too much theorizing/waxing-poetic online about how economics supposedly works that may or may not have a basis in reality and/or actual understanding of economics. I'm not really qualified to "call nonsense" on things, but I don't think you're in a position to just lay down the law either.

Anyway, if there's a fixed supply of Bitcoins, then yes, it seems that one unit's value would keep increasing. But wouldn't it then be possible to use increasingly small fractions of a Bitcoin as necessary?
Shame is that this guy is most probably Bulgarian and he holds the burgundy passport, which enables him to do his trade almost all over Europe (except for Belarus, Moldova, etc) without having to deal with any bureaucracy or the 'you dirty outsider' attitude.
I really don't get it what so many people see in the US.
This seems extremely harsh to me. And also stupid not to value this man's contribution to the U.S.

In 2004 I arrived in Spain as an American and found a programming job at the international division of a sizable U.S. company. But everything was under the table, and that company did not want to sponsor a visa for me. But even when I was illegal in Spain I still had access to better free health care than the uninsured do in the U.S.

Fast forward to 2008, I was still living in Spain and had done some great work for a unrelated startup that was purchased by a much larger U.S. company. I was still in Spain illegally, but this major U.S. company on finding out my status was willing to help me out in any way to become legal here.

Spain has something called "Social Normalization for Exceptional Circumstances" which means if you have been in the country for three years illegally and have a company sponsor you, they will give you a work visa. You also have to be integrated in the community and speak the local languages well. So in 2008, this major U.S. company paid a lawyer and helped me through that process, something that I am exceptionally grateful for. During the time I worked for this company, my work helped bring in millions of Euros of contracts to the international division of this company in Spain.

Now in 2011 I still live in Spain, have the freedom to change jobs or work for myself, and after 7 more years I could become a citizen here, on the condition that I am always working and living in Spain during those years. That means 15 years from illegal to full citizen. I doubt I will stay that long, and don't actually plan on becoming a Spanish citizen, but knowing that if I had a family here and have that option is amazing. Now I am happily working for a Spanish university research group, fully legal.

And I have to say, I think it is disgusting to take a man, and especially his son who has lived in the U.S. since the age of two and treat them like criminals when the father has been actively contributing to the U.S. economy in one of the areas that the U.S. excels at. To criminalize this contribution is to spit in the face of all those immigrants who became American and made America what it is today.

And it is also denying the basic human rights of this individual.This clearly violates Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 15.

* (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
* (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

I strongly believe that 20 years of crime free residence and contribution to a nation deserves citizenship, and if I choose to, that is what I would receive in Spain after starting here illegaly.

Edit: As noted in the comments below, actually this does not violate Article 15 at all. I still stick with my conclusion though.
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Why not just set up a desktop email program that polls gMail from time to time to download your emails using POP? That way you have a back-up copy of everything and get to continue to use the best web based email service without worries.
Yeah.

This is really impressive and something with this mechanic would make a great kids game if there was any conceivable way that you could avoid little johnny being scared for life via the "TTP" effect…
There is a diagram in page 163, describing 22 lenses, that should feel at home in any Edward Tufte book. If I understood it properly, every optical diagram is computer generated from lens parameters. This dissertation is indeed very beautiful.
If they're still dependent on Samsung for their main processor it kinda makes you wonder how well they're doing finding another processor for the iPhone 5.

I know the 4S just came out but traditionally iPhones have come out over the summer so we might see the iPhone 5 as soon as 7 months from now.
It is not an inside vs outside, it is that they have no legal way to simply apply and get accepted, just because you want to live here. And that is fascinating in light of this being a nation of immigrants.

You'd have to fit into one of the categories -- gifted, company wants to hire you, married a citizen, have lots of money & investing in US, ...
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Your opinion matches the consensus when the N8 came out loaded with Symbian ^3 (generally deemed to have been rushed out the door); but I am curious if you had the opportunity to see which version of Symbian was running on the phone you tested. Were there three homescreens by any chance?