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You're right, and the same applies to Spotify unless I'm mistaken. I didn't mean to imply otherwise, although I didn't make it clear.

It doesn't change my argument much, both Netflix and Spotify (in their paid versions, I know Spotify has ads in the free stream) basically allow customers to pay for content in a way that doesn't ruin it the way the OP described with Gladiator and the popups, and with the generally poor experience of bundled cable TV.
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To lift a line from one of last year's best films: You mustn't be afraid to dream a bit bigger, darling.

You can always go bigger, and in such an incredibly desirable position as you describe, the potential economic feedback loop from going even further with investment in infrastructure and public services is too big to ignore.

Imagine an alternate universe in which there is still a Glass-Steagall act, the Bush tax cuts were never passed, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were never started, the financial crisis was limited to a few isolated dominoes, and the US is on track to pay off its sovereign debt completely by 2016. We could build a competent, national network of high speed rail without borrowing anything. Or, we could borrow again and build a world-class rail network, invest heavily in education, transform the nation's healthcare system, revitalize NASA... There is always room for more investment.

Also, this is a really depressing fantasy to return from.
Registered mail is supposed to be held to a different standard for proof of delivery than delivery confirmation as well.
> how many of you even know where Singapore is?

So you blast Americans for applying a stereotype to you, then in the next sentence you do the exact same thing .
Singapore is in Southeast Asia, adjacent to Malaysia . I didn't look that up , I knew off the top of my head, because contrary to your narrow minded view of Americans , most of us are pretty good at geography .
I'm currently hand-coding my first book in EPUB, and I've written a lot of websites, and worked with all kinds of mixed-mode content.

Do we really need HTML5 support? Isn't the purpose of Kindle to be a book?

Ok, I can grok colors. I might even go for interactive charts. But where does this stop? As a consumer, I would like my static content delivered in a separate device in a format approaching paper. My dynamic content I consume from a different device. One of the reasons is that various forms of content are more engaging (read addictive) than others, so by separating them I can budget my time. I don't think anything of spending 5 hours with a Kindle on the weekend because it's a book. If I spent that same time playing Angry Birds on my Android I'd know something is out of whack.

Does everything have to be an all-purpose display device? I kind of liked the Kindle because it was doing just the one thing. I'm not sure I understand why the format has to be updated so much.

EDIT: I'm also curious as to how this affects all the other readers out there. In E-Reader world, we live way back in the dark ages where every device is funky. Does this add more to the funkiness of trying to cross-deploy? Was there something so wrong with Keep it Simple, Stupid? It's text, for goodness sake. It's a book. I know I sound like grumpy-old-guy, but hell guys, ya think we could manage one format for displaying the world's oldest persistent communications format -- simple text -- without too many revisions?
If you concatenate your password and a salt, then iterate a cryptographic hash like SHA256 a few thousand times, this is almost exactly PBKDF1. It's a good, respectable password hashing scheme. The main advantage that PBKDF2 offers is the ability to produce arbitrary output sizes.

(The difference between this and PBKDF1 is that PBKDF1 requires using either MD2 or SHA1 as the hash function, and hasn't been updated to reflect the availability of SHA-256 and SHA-512.)
Traditional typesetting is hard and not very amenable to reflow (as in, variable page sizes). The HTML/CSS world has worked a lot of this out.

(Though I am quite ignorant of the MOBI format that is being replaced.)

This also bodes well for taking web pages offline and onto dedicated reading devices, a la Instapaper.
Are mobile users more active in social media sites than non mobile users?
> Why did you include commute time in their payment, and exclude it in yours?

I didn't. I used myself as the example, explaining that because I could afford better accommodations, specifically an apartment close to work, that my travel time was minimized. My point there was that lower income workers can't afford to be as selective in where they live as can workers with a higher income, and that they are more reliant on cheaper, yet less time-efficient, modes of travel.

Having said that, I will admit that by using my situation as the example, I may have biased the analogy a bit. I overestimated the average travel time for lower income workers, and underestimated the average travel time for higher income workers. While I think it's important to note the variable of travel time, it was possibly unfair to include it in the summation.

I can't speak to your example, because I don't think I'd stay in a job where 50-55 hour weeks were the norm. Overtime is fine when it's used properly, but there's a reason they call it a "9-5" job. If you go beyond that, you'll get burned out and be less efficient.

Americans do seem to have a different view on working than do other countries, even compared to Canadians like me, so this could just be a cultural difference. I don't think it is though, even in the States.

I can't think of any of my friends or family - an admittedly small data set - who work more than a 40 hour week on average. In Canada, I believe there are legal protections, at least in some provinces, which prevent you from working too much without adequate compensation (e.g. time and a half for hours over 40, double time for holidays, etc.) I sometimes had to work more than 40 for "straight pay", but that was apparently due to loopholes for salaried and/or on-call employees.
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Not to be over-critical, but your "starting ideas" transition too quickly, so that I can't read the full page to figure out what you actually can do to help me. I would slow it down a lot more.
Thank you, that article helps a lot.
I use it every two days, thanks to Netflix. (I also receive medical bills through the mail. Everything else is garbage.)
Right on guys.

But, even for Lil' Wayne? It's hard to believe, usually ad budgets get allocated for Universal artists
Try

SHA256(SHA256(... SHA256(password + salt)))

With perhaps five thousand iterations of SHA256, if you really don't want to depend on bcrypt. Or just use bcrypt; it's a good library, and removes the temptation to get creative with password hashing.
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I think this is motivated more by Kindle Fire as a media consumption device than their e-ink readers. They make a compelling case with childrens books and comic books.
Mobi is an unholy mess of HTML-inspired markup. I don't think anything else uses it, and it was designed to be rendered on incredibly constrained hardware that just doesn't exist anymore. It's OK to use a few megabytes of RAM to render a document now.

Using straight-up HTML5 lets them dump a bunch of code for proprietary rendering engines, I suspect. And it simplifies the Kindle fire and web-based / PC readers, where they can just embed an HTML renderer.

(Disclaimer: While I'm a former Amazon employee, I didn't work on or with Kindle. As a current Mozilla employee, I think HTML5 is pretty nice.).
I was tired of last.fm providing me the same old recommendations, so I came up with findmusicfor.me. It's rough - only a few hours of coding involved, but thought I'd see what people think of it and ways to improve.
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A completely content free history lesson on successful 4th releases of various operating systems. No where is it explained how or why the 4th Ubuntu release might live up the history made by the releases previously. Instead, the author says, "Hey, all of these other OSes had a great 4th release, so that means the upcoming Ubuntu LTS release will be awesome." Thanks.
Check out www.wepay.com. Full disclosure, I use them and they're awesome.
I would suggest a minor tweak to your site. To me, the "How can I earn your support" part of the page is the most interesting, especially because you are asking for money. But the panels switch too quickly for (at least me) to read an entire one. You should either slow down the switch frequency or let users switch between them manually.

Interesting site idea though. And your copy is engaging. I noticed the issue because I was engrossed in reading your ideas.

Edit: It appears steve8918 beat me to the punch as I was writing this.
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Its all about finding all possible ways to distribute their content + maximizing the interactions with the content once you send the traffic (optimizing it to be viral, social, and a great experience where both the fan and artist are happy).
AT&T told me I can either get an unlimited Text Messaging plan or no text messaging plan and pay per text message.

Comcast told me that the 6mb internet service would be $50, and that I could only get the 20mb service, the service I wanted for $50 for the first six months, 60 for the next six months, and 70 for the next 12 months after that. They called it a "bundle" because it included local TV channels, channels which I get for free. The didn't offer me the choice of no free TV channels over cable.

Apple continually charges a ridiculous amount on memory upgrades.

Half the places I shop at want me to register with them in some capacity. No REI, I don't need a special card for the 2 annual purchases I do a year. You can keep the $2 I'd get back at the end of the year if I did have the card.

Amazon sells the same kindle at two different prices, depending on whether or not you like advertisements.

Are all these things stupid? Yes. The USPS is not alone, so stop pretending it's some government bureaucracy thing. People sometimes complain that the government should act more like a business, and get upset when they actually do.
This is a surprising decision. I think most people were expecting Amazon to move away from Mobi but they probably expected Amazon to adopt EPUB especially as EPUB 3.0 is near release.
There is a huge gap between saying SAT's relate to finishing your freshman year and your GPA. Granted finishing your freshman year depends on GPA, but it's more a question of doing the basics. AKA doing your homework without mommy and daddy there, handing things in on time, not cheating, going to class and those activity's are far more independent of HS GPA than parents want to admit.

On the other hand GPA's over 3 depend a lot on how hard your classes are, how heavy the work load, if you have a full/part time job which are less dependent on the student's innate qualities.
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From the article "Also, don't trust your ad networks to know/care about security."

This is one of those things that I wish something akin to Amazon's Silk browser would be useful.

Replace the javascript with
<img src=adnetwork/myid.png> and have the script run on their end which provides the pre-rendered advertisement.

Yes I realize its not that simple, listening to Brandon Downey at Google explain all the ways one might mount an XSS attack was always both awe inspiring and depressing at the same time. We've seen a number of ad network issues, it seems like a common attack surface.
One clever hack - they want to give free tunes to people in return for "likes". I guess it's better than a free virtual cow.
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Dropbox can be subpoena'd.
Yes, this is definitely needed. I have a book in an interlinear format that requires css floating elements for fluid display.
Polish equivalent of USPS has, still until 2013, a monopoly on delivering mail weighing up to 50g at some low price, 1.55 pln i think, while private delivery companies would have to charge 2.5x that. So they attach metal plaques or small notepads to letters to increase weight.
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lol, great responses.
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From the FAQ: "Will KF8 capabilities be available on all Kindle devices? A: Kindle Fire is the first Kindle device to support KF8 - in the coming months we will roll out KF8 to our latest generation Kindle e-ink devices as well as our free Kindle reading apps."

This implies that older Kindles won't get support for this. If that's true, Amazon's going to either get a bunch of pissed-off users or a shiny new format that nobody uses.

Part of what I love about the Kindle is that it's previously given off an aura of being above the "gotta update to the new model!" consumer frenzy that other portable electronics embody.
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San Francisco does need more taxis.
I just did a search in the most distant Chicago suburb I could name off the top of my head, and this was the closest I could come to exactly $250:

http://www.trulia.com/property/31925157-723-Tiller-St-Elburn...

What do you suppose that would run you in, say, Los Gatos?
As long as Debt increases slower than inflation your paying it down.

What cost $5605.5 in 1999 would cost $5796.09 in 2000. http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi and 5769.9 is less than $5796.09.

Edit: I have seen the same argument vs infrastructure or GPD. But I think inflation is probably the safest measurement, because GDP can drop.
That's the same as when a person tells me that they're just not good at math, or that they don't want to touch computers because they're just not tech people.

I think everyone can get pretty far to surprise themselves doing anything if they really tried. It might take you more sweat. It might take you more time. But I have a hard time believing that you can't do this because you don't have an elusive amorphous quality called 'artistic ability'.
Speak more about the downs than the ups. The press covers enough ups.

P.S. Heroku is an awesome name!
I'm Matt Schlicht, one of the guys in the story. We would love to chat with any music/entertainment focused companies OR digital managers + any start up founders. Email matt@tracksby.com to get in touch.

To everyone else - thanks for the support! (love the Madmen reference)
what's his case against google docs?
Steve Jobs: "Picasso had a saying, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Huh? Every business example you provided are money based decisions. They are all unfortunate for the consumer and may or may not maximize profit in the long term, but profit is the basis for each decision.

The goal for the 3/4 inch minimum dimension regular for the USPS is based upon what logic or reasoning exactly?
amazing, especially some places like Vienna or New York.
Yes , it's really great
& Steve8918 - Thank you for letting me know!

Sorry for that usability peeve! I originally set the slider to pause whenever the mouse is hovering over a slide, but I didn't forsee that the short timeout session would be bothersome in case the cursor was elsewhere (like on the actual buttons, oops!)

I've just quadrupled the timeout time, so viewers will have more time reading a more stationary slide.
Almost as if his core operating system doesn't copy FreeBSD.
Jameson is a pimp, and Bob is a genius. MochiWeb is an amazing server.
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."
Jobs: I'll spend my last dying breath and every penny of Apple against Android
That's a point that can be very expensive to make. The line is blurry. You're unlikely to cross it testing for XSS (particularly this reflected stuff). But it can be easy to cross it looking for (and, particularly, at) SQL injection or authorization bypass.

You should be extremely cautious testing other people's sites for security vulnerabilities.
Not sure what your point is. The Great Depression didn't end for the U.S. until World War II had begun and the U.S. had embarked on a massive public spending program - buying weapons.
Voice control has been built into Windows since Vista, fwiw.
Generalizing this out just a little bit: please be aware that when you source Javascript from places like TypeKit or Crazyegg or whatnot, you're setting the security of your web app at the lowest common denominator of all those sites.

It's not just a question of whether the script they're providing you today is safe; it's a question of whether their own applications are sound enough to prevent an attacker from popping them and changing what the script says.

I think the modern vogue for sourcing Javascript from random API providers is a bad idea; I predict that the badness of that idea is going to become more and more evident over the next few years; I think you'd be well-served by investigating how much of that stuff you can serve directly.
=P Thank you, Ivan!

If you're ever in the bay area, shoot me an e-mail! Hopefully I'll have a Mac by then, and I'll take you out for some local coffee =)

& ltamake, zacharycohn: thanks for the payment suggestions, currently setting up an account!
The fallacy of the article is if we paid off the debt that we would never incur any debt in the future. Just not realistic to consider in any case.
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Hi Matt :)
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Epub would've been nice for us, but this makes more business sense.

The Kindle devices are cheap & low margin; Amazon's profit is from the content.
They've got a customer mindshare majority (What's an ereader? Oh, you mean a Kindle), and a large author base.
Why would they open up their devices to competing publishers?
> At worst, you are seriously harming your long-term health.

Not even long-term health. This can affect you quicker than you might think.

During one particular crunch time, I was working long hours on a regular basis (crunch time here being "after the project had continued years after it's originally scheduled end date, we were given a hard deadline a few months in the future, so everything was a "crunch" until then). I wasn't sleeping right, and one morning I came in looking like hell. My boss - my nice boss, anyway - diverted us when we went for our morning coffee. He took me to the pharmacy instead, and bought me a bottle of Valerian pills. If that isn't a warning sign, I don't know what is.

Also, I ended up on a stress leave for a couple weeks after a while. Without the constant pressure of work, my body finally relaxed. When it did, I ended up getting strep throat and general body aches. It could be coincidence, but I tend to think that I worked myself so hard that I actually compromised my own immune system.

I don't have a problem working long hours over short periods of time when it's properly needed, but I won't ever let myself work a job where that's the norm for extended periods of time (or, god forbid, all the time) again.
I wish people would stop downmodding you to lightgrey just because they don't like what you're saying, because while "committing a felony" is a somewhat breathless way to word this, it's not absolutely false: you can conceivably be prosecuted for doing stuff like this.

In Lynch's case, he's fantastically unlikely to get into anything more than PR trouble over telling people about an XSS bug. But people have gotten into real trouble over what they thought was benign investigation.

Web developers put a lot of effort into making web apps feel like they're running on your own computer, but under the law, when you click around on a web app, you are interacting with someone else's property.
I feel so bad for people that live in San Francisco. It really has the worst taxi situation. If you call a cab you are guaranteed a long wait, plus there is a HUGE chance of no show. Forget trying to hail a cab, that just doesn't happen. Ever.

New York (Manhattan) is a lot better- plus there are tons of gypsy cabs (non-medallion) that you can get in when you are in a pinch.

Chicago is the best U.S. city I have been in for cabs. Short wait if you call, but usually no problem hailing one from just about anywhere, anytime. Even in the rain. It's so easy, I'm not sure why.
"""Amazon assures us that the only pieces of information from the device that are regularly logged are: 1) URL of the resource being requested 2) Timestamp 3) Token identifying a session. This data is logged for 30 days.""" ... """Indeed, Jenkins said, “individual identifiers like IP and MAC addresses are not associated with browsing history, and are only collected for technical troubleshooting.” We repeatedly asked if there was any way to associate the logged information with a particular user or Amazon account, and we were told that there was not, and that Amazon is not in a position to track users."""

Ummm... no: the URLs themselves are more than enough information to figure out who people are. We don't need the IP address, MAC address, or username: all we need to be able to do is to correlate visited URLs. A /ton/ of information is available in URLs, and it often includes user IDs and search queries; you don't need the response, just the URL.

I doubt anyone will see this, as this is already a day old, but I'd love it if someone from the EFF explained whether they ever get technical advisors to help them with their understanding or explanation; in my experience (iPhone jailbreaking), they seem to bring in the tech people long after it is "way too late" to affect the policy or statements made by the foundation, which causes horrible limitations in their effect, or even outright mistakes like this one. :(
Full quote:

> "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
How about 402 Payment Required?
In other words, "you lose".

I say that in a spirit of helpfulness, not snark.
What is trolling about that?
This reminds me of fancyhands.com. Keep doing what you're doing and on top of that, maybe you can drop Ted Roden a mail and ask if you can be a part of his team. This way you may get to own a Mac in double quick time. Good luck!
Couldn't this be simple solved with X-Content-Security-Policy header in order to prevent non-authorized domains to run objects on the site ?
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It's big organization beauracracy thing. Businesses have a little more pressure to economize, and that's the biggest practical difference. Large groups of people get stupid. Also, businesses have more of an incentive to extract money from you, which alone explains many of your examples.

Even so, I think this example is exceptionally atrocious, and it's really hard to imagine a for-profit organization getting away with that for long. It's a matter of degree, and government organizations can go farther out before they die.