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Thankfully I've never worked with something this complicated, but it doesn't surprise me (though reading it did give me a good laugh). What I've learned is that when money is involved, any sense of logic and sanity immediately goes right out the window.
#sopa on freenode it is.
"This isn't to protect the big dogs in Hollywood. This is for [set builders, etc.]"

So are those guys still getting paid, or aren't they? Are movies still making money, or aren't they?
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Also the random pandering involving child pornography. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. Gah.
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Did Rep Dennis Ross just say (paraphrased) Mastercard thanks you for your effort? He's a co sponsor of the bill and doesn't seem to have a full grasp on its scope. His examples of why it is good seem very specific and not the majority case.
"Silicone Valley." Yep, Waters sure sounds informed.
"silicone valley"

Mispronunciation win!
They are wrong. They use modern to mean "quite new and available to most clients" instead of "actually implementing the majority of the latest standards".

IE 9 comes close, and can be considered modern.
? Google is the largest company standing in public opposition to the SOPA bill, and has publicized its concerns at the hearings.
Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
Great analyst? He's basically an apple PR personnel. Most of his posts van be summed up into Apple can do no wrong. Anyone opposing apple is wrong and stupid. There is no logic. It's blatant and it's almost like he does it for page views
I've always assumed it's because his hyperbole incites reaction, lots of comments and all that. His articles mostly end up being completely worthless and sensational in my opinion. I try to avoid them, but occasionally I stop in to check and it's always the same reaction, "Oh, he's still doing that."
Or how about "Solidan O'Brien"
It doesn't look like Microsoft is directly lobbying either way, but the Business Software Alliance has been lobbying heavily in favor, and Microsoft is often considered the dominant player in the BSA.
No. The congressional hearing only just started, no voting yet. Now is a good time to call your US rep (if you live in the US) http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ . I was surprised that several of my IL reps did not have a stance on the issue! Calling is better than emailing. I know, it's a backwards system.
In general, I think students from better schools get fewer GCSEs. I went to a selective state grammar school and I only got the usual ten.
Check out the list of logos at the bottom.

Personally, I think it would have more impact and reach more people if the same sites would provide a link from their site.
Can you provide me a link where is says MS supports SOPA. I cant find them listed here in supporters section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Or you could just keep a tiny snippet of Javascript that searches for old style hashbangs and redirects all of them to the "another solution" handler to decide what to do with them. It can be just 3-4 lines of JS.
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Finally someone is asking the right question. Thank you Ms. Waters.
So far: make it to market. But we're optimistic.
There were others before it, too.

Action Quake 2 (and its spin-offs, namely Action Half Life, and its creators went on to make CS), Rainbow Six, Rogue Spear, Rocket Arena (in all of its incarnations), The Specialists. I think the Existence HL mod did this, too?

There are also a number of games that restrict spawning in other ways, mostly by spawn point or territory control: Gloom, Natural Selection, Day of Defeat, Battlefield, etc.
That's because the Europeans have never had a problem with terrorism and so don't know how to respond.

(It turns out that the IRA and ETA are just cultural groups misunderstood by the British and Spanish imperialist oppressors and Baader-Meinhof is too hard to spell so doesn't count.)
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This is not always true.

I was at JFK Terminal 1 (International) and I got separated from my bags on the belt for an extended period of time. When I complained that my bags were at risk of being stolen or lost, the TSA agent said "You opted out. That's what happens."

Needless to say, I found a supervisor and complained. I'm also filing an official complaint. I have no problem being patted-down but I do have a problem with them trying to coerce me to do something I've expressly asked to be excluded from, and using my fear of property loss to get me to do it. That's WRONG.
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I think the left audio channel was reported as copyright infringing.
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Please just stop. The people/bands I download are not ones I'd pay for right out of the gate.

For example: Pink Floyd. I hear a lot about them, but don't know if I'd like them. So I downloaded some of their popular albums for free and gave them a listen.

After recovering from the awesomeness, I've since bought two of those albums on iTunes, and yesterday 3 friends and I each dropped $78 on tickets for a concert with one of the old band members.

If I could only pay for it, which is the record company's ideal world, I would've seen the $16.99 price tag on iTunes and not taken the chance of listening to it.

The people downloading something illegally are, for the most part, not the same people who'd be paying for it.
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There are several things that come into play here. First off, the majority of politicians I have met (Governors, Senators, Congressmen and former VP Big Dick Cheney) are the old white male types with social tendencies and aren't very technologically oriented (This is a generalized statement, I know - it doesn't apply in all situations.) That is how you become a politician: become a likeable figure with some sense. I have a feeling that the majority of their opinions are based not on their own research/knowledge but rather that of their legislative assisants. We had 6 or 7 of them and they were all smart people finishing law degrees and trying to work their way up in Washington. They do the research. They DO NOT care about the news or "second hand" informational sources as they put it (unless it's negative press). So I guess my point is, know who you are trying to reach.

Your idea is solid. But you are going to have to gain a critical mass and become the go-to place for expressing your opinion on politics. If you can do that I have a suggestion for you: Make it so you can sign in or browse by district. Make it so that the legislative assistants can go to their specific districts' thoughts and opinions within the website. This is much more important than getting viewpoint of the nation as a whole. Good Luck.
"If you have any other opportunity to stay where you are, Please take that."

what do you mean by that???
If you know what you believe about SOPA (and its Senate equivalent), ignore the stream, call your Congress critters, and tell them what you think. Then after the vote, call them and thank or complain. No, it's not much, but it's almost certainly more efficacious than voting. Especially since you can legally do it many times.
Well, you can take the battery out. I've taken mine out multiple times: once to dry out my computer, and again to replace the top case after drying out my computer failed to make the keyboard work again.

There's actually very little about a MBP that is difficult to take apart. The part where you have to remove the screen isn't even that hard.
I ignored English homework and taught myself jquery. Now people call me incredibly smart and are jealous of the great agency I started working for at only 21. These days kids have to take education into their own hands, because even though there are classes available in a subject; techers do not know what knowledge is most relevant in the workplace.
I'm still seeing that as an issue with South African regulation. Apple presumably sees Australia as a big enough market to navigate the regulation pitfalls there, but they can't be entirely blamed if they feel that South Africa isn't worth the negotiations.
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Torx are pretty common. It's not like the Elder Sign-pattern security drivers that are being used now.
Just watched a guy talk about countries who are using practices like this.

He says "the Internet is working just fine there".

One of these places is Turkey. A guy got arrested there for talking about a Chuck Palahniuk novel there on some sort of forum or similar.
The problem is the "think of the children" argument will come back to haunt them come next election season.
This letter seems a bit myopic. Effectively, it says that the parts of the legislation that cut off sites from payment processors and other service providers seem just fine, as long as the legislation doesn't break DNS.
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I recently switched to spideroak, because i didn't want to have another app perform my sync duties seperately. So not only does spideroak back-up my files to the cloud and to my NAS drive, but takes also takes care of syncing all my folders between my computers and laptop (no extra charge for additional devices, unlike other services).
Same as with a modern language, the old-school "high priest" developer is obsolete.
Just watched for 30min. It looks they all agree the Internet needs to be controlled.
BSA supports SOPA: "House Bill Shines Light on Growing Problem of Online Piracy"
* Marco doesn't code for Android (I guess he can't, doesn't like the platform or doesn't have the time)

* Marco has the intention of keeping Instapaper a one-man-company (thus, hiring someone to build an Android version a no-go)

* Marco made an Instapaper API that is already used for 3rd-parties in Android http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/07/07/everpaper-android-fina... & http://instafetch.immortal.pl/

* So, Marco's 'bias' (real or not) doesn't affect Android. If someone would like to make a great Android port of instapaper should/could have done it with or without Marco's approval.
Yeah, pain points and inefficiencies are a popular way to look find ideas.

However, I have found following a user behavior to be a little more useful for me. Sometimes the new idea or innovation is not easily categorized as a pain point, like in the case of Twitter. People were posting status messages incessantly in IM. Once Twitter launched, users had a service that aligned closely with that behavior.

Most people wouldn't recognize the status message feature of IM as a pain point or inefficiency, it was just a feature.
If this goes through, it is doubtful that the US will remain the tech startup mecha for very long afterwards. Just about any revolutionary technology could find itself in hot water with this bill. A sad day if this gets passed.
Play is just announced to be part of the typesafe stack:

http://twitter.com/#!/odersky/status/136736236625854464
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Similar service that supports more platforms at a lower price (free).
There's a major downside to all of this complexity, however, because it degrades really poorly: I routinely see 30+ second page loads in Google Plus because they load a ton of code and you won't see anything until it completes 80-130 requests (warm/cold cache respectively) to load almost 5MB of resources! An ugly, non-interactive 1994-style simple HTML page would be far more useful to me at such times…

In practice, this happens to me multiple times a day on a normal connection and more frequently on congested or hotel crappy WiFi.
"From which countries originate the biggest threats of digital piracy?"

"Is China on your list?"

"What might be the total losses due to piracy [...] any studies done on that? Does anyone have a more comprehensive solution [than shutting down websites]?"

What does Mr. King want to hear? Bomb China and Russia and Sweden because OH NOEZ PIRACY? What. The. Fuck?

"Are you aware of state sponsored IP theft? China?"

Good god, man.
BTW, these are BSA's members: http://www.bsa.org/country/BSA%20and%20Members/Our%20Members...
I've been able to use this nifty terminal command in the past to eject problem disks, "drutil tray eject"
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On Chrome there's also the Readability Redux extension[1], which uses the old bookmarklet's code with a toolbar button.

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I think you mean 'equate'; equivocation is a deceptive/evasive form of speech.
Sounds like the kind of business logic where Prolog would really shine.
So, Google could be forced to not gather this information at all.

Whether its in the public interest is a tradeoff between the utility provided vs the privacy loss. I think its a net utility gain - I like my phone to resolve quickly, and see little downside - so I have no general objection.

Some people might object strenuously to this information being gathered; they now have a mechanism - albeit kludgey - to opt-out.

Could the opt-out be implemented better?

You say you don't accept 'its too hard' as an excuse. But sometimes there's a limit to how well a problem can be solved, given its importance and the set of people who care about it.
You could build a physical switch on the router (perhaps even one that appends '_nomap' to the SSID). But we don't expect Google to ship everyone a new router, right?

If there's ever sufficient consumer demand, router manufacturers could add this feature. But there probably isn't going to be.

We live in a world where Telcos track and log our locations, to a resolution of the nearest cell, or nearer, all the time. They typically have our identity and demographic information. They know who we call and message, and for how long. I'm studying social network analysis, and you can infer an awful lot from data like this.

So, how do I turn my phone on 'do not track' mode?

I think its pretty decent of Google to enable this feature; yes, the solution is inelegant, but the people that care enough about this can probably figure out how to enable it.

I think anger about privacy violations should be directed at worse offenders.
"The #1 way to decrease piracy is to increase the number and quality of legitimate content services on the internet."

Preach it, sister.
Twitter is actually not that high-volume. They peak at 6000 messages/sec and average much lower (http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html). Meanwhile Tibco will sell you a device doing 100,000 messages/sec sustained (http://www.tibco.com/products/soa/messaging/messaging-applia...). There are plenty of people working on systems more scaley than Twitter.
I was hoping to see something about having an actual business model in his advice. Alas.
One of the few sites where people really care about this issue and half the comments in this thread are people wondering why we should even bother. I'd laugh if I wasn't so disappointed in you.
I guess I was referring to a physical eject button (i.e. the kind you would find on a PC). The button on the keyboard just triggers the same call that dropping the CD into the trash does.
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You don't need to go that far. Canada! We're not far away and most day-to-day things are the same here.

Also our Supreme Court recently ruled that hyperlinks are like footnotes in a book so publishing a hyperlink to defamatory material doesn't mean you're responsible for the defamatory material (not republication). Sensible ruling. Heading in direction of internet freedom not away from it.
But the first time I used Google I said, "Wow! This is vastly superior to anything else."

That was exactly my experience. I first became curious about Google because it was spidering my personal website, well before when Google became the name of the project. By tracing back where the Web spider came from, I tried out searches, and by the time Google was Google, I was recommending it to all my friends as much superior to AltaVista (the king of the hill in search in those days), and all the more superior to the also-rans in search. Being substantially better at something is what every startup needs to achieve.
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The current opt-out mechanism started because of that "scandal", not because they were logging SSIDs.
Good for you. Not having to tolerate micromanagers and pointy haired bosses? Priceless. Also the world is not America. $20,000 can feel more like $100,000 in another country. Tons of competent programmers working 12 hour days, 6 days a week, make like 1400 dollars per month (exc insurance) in my country --if they are lucky.
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> The most compelling argument I've heard about the dangers is that while the total amount of ionizing radiation you receive is small compared to the flight itself, the radiation is chosen such that it doesn't pass through you and more of it is absorbed at the skin.

I have a genetic pre-disposition to skin cancer. The total radiation dose may be small, but the type of radiation (ionizing), and the fact that it is targeted at, and fully absorbed by the skin doesn't give me comfort. Should I be concerned?

That's a rhetorical question, because in reality we just don't know because no one has studied it. And that's scary. I've opted out ever since these things were introduced, and will continue to do so.
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FUD.

Torx drivers cost $2. Or: About as much as any other driver. It’s easy to replace both the HDD and RAM and you don’t need to buy Apple’s parts.
Blocking scripting is (or should be) basic web-surfing hygiene. I don't disable scripts to prevent Flash ads from annoying me. I disable scripts and Flash because of the many zero-day vulnerabilities I've read about in both.

There's this great <noscript> tag that sites can use to monetize me. They won't be able to track me as well, no, but I don't think a web site should ever have the RIGHT to track someone. No simple web page should EVER need scripting to work, nor should it EVER rely on Flash (which isn't even available if I'm surfing from an iPad/iPhone!). Anyone who doesn't test a web page with scripting disabled to make sure it renders in a reasonable manner shouldn't be doing web development. And don't get me started on idiots whose pages redirect a browser with scripting disabled to a dead-end page that tells me scripting is disabled (duh!) and then doesn't give me a way to get back to the original page.

Blocking ads is stealing bandwidth because you are intentionally are blocking the (typically only) means of income of a site for aesthetic (or philosophical) reasons. You're presenting to the site as if you're a normal user, but then surgically removing the ads from each page.

Blocking scripting may have the occasional side effect of limiting income on badly implemented sites, but I take no responsibility for hurting sites that are poorly designed. Any blame there should be on whoever decided to go with a Flash-based ad solution, which won't monetize everywhere no matter what.

If a site requires that I install software on my computer to use it, then (as you say) I won't use it. If it requires me to enter an email address to use it (and I don't trust it), then I similarly won't use it. If it requires me to enable scripting and I don't trust it, then I won't use it.

But I'm not going to enable scripting globally and risk ending up with an infected computer on the off chance that, on my first visit to a new site, I might prevent them from making a small amount of income because their web developers were incompetent.
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"Is it possible under this legislation that [the largest search engines in Russia and China] could be disappeared from the US DNS system? And if so, how should we expect the Russian and Chinese governments to respond to such action?"

- Mr. Cohen
I agree on those two, but unfortunately I haven't heard much encouraging come from anyone else. Two people on a 38-member committee is not a strong showing...
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whoa, looks cool! entourage meets the office - I can see the stories already. There's so many interesting personalities here in San Fran, so I see lots of potential for character driven comedy.
That's not really a fair comparison however. There's an non-negligible difference between just crunching messages, and then distributing said 6k messages/sec into a directed graph of users. Those 6k messages/sec is just the input, the output is far greater.
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I wouldn't say entirely uneffected, but I do think the reduction is very small. The point is, though, that even if we were to assume the machines were 100% effective the end result would be to be spending money to not make anyone any safer.
Fair enough, and I saw their newspaper ad also. That said, I think any real attempt at killing this bill needs to include a show of grassroots opposition, not merely trying to out-hollywood hollywood with money and public testimony.
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I'm not concerned: the EU privacy watchdogs are.

Personally, I used wired, since my router is so shitty it can't even hold 10mbps over Wifi (not even unencrypted).
You totally missed the point.

The video was showing how to use the IDE to add support for their DB migration tool to a specific model class. Initially, the class did not have the XML metadata required to track migrations so the IDE underlined the class name. This wasn't a edge/problem case, just the IDE being helpful.
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You are mistaken if you think that 18 and 19 year olds taking phone calls as interns are in any way an effective means of conveying information to those in charge. Sure, they can note trends. Do they? No. The primary concern was which lobbyist reception with free alcohol everyone was going to at the end of the day. And although many of them may have a good grasp on a lot of issues, some like SOPA may be lost on them. Not to mention the more fringe issues. What if 60% of your constituents call in favor of an issue and for 40% against it.. How does that get relayed effectively?
"Would you agree that the current piracy landscape makes it much more difficult to start a new fee-based distribution model vs. a free/ad-supported distribution model?"

Good question. Piracy status quo, without some sort of crackdown, already skews the "legitimate" distribution models to those that benefit companies with Google's model (e.g. for YouTube).
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