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I don't think the fight is really "Hollywood vs. Internet" since there are some tech companies who are big on the Internet, who have not come out against the bill--like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. I'm guessing that it is more of a fight between business models--distributing "pro" content vs. aggregating user-generated content.

There are some fine lines being walked in the tech industry. Microsoft hates piracy of their package software, but Bing would face all the same legal issues under SOPA that Google would.

Google wants to maximize freedom for Search and YouTube, but they are also trying to buddy up to big content for products like Google TV and the new music service.
The Lisa would be a much better example than the Macintosh, considering the Mac came later but was still only like a Lisa 0.5.
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Got it, thanks. I was confused because I took that sentence to mean that it wasn't possible to pass the function to itself.
I was talking about forcing people to undergo such a treatment, or coercing them into it some other way. That's barbaric.

If someone really wants to change their gender or orientation and is really sure I don't see why it would not be allowed, but that was not my point.
It looks good so far. It seems it found quite a few of my accounts, but when it stopped scanning Gmail, it said it found 2 accounts. Going to the dashboard shows it found 23.

I don't know if it's possible (or if it already does), but it'd be nice to see why it thinks I have an account with a place. It says I have a Bank of America account, but I use a local credit union.

Will this recognize if I've installed Ghostery? I have it installed, but have only installed it just a few days ago, before I joined this site. How does it know if you need to install it, or does it just say that for everyone? I also have Adblock installed and have since 2007, but it's telling me to install it.

I like that I can add multiple email addresses, but it did seem like it hung when I added new addresses, and no accounts showed up when I added my other gmail accounts and it didn't ask me for authentication for them. I'm not sure they got added properly. I'll check again when I get home.

Also, this:

>In August of 2011, professional social network Linkedin quietly introduced a new feature called social ads. It allowed companies to use photos of any of your contacts, with whom they, had a connection, in their adverts, effectively allowing your contact’s to endorse their products.

Excessive number of commas, I think.

Overall, though, it's given me a list of things I would never have known about. I have not followed any of the suggestions yet but I'll run through them when I get home from work. Very nice design, it works quick, and it found a good number of accounts. Are there plans to add more sites to the list or more sources for scanning accounts?

*edit - formatting
Fair point, I hadn't looked at it that way.
Let me wish you all the best in fiding the right tech co-founder. i fyou were based in Edinburgh i would love to have a coffee and hear about the idea :) (btw, i am female too, and i am a tech)
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It seems like you know about filibusters, but not about Cloture. A filibuster can be ended if a 60% supermajority of the senate votes for Cloture. Basically, what the filibuster does is prevent the passage of any bill that 41-49% of the senate really, really does not want passed.

People like it because it makes the distinction between having a majority (51% of the Senate) and a mandate (60% of the Senate).
Google's algorithm was very good (though not completely novel, as it was based on the model of academic citations). Still, I think the following were bigger factors in Google's success:
- clean user interface
- fast response times
- good monetisation model
Along those lines, the smallpox vaccine and X-rays.
I don't think it's a good idea (I think it's opposite of that) to use not yet closed parts of css3 specification in production. I mean, it's ok as long as it works without it. This code is full of vendor specific prefixes. They only add in size and many of them doesn't have reliable fallback.

Also, these buttons look close to horrible (as in unreadable) in browsers that doesn't support all features used. I only tried quite capable Konqueror but I'm affraid what would they look like in IE7. Another thing is that this is 16kB (uncompressed). 16kB for social sharing buttons that doesn't really stand out that much (as opposed to css(2)-styled buttons) and add no extra functionality to the user.

So, please, think twice before using them.
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Try reading the book that steamer25 mentioned (To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan). It's very approachable and well written.
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More likely something like Tour de France (O2 loading of blood)... And man, will the professional leagues have issues with this. "East German swimmers" will seem like nothing.
He could be paying far less than that for rent: I live on the upper west side of Manhattan and pay $1000/month and had a 15 minute commute before I switched jobs. Further, somebody could also live and work in Brooklyn and pay more like $700/month in rent. (All of these figures are for apartments with roommates).
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Not really a product, though, so that doesn't count as a good example. Obviously a major discovery with high impact, though.
Light bulb and vulcanization of rubber. I don't think the lesser known antecedents had the same fundamentals.
The author is a very outspoken guy, perhaps just for the sake of it. He's the founder of Vice magazine and is known for his unpolitical correctness.

I still think he has a good point (speaking as a Generation Why youth)
It depends on the age of the kid... for a 2yo, moving pictures and talking characters in a book app offer similar benefits to pop-up books and those book-on-tape/CD/vinyl and deadtree book combos -- they help the child learn that the words have meaning, and demonstrate that meaning in a very accessible way, while keeping things interesting.

For an elementary schooler, a book should be a book. Any interactivity beyond the "choose your own adventure" style will cause me not to purchase. There's something to be said for letting reading happen, instead of distracting with things that could have been left to the imagination.

Over the elementary school age, I imagine that any child would find an "interactive book" at least as annoying and distracting as I do as an adult.
Don't know how to attribute it, but PCR's pretty amazing, too. Being able to sequence Neandertals...
And for me on 16.0.912.41 beta, also on OS X.
Yum, except you might have to tweak whatever function you're using to add or multiply ingredients... I typed in "popcorn" and it suggested using 9 1/2 cups of popcorn =)
I think you might need to average that out???
https://strikesapphire.com/popcorn_ludicrous.png

Also, btw. Corn syrup? Not a common household ingredient (nice rip off the packaging list, I guess?) 3/8ths cup of sugar on TOP of the corn syrup? Dude, you're crazy!
http://www.recipepuppy.com/ is what I made to search for recipes that use ingredients you already have. It lacks the shopping list functionality though.
You might consider building some kind of API that lets site owners "opt in" to this. You could theoretically act as a stamp of approval for sites that would like to be a little more transparent about what they're doing.
> There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone

EDIT I see that in another comment you refine y our statement to mean, only multi touch capacitance. Our technology uses camera to achieve multi touch.

This is simple false.

I worked for a company that made touch screens in the early 2000's. We had multi touch in 2000.

Our products are sold to schools where more than 1 million kids go to a classroom with one in it each and every day.

Please don't say things like "there were no multi touch devices before the iPhone" when this is so provably false. There was a multi billion dollar market of multi touch devices in schools before the iPhone was first revealed.
Him actually doing it, and reading a list of names of people who support him, turns standard process into publicity.
I'm on the same page as you. I agree in general with his points but point 4 is off the mark, as you can't predict someone else's cash flow needs. If they are on a salary then you better pay them on time!
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Hmmm. My point is that innovation speeds up dramatically during wars, in part because the involvement of dot.mil organizations can supersede the regulations imposed by dot.govs.

Taking your points in turn:

1. August 1939 in Nazi Germany wasn't exactly peacetime :) They were already planning to invade Poland. I believe it's pretty well established that aircraft development slowed between the wars but really got underway again with WW2 and then the Korean War.

http://www.ww2pacific.com/jethist.html

2. The Autobahn was arguably a peacetime development (though very useful for war), but it's inarguable that the US Interstate Highway System was developed for defense purposes.

3. Would computer networking have happened in some fashion? Probably, but DARPA saw it as a national security issue and cut through various kinds of red tape. Fiber could be laid across huge swaths of the country without environmental impact statements or FCC involvement. It's hard to say what would have happened without sponsorship from one part of the government.
Well, not any developer can get $200k at Google. So skill is important in both respects.
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You think Ebay can't just, you know, hire this kind of talent?

I'd think walking through the halls of those CS programs offering $250k a year in salary would get a a bunch of A-Level talent at a much lower price then they paid for Hunch.
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For a few last days an idea about peer code review tool is living in my head. The story is simple.

I have a startup and a team is growing pretty fast. To keep up a good quality of code we need to review the code but I didn't find a tool that is simple and intuitive (and in the cloud).

There are some solutions from Atlassian and SmartBear but they are too complex (I believe) and expensive for a startup. There are also some free and open source tools that looks like open source tools - ugly and non-intuitive (like Rietveld). ReviewBoars seems to be the best but is still not that I was looking for.

In addition to that there are built-in "comments on commits" functions at GitHub and BitBucket that can be used as code review tool.

So, my question is do we need one more tool that will be different from what I described? Main points are:
- simple to jump in
- cloud based
- interactive and real time
- seamless integration with GitHub and BitBucket
- cheap for a startup

Do you think startups and small/mid-size companies need this? Do you think it will get some traction? Does it solve a real problem? What are the most important features if it does?

Appreciate your thoughts.
All I like is a good amount of pixels and easy keyboard shortcuts for moving and tiling windows. Those pixels can either be on multiple physical screens, or just one with a good (say 1920x1200) resolution.

Being able to have 2, 3 or 4 editor/browser/shell/whatever windows tiled and visible isn't essential, but it's a way of working you miss once you've gotten used to it.
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Having been bit by this warning message, all this sounds a bit too familiar.

At the time it was being caused by McAfee (yes, dust-off the anti-virus conspiracy theories) had flagged our domain as untrusted because our main virtual host (www.) was returning an HTTP 200 on a 404 Not found page. Yes, that's the "security risk" they found. sigh
Oh wait, I'm seeing it says "Popped popcorn". Well, if you're not going to tell me how to make it I'm not sure why I'm going to your site =\
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Or you could... Stop.

Seriously, he's only seeing the symptoms because you aren't showing them to him. Step away is exactly the right advice. Leave the office. Don't handle a crisis.

That should trigger a proper discussion about unrealistic expectations and the fact that you've probably been doing your job progressively worse. A single crisis not managed is usually better than an increasing number of crises badly-managed because you were running yourself into the ground.
For the 5-and-under crowd, ebooks simply cannot compare to the paper book experience. Color, size, the physical act of page turning, and (for the littlest ones) texture are too important.

However, my 8yo is in the process of earning his own e-reader. At this point, he's past the sparkly, fuzzy, pop-up, colorful books and on to chapter books (which are printed in simple black on cheap paper anyway), so nothing is lost. He's very responsible with electronics, and the idea of having something so grown-up has really helped him get over his reading anxiety and become an enthusiastic reader.

The portability is a big benefit for him, too... it's nice to let him easily take his reading with when he gets shipped off to his grandparents' farm on breaks from school, or we run off somewhere together.

The main down-side, from my perspective, is that on an ereader, I can't let him take his books to school. It's too easy to have an item like that stolen, stepped on, spilled on, dropped -- you get the idea -- in a hectic 2nd grade classroom.
But there's no need or opportunity. The bill has a hold on it, so it will probably not come up for vote.
Right, I agree. My original reading of the comment had me interpreting it as 'changing or attempting to change sexual orientation ever is barbaric', which I had a slight disagreement with depending upon the context. Apologies.
I propose we create technological means of resistance as opposed while maintaining enough political resistance to allow our technological resistance to mature.

Geeks are not good at politicking but we're good at technology.
i can assure you that it does not cost $3k / mo to live below 50th st. that is a massive exaggeration.
Duct tape is also not aesthetically pleasing.
So, it's not a problem if you dive once and go home. But it is a problem if you dive again, and again, and again.

Makes sense.
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It is preferred for me if I am performing certain tasks. If I am rapidly editing html/css then I like to be able to see my markup and a preview in a browser at the same time. Whether this be accomplished by two monitors or one monitor with sufficient resolution does not matter.

Reading API documentation while I code is another good use case for multiple displays. It gives me a quick at-a-glance ability that I can't achieve with alt tabbing on a single monitor. (I can, it just feels a lot slower because I am constantly having to visually relocate where I was within the document)

I refrain from saying that it is a "MUST" or is "REQUIRED", because I can by just fine on my little 15 laptop, but I prefer working on my dual screen setup.

If I'm going to go with just one larger monitor, a nice tiling window manager is nice. Otherwise, I can just alt-tab to the other screen.
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It looks like a large part of his public career has revolved around getting a rise out of people, but judging from this one article, he displays most of the same faults that he is decrying in "today's youth". The only difference is that he appears to be in a position of power relative to those he is complaining about.

I should also add, that he has probably had employees as bad as imaginable, but I've had Gen-X and baby boomer co-workers every bit as bad. It's not a generational thing, or even necessarily a youth thing. Some people suck, some people are great. Sometimes one person can do both depending on a lot a external factors. It's foolish to generally demonize an entire generation.
I put more hope to the "uncoolness" factor rather than the privacy and security concerns to drive FB's demise.
This is an honest question that I realize will seem very tin-foil hatty, but I can't seem to brush it off.

Does anyone ever worry that doing something like this (supplying your name, email, etc.) will come back to bite you later? Say, in 15 years if the American government by some twist outlaws decent. Does anyone worry that you might be persecuted?
There are a few major flaws in this measure. The first and most obvious is it doesn't take into account income. Clinton, for example, had a massive amount of tax revenue to play with so he could have spent more and still have increased the debt less.

The second issue is it doesn't take congress into account. Particularly the House whose Constitutional jobs is to control the purse strings. By that measure George W. Bush and Barack Obama come off quite a bit worse since both had clear majorities (I know that wasn't the case for any President since Reagan but my knowledge of congressional majorities is non-existent before that)

Finally there's the spill over effect. Reagan and Obama both walked into pretty big messes and the government always spends more in a financial downturn than it does in an upturn.
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Unfortunately, the paper is under an embargo, or behind a paywall or maybe just not available yet, so nobody can really comment intelligently.

If the authors of the paper did as described by Ars Technica, then this is very interesting, along the lines of Andy Ozment's "Milk or Wine" (http://www.andyozment.com/papers/Ozment_and_Schechter-Milk_O...) something that could only be figured out in open source software.
Misleading headline. At the moment, LinkedIn is down 2.78%, the dow is down 2.11%, and Google is down 2.54%, not a huge difference.

This headline could be "Google Shares Tumble After LinkedIn Lockup Expires" and it would be just as accurate.
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The stock closed down 2.78% while the market as a whole dropped 2.11%. How is that considered a tumble?

Cherry-picking the lowest price of the day seems misleading.
It might seem contradictory, but the DoD cares more about it's people than most organisations and at the same time is more than willing to risk lives for progress. Consider the initial proponent / researcher of car seat belts in the US was the Air Force which studied the issue in large part because car crashes where killing more pilots than airplane crashes (at the time). At the same time, they are vary willing to test new airplanes even though test pilots often die. And more than that they where willing to risk a pilot to recreate the conditions of a crash to find out why it happens.

If you run the numbers the DoD has directly saved more US lives since WWII in that same time period. Which is not to say it's worth the budget just more useful than you might think.
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People who use Facebook are silly people. No this is not a flame, it's AOL all over again. The walled garden, except the garden is a dystopian big brother state.

I don't mind people being in the dystopia of their own choosing at all. I enjoy going for walks outside the cyberdome. It's quiet and peaceful out here and people are not monitoring and trying to manipulate and control me.

Those who enjoy being a cog in a machine I am sure lead happy fulfilling lives inside The Facebook.
Well if they outlaw dissent I'm sure you'd have bigger problems to worry about than this.
Just me, or do store personnel seem ... extremely formal and polite to an unusual degree of training? Don't mean it bad, they just seem a bit, um, odd. They're so efficient I can't quite put my finger on it.
I am not sure that Financial news headlines try to be rigorous about causality. If you monitor news stories on Bloomberg from 15 minutes before the market you can often see the causality bounce around all over the place.
The only way that would be feasible is to use iframes, and you can't inject anything into an iframe.
the other one just hunted his food to extinction

All of mine - and your - ancestors have done just that. They found new sources for food or they didn't become our ancestors.

I get what you are saying about hunting one's food to extinction, how it's a bad idea.

Do you get what _I_ am talking about when I say that poachers don't _care_ about tomorrow, that they are do poor and desperate that today is all that matters?
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I wonder whether the stock is still overpriced, even at $70? seems to have rebounded a few bucks since the article. This might even be a good time to buy, if you think the company went down too much.
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If you're a campaign manager, the reason you run a "sign my petition" appeal like this is usually to build up a mailing list, not because you think anyone with power will actually care much about your petition. Petitions are cheap.

Then you execute step two, where you leverage that list to get people to do things that you think will actually affect the issue, like making phone calls (to legislators or to voters) or sending in money for media buys.

It is true that getting all that email is irritating. But if you're the average busy citizen, the best way to help is to find a group of organizers you trust, get on their list, and then do the little bite-sized things they ask you to do.
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If things ever get to the point where the US Government is actively rounding up people for having their name on a list because they oppose "Protect IP", I like to think I will be too busy actively revolting to worry about my name being on this list.

And I'm a tree-hugging, liberal hippie.
General understanding of appliances may not be very detailed, but on the other hand, we've got the first-sale doctrine, Magnuson-Moss, the Clayton Act, and others that make buying and selling tangible consumer goods more or less fair, reasonable, and predictable even to those who don't know much about those laws or the technology at issue.

When you buy a car, you don't need to worry about whether getting an oil change from Jiffy Lube will get you in trouble the next time you take the car to the dealer for repairs. Those issues are settled, but not for cyberspace. When you buy software or hardware that includes software, no assumptions are safe, and you have to know quite a bit about the law and technology to figure out what your rights might be.
Off topic, but the large 'Stop Censorship' banner on Matt's site makes it look like 'Stop Censorship and SEO'. Too funny.

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I started looking recently, and 2-3K seems to be the general price range for decent 1 bedrooms. Sure you can pay less, but that usually involves living in the closet or in a rundown old building...and even then you only save a few hundred bucks.

Seems like prices really shot up recently, I looked about 5 months ago, and the rates were quite a bit cheaper