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As with all things even remotely approaching the label "child pornography", caution is better than not. The fact that a charge wouldn't stand up in a court of law is one thing, your reputation and life is another.

Being accused of anything even remotely like this is enough to end one's useful life. Our society can't give two shits that you were exonerated, they just care that you were accused.
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Years ago, he paid for a site license for one of my small shareware projects when he only needed a single copy. I was so happy. I heart woz.
Yes, that probably & hopefully is their strategy. But is it mere co-incidence that their first major play of that strategy is for a show that is well loved by geeks? My guess is that the above probability does hold true, and that's part of the reason that this particular show is a going first.
I would also love a good answer. I think most people just don't think that deeply about it. When I questioned about this (as my camera was being confiscated), people were outraged at the thought of legalising child porn. And when pressed further, they will only say its morally wrong (and threatened to turn me to the police! - to which I backed down of course).

The best I can come up with is that legislators fear it will lead to copycats. Its been shown that people who hear about a suicide are more likely to both commit suicide and do it in the same manner. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide. "Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired suicide clusters include the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and Hide and Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August month". And if you consider that copycat suicides may not have happened without the trigger suicide, the thought that copycat child abuse may not happen without a trigger child abuse is not a wild leap. And the trigger child abuse can be that harmless few bits.

I'd feel fine about losing some freedom to stop that child abuse trigger. There are all sorts of reasons why some information is protected from the public, and when that information can cause public harm but not be in any public interest the case to ban it is very strong. Child porn may be equivalent to that sort of may be "harmful and not in public interest" category which gets it perma-banned.

tl;dr maybe to stop copycats
Correct. And Yes.

If its not effective for all, forever, its just a blip on the time line. A thousand years from now we will remember Einstein.

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We have a lot on our plates. That's a given. The bigger question is, "Is there a remedy?". I think so.
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In the end, though, I'd put money on Netflix existing in 2020 before I would any given broadcast network. TV is dead.

Someone is going to have to deal with the question of live sports coverage, somehow, before this can happen.
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Local stations will probably continue to exist for:
* sports
* news
* weather

Alternatively, ESPN could stream (and should! Could you imagine if they got the ad money directly for the Super Bowl??? I bet ESPN would be licking its chops for that kind of money)
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Just watch out that you don't get a 404 one day and end up piping a whole lot of error screen HTML into your shell, it could have wildly unpredictable results.
Last time I saw a system like this, it had two distinct networks, one for the controllers and one for the computers that controlled them. I would imagine nobody would allow any direct external access to the controller network.
You mean like the olympics that were streaming from the nbc website in 2010/vancouver?

I consider it a solved problem. I bet more of the big sports leagues would _love_ to cut out the middle men and monetize viewership more directly somehow (like NBA league pass and MLB.tv are).
What if it caused the exact opposite to happen and this move gives netflix leverage in negotiating for content. I am just saying no reason for netflix not to license out the show to be on TV as well...
He's a consultant who helps tune encoding parameters for various use cases. So yeah, multiple scenarios to plan for means multiplying his fee.
> Yes there are, And Wikipedia would have to pay gatekeepers to prevent it becoming a spammy "wack-a-mole" fest. Those gatekeepers become a very costly additional expense. One that you very quickly become dependent on,

Only if they want to sell lots of different ads. If it were "buy the one ad slot on Wikipedia for a day for $150k" (that's supposedly the going rate for Twitter's promoted tweets, IIRC), quality control wouldn't be very hard.
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Referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3254494

There's no contact or location, and I cannot even comment.
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I wonder why you got downvoteed? That makes sense, actually. The predefined metric is pretty standard but maybe it is flawed. Then again, everything is relative so we have to have some standard metric and can't be changing it to suit every individual either.
If the axes are labelled, it ain't deceptive IMHO. Setting a graph like that gives you more detail where it's needed.
You'd think the Telcos with their government granted monopolies would be on that.
This bodes well for Netflix and their new business model.

I hope that the programs they produce will be free of advertising.
Unlike the drugs trade, I doubt there are significant numbers of child abusers who are in it for the money. It seems like an incredibly risky business compared to other illegal activities, like drug running. And customer acquisition must be incredibly expensive. Also, as any digital file, a single image can be viewed again and again in the way that 1g of heroine can not. The supply of new images could completely stop and the back catalogue would be enough for customers.

In other words, I don't think this is a market problem so I don't see market solutions having any justification (or indeed effect).
I'm unclear from this article which labels pulled their content? Can anyone point me to a list of artists that are no longer available?
Not having taken the photos doesn't mean that she doesn't currently hold the copyright to them. It would be easy for her to have a copyright transfer from the original photographer be a condition for inclusion in her project.

(Also, I expect that there would be a separate copyrightable work for the combination of the old and new pictures, and the compilation of the series as a whole.)
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Everyone else but the US?

> fibre accounting for half of all broadband connections in Japan (55%) and Korea (52%). Other leading countries include the Slovak Republic (28%), Sweden (24%) and Denmark (12%).

http://www.telconews.com/2010/12/11/oecd-internet-economy-br...
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As someone who works at a software startup where the engineers use Macs, trust me we mind when we have to dig around to find the correct Xcode installer for Snow Leopard or whatever. Just because Apple has decided Xcode 4 should be in the app store, does not mean that our developers running Snow Leopard (which has fewer bugs with our mission critical apps like vagrant, for example) should be SOL.

People who realize how stupid it is to install several gigabytes of Xcode for a C compiler also tend to get irked by other weird Apple policies, thus a significant percentage of them switch operating systems instead of packaging up GCC to try and change the Apple ecosystem.
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With regards to the point "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here"; the problem that I have with that possibility is that if the only evidence of any supposed crime that has occurred exists purely as bits on a digital storage device, it's hard to claim that crime was worthy of any sort of prosecution to begin with. Look at the guy that ended up prosecuted in the UK under RIPA part III, nobody believes he was actually any kind of criminal or threat, and yet they wanted to make a sacrificial lamb out of him just to emphasize how serious they were about having this power available to them.

Sure, it may be easier for the government to attack the digital storage device to find the terrorist's journal or plans or whatever, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to do it. If someone has been making bombs, there is plenty of evidence outside a document on an encrypted volume, etc etc etc. The entire idea that a crime can exist purely in information is a step too close to thought crime and all the problems that entails for my tastes.

If a crime supposedly exists, investigate the entire crime, not just some theoretical digital footprint on a supposedly inaccessible storage device. Don't try to backdoor negate the right to private information of the citizenry purely because you're too lazy and inept to do so.
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To avoid this, vesting founders would presumably file an 83b election within 30 days of receiving the shares (mentioned in the PDF.) Then, they only have to pay tax when they sell the shares. And if they held on to those shares for over one year, this would be a smaller, capital gains tax.

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I'm struggling to think of what kind of backend complexity would make it infeasible to check email uniqueness in validation.

Care to elaborate?
Seriously, this kind of conspiracy theory "fuck the pigs man" stuff doesn't belong here. Reddit is that-a-way.
Cost-benefit what?

I work for one of the largest municipal electric utilities in North America. We are a monopoly and do not set our own rates. There is no such thing as "cost-benefit" for us. We spend as much money as we need to get the reliability our regulator demands, and then our rates are set accordingly for us to recover those costs.
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That's cool. I wonder if it might have been improved by applying a Floyd–Steinberg dithering (or some such) first?
Apologies for nitpicking, but actually as a lawyer her highest responsibility is to the court. Secondary to that is her obligation to her client. The reason for this should be self-evident.
I don't think you'd like what your power bill would look like if your distribution company had to have staff trivially close to all of its infrastructure, 24/7. I work at a utility and all (yes, all) of our stations and substations are unmanned.

To have a crew on site at every station, 24/7, you'd be looking at nearly 1,000 employees at $65-90k, assuming 8-hour shifts.
Netflix and Arrested Development watchers both skew young and urban. I'd be surprised if it didn't hold true.

What makes you think it doesn't?
And for the first time, people will actually care about breaking Netflix Streaming's DRM. Anyone want to guess how long it'll last? I'm thinking it'll be up on the Pirate Bay the day of release.
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I have searched for <i>such</i> a long time for this, but cannot find it. Curious if anyone knows? I recall Bill and Paul wrote some kind of memo back near the beginning of Microsoft as to why they felt software so special and how it could change the world. It was their core assumption list for why Microsoft would succeed.<p>Does anybody have a link to that list of points? My co-founders and I are trying to make a similar list of core assumptions for our startup, and I wanted to draw from Microsoft's original list for some nostalgia inspiration. :)
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the hope for Netflix is that they become the new network. If every good new show signs with Netflix or a similar provider, what can the old networks threaten with?

This is what the future will be - then somebody just needs to figure out how to get Netflix, Amazon et al to work together so that consumers don't pay multiple subscription fees.

This is why the Netflix stock price went so high - because so many analysts wrote reports about how Netflix is new media, and it may well be.

tl;dr networks = dead
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What's the likelihood that this will result in less TC drama to hear about? That's pretty much the only angle I'm interested.
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It's a possibility, but probably a lot smaller than your chance of being killed by, say, lightning. Or a bee.

I don't know why some people vastly overweight certain low probabilities.
I don't think Netflix will be around as an independent company for more than 5 years. Netflix doesn't have a single advantage save one. It has an installed user base. I'm a Netflix user but I wouldn't think twice about switching to another company. I'm on the verge of using Amazon Prime and ditching Netflix. I think even the installed user base isn't much of an advantage.

Netflix's streaming isn't more innovative and Google's streaming or Amazon's streaming. Netflix's advantage used to be to get people DVDs cheaply and quickly. That's not an advantage to take them into the future. Unless they can find a way to stream movies cheaper than Amazon I don't see how they can survive as an independent.

I think Microsoft should buy Netflix and B&N to compete with Apple, Amazon, and Google in the tablet/content space. As an independent company they are dead in the water.

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As I was reading that story I was imagining the pitch email that was sent by VMWare's PR team to this journalist.

Sometimes it is a little too artificial. You are right though, if you give most writers an interesting hook, they will use it and then recite the remainder of your pitch deck almost verbatim (as in this case)
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What is the definition of 'date of grant' in this sentence:

Procedurally, an 83(b) election must be made within 30 days of the date of grant.

Is it when the vesting schedule says you vest?

Is it when the vesting schedule says you vest, and the stock is physically sign over?
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I made a gist of it right away! I don't want to lose it, even though I already read the idea behind it.
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>> I hope that the programs they produce will be free of advertising.

Agreed. They should be, right?

Nothing annoys me more than paying for a movie ticket and sitting through 10 minutes of commercials before a film.*

I would hope after the customer backlash over the pricing change that Netflix will be smart enough to stay away from commercials.

* Drivers who camp out in the left lane annoy me slightly more. "Stay right except to pass."
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I'm honestly surprised by the defenses of Google in the context of G+ pages. Yes, G+ is a new product, but releasing G+ Pages for business without multiple account support is not anything like a minimally viable product. It's just not. It's actually worse than useless, it actively frustrates and confuses any organization larger than a few people unless you're willing to break the Google rules and used a shared account.

The fact that multiple admins are coming means they should have waited until they were here. Releasing before then is kind of a trick to make companies not dismiss G+ as worthless.
Actually, they probably have quite a bit of power. They have whatever evidence led to the warrant in the first place. If they don't find something they know you have, they'll know you have given them the wrong password. If your browser history is three months old and contains nothing but chocolate chip cookie recipes, they'll know you have given them the wrong password. I don't know what happens next, but I doubt they'll say "oh, that was sneaky" and let you go.

When Reiser was asked to explain why he hosed out his car and said "everybody loves a clean car", the jury was not particularly impressed.
I enjoyed it so I upvoted it. I don't just come to HN for news about startups. The occasional off-topic but interesting site is nice to see.
I hope there will be an easy conduit for these episodes to appear on torrent trackers.
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This is so awesome. More space programs please! Anything to lower the cost and make the possibility of mass space flight more true...
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>they cannot continuously compel you to provide a passphrase when they do not know that another one actually exists.

unfortunately there have been cases of judges simply jailing people for contempt for years
Why? Few people build something as widely deployed as Windows. It may be "the Devil" but his contribution is respectable.
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> who these people are (usually young people previously on pirate services which generate nothing for artists and rightsholders);

What the hell is a pirate service anymore these days?

Previously I used YouTube to listen to songs. Now I use Spotify. But in many cases when I come across a new artist that I REALLY like I would purchase them on iTunes or from their site. However that becomes harder to justify now that I can legally get the music from Spotify. I think a lot of people will also falsely think that Spotify is the same amount of support as purchasing a song or album.
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Nvidia has a patent filled for this type of USB computer, I wonder if they infringed in anyway.

I like this product a lot, I may buy it when it becomes available. However, for people who have a MHL smartphone and MHL TV, there is no need for the Cotton Candy, as they just need to buy a cable for the same functionalities.
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I spent the most on physical album sales (majority of that being vinyl records) when I worked for a streaming music company.

I agree with some of the commenters, being able to listen to those artists, really helped in making the decision to spend my hard earned cash. I realize I'm in the minority, but there are sales being done as a direct result of artists being on these streaming services.

And for the record, I would listen to Coldplay, thank you very much. ;)
I hope there isn't. Sounds like you're a fan, but either don't want to pay the creators, or don't approve of their choice of distribution? That doesnt give you a moral or legal right to stiff them.
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No, you can call your bank (in US at least) one or two days before and they will have those 10K, 20k, 50k ready for you. Whether that raises flags and FBI agents start tailing you is a different matter.
What? Just use whatever you're comfortable with. All the OS dogma is BS.
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Except that demand destruction increases demand for substitutes, and one of the substitutes for viewing the existing child porn is abusing children to make more. There's another theory that watching child porn is a thoughtcrime that makes pedophiles more rather than less likely to go abuse children, but we've seen just the opposite with adults—rape and sexual assault stats decline as legal, adult porn becomes more prevalent. The whole mess reeks of the politician's fallacy (we must do something! this is something!) with little regard for the actual consequences, especially when they've started prosecuting teenagers over pictures of themselves.
donating cash has tax benefits

donating stock directly also has its own problems.

Gates and Buffet both donated stock to the Gates Foundation, which manages it with a separate arm.