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As Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect for Java SE at Oracle, pointed out on Twitter [0], that patch was meant for Oracle's product VM, a minor fork of OpenJDK, which has
"commercial features" just like other vendors' VMs. Since it was checked into OpenJDK by mistake, it has been backed out of OpenJDK again within 24 hours[1].

Some of the key points of Oracle's Java SE strategy[2] are:

* Oracle plans to contribute the results of the combined Oracle Java HotSpot and Oracle JRockit JVMs to the OpenJDK project.

* The Oracle JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will continue to be available as free downloads, with no changes to the existing licensing models.

If you'd like to learn more about it and the ongoing JVM convergence work, I'd recommend reading Henrik Ståhl's blog post from last year here:

http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/oracles_jvm_strategy

- Henrik is Senior Director of Java Product Management at Oracle and runs a group responsible for product strategy for Java SE, among other things.

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[0] https://twitter.com/#!/mreinhold/status/142122264220008448

[1] https://twitter.com/#!/mreinhold/status/142102137130844161

[2] http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173782
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You're gonna take too much flak for that. Rewrite it and then bury the body in a large field and pretend it never happened. :)
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A constant bottom bar would take up screen real-estate reserved for the feed, which is where most of the user's time will be spent (mostly consume vs create content)

And even if there was a bottom bar, Path offers 6 different posting options. Putting all of them on one bar, or hiding them somehow with a slider, would make it seem awfully crowded.
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Monopolies rise up in the scenario you describe only in a static marketplace. Very few, if any, markets are static. There is constant change. Well healed competitors from other markets will enter a market where they see monopoly pricing power and begin to compete to grab a piece of a high margin business. Disruptive technologies or methods are also in play. In order for a company to successfully buy it's way into a monopoly, it requires that all other competitors (and potential competitors) either acquiesce to being bought or not enter the market after the monopoly has been created.

Certainly there can be barriers to entry, but those barriers will not be permanent.
Exactly. It's like asking Smith & Wesson to explain itself after an armed robbery.
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I think rationality is useful because it is the only reliable path to truth. And truth is required to accomplishing almost everything. Except happiness...which may have been your original point.
It's not just "patent trolls".

Patent thickets and minefields are common in the hardware world. Perhaps you remember the lawsuits and "cross-licensing agreements" between Intel and AMD years past?

Plus, it doesn't have to mean that it's hard to do in the first place. Being able to grep someone's source code tends to make it a bit easier to find that obvious usage of the 'if' statement (or whatever) that you have a patent on.
Answers to some common objections.
Maybe http://datasift.com ?

I noticed it from http://www.highscalability.com
The same is true of any software, firmware, or indeed operating system, and probably a lot of hardware as well. Security By Tedium, I like to call it.
http://xkcd.com/981/
Heh, yeah. I have a lowly 8400GS, so it's not like I'm just whining about the bleeding edge.
If you want to waste less time reinventing the wheel, why not try a Lisp-machine style terminal system with "live" objects (presentations)? It's proven to work, and many people liked it more than a terminal-based command line. Use polymorphic lines (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/02782906f6...) to get a very concise, powerful presentation. OpenDylan (http://opendylan.org/) and its IDE/editor Deuce implement these ideas.
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I think if I ever get that suggestion, my response will be something like, "Ok. I can generally be found at the following location during working hours: ...." (which wouldn't be too difficult for them to find out if they really cared to).
I think this is a cool idea, but it seems to necessitate a language with a pure tree structure, i.e. lisp without conventional line-comments. Perhaps code merges would be more enjoyable too if the SCM software operated on trees instead of text files with lines.
The dollar values may show this, and these numbers show you're right. However, influence wise, unions have massive sway because of the breath / consistency of their voter block - which provides a higher ROI on their lobbying money.
I have a 2 year old laptop with Nvidia. The driver installer is surprisingly smart (and not in a bad way). I have working accelerated OpenGL 3.3. It doesn't suck, as far as tained kernel modules go.

I wouldn't expect miracles with an 8 year old card though.
Every place I've worked where we tracked our hours, only proved that realistically estimating hours on a software project was completely impossible.
Votes seem to be fluctuating on this, so I'm just going to add qualifications of "possibly not when it was University-only (i.e. before my time)" or "until recently" as they've moved to subscription connections and wall propagation for unconfirmed friendships.
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Perhaps, but then, "we typically have a couple of beers together at the end of the day" doesn't sound as novel or noteworthy as "we'll provide you with an unlimited amount of beer."

For better, or for worse, the "unlimited amount of beer" line is catchy. It's memorable. And it sends a very strong signal of the company's culture. That cultural signal will turn off quite a few would-be applicants, but it will attract many others. And isn't that the point of a well-thought-out job listing in the first place? You want to find people who'll kick ass at the job, but part of that ass-kicking is cultural fit. Perhaps a bigger part than many of us would admit at first blush. (In this particular case, they seem to be casting a line for New York hipsters. If that's what they want, great. If it's not, then they might want to rethink their listing).

Of course, there is certainly a way to take "startupy" culture too far. Recall the '90s tech scene, for instance. But that depends less on the culture in question, and more on whether or not the company is getting the results to back up the unique culture. A unique culture is pointless, and possibly even destructive, without productive results.
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I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread. These things do work!
This is reassuring -- would you consider writing it up in more detail?
An update: http://daringfireball.net/2011/12/rootkit_eh
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That's great advice. Gotta love ways in which everybody wins. How has your experience with it been?
in order to get the message out it has to set the message using deliberate PR strategy

As soon as you start talking about "the message" instead of "the truth", you've lost me. That's the domain of proselytizers, advertisers, propagandists, and attention thieves. The world is thick with them as it is, more noise than signal.
The integrity of any "static file" which is a HTML or JS component of a web application is necessary to the security of that entire application. (Unfortunately.)
Keep in mind that his overarching idea seems to be "technology is bad, mkay?" He also supports SOPA and was calling for a "Flag Terrorist" button for all Blogger blogs.
I've used that one before. I'm afraid to use it too much though because I don't want to turn off people who want to talk to me about good ideas.
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Instead of saying "no" to their idea, try to say "yes" to something else. Ask yourself, what could they do that would prove it's a good idea? For example, maybe they could line up a customer who would pay for it, or an investors would would pay to have it developed. Then you can suggest they take this additional action.
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While perhaps off-topic, I'll chime in with an anecdote in remote computing I had this past Thanksgiving. Short version: If you're an emacs veteran, tramp is the ssh version of ange-ftp. Long version: was down in the San Diego area for Thanksgiving and my development environment (Linux) was up here in San Francisco. Had ssh and VNC access to my Linux server in SF, however the latency was still pretty bad making VNC just barely usable. However I had access to a Mac in San Diego with MacPorts X11 emacs installed. I could then run emacs locally and use tramp to transparently access my remote files via ssh just like the old ange-ftp package. Another benefit is that running a shell within emacs with current tramp buffer will automatically ssh to that same server. Tramp would also work with version control (in this case svn). So the big wins here: 1) local editing speed. 2) efficient network communication (only the file data is transferred) 3) shell and version control support 4) can still use emacs.

YMMV.

http://www.gnu.org/s/tramp/
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Is this something you do when you hear a bad idea? Aren't you worried that your relationship with these people will be affected by your honest response that might hurt their ego?
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Yep, but sadly I've made a few attempts and failed miserably.

Perhaps I'm too spoiled by jQuery UI Builder. I'd much rather prefer something like this where I can just pick the widgets I know I'm using: http://jqueryui.com/download
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Man that sucks! I'm sorry. Appreciate you sharing.
edit: sucks that you got sued. Want to make sure that it doesn't sound like I think your response sucks :p
Sounds good, I'm in Singapore but from Aus
http://build.dojotoolkit.org/ should soon be updated for 1.7. The CDN will be available asap.
WebGL [required] + socket.IO + Three.js - some fun I wanted to share
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But it's also because Google has been making use of its massive amount of ad space to push Chrome, and on top of that taken out ads in actual physical locations too.
Have a look at http://build.dojotoolkit.org/ (though I never used it myself, I'm using their command line build tool).
You might be interested in the dgrid project (see slides at http://www.slideshare.net/sitepen/dgrid-next-generation-dojo... and blog post at http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2011/10/26/introducing-the-next-... ). It's a new module, and one of the interesting features is support for the jQuery ThemeRoller classes. It's pretty lightweight, and could be used with jQuery with something like RequireJS, etc.
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No, not exactly.

"Exactly" would be if CarrierIQ sold a boxed piece of software that was fire & forget.

As it stands, CarrierIQ was a business partner with each of these companies in the implementation of the software, and so they are the initial point of leverage in figuring out what actually happened.

If CarrierIQ decides to roll over on the carriers and say "well, $carrier asked me to log all the SMS messages", well, then I'll take up a side business selling popcorn.
IMO all drivers need to be Free Software. The problem is that as soon as you introduce loadable modules into a kernel, there's really no way to prevent them because of the precedent set by Linux. One of the reasons the LGPL was developed was the linking issue, but Linux developers seem to be ok with letting binary blob modules as a "gray area": http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735

If Linux developers had from the start demanded Free Software drivers, they'd have had them (please spare me the arguments about "Linux wouldn't have grown if they didn't allow binary drivers"). Letting that precedent pass means that hardware developers don't have many incentives to provide sources for their drivers. This affects not just Linux, but all Free Software operating systems.
I read this and don't see how it clears anything up.

My best guess (I know just as little about CarrierIQ as everyone else on this thread) is that CarrierIQ is trying to collect very innocuous information (performance statistics and event information to correlate them to), but is doing a slapdash job of generating that information --- for instance, by logging raw details to the Android filesystem.

I wouldn't want it on my phone either, but that doesn't make them Big Brother --- or, obviously, a "rootkit".
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Wow, thank you! How did I miss this? You have no idea how happy this made me.
Pretty starightfoward until you hit a hard-to-google for problem. Yesterday my build process was crashing because I used Windows backslashes in a command line argument instead of the Unix slashes that it expected :(
Still only available for US bank accounts :(

I'm in Australia, any way to easily/cheaply open a US bank account?
Ok. Awesome article. Even more awesome that I didn't have to click "next page" 12 times.
Why oh why wouldn't they put this up there in a copy-able format? Why an image?
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Update: I checked my systems today and could not get it to reproduce. I do not know if that gives Google Chrome a clean bill of health, but I have no more evidence of a phone home.
I don't think so. They don't even take non-British EU citizens.
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More importantly, the bottom bar is for switching tabs, just like tabs in a browser. It doesn't make sense for performing actions.

A tab bar would be a worthwhile replacement for the slide out left menu, which adds friction to switching sections, and lacks discoverability. If you want people ever visiting those sections, it's worth the screen real estate you lose.
I'm not sure what you'd really gain from using a message queue. Pipes with streams seems to be lower overhead and could be extended pretty trivially to get most of the functionality you'd want.

Could you perhaps explain a bit better?
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He's using the acceptability within a tribe as an indicator of someone's rationality, but not a full-test of their rationality. The real test is in their arguments. If they do not have strong, rational arguments, then they are not rational skeptics. They are undiscriminating skeptics.
Ok, I'll admit I don't know much about the laws about US donations/lobbying on the political trail, but I'm assuming you can run for a slot for Congress using your own money for whatever is needed right?

Why not get Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey, Mark Zuckenberg (sorry about spellings) and most all other internet billionaires to threaten to run for congress if Congress keeps doing stupid shit like this? This would probably scare Congressmen more than anything else as I doubt, anyone running against these guys wouldn't have a chance of winning, and thats all they care about.

Because apart form threatening with force (a.k.a. as shooting them), only way I see the people get their power back is if some of these billionaires stand up and make it really hard for some people to be re-ellected again.
> Scopely isn't looking for people that don't get the joke.

No, I get the joke. I just don't think it's funny. There's a big difference, and I think the startups that are using this gimmick need to think really hard about who exactly they are targeting with these things, because it sure does seem to me to be people who value style over substance.
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This is a paper proposing a privacy-enhanced version of a Twitter-like service. They built a working browser extension and server prototype.
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How about breaking up the US cities that have a large tech presence? Los Angeles, Boulder, Austin? Just saying NYC/SF area is offensive.
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I think it was Protect IP, not SOPA, that he's co-sponsoring. Not that that's any better, but just trying to clear up the facts.

Also, I thought it was Joe Lieberman that was calling for the "Flag terrorist" button. A quick Google for "Al Franken flag terrorist button" doesn't turn anything up for me. Do you have a source?
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