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This proposal just buries the process inside an agency that is ill-equipped to handle the tax. It will be completely ineffective in actually combating copyright infringement, but will cost a bunch of money. What value does that add to anyone? I'd rather spend that money on about 1,000 other public services first.

And there is simply no way they will win with a process that takes months and months. They can't even stop fake goods from coming in all the time, and that requires a factory, a shipper, a receiver, a distributor, and network of guys on the street peddling fake goods to strangers that could easily be police. Do we really believe this will ever keep up with the pace of evolving copyright infringement methods?
Techies forget how something as trivial as downloading and running a file can be a huge deal for the average user.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

I actually wanted to hire someone to do this for BCC but shot the downloadable version of the product in the head instead, which largely solved this problem.

Another example:

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/instructions.htm

This page was written back in ~2006. It has probably consumed five hours of my life since then, answering just one particular query. The customer complaint was "I can't find the Purchase Now! menu that you tell me to click on." Guess why.

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I expect that at peak use (rush hour), the total number of cars needed would not be so substantially lower than the current number of cars owned. Perhaps a factor of 2 or 3.

Of course, with driverless cars, people may begin to stagger the starting / ending hours of the work day to allow for owning fewer cars.
Countries with universal health systems might be more resistant due to the immediate and visible cost to the respective Treasuries.
It's true that there is quite a variety but I'd venture to guess that most US TV news clusters closer to Fox than it would to BBC/AJE.

I think only part of the problem with mainstream TV news is inherent in the medium. There's a lot of effort put into making it infotainment.
Don't know much about Mayer, but found it interesting that he deleted the post honoring Steve Jobs after SJ's biography came out and he was quoted as saying that Mayer was "out of control".

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ld6th/john_mayer_on_s...

That's a strange thing to do.
Well, if the lawyer's paid hourly, they are better dragging it out. But as you say, there's just not that much damage.
The makers of EasyBCD (non-FOSS freeware) have become pissed about this, and demanded that download.com unbundle it, or delist it because it is a violation of the license.

Throughout their letter they talk about how them taking action was only possible because of their proprietary license.
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Amen!

There are a lot of niche use cases for them which most people don't see. For example, businesses use them to pay contractors when they owe more than a certain amount in order to avoid tax liability / paperwork.

We didn't pull much data on them, but I think you can buy them at a discount as well.
I sure hope you can't remember everything you read on HN. That would be like remembering everything that your roommate ever said to you during four years of college.

There's room in life for casual conversation. It doesn't have to be relentless study all the time. And even if you're intent on only reading stuff worth memorizing you can't achieve that goal. You can fight Sturgeon's Law, but you can't always expect to win.
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Yes, this is at least superficially like Newcomb's problem. Your argument roughly corresponds to an argument for the "one-box" move in that game. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_problem]
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http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/ Pt. 1
http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/outfox/ Pt. 2

http://digitaljournal.com/article/314919
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-le...
etc.
Their data gathering and thesis are flawed. Online selling price has little to do with value. If people were selling cash online they would not get 100% of the value.

Gift cards sold online could have been bought with stolen credit cards (seriously, watch out!). The person selling the cards will take well below the value because they didn't pay anything. The person buying the card is assuming a huge risk, the card may be with nothing.

The true value of a gift card lies in the eyes of the receiver. And like any gift you have to know the person you are giving it to. A $400 gift card for Agent Provocateur is worth a lot to a girl who loves lingerie and appreciates $200 bras, but it's not worth much to someone who only likes functional cotton underwear. I like computers, but a $400 gift card to the Apple Store would be useless to me because I don't want to spend the extra $800 it would take to get a computer. Even a $10 Starbucks card is worth nothing to someone who only drinks Diet Coke, but worth a full $10 to someone who drinks Starbucks every day.
When a class-action lawyer sues to enforce anti-trust laws, at least theoretically he is creating wealth. The transfer of money is incidental to an enforcement system that seeks to control the incentive structure of monopolists. Monopolies, of course, create deadweight losses in the economy. Avoidance of deadweight losses are functionally equivalent to creation of wealth.

Now, I'd certainly argue that entrepreneurs create more wealth more effectively. That said, the more we learn about economics the more situations we find where market failures undermine efficient allocations of productive capital. And by and large our solution to those market failures has involved writing laws which are enforced in many cases by plaintiff's lawyers.
The post is misleading, people do not have multiple cars because they cannot drive, it is because they have to use it for multiple things at the same time. Morning going to work, dropping kids etc. will happen all at the same time. Peak car usage will not be affected by self driving cars.
One thing I noticed about your page is that its SEO optimized -- with the "Bingo Card" keyword to be exact -- rather than being user friendly. I think this is also another dilemma we are facing. We can put nice graphics with less text to our landing pages which will be very user friendly but it would also suffer lower SERP because of low keyword recurrence.
On a few sites NoScript causes the whole web Page to go nuts. So rather than dig into what element is causing this I disable NS and fall back to the protection of FlashBlock (Which is doing something simpler).
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I suspect most of the people answering in the millions were founders and not employees. Employees usually have less than 1% equity, and there just aren't that many multi-billion dollar exits.
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I don't doubt that you are correct. This is what I was recalling and referring to from the seclist post regarding nmap:

This is exactly why Nmap isn't under the plain GPL.
Our license (http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html) specifically adds a
clause forbidding software which "integrates/includes/aggregates Nmap
into a proprietary executable installer" unless that software itself
conforms to various GPL requirements (this proprietary C|Net
download.com software and the toolbar don't).

Can't imagine they would want to release the source code to their software at any point, it's easier to just make a blanket statement that you don't intend to bundle any open source software with it. Even if that's not what you actually do which seems to be the case according to some of the other comments.
> FXAA and other similar techniques are only relevant when dealing with deferred rendering only.

Why is that? While techniques like FXAA are needed for deferred rendering due to the order of operations, I don't see why FXAA isn't acceptable on non-deferred renderers.

> Detecting edges on the depth buffer may sound as the solution until you realize that two planes at right angles has an edge between that can alias. The change there is in the normal and not the Z.

If you have two planes at a right angle to each other, you'd see that in the depth buffer. Imagine you're looking at a line of pixels and you're doing this on each pixel -- you'd look to see if the pixels on either side of the one you're on are trending in opposite directions from the current one, and know it's an edge.

> Also modern graphics cards do not give programmatic access to the z-buffer as the z-buffer format is often proprietary.

As far as I'm aware, all modern graphics cards allow you to render the depth buffer to texture just like the color buffer.

> Deferred rendering can render large number of dynamic, unshadowed lights very efficiently. It can be used as approximate global illumination technique.

Sure, but there's no reason you can't do post-AA using the RTT depth buffer and your composited color buffer.
There used to be a screenshot on my front page. I was totally mystified by the following comment until I installed CrazyEgg and saw the hot spot: "I clicked on the New button and nothing happened."

FWIW, some savvy folks I know suggest rotating them such that the screenshot appears to me at an angle to the monitor (hold your right hand up such that it is parallel to your screen, now rotate your writst back an inch -- like that), which apparently cuts down on this misconception quite a bit.
I don't agree these effects are unintended rather than highly desirable benefits.
That is true, but the times can be shifted if the car can drive back after dropping you off.

For example:
1. Drive to work
2. Drive home
3. Drive to school
4. Drive home
5. Drive to store
...

Many parents already drop their kids off @ school and thus are adjusting their schedules appropriately.
I don't think peak usage is equal to the total number of owned cars; that would imply that there's some time of day at which every single car is simultaneously being driven, which is pretty hard to believe.

It'd require inter-household car sharing on a significant scale to take advantage of that, though.
I was hoping someone else would say that. Have you really tried SMAA? What is your opinion of it on a few games?
The problem is it is all new. Some of the core concepts of LTE can't even be tested yet.
[3] - Is all that matters. The industry and their constituents could easily push back driverless cars 20 years, and this is without any catastrophic accidents happening. So I'd say about 35 years before we see driverless cars disrupting anything.
> (In audio, there are other benefits to higher resolution, like latency; a 256-sample buffer adds 6ms at 44.1KHz, but only 1ms at 192KHz.)

But the buffer is there to allow you to gather data up before sending it across the pipe (physical or virtual) so you're not incurring latency you don't need to. Increasing the resolution of your data doesn't decrease latency, as you're just incurring that hit more frequently. If that worked, you could just do away with the buffer and send a continuous stream of data at whatever sampling rate you wanted.
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like any progressive technological development it will bring only improvements, including refusing to go to specific places specified by a transmission from central traffic control or automated blocking of doors and delievering you to court/jail/administrative hearing ...
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Does clojure use maven for shipping source around?
The $299 price tag for a Verizon Galaxy Nexus is looking like an even worse deal now.
Hey Kapil, This is a tangent, but who designed your site? It's gorgeous.
There's another unintended effect I haven't seen talked about anywhere: when cars no longer require human drivers, the cost of driving in human terms (time, frustration, danger) will be drastically reduced, but the energy cost will only be reduced by a small amount. The logical consequence of this is that cars will be doing a lot more driving and as a society we will spend a lot more energy on transportation overall.
Cars aren't engineered for high use. We'd have to radically redesign the car itself to go 250k miles/year.
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But again, the consequence of a driverless car is that the steering wheel could be removed and fitting 4 strangers comfortably in a car becomes much easier. I would argue that carpooling/ridesharing would increase and ultimately decrease the number of cars needed.
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It's not striking down a law, but you can see the process at work most clearly in Bush v. Gore. It was, on the face of it, a horrible decision, and the court itself said it shouldn't be used for any precedent; it's not been cited once since then.

But it isn't merely a matter of disagreeing with the decision. It's the crass politicization of it. If you look at the breakdown of the vote, the Justices who supported Bush supported Bush, and those who supported Gore supported Gore. (Thomas's wife was heavily involved in Bush's campaign, and O'Conner had said the evening before the election that she'd find Gore's election personally disastrous.)

Nor can ideology account for the decision: the same justices who are pretty stingy when it comes to applying Fourteenth Amendment rights generally suddenly found it imperative to extend it to a radically new situation in an usurpation of state rights with federal judicial might. The converse was also true, as the Justices usually distrustful of states running their own elections suddenly thought that sacrosanct.

Edited to add a particularly damning quote:

"The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner Bush, and to the country, by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election. Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires." IOW, Scalia is banning the recounting of the votes of undecided legality because it might make Bush's election look less legitimate and cause political turmoil.
So your hourly car rental rates will go up during peak usage until it balances out peak usage. While car rental companies may decline to change their rates on a minute-by-minute basis the only reason is to prevent customer confusion, nothing technical will stop it. Supply, demand, and price information can optimize a system like nothing else.

And even during peak times, car rentals will be augmented by a suddenly-reinvigorate public transport system; your car may take you to a bus, to be picked up by a car on the other end.

The only missing bit of tech is the actual self-driving car. Everything else is simple and obvious extrapolation from brain-dead simple Economics 101 and already-existing network technology. Modern car usage will be seen as only an incremental improvement on horse-drawn buggies, with the real revolution happening much later.
the flip side is that if they might do better with constant use. Diesel engines for instance, do better under constant, consistent load. Engines would remain lubricated and heated. Stratification and temp changes would have less effect, etc.
Kinda tangential, but since I want to help people do better at SEO: That page is not SEO optimized -- it isn't even designed to be accessible to crawlers. It is only linked to from post-purchase emails and me when answering customer support requests. No page on my site other than the front page would ever rank for [bingo cards], certainly not on the strength of on-page optimizations.

If a consulting client told me they were worried about poor rankings because of low keyword recurrence on their landing pages I'd tell them that on-page factors wouldn't make a difference for head-of-the-distribution terms either way and you don't need re-occurrence to rank for tail terms, so that is probably not a terribly big worry. Having insufficient text on a page to rank for anything is a bit of a worry. If you're trying to satisfy the competing imperatives "Conversion rate/user happiness goes up when we take text off" and "Rankings go up when we add text" the solution I'd recommend pretty quickly is "Put the text below the fold, where only Googlebot and the sliver of humans who actually enjoy reading will see it."
You actually don't have to live in _that_ large of a city. The Raleigh/Durham MSAs combine for about 1.6M in total population spread over a pretty sprawling area and we have had LTE service for a few months.

I frankly don't get the complaints or the folks who are going to downgrade to 3G. If you don't have LTE available, the device will fall back to 3G. When you do have LTE available, however, the performance can be unbelievable. I was co-working with a colleague and we were getting 20Mbps down and 10Mbps up over a little MiFi.

I'll hang onto my LTE MiFi, thankyouverymuch. :)
Absolutely, and sometimes sincerity is so unanticipated in certain situations that it may be interpreted as some kind of ploy.

But I agree with the post. It's worth it to be sincere. Even when those around you may not be expecting it.
Nope. I'm intentionally misusing the noun 'caricature' as an adjective. I suggest that Justin's notable features in his photo are exaggerated, if he's even a real human.
sending your car home for your spouse to use and then back again to pick you up at the end of your day means it's using twice as much fuel on wasted trips with no occupants.
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That's true but consider that most of those people go to/from the same place.

If entity that provides those cars is big enough, they can match up the destination and optimize the traffic so that people going to the (roughly) same place share a car. When I was commuting from SF to MV for work, I had to use the whole car. There were plenty of other people who were commuting at the same time from/to very similar destination and used the whole car. It's not hard to algorithmically put several such people into the same car.

Today cars are 4/5 seaters so you get at 3x reduction compared to current levels (taking into account that not everyone drives by himself today) but you could easily redesign the cars to not be much larger and taking 8-10 people. Or make them straight up buses. Google already does that with their shuttles where they pick e.g. people from SF and drive them in big buses to MV, except it would be much more efficient because the potential pool of people transfered would not be just "people who work at Google and live in SF" but "every person who lives in SF and works somewhere in MV", which is a much bigger number.
I don't think the article's argument justifies the idea that fewer cars will be sold.

Cars wear out primarily through driving. If you simply switched to automatic driving, what you would have is fewer cars being driven more often and so being worn more quickly. If car-mile consumption stays the same, new-car production would stay the same.
On the other hand, if the auto-drive cars increased carpooling, then you'd see a decrease in car-miles consumed and so a decrease in production. But if auto-drive cars drove around empty more, you might have even more car-miles being consumed.

Moreover, you'd have a "big bang" where people decide to mostly stop driving the old, non-automatically-driving cars and so there'd a huge spike in consumption at that point.

The space saved by avoiding parking could be really large, still.

A nice thing would be that at the start, a person might be able to finance their self-driving car by renting in out when they didn't need it. Those economies might make the phenomena spread really quickly.
Ah, that makes more sense. It was very difficult to infer that meaning from your original post. My apologies.
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Unfortunately there are a few assumptions being made here that don't really jive with car usage in practice. 96% usage? People's schedules aren't that flexible, my spouse and I commute at the same time to different places, and a large chunk of the people in my apartment do as well. This is known as rush hour.