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Hmmm. So it is. Not sure why just yet. I'll give it a shot debugging the Tex. Maybe something in my setup.
It's not that complicated. People leave corporations when their combination of pay and benefits offered no longer suits the individual. When I say benefits, I'm not just talking about dental and health but things like free meals, lobbying for internet freedom, flexible hours, etc.

Companies like to pretend they can get more out of a worker with less pay so they can increase their profits and that's where articles like this come into play. It's mostly wishful thinking on the part of the company though. Sometimes, we play along.
Berners-Lee is British. He has been working with the British government on internet issues. I know this is crazy, but they actually listen to him.
according to wirefly, verizon's basic plan is $60 per month for 450min and $30 additional for the basic basic data plan (4GB personal email only no idea what it means). That's a whopping $90 for a basic plan and I don't know if the data plan is viable to unleash Nexus Galaxy's power. Anything above that is going to be over $100 per phone. For comparison I just checkd out Sprint plan which is $70 per month with 450 min unlimited data. that's at least $20 per month and if you add the data plan you wanted it's easily going to be $40 difference per month. The unlocked version sells for $749 and with the verizon plan it sells for $189, which is $560 difference. With a $10GB data plan from verizon (seems to be the best discounted value) it costs $110/month from verizon yields a $40 difference per month. This will make up the difference ($560) in 14 mnoths. It mean this verizon offer is only cheaper if we are not forced to sign a two year contract and you are ought to migrate to some plans much cheaper as soon as you get the phone. Does it make sense?
I can't find much on Berners-Lee's stance on SOPA. Do you have any information as to why he wouldn't sign this letter?

EDIT: Just realized he is British (thanks to the other reply). Do you believe his silence (if any, again I can't find much on his stance) relates to his citizenship?
Right, but before WWII, pink was a boy's color and blue was for girls.

Few here are saying that brains are entirely identical, but the fact is you cannot overlook cultural aspects. These aspects are at best only loosely tied to biology and many are purely arbitrary (such as color preferences).
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> Then revert Senate seats to be appointed, not elected, positions. The Senate and President will (hopefully) squash crazy ideas that may escape the House.

And they will be appointed based on whose advice, precisely?

Look at it from the POV of the state governor, who is looking down a long list of people who all want to be on the Senate and all have something like a real qualification. It's easily over a hundred names, none of whom you've ever so much as had a beer with. How do you narrow it down to two? Well, there's someone in your mansion's antechamber right now who is more than willing to help you select the right people...
>Against the accusation that Siegler is part of a "class warfare", the only thing he has left to say is that the Nexus is actually more expensive, which was not the point of Topolovsky since he was criticizing the notion of condescending behavior against Android.

Isn't class warfare based on the issue of economics? If Topolsky felt it was more about some superficial superiority of some Apple bloggers then he should've chosen his words better and not used such an inflammatory term.

>Siegler, no one accuses you of having an opinion. But of unfair treatment.

Siegler's article is entitled 'An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus'. I don't know how you can't be prepared for what may come.

The oddity is that Topolsky took one line in the review (which is mostly positive) to get extremely angry over. Certainly there is a bias against Google in a lot of Siegler's articles but I honestly don't see it here.
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Can someone who is following this more closely than myself (as in actually watching this on CSPAN) please post the names of all the senators, representatives and other elected officials who are blithering idiots in support of this.

I would like to vote any of them that may be in my district out of office as soon as possible.

Thank you.
They should have made a request to not only demand such bills to cease, but to demand bills that reverse parts of current laws controlling the Internet.

Otherwise politicians will reduce some of the bill, but the bill will still implement more and more Internet controls [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
On page 3, about "whoami"

> type this command 20 times and say it out loud

I have many years of daily command line use behind me and never needed to use this command. I don't like being taken for a child.
we haven't been able to get a hold of Chris yet...google designer wrote him handwritten note though
Personally I think we should invent brain-welding, whatever that may turn out to be.
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I actually don't think so here. You're basically up against the laws of physics. Information is fundamentally unlike other types of assets, in that there's no cost associated with copying it and it can be very quickly and easily be disseminated far and wide. Let's say they manage to totally destroy DNS, or whatever mechanism they're using to enforce this: the internet isn't one network, of course, and will detect this as damage and route around it, even if that means moving to a totally new networking stack.

This is a losing battle on the part of the IP rights holders. In many ways, that's depressing. But even if they said, "pirate movies and we'll kill you," it still wouldn't stop the signal. All of these laws and treaties are bandaid hacks to stem the tide. Ultimately they won't win, though it may be messy along the way if they try to govern without understanding this.
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It appears the Google Checkout process it broken. I used it, and it just sat there after the transaction cleared. I've got a receipt but no pdf :S

Edit: Appears to be fixed now
Same happened to me... c'est la vie :o

edit: fixed

I appreciate the time the people involved took out of their schedules to get it resolved so painlessly :)

Thanks eee_c & ngauthier!
Lego contraptions is the best though. Hard to find, not too many pieces. But gears, springs, and lots of flexibility.
Be aware that WebSockets should only be used internally, and not across open networks.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.h...
Australia gets what you guys get, such as our own version of the DMCA thanks to the wonderful Free Trade Agreement we have with your government.

Outside of agreements, America gets held up as the example to emulate. If something passes in the US, it becomes that much harder to fight the spread to our own countries.

So yes, we have an interest in what happens. :)
Why does someone with a 2 year positive history get auto-banned for one bad comment? Shouldn't the ban bots be smarter than that?
Thanks, that looks interesting. However, she uses a Mac and that is a Windows only program.
After having a look at VA-API vs VDPAU, I must say VDPAU is much nicer. VDPAU allows you to define times when frames will be shown, so vsync is handled fully in hardware; more than one transparent sub-picture can also be shown at one time.
Sorry about that! Chris and I are on it and we'll try to fix it as fast as we can.

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Microsoft's new automatic update plan could (finally) spell the end of IE6
Sort of disturbing that for reddit jailbait and reddit jailbait are so high. I am guessing that is for that content and not because of the cnn report on reddit...
Dude, the advertisments are at least halfway directed at the parent.
Sure, because history is replete with small actors successfully taking huge corporations to court.
And Bray is Canadian.
I'm not sure they have the right price point. Many people will impulse buy something of interest for under $10 - psychologically, that's a small amount of money. I bought Louis C.K.'s comedy show for $5, as it's an amount of money I don't mind wasting - it's a small risk.

However at $24, you'll get a number of keen backbone fans - but you won't get all the folks who are interested in backbone, and spine, and ember, and a pile of other frameworks; it's no longer a small enough price for an impulse purchase, so they'll stick to free tutorials.

The same thing applies to lots of other online purchases - I'll buy a vaguely-interesting phone app for $7, but probably not for $15.

The price point where people switch from "cheap as my daily coffee bill" to "the cost of a decent meal" will obviously vary from person to person, and from country to country. But I suspect that $24 is over that point for a lot of people.

(me, I'll probably buy it - but I'll think about it for a lot longer than I would at $5)
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Unfortunately corporations have become the new governments/armies, and so if you boycott every corporation that does something you don't like... you're screwed.

It's like telling people in Soviet Russia that if they don't like Communism, they should boycott the communist food lines. It's an unreasonable request. The free market is no longer free, corporate oligarchies might as well be called Soviet Planning Committees. (What the Soviets called their authoritarian overlords who owned and distributed all the resources)
Your concerns are well-founded. I just got my Galaxy Nexus, and while it immediately made my Nexus One feel quite old, the size is really not comfortable. As far as I can tell, it's going to be impossible for me to fully operate the phone while maintaining a grip on it. Opening and closing the notification drawer, for instance, is impossible for me without shifting the phone or holding it in such a way that it's balanced on my fingers.

That said, two-handed operation feels great, and ICS is just wonderful. If I knew a phone with similar specs, an open bootloader, and a smaller screen was coming in the next two months, I would wait.
As server-side languages go, all of them are fantastic and have their ups and downs. You can probably learn Python or Ruby the fastest. PHP you could always learn pretty quick, but when it comes to complicated tasks I always tend to get confused, depends on the person. Python and Perl can be used for pretty much anything so when you learn those two you can do much more than just web development (along with Ruby and Java as well, just not as much). Java is used the most in the software world so learning Java will have the most value, most likely. Google App Engine or Heroku is also a good starting point since they do all the complicated server stuff for you.
I think it's important we have a host for ALL javascript projects, not just jQuery projects, and I think this site does a pretty damn good job of getting us there. Very nice work.
or can be added to policy/registry that open http://legacyapp:6583 in ie6 frame.
The entire desktop UI model developed by Xerox is getting very long in the tooth. The computer mouse, cursor, overlapping windows, context menus, cascading menus, etc. It's all going away.

Steve Jobs and the Mac popularized this computing model, and the iPad is now popularizing it's eventual successor, the natural user-interface via touchscreens, voice interface, the cloud, mobile devices, AI.

The iPhone and iPad absolutely represent the next computing era.
Well "he" is never plural but "they" is sometimes singular (like the logical "some").

Does the sentence: "I was talking to someone about this and they thought so and so." really sound weird to you? It doesn't to me. Also I wouldn't call it a "solution" because it wasn't just invented to solve this problem, it's just already common usage.
sigh. I go to that URL, and under builds I click "maverick amd64". I then have to select which binary package I want. Let's select "sun-java6-bin 6.24-1build0.10.10.1", as that one will be most critical to someone trying to deal with their JVM disappearing.

At this point, you are presented with the "(deleted)" notice next to the file. In fact, along this path you have been presented with "(deleted)" next to every useful download (such as for sources); the only thing you can get is a 318.5 MiB diff from 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.10.

So no: old packages are /not/ archived in launchpad, and I feel you are just helping prove that. Accordingly, I will now reassert my question re wasting time. Seriously: this is ridiculous; are you even trying these links before claiming they work in specific ways?
I don't know what "true gender" means scientifically. Physical characteristics are objective. I would expect something we can say is intrinsic, like true gender would also be, but I can't find a way of determinign it objectively or even intersubjectively, can you?

In fact, anthropologically I am not even sure anyone is born with a gender.
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File and directory names can contain spaces and require special treatment. This should be addressed up front, before introducing commands with side effects.
I'm confused as to what's being measured in OP's link vs. your links. Is the OP's link measuring number of searches and your trends link measuring the number of daily visitors?

Also, I know the reddit admins have mentioned a number of times that third-party statistics about their visitor count are wildly wrong.
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Yes, jailbait was one of the top search terms before that story.

Note that the jailbait reddit has been closed: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbait (SFW). Of course, there is still a lot of material: http://www.reddit.com/r/truejailbait (SFW, but don't click the links).
Then why work through the examples?

The "learn by rote" method he's using here is designed to help people with little or no experience catch up quickly, and remember what they've learned without the many years of daily use.

If you just want to learn the odd helpful new trick, and basically know what you're doing, just ignore these parts.
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Agree. This looks like what I have been looking for. I was about to buy it, saw the price and thought I would lurk here to see the reviews first.
> Additionally, you could also boycott all the products of SOPA backers such as the MPAA or RIAA.

And by that, you mean the artists and actors and directors who the MPAA and RIAA claim to speak for.
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The quote is more reasonable in context: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96oct/obrien/blo...

He's referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays_Rebellion
Those numbers are guesses and estimates. Here's the graph of uniques that actually comes from reddit's Google Analytics data:

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...
It's sort of unreal how expensive phones are in the US. As an Australian who is used to everything being more expensive, you're looking at $57 per month for a fairly similar plan (500 minutes, 1.5GB data without charging for incoming minutes) with no upfront payment.

Total cost over 24 months is $1368, compared to (300+90*24 = ) $2460 on Verizon. Crazy.

(Note that I used AUD and USD interchangeably, they're pretty much worth the same).
I agree. I tried it out in the store and the size was a bit concerning. I'm considering the S2 as an alternative but it looks like ICS isn't going to hit for a few months. Not surprising, but unfortunate.

I still think that Android is missing that key combination of excellent hardware and unbranded/unmodded software. The carriers should leave it alone.
Neat, how do those handle legacy activex sites.
Fyi, I don't know any libertarians who wouldn't also agree that the problem lies with the unfettered ability of corporations to use money as a way of buying favourable governance.
Yes, that's correct. Keep in mind that Dwolla is based on ACH which has lower fees than credit cards; besides that it's just statistics.
Maybury v. Madison is one of the key examples for my position[1], as it is a ruling in which the Supreme Court usurped for itself the power to decide the constitutionality of laws. The constitution doesn't grant them that power.[2] So, no the constitution doesn't vest that authority with the supreme court. Unless I'm mistaken, all the constitution says is that the supreme court shall be the highest court in the land.

Regarding the track record of my argument, I will not disagree, it is not encouraging.

If it were encouraging, I might believe that a just government were possible.

Unfortunately the track record you point out only serves to confirm the theoretical argument that I've been slightly making, which could be:

tl;dr: Power corrupts, and the corrupt seek government power.

[1] It should also be noted that in this ruling ,the Supreme Court also rightly ruled that any law passed that was in violation of the constitution was null and void the moment it was passed, and it did not need the supreme court to rule as such for it to be null and void. Further, they are correct that when two "laws" are in conflict it is right for them to judge which one holds, their key error is in thinking that one of the laws they can decide to very rule is the constitution.

[2] I'm open to quotes from the constitution itself, or the framers that disagree with this perspective, but I'm not likely to debate it much further.

At the end of the day, most people have this perception that the supreme court is "naturally" or "rightfully" the decider of whether things are constitutional or not, and my opponent above seems to think that the documents meaning can change over time. I can't dissuade people of that belief... but I can only point out that if that is the case, the inevitable result is eventually tyranny.
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Consider this. How can any law, morally, that is not enumerated in the constitution as a power granted to the federal government, even if passed by the congress unanimously, signed by the president, and upheld by the supreme court as "constitutional"-- be legitimate?

The very existence of these institutions is created by the constitution.

They must rely on the constitution to claim any legitimacy at all.

Thus it matters not, logically, even if all three of them agree to do something, if that something is not authorized by the constitution, its not authorized at all.

I know this is essentially irrelevant because all three have simply chosen to ignore the constitution for the most part.

I just want to address the theoretical argument that the supreme court, or any of the other branches, or all three together, can decide to ignore the constitution and have any legitimacy.
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No, people using ie6 are getting a crap experience. Seriously, fire up a vm and click around for a while.

The only people still using it are unable to upgrade for some reason besides laziness and inertia.
I would just like to see a standalone version of IE6, everything wrapped up in one binary, so that the silly, completely unnecessary one-or-the-other choice wouldn't exist.
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It's because 4chan ran a campaign to get it there, not because of the content.
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Indeed when we talk of material culture, we are talking about consumption, in essence, right?
I am also Canadian and I would hardly say we have a great tradition of freedom of speech when we have laws prohibiting "hate" speech.
The whole point is that he IS a millionaire. It wouldn't be surprising if it was some poor college kid putting his work out there for cheap and refusing to treat fans like criminals.

This guy is one of only a few millionaires doing anything remotely like this. And it's important, because we need popular, revenue-generating artists like this to break the backs of the anachronistic, parasitic publishing industry. I hope in ten years -- no, five, maybe less -- this sort of thing is the norm, RIAA and MPAA are just some irrelevant alphabet-soup organizations people have never heard of.
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Why should someone apply to this fund? I don't see enough meat on this page to really know what'll happen.

The FAQ is just the "how to apply" section. Is this the fund's first round? Who was in the previous round? Success stories? Etc..
Legacy applications. When you have invested on applications that sadly work only on IE6, then you have no choice but to block the updates.
It would be great if windows can run different versions of IE on the same machine, or even at the same time.
It is interesting that they are essentially playing along to the US govt. propaganda. [...] It is also funny how after more evidence comes out, neither the media, nor say, Redditors, go back and admit their previous mistake, instead the strategy moves to "ridicule".

You shouldn't under-estimate how much propaganda being done by a variety of states is being done online through the use of sock puppets. While I'm not trying to claim it's happening on reddit specifically I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was. This is one of the (afaik) stated main purposes for the "persona management stations" that various US military & intelligence services have been procuring and using. I've only heard it framed as foreign language propaganda targeted at conflict areas, but it isn't hard to see the temptation to target US based sites of International appeal.
this assume you're connecting to one redis server and not running a cluster of redis servers, or have tagged the keys being requested in a cluster of redis servers
We need our geniuses, innovators, and entrepreneurs running the show, is the general problem. I think if you took every chunk of 1000 people and asked them to select amongst themselves (assume its a small town thing, where they have known each other for years) they will pick the brightest and best amongst them to represent themselves.

The problem today in my mind is not only the money is speech problem we face today, but the more general problem that the more people you have one person represent the less they are representative of their electorate and the more generalized they become, even in the best case, they don't represent the full broad beliefs and ideals of the constituents. You want representation as fine grained as possible, with a pyramid of layers of it stacking up to a national level, rather than a system that is as top down as the national -> state -> local game we have going right now.
Hey korny,

I totally agree with you that we're outside the impulse-buy price range and we'd sell more copies if we charged less money.

However, our goal from the start was not to make a tutorial for people interested in backbone. Our goal was to make a more in-depth collection of great patterns for intermediate to advanced backbone developers.

Hackers are smart, they can read the docs and figure out the basics. We wanted to share our experiences with working with backbone for an extended period of time.

Our book is a great resource for people who would use backbone professionally and at $24, that's cheap.

Check out the excerpts, and read the reviews, play with backbone, learn it. When you're ready to bet your app on it, pick up the book :-)

xoxo ngauthier
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