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The energy required to accelerate a big object to even half the speed of light is prohibitive. Even if the process was feasible, it would be a vast cosmic event bound to emit some radiation, which would still arrive much sooner than the object itself.
From an outside perspective to this (I don't own any GoDaddy domains) I'm finding the corporate response from them quite amusing.

Why don't they just get someone senior to go on camera and say "look we originally supported this motion but after reviewing the bill and a massive outcry from our customers we feel we should put this notice out to describe our position on the matter...." and then go on from there.

These drip-drop press releases are just like a child trying to fit in with the cool kids after some previous altercation
Here's my view of it:

Supporting SOPA: -10 reputation
Ceasing support of SOPA (but not opposing it): +5 reputation
Helping write SOPA: -100 reputation
Having a special exemption from SOPA: -100 reputation

Total reputation: -205.

Once they get back "in the black" (by, say, lobbying against SOPA), I would maybe consider using them again, if they had a significant product value-add over whoever I'm using at the time.
There are three fundamental problems I see here:

1) Why put humans on warships at all? Algorithms are probably better at it. Computers would obviously do the heavy lifting anyway (calculating burn times). An algorithm knows no fear, shows no mercy, and does not flee or surrender unless programmed to do so. The only thing left is target selection, and it doesn't seem worth bringing a human along just for that.

2) If you don't need to put humans on warships, then you quickly realize you don't need a warship at all. Just send a bunch of missiles from wherever the warship would have launched. It's harder to take them all out at once with a "mine" or something. You also get to build more missiles if you don't need to build the warship. Sure, you might attach a collective nuclear rocket "booster" to many missiles to build that initial velocity. There's no need for that rocket to be anything more than an engine temporarily attached to the missiles. It's also not really required to begin with.

3) If you're sending lots of missiles, there's no reason for them to be any larger than the smallest size permitted by design and manufacturing practicalities. For something that amounts to a liquid-fueled rocket, that smallest size is preposterously small. A liquid-fueled rocket can be fit into an object the size of a soda can with current technology. This makes the notion of point defense completely laughable: divert ten thousand missiles out of one hundred thousand, and you've reduced the incoming energy by 10%.
28th Chaos Communication Congress started. Links to livestreams in the comments
If the outer solar system dwellers become self-sufficient, they would have no need to go down the gravity well of the Sun to have commerce with earthlings. The further out those colonies are, the lesser their contact with Earth will be. If they live off the Oort cloud, the would be about one light year away from Earth and it's very hard to imagine a shared culture with such a communication lag.
That's the brilliant thing about the flash-mob approach. If the company has 50 cases to litigate, it may not matter if every individual is self-represented, since the company is going to have a very hard time fielding enough lawyers.
It's refreshing to read there are companies out there that 'get it.' Stuff like this has driven me nuts at my current company and it's one of my primary reasons for leaving soon.

As far as soda goes, just do like the government and tax it. Make water, juice, tea, and coffee free and charge a quarter for soda (or whatever combo you like). It's not expensive, but makes people pause before drinking it over one of the slightly healthier options.
"Pretty much every university professor I've had is hell-bent on wikipedia's destruction. I've even had professors threaten to fail people for using it as a reference."

I know university professors who love Wikipedia. Some even give their students the project of writing new Wikipedia articles.
One of my favorite "ohh, that's interesting" facts about space combat, is that a kinetic kill weapon (ie, .9c rock) being shot at you. By the time you see it, it's already 9/10s the way to you...
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Glyph's keynote at Djangocon was hilarious and accurate. It also immediately sparked some wonderful and deep discussions about the future of Django.

http://blip.tv/djangocon/keynote-glyph-lefkowitz-5573264
ha, that is funny. I can't afford a ferrari, so it must be a bad car, super logic !!

I've also noticed this - complaining about a product "not being waterproof" when the product makes no mention of being water proof, drivers not available for Mac when the product clearly mentions windows only etc.

Amazon should allow reviews only from people who actually bought the product, that will reduce at least a bit of stupid reviews.
Corporate lawyer cost (including travel) > a settlement maxed at $10k. I doubt it would be worth it for Honda to appeal.
These two comments don't contribute to the discussion, hence these two will get down voted. If you want to contribute, contribute, but posting comments like these don't further intelligent discussion.
Livestreams are available via http://28c3.fem-net.de/

The rooms are called "saal" in german. Check the schedule to figure out which talk you'd like to watch and in which "saal" it's located and then pick the corresponding stream.

The schedule for today is at http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/day_2011-12-27.e...

Unfortunately, Cory Doctorow's talk just ended. :-)
But as every year, recordings will be made available later on (probably in a week or so).

Enjoy!
DNS taking 48+ hours to propagate is a myth
Especially when the target is given to ignoring messages not accompanied by cash.
Sooner or later social network accounts and such like will end up being written into employment contracts. The lawsuit aside, it strikes me as odd that someone would essentially use one account for both business and personal purposes. That the line is so blurred because of this conflict of interests doesn't really help either party.

The employee hasn't done himself any favours by not separating concerns, and the business hasn't done itself any favours by not (as far as we know) issuing any usage guidelines or otherwise making clear what can and cannot be done with an account.
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That was our inspiration! :)
Don't use a professional recruiter. Most recruiters charge the company 15-25% of your first year's salary, so startups make limited use of recruiters.

I disagree with this advice. By avoiding recruiters, you are passing up one avenue for possible job offers. For the few startups that do use a recruiter, they have already agreed to the terms, and believe that it is a worthwhile investment to get someone good. Follow the other steps too, but don't avoid recruiters. I have gotten my last two jobs through the same recruiter, and each time she got me a 37% increase over the previous job. I could not have done that on my own.
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This isn't affecting their bottom line much at all

Well, we don't really know this yet, do we?
As others have said previously: too little, too late.
I've been with Windows Phone 7 from day 1 and have made a few smallish projects.
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Nice demo: http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/filesystem/filer.js/de...
This is a perfect compliment to something like jstorage though. html5 localstorage gives about 5mb of data stored as text (~5million characters). But chrome uses UTF-16 encoding giving you only about ~2.7 million characters of storage. Effectively halving the size of the total storage. Something like this might work well in place of jstorage on chrome.
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Charging for soda sends the bad message that we want you to pay for soda, rather than "we don't want to make your simplest hydration option very unhealthy".
I'm starting to read more about the (s)low carb/paleo/primal diets. I'm genuinely interested in reading more critiques of this class of diets. Charlatan is pretty harsh. I'd say this article paints Taubes as a person who hit on something that works, but who also explains that success with a flawed theory. What else do you have on Taubes' charlatanery/debunkedness?

The opening paragraph of the article:
"I'd like to begin by emphasizing that carbohydrate restriction has helped many people lose body fat and improve their metabolic health. Although it doesn't work for everyone, there is no doubt that carbohydrate restriction causes fat loss in many, perhaps even most obese people. For a subset of people, the results can be very impressive. I consider that to be a fact at this point, but that's not what I'll be discussing here."

And later on in the article:
"I think it's likely that refined carbohydrate and sugar can contribute to obesity, but by what mechanism? Insulin is not a compelling explanation."

I don't see a charlatan exposed here.

Guyenet's critique reminds me of a saying I heard a while back: Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory?
After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to view-source:
Thanks :) . I will do it (and hopefully blog about it if I'm not too tired !).

My goal is to quit my job on April (I get a small bonus at the end of March which, coupled with some little savings, will help me through the first few months), but to start my first freelance job in January to test the waters.
Tracing the origins of a 'yeti's finger'
Another way around the coffee problem is just to set up an infrastructure for single-cup brewing, either with a bunch of pourovers or with Aeropress's (they're like $20 each).

We (unfortunately) also have a Keurig.
Pretty neat but not sure why you would use UNIX commands for the method names. Good clear names go a long way when adopting a new library.
Well you don't have to accelerate it all at once. Remember, this is space war, and we're playing for keeps. Spending a millennium to accelerate a rock up to .5c might be worth the trouble.
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Microconf 2011 by a few hundred country miles.

I have never had my head crushed by so much actionable info in 1-2 days. The entire conference was worth it by the time the first speaker had done his session and it kept getting better.
Divorces are already generally settled out of court.

Not if they're contested.... and not if the state is not a "no fault" state. I went through divorce in NYS; let me tell you, it is hell. No house, no kids, and still the process went on for 18 months.
Thanks everyone for the comments! They are very very helpful. Also, just to clarify the homepage for the website is as follows. https://soundfit.me/ sorry if there was any confusion about that.
Why would variable pricing be a legal issue?
We want to give a feeling of fresh and clean :-) I love the smell of laundry detergent!
Politics and style aside, I don't get all the vitriol at their checkout process. Log in, click "ok" (or "next" or whatever it is) a couple times and you have a domain. It's not that bad. Sure, they try to upsell you, but the default click is always "no".

I have had a much, much worse experience with vista print, for example, who signed me up for a subscription to Essence magazine (yes, a paper magazine aimed at black women - for which I am very much not the target), despite the fact that I opted out (yes, I had to) of that silliness.

Think for a moment about how slimy the business practice is there. They aren't just upselling crap, but purposely distorting circulation numbers to rip off advertisers of their magazine partners.
While I agree with his feelings on the dangers of SOPA, his claim that "you can barely buy a piece of hardware without code from at least one of these two American corporations.", referring to MS and Apple, seems just a bit far-fetched.
Can we use Small Claims to fight other injustices? How about going after companies that sell your email address?

Edit: for the downvoters: it is a genuine question.
The prettier side of Android
>There are plenty of legitimate uses for it

Name one.
Not to defend them, but GoDaddy's iPad app is pretty good, and I use that rather than their control panel whenever I can. I am fed up with them for other reasons, so this comes at a good time.
What if you launch a surprise attack by launching a missile at relativistic speeds?
I plan to write one app for it next year. I got a notification from Nokia about a free Lumia 800 for registered developers and I jumped on it. If it ever ships, I'm going to put the time in and learn it.

It doesn't sound like anyone is making fuck-you money on the Windows Phone 7 app store, so I'm just looking at this as a learning exercise.
In my town, tornado and blizzard alerts, including road closings and school closings are delivered by phonebots.
The infinite free books plan is the greatest. Our book buying is by committee and is a bit slow (but comprehensive). You have commented earlier on it and I've been nagging to get it implemented ;)

At our office soda is free and always has been, to address your health concerns you could stock more light products and also more kinds, e.g. offer coke, diet coke and diet Fanta and don't restrict the assortment to soda: offer chilled water, juice and milk. Using this set up the consumption of sugary soda has gone down significantly in our office.
Adventures in Aeron Chair Arbitrage
I had this issue with indyhackers.org/.com. Start a live chat on Namecheap and a representative will get the domain transferred for you.

(I also ran into the EPP code issue with indyhackers.com, and a long delay with a few recent recent transfers. Ugh. I am under the impression the issues are on GoDaddy's end, but, regardless, I've never had issues with transferring to Namecheap in the past.)
I work at Facebook.

We absolutely do care about our API.

We are working as hard as we can to make our API less buggy and more stable.

Over the course of the past year, we have added more tests, more resources and more tools to this problem than we have throughout the lifetime of Facebook Platform.

In addition, we are in the process of reducing the surface area of our platform to a level that allows us to provide a good level of support. Specifically, we are removing FBML (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/568/), deprecating the REST API (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/616/), moving to support OAuth 2.0/HTTPs (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/) across the board and deciding what SDKs we are really going to support. These changes are painful for us and developers, but necessary to provide the level of support developers expect.

Ironically, it is the OAuth migration that is responsible for the JavaScript SDK bug reported in the post. We introduced this bug went we added the OAuth code path. This bug is on deck to be fixed soon, however (there is a straightforward workaround in the meantime).

In terms of the source of JavaScript SDK, we are working through the right approach to ensure that developers get access to the non-minified source (which I agree we need to do for debugging). It is unlikely that we will do this via GitHub, but we are looking at just having it off our CDN with the minified version as an option.

As for the bug process, I'll say two things. First, we now have a dedicated team of engineers devoted to supporting developers. If you have been developing on Facebook Platform for a while, the fact that bugs are getting daily responses is a vast improvement. We have a _long_ way to go, but we are listening and fixing. I will note that we are still working through the process on how we respond to various issues and how the bug tool (something we launched this year) works -- this seems to be evidenced from the post and something I am following up on. Second, just because the reporter can repro it, it doesn't mean we can, even with the steps that you provide. Our team of support engineers tries to repro every single issue that gets reported. Often, they simply can't and need more information.

I'll close by saying the following:

1. We care about our developers and the API.

2. We have done more this year than we have ever done to help developers and keep the platform stable.

3. That said, we still have a long way to go and these things do not change overnight.

4. If anyone has issue with how a bug is getting handled or any other issue with Facebook Platform, you can always ping me on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dmp) or dmp@fb.com.
Here is a sneak-preview of what the site will look like:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=299351830108726&s...
Google did this, but it wasn't recently -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505255
That's an awesome idea for a project. I'm glad to hear that my experience might not be the norm.
Every file API always has its own syntax that's hard to remember. I like the fact this API is leveraging an existing standard, finally a file API without having to look up the docs for every call.
On the same idea of not having humans I have been wondering when when we will see a war type video game where you play drones be it land air or sea rather than soldiers on the ground or flying a plane. The cost of sending humans is so high just around our little planet that I can't see how anyone would want to inject humans into any space attacking where the costs as mentioned in the article are so much higher.
Microsoft and US-based cloud companies are facing similar "perception issues" (as they phrase it) on the Patriot Act. Unless Congress and the Administration change their positions, this is going to be an increasing burden on American companies trying to compete internationally.
Using PJAX with Flask
Asteroids don't pump out waste heat. Things get a lot more obvious when heat differentials are big.
* In our conference tables, we have about a dozen Macbook magnetic plugs so we don't have to change out ours.

* Each TV in the conference room is hooked up to a computer, so you can quickly log in easily (and since pretty much everything is done via the web, we don't have to worry about hooking up our laptops).

* Whites boards are treated as RAM, not Storage. Your phones have cameras now, use them!

* Office supply stations are just filled with stuff. Lots of batteries, mice, keyboards, etc. It's rare we run out of stuff (to the point that I don't really know if it's happened).

* Also a big push to move everyone to laptops and Mac monitors, so we can easily move around.

--

At home, I'm less successful. Mostly, with a 1 year old and a 3 year old, anything we put down has the potential to move. That being said, some simple things:

* Having the laundry room be in the second floor.

* Keep the vacuum cleaner parts for the carpet on the 2nd floor.

* Toilet paper distributed to every bathroom. We also have baskets with additional rolls next to each toilet within easy reach. That way, even if the roll runs out, we have 3 or 4 right there.
In general this is good, but needs planning - ever walk into a place with multiple 'redundant' printers, and none take the same ink, half are out of color and the others out of black?

For example, there's a cost to having data in more than one place and keeping it coherent. Before version control reduced this friction, I kept having issues where my desktop and laptop would have newer versions of files in one place or the other, so I stopped using both and switched to just a laptop. I know people who keep everything on a USB drive for similar reasons.

But for something you just need to grab and use, and doesn't have data persistence, sure.
If you can accelerate an asteroid up to .5c, you have harnessed energy resources to power the earth for a gazillion years. You would be so rich that you dont need to be a warlord. You could become ... a banker.

Actually, at .5c from the Kuiper belt, the warning time is only 30 hours or so and the momentum is such that deflection is impossible. I'm too lazy to do the math but the collision would be spectacular.
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Are you at liberty to share the reasons behind supporting these platform-specific SDKs rather than providing a single, robust REST API?
Interesting. Didn't know that, downloading now. As an aside, consider submitting it to sites like http://www.wmpoweruser.com and http://wpcentral.com for more exposure.
Porting Angry Birds to HTML5 (video)
Elon Musk will be one of the most influential people in the world for the next 20-30 years, not just directly from his companies but also from others in the industries he's pushing.

Let's not forget Elon is also Chairman of the Board for SolarCity as well, which is leading the distributed solar PV market.

He's pushing the human race forward in many areas, all at the same time. Pretty remarkable
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The JavaScript SDK is a complete mess. They broke BC when they introduced OAuth2 support.

Their code speaks volumes to the choices they've made as an organization, as well as their technical skills. Let's face it, Facebook is not a software company like Google, MS or even Apple. I know some Facebook Engineers and all of them are average PHP developers.

Like I said, code tells a story, and in this case, unfortunately, it's not a good one.
Christmas makes history for Android and iOS activiations, app downloads
Zevia is one option. Diabetic safe, no sugar, natural sweetener from stevia extract. Amazon sells it.

Or you and your co-workers could invent something. Water, natural sweeteners, natural flavours. Make it a weekly event.
Do their unlocked phones really work on non-approved carriers? I never really looked in to it, it's pretty cost-prohibitive. Also, that doesn't help people that want to buy used last-gen and save a few hundred bucks, or the people who are now off-contract and are still happy with their phone but looking to move.
Quite. But now rewrite the article to take out reduce it to the facts not including her psychological/physiological state (effects of handcuffs on wrists OK, relevant; perspiration rate not really.) Does it read differently?
A fascinating read and good outline for what space battles require, but not a predication of what future space combat will look like. By limiting the discussion to only technology that we could build today, the exact scenarios in here will never play out.

Large scale space combat will play out only when humans can build these weapons cheaply, and have an incentive to build them at all. That is decades from now. By the time a human society decides to construct the ridiculously expensive space warships and defenses the author talks about, we will have much more advanced technology (that is probably a lot cheaper to.)
If you take longer to accelerate it, that just increases the probability of detection by other means. It still doesn't change the argument that it should be much cheaper for the defender to detect and deflect your projectile than it was for you to launch it in the first place. Not to mention that an unmapped interstellar gas cloud, or an undetectable asteroid, is all it takes to deflect the projectile a few millionths of an arcsecond and make it miss its target.
Flippant disregard for customers and their intelligence: -100 reputation
...from inside the party.