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A lot of people here have been commenting that it is well within Google's rights to remove any images it deems to be offensive and that we as the people have to live with it. If you don't like it, tough, switch services or make your own, don't complain, live with it. I COULD NOT DISAGREE WITH THIS MORE!!!

This opinion neglects to mention the fact that we as consumers have the right to expect behavior along certain guidelines for companies (i.e. battery hens are legal, but a lot of people are now expecting companies to provide alternatives and switch away), and this expectation is rooted in the fact that Google is incredibly influential in a number of circles. While we are currently discussing SOPA, if Google says it can censor content at will, then what does that say to the US Government. As much as we say that we should switch to another service, if large corporations continue to do the wrong thing then it becomes much harder for small companies to do the right thing and it becomes acceptable for more people to do the wrong thing. It is unacceptable that we should allow Google to screw over users because they can, PARTICULARLY because they are representing the standards of the internet to governments globally.

The second major point is that it is not simply a matter of switching to another service or making your own. Particularly when networking socially, you need a large user base or the service is essentially worthless. If you have a blog, you advertise your posts on your Facebook and Google+. Should Google then remove posted links to what it deems to be offensive content too? What's the point of writing a blog post if you can't advertise it to your readers?

In an ideal world, if there is a better service, people will switch to it, but experience tells us this isn't the case. Consider diaspora, which promised us distributed free social networking, and yet the service languishes because people do not want to go to the effort. To start up a social network needs more than just a better product, and even a better product needs more than just a few weekends.

Google+ was supposed to save us from Facebook, yet it seems we are getting more of the same....
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What is it with these giant fonts? Why the useless scrolling when you could fit three times the information on one screen? I see this nonsense all over the place...
I think it does. Less than 20% of Americans make over 100k per year.

Entry level in IB makes 70+ min. After a graduate degree we are talking 100 to 300k per year. By the time that person has had kids, especially a nine year old they are probably making 500k min. I don't know British IB salaries, but I imagine they are as high.

Law could be anywhere from 50k to 1mm so it really depends.
Growing trees to make them into timber, pulp, etc. takes CO2 out of the atmosphere. As long as you're not growing them to burn them, it's one of the most effective CO2 sequestration methods we have.

77% of tree usage in the US is for timber and pulpwood. Fast-growing species are planted and harvested over a 10-20 year cycle so that as each section is cut down and replanted, another section is maturing. It's both sustainable business and an effective CO2 sink.
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Sysadmin here - I'll be using this. It would be great if you showed geographic info for each hop on the command line. And if you are really ambitious, make a graphical traceroute that is displayed on a map.
According to this: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a... Obama spend $740M to McCains's $228M.
Actually the piece wasn't so much a warning to others (I was actually referring to another piece that did that, maybe you just skimmed my post and missed that) as it was to say that backing off SOPA support wasn't enough. That it was time for GoDaddy to change, the way other companies had changed, from crisis.

I cited the example of how Johnson & Johnson reacted to the hacking of Tylenol in the 80s. It's often cited as a textbook example of how to do it. They instituted reforms, visible ones, that made it virtually impossible for their product to be tampered with. No one demanded it of them, but they saw it as the only way out of the mess. They had lost huge market share due to the scare. But a year later they were right back on top, because they had re-invested in their brand.

GoDaddy, like it or not, is the biggest registrar. And if they can reform their service to get rid of the fraud (again, read the piece, I don't want to rewrite it here) they can lead the rest of the registrar industry. Which is a very important part of the open web. Which is part of a larger context wehere more and more of the activity on the net is going into corporate-owned silos.

I think if you read the piece carefully and didn't shoot from the hip so much, you'd see that you had mis-read. Probably due to skimming more than anything, imho.

Also, to answer your implicit question -- I went with GoDaddy originally because a lot of people I respected were using it, and I was paying $35 per year at the registrar I was using, and could save a significant amount of money using them. And further, at the time, there really wasn't much of an alternative. Only now are "no nonsense" registrars coming on-line. The best of which is hover.com, though I've used gandi.net and like them, also namecheap, but I don't like how they're "marketing" using SOPA as a selling point. I like that almost as little as GoDaddy thinking they can support SOPA without pissing off their customers.
> In Ruby or Python everything is an object, every method or function call returns an object, hence everything is a factory, and the term loses its meaning.

I don't think factory is defined as anything that returns an object.

I am not a design pattern buff, but here is what the wiki entry says:

* it deals with the problem of creating objects (products) without specifying the exact class of object that will be created. *

I don't see why it has anything to do with everything being an object.

The Image.open example is factory pattern. It isn't implemented the same way it's implemented for Java/C++, and I wasn't commenting on the implementation; but that doesn't make it not factory.

Similarly, the command pattern, in a language with first-class functions and closures, will be implicit and look nothing like the one implemented in GoF book.

If you are taking the implementation in GoF as the definition, callbacks as we do in Ruby, JS, Python et al. look nothing like command pattern. But the implementation isn't definition, and GoF explicitly mentions it that these patterns aren't the same in all languages.
Anecdotal, I know, but here in Uruguay it's the hot thing: national carrier Antel ran out of its shipment of Galaxy Aces on just two days, it generated the kind of waiting associated with iPhones in the U.S.

Android phones have definitely replaced Nokia phones as the phones to buy here. Motorola used to have a following here and capitalized by introducing their own Android phones, but Nokia was basically replaced by Samsung (and chinese manufacturers like Huawei).

I'm one of the 3.7 million :) (got myself a Galaxy Ace).
I think that beyond customer perception, there is an actual question of legal liability here. If GoDaddy is purporting to be an expert in security and selling a service, that is supposed to ensure security, then they should be found liable for some degree malpractice.

I'd love to get a real lawyer's opinion on this...
This is a false dicotomy. We can protest about a service all we want, because we have the right to do so. They also have the right to not listen to those complains. But it's not a question of having the right to do something or not, it's about what power that right gives you.

When enough people complain about something, and that drives your userbase to the ground or gives you a bad reputation, having complained about something will have been worth the effort.
Why do people always conveniently forget the other side of this equation?

Yes, Google+ belongs to Google, so yes they can censor it however they want.

But also: Google+'s users are individuals and they can disagree with these terms, they can complain about these terms, in fact they can do whatever they want: they can write Google about it, they can leave for another social network, they can build their own (but there's no law that says they have to), they can re-upload their photo as many times until they get banned, they can slightly tweak the photo until it's barely acceptable skating the boundaries until the ridiculousness of the rule becomes apparent, they can blog about their complaints, they can link that blog on HN and finally they can flip the bird to people that slavishly whine "obey or build your own site" because that is how you affect change, regardless of whatever "terms" the owner specifies.

Those "terms", incidentally, don't mean a thing. They're only meaningful because Google enforces them. Conversely, if Google enforces something that is not part of their terms, you're just as "powerless" as when it is. So, basically, you're just counting on Google doing what's "right". In this sense it's "right" for Google to enforce only rules mentioned in their terms. But in that same sense, because there's no such thing as "kinda sort of right", those terms should also be reasonable, where "reasonable" is something that is agreed upon between Google and its users. If their terms aren't reasonable, they might as well just do with a blanket "Terms: Google does whatever it wants." (and nothing else).
It didn't really make much sense, either. Nor the next one.
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Hmmm, something like this happened to me too.

Once I tried to log to my Gmail and I got a message telling me that I had violated the Terms and blablabla and because of that they had to delete my account.
I kept reading trying to figure out what happened, but all they told me was "you violated the Terms, create another account and don't do it again".

It was deleted with no warning and no one told me why.

So I sent them an e-mail asking what I did wrong, but no one ever responded.
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Ok, good point. Voicing disagreement is healthy.

I just often see these kinds of stories turn into discussions about "free speech", and I'm trying to head that off.

I have a right (in the USA) to say whatever I want (barring clear and present danger). I don't have the right to compel anyone to help me say it. I have the right to print leaflets, but not the right to use your printer.

People sometimes act as though they are entitled to use Google's or Facebook's service as they see fit. I'm saying they have a right to complain (which may change things) and a right to leave, but not a right to control what isn't theirs.

Issues like this puncture our illusions about what these sites are and are not. They are useful. They are not ours.

But maybe nobody here needed to hear that.
This might be one of the worst articles I've ever read.

""I advocate never lying in personal relationships. But if you have Anne Frank in your attic and a Nazi knocks on the door, lie....I lie to any government official." (Blanton's politics are just this side of Noam Chomsky's.)"

I don't see how the quote is even remotely related to Chomsky's politics.
Two previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3387323

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3389794

The duplicate submission detector here on HN evidently doesn't work well with the URLs generated by Quora, which is one more flaw in Quora.
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Its amazing how people fall for this tactic over and over again
Hmm, I was expecting some new/fun kind of output, for instance some map that approximates the route taken geographically.
What if he was raising both his middle finger and his index finger, as in the "Longbowman Salute"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#V_sign_as_an_insult

Would it still be censored as it is not offensive (I don't think?) to a US audience, but could be considered offensive to a UK audience. Would there be selective censoring?
Ouch. I've decided to venture on my own, and I see this could be what happens. Thanks for sharing.
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Gotta love the MVC pattern ... with an SQL injection vulnerability - http://dpip.testingperspective.com/?p=18 (What happens when you search for a component ID of "'; drop table defects")

Also, what is the controller doing? Why is there even a DefectModel with database code in it? Why is it not using an ORM style like every other database-fetching thing written this century?

I've looked at a couple of "chapters" of their "book" now, and it's all hideous train wreck code like this, with stuff that reads like it's been cut+pasted out of a wiki somewhere, and no sample output/data. I'm not sure what you're supposed to learn from these examples, other than "Design Patterns are hard".
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Opening the ipa file, and browsing the contents, there are a couple of plain text files - containing stop words, dictionaries and others on natural language processing.

The summarised results from the app are very random - pick any article other than the test case in the video and you won't get any useful output, 3 random sentences usually.
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> I'm going to take the contrarian stance: Google+ belongs to Google. They can censor it however they want. You don't like it? Build your own web site. I'm serious: do it.

You have no idea how quickly your argument will fall apart as soon as you realize that it's the users, and their content, and their behavior (ad-clicks, dataminded info, etc) is what makes a site like this successful.

It's a partnership. And Google needs to treat it as such.
I don't disagree, but remember the number of asteroids over 100km is around 200. The number of asteroids over 1km is between 700,000 and 1.7 million. That means the very big asteroids are between 0.0003% and 0.0001% of the objects in the asteroid belt. Given that the smallest known Aten asteroid is ~5m in diameter, then it's an easy conjecture that the asteroid belt is likely to have tens if not hundreds of million asteroids <1km in diameter.

They're going to have enough mass that blasting them is going to be impractical. It's going to be a waste attacking a mining asteroid if you're dumping hundreds of munitions at every nearby rock.

> If it has sensors, it has electronics; if it has electronics, those electronics are running at something above 3 Kelvin; if you're running anywhere above 3 Kelvin, you can be seen against the cosmic background.

This is very true, however given the variation in albedo's of asteroids and meteoroids then there's going to be a wide range of 'normal' temperatures for asteroids. With enough processing power you could assume that people would eventually start calculating asteroid albedo vs distance from sun vs apparent temperature. If you've got a light rock that's hot as all hell, then you might be best to shoot it just in case. Probably not likely for civilians at least, even the military might not want to be running too much processing power as they'd have greater heat sinking issues to worry about.

The real thing that will determine how hard or easy to find mines will be is human mining. How much dirt and debris are we going to be producing, or even purposefully producing. If we're mining bigger asteroids are we going to require ships to land, or simply dump payloads into orbit for ships to snag. If we're doing the latter, then we're talking about hundreds of objects running well above background levels. How much rock are we going to strip off an asteroid and leave nearby?

If piracy or warfare becomes real, then mining companies will likely want to limit the approach vectors for incoming ships. What better way than dumping copious amounts of junk in your orbit. Given that a cubic meter of silica weighs around 2500kg, then you're not likely to crash your ship into it at any speed. Put thousands of these in orbit, and people are only going to approach from the clear paths.

Again, all these rocks would be hotter than background, and you only have to mine 1% for it to be a solid defence. Making someone take 100 shots in 1-hit wins warfare is a very effective defence.
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I love the geographic idea, will try plugin a GeoIP database, I also want to show the ASN for each IP range to make things easier.
Lets be clear here, we're talking about Google removing a particular picture with an offensive gesture shown.

This is not to the detriment of your personal comfort or welfare. Please stop hamming this up beyond the reality of the situation. Google run a private service and while they should not censor political speech or genuine opinion, they certainly have the right to determine what they consider offensive.
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It seems like Amazon acts as a bully more often than not. Reminds of the Frontline about Walmart.
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Sorry to disappoint, although hopefully it's a base to improve on with ideas like yours :)
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Yes you are right but the fact is that most people preferred ticketmaster if they want to buy tickets, and this software is really awesome in getting tickets online within a single click, if you want ticket a single or in a bulk.
since when is arguing for the rights of big companies to trample all over small customers "contrarian"? is this some kind of anti-hippie backlash? something like "i'm with the man" or "big corporations rule" or "fuck the whining powerless" or "up with power"?
What happens when you search for "flip the bird"? Google shows you pages and pictures of bird flipping (which is not at all similar to cow tipping).

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flip%20the%2...

Also I notice that when I search from google.com and get to

flip the

"bird" is the fourth suggested search. People love their birds.
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> Do you dislike it enough to join or start a competing service? That's really the only response that matters.

No it's not. Why do you think the other response doesn't matter? That's silly, there's thousands of people reading it. And on HN that even includes people from Google!

> Google doesn't have to justify how they run their site.

They don't have to, but they should. After all, just what you say, people either use it or don't and if Google can't or won't justify their actions adequately, people may stop using it.

Now for you, "adequate justification" obviously means nothing more than "it's in the terms". Which is absolutely fine and I must commend you for so courageously demonstrating your utter lack of spine which not only makes you inferior as an individual, but also negatively impacts those around you.

BY READING THIS POST YOU AGREE WITH MY TERMS (OTHERWISE GO AWAY AND WRITE YOUR OWN POST): My terms are that you will accept whatever is written in this post, with the typical sort of submissive sigh that you invariably utter when life takes yet another dump on you, believing that there's nothing you can do but sigh, accept it and move on.
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"People sometimes act as though they are entitled to use Google's or Facebook's service as they see fit."

Google and Facebook are going to have to be careful, otherwise their sites and services are going to get really popular and they'll be treated as a public space, in the same way that malls are public spaces and have to allow free speech.
The concept of and the reaction to 'offense' is ridiculous.

When someone is offended, the immediate reaction is that everyone must be offended. Those who are not offended have absolutely no bearing on this.

Thus, one person complains about, say, someone flipping Vs in a picture, and the picture is removed. How many other people saw it and weren't offended? We don't know. But they're probably a majority.

Further to that, the singular offended person has an extraordinary power to censor that which offends no one else. And the press can take advantage of that to manufacture outrage to fit their agenda. As happened with 'Sachsgate'[1] in 2008.

In all the treatment of the act of being offended, it comes across sometimes as a base human right. One that, as evidenced with the referenced link, is easy to abuse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand_Show_prank_teleph...
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