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So you are offended by the intention? Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt?

This whole elephant thing is ridiculous.
Perhaps its just me, but when I read about the UMG/Megaupload thing I can't help but thing that UMG did this an intentional stab against a rival/competitor and alleged piracy service, hoping that no one would notice, but someone did notice.

Now instead of owning up to anything (let's face it, the music industry has never been one based on honesty), they are going to dig in their heels and try to deny everything, eventually pegging the blame as a 'clerical error' on some intern or lower management?

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but I haven't seen anyone on the side of UMG make any salient points that would show otherwise.
The USA is not a democracy, it's a Constitutionally-limited republic. The reason for the House of Representatives (i.e., your "middlemen") isn't to prevent mob rule, but to recognize the simple practicality that there are too many people for a direct democracy to be workable. The Senate is there explicitly to block popular rule, it being a compromise to States' Rights.

The most important thing about the government of the USA, and the thing that serves to protect the minorities, is that the federal government is limited to a short list of explicitly enumerated powers (see especially Article I Section 8), and may only wield those in ways that respect the Bill of Rights.

And thus, every time someone advocates that the federal government take action that is not in that enumerated list, they erode those protections further.

Today, a few items in that enumerated list of powers that aren't very specific, especially the "interstate commerce clause", have become gaping breaches in our Constitutional protections, allowing our government the de facto power to do damned near anything it wants. If you're interested in protecting the rights of the weaker parts of society against abuse by the majority, the place to look is toward shoring up those abused parts of the Constitution.

Example: the federal government really has no general police power. Laws such as those under the "War on Drugs" are founded on the idea that drugs could conceivably be sold across state borders (even if they're not, in fact, but are actually grown at home for personal use -- see Gonzales v Raich). By allowing such absurd exaggeration of the definition of "interstate commerce", we've given the federal government license to terrorize citizens, strip us of our privacy, and in the end, give the USA the largest prison population -- by far! -- in the entire world.
Having just done this research... Ruby 1.9 has apparently had randomized hash functions for years. Ruby 1.8.7 and JRuby were apparently vulnerable until yesterday, but both released fixed versions yesterday.

Meanwhile PHP will presumably do a similar set of fixes, though I haven't seen the announcement yet. There are workarounds for web apps that involve using extensions to limit the size of POST requests and/or the acceptable number of parameters in a POST request.
FTA:"...it is based on Arch Linux, which is probably the least friendly Linux around..."

With a remark like that, I was hoping that the author provide the raw scores. Even so, on what grounds is Arch Linux not friendly? Their wiki is very easy to follow and understand for a new user. Not to mention their forum.
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Great, but what about the other 149 companies on the list of SOPA supporters? Who's going after them?
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Recommended reading if this kind of thing interests you: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
"""Have they come up with any estimate of the global cost of the switch, and compared that to the benefit of the new calendar?"""

If there are ANY benefits at all from switching, then that benefit can be enjoyed every year forever, dwarfing the one-time cost of switching no matter how big that cost is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_...

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inducing_Infringement_of_Copyri...
The thing that surprised me most about this whole situation is that so many tech-savvy people use Godaddy. Their spammy marketing and variable pricing screams bush-league to me. I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?
I was hoping to collect a list of both congressional supporters as well as corporate supporters.

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I could see lookup becoming slow but why is insertion affected? Isn't insertion into a linked list a O(1) operation?
Microsoft must be ticked off that they were left out of the list.
Clearly you were lying and must be punished!
That sounds ridiculous now but it's actually not that bad when you get used to it. Besides, people would likely still keep the month names to refer roughly (if not even exactly) to periods of the year. The real benefit would be in dropping months from the business and commerce world.
Sometimes I wish people who support women's rights would move to Pakistan. If women's rights is what they really want, they can have it. <- This statement makes just as much sense as yours.

Somalia has a government which practices quasi-Sharia [1]. Fun fact: most people who want to reduce the size of western governments don't actually favor increasing the scope of the government to pre-marital sex (a stoning offense in Somalia), wearing socks (failure to do so for women is punishable by flogging) or chewing khat (a floggable offense).

[1] Mahmud, who posts here and is Somalian, claims it's not quite Sharia. Knowing very little about Islamic law, I'll take his word for it.
Former Soldier, the type that would have purchased things from sites like this before venturing overseas, and I'm highly annoyed by the childish nature of this hack.

Some of these products keep people alive, and it's juvenile to blame SpecialForces.com for pepper spray during a protest.

If they were really intending on improving the security of these websites, they wouldn't hand out the data. Sadly, I fear that the worst of this type of behavior has yet to come.
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I'd argue that this discussion isn't at all branding - it's about something more fundamental — user expectations, privacy actual fact. We're not arguing that Facebook is bad because it's Facebook. If Apple and Facebook switched places tomorrow, we'd still be "arguing" (though I feel this is the wrong word) about the same basic points.
Perhaps I might be in the minority here, but I thought elementary OS deserved a mention at least.
I've been having a good time with Moai lately (http://getmoai.com/), an interesting time with maratis3D (http://www.maratis3d.org/), and one conclusion I have made is this: Lua can glue anything to anything, solving the platform problem for good.
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Yes, if I get to them today.
Their arguments are also inconsistent.

Marco is saying on one hand that Android is closed, but on the other hand he says that Amazon's App Store will take over Android's distribution. By definition, if Android wasn't open, then Amazon couldn't fork Android's source-code, they couldn't distribute it on their own devices and they couldn't build a third-party app store.

Another argument is that Android phones are locked by carriers and filled with crapware, but again by definition, if Google restricted the actions of carriers, then Android wouldn't be open.
So you start it with something religious, which would probably go against your uncle's wishes if he wasn't religious, then in the first paragraph state you hope people use it "to educate and not to spread ignorance".

I find the contradiction amusing.
Social media is by no means a silver bullet, but that's not to say that it doesn't have it's uses for brands. Raising awareness, however, is something that social media can be particularly useful for.
In all seriousness. What does "open" even mean? I've noticed that no one is saying "open source". Not that I know what that really means either. Android isn't developed in the open they just release the source code. That's the only real difference from Windows 7. So is this all just relative to the phone market? It's "open" as far as phones go?

I get the feeling "open" is not something you can be. It's a continuum. Things can be more or less "open" but nothing can actually be "open".
This is a pretty cool demonstration, but it should go without saying that all computers are built, fundamentally, to be "functionally complete." (http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Comb/comp....)

The NAND and NOR functions, independently, are the most well-known functionally complete sets -- that is, all Boolean logic can be derived from each of those single Boolean functions.
Don't have any domains at GoDaddy, although I do have an account... Just to transfer any domains I buy from people that are on GoDaddy to NameCheap.

I use NameCheap only, have for 6 years.
This is a good analysis, however, the focus is on being cross-platform at the expense of all else. You will have a hard time making a performant AAA title without some low-level and platform specific code to squeeze the most out of your hardware. One intermediary approach is to use C to optionally fill gaps where there are big wins to be had... C is almost universally supported and correctly designed C APIs can be used together with most of the major languages, where its not available (the web, without some kind of plugin download) you "simply" lose out on those potential optimisations...

Saying that though this kind of approach is great for small projects. Lua is a great choice because its already been extensively used for games on many platforms and there are heavily used and highly optimised implementations available for all the PC platforms and consoles.

I don't know if there has been any serious effort to get many other languages than C/C++ and Lua targeting consoles beyond the XNA stuff from MS - but, those with compilers/interpreters written in clean, cross-platform C should be straightforward options as well (e.g. GCC compilers).

Another important consideration is the range of performance on the various targets - designing everything so that cosmetic features can be reduced/disabled dependent on platform is simple, but if not done early on can turn into a chore. This way the lack of performance on the web can be counterbalanced by having, e.g. less particles, half-res textures, fewer animations.
The "leave" portion of the protocol strikes me as unrealistic. Typically, when a node leaves a network it does so without warning and doesn't have tie to copy its data back. Maybe some level of redundancy will be discussed in the followup.
If (if) you want to go BSD or MIT, why don't you go with the simpler and more honest public domain, UNLICENSE [1] or CC0 instead?

Releasing software as UNLICENSE or CC0 has the same consequences of releasing it as BSD but it conveys a much stronger point.

[1] http://unlicense.org cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NQW6BVB...
Security is hard, and has a long history of clever schemes that just don't work.
CentOS is a blast. It is super-light, super-fast, super-stable, with a million years of support, and running a mature and pleasing Gnome 2 desktop.

Benchmarks? Facts? Test procedure? At least some basic explanation?
Even if the real C array contained a pointer to the last element in the LL (which it does not, it only points to the first) it would still be worst-case O(n): PHP has to check all elements in the LL to ensure that the element does not exist yet.

Consider this:

$foo = array();
$foo['bar'] = 'x';
$foo['bar'] = 'y';

In this case the second set of the 'bar' index modifies an existing element in the linked list and is not appended as a new one.
He is talking about the total creation time -- putting n distinct elements into the same hash bucket means traversing to the end n times for an overall o(n^2) time
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I think this is because installation and most of configuration steps of Arch Linux requires work in console which is considered unfriendly for an average user nowadays.
Personally, I have nothing against console, but many newbies are scared of it.
Too lazy.
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All keys in the list need to be examined, since PHP needs to work out if you're updating an existing key or inserting a new one.
It is not friendly in the sense that you as the user are expected to extensively configure your system before you are able to use it. It does not work out of the box (unless you have very basic needs). What makes Arch Linux great in my opinion (I use it myself) is that if you are the type of person who is willing to spend some time customising your desktop to achieve a perfect, tailored work environment, Arch gives you all the flexibility you need without imposing unnecessary complexity.
not really - tall poppy syndrome is when people of genuine merit are criticised. to apply that to the rich and powerful you have to also assume that merit is rewarded by wealth.

in other words: you're assuming that rich people are wonderful and that criticism is therefore unfair; others are sceptical that the wealth and privilege is justified and so feel that the criticsm is fair.

so the difference is political. labeling it "tall poppy syndrome" is a framing technique to "smuggle in" the assumption that wealth is deserved.

and to answer the question of "where it came from" - questioning the right to wealth is not a new idea. if you think it's something specific to reddit then you might consider learning more about alternative political viewpoints.
It's amazing how much a person can bullshit to do stuff they want but they know it's not right... This Bob Parsons should be arrested.
Did your prospective hires wipe their job history?
^-Can also be described as a summation of why Groupon will not last in the long run. Well said Sir or Ma'am.
I have to agree with splatterdash. IMHO I've only started using Arch recently and the greatest part about it so far is the amount of things I've learned to manually do while setting up and configure my system. There are many things that I had taken for granted with other distributions because they are "user friendly."

Also, risking my neck here, Archbang is a neat little distro that's pretty much arch + openbox with a few pieces of bloat. A dedicated arch user might ask "why?," but it is extremely easy to use and install (and it is arch). Just something to take a look at if you decided you're too lazy to look at the arch wiki and take 10 minutes to do the real install. Archbang is polished enough and more of a "complete" preassembled distro that I thought would have done a lot better.

Plus, who doesn't love to tinker.
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What does that have to do with anything? It's proprietary, and not even Linux.
I read this and my heart sank:

Universal later added that it had a deal with YouTube to take down content even if it doesn’t infringe their rights.
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I'm pretty sure they're not advocating screwing with the Circadian cycle. You still wake up and go to sleep with the sun; just now you wake up at 13h00 instead of 8:00 AM.
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Hello Jason, this is unrelated to the thread but since I have one of the MongoHQ founders here let me abuse a bit and ask:

I'm considering using mongo in the cloud but the problem I see is that there's no way to create a secure (encrypted) connection. Mongo doesn't support SSL and I can't create an SSH tunnel like against a server I control. I don't want my db data in the clear on Internet and I may not want to use AWS so that we're on the same 'network'.

I cannot be the first with this issue, is someone looking into adding encrypted connection to mongo? (I just see in mongo's site an open ticket about this) thanks!
Agreed. Being cross platform at the expense of having to write your own OpenGL and OpenAL renderers for each platform seems almost as bad as writing hand-coded assembly for each processor architecture.
This sort of response, I'm afraid, is why we can't have nice things.

The author has taken the time to make their code available and make it as free as possible to reuse. Why should they have to spare a second thought for the roadblocks your organisation chooses to put in the way of you using it? There are better uses for a developer's time and personally I'd much rather see another great write-up like this than a carefully chosen open source license on the sample code.
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So a false flag hack was undertaken to, what, punish Stratfor over something they published about seven/eight years ago?

As opposed to a bunch of misguided, ignorant script kiddies thinking Stratfor is something it isn't?
I know it's hard to believe, the the low-end MBA has a Core i5 processor. https://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html Apple worked directly with Intel to get a smaller "package", and soldered it to the mainboard to make it fit.
Turn on SPDY by going to about:config and setting network.http.spdy.enabled to true.
Gandi.net offers free standard SSL certificates with each domain name, however they don't have multi-domain certificates.
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It improves the user experience by allowing amazing free services to exist.

That may be true, but that isn't what I meant.

I meant that there are numerous example where exposing your audience to something for commercial purposes may benefit the audience.

For example, the paid results of a search like http://www.google.com.au/search?q=web+hosting are arguably better than the heavily SEO'ed organic results. That's because the profit motive for the web companies encourages them to pay enough to expose themselves, whereas less legitimiate affiliate sites can't afford to compete because they are further down the profit chain (meaning they don't have the margins to pay for the most common keywords)

The other good example (as I noted elsewhere) are recommendation systems like Amazon and Netflix use.
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Isn't "clerical error" essentially the same excuse that Kenneth Lay & friends made about the frauds perpetrated by Enron? In that case, they alleged that intentional bad acts were carried out by employees and that the executives had no knowledge of their activities. This prompted new law stipulating that company executives could no longer claim ignorance of illegal activities by employees as a defense.

Is "clerical error" the new refuge of this same mentality? "We can't claim they broke the law without our knowledge, but we can claim they made a mistake." Can we, and should we, make this similarly illegal? Or should we stike closer to the core issue, where executives may be lying about their knowledge of fraud/mistakes to deliberately take advantage of any benefits that may arise from them? Is this even practically enforceable?
>I've already started to save money for body/brain updates and longevity treatments. I'll gladly admit that it's more important to me than saving for a house/car or my pension. I'll rather live in a crappy apartment/with a crappy car for the next decades and afford to live 150-200 years (when immortality surely will be an option for the rich, which I plan to be) than to spend all my money on a house/car and die a natural death at 80-100 years old.

That is IMHO a bad decision. I was also thinking about this way of life for some time. The big issue here is that you are betting with your wealth life in ages (house, pension, ...) against some possibly available life extension tool.

From my point of view the technology growing rate slightly decreases in the last decade. There is already 2012 outside but we still do not have flying cars (as has been thought twenty years ago), we were not able to beat HIV, we still do not understand how the human brain works, etc etc etc.

So, my bet is that this life extension medicine will exists in a usable and working way maybe in 50 years. At this time your are already 71 or maybe even older. Do you really want to have a long life at this age??? No, I bet not. For us (I am 28) it is already too late now. And I do not want to live 200 years at an age of 80 or so. I would be old crappy man, and will be psychologically labile since there would be so much young people around me living a much longer "young" life as I did. I don't want imagine how this feels like.
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With time zones, you have to know which time zone you're in and set your watch accordingly. With no time zones, you have to know what time local noon is and interpret your watch accordingly. The amount of information required, and the difficulty of using it, appears to be the same to me.
Most unprofessional thing I have seen.
> I would like to know if PHP's object implementation, which was introduced after their associative arrays, suffers from the same hash collision issues.

I was curious myself, so I went digging. Most of this stuff appears in `Zend/zend_object_handlers.c`. For objects with std_object_handlers set up on them (which I assume is most of them), zend_std_read_property can do quite a bit of work: it tries a search of the property info hash zobj->ce, then the zobj->properties hash, and then calling `__get()` with protection against __get loops, then giving up and returning null. zend_hash_quick_find(), as used for these lookups, takes a HashTable* as its first argument, which is also the type of a hash table in zvalue_value.

Thus, object properties are associative arrays, though I don't think there's an equivalent severity of attack compared to causing collisions with crafted GET/POST data, as the latter is automatically parsed. You'd have to be able to upload code to make evil objects.

Going through this exercise was fun, though:

<?php $x=new stdClass();
$x->{"b\0ar"} = 12;
$x->{"b\0"} = 14;
$x->{"\0bar"} = 18; // fatal error ?>

The "property starts '\0'" case is specially checked by the standard property handler, with no explanation...
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This is just absolutely insane:

A hip-hop music site’s domain name was seized for a year and given back three weeks ago ... The site’s lawyer says the MP3s listed in the seizure order had been sent to the site by the labels themselves, seeking publicity.
For me, it's because it's a one time deal. I buy the domain, set the nameservers and never go back. But I'll still move them to name.com later on.
You forgot to discount future benefits. Interest is exponential, meaning bounded gains that last forever have finite present day value.