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I don't think he was outmatched. If anything, he came out as a young, smart, polite guy running a successful business at the forefront of innovation -- the best America can offer, really.

Cotton came out as the rich, smiling shark that he is, which makes smart people dismissive of anything he has to say. His very first line "let's make a step back: we are talking about jAAAAAbs" sounds like something any two-faced lying politician would say. He did get more airplay, because he was incredibly rude, but I don't expect anything less from an executive of the network that is producing the show in the first place (it was actually kinda ballsy for Hayes to tell him he was flat-out wrong).

So, all in all, I don't think Alex should change much in his presentation; the only mistake he made, I think, was that he was too eager to push the "piracy is a service problem" soundbite before he had actually explained why that is the case.
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"The picture is clear; entry into the top 0.5% and, particularly, the top 0.1% is usually the result of some association with the financial industry and its creations."

This article makes an important distinction between the top 1% and the top .1% that the NYT piece glosses over:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...
Have you heard of petroleum engineering? It doesn't get much press, but some of those guys make stupid amounts of money right out of college.
>> the proportion of dentists and physicians who become part of the 1% is extremely high

As implied in another comment, this is cloudy because the New York Times has a hard time with the difference between "income" and "wealth".

If a doctor borrows $150K for their education, and borrows $850K to start a practice (for building, equipment, supplies, insurance, and working capital), they may have a very small (or negative) net worth with a million dollars of debt.

It takes quite a number of years at $400K of household income to pay off a million dollar debt. And during all those years, this example doctor would, according to this chart, be in the top 1%, even though their net worth might be miniscule.
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And comparatively, I have no respect for you. What have you done, except belittled?
Ah, so knowing the muzzle velocity might actually be a red herring - the turns per metre travelled is going to be a more stable metric.
And neither have anything to do with shyness. "Think before you speak" is still very important advice, and then if you prefer to not raise hostility, do it because you chose so not because of shyness.
Poll: Are you in favor of SOPA?
IMHO. An alternative way to fight piracy, instead of SOPA
I don't know yet. This flexibility is one thing that Heroku gives me, and I'm happy to pay for (once my product is live)

It may be that my product never needs enough resources to push me over the edge for moving to my own servers.

I've shipped products before where we pre-built a large cluster of servers (20+) and then used less than half that capacity, and that sucks cash really fast.
> To many it's feature in gTalk and AOL IM which indicates that the conversation isn't logged

Isn't the goal similar? The conversation can be logged but after it's over, it's impossible to prove that the log is legitimate, unlike, for example, a gpg-signed e-mail.

It used to be quite popular, there was a cross-network plugin for pidgin and a somewhat annoying (it included the server name in the key/identity instead of the network name, something like that) module for irssi... I haven't heard about OTR in a while though.
The founders of Stripe didn't know any more about banking than farming when they decided to start the company. It was precisely their willingness to undertake alien problems (= schleps) that made them so effective.
On a system without mandatory access controls [0], absolutely yes. This is what powers some rootkits. [1]

Having a dynamic interpreted language runtime available as just another item in the syscall table [2] would allow arbitrary, unrestricted execution of code that would not even respect resource limitations set in the root user's shell.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit#Kernel-mode

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The idea is to get traction before the original company can. The idea has already been validated in one market and in theory introducing it to another market will work as well. When the original company is ready to expand to those other markets then they'll have to consider buying the clone. It can work for any type of company really.

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Honestly...I kinda feel like Alexis could have been more 'technically prepared'.

i.e. he should have been able to specifically point to clauses that he disagrees with and why.
Even in the US, with all the legal means to access content, I wouldn't say it is always convenient. Studios delay or prohibit sites from showing content, or require you already have a subscription to a participating cable company (which in many cases the consumer cannot control whether they are "participating"), before you can legally get access to much of the content.

Compare this to the ability to download a movie literally days after it is in the theater, or a show hours after it shows on TV, and then to play it in whatever manner you choose, instead of being tied to a specific medium by the company producing the content (for instance, Google TV is blocked by many "approved" content websites, you HAVE to watch on your computer.)

I'm not advocating the piracy, just showing how much more convenient it really is. And until the media companies start innovating in how the content is delivered and can be accessed, piracy will be appealing and more convenient.

One of the biggest problems with ProtectIP/SOPA is that they would stifle the need for the media companies to innovate, which is exactly what they want. The media companies do not want to innovate or find better ways, they want the status quo from 10 years ago.
Alexis never said why anyone should object to the bill. So what if it's completely circumventable? Saying stuff like "what concerns me most is it won't work" doesn't make sense -- isn't the most concerning thing DNS breakage? [EDIT: Concerning to everyday users. Me, I'm most worried about censorship -- but that is not the catchiest argumet.] And when Cotton says stuff like "that's wrong" -- twice -- Alexis has to explain how "that's right", quickly and unambiguously. Or the viewer will begin to presume that Cotton is right on the facts. Whereas if he's refuted, or has to explain the sense in which he's right, he's the one on the defensive.

Cotton knew his brief, and the presentation of that brief, much better than Alexis did his. Add in decades of political and rhetorical training and this isn't even a fair fight.

Guys like Cotton can be beaten, but only with 1) a much better case on the facts and 2) a complete mastery of the presentation of that case. This is a long way from home.

EDIT: One of the hardest things in what Alexis is doing is having people criticize how he's doing it. I congratulate him for putting himself out there for his principles and his community. He's up against people who have spent their entire lives training in interested (as opposed to principled) advocacy. He can be a lot better at this, and he can win -- after all, he's right! But he has to get a lot better at the execution.
This is a great argument ... for open source.

Red Hat (the company I work for) sells quite narrow products. For example, we'll sell you and support PostgreSQL but only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or KVM but only on x86-64. Upstream, PostgreSQL runs on BSD, Windows and a zillion other platforms. KVM supports i386, S/390, PPC and a few others.

You can either be a customer, or you can port yourself / find another partner to make the code work on other platforms. This only works because it's open source software.
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perhaps it was your team? or lack there of? were you a SVP at amazon? was this a common problem there... etc etc
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Misleading title as this is not a "Disqus comment server", but a comment server unrelated to Disqus written in RoR.
I have to ask, what is the rebuttal to Richard Cotton's assertion that this only effects "wholesale piracy websites outside the USA"? Because no one seemed to be able to come up with one on the show - which is disturbing since I would think the opposition would have a strong counter argument to this.

People (on the show and in this thread) keep saying that what Cotton said isn't true and is deceptive - but where are the factual arguments?
There absolutely should've been some sort of "encrypted but not verified" handling for self-signed certificates. The current state of browsers is that unencrypted HTTP is presented as safer than self-sign encrypted HTTPS. That's lunacy.

Unfortunately, there isn't, and as a result self-signed certificates are useless to anyone running a HTTPS site that expects any visitors.
Indeed it is a service problem, one that Hollywood has faced time and time again. Hollywood's bottom line each time only increased, once they finally were force to innovate.

Innovation is the answer and without innovating they are just losing millions/billions of dollars due to their foolishness!

Create an Internet license where each site who distributes and or facilitates distribution pays up!
Cotton came out as the rich, smiling shark that he is, which makes smart people dismissive of anything he has to say.

Most people, by definition, are closer to average or dumb. This war unfortunately requires convincing large numbers that SOPA is a really, really bad idea.
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The submitter probably just meant "Disqus-like commenting server".
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Not quite the same. OTR Proper means that the conversation is secure and authenticated, as well as deniable.

You can also achieve the deniability trait if you simply don't secure the conversation. If everything is plaintext then you could claim that any logs have been potentially tampered with.

Now, if the conversation is secure but you're not using OTR, then simply "not logging" doesn't really get you much. The other participant could still be logging, manually if they have to.
Uh..

I'm in Houston and I have to put some qualifications on that. Only CERTAIN petroleum engineers would make 1% kind of money. I would think the statistics would mirror software engineers roughly. Maybe a little better, maybe a little worse. Just nowhere even close to Dentists and Doctors.
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> OTR Proper means that the conversation is secure and authenticated, as well as deniable.

Yes, you're right of course, I skipped over that a little but that's what I meant by "after it [the conversation] is over." Thanks.
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I'm a long-time HN member and I'm surprised at some of the comments here. Probably she wasn't a prodigy, also probably she wasn't a genius. Though she had every possibly trait that must have made her a genius later in her life.

Still, she was very intelligent, very sweet and a very caring kid. I met her and also her dad around 2005.

Also, she came from a very humble background and when I met her, her father was travelling with her using public transport (I know this because I did drop her and her father few times).

That having been said, given where she came from, she did few things in her 16 years of life that I know may people cannot. RIP.
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If anyone's looking something a bit more configurable, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sopa-blackout-plugin/ is another option. Disclaimer: I was involved in the creation of this plugin, along with Site5 and Ten-321.
I can imagine this view is inviting for programmers, because it's easy to implement, but I doubt anyone else finds useful a definition that says there are no misspellings in "Their coming too sea if its reel."

I realize this is just a debate over a definition, so it's not very meaningful, but the fact is, you're on the wrong side of the common definition here. I just tested, and every spell checker that I just checked (Chrome, Firefox, MS Word, TextMate, TextEdit - perhaps some of these rely on the same underlying engine, I'm not sure?) accepts that sentence as not having a spelling error, so clearly there's some use for such a definition.

The grammar checkers, on the other hand, don't like it, but by changing "their" to "they're", they all accept it, despite the fact that it's still garbage. So don't overestimate how good "modern" spell checkers are...though there may be techniques to do a better job, they're not in common use, at least in the most common spell-checking contexts (which, lets be honest, pretty much means MS Word).
I wear minimal shoes exclusively for walking also and it took two years for running to be really comfortable.
I am also not a serious runner at all. I think if you go into this with good fitness and expect to see your old performance soon it is very dangerous
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It didn't seem to me that Alexis was outclassed by Cotton -- it seemed simply that Cotton was making points which Alexis didn't even attempt to oppose.

Cotton said "this only applies to foreign sites which are wholesale devoted to copyright infringement". Is that true or not? If it's false, why didn't Alexis say so?
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> Alexis never said why anyone should object to the bill.

Exactly. Alexis was making an emotional appeal. "It scares me, it concerns me". Why? I'm most of the way through the debate and I didn't hear any arguments against Cotton's point.

Wikipedia seems to agree that it's only foreign sites:

> The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Contents

So what is the expected impact on US sites?

Wikipedia also seems to agree that the burden of the sanctions are quite high. There needs to be a court finding that a site is facilitating copyright infringement (perhaps not a full finding, like the closure of a case; but an intermediate finding).

Though I'm a technophile, I haven't followed this debate much at all until watching the MSNBC video. I found myself relatively influenced towards Cotton's side -- and a brief investigation seems to suggest that his points are correct. What am I missing?

I agree that, even if Cotton's points are true there may still be harmful consequences from the bill. But it seems we would be having an entirely different discussion depending on whether we agree on whether Cotton's points are factual.
How long was it until a grammar checker was able to be implemented with these space constraints?
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It's great that there are other services out there that do something similar, but I really don't like the use of the phrase "already solved this." Everything can be improved. Any one product is never the one fix all forever.
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O'Reilly is able to hold the position he does because he publishes high quality work. If you walk into a bookstore knowing nothing other than you need a book on Subject X, the book you walk out with will probably have a pen and ink animal drawn on the cover.

Most other creators are just churning out low rate disposable content. Their business models are struggling under the legal alternatives the internet has come to offer, just look at what happened to newspapers.

Now that distribution is solved, competition has sky-rocketed and they're fighting a market that wants to show them just how little their product is worth these days. Steam may be the internet distribution posterboy, but think of any other type of media producer who looks at steam. There are rock bottom prices on everything that isn't a AAA title released in the last 6 months.

They're stuck fighting the new marketplace realities, they can't afford to see piracy in the periphery (like O'Reilly can), so they do the one thing they know how to: give cash to congress to make that problem go away.
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months before apple adds them to their store

Months before Apple is allowed to add them to their store, you mean. The same goes for Netflix and Amazon Prime.
If you are already a runner I could see this being the case, e.g. you put on a pair of "barefoot" shoes and then do your normal 10 miles run or whatever.

I tried to take up running last year. I bought a pair of Vivo Barefoot shoes, and thought they were great. Since I was just starting out I couldn't go more than a few hundred yards without taking breaks to walk. I eventually worked my way up to about 5 miles with a few moderate hills in the route, and never had any trouble with pain or injury.

I never grew to enjoy running however, it was always a chore and while I was doing it my mind was always racing with thoughts of other things I could be getting done if I wasn't running. I didn't feel any better, I didn't have more energy during the day, and I didn't sleep any better, so eventually I stopped.

I still like and wear the shoes, though.
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I was also intrigued when I first saw the large amount of elementary school teachers in the 1%. Then I saw extra information called out on the sidebar:
"School teachers don't earn enough to make the top 1 percent on their own, but many live in 1-percent households, primarily through marriage."
"A few more tactical options" is playing down something that can be monumental.

The howitzer only offered "a few more tactical options", mainly being the ability to lay down accurate indirect fire whilst still being able to offer direct fire and defensive fire.

I mean why bother inventing gunpowder or rifling or any other weapons when an arrow killed people too. I mean sure the rifle was more effective and less competent soldiers could use it skilfully, but what was the point when we already had bows and crossbows?

So why bother inventing an accurate method of firing a frag round at 500ft when the M203 has a max range of 400ft and effective fire at only 150ft. Granted the AK47 is only effective at 250ft, but that still means the soldiers will be spraying and praying with grenade fire.

The whole point of making a weapon more accurate and effective is to increase the enemy combatant losses whilst decreasing civilian losses and soldier risk.
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The most interesting part of this article to me was the description of the problem with sales. I think it provides a great insight into the thinking of large companies like Microsoft and why they're decisions are sometimes baffling to those of us not working at huge corporations. He mentions that a sales person going after $100k contracts would not make their quota and lose money for MS. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised but it seems pretty crazy.

It also kinda confirms what we already know - that every department of MS is geared towards pushing their whole software stack and to change would be like trying to redirect an iceberg.
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