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All my drives are already TrueCrypted. I have nothing to hide, but I do not want to be treated like a criminal for doing something as simple as crossing the US border.
If you run a company that's the rules. If you can't prove that you are licensed to use every single piece of software that you have on your computer then you can have your whole computer (or just the hard drive) confiscated and held for indefinite amount of time by the police probably long enough to technology become obsolete and your withheld data to become meaningless. At least that's how it looks in Poland.

Using any non opensource software is so scary that I wonder why would anyone pay and take the risk.

There was even one case when polish company purchased software directly from the US but polish distributor of this software insisted that it was pirated because they didn't sell it. Police went in. Confiscated computers and media for investigation. Software was essential for operation of this company so the company died.
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I have some Iranian friends here in Canada. A year or two ago they signed a petition calling for the release of this man. They are now on a list entitled "Enemies of Islam" and have heard through the grapevine of Iranian officials asking people to find dirt on them. These people are insane.
Yep, They may think "let's just punish a few thousands and will make an example of them, showing that we are serious about this now."

Can somebody tell me if this is expected to be enforced only to citizens from countries that actually signed ACTA, or also to everyone else?
You thought SOPA and PIPA were dead? Think again.
The problem is that I have signed a contract with my company that says I must keep the data on my company laptop private and encrypted. There are trade secrets in there. What should I do ? Only have blank laptops to cross the border and download everything through ssh once on the other side ?

Talk about a waste of time.
I read a previous article by her about no one being able to like Apple products after Android and decided she has a totally warped view of reality. I was there when they handed out Android phones. I still use an iPhone. Many Google employees use iPhones. No one has ever given me crap about it, and I haven't seen anyone look at anyone funny in any way.

I mean, Google gives MacBook Airs/MacBook Pros to every employee for christsakes.

And if you want to know how the recruiters talk you into accepting a lower salary, it isn't the value of the food, it's the value of Google's bonuses. Google HR talks to you about "Total Compensation" and the dollar value of the food is not (AFAIK) part of this discussion.

Personally for me, I have no complains about my salary, but the real reason I decided to work for Google was the chance to work on world class infrastructure with access to an incredible pool of talented people, plus the culture.

Google is the only large corporation I've worked at (and I've worked at others like IBM and Oracle), that didn't feel so much like a suffocating bureaucracy, and whose employees generally care about trying to do the right thing, and care about openness and honesty.

You've all no doubt seen the Steve Yegge rant. That's par for the course on Google internal mailing lists, and I like the fact that people challenge management frequently with rants like this.
This seems to be a misreading. My read is "If you sell the output of this, you grant us exclusivity. If you breach exclusivity, we have a variety of options in dealing with you, including refusing to carry your work on our platform. In the event we do this we don't owe you anything even if you think it sure would have been a swell thing if we had distributed through our platform and are inclined to sue us over the imputed lost revenue."

Exclusivity is still a very cruddy contractual term for authors, if viewed against the universe of "all possible contractual arrangements", but it is far from uncommon in the publishing world. I mean, everyone is pretty much in the business of exclusive distribution towards channels they control. If you sign with a dead-tree publisher, they're going to want exclusive rights to be your only dead-tree publisher in a geographic, cultural, or linguistic territory, even if you could get someone else to kill trees on your behalf and double your sales that way.

You'd have to weigh access to the Apple megaphone versus the sales you could be making through other platforms/channels. If I were (hypothetically) going to get into ebook publishing, I'd take note that Amazon is much more generous (off the top of my head standard Kindle publishing requires no exclusivity and one of their programs wants just a 90 day exclusivity window for e-publishing). This would allow you to simultaneously sell through e.g. your own site to a pre-existing fanbase and avoid the 30% (or whatever) rake, or do things like "Hiya I'm the author of five novels and counting in this sci-fi universe I created. The first one is $0.99 on Amazon or totally free if you sign up for my email list."
http://xkcd.com/538/

(yep, it's the "hit him with a wrench" one)
To be fair, the goal of that law is to allow arbitrary detention of computers without any kind of justification.

I wonder however how they would confiscate my laptop running only free software. Well, they could always pretend it is stolen : I usually don't have the receipt of it while travelling.
The are not doomed to eventual automation, because the people who work these jobs have a huge advantage over the machines that might replace them:
they are flexible in what they build, and easy to train.

Robots have to take a huge leap forward before they can even come close to the flexibility offered by a person.

People are flexible in what they build, they are flexible in how they build it, they are flexible in what job they do, and (depending on the contract) they can be dropped instantly where they are unnecessary.
Compare that with a factory made of robots representing a large capital investment that could very quickly become out of date if you change your product slightly.
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Sheesh, that's an emotive title.

The only end to this noise that I can see is that Apple will supply an update that removes the .epub capability, making the tool specific to iBooks.

Will we be any poorer for that? It's like having a machine that prints money - you could use it...but you're likely to get into trouble if you do.
Yes, I've read that one as well. It was a while ago, but from what I remember, it was higher-level than the Smith book. The Smith book is basically a normal mathematics curriculum book, not a "pop science" book (not to say that N&N is), which works out theorem after theorem to get to Godel's proof. Also, it starts off with computer-science proofs instead of the original Godel proofs, which many in this audience will probably prefer.
You should try Metafilter and maybe Something Awful.

It's surprising to hear anyone really praise Reddit, even at the start it wasn't that great. 'Downvoting' comments that you disagree with regardless of the quality of the points made is daft.

Reddit's discussion has always been far behind Metafilter. The $5 entrance fee keeps out people who don't want to make some contribution at least. The active mods there do a great job.
> What i would rather see is that companies move off US soil as a response to US Law. And stay off TLD's controlled by the US.

The cowboys from the US and the bootlickers in the affected countries have shown again and again that they do not care about jurisdiction or common sense.
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An interesting question is that if someone were to travel (non-commercially) across borders with a fake gucci bag, could that person could be held liable under ACTA for the case that a) they were aware of the product was counterfeit and/or b) the case in which they were unaware?
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About Joel's second point: Why would Google/Facebook give free ads only for U.S. politicians? If they start with that, shouldn't they do that for every other country as well? Sure for the moment nominally their HQs are in the U.S. but they are multinational corporations, with huge HQs in Ireland and several other countries as well.
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I think you just should make sure that the consumer is aware of the prices set up by different sellers.

I'd make a rule that if you want to sell anything and you have list of current prices in any electronic format you have to publish it online in machine readable format before you are allowed to sell single item of your stock.

Other necessary rule is to establish that for store to be allowed to sell anything it must allow all customers use their cellphones in any way they see fit.
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The only thing that will accomplish is to limit the spending for a congressional seat at approximately the cost of a life-time annuity at $1m/year. Basically a lot of people will want to go to congress for that salary, which is more than they can otherwise make. Once in congress, they have no further desire to stay in congress (they get their millions anyway) and so will not care what laws are passed.
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I did not see it on the list but Showstopper is an very good book(http://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generati...) It tells the story of the Windows NT team's couple years of major ups and downs developing the windows. It starts from the hiring of Dave Cutler from DEC to the release of the project. If you want a good view into how large software projects go I think you can't go wrong with this book. You get an idea for why the Windows team made some tradeoff (like security ;p) made in those days to finish the product and how a strong project leader was a must to keep the project on track.

I can't recommend the book enough I've read it a few times already.
The reality is, pretty much every time I land in the US by laptop is out of battery :)
Not all of them are silent:

http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/16103497492/an-open-letter...
This is a very in-depth analysis of PostgreSql - I would love to see it compared to Oracle, mySql, or SQL server. After reviewing the charts - it made me wonder if the base code had a 4k buffer, so that is why the optimal write block was the same size. One other investigation that is missing is 64 bit vs 32 and different OS
Why would judiciary branch wasting their time instead of catching criminals? They (MPAA etc) would have to lobby even single application of the law I guess.
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Sounds like ye need to change your free speech laws. After all, you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre because it would harm the public good. Likewise, surely only giving one political party airtime harms the public, in the long run.
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I KNOW! If we can't attack these PIRATES online, in their magical pirate cloud, we'll hit them where it already hurts...AIRPORTS!

what better way to stop piracy than to harass travelers? i can think of none.
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I absolutely despise this kind of thinking. The whole "firstworldproblems" meme pisses me off. You can extend this to anything. "People in Country X are starving so it's lame of me to complain about my 2-hour commute." "Children are being beaten in Country Y so I feel bad complaining about working on the weekend once a month." Ok, I'll even pull away from the hyperbole: "my friend Bob got laid off, so I shouldn't complain about working 14-hour days because at least I have a job".

Yes, you absolutely should complain.

I just don't buy any of this. If I'm unhappy about something, then I'm unhappy about something. The tsunami that destroyed the lives of thousands of people in Country Z, while tragic, doesn't make my grievances any less valid.

It's like a new form of Godwin's Law. Any complaint can be dismissed as trivial by claiming it's a "first world problem".

If you want to feel institutional guilt because many people in the world have it worse than you, fine. I'm not going to play that game.

(General "you", here. Nostrademons, I'm not pointing specifically at you, just at the general pain this sort of thinking gives me.)
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You're right. To clarify, in the US, the problem is partly related to campaign finance, yes, because this vehicle is available to lobbyists to influence politicians.

But my point is, if you remove this vehicle the problem doesn't go away, it just takes another form.

And in fact I think it's good that it takes the form of campaign finance, because at least it's visible: you can see who gives how much money to which man / party / cause.

And anyway, politicians don't care about "freedom"; they care about big companies, because they have dinner with CEOs; they care about "jobs" because they think that's what matters to their constituents. Solving campaign finance wouldn't change any of that.
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If I understood the MegaUpload news correctly, the founders were arrested in New Zealand. So, obviously the US has a much bigger jurisdiction than it geographically should have. I don't think that your suggestions would help.

The reason why I believe uploaded.to did this is not to support/protest SOPA, but to protect themselves from liability.
I too find the writing style very distracting, but I can't quite place my finger on what it is exactly. It's very strange, though. That being said, I think the post makes a valuable point that anybody can learn about negotiating: what are they really giving you, did you expect to get that anyway (i.e. is it material to negotiations), can you reasonably claim it's not material even if it IS something special they're offering (I have allergies to about 25% of common foods, so I prepare my own food), can they take it away later, etc.
My personal opinion is that they produce media at much too high cost. It is possible only because they have way too much money on their hands.

Technology drastically lowers the cost of making movies. Instead making a movie for tens of millions of dollars now they let it be made by some else for less than million of dollars 10 years later.

Big budgets also cause lack of creativity in Hollywood. If tens of millions of dollars are at stake you try to minimize the risk. So you have to pick least risky script, least risky cast and so on and so on.
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He is thinking of Crush the Castle:

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I think ten years would make sense -- you would constantly have to produce new stuff in order to make money which is what copyright is about.

On the other hand copyright may not be enforceable much longer (it could be argued that it is already unenforceable) and I would prefer to give up copyrights before the internet.
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That would certainly help. But more than anything else, I think what we need (at least in computer science) is a mechanism to penalize people who publish the exact same research at half a dozen conferences.

Running pagerank on authors with an unnormalized weighting function of "how many papers does author X have which cite something written by author Y" (so that if author Y publishes the same paper multiple times it doesn't have any effect even if both copies get cited, while author X publishing the same paper several times downweights all of his outgoing links equally) could work, though.
How does this explain them offering the food for free vs. charging for it (possibly subsidizing it)? It is still a perk, in that sense.
This whole situation is doubly absurd when you consider clinical trials, where patients have risked their helath or died to prove that certain treatments work or do not work. That data then gets locked down by these shameless monopolising profiteers.

I think it is completely unethical that such a patient cannot access the final report about the trial they participated in without paying $31 to Elsevier, or just settling for an abstract.
There is a lot of FUD about ACTA (such as this submission). There was a very good post on Reddit a few hours ago that goes into great detail about what it ACTUALLY does:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/or8ag/ive_read_the...
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Not in my experience. Invariably terrible.
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It's funny how legal content is blocked outside of the USA (every other movie/music/tv site) and the illegal one is getting blocked in the USA.
How was the Justice Department Web site attacked?
Yep. To me, it's one of those issues where opening the floodgates to free one-sided political ads should result in an investigation (EU-style). A business with such dominant platforms shouldn't be pushing political agendas (on said platforms), even if we agree with them.

That applies equally to other services from Apple, Amazon, Sony, Microsoft, Comcast, Time Warner, BSkyB, Virgin Media etc.
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In some cases that can be true, but with the current shotgun approach to academic publishing, the authors have often republished variations on a paper, covering slightly different aspects with different framing, in 3 or 4 different venues, so sometimes there'd be scope to choose to cite a non-Elsevier one.
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Thanks! I've added it to the list. Looks like a hot candidate for a book that I am going to read next.
Thanks Akash. I've added it to the list.
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Yes, that's a good list as well. I actually went through that whole SO thread and bought many of the books, but the SO thread is just for programmers. This list is for people in software business in general, especially people in small companies.
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I have worked at both Google and Facebook and this was an annoyance for everyone. People would come into the job and be promised the normal salary+benefits and then be told about the unlimited Odwalla and Aldale being open all day and how the food is amazing and then suddenly the most profitable companies in the world "realize" that these things are expensive, cut back, and expect something other than to have their world class employees go somewhere where they are treated a bit better. I will never understand not continuously investing in your employees, especially at the best companies on earth.
The article says Microsoft will succeed because Windows Phone 7 will destroy Android and Windows 8 will power non-shitty tablets running all our favorite apps.

Some of the basis for this? Kinect is great. IE is "trouncing" the competition and Windows 7 is the best OS "barring any Apple offering."
That's really cool. But I think you should have used lighter colors.
I dunno; with inflation, it seems that I can easily spend $10 per meal. Maybe $15, and if I eat generous portions, $20. Seriously-- in San Francisco, it's not unreasonable to expect someone to spend $20 for a meal. Now consider all the extra convenience fees... $60/day (or $50/day) is not unreasonable. Of course, since it's a corporate perk, it should get a discount rate applied... but all the same, it's still valuable: more than $15/day (come on, dude: $5 a meal? Get real, or move away from North Dakota).
the same people, curiously, never want to attribute the good things to single people. no-one here is saying "it's not google that provides the perks, but the contractors that work in the kitchens". yet the same logic seems to suit them just fine when it's negative.
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I don't know, this sounds very clear-cut to me:

> if your Work is provided for a fee (including as part of any subscription-based product or service), you may only distribute the Work through Apple

What do you base your interpretation on?
> Civilization is what is necessary to avoid periodic famines. There's a reason the hunter-gather existence fell out of favor. It's only an idyllic lifestyle to people who haven't really thought about it.

Not actually true. Most hunter-gatherers were better fed and healthier than people living in cities - they worked for a couple of hours a day gathering food.

It fell out of favour because city dwellers were eventually able to fortify and outproduce on the better land, forcing everyone else to the outskirts.
I think it's time to block zdnet content on HN.
As a European who constantly runs into the same "go away, foreigner" notices on US sites, I find this way funnier than I should.
I don't think it is. I guess the problem that should be tackled is not how the movies & music are actually done, but rather the way they are sold. The problem in my view - without pointing at anyone - is that not enough people are willing to pay for the products.
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