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I find your comment rather offensive myself.

You're trivializing the experience that I had because you know people who have had it worse. That's just ignorant.

I'm sorry that your friends are having a hard time of it, but that doesn't mean you know anything about my situation. Obviously, they're dealing with much more extreme cases than I was. I would guess, though, at some point they were in a position (as I was) where you could snap out of it with a firm jolt to the system.

I didn't write this as a guide for anyone with burnout, or with the hopes that it would be accepted into the fucking DSM-IV as a case study. I just wanted to share my experience... mostly for catharsis, but also in the hopes that someone feeling the same way would read it and do something to make a change.
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I don't know about the morals of this but I do know that if we hadn't pirated as gratuitously for the last 10 years we wouldn't have DRM or Walled Gardens to the extent we do today.

I think the content industries will decide we can't be trusted with our toys anymore and move them all to the cloud where we can peek at them for a monthly fee.
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You have no idea what you are talking about, I'm guessing this is because you have never created anything worthwhile on which your livelihood depended. I'm sure you'd be quick to whine if your employer (assuming you are old enough to work) could decide whether or not you should be paid for your work after you had done it. I hope you congratulate the next person to steal from you with a cheery "well done, that's my morality too".
I read all the way to the bottom, and got stumped by this statement in the footer:

256,026,015 people think stopping SOPA will change anything.

What do you suppose that means? That he has 256M hits on this page? Is he missing a "not" in the sentence?
If we are going to reduce morality to the way a majority feels about an issue, then in a democratic society, does it make any sense to differentiate between morality and legality? Shouldn't the democratic process eventually result in laws that reflect the morality of the majority? How can you say a law is immoral without taking a vote? For example, if the majority in California voted for Proposition 8, how can it be immoral?

(Note: I believe morals are natural laws. They are just not as easy to discern as physical laws because it is harder for us to be morally neutral observers.)
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It could be social engineering. Once the author got his address and phone number, I presume he just sent an official looking mail or made an official sounding phone call to have the documents mailed to him.
Encryption protects against a compromise of the backend. This lets 37signals, for example, store user data on S3 without leaking the user's information outside of the organization.

The overhead of decrypting an image is minimal compared to the latency introduced by a network fetch and by handling the rest of the request cycle in Ruby.

(And FWIW, people don't often have access to production encryption keys like this. Privacy is a big deal.)
Those are different problems. SOPA is a business/political problem, and the gay marriage is a societal norms problem.

Politicians are paid by lobbyists or have their own monetary interests to pass SOPA, and massive businesses support such a bill.

On the other hand, no one* in Washington really cares about "gay marriage". They just pretend to because there is opposition to it by their voters.

So, they can give you "gay marriage" rights, because it doesn't affect any economic or power interest. In the large scheme of things, gay marriage is an insignificant novelty, while SOPA is part of Washington's and corporate America's vision of the future.

[*] Well, some conservative republican politicians might care, but those are in the minority, many more are just putting on an act (like those that are all about christian family values, and then they are busted with some prostitute.
I'm not totally sure how a conversation like that means - as some same-sex marriage opponents seem to think - that one has to start describing the intricacies of sex, anal or otherwise.

Because some same-sex marriage opponents are obsessed with the intricacies of anal sex (whereas the typical preadolescent child really doesn’t care about the intricacies of any kind of sex). Heck, some of them are probably more obsessed with this topic than the gay men who do it.
Well, it wouldn't be easy, and I think there's a reason we don't see any meaningful electoral reform, but I don't see another way.

Perhaps one could convince the major parties to support electoral reform by constantly hitting them with spoiling candidates. Run left-wing independents in districts which are typically safe for Democrats but still reasonably close. Run right-wing independents in districts which are close but Republican. If you can get both major parties to get fed up with losing seemingly safe seats due to the first-past-the-post system, that might get them to change it.

I'm not holding my breath, though.
monarchy. until a democracy attacks you.
Browsers having APIs to encrypt and decrypt data in these scenarios is worth looking into - however, I do believe there might be a lot of apps that can't really profit from such an API. For example, what happens when you want to share an encrypted file with other users?
it was ONA Boston, the meeting got thrown in the direction of debating whether BuzzFeed was worthy of serving Political content.
It was about the bailouts and corruption. In fact, anti-corruption is probably the single biggest message of the occupy movement. That sign saying "where's my bailout" was complaining about "where's our bailout". It's pointing out that only the banks got taken care of, while the rest of us seem to matter increasingly less. It's not asking for a handout, it's pointing to the discrepancy.

Also, if you're against corruption, massive and increasing wealth disparity is not a good thing. Put all the financial power in the hands of a few and every single time they'll wind up with all the political power as well. If you want an example of correlation between money and political power, you could look at SOPA.
When 37 signals start encrypting all their data their search tool is really gonna suck.

A backup service that just needs to move around opaque blobs can and should encrypt its data, an application that needs to be able to react to the type and contents of the data that is stored, not so much, it seems like cperciva would know this more than anyone, so the post seems pretty disingenuous
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I think I saw you RSVP for TriDUG tonight. I'm for discussing organizing something over beers after the meetup.
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Yup, some Xpert tweeter they talk about whole world (generic) but keep there location set to some particular city, which mess up data a bit, we have already found a solution for this problem, changes will be rolled out soon :)
I don't really understand these posts that simply declare that the correct choice is not to use their stuff, that piracy is wrong, and it's not your choice.

I happen to agree with the overall conclusion that one should seek alternatives in these cases, but this is just an argument by shouting. It's foolish to simply declare, "it's not your choice". Clearly, people think it is their choice. If you want to convince them, you had better back it up with reasoning. The right to control is simply not an obvious, mostly-universally-held right like the right not to be murdered or the right to physical property.

The copyright debate is getting awfully stale. I wish the participants would come up with something new to say instead of just constantly declaring that piracy is not allowed on one side and that piracy doesn't hurt anybody on the other side.
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There is a significant difference though: If the bank takes money from your account, you notice it. If the file storage provider makes a copy of your file, you don't notice it. You'll never know how the file leaked.

(sure, the bank could perform other tricks behind your back, like doing bad investments with the money you put in, but hey they'll get bailed out anyway...)
I totally disagree that this came off sounding like a plug for Tarsnap. This is one of those perspective-changing point which can only be made by using concrete examples.

That he happens to be an expert in the field of digital privacy and has a way to prove that he is such an expert shouldn't be held against him.

Reading his post was like an "oh shit, he's right" moment for me and using Tarsnap as an example was key in helping me understand it.
> Lativa

First I thought it was a typo, but then this guy repeated more than 5 times. Such ignorance...
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I disagree pretty strongly, what I found most refreshing and "revolutionary" about the occupy movement was it's lack of a strong detailed message. It made it massively inclusive, it is not a one issue movement it is a new way of involving all kinds of people in the political process. That is what gave me hope (I'm cynical enough to know that it might not pan out as I'd like) it actually IS addressing the broken system the OP is complaining about.

The political process can only be corrupt as long as people aren't paying attention - I think the occupy movement did a great service in focusing attention on the inequalities inherent in the current system and provided a model for what democracy is supposed to be. People talking, debating and voting on the actual issues that affect them - when contrasted with the BS that is the congressional sausage factory and the media circus that surrounds it I know which I'd prefer to be the basis for a redefined version of democracy.

EDIT: typo
I really don't see where you got that idea from.
Great line from the article that pertains to today.

"It’s piracy when the RIAA lobbies to change the bankruptcy law to make it more difficult for musicians to declare bankruptcy."
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Maddox writes the footer's himself (check other pages in his blog).

It's an arbitrary number he put up to make a point.
Occupy movement at its heart is a fight to wrest control of the world from baby-boomers, who are now old and selfishly willing to burn everyone else to protect their benefits.
I disagree.

In my experience as a consultant and graphic designer (actually fronting for my wife, I'm not really a designer), everyone who isn't a young internet-savvy type just freaks out at the idea that people might "steal" stuff of their website. They constantly ask if there is way to let users/visitors see PDFs or other parts of their website without people being able to download them.

I, of course, tell them that downloading is actually an unavoidable requirement to the user seeing anything at all, etc. Some simply don't post as much as they would have.

My point is that DRM would likely always be the first idea a content owner thinks of when they consider putting something on any digital medium.

(Also consider that DRM existed long before the internet, in the earliest software and games. It just wasn't as fancy.)
I don't disagree with this at all. But having the perspective that "The answer isn't to prove that they can be trusted; the answer is to ensure that their customers don't need to trust them" is worth keeping in the back of your mind...because I'm sure there are cases when that approach can be taken without breaking features.
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Burn-out often comes when you have lost control of your environment. I've been through stages where I've had to sit down, take myself by the shoulders and re-work everything. That means strategizing and talking with my co-workers about how I can deal with the workload I have, the pressure I feel. More often than not I find that I've been overwhelming myself with an excessive will-to-succeed. I keep getting caught up with this kind of personal stress so I've come to understand that it's just who I am, but now have tools to deal with it better. That doesn't just include making strategic planning (which is about 90% of resolving the issue) but also taking at least one week holiday in a location strictly without internet and any communication back to work.
Related point: I think it's unfair to entirely separate manufacturing waste from household waste. I think it's more about the combined waste generated in the production and consumption of household goods.

What I hate about recycling is that it's so much less effective than the other r's: reducing and reusing. I wish the focus was much more on those two; think of the impact possible if consumers just demanded less packaging, for example.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if a huge artist like Adele ditched her current label and just went with a Humble Bundle style one? Imagine paying what you want for an album and allocating the money between artist, hosting, and the artist's favourite charities. It would be a lovely way to cut out these dinosauric middlemen.
Now all men and women are slaves. Just buy a gun and not register it. You sir, are deluded that we are freer.
Cannabis would work better, lead to no hangover and is healthier.
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I agree, but in a paranoid alternative world, the bank employees could share your bank account balance information with criminal organizations that would investigate you and your family, and one day kidnap you and take you or any of your family members, and ask for an amount of money they know you possess.. It's still a trust issue.
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Hi all,

Is there any way for a browser to negotiate image size with the server?

A lot more sites are now being designed using responsive techniques. This may lead to images of various sizes being need. One way of doing this is to embed a few IMG tags and then set display:none on all but the img you want. However, this means the client will download all of the images, most of which won't be displayed.

The size of the image can be calculated by the browsers, provided style="width: x; height: y" is set (probably within a media query somewhere) and this could be sent up using a header. I think the most appropriate would be the Accept-Features header, but it doesn't seem like it is supported.

Is this possible now? Will it become possible? Thoughts please.
The author says:

>"if I have to go through the hassle of pirating it to get a working copy, I will not be paying for it"

Yet his whole argument up to then has been how much easier 'pirating' the OS is. In short he just doesn't want to pay.

If it were about ease of use he'd send them the money somehow.
The baby boomers didn't change a damned thing.

In Britain, liberalism was architected primarily by people who were part of our very old establishment. The decriminalisation of homosexuality was achieved largely by the work of Lord Wolfenden, Lord Pakenham and Arthur Gore (8th Earl of Arran). The same goes for most of the political changes we associate with modernity and progress - with the notable exception of Bevan and his peers, the people turning the wheels were mainly minor aristocrats in dusty tweed. A great many of the most significant changes were made contrary to public opinion, the most obvious being the abolition of the death penalty - a policy which most Britons still oppose.

The boomers credit themselves with having changed the world when they were young, broke and essentially powerless, but deny any credit to the generation that constituted the establishment at the time. Conversely, now that they control the majority of capital, make up the biggest electoral demographic and holds most of the elected offices, they deny responsibility.

The most destructive act of the baby boomers was creating a culture in which the individual is seen as having supremacy over the institution. The consequences are obvious and stark - a political system with single-digit approval ratings, where nobody feels represented and nobody feels responsible. A political culture defined not by fundamental ideological allegiance and difference, but by special pleading. There's no such thing as a socialist anymore, no such thing as a conservative or a trade unionist, just people with opinions. America always pretended to be classless but Britain has gone the same way, preferring the egoistic fantasy of an egalitarian society over the reality of one where power and wealth and privilege are still very much in force.

We're trapped in a solipsistic nightmare, where conspiracy theories have replaced an understanding of social power. Until the people who are in charge actually admit that they are in charge, we're fucked.
That's what public key encryption is for, no? The server just needs to store the encrypted files and the public key of each user, and files can be shared without the server being aware of their content.
This response is easily within bounds. Tarsnap is opinionated software. So is 37signals' offerings. Let them have a debate. It is for the better education of us all.

Tarsnap's position here is assailable, and we will all benefit from the discussion.
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I understand what you mean and think I can elaborate: if I take a holiday to a nice hotel where everything is managed for me, I'll invariably spend some time thinking about work instead of relaxing. However if I take a vacation that is more exploratory in nature and involves either physical activity (hiking in a mountainous environment for example) or going somewhere that is outside of my comfort boundaries (say, a week in the jungle of Chiapas) my mind is focused 100% on where I am.

This is a real holiday: not just letting the body take a break but the mind.
The fraction of the total waste stream that you can affect is irrelevant when deciding whether to recycle. Any single industrial waste creator could make the same argument-- my company only creates 0.001% of the waste stream, so it doesn't matter what I do. This has to be wrong, because we know that the total outcome is nothing other than the aggregated behaviors of all of us, and the total outcome matters.

The important question is whether the impact of recycling the waste you create is a net gain or loss, after you take into account all the work needed to do the recycling. From an energy perspective, most recycling is a massive saver of energy [1], but that doesn't mean it's economical. England, for example, imports a lot of glass, but does very little glass manufacturing. Recycling glass there is probably not a valuable service, but that says nothing about its value where you live (unless you happen to live in England).

Waste stream sorting technology is still developing; I wouldn't be surprised if that reduces costs in the future such that sorting waste in your house isn't worth it-- you'll just dump everything in the bin and let robots pick out the valuable stuff later.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/node/9249262 (Money quote: "Recycling aluminium, for example, can reduce energy consumption by as much as 95%. Savings for other materials are lower but still substantial: about 70% for plastics, 60% for steel, 40% for paper and 30% for glass.")
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Dear users:

Unless you are using a service like tarsnap, your admins can and will peek at your data. If you use a service like tarsnap, and you lose your password, your data is deader than disco. Pick one - security, or an admin who can save your account.

And while it's theoretically possible to develop a rich web app without seeing user data, it just doesn't happen. You need realistic data to do testing. The most realistic data you can possibly get is your user's data. Guess what 99.999% of websites use for testing?

If you have sensitive information, use good encryption. Better still do what the professionals (i.e. the government) do, and leave it on an internal-network only computer, in a steel reinforced room. If you're paranoid, lock the hard drives in a safe when you leave the room. And use encryption.

But don't make a fuss when the admin peeks at your data, in a semi-random way. If they are stalking you specifically, or leak any damaging information, that's another matter. But if you just don't trust them, don't give them your data.
Maybe this is a little bit OT, but I think the biggest problem with the baby boomers is that, 12 years after '68, Reagan is elected and the whole generation basically turned their back on their youthful idealism and proceeded to create the mess we are in now.
Right, hadn't thought about that, they could also leak information.

Luckily in the case of files you can easily do something about it, by encrypting them client-side or using a storage provider client that handles that for you.
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This is stupid. Not only is publishing private info like this immoral (probably even illegal, which comment-spamming isn't), way more immoral than auto-posting some annoying comments, but it doesn't serve a purpose.

It may stop this guy, but it won't stop blackhat SEO. Blackhat SEO is done because it works.

It's actually often a neccesity for small business owners who have to spend their time running their small online store and supporting their customers instead of writing a blog about their products that nobody but Google will ever read.

This is a huge problem with the current Google algorithm - if information isn't your business you shouldn't have to spend your days writing just to please Google. Until Google somehow can determine not only what information is best, but also which businesses, products and services are best, Blackhat SEO will be rampant.
That's a good point.

The next best thing may be to only buy used CDs. Then you legally get the music AND annoy them at the same time.

Of course, you COULD actually boycott the artists. There are tons of independent musicians on the internet you can support. If you think that only the big label ones are worth your time and money, then clearly your opinions on the big labels themselves are unfounded.

(Just to be clear, all of the above "you"s refer not to the parent, but to everyone in general)
I made a diagram expressing this exact point a few days ago: http://imgur.com/xynCW feel free to reuse/remix
I am not sure about the accuracy of this.

The New York Post article has it just as a sidenote and I can't find any other source of this (all other sources point back to NY Post article). On the other hand, I have found sources citing Kim Dotcom as a CEO.
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Ultimately fixing the system is the way to go. I don't think the OP's boycotts would do ANYTHING to address that issue. As a short-term fix having tech giants throw money at politicians would probably be effective. However then the tech industry is one of the vested interests in NOT fixing the system because they're a big player in it... Kind of a catch-22
I am generally skeptical of boycotts as a political tactic, because if the boycotts aren’t large enough to make a significant dent on the target company’s revenues, the effect is just noise. The Walt Disney company is grossing about $40 billion a year. How many people need to swear off buying Disney products, for how long, before the company even notices?