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Well.. no.

They specifically say Proposed laws must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet through manipulation of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of Internet security.... We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk.

There may well be some future form of legislation that has some of the same goals of SOPA, but if it leaves that out then it isn't the same legislation that has everyone so upset.

Any new legislation should be treated on its merits. Be cynical, sure, but give them some credit for that statement - it is quite significant.
new legislation must be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law, cover activity clearly prohibited under existing U.S. laws, and be effectively tailored, with strong due process and focused on criminal activity.

In short, reserving the right to build a Great Firewall around the US.
It's a euphemism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism

The US government uses typical propaganda tactics like this, grease up the names of their authoritarian bills to make them sound nice, when in fact they are usually quite sinister. For example, the Patriot Act includes provisions for torturing and spying on Americans.
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Opera && javascript turned off == I don't care about this "web" thing.

So, I, for one, don't exactly care about what happened in your tin-foil crazy edge case.
This has the advantage that it is quite easy to implement for present networks.

Personally, I'd still save the title "THE most revolutionary networking technology I've seen in a long time" for the next-gen phased array smart antennas and MU-MIMO techniques.
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I would be curious what your thoughts are on Murdoch and the News of the World scandal. In that case everyone seems to think that Murdoch new or should have known yet in this case Google execs get a pass?
I have always wondered why cell carriers/manufacturers have not moved to a phased array type system yet. It has been available for WiFi deployments for quite some time. This seems like a step in the right direction.
Sure, but you can cherry-pick other parts, too:

Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing.

Proposed laws must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet through manipulation of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of Internet security

etc etc

It's not a perfect statement, but real politics is about compromise.

Perhaps a solution can be found so goods manufactures can have some course of action against counterfeit-good websites, without it destroying the internet. I'm not sure what that solution could be, but we shouldn't preclude the possibility.
I have a similar problem.

My first GUI experience was to maintain a massive Java Swing app (back when v < 1.2), which left me with some type of mental trauma. I've been trying to recover by re-starting from where I feel comfort (ie terminal):

https://pixbyfunc.appspot.com/pub/term/v1.html

I know it's pretty stupid but it actually helped me hunt down another personal 'white whale', which is asking contingent questions via browser:

https://pixbyfunc.appspot.com/pub/term/ask.html

I am not sure if I can ever become a good UI guy at this rate but wanted to say you are not alone.

End of my 0.0219 (CAD).
http://umbu.com Similar concept but not a clone.
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Perhaps I misunderstood, but I don't think it's simply a computer screen. I think that was actually a piece of glass with widgets being displayed on it (and a mockup landscape to simulate the view). The speaker mentioned that it was "a one-way pane" so that no one on the other side could see the things that you were looking at.
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So this is sort of like someone marketing your idea internationally without your blessing, and then coming to see you once they have traction and saying "hey you can spend money and do this yourself, and go up against us, or you can spend money to buy up what we've done and benefit from our experience and traction and hit the ground running"..

I see the downside, being forced into making a deal that maybe isn't on your terms, but if the price is right (versus doing it yourself - internationalization isn't that obvious) then I wonder if some companies just do it gladly (the acquisition)..
While I think we agree, I don't think cynicism is the way to go about it.

"Information wants to be free" is real, and passing laws to stop it is a fool's errand.

We should be working to harness this new distribution network, and build content businesses that work with piracy, not against it.
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That's not true.

Google's two-tier share structure specifically means they do not need to act in anyway that Page and Brin don't want to.

Even if every other shareholder hated everything they did, Page & Brin's shares will always out-vote them because each share they own is worth 10 votes of anyone else.[1]

[1] "The actual voting power of the insiders is much higher, however, as Google has a dual class stock structure in which each Class B share gets ten votes compared to each Class A share getting one." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
Anything is possible. But no company is investing millions developing GMO seeds that farmers can replicate.
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If so this is exactly the kind of thing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was invented for.
Are there any plans to implement auto-complete? It helps me when I search for technical problems to see if a) I'm on the right track, or b) if there are any alternatives to the search term that I'm looking for or c) if I'm not sure what exactly to look for

For example, if I enter "ios uiview " it will autocomplete with things like "animation", "lifecycle" etc and then select the right one.

Nonetheless, thanks for making DDG awesome :)
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Those same enthusiastic people are still there steady growing the community. NV was definitely a service that people wanted and were passionate about. If you could pick and choose what TV shows, Movies or any other media were available to you out of the whole catalog of what was out there right now, I'm sure that most people would have paid a subscription to a commercially available service if it was available.

It wouldn't have been allowed to dominate, it would have still been forced to close some sort of way. Before NV, there was Stage6 that provided the same high quality service and it closed up shop.
I had an idea, about 90% of the time I need internet on my smartphone, my car is between me and the cell tower, or if not it is within half a mile of me.

Cell phone companies could put "always on" cell phone repeater in my car, drinking from a large li-ion battery that is charged by the engine, so when my smartphone doesn't have enough punch to reach the cell tower, it has enough power to reach my car's repeater, which has enough power to reach the cell tower. If I could charge the company 0.001 cents every time someone else's phone routes through my repeater, the company could save billions on cell towers. Use the nation's cars as a mobile cell phone network. A Billion dollar idea right there.
They seem to have fixed that problem in a weekend, or am I missing something?

I'm unclear what you are saying - do you expect perfection from Google? I don't - mistakes happen. But I do expect them to fix things when they do something wrong.
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> it is not because the Founders thought it was a fundamental, inalienable right, it is because IP is a pragmatic solution to a practical problem: how do you encourage people to put forth the effort required to invent things and create art?

Is this accurate? Many of the early thinkers applied Lockean property theory to intellectual property and we have many of them referring to it as a right. John Locke himself thought that his theory justified intellectual property rights, even before the particular legal concepts of patents and copyrights existed. Whether or not you agree with Locke, it seems false to claim that those who created IP laws in the U.S. would not have been influenced by such thinking.

In fact, many early US court cases used Lockean property theory to justify patents and copyrights, suggesting that they did not view it as just a pragmatic solution to the problem you bring up, but a fundamental right.

Here's one recent source to justify what I am claiming:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1983614
One of the authors, Victoria Espinel, made these suggestions to Congress last year (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/15/concrete-steps-con...):

* Ensure that, in appropriate circumstances, infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony;

* Authorize DHS (including its component CBP) to share pre-seizure information about, and samples of, products and devices with rightholders to help DHS to determine whether the products are infringing or the devices are circumvention devices; and

* Give law enforcement wiretap authority for criminal copyright and trademark offenses.

Doesn't look like a "soft" position to me.
I don't know that they are focusing outside their borders. They are acknowledging that they understand the challenges of internationalization. Copyright laws are not equal internationally, and of course you can host your servers everywhere, but what they can do, which is the scary part, is block the infringing domain within their borders which would cut the infringing company out of the US market, and if other countries followed suit, you've essentially got an active international domain filtering system which is very threatening to free speach. This is how I see the problem.

It is a small step to filtering the internet, first because of piracy, but the same system once in place, could be used to block other content the gov't views as not for consumption by it's citizens.

I think much of the concern over SOPA is not the fear that the government would actually do that, but why take that risk and head down that road.
Google has mentioned a lot of times that various projects started from 20% projects of specific people. The post you're replying to was so ridiculous it wasn't bearing me responding.
Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy

I don't believe this.

provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders

Here we go being policemen of the world.
I'm sure they will just keep pushing back the vote until people on the Internet are tired of hearing about it, or have forgotten. I expect it to work.
Is Cory Doctorow's reputation such that he should be so quickly dismissed?

With all due respect to Doctorow, many on HN know quite a lot more about how the internet works than he does.

I know at least two ways to make arbitrary requests from a Google IP that haven't been mentioned on the comments to this story, and I don't claim any mad hackerz skillz.

I think the evidence pointed towards Google being responsible, and that's what I said. But I, and many others said to wait before drawing a final conclusion. I think that that's a reasonable approach.
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There was a recent statement on the plans to open up more data sets - see http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resource...
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For some people, for certain skills, "enough time" > lifetime.
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And Ruby resembles Perl and Smalltalk.

I like it, but I stick with Perl because it adds the OO stuff with Moose and being an older project has made more mistakes that have been fixed. Oh and CPAN of course,

Still telling people to either learn Ruby, if they want to get up to speed quickly. Else I tell them to learn Perl. It's a bit harder to learn, but easier to use. Well for some people (linguists, etc.) Perl is easier to learn too.
The usual note about the definition of a "subway" applies. Having all of BART classified as "subway" but not RER makes the term meaningless.

Also, the maps were created in 2004 and so are out of date for a number of cities (Montreal and Vancouver, off the top of my head).
Additionally the timing is very "suspicious". When already a co-sponsor of the bill announces that some re-drafting is necessary it seems like a very convenient timing to join the train.
Yes, but does Neil H. MacBride or anyone working in his office have a lick of common sense? It seems like people so unable to see things in proper perspective should be prohibited from exercising the legal profession.

"The government cites nothing that warrants reconsideration. Reviewing NinjaVideo’s Facebook page, and a related internet forum, the government finds a woman who is letting off some steam in her online community. In fact, in Ms. Beshara’s post-sentencing musings, she writes (in admittedly colorful language that is fairly common on the internet) to reassure friends and supporters that she will be able to handle serving the twenty-two month sentence. Govt Motion, Exhibit 2. She jokes about maybe losing some weight, picking up a degree, earning pennies making license plates. Id. Reflecting on her actual sentence, she notes that it would be natural to resent the judge that had imposed jail time on her, but she recognizes that she received a relatively lenient sentence. Id. These are not the writings of a defendant who is "likely to flee." Ms. Beshara was writing about serving her sentence, she was retrospective about how it easily could have been worse, how she could have received more jail time. She is preparing to go to jail, not to run from it.

The government does not dispute that Ms. Beshara is not a flight risk. Instead, they present two unpersuasive arguments. First, the government argues that Ms. Beshara poses a danger to the community due to internet postings that the government claims "suggest she may engage in physical violence with her future fellow inmates." Govt Motion at 2. As an initial matter, this is simply not a basis for reconsideration as it is not evidence that Ms. Beshara poses a "danger to the safety of any other person or the community if released." See 18 U.S.C. §3145(a). The government’s position amounts to the bizarre argument that Ms. Beshara should be incarcerated sooner because she will present a danger to "future fellow inmates" once incarcerated. Govt Motion at 2.

Moreover, the postings the government refers to are simply the online bluster of someone who has never spent a moment incarcerated. For example, the government notes Ms. Beshara’s posting that she will "run" her "cell block." Id. at 3. Ms. Beshara won’t even be on a cell block. She is clearly joking, as she jokes about having to make license plates. In fact, subsequent to the posts the government complains about, Ms. Beshara writes, "Nah but seriously guys, this is a sad and tragic situation and I want us to smile and laugh and stay together." See Govt Mtn, Exhibit 3, top of page 3."

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78155255/Beshara-reply-to-Gov-s-Mo...
The idea was that DNSSEC would make SOPA impossible -- proper implementation of the standard would mean that if the US legislated a 'blackout' of a particular name within the US, then clients would just naturally seek out other trusted servers which would return the correct addresses.

Based on this, the assumption seemed to be that SOPA passing would render DNSSEC effectively illegal within the US. Even if not actually illegal, it would be perceived as too-risky-to-implement by large corporations; effectively killing it.
http://icefilms.info is essentially the same thing, layout is basically the same too.
Well said Lisper. That was my take: they are the eskimos.

Forbes should fire this writer.
Most of them pay nothing at all. Samsung, HTC and LG made a deal where they agreed to make a few Win7 phones in exchange for patent freedom from M$. Part of the deal is to still claim that they are paying royalties in order to uphold this FUD. M$ hopes that this way they will make some money via Win7 phones.

Look at B&N, they are fighting M$ in court because they cannot make a deal like the phone people did.
That would be a great website -- though perhaps somewhat dangerous to run.
Yep. It's cheap and stupid. Why bother waiting for my pinterest invite when I can sign up for pinspire right now?

Given that network effects are most important for a startup like this, it's quite possible that the clone can overtake the original in a short amount of time.
Would Hacker News join?
Can you please provide a source for your information?

"HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi": http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-andr...
I voted for Obama, but when he says "Let us be clear", you know some bullshit is coming.
Indeed. I believe you are referring to this: http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/28/steve-perlman-unveils-dido...
Yea, the icefilms main page is pretty much how it looked and just go to ninjavideoforum.net to get an idea of how the forum looked.
That's in regards to US companies having their content/good pirated overseas, for example a fake pair of Levis being sold online. I don't get the sense that they want to (or think they can) control the internet outside the US, where it has nothing to do with US interests.
I can see it now: "I don't agree with everything in this bill, but I'm going to sign it."

I just don't believe them anymore.
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What this does is block support

What it does is make you happy, at the expense of some nice, non-binding rhetoric that Obama will happily violate as soon as he finds it expedient. Just like every other rhetoric he's ever emitted - all of which gives me warm fuzzies, too; I'd pay to listen to him talk all day. But Guantánamo is still in business, and so would SOPA be if he had an iota of political hay to make from it.
Just to play devil's advocate here, what you're saying is that folks like Bernie Madoff should not go to prison.
This is great.. hope some novel new apps, or at the very least the germs of some cross-field research, spring from this. I wonder how you can go about encouraging data providers to update the data, however? Obviously they were convinced once..
Great work and a great first start. One thing that I find that is still missing from file-sharing is to share your stuff with people in your close vicinity. I often run into cases when I just need to quickly share images, code fragments, links, etc. with another person sitting in the same room. I can use chat (but I generally don't like going on chat while working -- too distracting), I can email (which I often do) or use a service like Dropbox (but that means you have to upload and download files). An easy clipboard that can be sharable and accessible quickly would be very useful, at least for me. Just a thought.
You guys do know Victoria Espinel right? Her position as "Copyright Czar" was created by Obama's government.

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Espinel:

Espinel received eleven letters of in support of the nomination from related organizations including the MPAA, the Copyright Alliance, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.[7] As the IPEC, Espinel has stated she has a singular objective: develop and implement a comprehensive, unified approach to IP enforcement for the U.S. government.[1]

So if the response reads a little suspicious, it's because she (and presumably the administration) has a side on the issue.
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They don't only clone, they also spam Pinterest with fake accounts. Those accounts post lots of comments linking back to Pinspire. So it's definitely not clean competition.
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I totally agree. I've been wondering for 15 years why every website has to have a special custom design anyway. With native apps, custom design almost always works against them, as opposed to the OS's default, familiar design.

Maybe in the future, something like Bootstrap will become the default way that web browsers render websites, and we can just get rid of most of the boilerplate CSS.
Anyone else see the irony in the post? At the bottom of the post, it discloses that the source of this news is @RWW (rww.to/yPPAj9) ... who is going to get the Hacker News traffic? The original creator of this news or the one that... re-blogged it. Just sayin'
Not sure you would want that. An always-on repeater in your car means every time you are moving away from a base station, the repeater would have to power up in order to continue the reception, even if you are not using your smartphone. This is a recipe for a generation infested with radiation-effected diseases...
Granted, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I've filed six DMCA takedown notices for photographs I've placed under Creative Commons licenses but were not used according to the terms of those licenses. Every company I dealt with took swift action to take down the infringing material.
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I've watched a few of them and no, they can't. They can be condescending and long winded though...so there's that.
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kind of like people can never imagine caring for their elders without having Social Security, or having to pay for doctor's care for their elders without Medicare/Medicaid. We just become more and more dependent on the government to supply what used to be the responsibility of each and every individual. And as that happens, our individual freedoms are slowly diminished and extinguished.
The author asserts a weak correlation, yet does not explain the reason. Very very flimsy argument, I would say.
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