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All the charges against megaupload were framed at times when man did not even have the concept of internet, collaboration, file sharing or even copyrighting..

Conspiracy to commit racketeering - 1962
Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement
Conspiracy to commit money laundering - 1956
Criminal copyright infringement

Of these the level of charging these that are defined in 1962 and 1956, at this point the level of racketeering charge or the intensity of money laundering charges must definitely different from that of the situation now. This does not seem like a just system.
In response to (a), the article says "In other words, the non-desktop browsers that StatCounter reports in its desktop stats account for less than 3% of usage." According to the stats, WebM-supporting browsers have about a 5% market-share lead over H.264-supporting browsers, so even if all of that 3% support H.264 video (and I suspect that many of them don't support <video> at all), WebM-supporting browsers would still have a 2% lead.

Sure, desktop browsers aren't the trendy thing any more, and there's more PR value in having your website work on the iPad than market-share numbers would suggest, but for people not concerned with PR (say, hobbyists, rather than startups), this is a useful number to know.

In response to (b), also because Mozilla deliberately avoided support for a recognised format, in exchange for an arguably inferior format that Google happens to own. Which is to say, I'm not sure why that particular observation is relevant — however we came to be here, it's interesting to know what the current state of play is.
Please point out a case when Microsoft purchased a company and released their proprietary product with a FLOSS license and a patent grant.
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I'm curious as to what you think Marx' think human nature was like.

I ask, because most people who make this argument make it out of an assumption that Marx argued for a system based on widespread altruism.

But a central part of Marx' argumentation about the workers movement is that the working class needed to learn to understand the nature of class struggle, and reject bourgeois/capitalist morality, which is designed to support capitalist rule. E.g. the capitalist class supports strong private property rights because they have property and its in their interest to perpetuate it.

In effect, he argues that the working classes are too selfless - they in fact today actively support a system that puts them at a disadvantage.

If anything, he thought it would be easier to get people to pay more attention to their own self-interests than what they have been most places so far.

Marxist socialism is what you get if the vast majority pay recognize that they will never be "the 1%" and decide to band together to gain collective advantage.
Sucks to be you.... or a CS student at UW.

Math has overlaps with CS. There's surely justification for taking extra CS classes as part of your math degree. Data visualization requires knowing some computer graphics (and some art theory), automata theory is very math oriented, numerical methods of course requires programming (but the boring sorts of programming that CS departments don't usually teach).

If you want to go more into sys admin, then does your local math department need help with their system maintenance?

Some universities have a track or certificate in "computational science", and the EE department might also have CS-like courses.

My biggest regret about my undergrad education is that I didn't do a summer internship. Now is the time to apply for this summer; perhaps you'll find something interesting.

You have many options.
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That's true, or reward them with good coverage.

Here in the UK we actually have rules that say that TV news shows must remain non partisan. Of course people still accuse them of bias, but they are nothing like Fox news.

I imagine the 1st amendment would prevent a similar thing happening in the US.

Our newspapers however are often extremely partisan however and Murdoch still has much influence here through "The Sun" paper.

I guess with more content online , people could do something similar. "I have 100,000 followers, don't pass SOPA or I'll make a mean youtube video about you".
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Farm ville is silicon valley's equivalent to Survivor, massive popular appeal zero actual substance. If you want to compare art, I don't remember the last time I enjoyed a movie as much as Portal the video game. And unlike Hollywood it's squeal was bettor than the original.
Yes, mocking some (perfectly reasonable for a task-specific tool that is even offered for free and it's specifically called iBooks Author) restriction imposed by Apple will totally make Microsoft cool again with the hip programming crowd.

Oh, and the "If you write a novel in Word, we promise not to take a 30% cut" tweet.

Maybe because you already got from $80-$300 from me for Word and the gang, geniuses. And maybe because you offer Word as general purpose text editor, not something to prepare stuff for a specific service.
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Sure, I know they get used for reference and elements. Getting a lower quality plate just increases the post production costs anyway so it's generally a false economy.

That said, digital is certainly here to stay and the cost of professional equipment continues to drop.
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Key takeaway from article: Working age population vs. dependents has a huge bearing on the national economies in the following decades.

* Education & quality of it will have a huge bearing on each of these nations.
- In my view this is where India has the biggest risk. Quality of education, not just in schools but what we are teaching the kids (what they learn by observing this generation as well).
- The thing I wish & yearn to teach (show) my kid & several others who grow up with him is to put the interests of "whole" before "self". This I believe is something seriously lacking in our society and could hurt us badly.

The more I think of it the more I am convinced that every other societal problem starts from the individual and the nation begets the leaders it deserves (in a democracy!).

And at a macro level decision making there are few issues that will drive it.
- Self-sufficiency in energy sector will be the key driver on which way these nations go. In India there is HUGE dependency on energy outside India and yet there is not much being done (compared to others there is not even much awareness).

It is wishful thinking to believe the numbers alone could help the nations move forward and as the OP summarized it is for these developing nations to gain or lose the most while for US to protect and defend and (hopefully) not at each other's expense.

In my opinion it will be measured by how much progress is there in standard of living for each of these nations from the current standards.
Perhaps those of use who truly care about intellectual freedom should be writing checks too. I have no problem buying politicians for the right reasons. It appears to be the way business is done in the United States. Anyone interested in starting a lobbying organization that supports real patent reform and a free Internet?
The difficulty in studying engineering is overrated. This article is describing a correlation, not a causation.

If you're interested in what you're studying, spending extra time studying it isn't a chore. The engineering students I knew either loved what they learned or loved what they would accomplish with it - aka projects, service, careers, etc. The students who I knew that were unhappy (I was one) did not have that kind of interest, even though we did well. That's a hard feeling to overcome, if you're spending a lot of time studying with no sense of purpose or intrinsic motivation, while your peers are excited about their work. I remember interviewing and visiting engineering companies, trying to imagine myself working there. For all the talk about engineering teaching you how to "solve hard problems," most jobs were not at all the creative, inventive type I had thought.

Sometimes, students come in with the wrong understanding of a major or career type. For example, "I liked studying chemistry in high school, so let me study chemical engineering," thinking they're the same. Sometimes, students find that they were more passionate about something else, like music. I or my peers didn't transfer into a liberal arts program, following the article's train of thought. We made our own paths instead. To this day, I take a fair amount of math courses.

Instead of focusing on hard or soft subjects, schools need to focus on training good thinkers who know how to learn, reason, and implement in a wide variety of styles.
If you consider mobile, which the article did not, the numbers are closer but still slightly favoring webm.

Opportunities for growth
4% world share of Firefox 3.6 users -> webm
26% world share of IE 6-8 users -> up for grabs?
iOS/Mac growth -> mostly h.264
Android growth -> both
23% loss for h.264 if/when chrome drops support

Why webm still doesn't matter yet: demographics and fallback availability.
The devices that exclusively support h.264 are more valuable users for video (mobile, console, set top box) and have no fallbacks. Most of the webm support base (desktop Firefox, chrome) can fall back to flash h.264 player. Half of the webm support base presently supports h.264 natively anyways (chrome, android)

Other notes:
- webm support can be trivially added to desktop safari and IE9+ by mildly tech savvy users.
- h.264 tools and encoders are better and hardware encode/decode support is far better
- the openness and cheapness of webm will probably improve its tool and hardware support in the long run especially if/as uncertainty about its patent status declines.
My point was that there's no need to think that big, initially. There's also money in story driven movies and shows, as Keyframe calls it. Disruption of passive entrainment structures is more likely to happen from below, not from above.
Haven't found Emergency Elisp by Steve Yegge there, and it's a good hands-on intro to Emacs lisp.
> In other words, the non-desktop browsers that StatCounter reports in its desktop stats account for less than 3% of usage

Then their stats are not realistic.
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Wow, the only time this guy takes his foot out of his mouth, is to shoot himself in said foot.

Actually let us hope he makes a few more comments like this one so that even more people can see what the MPAA are really about.
I see the seeds of change in the Hype Machine and Soundcloud, but it seems right now that they are more for trendy music as opposed to popular music. I believe it is going to be a slow transformation, people listen to the radio and the labels work with cable companies very effectively (late night tv etc.)
Android 2.3+ supports webm via the video tag. I am not sure what the hardware acceleration status is, certainly not as good as the near ubiquitous hardware h.264 support.
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The minute they stop writing checks is the minute they stop having power. They may back republicans, but I doubt it.

So Hollywood's finally figuring out their representatives can't be trusted to act in their interests? Shame, that. Must be tough. They have my sympathy. No, really, I mean it. Can't imagine what they're going through.
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My idea is this:

A website where you create an account, are able to transfer money into it, and are able to search for a film or episode of a TV series (for a list which we have licensed somehow). When you find the film you want to watch you are given the option to buy it using your credit, if you have bought it there will be download links available: direct/HTTP download as well as something more robust (able to stop and restart half way through with ease). What you get to download is simply a video file (mp4, mkv, something like that) of the episode itself: No adverts stuck onto it, no digital hand cuffs, no hidden water marks than identify you personally: Just the video you want to watch. You can then watch it on your computer as many times as you want but you are not allowed to upload it to the internet or broadcast it publicly etc.

I think this is a good idea because it gives people freedom from DRM and harassment and similar such things (many people that currently use torrents do so because they do not like these anti-freedom technological devices). I do not know whether or not any publishers would actually sell licenses for a site like this to use though, I imagine they will argue that as soon as one person downloads it then you can't stop them uploading it and giving it to everyone so they'll get no sales.. in fact this is not a good argument because all this stuff is already available on torrent and file sharing sites.

I hope I explained this clearly and suitable for this site. Have been thinking about ways to end DRM (something I am terrified of strangling us even more painfully in the longer term future than hollywood could ever do) for many years but I am not going to make my own startup so I hope someone might find some insight in my idea.
You could donate to eff :-)
Its disgusting to see that in this day and age that large companies can be actively engaged in such collusive anti-competitive practices. I dont care who they are or whether or not they knew that what they were doing was illegal - the architects of this 'gentlemans agreement' should have time in jail for this.
Although maybe he was right:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/oorgn/microsoft_keep...
Interesting. I was actually expecting bigger percentages.
I don't understand how he (or anyone) can get away with saying things like this--it's practically a straight up admission that they're buying votes.

How is this not corruption?
Apple creates such innovative products yet seems to subscribe to such regressive social policies. I have trouble gauging whether their products should be considered progress when things like this anti-poaching policy come to light.
Freemusicarchive.org has a lot of good content, and the curator picks help filter some, but I agree that a recomendation system would make a site like that significantly more usable
Don't forget Facebook. A lot of users would've used Picnik to edit and share their photos on Facebook. If it's all about Google+, then hurting FB is a bonus.
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Woa, that went huge fast. I mean, every startups is an offensive against something already existing, no? Yes, you can have an original idea but more often than not, it's based on something existing and enhancing it in some ways.
It's not 7 letters, but it got me thinking, and I came up with copyfoul/copyfouling. I particularly pleased with it, especially after looking up the definition of foul, one of which involves committing infringement of rules.
Extraordinarily blatant. I'm amazed that 30 years (thirty years!) in the Senate didn't teach Dodd to be more subtle in the uses of power than this. I mean, this guy ran for President. This is the best you can do, Dodd?

My cat would be a better lobbyist.
Yes, or at least incomplete.
I think that’s a very important point.

The default is h.264 because Flash supports it and that used to be the only way to get video to the people. Now there are other ways, but they are not yet widespread enough, h.264 is consequently still necessary as a fallback.

Outside of Flash browsers are not terribly bad at supporting h.264 either. WebM might be doing better – but not by much. That’s the problem.

What someone who picks a video format is thinking: Many don’t have built-in support for video so we have to use Flash one way or another. h.264 is the format of choice when using Flash so we need our video in h.264. Oh, and look, that same h.264 video works in a ton of browsers without Flash. So we get kick-ass HTML5 video out of it, too, without doing any additional work. Also: iOS. WebM doesn’t even figure into this thinking and why should it? It would only complicate things for minimal gains.

For WebM to claim decisive victory it would need widespread support (I’m guessing well north of two thirds) and h.264 would have to lag very far behind. It doesn’t look like that will be happening anytime soon.

h.264 is the strong incumbent, it would take overwhelming force to take it out.

(By the way, when does WebM come to Flash again? I don’t think it is already but I think they announced it. I’m not even sure whether that will change much about the dynamic, mostly due to inertia, but I might be wrong.)
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'Resourcefulness' is entirely dependent upon knowledge of and experience in a particular area.

No, did you even read the article? He covers exactly the case of needing VC funding!

For example: let's say my motorcycle just stops running. 15 years ago, I'd have stood there dumbfounded, looked through a shop manual with near-zero comprehension of anything in it, and eventually given up and asked for help.

Asking for help isn't giving up, leaving a broken motorcycle unfixed forever on your pile of "stuff I won't ever get round to" is giving up. Starting with a shop manual, then changing to asking for help, then getting a fixed motorbike is being resourceful.

Saying "VC funding. I'm lost, I haven't the slightest clue and don't want to" is giving up. Saying "VC funding, I don't want to know so I'll ask some startup founders with VC funding if they'll contract to talk to VCs on my behalf" (and then getting over the fear of contacting busy strangers with a weird request and actually doing that), is being resourceful. But so is saying "I don't know and I don't want to know, but I can't get funded otherwise so I must do it anyway".
Does anyone have a link to the actual video?
Let's say that the limits of charlantism are reached sooner in the STEM fields. To study the liberal arts properly involves a good deal of effort.
its only used in cases where the installation of chrome is not available, or features based on proprietary VBScript attributes that are only available in IE are needed on other sites.
It's good to see coverage in the press that doesn't just echo the "Government Shuts Down Evil Pirate Web Site" that you too often see in mainstream media. And in Hollywood's hometown none-the-less. The comments on the article are also skeptical of the whole thing as well. Wonder if Hollywood execs read their home-town papers?
Honeeey, I just bought you this new computer with an Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processor so you can watch those HTML5 demos with more than 5 pictures per second.
Continuing to be an ass when it's pointed out to you is further proof of your ass-clown status.

I know you'll be able to get this account killed in moments. It just continues to astound that your hypocrisy has not mediated against the insane hero worship you enjoy.
What do you think is the source of the problem in France?

Maybe the way money influences politics is more so a problem here. I do think it is a stretch to say it is completely irrelevant, because it seems clear that it isn't.
Because not enough people care enough to push hard enough for it to change - presumably most of the people who do care don't find having to do apt-get install bash-completion onerous enough to matter.
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Chrome doesn't support H.264 yet this guy counts it among the H.264 capable browsers.

WebM: Chrome, Opera and Firefox. 50% worldwide share

H.264: IE9 and Safari. 15% worldwide share
It reminds me of an old article I read back when oink.cd was shut down, criticizing the music industry: http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of...

I don't like labeling the whole SOPA case as "Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley", but in a way Hollywood is like the major record labels. However, I'm not sure it's a dying industry.

This is exactly where entrepreneurs and innovative startups can come in and help those old industries adapt to a not-so-new reality through advertisements, accessibility, convenience, etc.
Ask HN: How do I go on holiday/vacation as a single founder of SAAS app?
I'll be going to a isolated place in Scotland with no internet for 10 days. How can I minimize the effect on my SAAS app and clients.
Is it wrong that he is saying this on the record? I dont agree with the lobbying system either, but dont shoot someone just for being transparent about the way the system works.
"If you don't contribute what you can..."

The problem is that this is so hard to measure in practice. I think that in the absence of external motivators, people revert to their subsistence level of output, since they have no incentive to go beyond that.
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On the flip side a similar script to use a similar technique in .profile to strip out all SSH lines in your history would be a good security measure. That account gets compromised and you wouldn't have a road map of other hosts to connect to. Could remove known_hosts on systems that don't hash the hostnames too. Maybe I really am turning into a grumpy Sa if these are my first thoughts on reading things like this.
I don't see the initiative as the full scale take-down of an artform, but rather an industry built around an artform. What will probably prevail when hollywood is beaten to death is an even more vibrant representation of the artform!
Because Windows uses UTF-16 as its Unicode encoding. Why? Because Unicode support in Windows started in NT, and that used UCS2. Why? Because when NT was first being developed in 1989/1990, UTF-8 hadn't been invented yet, and wouldn't be for another few years. And UTF-8 didn't have much traction at all until after 2000, by which time it was too late.

Also, Windows has some problems with UTF-8 due to MB_LEN_MAX[0] being 2. Which cannot be changed because that would break the ABI. (e.g. "char foo[MB_LEN_MAX * len + 1];") Those problems aren't totally insurmountable as Windows does have UTF-8 code pages which work, but it's not totally plain sailing.

In any case, going back now would be an admission of a mistake.

Thus, Windows is UTF-16. And the infection spreads....

[0] http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/MB_LEN...
This is what Youtube is already doing...

Creating millions of channels that anyone can tune in to.
I have HTML5 enabled in Youtube, yet I still cannot watch most of the videos because they are served as Flash only. So why is Google pushing Webm when their top video site does not make use of it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_and_the_law#Worldw... Wikipedia seems to disagree.
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Ah, is there a time limit on link reposting, then? Usually I get redirected to the discussion if the topic is stale.
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Although there was an announcement almost 2 years ago regarding VP8 support for Flash, there was no commitment made to support the Matroska container or Vorbis codec at that time, which are both part of the WebM spec.

Since then there has been no release or further communication on the topic, afaik. Looking around the web a couple months ago I found an experimental implementation of WebM decoding in Flash by Ralph Hauwert, but my understanding was that it was only able to achive 5-10 fps due to high CPU usage and no built in hardware support.