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Flickr's SOPA protest lets users darken individual photos
Okay thanks. Still, can I somehow delete my account?
If we could get rid of SOAP along with SOPA, I would be doubly happy.
China is equally fun. Piracy is simply a fact. Universities use pirated windows XP. Street vendors sell every sort of game in plastic sleeves for a few kuai (approx 0.50 USD). Computer shops and tech markets do the same. I suppose I could set out to buy the "real thing" but I honestly wouldn't know where to start. I could go by price but even then...

Even alcohol seems questionable often times. I am fairly confident I have yet to buy a bottle of gin/vodka/whiskey that hasn't been somehow meddled with. After all, if I put it in the freezer it always freezes.

After writing this I guess I realize it is somewhat OT but it does signify that you have a major problem when the fake is nearly indistinguishable from the real.
I've always wondered what odd confusion of emotions could make someone say they are a thief and proud of it.

I can understand those who claim that what they are doing isn't thievery.

I can understand those that don't accept the idea of intellectual property in general.

But for you to both buy into the philosophy that what you are taking is valuable, and ought to be protected---then still steal it proudly..... that is one thing I can't understand.

Aren't people supposed to want to be good?
In a trade between freedom of information and Transformers 3 I will choose the freedom.
Or, during the blackout period: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
One more point worth considering. We were conditioned to associate the music with the medium, because it was more profitable. Now it is not anymore and there lies the problem.

In the past I bought a MC and then I bought a CD. I paid twice for the same work. Did the shop offer me a discount? No.

Do I get a discount when I watch the same movie twice in a cinema or if I buy a DVD after I have seen the movie in the cinema? No.

Do I get easy access to mp3 if I buy a CD? No.

The movie/music industry simply sends the wrong signals...
no idea, but the code is so simple....
I bought all the albums of my favourite performer and don't want to scratch the CDs or waste my time to rip the music from CDs, hence I download them from the web.

Does that count as piracy?
Looks a lot less dated than the other one so good job on that front.

Not sure if anyone working on the design / copy is reading this, but I'm wondering why they felt compelled to add "popular" to "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language [...]".

Should people use or be interested in PHP because it's popular? How is this a differentiating feature worth mentioning in the first sentence introducing PHP? (Genuine question, I'm not saying it's wrong for them to call it so)

Also, titling a section "PECL + PEAR" is useless if you don't already know what they are. Why not call it "Extensions & Libraries" or something similarly descriptive and let the acronyms be introduced in the description?
When will we finally get rid of the numerical pad?

The now discontinued HP mini keyboard [1] was exactly as I thought all the keyboards would had been past 2005. Exactly the full size layout, just without the unnecessary numerical pad whose only use it to keep the mouse far away from my right hand.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/HP-AS601AA-ABA-Mini-Keyboard/dp/B0025Z...
Indie game developer pirates own game to protest SOPA
That's one of my problems with his argument. The author seems to think he has a fundamental right to access the produce of media companies... but only on terms he finds reasonable, of course.

As you say, rights are often malleable - and reevaluating and redefining them (from both sides of this debate) should be an ongoing process.
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Since we're on the topic of messaging effectiveness, can we all agree that the infographic Google selcted is nearly impossible to view?
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Ask HN: what does your blackout page look like?
here's mine: http://twitya.com/503.php

The .htaccess is as follows:

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RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^12\.345\.678\.901

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/503.php [NC]

RewriteRule .* /503.php [L]

[the ip address is my own so I can access the site]

top of 503.php:

header("HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");

header("Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");

header("Retry-After: 86400");
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When I started making enough money to buy a car I put an end to my car stealing habit for some time.

See how silly this sounds?

The problem with digital media is that it's very easy to copy. You can't just copy a car.

There are tons of website offering free music. So just support those artists instead of the ones charging too much for an inferior service.
or even shorter:

javascript:($('body').children().toggle())

Have fun!
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You never miss keypads ... until you want to play a roguelike.
Microsoft says it opposes SOPA ‘as currently drafted’
I'm surprised that only MPAA staff is commenting on this link.
Front Page of 40+ Popular Websites Currently Protesting SOPA/PIPA
I was in the movie theatre three weeks ago and paid almost 10€ for the ticket only to be forced to watch - I kid you not - 30 minutes of commercials + another 20 minutes of movie trailers before the movie even started. And when you reserve a ticket, you are forced to be there 30 minutes before the movie begins, otherwise they released the seats.

That was a waste of 50+30 minutes of my time, which was more than half of the entire movie. And I even paid 10 freaking bucks for it.

This was the moment when I realized that I probably won't go to a movie theater more than once a year from now on.

This doesn't mean that I now will go on and pirate the movie. There's still iTunes and I don't need to see a movie on release day, but it was a great example for how companies mess up the user experience.

The irony is that some theaters show something like a self-commercial with the saying "Cinema - that's what movies are made for".

Disclaimer: This happened in Germany. The movie-watching experience in the US was way better to me. No commercials, only a few trailers.
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In case it's taken down, the gist of it is in this animated GIF:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/sopa/sopa.gif
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SOPA - Ben Huh vs NBC exec
zalthor: You've highlighted a very important point here. One which a lot of people overlook and that is the unavailability of the content in most south-east-asian countries. Piracy, I believe, is the norm there and if it were not for piracy most of the countries over there would be severely lacking in terms of knowledge and awareness of a specific domain (for e.g: cultural awareness in terms of movies and music piracy).

Having said that I think it is also quite difficult for the "greedy" companies to sell in these countries at the price points that would have suitable returns. This is because of the fact that the masses in these countries simply cannot afford to pay that much. This does not necessarily mean they should suffer for it.

So, pirates are actually heroes in these regions no matter what anybody says because a genuine audience/market for them exists in poor/sanctioned countries around the world. SOPA or whatever other concoction they have in the rabbit hat, would do very little to affect the usual business of the day.
Ask HN: What changes to net infrastructure are needed so no gov can control it?
This question relates to SOPA, both in terms of enforcing it through DNS filtering, but also any other way they might choose to try to enforce it. But it's intent is towards political-neutrality of the internet.

I heard from a Herman Chinery-Hesse talk, that African payment transaction systems (used by services like M-Pesa) have redundancy in various countries, so political forces in specific governments can't shut them down completely. It seems that SOPA exploits a weakness of the internet, that ICANN is US-based. How could the pan-African approach be applied into the current DNS system and other systems that SOPA might exploit?

For example, to counteract SOPAs potential attempt to control DNS, what would be needed in addition to a hot backup of ICANN's database in Sweden and maybe a few other countries? The OSI-model-friendly way would be to get support of international ISPS to configure different upstream DNS servers, in those downstream from ICANN "fail" to provide the requested record. But could breaking the OSI help? In-build browser support for "backup" DNS servers? Opt-in by installing an anti-SOPA DNS browser plugins?

I'm hoping the question is read as broader than just this example though. What are the weaknesses in general that should be addressed?
Some people would consider popular music to be part of their culture. It's much like asking if you have to buy Microsoft Office when it has such a hegemony. You can of course not buy it, but there is pressure to do so.
I am not a very big fan of the gigantic fold-out navigation bar.
"I launch a search and I click. In less than 10 minutes, I've a full movie on my disk. In 20, I've the complete discography of an artist."

When I hear about stuff like this, along with people's multi-terabyte arrays of content, I wonder if they actually listen/watch much of it. Movie/Record companies are worrying that this all got "stolen" but if it was never viewed was it actually "stolen"?
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Maybe in the US. Here in the UK, several recruiters I know are actively targeting Google as they find it an easy place to dislodge good developers from with better offers from elsewhere.

I think even in the US you're still largely benefitting from the growth rate - once Google's growth slows down, and it will, Google will struggle with retention just as much as other large companies.
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How would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief?
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> It might make you feel better about it, but it really
> doesn't change the fact that you're stealing something
> of value

Copyright infringement is not stealing.

Separately, the person who worked hard to produce whatever you're buying is reaping a fraction of a percentage point of whatever you're spending, and that's only if the distributor hasn't found a way to screw them out of that entirely (or else they've been long since dead).
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Let me add: Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg
Currently seeing the normal logo in the UK.
I definitely agree. I would rather go to US than Europe and this is not because the former has better living conditions but because there are better opportunities to learn and for a CS student like me, Silicon valley is the Mecca.

But the point I am making is that illegal immigration, the example you had given, is not a measure of how good the country is with respect to the rest of the world. It only measures how good the country is (and how porous the borders are) with respect to its neighbours. Legal immigration on the other hand is a much better measure, and US has tons of it.

[Edit - typos]
Plus, you can even get unlimited cinema passes (in the U.K. at least):

http://www.cineworld.co.uk/unlimited
The way I see it is that the author is using this blog post to fight for what he believes are his rights, and the businesses are fighting for what they believe are their rights. Philosophical/Moral arguments aside, this war will be won by whoever is louder/more influential.
You can spread the word, and you can also let your representation know your views. International political pressure counts too.
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What do you know about SOPA? Check this infographic.
Right. I wanted it to be pure apache error message except for the text. El Hamstero Mustardo here talked me down.
The text was Cory, the viewsource was Dean (Mustardhamsters here at HN). Thanks, guys!
Nice, I'm actually building something very similar, also on Node. I don't have a ton of time to work on it though. I have a bunch of other ideas that my app will be a part of. I may be interested, I will send you an email today or tomorrow.
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Don't let the truth get in the way of good rhetoric. Bury ipv4? Hardly.
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The OP's last sentence saying goodbye your demise is soon or something to that extent is funny.

There is always going to be a music and or movie business, as human beings since the dawn of time have fawned over larger then life figures. THere is a business around this (Justin Bieber) and there always will be.
How about those of us who live where getting certain products legally is essentially impossible? In my case, these are anime-series and documentaries, neither which can be bought where I live. What should I do, if I really want to watch these, and have no way of getting them except for P2P?

(Fun fact: Availability was what "drove" me into piracy in the first place. There was a TV-show which had aired about a year earlier, which I had missed then but wanted to see. I tried every legal way to obtain it that I could think of, because I believed piracy was wrong at the time, but it was simply not for sale. In the end, I ended up with my first torrent downloading.)
I agree with you, I needed to read some articles for quick information reminder but I CANT.
While I agree that SOPA/PIPA should not be passed, and that the protest may be a good way to show everyone disagrees, closing the websites like this is pretty bad for the users I think they should allow people to read the articles.
Sure, attacking ships is bad. Sharing, on the other hand, is honorable.
"You can't just copy a car."

Yup! And that's why comparing digital piracy with car theft is also equally silly.

Note, I don't have a hard stance on this. Counterfeiting drugs, etc. is wrong for obvious reasons. Coming up with a similar argument for entertainment media is a bit less tenable.

When the MPAA and RIAA cede the moral high ground by acting like idiots (suing 12-year olds, pushing for high criminal charges, SOPA/PIPA, etc.), it makes it more difficult to make a moral argument for the industry.

The everything free argument is crap. But given that I pay for songs on iTunes but pirate TV shows because Derp Studios refuses to put it anywhere online, the user case is valid.
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IIRC Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan's excellent slim tome _The Awk Programming Language_ implements something similar; awk is used to generate the awk with Field1 replaced by $1, etc.
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That's a fuzzy line that invites far more chaos from over-zealous regulation than it does protect the user.
If you think about it, PHP's biggest strenght is its ecosystem right now, which comes from popularity.
> Copyright infringement is not stealing.

I assume there will be counter-arguments/downvotes, so to elaborate on this point using my own arguments:

If you steal something from me, I don't have it (as in "steal a car"), so you're putting me in a worse-off position. If you copy/pirate something that is mine (properly copy, with attribution, and not out of context), I am not worse-off (possibly even better-off, as I get more widely known, more famous).

Some compare pirating a DVD with going to a masseuse/prostitute and not paying her/him afterwards. This analogy is not correct - the expectation/social contract is that I have to pay you after I receive a service, and if I don't pay you, you are worse-off because you don't have money that you would otherwise have. However, people that pirate movies/music are not automatically lost revenue - probably they would buy less than 10% (just a guess) of entertainment content that they download/consume through piracy.
The ability to authenticate that someone wanting to action a takedown actually owns the copyright would be paramount to a service like this working. It would be mayhem otherwise.

Once a user is signed up and authenticated would you restrict their search to only titles that they own the copyright to?
https://github.com/blambeau/alf is something close, although it does a lot more: "Alf is a commandline tool and Ruby library to manipulate data with all the power of a truly relational algebra approach."
> you're stealing something of value that someone worked hard to produce.

What exactly is stolen? Certainly not the piece of music, film, or knowledge: unlike spaghetti, those are abundant, non-conflicting goods. Nor the exclusivity, for it is only destroyed. Nor secrecy or privacy, for the piece of knowledge or art is public already.

This is not theft. This is infringing a state granted monopoly. It doesn't make it a good idea, mind you. Upholding the law is generally a good idea. But unlike plain theft, it's not obviously wrong either.
I think he was saying good-bye to the distributors, i.e. record labels, whom he sees as superfluous given digital distribution and marketing platforms.
Is it hideously loud like a lot of the other mechanical keyboards mentioned in this thread. Safe for office use?
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I've recently quit my job to work on my startup full time. I do have some money saved up and am living cheaply. At some point you have to take a chance on yourself and do what you want. Life is too short to be working on things you don't want to do; that was the primary reason for me to devote myself full time. I also wrote about this in slightly longer prose, if you are interested:

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> This is because the following is simply not a closure in Python

Well, they should be closures, or they shouldn't be there.

This isn't a question of not understanding Python's semantic rules, it's a question of those rules being screwed. I understand why it's not consistent with generators (as you say - i isn't generated yet). I don't understand why it's not consistent with what you'd expect, namely lambdas not being closures.

It's an even weirder gotcha than:

def f(x = []):
x.append(1)
return x

and we know how many people get hit with that one ;)
I actually still had Wikipedia blocked by noscript, so it took me a while to understand why I could access it normally ;)
I've never seen a news post which exemplifies the idea that the comments can be worth more than the article. Obviously this isn't news to any-one here but it gives a place to discuss the changes.
They can't use the DVD logo if they do that. That's it iirc.
So, does this tax then mean that I can pirate songs/movies? After all, I have already paid for them (through the tax).

(Fiction, I know, but one can dream...)
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You should find a smaller cinema then. In my experience only huge ventures like Cinestar can afford to behave so badly to their customers, whereas independent cinemas have excellent service (and sometimes are even cheaper!).
If authors aren't getting their fair share of the proceeds, wouldn't that be a perfect opportunity for a competing media company to enter the market and crush all existing publishers?
Could this be 'remarketing' http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html?
From my point of view the content that the artivle is talking about is the equivalent of candy.

By pirating this content you are the same as a child stealing candy. The analogy is obviously imperfect because a shop owner is directly damaged by the physical theft but my point is that a child does not need sweets. And 'pirates' do not need bland tv shows distracting them from so many other things in this world that are more deserving of time.

'Pirates' just seem to be sadder version of consumers who don't even help the economy. Little black holes taking and giving nothing back.

I feel sadness that these people try to justify their activities and ally themselves with the SOPA protests.
I feel that these taxes worsen the problem. If, every time I bought blank media, the record companies got a cut, then you bet I'd not buy any music, but copy it instead. I would see it as a right that I had paid for.
Are you referring to Apple's Alu keyboard? I'm using Matias TactilePro Mac keyabord at work, on a typical Windows PC. No issues here - Command becomes Win and all is well.
Exactly.

A prostitute performs a personal service for you. Not paying directly hurts him/her.

When copying information on the other hand, nothing happens, you don't feel it when your information is copied. (yes, you can say it does indirectly through some convoluted story, but that's always debatable)

The future economy will be more about directly personalized experiences and services that cannot be copied, or are much less interesting when copied, instead of trivial fan-outs of information. It is all about scarcity. Better to let that sink in than try to preserve what is already lost, at the cost of freedom.

(edit: why do I say future? It is already the present for many of us)
Google is currently being investigated on anti-trust issues . A huge show of political force might annoy politicians. Google's just being careful.
It still shows "The English Wikipedia is currently locked for the SOPA/PIPA blackout" on the main page.
You could use any Etherpad Lite site [0]. Probably also works with the "heavy" Etherpad.

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Apparently, when polling a sufficiently large population, you're bound to get a small error of weird answers. It's hard to say what the cause is, trolling, error, not understanding the question or something else, but it's why statistical significance matters.