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You're correct. But I believe there's a certain amount of coordination going on behind the scenes in order to arrange significant activities.

Anonymous is an interesting cultural phenomenon, but hiding behind a common shared identity is not new. For example, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-use_name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms
I think the important thing to note is that the author is not complaining that Apple wants a cut. The author is complaining that you have to do it through the App Store. And in that regard, I do agree that this case is unprecedented, that a EULA restricts the distribution channel.
Nice going anonymous , your just proving to the government the Internet needs to be more regulated ....
I would have to see the designs before comitting, but given like 95% of my wardrobe is geeky shirts from thinkgeek, i'd say you have a fairly solid bet in me.
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They have a super well done promo video for it too.

Disclaimer, I'm friends with Juan from the Miami tech community.
Check out Google Labs. They recently added the two-pane feature.
Yet another emacs/vim article, and I always look for an excuse to get excited but never can.

It seems that the speed at which I think/code is much slower than the speed at which I type. So I can't imagine that I would benefit from skills in emacs/vim-fu.

Is this preconception valid, or can anyone debunk?
he probably just turns the music off while he codes, honestly most web sites can be done pretty quick if you concentrate. /⸮
The author is not saying that apple does not deserve a cut. He is noting that it is questionable whether Apple should be allowed to restrict the distribution channel
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I think it's pretty clear: "Every Linux screen locker" means every screen locking program that runs on linux, not every version of linux.

The bug is in Xorg, if you have any screen-locker running on a version with the bug, then it can be bypassed.
Top Senate Republican urges Democrats to set aside PIPA
"It also gives anyone the ability to distribute an iBook outside the iBookstore."

That is exactly what the author complains about, you cannot distribute an iBook outside the store:

"if your Work is provided for a fee (including as part of any subscription-based product or service), you may only distribute the Work through Apple and such distribution is subject to the following limitations and conditions"
FWIW Nexmo charges $0.0376 per SMS in the UK (http://nexmo.com/pricing/index.html) and supports over 200 countries. (I am not affiliated w/ Nexmo.)
This may be the one-in-a-million chance to disregard that guideline. A big rule in interface design is to do what users expect. In Vi/Vim, this means quitting on :q. Assuming that this is non-standard enough that Apple would go find somebody who knows Vim to handle the review, that person would (and obviously did) know this.
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The problem is that some versions of linux ship with those modifications in their default keyboard maps. For example, ArchLinux had them until recently in their xkeyboard-config package. http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-Jan...
from nchuhoai (somewhere in the comment threads):

The author is not saying that apple does not deserve a cut. He is noting that it is questionable whether Apple should be allowed to restrict the distribution channel
I would put your position into the "clearly less informed" camp, sorry.

Copyright originally was created as a legal concept shortly after the invention of the printing press* because individual small printers were making and selling copies of other people's books. At that time (about 400 years ago), there were no "well capitalized industrialists." The industrial revolution had not even happened yet, and the few corporations that existed at all were captives of the sovereign rulers who created them.

In addition, from the very beginning, copyright was an individual author right that accrued to people, not companies. That is how it was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for instance, although at that point in time it was already an old concept. The idea that it has always been (or is even today) a matter of industrial law is not accurate.

> In truth, copyright law - as it exists - is fundamentally and irredeemably incompatible with a democratic society in which citizens have the power to duplicate and distribute at virtually no cost.

This is the exact opposite of how public policy works. It is the very ease of copying that creates the need for a legal framework to regulate it. Before the printing press existed, copyright did not exist either--because it was not needed.

In a free society where copying is free, the most precious thing is original throught, original opinion, original content. That is the last true scarcity, and must be protected. Otherwise how are we to distinguish one citizen from another?

* BTW it is worth spending some time reviewing the history of the printing press and the impact it had on the world. I would argue that it was much more of a revolution than the Internet has been so far, although of course the Internet is still in its early stages of development.
I've been very happy with vlock. What hangups did you run into? I admit that it has required some scripting to avoid launching it twice concurrently (via xautolock and pm-utils), and to clear its console before locking, but overall I find it secure, elegant, and worthwhile. What do you prefer about physlock?
Can someone explain this a bit better to me?

Let's say I write a book called "My Awesome Comments from HackerNews, Unabridged" (MACFHU) using Microsoft Word.

And I send that to my publisher, retaining all rights to publish the book still.

Then I adapt MACFHU for iBooks using the iBook Author tool. Would I then be prohibited from selling my book in the iBookstore because it's already available in hardcover? If I published it first in iBookstore, would my publisher be prohibited from publishing it in hardcover?

Or does the iBooks EULA basically say: "This is a specialized tool that you should use to publish books on the iPad." You can certainly publish your content on other platforms as well, but you'll need to format it using other tools. Check out InDesign, for instance.

I need some clarification.
What's the basis for the money laundering conspiracy charges?
> If you have a bunch of links to the same file and only take down one then you have no protection

But the existence of a copy does not tell you whether the uploader had the appropriate license from the copyright holder, or is the copyright holder, of that copy. Files do not fit into "legal" and "illegal" bins by the order of the bits alone.

Let's say I create and sell a software package. I upload it to my Megaupload account so I can easily access it later at another location.

Someone else uploads a copy they bought with a stolen credit card so they can share it on a warez forum. I send a DMCA notice of infringement requesting this copy be removed from Megaupload.

Should Megaupload now also locate all links to that file and remove them, including mine, which is entirely legal for them to host? Is Megaupload required to breach its contract with me as a paying user of their service, in good faith and violating no laws, in order to meet the DMCA safe harbor requirements? I think not.
> Speaking from experience, piracy has a very strong influence on how much money video game companies are willing to spend on development.

The PC gaming market is very healthy, probably healthier than ever, so I honestly do not know what you are talking about here.

Triple-A games aren't targeted to consoles because of pirates, they are targeted to consoles because consumer demand is higher for console games. Only a few genres are more popular on PC, like RTS, MOAB, and MMORPG.
It's pretty obvious that it wasn't intentional. Or rather, that there was some miscommunication. Someone added a debugging feature that gets rid of programs that have grabbed the screen, and which is enabled by mapping some key combination to a function. They probably realized this was dangerous to enable generally. Someone else saw the recommended key combination and packaged it for general distribution, not realizing that it was a dangerous function that shouldn't be mapped ordinarily.
Exactly what I was thinking of, and they've been DOA. Before that DAC was fairly widely available, but there wasn't much content available on them and were usually used as a studio medium.
Waze has a "Switch Off" command, although that seems to make sense since it's a way to stop running GPS.

Maybe they got a pass since ":q" is a basic Vim command. People are going to type it - what should they do instead? Nothing?
Of course people were arrested. And they cannot be held for more than 24 hours without charges filed and a bail hearing. After which (presuming they are granted bail, which for this crime they will be) they go free until they are found guilty by a court of law.

And I don't follow the corporate personhood argument. A web site isn't a "corporation", it's just property. It can be seized whether or not its owner is a human being.
Have you done a search on google for "facebook" recently while in a private browsing session?

On the right there is "People and Pages on Google+ related to facebook" acting like a gigantic advertisement for Google+.

Given how many people type searches into Google instead of typing in the URL, it doesn't shock me that Google has managed to convert so many people..
Good point... I wonder how this got missed.
As much as I want to refute this, I have to admit you have a good point.
But what if that other person has right's to the file, perhaps they bought the file while the other person obtained it illegally.
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The whole concept of "contraband information" is anathema to a free society.
The answer (for software engineering) is to stop thinking of time as a continuous flow with periodic markers such as second, minute, etc. Instead, think of it as chunks.

Mostly one chunk flows seamlessly into another. Occasionally, a chunk is "missing", such as skipping an hour at Daylight Saving. We are already set up to handle that. It would be very simple to add another rule to the DS database to globally add a second now and then.

I really don't see what the problem is.
Can't LOIC be operated through a VPN? (Assuming the VPN-operators allow it)
VIM is not only about typing. It's about editing, which involves making a small change in one place, then navigating somewhere else, and making another different small change etc. This is where VIM is unbeatable, because of ridiculously many fast ways to navigate and edit intelligently (in a very small amount of keystrokes). You don't have to type 120 WPM do be faster in VIM, but if you are a fast touch typist, you can get insanely fast in VIM.

Besides once you can edit faster, it's surprising how your "speed of thinking" also improves dramatically :D.
Any luck this time around? If not I'd give them a telephone call.
Read the indictment against Megaupload - income in excess of $175,000,000
This is a circular argument (or some sort of thing like that), but if you ever find yourself at a *nix command line prompt and need to edit a file, you can be certain that vim will be available. Basic familiarity with it can be helpful.

Personally, I used to write a ton of perl inside Vim as a student, but these days I'm in VS all the time, and only use Vim like I would use Notepad - when I want to do quick edits in a file that isn't worth the heavy handed-ness that is starting my IDE.

I'm like you - I spend more time thinking about my problems, and typing them isn't usually a hindrance. If I find that my typing/keyboard navigation speed is holding me back, it's a sign that I designed myself into a corner where I have to write a ton of boilerplate/repetitive code.
Basically implement this: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html on your site.
I think the following links are relevant for those of us that know much less than you:

I liked this article that discusses three different solutions to callbacks with different compromises: http://blog.willconant.com/post/7523275566/continuations-in-...

Jeremy discusses #350 and tamejs here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777196

Tamejs have a great writeup about the callback spaghetti problem here: http://tamejs.org/
> How do you get around this in mercurial?

Same (with a .empty or .keep file).
I think the two free online courses provided by Stanford last year is really good for beginners.
Mercurial was my first DVCS so I'm perhaps biased but its API has always fit my brain better. We use Git at my current job but after a few days of trying to get used to it, adding shortcuts to avoid remembering the cryptic switches required to do simple tasks and finally screwing up in some merge conflict, I said the hell with it, installed hg-git and work happily ever after.
Does anyone know how this will go down after what happened with Applidium's attempt to port VLC?
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Yeah. I'm no Python programmer, so I screwed up one of the practices by writing `set.push(node)` instead of `set.add(node)`. Luckily that didn't matter on the challenge itself (except for the wasted seconds checking all my assumptions about what the python functions were doing).
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The real difference is the terminology: mercurial named branches mean something other than git branches (git branches are similar to mercurial bookmarks). Steve Losh's article explains that very well.
that seems reasonable to me if you look at the nature of the start page and how broad and untargeted the traffic is. I would think a lot of people opened their browser and then just opened another tab without letting it interrupt what they originally opened their browser to do.
If they don't have any money to pay, how is anyone losing any money when they download? This shouldn't hurt anyone in any way.
"Use software that will work great in two years" is the reason we're looking at using Trello.
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long live unfunded mandate, long live the jackass
It's the same thing as the DEA announcing they seized ten pounds of marijuana with a street value of 2 million dollars.
How is it different from referring to Khan Academy?
That math misses some details. There were 30MM hits to about:home, which didn't have an email form. It just had a link to http://mozilla.org/sopa, which got about 2MM hits.

The SOPA page has a big link to the EFF. The EFF site has a tiny box where you can put your zip in to send an email.

So, with all those steps, 1.2% isn't bad. The point of Mozilla's efforts wasn't to just send mail. We were trying to educate people. And 30MM people read about SOPA.
From Steve Yegge's most recent blog rant:

Now, as it happens, I am in fact working on a very cool project at Google. [...] a project that aims to turn source code -- ALL source code -- from plain text into Wikipedia.
Be direct.

Are you arguing that this is not a fee or that it's not hidden?
I can see where you are coming from but on the other hand I can also understand that others take a less rational approach to things like that. In my personal view of morality any form of protest is acceptable as long as it doesn't endanger human life. Certainly this activism is going to lead to a backslash but on the other hand I appreciate that it is today possible for people to retaliate against actions that had no trial and no due process.
I think google is going about this the wrong way. They are claiming its a bad user experience for the search term to be down on the page or not have any content at the top but (1) that is far too generic a statement to make and (2) it is not Google's responsibility to make sure pages align to a certain design standard. They are essentially adding design requirements into their search algorithm. This restricts the design of any webpage that wants to optimize its Google ranking.
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Clearly you're unfamiliar with the Paul family.
You'd think this would be a great use for a custom gesture. Actually, having various gestures available as mappable objects would be pretty cool...
It's also one of the courses complete with materials in the new iTunes U app.
This story is already on the front page 3 times; submissions that are 2 hours and 1 hour earlier than this one. Please exercise a little restraint and stop posting copies. This should be flagged, not upvoted.
"Clearly Apple sees this as a way to build a library of 'exclusive' content in iBooks and mute the Kindle threat. For me at least that shows me just how threatening the Kindle Fire is to their model."

iBooks Author is not a reaction to the Kindle Fire. Apple has been working on this since before there were rumors that Amazon was going to introduce a tablet of their own.

Steve Jobs even told his biographer about it [1]. Jobs passed away in October, a week after Amazon announced the Kindle Fire.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/digital-textbooks-fulfills...
I think Paul is only partially right. There is another side to this. It is the people that do ask a lot of questions that are usually more able to look at things from a different perspective and to be innovative. A man of action is great for getting things done but he (or she) will usually always do things the same old and usual way and not think much about what he is doing.

A more contemplative person will ask a lot of questions and figure out the problem in its entirety and then be able to test the boundaries and question the implicit assumptions.

I think a good team requires one of each, although having at least on man (or woman) of action for a team is important.
But if a project is using git, you don't have much choice but to use git as well (of course there are some bridges, but I don't think they work 100%)
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As an iOS 'fanboy' i have to tell you that both iOS and Android have a "kill switch". It's a measure for the really dangerous cases and Google has used it once or twice, and i guess Apple too (not shure atm). When jailbroken, you can turn it off on both platforms.
But you are right in that there seems to be no such thing for books, unlike on Amazon (remember the 1984 case?)
Cash and Revenues are two totally different things on financial statements, like the ones pictured in the article. jamesredman is completely right that the article is incorrectly titled. Cash cow refers to something that generates free cash flow and this article misinterprets that to mean revenues, which actually have costs associated with them and don't represent cash flows.
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Their web site also thinks it's still 2011.
Someone care to explain the downvote?
The less time you spend typing, or thinking about typing, the more time you have to think about coding.
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'What this is really about is the government and entertainment industry trying to grab the power to do the things they've already been doing without having to go do all that annoying stuff like gathering evidence, building a case, or holding a trial.'

Parts of SOPA/PIPA will make their lives easier, this is true, however it also grants new powers. Much recent fervor revolves around these new powers.

You also criticize the rhetoric of the community, but due so in reference to the Wall Street Journal. I have no doubt that they will be the last publication to adopt, support, or accept our rhetoric. Now that doesn't make the general criticism false.

The primary fallacy I see in your argument is instead that the terms like pro-piracy need be liabilities. There are pirate parties in several countries now, and historically powerful, emotionally salient terms can be used either as marks of shame or pride. Language is fickle like that.

Now I can say that there is a dangerous cancer in this country and it is a malignancy that has been growing for years, and now that we've found a way to hurt it, slow its growth, to bleed it out, it's releasing toxins. Piracy is the cure to the cancer on the creativity of America. I can say that the 1% of middlemen and lawyers that call themselves 'rightsholders' are afraid of people point out how bloated they are, and how Un-American it is to be bad at your job, inefficient, and dictatorial. They represent barriers to innovation, to freedom, and to the growth and prosperity of their nation. Some of us have decided the situation is so intolerable that we will advocate breaking unjust laws and causing direct, lasting, and public harm to this institution.

This is protest and the hope of change. It is only history that will determine who played whom.
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Foundation does just the same for getting things done ...
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - Jesus
It's right on the dialog where you publish your document, not just buried in the EULA.
This is a solved-problem, every ad-blocking add-on already does this. I don't think Google of all companies is returning a lot of false positives in their algorithm.
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Does it actually require Skype? That's how they plan on notifying people, but there's also a big countdown board you can watch if you like.
So according to this, ~1 million emails were sent to various members of congress in opposition to SOPA/PIPA, various congressmen who were major supporters of the legislation are backing down off of it and no longer support it, nearly every major website went dark in opposition to it, it's made major news, and on and on and on....why is this still being discussed?

It's clear that Congress no longer represents it's constituents, but instead represents it's campaign funders. It's like Congress has just decided to finally end the farce and declare "we're bought and sold!"
Split-screen support is still very clunky. I don't understand why you need to define a new "group". Layout-wise it makes sense as preset layouts, but other than that the group doesn't help at all.

The best split-screen implementation is E-Text Editor. In E, you can drag the tab to create a new split, then "Cmd T" in ANY tab will bring you to the previously opened file in the split. Basically I don't have to remember where the file is opened, as long as I know its name, I can just jump by typing the name. That is how quick jump should be. Also, you can arrange the windows by dragging-and-dropping to another split. I stop using E after version 1 because I made the switch Mac and I have to use Textmate, which does not support split-screen at all (what a shame!). And I miss E dearly.

Currently Sublime Text quick jump is still bad, because it still requires a context switch (switch to the group that has the file opened, then Cmd T), or worse, complete loss of current context (Cmd T would open the file in current group, thus you lose the view of the current file you're working on).

So as long as split-view doesn't get implemented properly, Sublime Text is still just another editor.