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This was a good response. It obviously doesn't solve the issue, but I wouldn't expect it to do so from a simple internet petition. What this does is block support for one of the more egregious parts of the bill and invites internet engineers to the table to craft a better bill.

The technology industry can't simply be reactive to bad laws. It has to be proactive in promoting the passage of good laws.

Get the signatories to this letter[1] and have them come up with a law, independent of SOPA, that defines protections for internet freedom.

After that's done (or in parallel), go back to the table with the MPAA and other SOPA sponsors to see how online piracy can be addressed in a way that does not conflict with the previous law.

1. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/Internet-Engineers-L...
A fantastic and eloquent display of saying virtually nothing at all.
Whats interesting is that they have the funds to still fight.

This, to me, sounds like an inefficient business model.

When you have the funds to fight both your customers and pirates, lobby the government, and constantly man a PR machine, while losing market share, I have to wonder - how much cash are they sitting on?
yes, and my point unless the market allows for competition to .com, then we've effectively given control of the namespace to one or two organizations - namely Verisign and ICANN.

I don't understand your point about competition creating a monopoly unless you are referring to ICANN"s "powers". It is an artifact of the community. Show up and participate in the monopoly if you are concerned about how it wields its influence and directs its policy.
I guess it reads so topsy turny because it was written by three different people; a legal expert, a security expert and a health care expert.

I'm with Neil deGrasse Tyson.. More engineers should get into politics.
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>> If someone told you the price for living in the most free society possible, is that 5,000 of your fellow citizens would die annually by terrorism, would that not be worth it?

It depends how many people are in that society. If everyone else is too scared to join you, you might just be the only one and be 1 of the 5000 next year, if you're lucky this year.
Does OP have a citation for Craigslist joining the blackout?

That would be huge, but I haven't heard about it elsewhere.
Besides, it makes upgrading your variant much easier, since you're tracking a remote and can easily (and more often than not, trivially) fetch from then merge with/rebase on it.
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> However, this could be a target for another setting

Watch out for featurecreepitis, too much settings kill settings. Much better for a designer is to acknowledge compromises, decide and stand up for your choices.
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Stop calling it SOPA and PIPA and just call it what it's going to be really abused for

The Great Firewall of America

It's not an exaggeration if it has mission creep like every other tool law enforcement is given.
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we need a 3rd party, or better yet change voting to preferential voting, so you can vote for who you want and not against who you don't.

that way you can say I like this guy, but in case he doesn't win, I'll settle for this one
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How much authority does a junior manager need to outsource telesales to India? And how many people have oversight over the suggested telephone scripts?

Possibly Googler's could shed some light on internal processes for things like that but my guess would be (i)not much if a business case for "engaging with Kenyan businesses" has already been agreed on by regional managers and (ii) one or two

I wouldn't expect the people that had oversight over the telephone scripts to still have a job by the end of next week, mind you.
Oh god no, definitely not. Monetary damages, yes. Prison sentences for a non-violent crime, definitely not.
I opened the site with Opera, and JavaScript turned off. It went into a loop of redirecting me between the root and /you.
It wouldn't be the first management technique that came with a lot of caveats, all of which got dropped by the time it hit PowerPoint slides.
How can there ever be a legislative tool to fight foreign pirates? By definition, national laws only ever work within one's own border.

Isn't it sad to see how hard a time governments have with coping with internationalization?
"""Since most programs can be broken down into a set of components I believe it should be relatively easy to parallellize the workload."""

The "easy" part of your phrase, is the one key misconception that project managers have since the beginning of software engineering. The mythical man-month and peopleware anyone?
Consider that Apple own patents for pinch-to-zoom and the use of a gyroscope to control the rotation of a screen (turn the phone sideways, get landscape view). Given the thousands of patents all of the big companies own it becomes very believable that Microsoft would own a bunch of patents that many phones infringe on and that it would take Microsoft time to even realise it owned them (a possible reason for the delay in going after phone companies).

Patents that are essential to the phone being popular (can you imagine a smart-phone without the two above features).

Patents that would force most suppliers to just pay up.

EDIT: Just to confirm, I am agreeing with you, I just figured I'd explain why I think their claims are likely valid. This is not to say I agree with these patents being given but I've seen so many comments that seem to assume this is all a big con that will fall apart at the slightest scrutiny.
There's probably no good answer to your question, since it depends on your choice of axioms. Given certain axioms, you might be able to logically derive the answer that "piracy" should not be punished.

If I understand you correctly, you're arguing that piracy is illegal, and prevents authors to be payed.

But just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it's right. Provided a law is morally wrong, for instance, punishment for breaking said law would also be morally wrong, and should not be supported. You'll probably also cheer to the freedom fighter breaking laws to overcome a dictator.

Interestingly, most Americans would probably deny that anybody has a right to have income, or a minimum level of wealth and health in every other profession (for this would be "socialism"). So, why should authors and investors in creative works have that right?

After all, the authors of most works have been payed. Most of the time, even the investors in these works have been paid as well. What you argue is basically that authors and investors haven't been paid 'enough'. But how do we rationally determine what payment is 'enough' or not?

Of course, these "pirates" are fooling themselves if they think their moral arguments hold. Most of them don't do anything constructive (unlike, say, Open Source developers, or the Creative Commons community).
I'm not quite clear on how large-scale piracy has anything to do with security (cyber or otherwise).
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I seem to recall I read somewhere here that SOPA would actually threaten DNSSEC. Can't find it again. Maybe I misread.
This is great! Public datasets can do such amazing things for people.

Do not want to derail this, but for more datasets (and a very easy way to use them) check out Yahoo's YQL - http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
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Referendum processes are no panacea --- look at the mess they've created in California. Among other problems, there are referenda that limit tax increases, which have obvious appeal, and referenda mandating spending on various good causes, which also have obvious appeal. The problem is that at this point, so much state revenue is committed to mandates that in crunch times, everything else gets slashed to the bone, whether it makes sense to do that or not.

See http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-kille... for more, particularly the parts on propositions 13 (limiting tax increases) and 98 and 111 (mandating spending)...
""" If I'm passionate about painting and don't care about having a family, then I'm going to paint. I'm not obligated to have a family just because it's a social norm."""

And this attitude is exactly what the parent commenter was ranting about.

Especially if you DO have a family, and it's more like "I don't have to care for my family over my business just because it's a social norm".
You don't happen to have screenshots, do you? Google image search found nothing.
"I guarantee that I will add a strongly worded signing statement that will indicate that I do not wholly approve SOPA when I sign it."

Sorry, but I have little faith that this administration will do the right thing. If Obama said what he will specifically not sign off on, then I might be a bit more optimistic.
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I'd say a 6. The project itself is a 2, add 2 for technical constraints and 2 for partner constraints.
"""I'm sure this can be modeled mathematically, but I'm not convinced this would help."""

Why would a mathematically modeled system of key-value observing would not help? For one, it would enable one to prove and examine all kinds of assumptions about the model working correctly.
While the motion for reconsideration is probably motivated by her calls to engage the media about her conviction, her posting that she may "shank" her fellow inmates was a great way for her to ensure she get detained as soon as possible.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78196975/Mtn-Reconsider-Surrndr
Samsung's Smart Window is the most useless thing I've seen in a long while. Mindblown by the fact that someone would devise and actually implement window blinds for a computer screen...
"""because MySQL is sadly /not/ a correct implementation, while PostgreSQL is"""

Of SQL maybe, but of Relational Algrebra/Set Theory, neither PostgreSQL is.
Shame they haven't added OpenStreetMap data dumps.
Lesson 1: don't put programming languages etc. in your requirements list when looking for a technical co-founder. That's their job, not yours.
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No, the DMCA doesn't work like that. It doesn't require any action by the site owner at all. It simply says that if you demand removal in the proper manner and the content is removed from the site promptly, then the site owner cannot be held liable for any infringement. In practice, site owners are very responsive to DMCA demands from "big content" and pretty much ignore them from everyone else.
The stated focus of SOPA reminds me a lot of the Patriot Act in that it's initial intent is focused on "foreign websites". The Patriot Act was defined as a tool to be used to monitor foreign communications but has gradually expanded to cover more domestic matters. Make the public accept something they're less likely to oppose by making it "not about them" ... then turn around and tweak a few provisions to expand the scope once all the pieces are in place.
A lot filler with no definitive position, for or against. You can't write a response that everyone in the country will approve of. Take a stance, please.
Obviously it's a joke/puzzle, but I still object to calling it a statistics question. It's probability thoery. Stochastics to be safe.
True, but that would seem an overreaction to people who are only finding out about it on the blackout day.
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That actually raises interesting questions, but since at first glance it looks like just a silly joke more appropriate for Reddit, I expect it is going to get flagged away.
But you guys are ALL missing the real story. The real story is that while the user photos on Pinterest are a mash of guys, cartoons, couples, baby photos, and a couple of hot girls, 90% of Pinspire's user photos are hot girls.

I wonder why? I think the secret sauce that really makes these cloners zoom involves astro-turfing.
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There's a small screenshot here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/151547/4_sites_to_find_and_wa...

And some waybacks but they don't really show it as it was: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090601000000*/http://www.ni...

Here's where PC World listed it among it's 2009 100: http://www.pcworld.com/article/174387/2009_pc_world_100_list...
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+ we don't have a king, what one administration does, won't mean jack when another administration takes reigns. These guys want these tools so they can use them eventually.
Is there a list somewhere of all of these corrupt politicians / traitors? If not, I'm going to start a wiki. Who knows, maybe it will be useful if the winds of change ever blow through this country.
Think about this from a different point of view: the reason Microsoft is threatening cell phone manufacturers and extracting royalties is because they are trying to slow down the Android juggernaut enough to get traction with WP7. Obviously, has not been effective.

I would posit the reason phone manufacturers are paying royalties as opposed to cross licensing patents is because Microsoft doesn't have enough market share for HTC, LG, (Google?), etc. to make it worth while for manufacturers to trade their patents for.

In other words, phone manufacturers see $10 (a guess) per phone payed to Microsoft today is cheaper in the big picture than licensing WP7 instead of Android on those phones. In addition, it implies they value their own patents more than that amount and thus refuse to cross license their own patents to instead of paying the Microsoft royalty.

The logical conclusion is that phone manufacturers have looked in their crystal balls and bet strongly against Microsoft. They are betting that, in five years (a guess), Microsoft will be out of the phone software business and their patents will be irrelevant because they have either expired or been worked around.

The phone manufacturers are also remembering the iPhone vs. Windows Mobile / Windows Phone timeline and remembering how long they were getting buried by Apple because Microsoft was not able to sell them a credible alternative to the iPhone. Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, shame on me.
Yes, but some of those nothings are important. It doesn't say "the whitehouse supports SOPA as-is", it doesn't say the president will sign it. It doesn't attack the opponents of the bill, instead embracing lots of their language.

(It also has some real meat too: like "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.")

What this is, is a cave. SOPA lost, and the Whitehouse is cutting bait. Maybe there will be another bill, maybe not. But SOPA has gone from being a cheery bipartisan bill that "everyone" supports to a controversial bill that no politician in their right mind will get behind.

So they'll all say something like this: we need to honor the interests of party A in a way that doesn't infringe the interests of party B because this is very very important yada yada yada. And then they'll do nothing.

We won. Pop the cork. Just don't expect profuse apologies coming from the folks in Washington.
Of course source code makes the game better or worse. The game is made of code. The code makes the game what it is.

If you write good code, your product will work better and be done sooner. This is the definition of good code. If you write bad code, your product may be overbudget, buggy, inadequate, and so on. This is the definition of bad code.

There is no dichotomy between the product and the code. To suggest that you can make better software by neglecting the code is absurd.
Such referendums wouldn't necessarily work in the way you think they would. All the American stuff that probably seems crazy to a Swiss person (like stiff prison sentences for minor crimes) is actually desired by a large percentage of the population. It could be much worse than the minaret ban, especially on issues that can be colored by religious beliefs.
You sure about that?

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"""Other cases I can think of are systems where high-throughput or low latency are major requirements but there aren't many of those."""

Actually, I haven't met many cases of systems were high-throughput or low latency are NOT major requirements.

Sure, you can wait for your admin script to do something for half an hour, if it means you get to write it in, say, Python, over some faster language. But you don't want to wait for most things, including most end user software. Here's a list people complain all the time about the slowness of:

1) text editors, programmer editors etc.
2) spreadsheets
3) media players
4) compile times
5) image editing programs
6) web pages/apps
7) mobile apps
8) games
9) file managers
10) IDEs
11) video/multimedia editing
12) sound editing
13) word processors
14) window management
15) databases
16) ftp
17) file management
18) asset management
19) browsers

If there's a program for something, there are people complaining it's slow/bloated.
Sites like wiki-leaks and people who use PTP protocols to expose and make transparent the slimy deals and long term political agendas of the rulers, congress and the federal reserve.

The "censor the internet" functionality will increase security by providing congress a big red button in the whitehouse: "erase_this_file_all_over_the_world_and_block_access_to_it_and_everything_like_it(int threat_level);"
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You'd be surprised by the number of people out there that don't speak or read english at all (and I mean it - not a single word)...
offtopic: I love how with Github I can get to the source in just a few clicks. Its still a scavenger hunt with sourceforge.
Little kiddies, you might regret freeloading when justice smacks you as you try to make money on a blog or software in later years.

God is just. I win 10 lotteries a day, I'm not at all worried about justice.

Niggers. Not at all worried about public opinion -- everything is shrink actors. Evil British agents and shit who have no regard for God.

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What do you mean by alarming the citadel at this time of night
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I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond

--------

Once, I said the difference between niggers and white people is niggers don't know the world is just. Jews have a hard time with the holocaust and are the biggest heathens. Retards! How can you read the Bible and not conclude the holocaust was punishment?

God says...
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rs the
corruption, of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where
they are neither insolent nor corrupt. The certainty of what each
individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great
importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears,
I believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an
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Jews in the Bible never learn. A stubborn people.

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sengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.

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This is what jumped out at me. It's a disgusting attempt to reframe the discussion, which is exactly what SOPA/PIPA proponents want. We can discuss where we go from here after we destroy the horrific pending legislation.
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Just interested to hear everyone's experience of how many hours they have had to invest (sink) into developing their ideas before it's got to a point where they are happy to launch.

What's your idea of lean?
At first, this really pissed me off -- Microsoft sticking it to everyone with Android.

But 11 companies with Android products on the market are paying licensing fees to Microsoft? That's way too many lawyers in agreement for this to something superficial.

Where the hell is Google in all this? I thought they were going to defend OEMs? Honestly, I can't say that I'm surprised. Google might be a big force in the industry, but in old-school software licensing, they're noobs.
What?! I was reading these comments thinking -- oh that would be funny if everything was under copywrite. I feel violated. The video, if you make it, should end with the fact that it actually is owned by Warner.
Exactly. Let me also add that math isn't so much a tool as it is a way of thinking. Learning (or should I say understanding) more math helps in all sorts of non-obvious ways. From thinking logically, to seeing intuitive shortcuts, to proofs (used nearly every time a program is debugged), to algorithms, programming is one of the greatest concrete implementations of the math abstract.
And still had her free speech rights. Now she doesn't.

There was nothing illegal about incarcerating her sooner rather than later (this is not commentary on the justness or lack thereof of her sentence).

If one says "fuck you" to the judge, instead of "thank you," one is more likely to hear "well, fuck you," back.
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