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I disagree totally with the logic the article is following. If you do not like Microsoft's products and services (I don't) that is totally acceptable, and i might add understandable, deal with other software vendors ! I do not understand the logic saying "I hate your service and so i will just steal the product".

If you want to make your point just go ahead and complain, send a written letter move to another vendor (I Have). Stealing, And i will call it that because it is stealing, is not a legitimate nor a logical reaction to crappy service.

The entire internet philosophy, IMO, was build on trust and a certain code of honor if i may say (at the risk of sounding corny) breaking that breaks the internet. Imagine people just screwing up Wikipedia because they think Jimmy Wales did something wrong in their opinion or because an article of their got removed or whatever.

Piracy has always been, and will always be, a thing of the internet. think of it as a wicked charm. I will not encourage eradicating it. To be honest i have used pirated software to evaluate when vendors wont offer evaluation options. But then i would go and buy the damn license, because:
1 - it is the right thing to do, regardless.
2 - If i like something, paying for it will support the vendor to continue on making the stuff i like.

I personally do not like the way Microsoft does business, i dont like their products and i think they are arrogant pricks but if i need to use windows (god forbid) i will still pay for the damn license.
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Relevant excerpt:

It's funny how we once thought of it as worrisome to see other startups pursuing our idea. It's so clearly the opposite of worrisome! The more the merrier! All these startups are helping each other get the public exposed to commitment devices.

It's like my brother who has a sushi restaurant in Peoria, IL with one primary competitor in town. Since most people in town haven't even tried sushi, most of the marketing that my brother's competitor does is just creating new sushi eaters, some of whom will then presumably eat at my brother's restaurant. Anecdotally, that effect dwarfs any actual customer stealing that the competitor may do.

With Beeminder and StickK and now Aherk and others, it's like that but even more so: 99% of the population hasn't heard of a single one of us!
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While its a popular story to move to SF with just the shirt on your back, I would urge you to land a job first and not touch your savings other than for basic relocation. Be prudent.
Yeah, I hit the A instead of the V, there. :)
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TCTV: Hundreds Rally In The Streets Of NYC To Defend Internet
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Avoiding some product for a very short, pre-determined length of time is not a boycott.

It is an empty gesture.

It's worse than an empty gesture. It says to its intended target, "We may be upset, but don't think we're willing to stop being your customers. So really, as long as you're willing to deal with some impotent grumbling like this, which we're sure you are, then you shouldn't worry too much about us being upset."
> That's one assumption. The other is that over the course of a 4 year high school or college run. The cost of a 499 iPad + 15 dollar books is significantly cheaper than say 6-7 60+ dollar books per semester.

Only if you assume that iPads never break, all textbooks will be published with iPad versions (otherwise you'd need an iPad and some normal textbooks), you can't buy used textbooks, and you can't sell your textbooks when you're done with them.
I don't think protesting these companies is a good long term solution. We need a protect DNS act or anti-censorship bill. Big tech has more money and power than hollywood. They should lobby more aggressively.
"The Internet is over my head."

This one is rather important I think. More so than other generations, the baby boomers seem to embrace ignorance of all things new as a virtue.

My grandparents used to go out of their way to not admit they were confused by technology. My parents and their friends? They embrace the notion.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this but I'll say it anyway: there isn't a tablet market, there is only an ipad market. Apple want to make it easier to make books for ipads because: 1. that's what they sell and 2. that's what people are buying.

A quick aside, my mom is a 7th grade reading/writing teacher in a small (around 18K in the county) west-TN town. Her little school has an ipad cart. Every student does their writing (typing really) on an ipad. Both kids and teachers love it. The news today will probably thrill all of them.
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I assure you, high school texts are not much cheaper.
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While you are probably right about this being immoral and maybe illegal, I've had to clean up my share of xrumerservice.org spam from forums and can tell you that I'm no longer against immoral practices if they hit this specific guy. The amount of other peoples time this guy wastes is probably several life-times every fucking day. I think you have to be a forum admin to understand the deep, deep urge that can build up to hit this particular spammer as hard as possible and not even caring anymore if that will get yourself in legal troubles.
My point isn't so much about how we go about things but more of a plea to have people work on their opponent's terms in order to win.

Each side on the issue is drawing their line in the sand but that line is too far from one another to ever reach a form of compromise or conclusion. There's this large valley between what the piracy community wants and what the industry is willing to give. Which side is willing to crack first? While pirates get their jollies there's still too much of a community of people that are paying for the products that keep industries afloat. Are we going to try and convert enough consumers to finally "hurt" the industry? Will that even be enough once the government tacks a law onto consumer products that goes towards the industry companies?

What about the "legal" approach. Is boycotting going to work? Is telling the companies the exact message you wrote going to change anything? Actions definitely speak louder than words but is pirating something going to send that message or will it send the message "we want what you offer"?

I agree with your statement that its not binary. Nothing is black and white in this situations. But the people vocally advocating piracy are doing no better where they say "my way or the highway".

I maybe shouldn't offer up too much opinion on the matter because there's evidence on both sides of the matter that show both progress and regression. On one hand we're seeing more services like netflix offering things on terms "pirates" want: convenient, accessible and quality. But on the other end we're seeing things like worse DRM and new bills. Have we really made progress or not?
Has it been proven that "piracy" is detrimental at all to society?
Of course, if you think you are safe because your keyboard does not have a numeric keypad: you are not. The attacker can just plug in a USB keyboard with a numpad and use it. Yay plug-n-play!
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It'd be great if the bonobos logo linked to their site.
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This whole thing seems to be blown completely out of proportion, based entirely on hypothetical and unfair "what-if" scenarios based on the imaginary case where the 100 millionth file was something sensitive.

I'm imagining a group of friends and one of them mentions an interesting book he saw in X's house. The friends are immediately scandalized: what if instead of a book, you saw naked pictures of X's wife? Apparently you'll just blab anything you see, so you can't be trusted in people's houses anymore.

It's a completely innocent disclosure. That it would not have been innocent if the file had been different seems completely irrelevant. Either they would have been discreet in that case, or they would not have, but we can't tell which from this one instance.
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Apple Drops iTunes 10.5.3 Update - Syncing interactive textbooks
You are right technically. TheCapn is right politically.

While we may agree with you about the real reasons and motivations of the pirate, that isn't how corporations and governments look at things. I agree with TheCapn in how Big Media interprets it: theft, lost revenue.

There can be only 2 positions in a political argument, and yes, that breeds ignorance.
I would have been more inclined to agree until the Kindle Fire came out. That is starting to change things.
> if there is no legal way for you to enjoy it, unfortunate though it is, tough.
write to them. email them. call them to protest. but don't decide to take the law into your own hands...it's not your decision.

To that point, I would like to add another option: create an alternative. Things that are seemingly broken are opportunities for creating something better.
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Ah, this is perfect. Apples just updated their site!
things must be going real slow over at forbes these days :/
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There are Ruby and Python clients as well, and I think a REST interface, so all you need is cURL.
Imo, two of the key triggers are missing:

1. There's no longer any military conscription, which in the 60s forced even the most temperamentally apolitical under-26-year-olds to pay attention at least somewhat, since it was (legally) impossible to just ignore the war and go about one's life.

2. While many black youth are still disaffected, there's no longer any de jure segregation, so what remains is a more amorphous disaffection lacking the sort of clear spark/goal that the civil rights movement had. Overall material conditions are also somewhat better, for at least some proportion.
Sooo ... how locked into Apple's ecosystem are books created in this way? The notes say:

• Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download with a few simple steps*
• Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to others
• Create a version of your book as a PDF file

That footnote is: "Books may only be sold through the iBookstore; additional terms and conditions apply."

So if you export the PDF, can you submit that PDF to, say, Amazon's print on demand service?
I agree some and disagree some.
Regarding M and N, I don't think they can control spam any more than m and n, given that M and N are going to be super-sets of root domains of m MULTIPLIEDBY Y{1 to j} and no of tweets of n MULTIPLIEDBY Y{1 to j} respectively, where j is the no of Y in each X.

Where I totally agree is the "Swarm" intelligence is superior to an individual philosophy. The same thing is dictating our thought process as well. Here: http://frrole.com/about-us

Where I again think differently is the 140 chars vs. the linked article line of thought. Grant that maybe we should call this "social headlines for your city" instead of "social newspaper..." ( 140 chars make for perfectly good headlines) but I believe that the information overload today is increasing drastically, attention span therefore (and otherwise) is decreasing significantly; so much so that more content, specially textual, is not the answer. Less content in fact is the answer, but chosen intelligently enough so that it does not leave things out.

Where I definitely agree with gayakwad is that these are fantastic inputs, the kind of inputs one definitely expects on HN. See from your profile that your areas of interest too are those that we are working on (Frrole is a lot, LOT more than no of retweets btw), maybe we should talk offline?
Adjusting to two weeks of vacation/sick leave was a challenge when I immigrated to the US. After five years with my current employer I now get four weeks.

It's a symptom of the belief that "you should feel lucky to have a job" - you should be grateful to have two weeks of leave, not expect more like most other OECD country. I am also constantly amazed at how many coworkers don't use the small amount of leave they get.

It'll be interesting to see if changes in employment patterns will eventually push the US towards a mandated number of vacation hours.
Was I plugging Tarsnap?

Yes. EDIT: I don't have a problem with it, your service looks nice, but let's be honest. :)
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That's my point, though. I don't like books -- I like the words in them. I certainly realize that there's a tendency to form attachments to physical objects (and, as others point out, vintage book stores are sure to thrive in the coming years) but its a tiny loss compared to the massive benefits of the digital age.

Some people buy watches for aesthetics, not to tell time; generally speaking, these are the people passing them down. Personally, I'm a fan of anything that pushes away from materialism for materials' sake.
The bug in the interview is not having a whiteboard or paper or a computer that the interviewee can use.

Forcing anyone to do a coding exercise in their head is ridiculous.
did you reply to the wrong comment? my speed mentioned nothing about speed.

Tarsnap can treat data opaquely and have the client encrypt / decrypt it, most web applications that arent just moving data around need to be able to access its contents to be able to work.
A million people across the world flail randomly at their keyboard all day, and when they find something cool they post it on the internet.
That's just sentimentality. You could say the same thing about cave paintings or stone tablets
> The fraction of the total waste stream that you can affect is irrelevant when deciding whether to recycle. Any single industrial waste creator could make the same argument-- my company only creates 0.001% of the waste stream, so it doesn't matter what I do. This has to be wrong, because we know that the total outcome is nothing other than the aggregated behaviors of all of us, and the total outcome matters.

It's not wrong. There are two different answers: what's best for the individual and what's best for society/collective/etc are not the same thing. This is why legislation and reduction of barriers (like single stream recycling) are necessary.
Very good point. All that I have ever heard of him was regarding his crimes, but I may well be prejudging. The "Mega" suite of websites is a great feat, as is their market size. You have to be pretty savvy to accomplish that, at least.
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Related to PIPA and internet freedom.
Iran's death by stoning is particularly brutal, as you can see by this infographic (warning: if you are easily upset, don't read this): http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.natio...
It does go against the rules -- you are supposed to post interesting comments. If you don't want to read it, that is fine: simply close the tab and move on. No need to make a fuss.
The downside of this is when people only see you coming in "late" and never see you still working at 7pm.
There is an actually valid concern that instead of guaranteeing credit default swaps in a handful of institutions, you could've spent the same amount of money propping up some of these underwater mortgages.

Same outcome - a bunch of public money goes towards restoring confidence in the system - but with significantly less significant social costs/moral hazards.
I don't think these digital textbooks will take off on a closed platform. The iBooks format is based on ePub so I think there's every chance you'll see these books reaching other devices over time.
I would say you are being equally lazy as a reader. Do you stop reading when someone writes "ain't", or uses a slang term, or something else that doesn't conform precisely to Strunk & White?

I'm not exactly willing to die on this hill, though -- the article is not very good in any case.
I say the hackers of the world should hold a "burn a koran" day in protest. I am so sick of Islam pissing on freedom of expression. We need to fight back.
I too own a Kindle and one of the major downsides I see is that you cannot share it. You cannot give or lend a book to someone when you are done. You cannot put a Kindle on your coffee table and have anybody who picks it up be able to flip through and actually read without losing your place in the book. It's a device designed around a single user which is often enough not the use case for a physical book.
That video is so fucking annoying. Why not just show a page with the fucking text?
For sure! I assume you have already been through tons of nausea. I relapsed from my original AML treatmeat a few years later and had to undergo transplant. The chemo before the transplant was the worst I have ever had. It was my 11th round of chemo since I started with cancer back in 2008. Just sit up in the morning and eat what you can, rest a lot and always talk to everyone and ask them how their days are going. I found that hearing others pleasures made me get through my experience much easier. Plus it takes the mindset from how crappy you are feeling to how good the future will be for you.
Why you shouldn't be pirating
That there can be other inferences from someone's behavior is not the question. They could infer from the acts of piracy many other possible reasons. However, the argument that the pro-censors are making is that they're losing money ("costing American jobs"). This is not really rational, but by pirating you do support their argument by being part of the numbers that, "would pay if forced."

Whereas if you chose from alternatives that conducted business on better terms than they would be forced to infer other reasons for losing money, such as, "we are losing money because we are assholes," and would not have the platform of lost sales to fool themselves or lobby politicians.
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I attempted to replicate this (attempted being the operative word, I could've been doing it wrong) with Ubuntu 11.10 and a GB keyboard layout. It didn't seem to work.

Key combos:

Ctrl+Alt+* (num pad)
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+8

Both with numlock on and off.
I just moved to IN so I need to double check the school system here but I do know about the TN system. My knowledge will vary county to county but in general I think this is true. I also made a comment above but will reprint some of it here.

I'm sorry but, what the hell are you talking about? Many schools require students to have laptops in high school now. Teachers are constantly being told that then need to use more and more technology in their classrooms to better engage their students. If there aren't students who can afford machines then they are given one in class.

My mom is a 7th grade reading/writing teacher in a small (around 18K in the county) west-TN town. Her little school has an ipad cart. Every student does their writing (typing really) on an ipad. Both kids and teachers love it. The news today will probably thrill all of them.
It won't work on laptops (most laptops won't have numpad). Ofcourse you can crack into the laptop using an external keyboard.
At the moment we're just scraping. Hopefully we can get some APIs worked out in the near future.
The third one doesn't fit.

How would a writer or filmmaker make money if everybody torrented their works?
The problem is, you're missing the point. What they would do if they came across illegal content is irrelevant. They shouldn't be looking at the content in the first place, so this is a non-issue.
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I wrote in the comments of another post about this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3484928. It was a bit off-topic so I'm expounding on it here.

I wish there was an app store for web apps. The web needs easy way to sell access to web apps like in the app store. If all I had to do was click 'purchase' and enter my password to get access to web apps like turntable.fm for a reasonable price, I would gladly pay. This would open up a whole new revenue model for web apps. There is a whole class of web apps that are trying to rely on ads now but don't have the millions of visitors a month to make that feasible. A web app store could provide a place for these lower traffic but still very useful and relevant products. I envy mobile developers since they have this avenue as an option. Who could pull this off? You need the database with everyones credit cards like Amazon or Paypal. Anyone else feel this way?
> You are not making a stance by stealing it.

Stop using theft as synonym for copyright violation. When someone copies a movie, they create a new copy. They don't take someone else's copy away.
I don't know what you're talking about, I do most of my searches on Pirate Bay only once, then sort descending by seeds (which not only indicates which is fastest to download, but also which is the most popular) ... then the download is over in 5 minutes.

Here's the UX of Netflix, rdio or hulu for me:

* content not available in your area
He might be referring to

tape->phono->cd-!->mp3 (originally not well received)
\-> mp3 if called iPod
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I agree. It seems folks have dug in and staked out their positions, much as they have with abortion, and are now just screaming at each other from across the chasm. Awfully stale indeed.
> when talking about someone requiring you to activate over the phone.

What about software that phones home and require some physical gizmo like a CD or dongle to use, after you've already spent a nice sum of money to acquire it? You're simply treated not like an amiable customer, but a thief, while actual thieves simply use it.
> All I see with this worldwide Occupy movement is people complaining, "Where's mine?" It seems like it's all about "me", not "us".

A lot of the anger stems from being denied opportunities that were afforded to the boomers. The American Dream was available to you in ways that our generation will never know.

We've been sold on this notion of security and prosperity that no longer exists. Yet, we're still supposed to support the preceding generation as they retire and draw benefits that won't exist for us.
No, thanks.

But yes, it exists: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home
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The reason Blackboard doesn't have competition is due to the patents they hold. They have made a commitment not to sue free, open source projects, but as soon as you start charging money they are ready to protect their IP rights.
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