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Great article. Note that the point about Strings using 2 bytes per char isn't always true. The latest HotSpot VM has an option called "-XX:+UseCompressedStrings" (see
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions...) where the VM will try to use ASCII-strings whenever possible to save memory.
Does this mean that any time you want to sidestep an actual examination of the merits of an argument in the Supreme Court you just need to ensure there's an international treaty in your favour?

That ought to do the job; Article VI of the Constitution plainly states that "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

In other words, if there is a treaty obligation, that trumps all other considerations.

How does the US become party to a treaty, in any case? I'm guessing it has something to do with Congress.

Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution spells this out:
"[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur..."

This seems like a bit of circular reasoning.

How so?
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> The process is finding about the process.

Yes. Exactly. I've been in a similar situation with my mother. I have to describe the steps one by one. When GMail changed its design, she was suddenly bewildered!

On a related note, I do think this mentality starts from an early age. Education teaches pupils to memorise and not understand. In an attempt for pupils to stay on par with their peers, they resort to memorising. Later on in life, this gets increasingly difficult, and then people just resort to staying consumers, not producers.
This is kinda sad, I sorta hope they pull through. Companies like Kodak have really struggled to remain relevant, and it's not really their fault.. yeah, they made a decision 20 years ago, but for it to bite them on the arse 20 years later is just not nice. It's like fooling around with someone on a Saturday night, forgetting about it and then finding out you've got a kid 20 years later.
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But seriously it just makes me want to get into politics just to kick these fuckers out and I'm not even a yank, I'm Australian, so I couldn't directly help the people in the US.
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The rights of US citizens should be the foremost concern of a US legislator and when it comes to satisfying a treaty compromising those rights the treaty or international precedence should be thrown out the window.

Article VI of the Constitution explicitly disagrees with you: "[A]ll Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

In other words, the sovereignty was explicitly sacrificed when the treaty was entered into-- and that's the way the Framers intended it.
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The discount is a nice thing for students, but there are plenty of non-students in the US and especially other parts of the world where dropping a few hundred dollars on software that makes their computer work is a major burden.

Given the large distribution of the Windows OS (this isn't boutique software with a small customer base), it really doesn't make much sense that it's so expensive. If the price was lowered significantly ($50 maybe?), I think MS would see piracy numbers go down and sales go up more than enough for them to remain profitable.
Please re-read what this is about.

Are musicians stealing from other musicians when they transcribe a song or a riff or a chord progression, or a signature sound?

If they are then all musicians are stealing all the time.

If it's not then copying music isn't stealing either.
Just when you start to think that you've seen the weirdest/strangest/most amazing thing in nature, along comes something else that you wouldn't even begin to imagine was possible. Thanks for the Chimera link!
That's not true at all, I have a large collection of games dating from around 1990 to present on my shelves. Assuming I can find the disks (most of them are in the wrong boxes) I can re-install any of them and play right now (ok I might have to install dosbox for some of them not to mention find a floppy drive).

That's only true currently for games that are only playable via a single central online service (e.g WoW etc) and that's sort of dictated by the game format itself.

What I mean is a world where all games are video streamed to you even if they are single player only.
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Well, since you're complaining, I added SimpleDB support to aws2js. It was like 12 lines of code actually, but since people don't ask ...
Also, my personal message ran past the allotted space, and didn't expand, nor was there a scroll bar. So I couldn't see the last several words. An auto-expanding textarea or simply a scroll bar would be nice.
Very good points there, I can't help but agree. I'm also rather glad I'm one of those anti-Facebook nuts. Where's my foil hat?
Let me get this straight. The advert in Times Square has News Corp and Sony surrounding America's creative community.

Does that not perfectly show exactly what the whole damn problem is?
I'm amazed how many people actually complain about that funny letter. To me this proves just how right she is. Apparently making fun of Oxford is off-limits for some...
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Hello HN, due to some unforeseen trouble in both my private and professional lives I had a lot of free & alone time over the winterbreak and I decided to tackle a worthwile project. :) It taught me a heck of a lot about python modules (which I hate, but slightly less so now) and .. jeah well I wanted to put it out there and ask for opinions, constructive criticism etc. Shoot!
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I find this pretty offensive - if you get over it in three days, it's not burnout. You just needed a holiday. I'm all for raising awareness of it, but using "burnout" in this context trivialises it.

I've seen friends struggling with burnout, and the symptoms are much more severe: depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue syndrome, and they've taken years to get over it, if ever. One guy I know is unable to face any sort of IT work, or any sort of stressful work, and is now mowing lawns for a living.
When one appeals to patriotism, one is basically saying "I have no logical or credible argument, suspend your brain and do as we damn well tell you" "Patriotism" is nothing more than a device to control the brainless.
Btw, there's another project that acts as a gatway between HTTP/WebSockets and 0MQ here: http://tailhook.github.com/zerogw/

Also, there's an attempt for 0MQ module for Nginx: https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_zeromq
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Another major issue is that they were late to the party with their digital cameras. Once all smartphones had decent cameras, the niche they carved in easy to use snapshooter cameras became displaced while those companies that focused on digital SLRs boomed.

A smaller SLR segment boomed as the costs of distribution fell due to the internet, rewarding content creators while phone cameras becoming just as good and a lot easier to use for the typical snapshooter.

It almost reads like a case study in "Innovator's Dilemma."
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Well, "pipa" also means muzzle, which is perhaps a bit closer to their analogy.
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The conclusion I come to from some of the points made almost equate to: "To make everyone a millionaire print more money".

Increasing taxes and the average income really does little in the scheme of things other than create/abolish a disparity. The talk of money offers no real solutions, throwing money to fix US education has done next to nothing.

I have been in places where most people had very little money and it was wonderful, while in some rich places it was anarchy with people living behind razor wire and armed guards.

There are a lot of books that have been written about how to fix things in poorer countries. Take a look at William Easterly or if you like Bono try Jeffrey Sachs. Whatever your politics there is no easy answer. Try reading some books and see the mess that has been made by people trying to make things better, and all they've done is make it worse.
Actually, no, TPB is not hosted from the Swedish parliament. The Pirate Party did not manage to scramble the votes needed to get into parliament, and thus are unable to host any servers there.
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If this is a question of principle you've surely already lost; there are plenty of non-controversial areas in which organizations are afforded greater or lesser rights than individuals based on their functional role in society: non-profits and charities are expressly forbidden from political campaigning, while the New York Times can legally publish Wikileaks in a way that Julian Assange apparently cannot.

I'm sure a sensible law can find a way to reduce soft-money flows without wiping out forums and newspapers. Nor is anyone saying that organizations cannot express political viewpoints. The question is about the corrupting influence of soft-money flows and if the situation is too complex to allow for that, it is surely too complex for limited liability corporations to exist in the first place.
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Your mileage may vary of course, but Spotify definitely beats TPB when it comes to easy. Relatively cheap and extremely accessible. I entered my credit card details a couple of years ago and simply forgot about the negligible sum withdrawn each month. Such a shame it took the industry so long...
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Consider that AWS is the product of a SW dev organization, and Rackspace is a purpose built organization. Leave ops to the ops people...
I don't think I'm creating psuedo problems.

If you have software without the cloud then you return to the same copyright problem repeated ad nauseum in this thread.

Ok, perhaps you could have applications in the cloud with locally stored data but I can't see this as being popular for 2 reasons.

1) Vendors would like the lock-in power that storing your data gives.

2) If I have a lot of data it may not be practical to upload it every time I use the cloud software on a slow uplink.

There are not really "plenty of free alternatives" to many types of software, at least alternatives that are as good as commercial offerings. Examples would include image editors and games.

Using Spotify as an example, all of the music is streamed from the internet so if they remove a track from their library then I lose my ability to stream it.
Also to sign up for Spotify now you need a facebook account, I don't have one or want one. Luckily I got my account before this was a requirement but if they decide to apply this policy retroactively then I'm shit out of luck.
yes but 'Walkman' or 'iPhone' aren't the only products made by their respective companies, and they keep trying new stuff.

Kodak is dead because they rode the analog film horse into the ground and never realized they needed to diversify and leverage their brand into something new and better for the next 50 years.
Despite the massive variance in initial investment in the different albums. Just to think of some examples: Pearl Jam: Bunch of guys with guitars; include mic. and camera, and you're done. Rihanna: Advanced sound engineering, post-productiony stuff, dancers, choreography, professional songwriters, etc., etc. Yet the CDs cost the same.
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Have you thought about hiring a bookkeeper or accountant to help out? Not being valued by clients can make you feel pretty shitty, but it's amazing what a regular "When can we expect payment?" call will do.

There are other tricks you can use to perk yourself up - progress payments (including a deposit up front) and firing your most annoying client have both worked for me in the past.
Not just a cartel, in many ways it's as exploitative as sharecropping.
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...and this is also true for all the translations of the book that I came across.
These are exciting times. We are in the midst of a technological revolution and recording companies should stop wasting their efforts in trying to cripple the internet and fight change in a scramble of keeping their money. They should find that being able to download music over the internet allows the spotlight back on the artist and allows them to gain more fans and exposure. It allows a more personal connection with their audience which is good because consumers buy a record because of the artist not because of the record company producing it.

"Why aren’t record companies embracing this great opportunity? Why aren’t they trying to talk to the kids passing compilations around to learn what they like? Why is the RIAA suing the companies that are stimulating this new demand? What’s the point of going after people swapping cruddy-sounding MP3s? Cash! Cash they have no intention of passing onto us, the writers of their profits."

Even those recording companies with selfish motivations should be able to recognize the amount of profit that could be gained from this change so that they are able to prepare and adapt to this new environment if they want a good chance in becoming forerunners in their market.

Scratch your old business models and start doing market research.
It seems to me that leap minutes would perform no worse and cause a lot less pain from rarity.
But its not better and its not prettier, its a mess and one I generally completely avoid. I used to occasionally click on peoples profiles especially if I was considering connecting, now its such an assault on the senses I don't bother. My FB useage as a result is probably declining...
I think part of the reason people pirate foreign TV shows is because all their friends are doing it.
People are always telling me "OMG, You have to watch this new US TV show".

When I explain that I don't really like piracy I get some very strange looks.

I think people often overestimate how many people are willing to consider ethics at all in purchasing decisions. I know plenty of otherwise nice and decent people who would happily purchase a product that they knew was made by child slavery, hell people even joke about it.

It seems that considering the consequences of your actions isn't hip anymore once consumerism is involved.
Actually you can live in India for a lot less than that (even as a comfy tourist - although I guess you definition of comfy changes with age).
After reading all this interesting discussion that your comment led to, I just now noticed your username :)
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Brain is hardware. Mind software that runs on brain. None has any use without the other. (personal unscientific view)

I would like to read about this where to begin?
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Wouldn't that "special version of emacs" be Edwin? :-)
Fox, my daily dose of US Corporatist Christian bias, had the blackout as the main article on their site. The coverage was not particularly unreasonable.
The most interesting part of this article for me is the comment from Jay Levitt about AOL's old stack. Fascinating.

The reimplementation side of things is one more strike against software patentry, at least.
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We could use a little chart:

before | after
-------+------
X . | . X Theft
X . | . . Vandalism
X . | X X Copyright infringement

These are clearly different things. It becomes outright quaint when you look at it using the third basic law of human stupidity[1]. According to this law (and assuming a naïve interpretation of the chart above), theft is criminal, vandalism is stupid, but copyright infringement is smart.

[1]: http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm
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Also, 24 used split screens (4 sections) quite frequently.
I'm not necessarily suggesting that it's workable as a solution for the whole industry, more that for those who wish to "combat piracy", if you strip away the objections that honest people have, you have a better chance of making your case.
"It's far more than just being semantically "inaccurate". Anyone who equates piracy with theft is being deliberately and fundamentally dishonest, and is only interested in waving their propaganda about instead of having an open debate."

That's just not true. If you asked a random person "what do you call the act of taking something without paying for it", they'd answer "theft". The fact that there is a distinction, because in one case you're "physically" taking something and in another you're not, is a much more nuanced argument.

Most people will use the term theft because that's the term which fits the best in our language. You might not like that, you might want to change that in order to help people understand the difference. But that doesn't mean that anyone who uses the word "theft" is someone to ignore.
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I found "Hardcore" more appropriate; reminds me of Diablo 2's Hardcore mode where your character can't be recovered after any single death. "Nightmare" takes me back to Doom where it was just a harder mode, without the extra "permanent death" rule.

Sorry, that's my pedantry out of the way for the morning :)
" mind is formless, non-physical, separate from the brain ", well it can be reduced and explained in terms of the functioning of the brain.

"Functioning" is not an object and cannot be encountered, to assume the mind is substance is the category mistake made, and why people leap to something non-physical: if it must be a substance it cannot be physical, for sure.

As for "completely simulated", I do not believe that computers - as we now use them - are capable of "simulating" a mind. The mind is much more than symoblic processsing: it attaches meaning to information, creates relations between itself and the world, (amongst many other things). These phenomena are not information processes and cannot be achieved by Linear Regression (to characterize Machine Learning accurately enough).

It is important to point out that any scientific explanation of consciousness is going to be unsatisfyingly reductionistic. Science significantly reduces experience to a "substance model" where everything can be modeled as substances in motion ... and thus the mathematical edifice which results is completely devoid of the vast majority of information which one acquires: the sound of the cannonball as it his the grass, its colour, significance, etc.

The vast majority of our experience which we may hope to explain is discounted (necessarily so) in order to be scientific (predict what our next experiences will be like).

There will be an increasing number of "explanations" of various aspects of mental functioning based on the structure of the brain, I doubt any of these will provide anything more compelling than what we have currently.

There are "brute certainties" (brute facts) which are undoubtable and the starting point for all investigation, scientific or otherwise. This brute fact is experience, or more accurately, the world of signficance, relations, awareness, etc. in which the self as well as everything else is embeded within.

Explanation proceeds as generalization, taking one aspect of Experience and generalizing to some general property of Experience: pens fall, all objects fall, all objects in gravitational fields fall.

There is nothing we can appeal to in accounting for Experience itself: there is nothing else available. Explanation has to end somewhere, and that is the final - and only tenable - reply to the question of our conscious experience.
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