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There was a time when explorers observed a primitive tribe exhibiting empathy or even morality might exert the same kind of hand-wringing as you did about whether it is actually so.
Yes, you can go to jail just for lying to federal agents. See this article:

How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents

http://library.findlaw.com/2004/May/11/147945.html

Excerpt:

Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 makes it a crime to: 1) knowingly and willfully; 2) make any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation; 3) in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the United States. Your lie does not even have to be made directly to an employee of the national government as long as it is "within the jurisdiction" of the ever expanding federal bureaucracy. Though the falsehood must be "material" this requirement is met if the statement has the "natural tendency to influence or [is] capable of influencing, the decision of the decisionmaking body to which it is addressed."

(Ironically, the government lies to us all the time, but there are apparently no penalties for that.)
ceo/S/

I still can't believe what a horrible idea co-ceos was for RIM. Great to see both of them step out though. Waterloo needs fresh blood if it will ever survive.
> Isn't it about time for people in our industry to admit they're libertarian and vote (and donate) that way?

Yes!

> If our industry started putting votes and money behind a third party

No!

For you to win in the general election with 3 parties, you'd need to muster at least a third of the vote.

That's a lot of people!

For you to win a primary of a major party, you would need to muster the vote of a fourth of the voting populace. Actually, it's even lower than that, since many don't affiliate themselves with a party and out of those, many don't vote in primaries. On top of that, you can end the primary early as long as you kill off your opponents in a few early states.

So it's much easier to take over an existing party (like the GOP) than to create a third. On top of that, all those conservatives you don't like ... well, they'll vote for your guy now. Because they have a choice of two and they like your guy more.

Ron Paul is doing it right. That's the only way a libertarian leaning pol will ever get close to the presidency.
That's generally a good thing to say when the people that he has to calm the most are the Street and their demotivated workforce. People as a whole don't like change.
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Why not invest in a cheap server? Give them direct download links?
Your odds are astronomically worse with Amazon, actually, because by submitting to them you grant them an exclusive option on your work. Hollywood works in the opposite way, with studios competing (and, thus, cutting bigger checks) for good scripts. There are hundreds of ways to sell a script in Hollywood. There's only one way to sell a script on Amazon.

So, if your script's been floating around for a year or two and hasn't gotten any traction -- no agent, no options, hasn't made The Black List, hasn't placed in any notable competitions, etc. -- then sure, submit it to Amazon. But the hard truth in that case is that the script is likely just crap.

On a side note: the point of writing a spec isn't necessarily to sell it. Specs are to screenwriters as GitHub is to coders. That said, 2011 was actually a banner year for specs, with at least 109 sold.
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If something is too expensive for you to afford that does not mean you are entitled to receive it for free.
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The title is a reference to the song "Rebel Girl" by the seminal Riot Grrrl band Bikini Kill.
I don't get much from this. I see something that might be "the number of people using certain tags at particular locations over time" but I am unsure. Also, I can't tell how they reacted. Were they angry at Hollywood? At their representatives? At the Internets?
Sorry. not about 'forcing' them to work less, just making sure they can survive (and support others) on 8 hours a day if they choose to.

Of course its their choice if they want to work longer and earn more.
If you want to kill Hollywood, you need to kill its revenue streams. In the case of TV, that would be advertising. The examples you've raised are off to a good start there. Once brands and marketers see that these folks can reach bigger and more dedicated audiences each week than a typical TV show can, dollars will be taken away from TV spend and placed on YouTube instead. It'll be a slow process, but we're already seeing some really big brands and companies placing big bets on YouTube, Facebook, etc. There are plenty of cases where spending on a YouTube star makes more sense than spending on a TV show (when reaching a targeted audience or youth demographics, say). That said, YouTube -- and its associated studios -- have a ways to go before theyr'e taking serious bucks away from TV network advertising.

As for the movie business, that one's a bit tougher to kill. The barriers to entry for Hollywood-quality movies are fairly high. But there are some levers to pull. In recent years, hedge funds have quietly emerged as one of the biggest sources of film financing in the business -- bankrolling everyone from production companies to studios themselves. Independent producers looking to work outside the Hollywood system should find a) distribution paths that make sense, and b) court this sort of money, which will be agnostic as to who's making the content if the content is good enough.
I thought the same thing until I read "The goal of Amazon Studios is to work with Hollywood to turn the best projects into major feature films"
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Would have been a bit more useful to show the traffic before the blackout for frame of reference, this just looks like an unchanging level of activity.
By taking advantage of the mindset of most off the people that still looks at the 'war on piracy' as a legit thing.
That includes most of HN's uses unfortunately
Solyndra failed because its secret-sauce technology couldn't get cheap enough fast enough compared to the plummeting cost of photovoltaics. So it fits pretty well.
When capitalism is dominant and the bottom-line is money, this is the logical first line of reponse. If you don't agree with a company's actions, withdraw financial support. If enough people do it, it can make a difference. In this world, there are many means of entertainment, especially with the internet. Movies can be replaced; it may be a sacrifice, it may be something else, but it won't be supporting groups whose actions endanger the great endeavor that is the internet.
"Think of all the long-tail movies that do not get made because the target audience is too small; these would become economically feasible with internet distribution."

I can think of a few popular books that I would loved to see get turned into movies. Their fanbase alone would make these minor successes.
nice, i use tmux daily as a sysadmin, but i'm anti-mac ...

terminator + tmux in vi mode works nice for me.
This happens in Canada, too. There was a thread on a popular storm chasing forum in 2007 in which a chaser driving from Florida to Canada was stopped by the Canadian border patrol and had his car randomly searched. The post is also here on the chaser's personal blog: http://sky-chaser.com/america.htm#WINDSOR . They grabbed his laptop that he was using for GPS mapping, brought it inside, then came back out and told him he was being detained in order to investigate the photos he had on his drive. Apparently they were concerned that some of his Asian nudie pics were of underage models. He was then arrested until some specialist could come in and interview him and review the photos to determine if they were underage. After waiting several hours in a cell, the investigator showed up, asked him a few questions, then released him. "You are good to go. We have insufficient evidence and cannot find anything related to the charges suspected, we are sorry for the inconvenience and I hope this does not prevent you from visiting Canada in the future."
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i liked this maybe can help my talented but apathetic teenage sister want to pick up coding.
So the difference between hobby and non hobby is the full time part only? Any more things you are doing differently?
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Your news network depends on natural monopolies derived from public goods, such as frequency and orbital allocations for OTA and satellite broadcast and exclusive property access for cable networks. It seems "fair" to expect some kind of public access in return for the exclusive use of those public goods.

"Start their own news networks" is easy to say and impossible to do for many groups. Not all interests are represented by money; there are valuable causes that could never motivate enough donations to compete.
Yeah it sure didn't work out for them, I wonder if there is any hope for RIM at this point.
Cool, let's also push a DIE MSM (mainsteam media) as a whole movement. News can be crowdsourced, we just need to get on the boob tube. This republican primary race, case in point. America needs our help
How is it different than it is right now? Big budget productions are notoroiously conservative in terms of script topics. The indie films which might be a million times more interesting have a fraction of those budgets, and they still get produced.
How is it different than it is right now? Big budget productions are notoriously conservative in terms of script topics. The indie films which might be a million times more interesting have a fraction of those budgets, and they still get produced.
Not if the status quo is terrible.
I really appreciated this interview http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail5059.html with the guy who wrote the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Industrial_Revolution

He stresses that financing, generation and distribution must all be improved in sync for a successful transition to occur. This is based on his experience in Europe helping them transition to distributed renewable energy.
Not totally apropos, but calling Primer "minimally viable" does it a bit of a disservice. The low-budget aesthetic feels perfect, and it's executed flawlessly-- one of my favorite films, full stop.

Carry on.
Wow, what a completely misinformed comment. Start here:

http://energyselfreliantstates.org/content/solar-grid-parity...
I am not sure why y'all are arguing. Either a carbon tax or better financing would help.
Would it be easy for you to encode the same information as a png image and post that using twitpic? What would the resultant image look like?
We've only heard of Solyndra b/c the big-oil/big-coal GOP needed a talking point. Solyndra is what they came up with.
Yeah, I agree. Even if you can see the current strategy is failing, you shouldn't go throwing bombs unless and until you think of something better.
Book authors: I don't know if this worked for anyone, but Stephen King was, years ago (I think before it's time which would be now), requesting money from his fans for every new chapter he wrote. First pay up enough and when it reaches a threshold, the new chapter is written. Anyone know who is trying that now and if it works? It would seem it should work; if I read ch1 and I like what I see, I would pay... Full refund if the threshold is not reached obviously. So Kickstarter per chapter.
Book authors: I don't know if this worked for anyone, but Stephen King was, years ago (I think before it's time which would be now), requesting money from his fan for every new chapter he wrote. First pay up enough and when it reaches a threshold, the new chapter is written. Anyone know who is trying that now and if it works? It would seem it should work; if I read ch1 and I like what I see, I would pay... Full refund if the threshold is not reached obviously. So Kickstarter per chapter.
"In reality, the only things you need to focus on away from the actual salary are specific details surrounding Intellectual Property Agreements and Non-Disclosure Agreements. More and more companies are stifling their developers creativity by restricting them from contributing to open source projects...."

Agreed. This is something that is essential to consider. With stackoverflow karma, github check-ins & the like becoming a way to evaluate your expertise, this is something that should be considered carefully.
I would think a minimal-viable Star Wars would be something like a comic book - that seems to be the path taken by many fantasy/SF/"necessarily set/prop/effects-heavy" films recently.
What's not to understand? When you work on something new, or take a new perspective, you make new advances. That seems pretty straight-forward.
They are few and far-between in a lot of the tech industry.
My problem with the "MVP" concept is it assumes you can generally know what it is you need to learn.

More accurately, it forces you to have falsifiable hypotheses to test, which is pretty useful.
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Trivia: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first BBC Radio Comedy to be recorded in stereo. This was bureaucratically impossible, so it was initially classified as a Radio Drama.
It's not just buffer overruns that can cause issues. You can crash the font display system by sending characters that aren't handled properly. You may also be able to direct the phone to download a hacked firmware update via SMS (AIUI carriers sometimes use specially-coded SMS messages to tell phones to update their software, PRL, etc.).
RIM Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis to step down
This is one of the better reasoned comments I've read in a while.

There is an old Milton Friedman video floating around which dates back to the 1970s. At the time he was spending a lot of time trying to convince people that oversized governments weren't a good thing.

One of the very salient points he makes to a detractor is that if you limit the size of the government, you - by nature - limit the power a corporation can obtain. If the government has limited powers, so it goes that a corporation can gain limited powers - it should be impossible for a corporation to gain more power than a government.

It's the essential point that everyone skips over - they see government powers failing to check corporate growth, and so want more government power. If you take this to the argument by absurdity, you end up with a fascist government that exerts total control over the people, and then licences that control out to selected corporations in return for cash and favors.

The problem is human nature - and the solution must be to design a system that makes the assumption that humans will try and gather power and abuse it. It's the same concept as term limits but applied across a much broader spectrum.
That may be true, but if there is to be a real Computer Programmers' Guild, it will be born out of these sorts of gimmicks. Just something to consider.
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What about consuming Hollywood movies through legal, online means such as Amazon.com video? You'd still get to watch the movies while giving a vote to legal online streaming.
All good points, but as you've said -- and as I agree -- it's not like you're expecting your first screenplay to get made, one way or the other. So the exclusive option being granted to Amazon, functionally speaking, would be no different than having your debut spec bought and sent into development hell with a studio. After that point, the spec becomes your calling card and resume. You might earn more money selling the spec in a Hollywood bidding war, but only a small handful of all spec sales inspire that kind of frenzy. (I do agree, however, that if you have even the slightest suspicion that you've written a killer script, you should try Hollywood agencies first).

To your other point, I do fear that Amazon has basically engineered a system whereby the good catches swim the Hollywood, and the flotsam floats into Amazon's net. Time will tell.
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I am surprised that this was not put forth by more people as a way to protest actions of the MPAA. This is not only reasonable but something more people should be doing as well. Personally I have been boycotting movies since November.
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We techies know it is but RIM is very profitable and growing, the trade volume on the stock indicates that a lot of people think that they could be undervalued at the moment. They may even be under book value.
That's true, but even temporarily copying the about page and not otherwise using the domain may be slightly more substantial in appealing to ICANN directly.
This article contradicts the single largest pro-employee piece of wisdom ("don't walk up to the table with your cards showing") without providing any supporting argument. What does your salary in an unrelated job have any relevance at all to another company? Any company that asks the question has shown that it is not "worth its salt" and so the "trust me" advice immediately dissolves.

I told my personally retained recruiter my previous salary, under promise of confidence, only to hear it quoted back to me by the hiring manager. I watched the same thing happen on the other side when I sat on a hiring committee.
Why would anyone believe him? Divulging your current salary is basically asking for that plus 5%.
Most of what I've seen has been via SQL injections in badly coded sites.
Way too late. RIM has very little in the pipeline and still seems determined to try and make the PlayBook work.

Rumors are that they're shopping the company around but asking too much.
they are a group of very educated hackers with alot of time to gdb widely used applications running suid root. They do not publish their remote exploit Intel... aka blackhats, and their ambitious. That in itself with motives to prove a point is dangerous, these guys are not careless, very organized and strike all at once.
Most long-term forum members of any forum tend to think that the forum is degrading over time. I don't know why, and I'm not accusing anyone of being a certain way, it's just a pattern that I've noticed and want to point out, although I have no explanation for it.

I think that HN is set up to only be as 'good' as the users, and I know that this is true of any community, but there are still issues that often spur from differing opinions no matter how awesome the community is. I believe that the best way to combat something that you don't approve of is to just ignore it. I think that the comments that people consider unfit for HN are few and when ignored will make the poster consider changing his posting technique to gain more popularity and give weight to his words, because after all we all want to be heard. That being said, is the present that much different from the past?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143148
> I redirected attention to historic games that were gender neutral and that were shunned by the female gender, due most likely to social prejudices, that videogames are a guy thing. You replied to my arguments by implicitly inferring that the games I cited as examples were somewhat gender biased. I added some arguments to the contrary. Now you use Ms Pac-man's logo as the basis of your argument about the genderization in the game?

Is the advertising/packaging somehow exempt from scrutiny in gender discussions? I don't see why I can't point to the packaging of Ms Pac-Man as a reason it's gendered. You do realize you're arguing against the notion that advertising intends to capture a specific audience, correct?

> The last thing I remember from any of them was the packaging.

That's great. Many people remember the packaging, and it's a huge factor in purchases.

> Mario could have been after the golden treasure, or the secret chamber, or delivering the princess, or whatever, it made absolutely no difference to game play.

But it wasn't, and until you can see that it wasn't, you'll never understand why gender discrimination is such an issue.

> The 2 games that you cited Arkham City and DC New 52, I've never heard of, so I won't dispute your claims. I would however underline the fact that they're recent releases and bear no weight in our current discussion.

I only used those because I assumed you had prior knowledge of them. DC New 52 isn't even a game; it's a reboot of the original DC comic characters but made more "modern" which equates to all the female characters becoming slutty. I used them to prove my point that video games have rarely been female-friendly or had women in mind. Lara Croft? Appealed to young men with her chest and short-shorts. Samus Aran? Did you see what she looked like at the end of the first game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samus_at_the_end_of_Metroi... That's on the NES!

Please, take the time to put yourself in a woman's shoes. How would you feel if every major video game ever made had either a male or male-fantasy female main character?
SOPA/PIPA shouldn't be the only reason, as noted in a throwaway line by the OP.

Here's why I haven't been to a movie in well over a year:

...Four adaptations of comic books. One prequel to an adaptation of a comic book. One sequel to a sequel to a movie based on a toy. One sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a movie based on an amusement-park ride. One prequel to a remake. Two sequels to cartoons. One sequel to a comedy. An adaptation of a children's book. An adaptation of a Saturday-morning cartoon. One sequel with a 4 in the title. Two sequels with a 5 in the title. One sequel that, if it were inclined to use numbers, would have to have a 7 1/2 in the title.

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day...

SOPA/PIPA just sent me from being indifferent about moviemakers to actively opposing them. And it goes deeper than just boycotting. I intend to donate money to campaigns of politicians who were always against these bills and to the EFF, the ACLU and other watchdogs that did a good job bringing it to our attention.
The fact that it took this long for the CEO's to step down reflects the extreme arrogance of this company. I've attended a few RIM-sponsored events in the Waterloo, and it's downright shocking how cocky the reps and developers are. RIM appears to be living in its own little tech bubble, blissfully ignorant that pretty much everywhere else in the first world owns or will own an iPhone.

This company makes a lot of money, they still have a lot of marketshare, but there's no question they are in a serious downdraft. It would be completely normal for any company in this situation to put itself up for sale. I'm a little surprised Google choose to buy Motorola Mobility rather than RIM, given that RIM has a lower market value and has more attractive assets.

Regardless of what it says in the press I imagine finding a potential acquirer of the company will be the first task of the new CEO.
doubt doj and government sites ignore SQL issues, I could be wrong but I'd find that odd
Just upload your pirated content to Megaupload before travelling and download on arriving. This is what they want, isn't ? :)
There's a minor bit of deification imo, though it's not as bad as it could be. It's not so much that disagreeing with him is suppressed, Soviet-style, as that quoting the Paul Graham Essays is sometimes seen as a legitimate form of argument (a form of argument-from-authority). Not pervasively to be sure, but it's something I notice now and then.
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