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For the average person who knows very little to nothing about SOPA, the phrase "anti-piracy" implies that the bill is specifically targeted against piracy-related matters. People might even assume that it would be effective against piracy. Imagine if voicing your opposition to TSA's expanding control and alleged infringements of rights was called, "So-and-so opposed to anti-terror bill."
One does not simply get some REST.
SOAP is no more the acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol since version 1.2
I am not 100% sure you are allowed to limit who can use a patent in that fashion. IANAL, but requiring non monetary compensation may not be allowed. http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9208.ht...
I don't really see it as pedantic. It's important to oppose persons who characterize copyright infringement (at least as it relates to filesharing) as "stealing" because that misinformation is the argument that the pushers of SOPA/PIPA and other bad things hide behind. We cannot tolerate the analog because when it promulgates across techie lines into the mass of "normal people", they don't have the context necessary to consider the implications and judge independently whether the event constitutes a legitimate theft or not.

We need to emphasize that filesharing is a form of sampling for most people, and that they would never buy 99% of the content that they fileshare for free, and that they often do buy that 1%, and that even if the consumer doesn't buy your content/distribution, you're still better off for the potential word-of-mouth promotion and other exposure facilitated.

In reality, filesharing operates on the same principles as YouTube, which the studios and record companies also attempted to kill as just another pirate avenue before it was legitimized by Google and entered mainstream acceptance; they now (mostly) see YouTube as a promotional platform with the same understanding that it's about "sampling", that most people won't buy 99% of the stupid videos they watch on YouTube, but that some people will buy that 1%. The RIAA/MPAA members use YouTube in hopes that their content will be that 1% that provokes individuals to go purchase related merchandise.

The only difference is that YouTube makes the "filesharing" piece invisible and people feel that they are sharing videos instead of files, and this makes YouTube tenable for mainstream use. BitTorrent and other filesharing networks operate on the same set of principles, but they are harder to use and control, so they remain targeted when there is essentially no difference from a consumer standpoint other than barrier to entry.
I'll admit to being completely ignorant about the benefits of using SOAP to communicate between servers. However I can say that for server->client communication it is the worse data representation I've ever had to work with and I genuinely hope we see the end of it. JSON maybe not be perfect, but it's so much better at delivering a structured data model then xml is.
For about $15/month for minimal "reserved capacity" charges and $1/gigabyte per month replicated disk space this service looks like it will cure a lot of deployment headaches for a reasonable cost.

Interesting that when I signed up for the service that they verified my identity with a cellphone call, like Google sometimes does.
German Pirate Party Blackout - Nice Visual Effect
Seems not to work on IE9, though.

As a sidenote, almost all big German news sites are covering the Wikipedia blackout quite prominently at the moment.
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I very much agree. I honestly think that the article was fair. CNN didn't try to hide that it's parent company was supporting SOPA (which is maybe obvious for american folks, but for a foreigner like me, it was worth mentioning), and detailled the arguments of both sides.
BRILLANT!
BLACKOUT PINTEREST
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Unfortunately I spent a couple years building web services tools in 2002,3. I have long since repented. Love the "S stands for Simple" link... fantastic dialog!
I really want to add the one-click call functionality to this: http://www.piparollcall.com/

I already have 2-click tweets. This would be perfect. Let me know if you guys are interested. =)
Even Godaddy puts up a anti-SOPA banner
Almost thought it was SOPA.. misspelled article..:-P Agree.. SOAP is way to verbose....and annoying to read manually while debugging...
WordPress Plugin To Easily Protest Sopa/PIPA On Dates You Choose
Rhizome.org Blacked out for SOPA
A DSLR can solve the first two problems with manual focus and setting the white balance to a fixed value. The cat is more difficult.
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I've mentioned this elsewhere but I think the following needs to be emphasised: "The "for" loop will not be changed."[1]

I would argue it's a terrible idea to break consistency between how this is handled by the for and the foreach loop. The for loop can't be changed because the initialiser expression is general and not restricted to variables. I expect the result will be many bemused developers surprised closures behave one way in a for and another way in a foreach.

The end result is that the problem hasn't really been eliminated, just made even more obscure. My personal preference would be for consistency; one can still achieve the desired effect simply by explicitly defining a variable inside the loop scope for the closure to close over.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/12/closi...
If you remove his history with Apple Woz is absolutely a guy you'd expect to like Android phones, or any device that gave him the ability to modify it to his hearts content.

But one (technically not but effectively a) former employee personally prefers aspects of a competitors product isn't really a major story is it? Interesting to some absolutely but not really more than that.

Long may Woz keep saying what he wants, he's earned that right. I don't think people like Woz shutting up would do anything to raise the level of tech journalism - people who are going to twist and sensationalise things will always find something to twist and sensationalise so it might as well be the views of someone who is honest and smart.

At least this way those who are interested can hear what he has to say (even if they may have to dig a little to get the full story).
Flickr Allowing "SOPA Takedowns" Today
They aren't charging to get the song physically to you. They're charging you for the right to play it. Up until now, that has been easiest via payment on transfer of the physical good. Now that we have new mechanisms, they're still allowed to set the terms under which you may use their music.

For example, radio stations pay more. They may have the physical CD in their grasp, but they have to pay to play it on air. DVD shops get charged more per video because they rent it out repeatedly - they don't just use the same home version as you do and pocket the difference. Changing the distribution mechanism to radio stations and DVD shops to digital doesn't change the concept of copyright owners being able to set the terms of use for their content.

Now, would I like a whole new approach? Sure. I long for ways to reinvent the industry, like crowdsourcing aspects of music production, marketing etc. There will be many ways to make a living from music in the future. But that doesn't mean I think it's ok to just make up the rules as I go along and copy anything that I fancy.
Right. And I suppose Mercedes is flushing the automobile manufacturing profession down the toilet because they're cheating customers by charging too much for too little as well?
The Google SOPA protest as channeled via an [sic] satirical alternative reality
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I'm trying to understand your point. Are you for digital music being available or not?

>Where is your sympathy for all the truckers, records store people etc. that lost their jobs because of digitalization?

Of course I do have sympathy for them but humanity has to move forward. We are living in a disruptive age – much like those in the beginning of the Industrial Age. Humanity will need to adjust. This really is another subject for another story and doesn't hold relevance to the topic of piracy.

>I personally have more sympathy for them, the musicians will always have the music. Whether they will be able to live from it is another thing.

This makes no sense. You are condemning musicians to the same fate as those you mentioned. The only difference is that potential future truckers and HS/college students at record stores won't suffer because there will be new jobs created but the artist always will.

The world does not need more starving artists.
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From the guidelines: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."
Agreed - no worse than the average article on a complex topic, really.
I didn't see it that way. Android does some nice things, iOS is good, but should do more. No more, no less.

... Other than the "Windows is bad" comment at the end :-)
RE: Why Don't Smartphones have a 'Guest Mode'?
Leaving restaurant without paying = stealing.
Downloading = fraud.

One is hurting a business by creating direct loss, the other one creates no direct loss (and it is not clear it is hurting anyone...)

So according to you, us customers, should shut up and let them dictate how we spend our money? You should come back to reality, customers have the money, and if we say "There is a problem with the way the entertainment industry works", then there is a problem.

And the lack of offering is a legitimate reason to "pirate", I have tons of hands on examples where piracy does not hurt in any way the industry:

I lived 5years in North America, got used to certain shows, enjoy some of those shows, and have no way of seeing them from my current country, so because the entertainment industry fails to realize that we live in a global world, I should just shut up and take it? I don't think so, so i occasionally download, i download something that i had no access to, something that was not and would have never been available in my country.

The internet and file sharing offers a channel that otherwise would not be available to a lot of people, and the entertainment industry (as well as you) are still living decades in the past. We live in a globalized world, we expect everything to be globalized and we are right to expect so.

And please could we stop with the "creators", "artist", it is not about them and as never been. Piracy does not hurt them in any way, it never has. The entertainment industry does, by taking ridiculous amounts of money out of every sale, deal, show, leaving most of the bands in "debt" when they decide to drop them because they didn't "reach targets" (which is another layer of bullshit right there).

It is time for some people here on HN, to stop make this issue about the artist and creators, because it is not about them, it is about a system that is profoundly broken, and that the internet finished.

It is time for a change in the way the entertainment industry works, the way copyright works, the way artists/creators are remunerated, not a time to point fingers at each others and play on semantics or other fallacies.
If MPAA wanted a workable sinister solution to the SOPA/PIPA problem, it would offer immunity to youtube, twitter, myspace, facebook, reddit, digg, etc. Which would allow for the abuse to continue unabated without all of the "common folk" getting excited about it.
This was my favorite: http://youtu.be/jA7FVHkS4to

If taking a car or purse were as simple as taking content online, I'd wager that most people would do it.
Cloud integration indeed is a two-way process
I wish, but the cartels won't give up right now for sure... the necessary culture shift among their ranks has only just begun.
I just used this bootstrap, to make this: http://www.piparollcall.com/

pretty awesome. very small when minified, even without less.

love it!
To be fair, the bill's goal is to stop piracy. Granted, it's crippling the internet in the process, but I think calling it an "anti-piracy" bill is pretty accurate.
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Short 2-letter TLD's are practical and shorter.
.TV is cute. .LY is fun but could feel too "political" to some. Also - registering and relying the whole business to domain registered in unstable political jurisdiction could be prone to "blackouts" :)

I registered: C.GG a few years ago because i wanted to make my own shortener that would be very easy and fast to type on the keyboard (letter C and G are conveniently on the left side of keyboard, and dot on the right). But never got to use it though yet.

Each one has it's own reason!

Gleb
I don't think they were out to destroy OSM data.... I think that they were likely out to discredit OSM as a reliable source for maps.
> The legitimate option is GO WITHOUT IT. You have no RIGHT to anything here...

Actually, you do. That is precisely the point of copyright - all creative works are (well, were, before the advent of the major content companies in the US) implicitly understood as the property of the people. Thus, in order to promote continued creative works, an artificial incentive has to be created to encourage additional creation, e.g. copyright. Copyright doesn't create rights, it postpones them.

This is what few people understand anymore about copyright and the original view of the creative process. Enlightenment ideals held that all creative processes were the right of the people as an extension of the mere fact of being an intelligent being - creative activity is required for effective participation in any human society. It is an inborn part of being human.

I'm not saying this to justify the OP's comment about pirating something not available in your country, although that would be a reasonably valid interpretation of a human's right to the product of other human's creative endeavors. If you had 100% certainty that the producer had no intention of distributing that content in your country, you are entirely within your right to find it another way.

The problem is that the content producers these days would claim the opposite - and they do the entirety of the human species, and the whole history and future of human civilization, a disservice by claiming so. I am not engaging in hyperbole here. Even today, we continue to benefit from the knowledge and creations of those thousands of years ago who gave us amazing works. All creative works today are possible due to the works that came before them. The fallout of the infinite lockdown on content ownership that occurs today will not be known for hundreds of years.
I took it as satire...
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I sleep roughly 3 to 4 hours per night during the week, and 12-13 hours on the weekend. I've been doing this for over 20 years and I have similar health problems, depression, etc. Get your sleep, it's important.
I vary from 6 to 10 hours depending on the season. It averages out.
That's no excuse (and if you read the article you'd know that it acknowledges this fact).
But that's exactly how legislation is named across the board. Who wants to oppose Patriotism? Or Liberty, Freedom, Homeland Security, or Family Values?

It's insidious and infuriating.

edit: Also as the other comment points out, the bill is ostensibly an anti-piracy bill.
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Great comment, although I'd like to add that I believe pirating isn't really an occupation of greed. It's about convenience. Finding and downloading movies is a pain in the ass. But driving 5km away to rent or buy a piece of plastic and packaging is even more of a pain in the ass.

For the past year I've been paying for Netflix, and while the selection isn't always the greatest, the sheer thought of pirating has gone down considerably.

Do I want to pay $8/mo or do I want to spend time finding, downloading, dealing with codecs, categorization and management of movies that I will probably delete later?

If Netflix could offer every movie, every tv show and/or a music subscription that worked on any device, would I ever want to pirate? Even if it was $20/mo?

As producers of creative works, we need to understand the psychology of our audience, more than we need to understand the economy of the industry.
This is just another in a long-line of poorly reasoned reasons against SOPA.

I don't know if this article touched on the entire "we'll pay for cheap streaming thing", but I've heard it enough times and think it's relevant enough to discuss in this topic.

I'm curious to how much time people are really spending thinking about things from the perspective of the movie studios. For users, it's easy to say "charge me $10/month and I'll gladly pay". From the movie studio's perspective, that probably sounds AWFUL. Does the music industry really like paying fractions of a penny per play on Pandora, Spotify, etc.? Absolutely not. For them, however, it's better than the alternative. For the movie studios, it's not. At least not yet.

The movie business model is designed to price discriminate. They charge consumers on a sliding scale. When a movie first comes out, it's only available in theaters at the cost of, let's say, $10 per person. Then it moves to the second-run theaters at $5 per person. Then it goes to video for $20 to own, or $5 / household to rent. Then it goes to on-demand/redbox/itunes/etc. for $5/6 to rent. Then it goes to premium cable, where money is distributed via pre-arranged agreements. Then it becomes an "archival" video and can be rented for $2/3 at a store or on-demand.

The movie studios are going for maximum profits by attempting to charge people the exact price they're willing to pay, when they're willing to pay it. Of course, they have to settle for inefficiencies because they cannot create a perfect discrimination model.

Regarding the pedants of the "stealing" thing, what you're stealing when you pirate something is missed revenues. Just because you're taking a digital good instead of a physical one should have no effect on the outcome of your actions. If you steal a physical CD that normally costs $12.99, you're not stealing $12.99 worth of stock from the music industry. The margins are purposefully high on CD's, and you're stealing those margins, not $12.99 worth of a physical product.
With so many big name sites on the list, it seems absurd that Facebook is doing absolutely nothing with their site.
Oops.. simultaneous posts.... .downvoting sounds harsh..but hey life isn't fair..shrug...:)
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I want to see the benchmarks and the tests used...
From the article, "If SOPA passes, copyright holders would be able to complain to law enforcement officials and get websites shut down. Search engines and other providers would have to block rogue sites when ordered to do so by a judge. "

From my understanding SOPA doesnt require an order from a judge but rightsholders, ISPs, or the government could shut down sites with accusations of infringement, and without real due process.
when bad things happen to us, we are more likely to blame external factors. However, when bad things happen to others, we’re more likely to blame internal factors, such as their personality

I have this conversation with people all the time. Striving to level the two, AKA where you see other people in the same light as your own self perception is key. If not, all kinds of double standards, arise in which usually, you give yourself the better of those two standards.
Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
I was doing a search for Reddit's open source version and stumbled upon this article http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/introducing-technews-our-own-reddit-clone/ and when I followed the link this Asset Management group website popped up?
But what if you have to enter a bunch of numbers?
How to get around Wikipedia's blackout
If we follow the analogy: after failing repeatedly to find the Holy Grail, Adobe will get arrested by police just as they are about to attack Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh.
Sopastrike.com
SOPA Strike provides a nice list of participating sites, and another easy black-out/redirect tool.
At best, this reeks of like 2000-era Microsoft, "Why does everybody get so excited about Javascript still? ActionScript is way better! Duh!"

As far as actual points in the fine article -- a test using some sort of strongly typed data on an unreleased actionscript vm ran three times faster than v8 running similar code.

I'm not shocked at all, and think Javascript could badly use at the least some type hinting, personally. But, this author is at best just missing it, at worst is misleading others.

I recently ported a Flex app to HTML5. Frame rates quintupled on a modern browser; in a real, mixed-use environment, ActionScript-based tools, interpreted with the Flash or Flex runtime, are roughly one-fifth the speed in the modern browser.

If this speed delta trended the other way, Flash would still be vigorously defended by developers all over the world who would say "we have to have this speed, don't take it away from us!"
Is it too much to hope that OnSwipe will follow suit and protest SOPA by permanently disabling its functionality on all sites?
SOPA Downfall
Thanks for that quote license to consume... No problem.. am already cutting down my consumption and will just not consume.. bye..corporations with big IP portfolio.....
One critique of your "Top 50 Cities in America for Biking." You seem to actually be evaluating churn in the bicycle resale market, not riding or ridability. Of course college towns have more bikes for sale - partly due to their practical nature for getting around, and partly due to students buying bikes when they arrive and selling them when they leave.
After an article posted on HN, I started a polyphasic sleep cycle a few days before Christmas (the Uberman cycle). Currently I total about 2 and a half hours of sleep per day, which is working surprisingly well.
Is this an official Adobe communication or just some guy who will be packing his desk later today?
They use 3 images from the wikipedia page which prevents you from reading it. Wikipedia was among several websites to shut down at midnight in protest of anti-piracy bills now in Congress that critics say could amount to censorship. Wikipedia did not shutdown, people in France can read the French or English version of the site just fine.

PS: I could continue but those are literally the first picture and first sentence of the article.
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I'll probably be sent to the back of the pack for this, but in light of the "End Piracy, Not Liberty" meme bouncing around, I'd like to offer an alternative viewpoint and some rationale for it:

Don't End "Piracy" or Liberty:

I believe that when you buy your hard drive, you own it. I believe that the bits on your hard drive are yours to set however you please. I believe that if someone else tells you how to set those bits so that you can run them through a video decoder to watch the latest Batman movie that neither they nor you have done anything that can be responded to with force, because your actions (communication and altering your own property) have been nonviolent. I believe that if someone tries to throw you in jail for setting those bits or telling someone else about the bits, they are the ones that are being unethical, because they are using aggressive force.

It's probably true that the jobs and/or income of people in the entertainment industry may be at risk because of this. The problem, in my opinion, does not stem from the act of copying, but rather from a business model that depends on aggressive force. It strikes me as incredibly narrow-minded to stick to this foundering and unethical business model when there are an infinite number of ethical business models to try. They can do literally anything (anything!) that does not involve violence.
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