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Reddit is an interesting lesson for everyone with vague interest in society and human (tribal?) behavior. One of less pleasant experiences I had was on Atheism subreddit. Atheists like me like to think they're a bit special, they're more civilized, and don't exhibit the behaviors attributed to religious folks (intolerance, agression, mob mentality). Except that Atheism subreddit is eerily similar to how religious folks behave at times. My conclusion is that it's not so much atheism that makes certain folks more restrained, but isolation. Online, on a site like Reddit where atheists can group together, they're just another tribe. Only a bit (if at all) better than others.

Oh, and the top voted link at the moment was a sex tape of some woman who declared she's having sex with a stranger just to spite her husband who joined a sect which made him sell their furniture. And she was going to making him watch the video.
I sell a Windows app. Americans may be only 11% of the population, but they're about 50% of my customer base. They buy licenses, which gives me incentive to continue working on the software. The Russian and Indian bloggers (for example) who have reviewed my app positively have moved the needle very slightly, if at all. No chance I'd give up my US customers willingly.

(Edit: I'm from South Africa, not the US.)
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> considered unconstitutional because you're limiting freedom of speech.

Then amend the constitution to allow this particular limit on freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not a sanctum that has to be protected at all cost, even if we can see how it leads to the whole system going down the toilet.

Enforcing copyright is a form of limiting freedom of speech and the constitution obviously has no problems with it. If I cant publicly repeat what somebody else said because the speech is copyrighted, this is limiting my freedom of speech. I dont see that freedom of speech can be freely limited here (not only limited, but life+70yrs limited, meaning from my finite-lifespan point of view prohibited forever) but but somehow cant be limited to fix the utterly broken political/election system.
And plus, informal perks aren't part of the contract. It's like part of your salary you can lose anytime.
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Why do they add the option to save as PDF if they want to lock you in to their store?

It is easy to export as PDF. You lose some of the pretty stuff but it does work. http://i.imgur.com/cy8g2.jpg
I knew a programmer on the Chandler team. When I read the wiki and tried it out, I remember thinking, "This is Mitch's doomed vanity project." (Of course I had the usual doubts on whether I understood what was going on, but simply I couldn't see it living up to its hype.)

I haven't yet read the book on it (_Dreaming in Code_), but the question in my mind wasn't how it failed, but how it couldn't fail...
Its worth noting that the RH (reported in house) version of the bill is significantly better. This requires logging only ip addresses and only for 12 months
AND the response may only be compelled by a government entity.

(1) A commercial provider of an electronic communication service shall retain for a period of at least one year a log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber to or customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.

`(2) Access to a record or information required to be retained under this subsection may not be compelled by any person or other entity that is not a governmental entity.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:1:./temp/~c1122yS...:
It's beginning to sound like it's dangerous to buy anything whose essential feature is IP: movies, music, fancy luggage, watches.

I think the safest thing is to not buy these things. Buy the most serviceable and reliable vanilla physical products (a watch, not a Rolex). Don't buy music, and certainly don't have music or movies on your laptop when you cross borders.

Anything protected by commercial IP is becoming too dangerous to have around, legally obtained or not.
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Not working is no good. The only kind of inspection of electronics I've had so far is firing them up to see whether they actually are what they look like (of course it would be easy to circumvent that, but hey).
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Possession of it was grounds for conviction in US vs Knox.
Then perhaps you shouldn't get legal counsel from Wikipedia ;)
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It still needs work, like requiring reasonable suspicion of child pornography, but it is significantly better.
Also if anyone can confirm whether or not that Reported in House means that the actual bill that has been fixed and that it is not just suggested changes to the bill that would be great
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> The amount of space is tied to the relevance of the party

How is this justified? Bigger parties are already popular enough, why should they get more media exposure than unknown parties? This is basically like giving the winner of one race a time advantage in the next race, making it even more difficult for other contestants to catch up.
If it only went down for about an hour during this whole time, then that's not really much of an argument for moving away from this type of service, because that is really excellent uptime.

But it doesn't seem ideal or really necessary for everyone to rely on one company for blog comments or for searches/advertising or anything.
Bullshit has been called, and bullshit it is.
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One of things I like the least about link aggregator sites like reddit, hacker news and digg is the tendency to post hordes of links about the same major event. I understand these links differ in their point of view and show the event in different light, but come on ! There should be a way to group them and make them use only one line, like

"Breaking news: Elvis Presley remains dead (41 links)"

Have a look at this picture:
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That is why we call it "security theater" - because every informed person will realize it's a heap of bullshit that serves no purpose but to get people used to methods of a authoritarian police state. Terrorism is a retarded excuse, period, and anyone who uses it as their primary argument should be laughed out of the building.
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The software business isn't about reading books. It's about producing software. I know too many great programmers and software executives that haven't read most, or even any of these books, and seldom read books at all, or science fiction at best. Writers read and write books. Programmers code. Execs raise money from customers and investors so we don't have to get a real job. ;-)
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Same here - perks are stuff I expect to come on top of the salary I ask for. If they try to make the perks an excuse to offer me less, I'll turn around and ask them to rather drop the perks and pay me more, or I'll go somewhere else.

It actually turns me off a company if they offer unusually large perks, as they do need to claw the money back somewhere, and usually it will be salaries, and the reason companies use perks is because employees on average tends to be really bad at judging their actual monetary value.
it's hidden subtly. I think the point of the article is that the goal of SOPA was not to give the government the ability to censor sites, but to compel sites to censor themselves due to the threat of having their lives made difficult. And the title implies that this can be shown through an application of game theory.
You use the netbook (or cheap laptop) because it's cheap to replace/lose if confiscated.

Your business or other legal data is encrypted in the cloud. If your business or other operation would not be harmed by customs having the data, have it also on the netbook for you convenience. Your encrypted data in the cloud isn't there to keep it sekrit from the government, it's there so you can get it at the other end.

If your netbook is not confiscated, or out of your sight for a suspicious period, then great.

If it's gone for a suspicious time, don't use it on the plane and get rid of it on the other end after wiping it.

If the netbook is confiscated or otherwise compromised, get a cheap netbook on the other end, download your clouded data, and biz on.

Repeat as necessary.

This doesn't protect your illegal (or impossible to prove legal) data, it just allows you to continue to operate after traveling through a bad neighborhood (the airport).
I agree. The demos all show text being imported from some other text file (likely whatever the writer has already written to distribute elsewhere). Then Author is just used to add an additional level of interactivity for iBook distribution.

A writer could write their whole book in Author, but that's misusing the tool. Author is a great tool for adding additional interactive content to an already written book. It's a lousy tool for writing content you want to also put elsewhere. It seems like most complaints come from the assumption that the writer will be using Author as their primary writing tool. That's not how to get the most out of Author.
Exactly. It's the inclusion of an exclusivity clause inside a "click-through" EULA that's the, er, "innovative" aspect here. And like others I find this pretty borderline immoral. Contract law is about two parties on equal standing coming to a negotiated agreement, it's not well suited to the "take it or leave it" metaphor of software use.
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I thought about this a little more this morning and realized that Megaupload was shut down because it was using piracy as a means to fund the owners' multi-million dollar lifestyle. Just because uploaded.to blocks US visitors does this make it safe from being taken down? I think not. Not if it is making $$$. They must be in #denial
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This is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I read HN daily. I just launched a website that helps people organize plans, post events and share experiences.

http://www.plangr.com

Briefly: I am a web developer and designer. The website came from a personal needs, I remember when I went to visit my uncle in Frankfurt and I wanted to play basketball but I couldn’t, I didn't know anybody their beside my uncle. At that time I thought about a website that could help people, not only organize their own plans, but also share and experience them with other people having same tastes.

So, after several months of work, time to get some feedbacks just arrived, and this is why i am sending you this post.

As excited as I am about finally getting to share plans ans events in my city and new cities, I am even more excited to see what our friends on HN can do!

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What strikes me most strongly about all this is how utterly weird it is.

Border guards give 'enhanced pat downs' to a middle class suburban family and find no weapons or contraband, but then open the family computer to find an unlicensed Finding Nemo avi, and haul them all off to jail.

It's just such a bizarre mix of nanny-state and fascism. I know it's a pointless rhetorical question, but... how on earth has it come to this??
To be fair, when they bring out the wrench, you know (at least for a few moments before the impending brain trauma) someone is trying to get your data. If your disk is encrypted, you can be fairly certain that no one will get at your data while your laptop is out of your hands (back room bag searches, etc.)
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Issn't this what they do in North Korea ?
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Where self censoring sites begin to believe they deserved to be censored.

Look out for it.
"It's pirated." That's how.
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I hope you realize that reddit is a very large community of different subreddits where your experience is very different from others. What is so bad about being a young white male? You don't say how this adversely affects the site nor do you provide any evidence that it is the case. It's like if you were to complain about people being like minded on Facebook, well they are your friends.
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I find reddit discussions for more entertaining and informative because it is common to find an expert who can verify and expand in an article or provide evidence against it.
Orwellian was the same word I was thinking as I read this.

It's too bad the bill's code number isn't H.R. 1984 - it'd be a lot more appropriate.
Unless you're talking about abolishing the commerce clause and the ability of congress to make laws, good luck with that.

I'd set my sights on the somewhat easier "limit the ability to bribe government".
I was at Google's campus last month for lunch.

The food is better quality than a Las Vegas buffet with all the trimmings, except it's all free.

The author complaining about Google being "evil" for cutting back or "screwing the employee" is so incredibly ridiculous and so self-entitled it sickens me.

It's like someone complaining that the company used to drop free $100 bills on the ground, but now they're only dropping $50s. The employees were "WOUNDED" because they closed a few locations, or they had to wander an extra 30 ft for donuts? For F*CK'S sake get a grip! The food there is pretty damn good and if you don't like it, there's something wrong with you, not Google. Too bad they closed a couple of locations and you have to walk an extra 30 seconds or be in line an extra 2 mins. IT'S FREE FOOD AND IT'S GOOD.
Compression garments aren't worn by athletes just to keep warm. There has been a hypothesis for years now that compression garments improve performance, speed up recovery, and/or help with injury prevention. That's why I wore compression sleeves a couple months ago for Ironman Cozumel, where it was 85 degrees and I didn't need any help keeping warm.

I realized when I got started in endurance sports a couple years ago that sports are full of advice that somebody tried out and it became doctrine without scientific evidence to support it. Studies like this are key to prove or disprove that conventional wisdom.
I didn't know these slideshows still exist or that people still click through all of them.
I'm not seeing where an unsigned type would help, other than it expanding your range. Can you give an example?
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Thanks for framing it that way; I felt this relationship subconsciously but never could name it clearly.

Btw., that's pretty much what happened at my current workplace: after two years of employment I negotiating salary increase -- basing on market situation and possible other employers for me -- and ever since the owners appreciate my role in the company more.
Very cool.

But one question from a JS/CSS noob: there seems to be a rash of people doing a lot of things in pure CSS. Is this more for fun and as an experiment, or is there an actual technological reason to do it strictly through CSS? Is pure CSS the way things are heading, or is using javascript the real way to do things?
I never viewed as trying to silence people's complaints, but more as a stark way to introduce perspective - that many complaints in the first world really aren't so bad.
I've done some more reading since, and my arm-chair legal review seems to indicate that most, if not all, search and seizure happening in this area is due to U.S. policy and legislation and not ACTA. i.e. DHS, etc. have their own policies rooted in US law that seems to permit this type of search and seizure.

I didn't do a thorough analysis, nor am I am lawyer, nor am I an ACTA supporter, and I think that the wikipedia article referenced is poorly written and not thoroughly representative of the current status of ACTA, its powers and effect.

(edit: it looks like some of the other commenters have picked up on this as well - definitely worth a thorough read of all the comments for a more current view of what we're actually getting with ACTA, I found this post especially helpful [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3496277)
How can they tell it is pirated? I mean, the audio files may have been ripped from a legit CD. They can't tell for sure.

Similarly, I may have ripped an AVI from a legit DVD. For my own convenience while traveling. I sometimes do.
Thank you for articulating this.
I'm just as disgusted as this as most people are, but how is this illegal? In the United States, so long as the MPAA isn't directly giving money to politicians, this kind of bribery is legal. Per Citizens United vs the FEC, the MPAA can spend as much as they want on re-election campaigns.
When I was still living in France, I used to rent a vps in the US, so I could tunnel my connections via ssh, and get access to those websites. Well this was not the main reason for my renting the vps (I hosted my website, and played around with it), but it was a nice bonus anyway..

Now having the vps inside the US has become useless to me, and I'm seriously considering moving it back to Europe, just in case..
See the front page (on Hacker News) where there is a story on uploading.to blocking visitors from the US.
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Copyright economics has one basic question: is the public getting plenty of good 'content'? And this has two components: 1, is plenty of stuff being produced?; and 2, does the public have easy and cheap access to it? This is just the standard economic structure; look it up: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html

Now we can see that the common statements about the 'problem' of piracy are misconceived (often deliberately of course). The only proper problem that could exist here is if the public are being poorly served: by insufficient content or expensive/difficult access.

Industry bodies complain that their companies are 'losing' money. That is a nonsensical use of the word 'losing'. What they mean is they are not making as much as they think they should. But the purpose of copyright does not care about what they like to imagine, it cares about the two question above. If enough content is being produced, then by definition the companies producing it are being paid enough.

(And piracy is actually a direct positive for the economy, since it helps with the second question: it gives the public better, cheaper access to content -- indeed, just what industry bodies have been obstructing by buying legislation.)

So is there a decline of production? Well, those claiming, or rather implying, there is cannot provide any evidence, so why listen to them? And we can at least simply look around to get a rough idea. Do you feel there are less movies/music/books now, compared with say 10 years ago? That certainly does not seem very sensible.

And another notable point is this: these industries say they have been suffering a terrible onslaught of piracy for about 10 years now, yet there appears to be no decline of production. Now there are two possible deductions from that: either they are talking nonsense, and/or the current level of copyright has been strongly proved to be unnecessary. If production has stayed sufficient, yet copyright has de facto been reduced, we obviously do not need that level of copyright.
A few people who are (overly, in my opinion) concerned about their privacy and security don't have Javascript enabled in their browser, so stuff that requires it wont work.

Thats the only real reason I can see for trying to do as much in CSS3 as possible other than just for the challenge.
Wow, this won't slow things down at the border.

On another note. How long before tools come out that "fidget" with media files on your computer so you can defeat CRC match scans of media on your computer? "Well the file is Finding Nemo.avi, but it doesn't match any of the known pirated copies of that movie."

Finally, how is this not a gross violation of the right to privacy? This has about as much chance of standing up in SCOTUS as a new law reinstating slavery IMHO.
I thought the web was meant to be distributed so why everyone is using centralized service like disqus and megaupload ?
most movie goers would just wait

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Moviegoers love to go to movies, and movie downloaders are the same guys that wait a week in line for the new Star Wars. Perfect customers, in other words.

Did you know our town had a second-run movie theater until last year? One of the last towns to have one. They were packed all the time - but the new owners of all the theaters in town closed it because people could watch movies on the cheap instead of paying eight bucks at the plex. Now everything's only open for about five weeks and is then gone forever.

I'm a busy man. My schedule often required going to the second-run because I literally cannot focus on chunks of time of five weeks to see a movie. Now, my only recourse is to wait a year or so for the studios to release a version of that movie I can buy, or pirate it. Sometimes I pirate it, even though I freaking loathe Bittorrent and the hassle involved in finding a good pirate copy.

But I don't have a choice. And I love movies. I love Pirates of the Caribbean - my wife actually saw the first one in the cinema nearly thirty times. Once she showed up five minutes late for the evening showing and the attendant just laughed and waved her into the theater instead of opening up the cash register again, knowing she'd be back the following night. So after it closed in the movie theater, I downloaded it to continue watching it - then we bought it as soon as they decided to sell it to us, wore out one copy, and bought another.

Do you think I'm atypical? Yet Hollywood thinks I cheated them by downloading Pirates of the Caribbean.

If movie attendance is down, it's not because people are waiting to see a pirated videocam version they downloaded, it's because real prices have doubled or tripled and people simply no longer have the money to go to the movies as often. In a recession, no less. Next the MPAA is just going to garnish everybody's wages on suspicion of piracy.

(If they actually do that, please don't blame me for thinking of it first...)
If this becomes a reality and the powers that be actually care about doing things more or less right then I imagine they would write an easy to use piece of software that border agents can run which automates checks for all those things and many more.
This is just new people seeing the agreement. The point where he starts yelling about the fact that he might not be allowed into the store was a big indicator. A little research will show you what you can get away with.

The rest just sounds like Apple might mean the actual compiled digital book is their property. Not the actual internal content, but the functional storage and execution of it. They're trying to keep people from cloning a iBook reader, not trying to lock down the author's work. Indeed not clear and not easy to make clear.