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You are absolutely right and the few people pointing this out are being ignored. I think the real underlying issue is that most people want to feel like they are doing something without actually doing anything. This is why online petitions, facebook status changes, and other meaningless gestures are so popular.
Further down in the comments they try to save themselves by saying "Of course we didn't look at it, it's just that the pic was called cat.jpg".

So, no, I don't believe them at all when they say they did never look at the file. They say--with confidence--it was a picture of a cat. Sorry but going from "cat.jpg" to such a conclusion is IMO quite a leap. It's just three letters, it could be a CAT scan, a screenshot of the Linux `cat` command, three DNA nucleotides, a picture of a tiger, something else named "cat" or something related to but not involving cats.

I don't know if I see a filename like that I'd say "It was called 'cat.jpg', so probably a picture of someone's cat." because it can be anything that somebody named "cat.jpg" for any number of reasons and I won't know for sure until I looked at it.

And even then, just them looking at the filenames is not right. Of course I understand that if it was `company-passwords.xls` or something more sensitive, they wouldn't have said anything. But already before they could judge whether the filename was sensitive or not, there really is no reason for why they needed to be looking at filenames in the first place!

Sure some admin can always go in as root and look at everything, but you don't need to tie the proverbial cat to the bacon, by putting the filenames right up someone's face who really has no business looking at them since they're just collecting statistics.

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What's great about Apple entering the space is it inspires competitors. I'd love to see a bunch of businesses pop up around this.
This post raises a few questions for me... and perhaps some one more versed in these stacks can provide answers.

- Does the use of CoffeeScript alleviate the MC Escher-esque quality of callbacks within closures involved in working with Javascript on both the server and client (and the data store)? I can totally see the appeal of CoffeeScript's syntax. Giving the programmers something different to look (and learn) at probably provides some cognitive benefit as well.

- Is there an acronym/name (ala LAMP) for the Node/MongoDB/Redis stack?
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No. Android does not use X.
Great write-up... It made me want to go play with these exact components!
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It's also quite difficult to talk about this to friends etc as it does sound on its face a very first world problem to have

Not really. "First world problems" are things like "oh my iphone isn't so shiney", whereas sounds like you're getting overworked, feeling exploited in your job, are under financial pressure, and need some R&R.
I'm already fairly cynical. Nonetheless, I've been shocked at what I can only interpret as outright repression and slanting of the story particularly on U.S. broadcast media (including public radio and television).

When BBC America came on to that same PBS TV station late last night, it was like a breath of fresh air when they rain a several minute and at least somewhat balanced report on the blackout day.

For me, personally, this is pretty much the "stick a fork in it, it's done" moment for U.S. mainstream broadcast media concerns. Domestic press isn't altogether there, yet -- though that's in part a matter of relatively greater diversity ("relatively", I said).

I'll "watch the news" for the weather and the occasional breaking local story. For the rest, I'll get my information elsewhere.

Not that the TV shows had much substance anymore, anyway, but yesterday reinforced for me just how wholly owned they've become.

Public television and public radio's performances were particularly troubling, though. I've been worried about the trend I've observed with them; nonetheless, I'd hoped for better.
This is probably not the case, but is it possible that Quora is intentionally stripping the referer header? Duck Duck Go does just this in the interest of user privacy: why should site X know where I came from and what I was searching? https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html Seems unlikely in this case but possible.

Incidentally, it seems that encrypted.google.com does this but not regular google. EDIT: This happens for all https->http requests, it's not a google feature (TIL).
No, this is an issue specifically with the way X11 works with the Xorg server. Android doesn't use X11 so would be unaffected by this particular issue.
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My Compaq laptop has an embedded numpad, located in the vicinity of the right hand home row. The numpad keys are noted as a key symbol inside a square.

Set numlock will enable the numpad keys by default. If numlock is not set, then fn-numpadkey gets the numpad version of the key pressed. E.g. fn-p is *.
So wait a minute, the Canadian government is doing something about this, right?

“Canada condemns Iran’s reported decision to execute Mr. Malekpour. Sadly, his case is far from the only example of Iran’s utter disregard for human life. The regime in Tehran frequently ignores principles like due process for its citizens domestically, and international human rights obligations generally.”

From that I gather that this is being looked at as "out of our hands" by the Canadian government. Is that right? I know that relations with Iran are murky for many nations, but this is kind of ridiculous.
Does anyone know of any open-source projects out there using a similar stack? I'm particularly interested in learning more about client-side view rendering with Backbone and Mustache... server side can be any of Node, Rails or Django.
"Contrary to what popular media makes us think..."

What part of this news (or the many others about stonings, etc.) do you think is media manipulation? If you don't believe US media, get your facts directly from Iranians, there are ample examples of books and films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stoning_of_Soraya_M., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_%28comics%29 are popular examples) that can be used for this purpose.

I've never subscribed to the "citizens are actually good, it's the governments who are evil" argument, it just shifts the blame, e.g. "the Nazis did it" by reification: governments are made of people and they, more or less, are populistic, following the majority's wishes. There are many parts of the society in Iran that back the current regime, don't think that everybody's against it.

So, my reply to the grandparent comment would be: read more about the people and regime and if you are convinced, then, yes, do not visit Iran, boycott them by withholding your money.
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I'm fine saying that, for a lock screen, you need to reboot. For any other fullscreen app, I'd expect Ctrl+Alt+Fn to take you to a tty, where you could kill any apps.
In Ruby, for example, you could append a string to nil by interpolating the nil into a string literal, or various other ways. Seeing as he didn't specify the language, what the variable was initialized to, or what exactly "append" means, we can only assume that these imaginary things behave as intended.
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Shrug That doesn't bother me nearly as much as all the instances I've seen lately of someone writing "it's" when they meant "its".

I guess we all have our little pet peeves :-)
In a new theoretical world where browsers can encrypt and decrypt data securely without the server having any idea of content, and where you can solve all the issues around allowing other people you want to be able to access that data, then sure it's a non-issue. I was talking about reality ;)
Great analogy. Wonderful presentation.

I've been using autotempest.com to search across several sources but it is like rocks to a hammer when you compare the UI.

For rare makes (Triumph, Fiat, Delorean) I would like the ability to search only by make and for much larger radii. The only Fiat showing is the new 500, but there are plenty of older models available across the country.
I've been working on almost exactly the same project, and a very similar way of displaying the best deals.

The main roadblock is not the UI, but the car data source. It looks like he is parsing other sites, and displaying their data. This is illegal for most sites, unless he uses their API or has a deal with them.
This article is from 12 years ago. A lot of the math doesn't apply anymore.

Labels will rarely front that much money for recording costs unless justified by past success. The days of million dollar videos are over (in just the last 5 years), and the 360 deal racket is the last great hope of recorded music labels.

The biggest problem with recorded music isn't the label, its the corporate parent. Labels are trying to make good on the promise of 360 by staffing for 360. They can't do so because of resource constraints and resource consolidation at the very top.

Also, blaming labels is one easy thing for artists to do. They should also blame themselves and their managers and lawyers for signing crappy deals to begin with.

I've been at many contract signings (in fact, one artist did the photo-op in my office because of the computer screens), and I never saw a gun held to a hand as they signed what I think everyone knows was an inevitable small disaster, and the small potential for success.

As for Ms. Love: the last 12 years she's been bailed out a lot by people that played in the system she abhors. I personally like Courtney. I've met her many times, and we share common friends, but a 12 year old article does little to comment on today's climate, and in situ it wasn't even that great either.

I'd much rather see what Troy Carter, Scooter Braun, Ken Hertz, Peter Mensch, etc, or producers like Dr. Luke would write about recorded music as a business today. It'd be a lot more interesting.

A few other points:

The RIAA should not be a metonym for recorded music.

Labels are rarely to blame for the problems they are blamed for, their corporate parents usually are.

Artists have the power as a creator which is much stronger than a representative body in 2012. Use it.
> I love Apple, but the Kindle is so much better as a reader. It can't play Angry Birds, and the slow refresh rate makes it harder to flick back and forwards, forcing you to focus.

All of which is fine for a bog standard textbook, but Apple's working to make these things more useful - full color interactive experiments, video, etc.
I have read about various issues in using HAProxy and socket-io (websockets mode). I am currently working on a project that's heading towards that direction - anyone has anything to share on that front?
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The lack of a strong detailed message did allow it to be massive and inclusive. But with no direction or goal, it's just a self-licking ice cream cone.

With no strong detailed message, it makes it really hard for politicians/media to argue against, but it makes it really easy for politicians/media to mock.
What do you think Canada ought to be doing? Iran is executing an Iranian citizen for political reasons.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM

It's just fantastic and very eye opening. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I am also constantly amazed at how many coworkers don't use the small amount of leave they get.

Perhaps two weeks of vacation is standard because many Americans want additional money more than they want additional vacation.

You know, it's even possible that many people from other OECD nations would prefer more money and less vacation - they just don't have the option to make that tradeoff.
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It's a grey area.

Is it corruption to vote for politicians that support your beliefs, such as gay rights? Is it corruption to donate money to those campaigns to help their chance of being elected?

I'm not writing a blank check for all lobbying. It is a clearly broken industry with absolutely enormous power, far greater than it really should have. But it is also a fundamentally democratic principle.
You are going to make me quote Giles (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer):
"Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell... musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be, um... smelly."
It is true though, things I read physically stick with me a lot easier and hold my attention better then digital reads.
Unless of course my computer was to catch on fire. I am sure that experience would stay with me for a while.
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In the United States speed limits are not enforced for safety. They are instead a revenue stream for local government.

Relative speed kills, and if police were really concerned about safety they would prevent people from driving too slowly for traffic conditions as well as too fast.

I'll give you a similar example from recent news. Over the last few years, many towns have installed red light cameras. However, many local governments have discovered that red light cameras work too well.

After people got used to them, they stopped running red lights, and the revenue from citations dried up.

Guess what happened? Towns started removing red light cameras even though they enforced safer driving.
Next to the relevant text section, as with a paper textbook?
Well! Reading the summary comment by inmygarage, that's kind of heartening. I'll view the segment later today for a full impression. Thanks for pointing this out!
Posted workaround doesn't really work.
What makes for a good reader doesn't necessarily make for a good textbook reader.

Very few textbooks are read linearly. All would benefit from solid interactivity, search and annotating capabilities.
No, in that case the first two conditionals will both pass and the result will end up as "FizzBuzz".
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I don't read reddit. So when I see a redditor running I "meh" pretty hard. My indifference could not be more palpable.

The fact that he's a reddit user doesn't make him any better or worse a candidate, or more or less likely to win. It just means he can fill out a registration form for a site.
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The OP asked a question. waterlesscloud answered it.

Not liking the answer doesn't give you an excuse to make a rage-post about it.

Reddit has become something of a social powerhouse, having wide reaching impact on the world pretty regularly

I would love to see some evidence of that. Reddit does regularly raise a decent amount of money for charity- that is true. They could raise cash for this guy's election fund, but even Reddit has limits of what it can achieve.
No, that's right. I think there are a lot of opportunities businesses haven't explored enough.
In other words, terrible headline on this post. I imagine Arch and Gentoo are the most likely to be affected, as they tend to run bleeding edge projects. Most Linux users are unaffected.
Nice job, guys. I love this architecture. This looks a lot like my dream stack for future web work.

Would love to hear some more about the "bleeding" experiences you've had.
I think you misread it as "Canadian Citizen" instead of "Canadian Resident".
I'm on Oneiric running Kubuntu, and it doesn't seem to work with the KDE screen lock.
Can social content curation without negative actions even exist?
Good point. Sorry to ignore what was already given in the comments. Thanks, though.
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about $500 for an iPad + 10 iBooks is $649. 10 Text Books would have been about $900...
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There are lobbying groups in favor of slower speed limits, but he's probably talking about local governments that use speed limits to generate revenue.
And it couldn't have been a picture of a catalog, CAT construction machinery, someone named Catherine, etc.? I guess we have to take them for their word on this one.
I see paper and pen/pencil in that office...

He doesn't ever print out result either
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presumably because 10.04 is using an older version, being almost 2 years old now.
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You can pirate all you want and justify it as disobeying unjust laws. Let's see if the government throws everyone in jail for copying data.
Same here, 11.10 didn't work
encrypted.google.com does this because it uses https. If a website is accessed from https and a link points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referrer is not sent.
I would like to thank Apple for providing school bullies with a single high-value target.
Sounds a bit too good (in the usual anti-government, libertarian style) to be true. Any reference?
Kindle is better for TEXT only.

iPad is incomparably better for anything that uses more than straight text.

Even today's textbooks would be very poor on Kindle compared to iPad.

But today's bestsellers are much better on Kindle than iPad, in my opinion. I like the e-ink for long periods of text reading.
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Actually one of the cameras I was sort of thinking of when I wrote that was Nikon's D1H, which was very low resolution and not great at controlling sensor noise but was very popular among sports photojournalists because it was very very fast in use. If you were interested in the quality of the photograph you got, they were incredibly unappetizing.

But even comparing consumer film lines to consumer digicams of five years ago, the film had it all over the digicam in terms of resolution, color fidelity, responsiveness (not unusual for there to be a multi second lag time between pressing the button and a photo being taken on those), just technically slaughtered. But because you get results right now and don't need to spend $6 getting it developed, hey. One of the reasons 4 MP was enough was because consumers rarely enlarge a photograph past the 4x6 prints they get from the mini lab, so the advantages turn out to be mostly not interesting.
The parent post here is actually reasonable, not cynical.

Think about most of the things that actually influence your daily well-being and the future of the country. We need good schools with good teachers. We need natural places for kids to exercise and learn about the world. We need sane neighborhoods with low crime and shorter commutes and people who actually know and look out for each other.

While the federal government can debate and fund large projects for these things, the people who actually make them happen have boring-sounding titles like County Commissioner and Zoning Board Member. Even if the federal government funds them well, the money gets misused unless local officials use the money thoughtfully and non-corruptly. If you think the corruption on the federal level is bad, you probably don't follow your local politics very well. In most areas they involve not just corruption but also incredible, routine incompetence even on fairlay basic matters.

So if you want to change the status quo, the real tradeoff is something like this: you can either cheer someone's reddit campaign that will probably not get them elected to Congress and pat yourself on the back for trying to make a difference, or you could actually monitor and run for a local office and concretely make people's lives better.
"Clearly, people think it is their choice."
And that is where the author disagrees. People think it is their choice to either pay or not pay and get for free without consequences. That is wrong. If you choose to download without paying, you can't take the moral high ground because what you did is wrong.
Any guesses that the city officials who passed this have an ownership stake in (or kickbacks from) the few area telecom operators who can provide internet service?
As long as the household percentage is nonzero, I'm afraid I disagree.

Suppose recycling used more energy than it saved (which is the case for some materials e.g. low grade plastic waste in places with little plastic manufacturing). Then, even if that waste were most of the waste stream, getting people to recycle would not be essential-- it would actually create more waste, something to avoid.

My claim is that as long as recycling is a net gain, after you count all the costs, it doesn't matter what percentage of the total waste stream it is.

Note that I'm not saying that industry shouldn't also recycle. I suspect that the potential gains there are even larger, but that's not an argument against household recycling, given that the tasks are executed by different people in parallel.
I can't wait for OnLive to have a Linux client. I'm going to seriously consider Linux for my primary OS at that point.

I'll still have to have Windows for things I can't do in Linux, but other than Games, that's a pretty small list.
All the searching and outrage about the anonymous blogger is orthogonal to the original questions - are the majority of songs on Grooveshark put there by employees, by order of management (I'm guessing this takes away safe harbor), and is it possible for artists to get their music off of Grooveshark if they ask.
"Islamic Republic" of Iran is =/= Iran. As an American of Iranian descent I implore you to make note of this critically important difference. Thank you.