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A little more information - they're sending an X- HTTP header containing the originating mobile phone number. No obfuscation, anything, just a mobile number. I'm on O2 and just verified this from my own mobile.

This is an appalling privacy hole, one which O2 have not publicised at all and from the contents of the tweet discussing, seem to see no issue with.

EDIT: a direct link to a checker by Lewis Peckover which shows this in action if you're on O2 - more verification wouldn't hurt of course. http://lew.io/headers.php
I have just the opposite experience. My current setup: cheap charger (sub £20, http://www.euroffice.co.uk/i/lcg2/Energizer-Maxi-Battery-Cha...) and simple rechargeables (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Uniross-AA-2700mAh-Performance-Batte...). I have 4 batteries and recharge them every two days and rotate. They last around 3 days (6hrs) on this torch http://www.fenixtorch.co.uk/led_torches/fenix-ld20-r4.html.

It bit over a year of nearly a day-to-day use and no degradation in power. They seem to behave just as they did a year ago. Perhaps the accurate measurements would show differently, but +-10mins on a 6hr scale is not that important.
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Great article. This illustrates a fundamental mistake that many believe which is that just because they have a college degree they deserve a certain job, income or lifestyle.
I wonder if celebs could apply this ruling to pappazzi?

Simply employ 1 pap to photograph the celeb partaking in a typical celeb action (coming out of a rehab centre, cavorting with intern) in typical pap style. Then sue for copyright infringement anytime a similar pic is published in the future.

That said, this ruling makes about as much sense as trade marking a colour http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/21/cadburys-chocolate-trade... or illegal numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
I am not sure whether this would be possible, as menus are contextual - the launcher (QS-clone, Emacs, whatever) would have to keep your current application focused, i.e. not take over its focus in order to display its menu, right?
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did you mean to link to the comment field in particular, or the entire article?

in any case, it reminded me of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
'git add -i' can also be very helpful. This is my preferred tool for staging files to commit.
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Sorry, clicking next, and waiting 5 seconds before seeing the next image is not what I'm after.
Yet he still has a job at NYTimes.
Thanks, I m also looking at Haskell, Clojure and some other functional languages; just spent (not lost, enjoyed) a lot of time on Arc which seems to be cooling down a bit in activity.
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Google image search gives: red bus big ben london...
lots of similar images:

http://www.001galerie.com/london-landscape-painting-routemas...
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It's a glib one-liner we've all seen 1000 times before. For lack of a better word it's a slogan.

I'd be more interested in seeing specific reasons why that sentiment would be true in this particular case, and not just statements of arbitrary opinion or faith. Otherwise it just adds noise and informs no one.

Maybe you think differently but I find that I'm not likely to learn anything from a trite aphorism and I also am inclined to believe that trading trite aphorisms is not a way to engage in discussion that will make any kind of progress for anyone involved other than a contest of which chorus can neigh and bleat the longest.
This is nice but to be honest I'm surprised it's not a feature already built into git. It seems strange that for a command line tool the fastest way to interact with files is to use the mouse to double click and then right click . Maybe you could submit a patch to git itself?
Yeah, now I can throw away tig for staging files :D
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Sorry, I meant to link to the article, not the comments. Can a moderator edit the link? Thanks in advance!
You can tailor web apps for specific devices/browsers/resolutions to control the user experience, just like with native apps. There are no shortcut for good UX on 3" touch screen and 27" mouse-driven screen without lot of extra work.
Not sure how necessary this is - interactive adding (`git add -i`) does all this much more elegantly.
This is good. When more people whose profession depends on the selective lack of "copyright", things on that front might get sorted out sooner than if it was only a group of angry "pirates" calling for something as kinky as internet civil liberties.
Weird. You only posted two minutes ago, but our experiences seem to have been much different as it loaded the next images instantly for me. The only delay was for comment pages, but that's to be expected.
I guess all street photography is illegal now, since the Street View car already took a picture of your subject.
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"I'm not familiar at all with the British legal system."

In London, you can get arrested, as a pedophile, simply for taking photos of children, on the street, who aren't your own. That's pretty much all you need to know about the British legal system. Oh yeah, and the best attorneys are the ones with the most expensive wigs.

EDIT: Speaking of copyright: "On 13 January 2012, a [UK] judge ruled that O'Dwyer [the kid behind TVShack.net] can be extradited to [the] US. The Southern District Court in New York has charged O'Dwyer with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal infringement of copyright. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years."

zttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O'Dwyer

NOTE: I forced the URL with a "z" because HN isn't allowing the apostrophe.
I read the judgement (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWPCC/2012/1.html, linked to from the page originally posted), and I think it is a clearly-written, well-thought-out ruling in a subtle case.

The finding hinges on the fact that the infringing photograph was not an independent work, but was created based on knowledge of the claimant's original photograph, without drawing inspiration from (or knowing about) other similar works, a series of which are analysed. In no way does it mean that any photograph of a red bus in London would infringe on the claimant's copyright; in fact, this is specifically denied, and various ways in which the defendant could have created a non-infringing photograph are discussed.

I find it's often instructive to read actual judgements rather than what is reported about them in the press.
She should expect 2-3% and here's why. Even smart people don't want to give away money. Now picture the typical manager and their simplistic, child-like "whatever is best for me is the truth" rationale: "why should I pay MORE when I'm getting the same thing." So it's definitely a career change thing. 13-18% will probably be possible with a 3 month job search. If the group's budget increased 5% it is only so that more direct reports can be hired by whoever controls the budget.
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Tried it on my iPhone using o2's network and my number was indeed inserted into the headers.
Did anyone here actually read the judgement? (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWPCC/2012/1.html) It's actually quite fascinating and I strongly urge everyone to read it before commenting. It directly addresses several issues raised.

The claimant has a photograph widely used since 2006 and the defendant clearly attempted to copy that photograph as closely as possible without infringing. They second photo was not produced independent of the first. Copyright does not protect an idea, but the expression of an idea. The original photo is an original work and the second was clearly produced with the intent to evoke the same expression.

Boundaries of intellectual property are incredibly difficult to define. I strongly urge everyone to read the judgement before making a judgement of your own. Predictions of doom and gloom are a great deal premature.
This isn't giants standing on the shoulders of giants, but giants stepping on (squashing) littler people.
At least in the USA, there are scènes à faire, which are considered to be so common they themselves are not protected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire

And it wouldn't be hard to say that images of London buses, Parliament or Big Ben were so iconic as to be stock. But of course, UK copyright law is involved here, and they probably don't recognize any such exceptions.

EDIT: I saw the judgement someone linked to and looked at the photos. Suppose that buses, Parliament & Big Ben are all considered stock. The view is different in both photos, it's quite hard to tell that the bus is on a bridge in the second photo, and the only creative element I can find that was copied was to put a red bus on a black & white photo of the same general location. It seems to me that item #71, along with mention that the second photo was introduced late in the game, could have tipped that towards the plaintiff.
I actually haven't applied to Google specifically because they require at least 6 interviews. Maybe they wouldn't want me anyway, but we're certainly not going to find out.
Been working on FitBolt (fitbolt.com) for about a year, spent ~$200 setting up credit card processing & recurring payments, $50 on business cards, and about $150 on legal fees. LOTS of optimization has kept my appengine costs well within the free quotas, and everything else has only been my time.
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This is fascinating. I think the big (and scary) meta-trend is this:

The population is increasing and the requirement for people is decreasing.

This gap is made wider by increased birth-rates and better automation. More people are being born into a world where fewer are required. That is quite a scary thought. Computers and machines automate and replace people everywhere.

I have some anecdotal evidence of this:

At my last business we used to follow-up twice via email with all of the people who had not responded to a quote that we had sent them. We had 50-100 enquiries a day so the follow-ups soon mounted up. I tried every CRM and mail-list manager out there. I could not find one that would trigger an email from my Gmail account if a contact had not responded. I was spending 3-4 hours a day doing the follow-ups. So were my staff. It got to the point where I wanted to hire someone to do it. Eventually I learnt more about the software and read up on ruby on rails. I hired a small software house to help with the backend, built the front-end myself and a month later, a machine replaced the humans and prevented a new hire. That is just one job at a tiny 5-person company. At scale, computer-based automation creates huge efficiencies. The flip-side of that are huge deficiencies in employment.

Here come the machines.
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Better education isn't going to solve the problem of technological unemployment.

We actually need a completely different structure.

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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Agreed. That a start up recruitment site isn't generating the numbers the founders dreamed about is more probably an indicator of a poor business model, poor exposure or in this case alienating all prospective users by opting them in (spammy and suspicious behavior) and then exasperating the users further by not providing a "one-click opt-out". Whats the real difference between Githire and scrapping blogs and web sites for e-mail addresses and spamming them? I can't really see a difference.
Impressive but I can't help to think about the people who create all the Apple products.
In Australia we have a government run registry which documents all lobbyists and their activities:
http://lobbyists.pmc.gov.au

The closest I could find in the US in a quick search was followthemoney.org and the Senate Office of Public Records site (which maintains an archive of filings as required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act).

Is transparency just a matter of making these isolated pieces of information more easily accessible and transformable/visual... and using an easy call to action to petition or donate to pro-bono lobbyists who serve the public as counteraction to corporate (or even foreign) lobbying.
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I always wondered, is it actually possible for us to ever assume that we can achieve better unemployment rates or is there a practical minimum which we can never get below again.

If you think about it, in a world without technology, the money we spend has to go to someone in the economy. However, since we know have artificial workforce in play, we effectively pay less, which means that we in consequence pay out less than we receive. So eitheir we all get paid less (yay communism), or some people just naturally have to be unemployed (yay income inequality).
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Should I bother "porting" them to Bootstrap or is there no real advantage?

I still am reluctant to move to Bootstrap, but due to its popularity I think it will get more updates and will attract more people willing to improve it ...
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...and let's not forget the ruling is about a postprocessed image. You can't take a picture and have it look like this case. You must specifically edit it to match.
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You are so right, this is indeed what Plumbr lacks at the moment. There are a few possibilities to teach Plumbr already now hacked in, but these are not advertised and we are testing them with users who have had a bigger need for them.

As soon as we learn the best ways to offer this, the "feature" will be packed and released.
As it happens, computer science is exactly about those rigid steps of how to get a computer do bigger things. If you could express what you want, you could replace considerable part of Knuth's books by referring to "just sort these numbers for me", leaving the "how" to the computer.

Bridges don't get built because some guys "wants to go see the other shore". Bridges get built by rigorous design and constructed a rivet by rivet or bolt by bolt. Then you can go see the other shore.

For most part, we've come a long way in programming. Sorting has many reasonable algorithmic approaches well-studied and as a result of that in almost any language you can already say sort() and have some stuff sorted. I don't particularly need to know that Python uses timsort, it just sorts. Of course, I can study sorting in detail if I want to and possibly discover something novel.

Why programming never gets easy is that by solving existing problems we accumulate newer, more complex problems and interactions. Programming will always be difficult because we automate anything that's no longer difficult.

The "Sort these" example is not programming, it's something else that potentially builds on programming. Type some stuff into Matlab and watch your computer sort out difficult stuff for you and do the calculations in parallel in highly efficient manner using Cuda. It's not programming, it's using a machinery that has been programmed to interpret certain classes of the user's wishes and take care of all the physical steps required to finish the desired computation. You still can't ever take a blanko computer, ask it to sort stuff, watch it figure out how and call that programming.
Confirmed on a Google Nexus.

In his webpage he also says "They downgrade all images and insert a javascript link into the HTML of each page."

The image downgrading has been know about for ages, the JS I have not heard about before. I have asked for more info on Twitter but will investigate myself if I can find time today.
Additional write-up on another site here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4990-o2-shares-your-mobil...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

I think he's right about many things there: manufacturing jobs are leaving and not coming back. Automation is becoming more and more advanced, particularly if you factor advances in robotics and ml since 2006 or so.

Things move faster and average just doesn't seem to cut it when you can manufacture excellence. Hell, lawyers and doctors will be next, how about faux ai that can write simple web apps or come up with good designs? Give generative models a few more years to advance, we'll see how far fetched that is. Some people will get very rich from all that. But that wealth will go to those who control what amounts to the means of production and they'll be able to defend those means with patents. I guess workers could strike back in the day, good luck with that now, the little guy has even less negotiating power.

All this to say, I think these trends and the shift they bring are going to be the most fundamental shift in economic organization since the industrial revolution. Not sure what the answer is, but I'm concerned that those in power dont even recognize the issues (they're not "nerds", as they say.) Time will tell, but I'm not all that optimistic about the average joes out there.

PS I wish the answer was everyone will start their own business, but honestly I just don't think that will be practical.
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"I'm not describing my own view. I'm stating my view of what's driving this theory."

OK, fair enough, but I still think the analogy is a misrepresentation of what really drives people who have strong feelings against intellectual property rights enforcement. There are several camps who can't be lumped together, and whose 'theories' are largely in internal conflict: there are the copyright abolitionists, there is the GPL/FSF crowd, there is the entitled crowd who doesn't really care about reason and just repeatedly says that it's 'unfair' that their 'fair use rights' (of which they have a completely warped view, and which have never existed in the form they imagine in the first place) are being curtailed.

Either way, we disagree on enough other points to continue discussing ;) For example, 'website operators' aren't one group who all deserve indemnification under all circumstances. Megaupload, for example, is a clear case (for the reasonable, non-dogmatic observer) of 'intellectual property infringement facilitation for monetary gain'. Arguably Youtube used to be in its early days. Websites aren't 'press' by definition, and while it's not prima facie reasonable to expect them to be the first conservators of intellectual property laws, they can't just say 'oh it's our users, it's not our responsibility'.

Re: the edit, using that quote in that context makes me angry because it's such a fundamental misrepresentation of what Objectivism and Rand's philosophy stands for and was founded in. Having governments enforce property rights is not the same as what happened in the socialist tyranny that destroyed Rand's family and from which she escaped. Crikes, Rand herself made her fortune from writing screenplays and books, without copyright she would never have been in a position to produce abstract works like her work after The Fountainhead!
I'd be happy to share -- maybe we could take the todo.js example a but further and make it pretty with boostrap?

Hell, I would even strip out the localStorage and include a php script that hits a sqlite database.
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The title is wrong, it basically says: don't store your data in class names and separate your styling from your code logic.
https://twitter.com/#!/O2/status/161872584634408960 says "@lewispeckover Hi Lewis. The mobile number in the HTML is linked to how the site determines that your browsing from a mobile device #O2Guru"

As Lewis replies, "@O2 User-agent header ID's the device. Passing mobile number to third party sites is not ok! Seems like a data protection act breach to me?"

Being charitable, that could be clueless support rather than official policy response but hopefully the storm coming their way will get an official response soon.
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Just tested on o2 Germany, and no such header was inserted. It would probably be illegal here anyway.
And if the author didn't talk with imgur's owner then it's very likely his domain will get banned (+bonus points for not linking to imgur). I know a site which can't hotlink imgur images and I'd imagine there's plenty of them.
Well, we may discuss about the "closely as possible without infringing". To me composition seems a lot different (with the second one being much worse, but I must say I'm also not impressed by the original one).

Red bus in black&white with overcast sky?

Give me a break... what are the chances to shoot with an overcast sky in London?

Besides, isolating a (mostly) single color object in a B&W photo is so popular (and abused) that you can even have it in new point&shoot cameras.

Go, figure: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonynex5n/page10.asp
search for "Partial Color (R)" and click on the link.

Seems quite obvious that if you find yourself in that photo spot, and a red bus passes by, you immediately think to make it pop out with such a post processing trick.

I also don't buy the "clearly produced with the intent to evoke the same expression" argument. For example: how many pictures of the Matterhorn (with or without the lake in the composition) are taken and evoking the same expression?

This is simply a very bad judgement.

(Just to be clear: I see your point and my tone is not directed at you)