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Maybe, maybe not. There are exactly two hardware configurations for Ipads(and less than a dozen if you consider iPhones as well). The abstractions in the OS can be much thinner and more specialized to what is required to get good performance out of the hardware. For the PC there is much larger variation so the abstraction layers have more ground to cover. Though I have to agree with you, it seems performance is rather low on the feature list.
thanks for the downvote instead of discussing. if you can't discuss, why are you downvoting ?
I'd say IF or WHEN we can make this work. It's a task for us all. I think both academic and practically minded developers need to collaborate, which doesn't happen often enough.

Programming will remain tough and only doable for certain types of people. But I think it can be a much more pleasant experience.
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I'd say its more closed source than open. The schematic is not released, the chip is a Broadcom ARM (not even for sale to the public), the GPU runs a binary closed blob. Even the boot sequence involves closed source binary "magic".

It runs linux. That's open. The rest, not so much. Its still awesome. It just is what it is.
Did anybody read the article? There is no demo or measurement, the manufacturer is promising, in an interview, that the SoC should perform like that.

Also, it's pretty confusing, mixing statements about Tegra 2 and iPhone 4S, which are quite different beasts.

It would certainly be impressive, but I'd rather wait for at least a demo, if not proper benchmarks, before throwing the party.
You don't have the believe them. Numerous people have found it clear that they are not sharing it with only trusted parties, but were in fact sharing it with everyone.

This is a factual inaccuracy in the statement from O2.
Interesting, but I think you need to allow tags or at least "categories" - otherwise it will have too much noise for just about everyone. Obviously a redesign would help but this can be done further down the road.

I'd definitely participate if I could see some traction or be allowed to create a "community" on something concrete I'm interested about. I think tags+categories are the way to go.
The "learn to code" meme has been going around a lot lately, but I think there is a much more nuance to the intent behind learning to code than to literally train new programmers. I think many technical people don't realize that others simply don't see computers the way that they do.

To the general public, computers and software exist as black boxes whose functions are not understood. This has an important negative side-effect of making regular people less critical about what goes on in their digital life.

What his lack of critical ability translates to in real life is a weakened ability to recognize problems with things like SOPA/PIPA, or misguided ideas about online privacy. More generally, it makes people vulnerable to the designs of others who are working in their own self-interest and can do so because they have some amount of mastery of the digital domain.

These initiatives to teach "the people" programming are all about getting them comfortable with digital technology, demystifying it, indirectly empowering them with the idea that computers and software are things that can be made to work in their own interests.
Wow, the image came up when I first loaded that page was absolutely NSFW. Yikes. Be careful.
So, a configuration snafu by the sound of it. But it's also drawn attention to the fact that they share customers' phone numbers with 'selected trusted partners' which will probably come as a surprise to many. If their audit mechanisms and processes are so lax that sharing phone numbers with the whole internet wasn't recognised, how well managed can we expect the 'trusted partners' white list to be?
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This really caught my eye. SA makes R580billion and spends R747billion. crazy.
This time it's different..
|nowadays even the lower 10% have their basic needs covered and some left for leisure.

What dream world do you live in? The bottom 10% have enough to live and leisure?! Where the heck did you get that statistic? And how much money, exactly, do you think people need to have their "basic needs" covered with money left over for leisure?

|Not salary disparity though, as it isn't a problem in the first place

Again, this is clearly based on your own opinion rather than any facts. If you were paying attention you'd see that having less income disparity leads to less crime, increased satisfaction within the population, better health of the population (and therefore productivity), decreased violence, decreased drug abuse, etc. Watch Richard Wilkinson for specifics: http://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_wilkinson.html

Income disparity absolutely is the problem. We shouldn't have total income equality, I don't think that is realistic, but we should set up our society so we can minimise it as much as possible.
When you browse from an O2 mobile, we add the user's mobile number to this technical information, but only with certain trusted partners. This is standard industry practice.
As saalweachter points out, it is also drawing a completely nonsense conclusion. Python is not orders of magnitude faster, he is running it on hardware that is orders of magnitude faster. It is actually about the same speed.
This is actually why companies can 'over compensate' people without getting into trouble. Paying Union workers, Day traders, or Executives above market rate does not open a company up to investor lawsuits unless it's far beyond any reasonable standard. But, they have slightly less leeway when dealing with suppliers.
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To me the most important thing this does is force the conversation with management and allow everyone to get on the same page. Even in companies where they are not registered this way.

Treynor, one of the great finance minds of our time argues in one of his writings that management at a large firm can be more responsible for balancing the interests of all stakeholders rather than simply maximizing profits.

I believe that idea should be discussed more rather than simply accepting the idea that profit should always come first.
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Programming will definitely remain hard and thought-requiring. I just don't want to waste another minute of my precious life thinking about edge-conditions at the start and end of a list or array. And I don't want anyone else to do so either. I'm sure we'll get there some how, although it definitely may not be me, but doesn't stop me from giving it a try!
I am still stunned that they respond so swiftly to this but have not dealt with SMS spoofing in years:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3509228

This is certainly bad, but SMS spoofing has the potential to do a lot more damage. People trust SMS too much.
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For those who don't quite fully grasp what HTML5 Canvas check out the W3Schools entry for the element before reading any further, but it's basically an element that defines graphics.

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A: The only information websites had access to is your mobile number, which could not have been linked to any other identifying information we have about customers.

But it is used for age verification and billing...
The question is, will a robot that is autonomous enough and sophisticated enough to build a house be cheaper to operate than a human worker? As complexity of machines increases, the number of ways they can break down increases exponentially. Humans bodies are self-repairing for the most part except in cases of severe traumatic injury and disease.
You know what they say...it takes parentheses to make parentheses.
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This is a sales problem. You can have the best product in the world and you still won't get the customers you want without a solid pitch and some networking.

Ted's post about not favoring github et al in applicant screening is one thing, but an aspiring employee who chooses to forego some easy and visible self-promotion has only himself to blame when he doesn't get the same opportunities as someone willing to meet hiring companies at their point of need.

To hire someone you have to find them, vet them, and entice them with the right deal. People who make themselves easier to find and to vet are going to get better deals on average.
I asked for your service that you were running that needed to do what you do. Thanks for the down-votes.
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You must know a lot of unlucky people. The unemployment rate for lawyers is 1.5%!

http://www.cooley.edu/newsevents/2011/081111_lawyer_employme...
It looks like a long shot, who knows if they going to succed in overpowering the already established market.
Could be a good thing, since everyone is tiread of same crap OS every day.
> "A: The only information websites had access to is your mobile number, which could not have been linked to any other identifying information we have about customers."

The problem here is not that it was only the mobile number, rather that these sites are able to link your mobile number to the content that you have viewed. There's a scenario here in which sites that had collected this information could publish (or otherwise leak, i.e. through hacking) lists of mobile numbers to URLs visited.

In an age of lax privacy protections and data-sharing it's not hard to obtain people's mobile numbers. What would happen when a potential employer googles your mobile phone number and finds the crawled data?

Steps we now need to take:

1) Some kind of request to get the full list (Subject Access Request under DPA, as pointed out below?)

2) If there is no opt-out process, lodge a Data Protection complaint to the ICO
Okay, here I go on a tangent:

If I buy two 5-bay DROBOs, 10 2 TB HDs, and a hardware random number generator, I could make a multi-TB One Time Pad, and copy it onto the second DROBO.

I keep DROBO one, and physically carry DROBO two to my intended recipient.

What are the problems with this?

It's cheap. It's as secure as any communication could possibly be. It provides for a whole lot of communication, with relatively little physical effort.
It's a shame they've come so close to an open and honest response and then detract from from it with phrases such as "possible in certain circumstances for other websites to see the mobile number." From what I understand it wasn't really certain circumstances, it was in almost all circumstances that the data was made available; whether the site knew it was available or chose to do anything about it was another matter.

I wonder if this means that Age verification can be spoofed by changing that header or if it's just one of several methods they use.
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Not necessarily.

O2's position is clearly that they normally only share mobile numbers with these unspecified "trusted partners". However, this configuration glitch has led to the mobile number being shared with everyone.

I think most people reading the statement would understand that.
Erm... they admitted they were sharing it with everyone due to a bug, but now they've fixed it...
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Right. Impact factors are a pretty objective metric. While the journals covered in a citation index are a matter of editorial discretion, that's not really where the problem is. For example, the Web of Science sold by ThomsonReuters indexes many high impact journals that are published by its competitor Elsevier. If a journal consistently gets lots of citations, all the major citation indexes will include it, no matter if its open access, or published by a competitor's company. If they neglected to, their citation products would become useless and the company would lose subscribers to the indexes that did a better job.
Well, had they gone out of business, all of those jobs would have evaporated. It's not a free pass - it's an organizational restructuring. No business would be crucified for killing an unprofitable division; this happened to be an interesting circumstance where said division was an external vendor. Is it a good business decision to EOL an extremely unprofitable (and potentially game-ending) product line, and refocus on your core business? Yes. For every company ever.
And if they evenly distributed them to everybody in some borderline mythical manner (because wealth isn't actually that portable), it would still roughly double or triple your personal wealth, tops. Again, I think most people could figure out what to do with that and would still after a year or two resume wanting something or other they can't afford.
I suppose the original author is worried about U.S. average falling with respect to world average.
Intermediate point of reference: Crash Bandicoot, which came out at the end of 1996 and ran on the original PlayStation, used 2MB of RAM and a 33Mhz processor. As in Defender, there was no operating system to speak of, and though Sony "required" developers to use libraries, we ignored that dictum and coded the rendering pipeline in R3000 assembly. We could render about 1000 polygons per frame, 30 frames per second.

Now I have to work similarly hard just to get IE8's crappy JavaScript implementation to sort 1000 objects in under 33ms on a 3GHz machine. Sigh.

For even more extreme examples of performance within confines, see the excellent chronicle of Atari 2600 development, "Racing the Beam".
Google should acquire GitHub and let the GitHubbers run Google.
I work with major carriers in North America - This is not industry standard practice here.

At most, we will send area code to partners (mostly for ad targeting) but this is never exposed in wap headers.

If we are doing age verification, we send age range to partners.. likewise never exposed in headers.

Never full phone number. If for some reason a partner needs access to this, they would have a local database corresponding to scrambled wap signatures - which ARE sent in headers.
Why do they need to give out numbers to anyone, ever? How does a mobile number help with age verification?
notable efforts to do so include Google Scholar and CiteSeer
no flamewars.... this must have spmethingj to do with windows giant mess of libraries and backwards comatabilities. my mac is running the same os install, cloned, upgraded, moved to newer gear ( but older than anyone i know hardware wise... the point being its not a fresh insall by any means... its years older than its hardware). it does have an intel ssd i stuck in there.....
but it boots to fully useable in abou 10 seconds and shuts down (not sleep or hibernate) in less than 2 seconds. so.... i only used the macas an example because its what im using rught now. i know what part of the speed comes from the ssd... but the rest, is it just lack of backwards compatability and a simpler design? attention to detail? dunno.... but it rarely makes me wait for anything except stuff like compiling or number crunching, both of those being sets of unique cases where then amount of hardware neededto not have them interrupt your workflow is variable.
Why thank you sir.
scratch that, uninstall and reinstall fixed it.
Hmm, we should probably filter out NSFW links. Sorry about that one.
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you're wrong. your comment is typical for tech-circles, but completely wrong.

Apple understands products. Apple invests heavily into really good design, usability and compatibility. Their stuff WORKS, out of the box, without any fiddling. their products stay useful for a long time, longer than any crap of their competitors.

This is what makes Apple successful.

And it is clear why many "nerds" just don't get it - cause it means in reverse that they are wrong and the tools hey're building are second rate.

such a nerdy thing to reduce apple to "good marketing". just like SJ was just a great "showman".

It is people like you (sorry) that make Apple's competition looks like the clowns they are. You think a great ad would suddenly make Motorola sell more than Apple?

Consumers are NOT idiots. They understand quality and value. They reward that with loyalty and word of mouth advertising.

MS has understood this now and is trying hard with WP7. Let's see how that goes. They are lucky XBox 360 competed against Sony, not Apple.
Which actually isn't damning of Python at all. Python has optimized for things other than speed. I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't choose a 1984 BASIC implementation (on modern hardware) over Python for any of your projects. You can have a Better Language at no cost to performance.
Are you sure you're using your shell with full fluency? I can identify a file in a nontrivial source tree with the shell far faster than a mouse, and the advantage only opens up if I start specifying more than one file.
christ, don't even joke
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Sometimes I see programmers, or people in the tech world in general, bash people who go crazy over sports teams. There will probably be more than a few condescending comments about the SuperBowl hype over the next two weeks. I see a post like this as no different. It's someone cheering for their favorite team.

I don't really care if people love a certain software/hardware product (even though its annoying when they bash other products to show that love). I just hate that this same community will bash sports fans for the same kind of devotion. For the most part both are harmless even though the devotion may be a little nutty.
One thing the article hints at but doesn't state overtly (the book probably does), is that another key strategic structural advantage Apple has over other companies of scale is that all of the P&L responsibilities reside ONLY at the CFO-level. No "business unit owner" below the CFO office has to account for his/her unit's profitability or losses.

What this means is Apple has the flexibility to allocate (or deallocate) resources much easier than other companies of similar size; make investments and have people working on developing future capabilities without having to worry about whether those efforts are immediately (or ever) profitable (ahem...AppleTV...ahem); realign business units and incentive structures to remove conflicting internal interests; and kill off a cash cow in favor of What's Next.
The problem is that weight is an issue of behavior change much like drug addiction or depression, so you need to measure success of a treatment by doing outcome studies over the long-term. For losing weight, these outcomes are shockingly poor for almost every approach.

That's why people are looking for a silver bullet; the lead bullets are proving to be anything but effective for actually addressing the problem of overweight people.
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Go listen to Davidson's interview with a factory worker over the increasing amount of automation and required technical knowledge that will eventually shove her out of a job if she doesn't acquire the skills to keep up:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/13/145039131/the-tran...

It's sobering. It makes me eternally grateful I have skills, well at least some skills, that won't be replaced by a robot and CNC mill overnight.
This seems to be quite a simple fix; SMS spoofing's a much more complicated problem I think because it requires co-operation across carriers.

There are also a lot of services which rely on "legitimate spoofing" e.g. skype allowing you to send text messages from it's service which appear to be from your actual mobile number (so they can be replied to etc).
Nice to see s/he's following up with the initial idea. A fork would be interesting, but quite a bit of work, especially keeping up with the current emacs C language core development. Best of luck though, I look forward to what comes out of this.
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The other issue I didn't like was you eventually wind up with someone who knows that even if they do the best job ever, they can't be re-elected. The capitalist in my cringes at the thought.
I don't understand how this "trusted partner" thing would work. It's HTTP and phone numbers are not secret. Can I send an HTTP header with a "friend's" phone number in it and have their account charged.

Sending your name in clear text is not a digital signature.

(There are so many good ways to authenticate users of a network that it makes me sad to see "tack on a phone number" was even considered, much less implemented, pushed to production, and accidentally turned on for the Entire Internet. Doh.)
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Are you not using a computer made in China? The problem is not where it was made, the problem is the conditions under which it was manufactured. Unfortunately we as consumers don't have much power or insight into where or how our electronic products are made. One thing we can do is pressure companies to change their suppliers, something Apple has shown they're willing to try at least to some extent.
I think it means that only phone numbers were exposed, not other identifying information. The billing and age verification systems (into which presumably the phone number is a key) were not compromised.
I appreciate this response so much. Thank you.
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It lets them charge your account without you knowing when, which is good for them.

I also wonder what use "age verification" is on the Internet. There's no shortage of "adult content" up on the torrent sites.
Firstly, hats off to O2 for going into crisis mode, responding to customer complaints directly, and then resolving the issue and putting out a complete statement on the same day the matter was brought up.

Secondly, however, this statement smells faintly of fluffy language and PR speak:

> When you browse from an O2 mobile, we add the user's mobile number to this technical information, but only with certain trusted partners. This is standard industry practice.

Is it really industry practice? Can anybody in this field confirm this? I can see why it would be useful for billing as they mention, but is this really an effective way to do age verification?

> in addition to the usual trusted partners, there has been the potential for disclosure of customers’ mobile phone numbers to further website owners.

Woah, there's nothing "potential" about it - this was right there in the HTTP headers. Saying "there has been the potential..." implies the website owner would have had to do some hacking to get hold of this information, which is not the case, right?
I must say I am encouraged to see that some media coverage and, what seems to be an influx of emails to 02 by worried customers has managed to prompt a response from the company. Sadly, the concerns of who these nameless "trusted partners" are will no doubt have some people concerned.