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The real issue here is the hegemony that gives a single coalition governments the ability dictate worldwide patent and copyright law.

It seems that if that didn't exist, people interested in innovating and creating great, new, things would just go to the countries that didn't have forcefully draconian IP laws.

Sure, maybe there are some advantages to having patents, but in their current form for software, they are a civil version of the thought police.

And mark my words, if MS and IBM and Apple get sued for copyright infringement, they did this to themselves. They are the ones for lobbied for this in an attempt to push the little guy out. And it was working until someone figured out that 'patent trolling' was possible.

In my opinion, patent 'trolling' is a good thing, (as long as it doesn't happen to me). Why? because the harder they troll, the more obviously broken the system will be, and the more likely it is to get fixed. Otherwise, patent litigation is basically restricted to people who already have their own huge legal departments.
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It could be but it isn't likely.
Is this something that is publicly online yet?
I hear Iran has a few.
> "Primitive" cultures are deemed too inferior to be permitted to decide their own future, so it is decided for them by the Federation

That seems like the exact opposite of the prime directive.
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So, can "outsiders" like myself submit solved problemsets for grading?
Tool around Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and CiF and you'll run into plenty of people who go well beyond that into deflecting any criticism of Iran, denying that there is any possibility that Iran might be developing a nuclear weapon rather than being skeptical of American claims that it is building one, denying that Iran has any links to Hezbollah (which was founded as the Lebanese branch of the Iranian revolution), and so on. In most online forums outside the right wing, people promoting Iran as a liberal democracy seem to be more common than those recognizing that it is not one.
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The Internet is a communications network. It carries email, IRC, ssh, and HTTP etc. The WWW is a hyperlink network. It consists of linked documents. They're not really the same thing (although everyone knows what you mean if you use them interchangeably informally).
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I would be absolutely shocked if no such obligation exists in practice.
This behaviour is illegal in the UK.
I've been going through this tutorial. I highly recommend it. It is very well done.
From what I understand, its mostly due to the landing approaches being more straight forward, the lack of stacking of planes to land (less circling) and timing between planes is usually slightly longer than in the US.

An extra ten or twenty seconds between planes taking off and landing can have a large impact over the course of a day. In the US the majority of flight delays are in the late-afternoon and into the evening because of the knock-on effect of delays (at that airport or others) and the lack of spare capacity within the timings to adjust the scheduling of takeoffs and landings.
Agreed. I don't care where you learned what or how long it took you. I care what you can do, and the best way to prove that is by what you've done.
So now they have admitted what they have done, is someone in the UK going to prosecute them, I wonder?

It seems they may have broken the data protection act in more than one way.

* First, they collected personal data about UK citizens without their permission (as a 3rd party cannot give that permission),

* Secondly, personal information was kept for longer than is necessary (it should have been deleted after it was used)

* Thirdly, they allowed personal data to leave the EU.

Note that personal data includes name and address, telephone number or Email address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
Agreed, 'ugly' is culturally relative. I'm interested in what happens when cultural norms change a lot in the span of 20 years yet everyone's real history is public domain.
GOOD

Great design

Great induction process

Great blank states

Invite is omnipresent which will help spread your app

BAD

Too many clicks to reach a specific project

Dashboard page is useless, show me the last workspace I visited by default

Need a better landing page to explain what is Siasto (obviously)

Overview of a project doesn't tell me about events today

Avatars on the right side of tasks seem to close to right border

Good luck with your project, it is a crowded space. I'd recommend you to focus on a specific niche.
Its nice to see successful tech companies actually fighting some patents. It makes me sad to see Apple Microsoft IBM etc just pay patent trolls because it is cheaper to do so than defeating the patents.
Paying $10 million for artwork and never looking at it makes a person a douche. The person is paying eight figures to deprive someone else of having it-- nothing more. It's not "supporting the arts". It's being a hypercompetitive shitfuck.

Paying $50 million for trophy real estate instead of investing it into better transportation (the only long-term solution to the real estate problem in New York and Silicon Valley) makes a person a douche.

Using a private 747 for casual transportation, logging an unconscionable ecological footprint through the unnecessary combustion of hydrocarbons in enormous amounts, makes one a douche.

Developing a tight social network to keep global society exclusive, closed and impoverished is a douche move.

Corrupting the U.S. political system and getting the world's most powerful nation into an unwinnable War of Corporate Enrichment (Iraq) is a douche move.

Morally speaking, the tip-top upper classes of the U.S. owe their lives to us in the cognitive 1 percent. They are deep in moral debt to us, and what keeps us from collecting is that we have more interesting things to do (in technology, where we can make positive-sum contributions to the world). We have the persuasive capability and the technological know-how to rise up and take them out, Paris 1793 style. We don't, because for enough of us, life remains pretty good. We're not "among them", and they constantly remind us of this fact; but we can work in technology, live pretty well, and generally control our own destinies. If that ever changes, though, those people need to watch the fuck out.
On the nuclear weapon front, at least, they have yet to do anything that falls outside the range of a civilian nuclear program, and the IAEA inspectors say there is absolutely no evidence of a weapons program. In fact, Iran had earlier agreed to halt their enrichment program and instead accept LEU for use in their reactors from other countries, but the US wouldn't take yes for an answer and now they're playing the silent game with eachother.

I'm not defending Iran, and I think it's high time for the whole bloody revolutionary government to be thrown out and replaced with a democracy. That said, I find the claims of the US and Israel to be somewhat suspect.
one of the articles covering it here.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/...

give me chills every time i read it
Sorry I went on your website and couldn't understand it is about.
you are using it wrong. subscribe to stuff that interests you. don't subscribe to subreddits you aren't. problem solved
I've been following this for a while and I'm dead curious about what they'll find there. It's sad that the well is only a few cm wide (and so deep), making it almost impossible to discover big organisms (fish maybe? Nessie? who knows ...), but even micro-organisms developed totally different to what we know would mean loads to us. It's like exploring a lake on another planet.

Discovering organisms very similar to what we already knew though... that would mean that life on different planets might be very similar to what we see on Earth.
i'm assuming that the link either expires after a set period of time, or is set to become inactive after so many hits overall or within a defined period of time.

either way, i'm curious as to how he handles it.
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"In most online forums outside the right wing, people promoting Iran as a liberal democracy seem to be more common than those recognizing that it is not one."

This is patently false.
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I disagree that high-performance blogs are a solved problem in distros - depends on who's linking to you.

Wordpress on Apache melts on a small VPS under a few hundred hits per second, using gobs of memory for each call. So you turn on supercache etc. and it gets a little better, for a lot of application complexity.

Now put varnish in front, override some of the cache-ability headers from your application, and my experience is that when e.g. Stephen Fry's twitter links to the site, your site becomes CPU or network-bound instead.

From memory, from maintaining a friend's site, the number of simultaneous connections to melt down the server (using siege, on a 4GB system) were something like 300 connections without any optimisation, double that if Wordpress had spat out .html files and Apache was serving, but with Varnish in front, it started to slow down at around 2000 connections.

There's a reason you want to serve your application from a database - it's nice and easy to change your pages on the fly, but serving static files through Apache is hardly the best you can do for optimisation.
Gopher and Archie and some remote identity/finger protocols already did most of the things the interactive web does today long before Mosaic showed up.

There have been many beautiful advances since then in usability, bandwidth, user base, and especially integration with outside services. None of those things constitute inventions in the sense of being technological, novel, and non-obvious.

Which doesn't stop absolutely everything from being patented, usually multiple times. That would require a competent patent office.
It'll only be effective until a well-placed, shrill-toned media story exposes it to everyone. Be upfront about it and you'll be less likely to find yourself on the wrong end of "deception" charges, however trifle and ultimately meaningless the deception is.
Before you panic, read the claims. From claim 1, the most limiting element I can see is:

wherein said embed text format is parsed by said browser to automatically invoke said executable application to execute on said client workstation

So you are potentially in trouble only if you use text format to point to an executable that you then load to the client.

Indeed, what we used to do on the Internet around 1993 (Gopher, listserv, X11 remote), is not quite exactly the same.

So yes, maybe Java applets and Flash plugins are in trouble (although I don't really think so). Everything else, no worries.

PS: I just checked the patent date: Oct 1994, not 1993. By then, I remember we were already launching live videos from web links... Sounds like prior art to me.
Has this always been true?

I really thought iOS did ask for permission. I know I have had to grant it before, but perhaps it was just some nice app developers doing the moral thing.
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Maybe I'm just not seeing the path there. If we were to completely implement this system with a twitch of the nose, then I think the government would collapse. There would be too many people willing to 'play chicken' with whether or not the fire department will put their house out if they don't opt-in to the fire department donations. Why? Because you don't want 1 house fire to cause more.

Just letting someone die (not rescue them from the burning house) or letting their house burn down would not sit well with others.
By default, all speech is presumed to be permitted under U.S. law. The First Amendment, and related court cases, concern the power of the government to limit speech--not the right of free speech itself. So, to make the case that anonymous speech is not a right in the U.S., you would need to show a case where the Supreme Court specifically ruled that the government may limit anonymous speech. I'm not aware of any such case.
I wonder how many backups of their database still have remnants of this contact info?
We develop software for Windows and Macs. On the Mac the address book files are certainly available to read, and also available through an API. We don't read these files, we don't upload them, and we don't analyze them. We don't touch them at all. We also don't touch anything else on our customer's system that they wouldn't normally be expecting, and we don't send any information back to our server without the user explicitly saying it's OK when it happens.

Here's one reason why we don't scan people's system for interesting private files and secretly upload it for our economic benefit:

1. It violates the user's trust, expectations and privacy.

Here's a second reason:

2. It is a criminal act to do so.

I don't buy these discussions about how it is Apple's fault. It's not. It's illegal to steal private data like this. The companies doing this should be raided and shut down by the FBI immediately. All of them. Whether or not they issued a tearful apology.
> People say like to say the constitution allows anonymous speech but it doesn't by any stretch

Source?
Thanks to modern JS & HTML, static sites can also be a lot more dynamic than the boring old static sites of the past. You can integrate things like DISQUS without any dynamic content at all.
I'd definitely like to see Bootstrap in the final version.

Great job with this tutorial!
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I bought Bastion for Chrome and it was pretty damned good. there were cursor issues, and the game crashed if you were low on memory, but other than that it was an excellent experience. I think NaCl has the capability to really be a boon for indie devs. With Chrome's ever-rising market share, it can truly be looked at as a viable cross-platform platform, saving devs the hassle of compiling for XBLA, PC, Mac, etc. Now, granted, most will still choose to use steam if that's the route they're going, but this is a pretty cool emergence.
What specifically are you considering treasonous?
I tried both Google login buttons multiple times and the site errored every time. I tried to email support@carbongames.com and I got a Google Groups permanent rejection email.

A Google Group subscription is "required" to get the link to the app, but I can't post in the group.

I tried the forums, but that requires an account.

I tried whois on the domain, but it is under DomainsByProxy.com.

I have details and screenshots if someone is interested.
It's free speech both ways. The troll is free to post nasty stuff on the web, and other people are free to tell his acquaintances that he did it.
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text, pictures, and video _constitute_ thoughts, ideas, and memories.

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It is not much like a typical drilling process. The article includes a pretty decent infographic abt 2/3 way down, which shows the drilling principle on the last slide. Worth a look.
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These are all fine and valid points, but the fact remains that a free game app might be very tempted to complement its lousy revenue by stealing and reselling users' address books and anything else their app can get its hands on. I as an iPhone user want a protection against that.
Please stop appending "Gate" to any "scandal" of any kind.

The Watergate scandal was called that, because the hotel was called the Watergate.

Using "gate" as a suffix for any scandal just makes you look stupid.
"a troll is someone who posts inflammatory ... messages in an online community ... with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response"

Isn't that exactly what he was doing?
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Can you explain why you have that impression?
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Wouldn't it have been possible to just get Craigslist to submit some sort of documentation saying that they wouldn't sue you so long as the site remained offline?
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>why there are so many people that defend the government of Iran.

Because there is not so many people who defend the government of Iran, they just care about the hundred of thousands of innocent civilians, children and women included, who will end up dead as collateral damage if the US decide to "liberate" them.
Thanks. That's very interesting. I guess it's the same as something that we call 'stock options'. You are granted a right to buy stock for the price it would be when one starts working, but you can't really sell them or cash them until the IPO. For example, if I started working for a company that would have stock price of $2.00 if IPO happened today, they would grant me the right to buy the stock at that price at IPO no matter what the stock price would be at the time. It's called 'exercising' your option. So, if stocks were worth $10.00 at IPO, I would have gained $8.00 on day 1.

However, even if you 'exercise' your stock options at IPO (buy stocks for the price of the valuation when they were granted to you), you don't have to cash in your stocks, which means that the gains would not be realized (and thus not taxable) until you do.

The tax, however, would be the same as any other capital gains, which is 25%. We do not care how long the gain took to realize, just the fact that the net gain was positive. (You can carry capital losses from the previous years and offset your positive capital gains when you have them.)
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Congratulations! I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Well done sir :)
And it's criminal to do so. Software that steals data is malware. Prosecute these companies severely, put their president and the engineers who were in on it in prison for data theft and conspiracy. It's not like there isn't overwhelming evidence proving the case in these situations.
I went the less port because it was being upgraded quicker with the 2.0 release. I've used both and they are both great gems. Both function pretty similar so don't be afraid of the LESS version, its still supported in the assets pipeline!
I believe the plan is to leave some ILS systems in place as backup. Honestly, they're in a bad spot. I'm sure all their engineers want to keep all current ILS around, but money is on the line. Sometimes you got to make trade offs.
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It's a question of whether the jury should trust his testimony. The lawyer wanted to show that Tim Berners-Lee was biased against patents, in general, and therefore his testimony on this matter is suspect.
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Working for the military of an enemy state to undermine the government and instigate rebellion. I'm not making a value judgement. All I'm saying is that when you take everything into account, the legal charge isn't crazy. The punishment is a different matter; Iran's legal system is obviously barbaric.
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Did these people not see The Thing?!? We're fucked.
Ask HN: How do you quit agonizing over your choice of app stack?
Like everyone else these days I've got myself a shiny new idea that I'm super passionate about, it's one of those "scratch your own itch" ideas. It's definitely been done before but I want to do it better because I don't like my current options and it can be better anyway.

The idea is solid as in the functionality it should have is planned. The idea has been validated. I've even got the server all set up to run anything I throw at it... The problem is, I'm agonizing over what to use!

The choices are PHP or Rails and I've been paralyzed by that decision for about a month now! It's sick! First I agonized over Apache v. Nginx but that's finally over. I've always dveloped in PHP and I could knock out a functioning prototype in a matter of weeks. It seems like the obvious choice but there are some key things that have me paralyzed:

1. Silly as it is, people look down their nose at PHP. I don't want to be the one uncool guy who isn't using Python or Ruby. I know you can write bad code in any language but knowing that isn't helping.

2. I really want to learn Rails. I've been toying with Ruby for a short while and I'm comfortable with Capistrano, I can feel may way around Jekyll, and I've basically got the language basics down (variables, loops, arrays, and on and on) but it would take me far longer to do the same thing in Ruby just because I'd have to learn as I go.

I read that you need to just fucking build something then I read that you need to learn language/framework X, then I read 15 more conflicting articles and I've become a victim of analysis paralysis. It's easy to tell people how not to fall into it but try telling yourself when it happens to you!

So I'm asking if it were you, would you build what you love using what you know or would you build what you love using tools you don't know but would really like to?
You know ... I gotta say ... Hikers coming into Iran the back way???

Ex-Military type who looks like a spy, sounds like a spy, and behaves like a spy, but somehow ... isn't a spy???

Look, Americans are probably well advised not to visit Iran right now. With the obvious exception of American black guys who play basketball REALLY well, you probably won't receive that great a welcome at present. You need to realize that if anything untoward were to happen to you there is little that we can do on your behalf.

I do think that the US Government should use its influence to protect its citizens but ... MAN... come on people ... please exercise a MODICUM of good judgement. Help them...Help you. That's not too much to ask.
That people do not find it bizarre is the bizarre thing.
Must be typeset in LaTeX? That seems ridiculous.
It is definitely illegal in the UK (and Path is available in the UK).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

I naively thought that iOS Apps wouldn't do this, in part, because it was illegal.
The first season of TOS had an episode, "Shore Leave," where the Enterprise makes a stop over at a planet for the sole purpose of wasting time and relaxing.

I think you're right, though. It's not so much that there's no time wasting, but the show was about the adventures of the Enterprise and its crew. For all we know the crew in TOS spent 99% of the time screwing around, and the show was about the 1% of the time they spent working.
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Also, by deleting the data from the servers—are they not now destroying evidence?