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It's not only that it might be cheaper, it's because it takes out the uncertainty that would be involved in trying to defeat a patent. You have no idea how long the fight will take to wind it's way through the courts or even if you'll ultimately get a ruling in your favor.
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Sadly, I'm more incline to think we're at the beginning of Act II.
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This, very much so.

"At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy has been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies."

I would extrapolate this to progress in free societies at any given point in history.

Oddly, this evokes a strange feeling of comfort in the inevitability of disruption.
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Percentages themselves do not tell the whole story. Better to use the total cost of ownership.

A $1000 phone that loses 35% of its value ($350) compared to a $500 phone that loses 50% of its value ($250) can put things into perspective.
Uh, what? Asimov writes a _lot_ about U.S. Robots and positronic brains amongst other things. He's exploring the idea of increasingly powerful computers in 'The Last Question'.

And those are just off the top of my head. I really don't see how you can claim Asimov missed computers///
Good job. Now put the 3300 mah battery of the Razr Maxx and take my money.
> ibtool does not do merging

Upon receipt of an updated .strings file for a localization, run

ibtool --strings-file updated.strings xx.lproj/existing.xib --write xx.lproj/existing.xib

which will preserve any layout changes made to

xx.lproj/existing.xib

It is working out fine for a client app called Chumkee which has about a dozen localizations.
Fair enough. My current plan when I've finished is to rewrite my collaborative blogging platform in Ruby (was Google App Engine + Python). It's got enough similarities to a twitter clone that I can base a lot of the infrastructure on railstutorial, but enough differences that I will definitely start from scratch rather than trying to modify the codebase. I guess I should move to rails 3.2 at the same time, and whizz through your new version in parallel.

Thanks for fixing the bug.
Well yeah, but that's only AFTER WWIII and warp drive and first contact.
Great post. But, like all good rebels, I do believe that the cooler heads will prevail and that we will not have to surrender.

For the past year, I have been touting that the future of business is benevolence. We are too smart and too savvy to be able to carry on indefinitely in a malevolent way.

Google started it with the whole don't be evil philosophy and whether or not they are still following it, is largely irrelevant. It is, however, infectious. Facebook is following suit and (I hope) it won't be long before we all realize that the doze of benevolence will get you far. And by that I don't mean philantropy.

1) Don't charge people more than you have to. Make money, by all means, even get rich, but don't overcharge just bacause you don't have a lot of competition.

2) Pay your employees well and create positive work environments. Happy people remain working hard and make you more money at a nice and organic rate.

3) Loyalty is no longer a virtue of an employee. It is a privilege earned by an employer. Don't be a DB and expect people to stick around and work hard for your just cause you are putting bread on their families tables. That worked in the 50's. Get on with the program.

4) Share the profits with your employees, share the innovation with your customers and don't be afraid to try new things even if they appear to hurt your bottom line. You will never know until you try it.

5) Vote for a party that will better the world, not the one that will serve your selfish desires (I intentionally did not use a word needs here. (This is where I will exit on this one.)

I could go on. Perhaps I am naive in my thinking, but something (my gut) tells me that if we are in Act III, the good will win in the end. Doesn't it always?

It's either that, or this rebel will need all the force I can get.
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"Iran is mass producing an ultimate weapons of destruction. at least that's what our spies been telling us" -Obama
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I'm not sure I understand how it's a forgone conclusion that any military action on the part of the US or NATO in any capacity means death for hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians.
I think things like a serious implementation of the Laws of Identity (http://www.ipc.on.ca/images/Resources/PrivacybyDesign%20Book...) are one of the missing pieces in giving back control to the people.

It's funny because the biggest players lately (Zynga, Facebook, Google etc) are building up these walled gardens like a bunch of wannabe imperialists.

Who exactly is leading the Rebel forces?
I love how they call him a troll right on the BBC. Talk about a slap in the face. Anonymity isn't always a good thing.
It would be really nice if this could happen, currently we have not much option but to relocate to Sydney for tech work.

Newcastle has been searching for a way it revitalise the CBD, and I could see the proposed being a help. The University of Newcastle is developing a new campus in nearby Honeysuckle, with the business school being the first to move.

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/news/2011/03/17/university-city-...

This could work well with a startup orientated space that can be fed by students from the new campus.

However, as with many things, it needs money and without any tech success stories from and still operating in the area, sourcing investment for this specific use will be hard.
Please don't tell me you think one US political party is all bad and the other one is all good.
The fact is, there are innumerable factors that affect people's decision-making in situations like this. The ability to decide whether or not a course of action is ethical is greatly affected by what your competitors are doing, groupthink, incentives, time pressures, etc. I could keep going. And yes, your ability to "get away with it" is also a factor.

Now you may say, "Who cares what the factors are? A wrong decision is a wrong decision." And you're right. However, as a practical person who wants to see real change come about, I cannot be satisfied with the run-of-the-mill, "They did it because they're evil and untrustworthy" response.

People are rarely inherently evil. I find it hard to believe that this group of engineers is really so different from you and I. It's likely that all of us grew up in similar environments, have gone through similar experiences, and possess similar moral beliefs. So aren't you the least bit curious why they're capable of making a decision you could never imagine yourself making? I think simply dismissing them as untrustworthy people is an irresponsible and short-sighted reaction. Human beings are more complex than that.

A lot of teachers believed that the only students who cheat are the dishonest ones. Well, some clever psychologists came along and -- lo and behold -- they showed that under the right circumstances, you can convince almost any student to cheat. That's the nature of humans.

Like it or not, we react to situations much more than to our personal moral codes. No amount of shaming greedy bankers, book-padding executives, dishonest politicians, privacy-invading programmers, etc is going to work. If we want to effect real change, we need to change the systems that allow for and incentivize this type of behavior.

I highly recommend reading up on basic human psychology. Influence (by Robert Cialdini) is a good place to start. Charlie Munger's writings, although unorthodox, are also great.
Don't worry. Once China and India have a sufficient manufacturing, services and consumer base, I fully expect them to formally declare IP to be a nonsense and an impediment to growth.
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>what he did was the textbook definition of treason

But what exactly did he do? The Washington Post story only says he was visiting his relatives, which doesn't sound treasonous on the face of it.
I am Canadian, so no. This was not about one country, but the whole world.
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are there any other classes like these with video made recently?
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Duly noted. :)

I guess getting back to my actual point though, if an entrenched and perennial favourite like Baseball can topple in this version of our future, then conceivably just about anything else can too.
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Note that it depends on a proprietary shareware called Prince XML for PDF publishing.

It can publish HTML without it though.
The action that path says they've taken - which is to delete all the contacts they have so far collected - serves to move me to forgiving them, 'cos that action is the only thing they have going for the contact collection being a "mistake".

"Privacy empathy" (no .. pun not intended I swear) seems hard to come by these days.
It's a shame, mine has been a reliable workhorse for years. Perhaps collectible status awaits?
Don't worry about whether PHP is cool or not. It sounds like your comfortable with it and know how to get started so just do that now. With most applications, your users aren't even going to know what tech you're using or possibly even what PHP is.

Don't read any more articles yet. Put your prototype together with the tools you're familiar with. (I'm into Ruby, don't really like PHP and this is still my advice to you).
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Mozilla has good creds as a stalwart member of the Rebel Alliance and the work on https://browserid.org/ does in fact lay some of the needed groundwork for a changing the ground of debate when it comes to identity on the internet.

That said. Corruption, like rust, never sleeps; and we must be careful to not fall to the lure of the dark side ourselves.
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There's a bit of a problem, however. The patent (5,838,906) has already been nullified, and then subsequently reinstated on an appeal.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/eolas_web_patent_nul...

Tim Berners-Lee has already written about it:

http://www.w3.org/2003/10/27-rogan.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/30/bernerslee_comes_out...

This is still a pretty interesting fight. It might do you some good to panic, just a little.
Not sure about China. They do avoid IP rules but for purposes of bringing things under Chinese companies. Once these companies have enough value to protect in their IP (regardless of how they came to have it), they tend to look to their government for protection.
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I feel like thomas edison after trying yet another filament: I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Here's hoping that sooner or later, i'll find some marketing ideas that work. Any suggestions appreciated from the resident HN geniuses, too.
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Apple already has a prompt before allowing applications access to your location- the address book seems just as important.
This comes to mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeP6CpUnfc0
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Chrome is only on 17.x.x.x since yesterday. Not really 'a while' :)
What is that paper talking about? I'm sorry but aren't all these things already in place? You can generate your own certificate, you can have them issued by certificate authorities... you can sign up with facebook, you can have your own domain from a registrar, you can have your own email address, etc.

At the end of the day, who really cares about your unified identity? Only advertisers, and even they don't really care about ALL the aspects of what you do. Everyone just needs to see the relevant "user" that you have on their particular network. While YOU need to have a secure and private machine that gives control over your data verifies others' access to it, by relying on their identity relative to you. That's all.

The only really important part of identity is that the account should not be transferable to one or more unauthorized users. Authorization should ideally be granted by both sides. "What you know" is transferrable, which is why "who you are" or "what you have" is often better. If you lose "what you have", you can invalidate that account, and transfer your identity to another one, with the permission of the identity issuer.
Thanks. I really just needed someone to tell me this, sad as it is. I'm sure you may be able to relate to how sometimes you need someone to tell you what you already know before you really dig in. Anyway, thank you. I think I'll resist the lure of the shiny new thing and use what I know.
By all accounts, an invasion of Iran would make Iraq look like a cake walk. Specifically, Iran has a more advanced military, as well as a more centralized force apparatus with hugely radicalized and patriotic forces.

Iraq was largely a cult of personality regime that kept its influence through clientelism and tribal rivalries, lacking in a central patriotic spirit. (That's why sectarian conflict outlasted nationalistic conflict by a factor of 10.)

The war in Iraq killed between 100k-150k civilians, according to most estimates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

All this implies that an invasion and occupation of Iran would take a huge toll on civilians.
Yeah, they should send civilians up against the tanks and helicopters of the government. That way their deaths won't be on our hands.

Much cleaner that way.
Depending on how many students you have and how many graders, it may be a choice of that or arbitrary "if I can't read your handwriting, you get a 0" requirements.

As a separate note, some people think that classes should teach more than just the narrow subject material, and a knowledge of LaTeX is somewhat useful for someone who plans to actually publish CS research.
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This artical is dead on. With this as motivation, we should all be more like Stallman and un-marginalize his point of view. His point of view is also mostly dead on, and always has been ... We can not let the mighty few rule the majority, it is not the way the internet was envisioned to be, and we should fight for it to remain as envisioned.

In response to tnicola, $10 a month, max, if I do not get that much out of an internet service, it should be free. Unlike Stallman, I do believe in a bit of capitalism, but a majority of freedom.
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> Vote for a party that will better the world, not the one that will serve your selfish desires

Good luck finding one of those.

More generally, it's like this. You can argue all day about "good" and "evil", but what people respond to are incentives.

If you have a system in which businesses which do good and not evil are the businesses that thrive, then people will create businesses which do good. If your economic system rewards "evil" practices, that's what you're going to get.

If you allow these "evil" companies to continue to re-design the system to reward patent trolling, snuffing out competitors with lawsuits, spying on Internet users, etc etc etc etc etc, then -- you will get a system in which the more that a company does these things, the more they thrive.

If your political system allows companies that thrive to pay to bend the rules of the game in their favor, then they will not only continue to thrive but actively accelerate their success, to the detriment of the rest of the world.
I still don't understand how a company that apparently takes half the total revenue from all purchases from people who use a groupon could possibly lose money. I'm sure I'm missing out on something, but it seems like they should be drowning in money.
I have only one question.

Who are the ewoks in this analogy?
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The analogy would be more accurate if hosting PDFs was the only thing that the NYTimes did. ThePirateBay's only purpose is hosting those hash values.
Not sure if you are aware of this...for the first edition of your tutorial, webrat is required for many of the tests (I tested on ubuntu/windows), but inclusion of webrat will actually break some of the new tests (like those using have_selector) in the second edition. You might want to add a warning to those who have followed the first edition and are trying to incorporate the additions in the second edition.
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It's working, and it looks pretty nice. A couple comments though. There are a number of things that would make textbook swapping pretty difficult. I'd be interested in how you plan to address these issues.

1) Often times a given textbook will only be used at a university for a couple years before they update to the new edition. So, at least every couple years a group of users will still have to purchase expensive textbooks. Will they then want to lend them to people instead of reselling them?

2) Would the users register they're books and then hold on to them? What if they then decide to sell them back?

3) What would stop someone from "borrowing" a bunch of expensive books and then selling them?
Why not go the whole way and only edit/serve up the static file instead of the database entry?

That has the added benefit that you can use version control on it.
Again, I don't understand why military action in any capacity is synonymous with invasion and occupation. I don't dispute your statements.
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don't overcharge just bacause you don't have a lot of competition.

But that partly encourages new competitors. If a market is dominated by a good product at a good price, it's harder to compete than if it is grossly overpriced.
No need to link to wikipedia articles on the web, I've been using it since you were probably still in elementary school.

RPC was around well before the web, as well as client-server programs. For the record, you don't need a Windows browser in order to invalidate the patent. If there are any X client-server apps that read instructions from a central server and displayed that information on its own client-side app, then my guess is that would invalidate the patent. I can think of at least one that originated in 1990 that could probably invalidate the patent.
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So, any user who has had their address book or other personal data illegally uploaded should contact the FBI.
You can still install those common tools if you wish. Just like on FreeBSD you don't get bash by default...
> Only on rooted devices without the lockscreen enabled that an attacker has physical access to

This isn't a vulnerability. If you root your device and disable the lockscreen, then it's pretty obvious that anyone who physically possesses your device can access anything on the device. The way Android is designed, you don't even need a secure element, as apps don't have access to other apps' private data. That is, unless you root and disable the lockscreen, which goes against the Android design.

In other news, criminals can read your email if you leave your laptop unlocked and unattended in public.

> "Disable USB Debugging – When enabled, the data on mobile devices can be accessed without first passing a lock screen challenge unless Full Disk Encryption is also enabled."

That's an outright lie. Since the press release mentions "Full Disk Encryption", they can only be talking about Android 3.0+, which doesn't allow MTP or adb access until the device is unlocked, regardless of whether disk encryption is being used.
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Hmmm, well its a very interesting question. I'm not entirely sure what I would do in your shoes, but some places start looking may be:

Why are Fourier series on the curriculum? There must be a reason why they are so important that a whole undergraduate course would be dedicated to them.

How and when were Fourier series first described? I understand Joseph Fourier made some pretty major contributions to maths. What was he trying to achieve? Did Fourier series help him do it? Why did other people pay attention, and how was the idea popularised?

Finally, if you really don't know anything about EE or any other applications for it may be a good idea for you to lean a bit more about the various fields that are built on top of yours. Having a better understanding about how your area of interest relates to others is always a good thing.

I know from a software point of view, even though they are hidden from day to day coding, Fourier series are hugely important. Fourier series allow us to compress audio and images down to sizes where they can easily be transferred across the internet [1]. Almost every single digital image you see, song you listen to and movie you watch will have had a fourier transform applied to it. Did you know that movies on netflix account now account for 32% of north american internet traffic? Without the fourier transform its safe to say the world wide web as we know it would not exist.

Furthermore, because it is actually practical to transfer movies and songs across the internet, mass piracy of media is possible. Millions of people are sharing (fourier transform compressed!) movies over sites like the pirate bay. This has lead to a backlash from established media corporations demanding stronger copyright protections. Currently a huge legislative battle is being fought, which will have a impact on such disparate areas as the future of censorship, what rights people have over the things they create and the role of money in politics.

All because of what the fourier series lets us do!

This is, to put it mildly, of some interest :-)

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform
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Thinking back to the collapse of SOPA/PIPA, perhaps the everyday user of the Internet? Largely ignored by the "evil empire", until the sheer magnitude of their numbers outweighed their simple techniques (phone calls, faxes, letters to legislators) and proved overwhelming. That might be a bit of a stretch -- but in this case, I think it's warranted :)