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Typesetting in LaTeX is a pretty common at MIT - for example, all majors have a technical communication requirement, and most courses that satisfy that requirement stipulate that problem sets be handed in in TeX. It's also not that difficult - TeX is easy to learn - and a helpful thing to be able to do if you plan to publish research.
Both uses of "amoral" are correct.

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

"Amorality, the absence of morality; for example, a stone, a chair, or the sky may be considered amoral",

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amoral

"not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral."
No - this isn't an online class, it's an MIT course for which video lectures are being posted online.
Just be aware if you are in a screen session, ctrl-a ctrl-x chord will lock the screen. It bit me only an hour ago.
In the case of open-source are you held liable if you even use it inside the US?
Yep. Partly true. I have no cred to begin with and I never really hoped to get it here, I've always assumed I'm the biggest idiot in a room full of smart people. But... Well, wait, I think you're totally right. Thank you, this totally solidifies my decision to just use what I know. I've my text editor open in the background and I'm starting.. Right... Now. Thanks.
This article is both superficial and ignorant. Here's some things to consider. at&t has:
* an enormous cost structure * consistent erosion of its landline business * adjusted ARPU growth in CY2011 * massive investment expense for both LTE and u-verse * bungling of the t-mobile acquisition
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Microsoft and by extension Nathan Myhrvold are the ones running wild with patent lawsuits and using patents to strong-arm software companies. Microsoft claims FAT32 is an important, patented invention, and is trying to wrestle back control of SMB through the same tactics. SCO's legal assault against Linux is part of all this.

They've also successfully fought against Android and are now exacting stiff taxes on a lot of the Android devices sold because of the "technology" that's being used.

Apple's litigation has recently centred around design patents, not software patents, presumably to push Samsung into making their own designs and not just copying everyone Apple like they used to copy RIM.

Apple surely has an enormous stockpile of software patents, but their lawsuit activity has been pretty limited. I hear lots of bitching about people not getting into the App Store, but not much a thing about individuals being sued by Apple over software patents.

Apple's royalty payments seem restricted to those regarding specifically negotiated rights such as for the enormous multitude of officially licensed iPod/iPad/iPhone accessories. You can hardly fault them for this when the accessory market is so profitable for the companies involved in it.

If Apple stopped making iPods the market would dry up, but conversely, Microsoft's "technology" has no bearing on the success or failure of things like Android.
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How mainstream are you looking for? The Culture is pretty lazy, for the most part.
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Well trolled, sir.
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That is huge. Completely changes the dynamic of how you can interact with Wolfram Alpha.

It is also sure to help plenty of new students with their homework in a completely different way.
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Unacceptable. What craven view of ethics puts any concept of "user experience" above treating others truthfully and respecting their privacy, property and personal domain?

This is not a "mistake". Why would anyone want to have anything to do with such people, much less be their customer?

This warrants punishment, not forgiveness.
I don't feel sorry for these guys at all. Ever hear the mixergy interview with the guy from Groupon? He talks about pissing money away on things just because they could.
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The article contains at least one factual error. It states that Eolas never released a web browser of its own; in fact it did release one called WebRouser in 1995 (three years before the patent actually issued).

For that and other reasons, I don't think Doyle can properly be called a patent troll, if such is someone who sits on a patent until it becomes valuable and then springs out of nowhere to demand a cut of profitable businesses.

Doyle came out with his product before the patent actually issued, and offered the patent for license to the big players. They turned him down, then cried foul when he sued them for violating his patent. I don't think they can realistically claim to have been ambushed or trolled.

Reform of patent law may be a legitimate topic for debate, but Doyle played by the rules as he found them. He was up front and public about what he was doing the whole time. Every mortal effort and every conceivable argument have been made by the bigs to take him down, but the patent stands. Like everyone else, he deserves at least to have the truth spoken about him.
Give me a break. Apple wanted to use every single tool at their disposal and every single friendly Court around the world to block the competitors from entering the market, and now that the competitors found a way to block them, they whine that they are too rough with them, and want EU to save them? I think it's pathetic and highly hypocritical of Apple.

They wanted a patent war, they have one. If they want it to stop, I'm sure Google and the others are willing to stop if Apple agrees to cease fire first. But of course they won't do that. So excuse me while I don't care about Apple's whining.
Wow. When they start offering site licenses for this, every university in the world is going to buy one.

(edit: my bad, they already do)
I'm not sure what your point is. Whether or not it's illegal, it should also be protected against by Apple, since it can be prevented entirely that way rather than waiting for someone to get caught and prosecuted for stealing data.

I guess you're saying don't blame Apple, blame the criminals. Okay, I blame the criminals. Crime is always the criminal's fault.

But I'd also like Apple to protect me from them. Especially since the App Store is advertised as a safe place and this view is reinforced by protecting access to other types of private data in the system.

I'm not blaming Apple for the behavior of criminals, but I am blaming Apple for failing to deliver a product that will protect me from them.
That's interesting. I didn't know that. I would assume, therefore, that domestic operators in East Asian countries tend to average at least slightly better fuel economy? Would be interesting to see some numbers on this. A 10-13 min descent is a huge improvement over the 20-25 min descent commonly used today elsewhere.
"Why is money the sole metric of wealth. How much value does open source provide - take linux for eg. which is used in pretty much every aspect of computing these days - from cell phones to super computers - how much value has it provided to the consumers and allowed developers/researchers/manufacturers to produce ?"

What unit would you use to measure the value it provides, if not money?

"Apply that to every major opensource software effort, things like IDE's, servers, programming languages/compilers. If you were granted a monopoly (like some software companies are, eg. Microsoft with Android patents) would it allow you to make money ? Sure. Would it create extra value ? Nope. "

I don't understand the point you're making. Obviously somebody thinks Microsoft's Android patents are valuable, or they wouldn't pay to use them. What do you mean by "would it create extra value?"

"Government should never protect the producer."

At least we agree on something...

"Will the demand go away if you eliminate the IP laws ? No. So the producers will have to figure out how to create new business models that work in a new environment. "

That makes no sense. Demand existing isn't enough for something to spring into existence. You make it sound like other people slaving away to create music, movies, and software is your birth right or something.
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Is NaCI Chrome only? What's the difference than writing games on top of WebGL?
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> The way I do this for the CMS/Blog stuff on my products is to set up a 404 handler that looks for urls that seem like they should be blog entries. So if it sees a request for the non-existant http://mysite.com/blog/caching_is_awesome.html, it'll do a quick check for that article in the database, and if necessary create the static .html file before redirecting to it.

You have done the webserver equivalent of method_missing trickery in Ruby.
I just love this. Lots of dick-swinging and heart-bleeding and whining and greed. There is no right side in this. Everyone just wants their way.

The web is not some inalienable right handed down from God for the betterment of humanity. It's a clever idea that lots of people find handy. Kleenex and eyeglasses are clever, too. I don't see a movement to free tissue paper.

Why is anyone shocked by the prospect that it may come at a cost, directly or indirectly?

Life's too short, and too beautifully wonderous, to waste fretting about who's greed is good and who's is bad or unfair. Drama, drama.
My theory is that they actually had an incentive not to be too competent. As long as their squabbling just gets a bunch of minions killed, it's fine. But suppose that one Goa'uld decided to fortify stargates, use a bunch of secret weapons simultaneously, and begin conquering in earnest. This guy would be wildly successful, for a while -- until the rest of the Goa'uld power structure decides to take him down.

It's well established that all Goa'uld have the vast knowledge required to pull miracles out of their hats at will. They can and will punish any defector who doesn't have a huge advantage. Just look at how they allied against Anubis, when he made his bid for supremacy.

The Goa'uld are not pathologically incompetent; they're just wary of being disruptive.
Squeak Smalltalk bootstrapped itself (back in 1996) by implementing its virtual machine in Slang, a subset of Smalltalk that can essentially be pretty-printed into C.

Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

Its a neat twist that RPython is taking the same engine that optimizes the VM to JIT code that runs on the VM.
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My understanding is that the effort wasn't extended with the understanding that the crew were doomed regardless of what information was gathered.

My view is that even if the crew were doomed, gathering additional information in advance of reentry would have allowed for a better understanding of circumstances, better post-disaster modeling of what went wrong and how the orbiter failed (both in the launch-time foam strike, and in the reentry heat-shield penetration and structural failure).

Whether or not to inform the crew is yet another decision. Astronauts are aware that theirs is a highly risky venture, though with a low sample size, the specific odds are somewhat uncertain, though on the order of 4:100 per human space flight. If you're going to go on a space mission, you'd better be prepared to die.

If NASA refrained from assessing strike damage on those grounds, I feel a grave error was committed.
I think that this pre-ordering is an exciting development. In terms of physical goods, it allows the creators to accurately gauge demand and prevent waste. In terms of digital goods, it allows creators to get paid for goods before they are released, which is an excellent adaption to the reality of piracy.
They do this because it allows them to then use local notifications for those 10 minutes to ensure delivery of the notification of a new message, this reliability doesn't exist with push notifications.

Verbs, another instant messaging app for the iPhone, does the same thing.
I actually prefer the physical form of an ebook reader, most of the time. It's lightweight and always lies flat, even when held at a weird angle that I would never even attempt with a dead-tree book.
Arguing against money as a unit of value seems utterly silly to me.

The monetary value of "discretionary time" is the amount of money you could have made if you did something else instead.
I hate to say "I'm curious too", but this is really the key insight here I think. I would have gotten tripped up on this detail and may have not even have attempted any of this.

If he is approaching this from a make it easier to buy than to steal, or hey, it is found money anyway, then kudos to him.
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You're thinking about it the wrong way. From a programmer's POV, the link to the torrent can be abstracted endlessly into new and distinct forms, each of which you believe needs to be legislated away in turn. From a lawyer's point of view, the specifics are really not important, but rather the end result: is the user illegally procuring copyrighted material, or is the distributor providing them with a readily accessible means of doing so?

Law has certain resemblances to regular code, but folks here seem to think that if something isn't properly specified that the law will break in the same way that a program will fail to compile or run properly. But that's not how it works. Poorly drafted laws can fail, certainly, but it's not that hard to draft something that focuses on the end result.

Consider ordinary offences, such as robbery. You wouldn't get anywhere by arguing that you're alleged to have put your right hand in your pocket and pulled out a small hatchet, and that since there's no law specifically forbidding right-hand wielding of hatches, you should go free. The technicalities of how you committed the robbery are irrelevant as long as it can be established that you took someone's property in a violent fashion. I'm a little perplexed as to why folks think torrenting/piracy/filesharing etc. is so different that it can't be addressed legally. Sure, the law needs to be clear and logical, but only up to a point. It doesn't need to be absolutely exhaustive, and 'beyond a reasonable doubt' has never meant 'beyond any imaginable possibility'. People do make arguments like that in criminal defense cases from time to time, but they typically fail because the doubts they attempt to raise are absurdly far-fetched.
What exactly is a "thing like this"? Let's take a hypothetical example of countries A and B.

An ex-marine of country A is caught and sentenced as a spy in country B.
Country A not only frequently makes open threats about invading country B, but has also invaded 2 more countries in the region in the last 10 years, one of those with a false pretext, and another to revenge the actions of a few men, not the actions of said country.

Country A, 60 years ago, had the democratic government of country B replaced with a dictator of their choosing.

Country A has imprisoned non-soldiers of other countries, taking them from their countries and keeping them in a remote prison in the tropics without even a trial. A lot of them where found totally unrelated to anything, i.e innocent, and released several years later without any compensation of course.

Soldiers of country A are known to torture, rape and beat prisoners from other countries, and even take pictures of said torture with their phones and laugh at it. Several widespread cases where made known.

Country A has weapons of mass destruction, and is the only country known to have used two of those in a war, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, just as the war was ending and the enemy was surrendering.

Country A has made medical experiments on people without their knowledge. In one case, they publicly said they are "sorry", 40 years after the fact.

Country A is known to have very good relations with dictators and despotic governments in many countries where it serves it's interests.

Everywhere country A invaded in the last 10 years, they brought mass instability, civil tension or war and chaos, in the name of "bringing democracy". Coincidentally it's mostly in strategic places with lots of natural resources.

As late as 40 years ago, country A still practiced segregation in many of its cities. They have also assassinated their two most prominent anti-segregation activists. Even today, despite having made progress on the matter, a hugely disproportionate percentage of the black population of country A is in prison.

Finally, country A practices the death penalty as much as country B, and has a lot of religious fanatics among its population, too, and certain places even prefer non-scientific evolution theories instead of the de-facto scientific theory on the matter for their schools. It's a known fact that an openly atheist would never, as it is, get elected to the top office in country A.

Can you guess country A and country B? Would you get mad at country B?
That confused me as well.
When corporations conduct their business by lobbying for their business model to be legally protected, trying to compete with them in the market is bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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> there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is.

That's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but a few exceptions aside, I don't think it accurately describes the history of what you'd call "the western canon." The reality is that in the past, most popular art has been completely forgotten a few generations out. Of course there are exceptions, but the overwhelming number of plays, songs, novels, paintings, etc are dust. Your example of Shakespeare was a bit off the mark, because while he certainly had and has popular appeal, Shakespeare was in no way 'basically popular entertainment'; Lord Chamberlain's Men, The Kings Men—they were not performing for the sole benefit of the groundlings, they were performing primarily for very wealthy patrons.

Also, Shakespeare created perhaps the finest and most elevated art in the English language, and was recognized for it then, even more so today; the plays that were basically popular entertainment in his time are footnotes or worse today.

And as a side note, I'm one of those people who enjoys seeing Shakespeare performed. I think you'd be surprised how much audiences enjoy it, and not just in that insufferable, look-how-cultured-I-am, self-congratulatory way.
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Unless they can predict the future, it was updated as recently as 2009:

> The fourth edition was abandoned, due to political differences concerning language complexity. Many parts of the fourth edition formed a basis of the new ECMAScript edition 5, published in December of 2009.

EDIT: If you scroll to the bottom right it says: "Page last modified 21:08, 5 Jan 2012 by Janet Swisher"
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.

Maybe they know their history, and have seen what happened the other times the US/NATO took military action.
It's always curious when someone rails about a big government and its encroachment on freedom. Then in the same statement, talks about the use of big government to target specific companies to damage them instead.

As though you can really have your cake and eat it too when it comes to a big government. Big enough to break up AT&T, regulate IBM and Intel and Microsoft - big enough to take your freedom, silence your speech, regulate your Internet. Good luck getting something that big and power hungry to not keep getting bigger and more powerful and eventually wiping out your liberty. You give a government system $7 trillion dollars to spend regulating and growing itself, what do you think is going to happen? They're just going to be selectively hands off? You think you can negotiate with that?
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NaCl allows native execution; WebGL is an abstraction that allows access to hardware resources. NaCl is C/C++ based, and so allows for faster execution than WebGL, which is JS-based.

WebGL's cool, but NaCl allows truly native performance, platform-agnostic and living in the browser. They're different beasts entirely.
As a sucker for 3D models, I was drooling all over this:

"When one says “downloading data”, one might think just of data behind tables and plots. But Wolfram|Alpha Pro can download all sorts of other data too: 3D geometry data (say to use for a modeling program or a 3D printer), sound data, graph connectivity data, molecular specification data, etc.—in altogether more than 60 formats."
De facto, military action is invasion.

You INVADE another sovereign country, even if only your planes, in order to "drop bombs on their weapon factories", as you suggest in a comment below.

How would you call a similar action of another country to your country's weapon facilities if not invasion?
Me too. I downloaded, but wasn't able to create account because of errors in the account-creation process. Shame, but it is an alpha, so I'll be patient.
>You're oversimplifying human behavior

The facts in this case are simple. The judgement is clear. You seem to be justifying their actions. There is no moral justification.

>type of perfectly disastrous environment that could entice even the most noble of people to make bad decisions

see, because of this incident we can now clearly tell which companies are noble and which were pretending to be so. "ducks in a row" is not a moral argument.

>Either you care more about verbally abusing people who behave poorly, or you care more about preventing poor behavior in the future

I am sorry, it is not an either-or, and not the way you put it too. You admonish people for __bad__ behaviour because you care about preventing it in the future.
Hum. Well, now I'm on the downvote train. So it goes. Perhaps people view my post as sufficiently idealistic and radical as to be not worth serious redress. ;)
I figured that was what it was for, but it just doesn't seem worth it.
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I dont know where you got that from. If you read the email thread it's clear Anon was asking for money from the beginning. It's clear extorsion. How is that at all Symantec trying to bribe them?
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Is it really intensive? I thought it was only a few hours a week.