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Copyright and patents are not property. They literally cannot be owned.

It may be a broken metaphor but the law says you can own intangible rights without question - or at least gives you rights that equate to pretty much everything that an owner of tangible property has (the right to exclusive control, the right to sell/buy/assign/lease/license/bequeath to heirs, etc., and the right to sue to enforce these rights in a court of law - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3463640 for elaboration). This is the bundle of rights that the law calls "ownership" and, in this sense, you certainly can "own" copyrights and patents.

You are arguing, in effect, that the law should be otherwise and that is fine. I also agree that the term "theft" is a loaded term that distorts the discussion on infringement. But it is not right (in terms of law) to "call out" those who use the term "property" for using a label that accurately describes exactly how the law treats the intangible rights (copyright, patent) with which you take issue. You may disagree with this but this is what the law currently holds. It is also, in practice, exactly how every startup I have ever worked with (many thousands) regards the IP rights that it develops (i.e., something "owned" by the company).

Trade secret rights, by the way, are also treated by the law as property. Such rights extend only to information that is confidential and proprietary - "proprietary" literally comes from a Latin root that means "one's own" and refers to information (whether formulas, customer lists, confidential pricing information, or whatever) that is owned by a particular company (as opposed to being public information). This too is another example of the law treating information as something capable of being "owned." Indeed, that is the essence of most intangible rights that the law protects, including contract rights. It protects them by giving them the attributes of ownership. This may be question-begging ("they are only property because an illegitimate law calls them "property") but it is reality and is very deeply ingrained in current law. It would take nothing less than a revolutionary way of looking at the concept of property to change it.
That is true. But social engineering is mostly about not caring about the consequences and looking exactly like you belong there.
The specific issue in the relevant wired article wasn't the policy and devices that are in use, but the abuse and mis-use of the policies and devices by TSA-hired agents. If the TSA is unable or doesn't choose to monitor and eliminate this behavior in its employees, but a private company does, then their could be a distinguishable, competitive advantage. In other words, allowing agents to request extra body scans of particular people they want to see (hopefully) isn't a policy mandated by the TSA that a private agency just can't avoid.
Most ISP's dns cache servers honor the TTL defined in the
authoritative SOA records, unless is 1 minute or less.

I think the average TTL time for a dns zone would be
measured in minutes. It needs to be that low in order to
do SRV load-balancing, A/B testing, etc.

In any case, in the highly unlikely event that they manage
to overload the 13 servers, there's plenty of time for
every domain to temporarily extend the TTL on March 31.
A protest becomes terrorism when it prevents access to vital services (eg "picketing" a hospital and not allowing ambulances in/out)
Thank you, PetrolMan! It should be fixed now.
Now that Motorola IS Google, it'd be safe to say google is interested in helping google?
Your response implies that other news outlets -- ABC, MSNBC, etc. -- are "moderate", while Fox is the one that is pandering to an off-center political agenda. Surely you don't really believe that the rest of the media is centrist.

(I'm not asserting that Fox doesn't have an editorial slant, I'm claiming that every news agency, bar none, does as well.)
Not just individuals, either - coin-op machines of all descriptions and cash registers aren't ready for the change, either. People have been making this argument since the Carter administration, and I think it's been tried in three separate waves.
I do iOS development now, and I spent the 90s doing NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. I still own two NeXT machines.

The main differences now are 1) cheaper, faster hardware, 2) menubar at the top instead of a floating vertical menu, 3) I keep the Dock on the left instead of on the right side of the screen, 4) fancier development tools.
It was impossible for me to find an answer to this until eventually the blog post was updated, but the Enyo UI Controls portion of this release will not be available until the end of February 2012.
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In my experience many ISPs do the exact opposite, and inflate cached TTLs up to a week. Makes migrations a pain in the ass.
I assume the author realizes that the term 'conman' is short for 'Confidence Man' which is a very, very, old gambit. One conman I knew told me that being a conman was the second oldest profession, because as soon as there were hookers there were guys who worked to convince the hookers that they didn't need to pay.

Of course these days we call them con-artists since the sex of the person is irrelevant. The motivation for being a con artist is the adrenaline thrill of knowing at any moment you can be 'caught out.' Sure that makes you feel alive, but when you are 'caught' you may not have broken any laws but you have really pissed someone off. When you shoplift from a store they call the cops to charge you, when you make someone feel stupid for having believed you, they call their friends to come over and beat the shit out of you.
* Verisign, because they inherited MCI and thus UUNet.

* USC, one of the headquarters of academic network research.

* Cogent (no idea why, but they're a sort-of tier 1 NSP).†

* UMD, another headquarters of academic network research.

* NASA, because space.

* ISC, because they organized the authorship of BIND.

* DISA, because of DARPA.

* Army Research Lab, because of .MIL.

* Whoever owns NORDU.NET, which was is a consortium of Nordic network academics.

* Verisign because they stole it from Thráin II during their final captivity in Dol Guldur.

* RIPE, because they number Europe.

* ICANN, because they ostensibly oversee the whole DNS.

* WIDE because they're like the NORDU or MERIT of Japan.

Most of this, if you can't tell, is an artifact of which organizations built the instance of the Internet that caught on in the '90s (I was going to say "that built the commercial Internet", but they didn't mostly didn't realize that was what they were doing when they did it).

Fun fact: in the early '90s, there were actual Internet netsplits, like you see on IRC, but across the Internet. Ripco, my ISP at the time, lost access to NSFNet and all of .EDU.

No, you can't add your company to this list.

† Aha, it's Cogent because they bought PSI, and it was PSI because they helped build NSFNet and CIX.
Same. For the record, I don't have a Facebook account, so it's not exactly "simple" to vote; there's a few fields to fill in (including a password? why?), and I assume I would have to validate my email, which I find infinitely annoying.
The 70x speed boost isn't a trivial change - it's for JOIN performance.

Cluster has "sql nodes" (that you query against) and "data nodes" that house the actual data, which "sql nodes" talk to to actually process the query.

Cluster can now tell the data nodes to only return necessary subsets of data back to the "sql nodes" when doing a JOIN, instead of pulling down more information (and filtering on the sql node side) when answering complex JOIN queries.

You can read more about this at "push down" feature at http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql-cluster/trying-out-mysql-push...

Note that the linked article also outlines more about this feature under the heading "70x Higher JOIN Performance with Adaptive Query Localization".
Android's permission system would be great if it wasn't for the one fatal flaw: Some idiot decided to make it declarative instead of deductive.

This is one of these fundamental bugs where you can only wonder what they are smoking at google.

Instead of automatically scanning the code for actual API calls ("Ah, trying to send SMS here") they require the developer to manually declare their desired permissions in a separate manifest-file.

Unsurprisingly this has led to the current situation where every little "wallpaper clock" app demands every permission under the sun, and then some, without ever actually using them. Developers are just dumb and lazy like that, go figure...

So, my point is, android-style permission granularity is not a problem at all. Just make sure "can read phonebook" translates to will actually read your phonebook (hopefully soon in iOS) instead of developer is probably incompetent (Android).
Convincing is easy. Don't make it be an option. So long as it remains an option, what's the reason for people to change?

(Also, the tarnished "golden" look feels dirty.)
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You'd have to be more clear on who "they" are. Some of them are no doubt 'digital terrorists', many are not. The they isn't the same they from campaign to campaign.

Everyone who wants to be Anonymous, is.
Yes, we really need some kind of "hypertext" that allows an expression of "hyperlinks" between concepts so that a reader can follow conceptual paths through a corpus of text at will :)

I agree with you wholeheartedly, actually. It has been disappointing that the advances in electronic textbooks have, as you say, given us the equivalent of scanned-in copies of the old textbooks, but with some embedded encarta video clips.

The main problem, as efforts with XML and microdata and the semantic web (etc, etc) have taught us, is that this (parsing structure, displaying it, and allowing manipulation of that display) is really hard to solve in the general case, and even solutions that get you only part of the way may be so onerous that no one wants to actually author content at that point.

There are a few startups that are instead trying to solve this by producing great textbook content on a case-by-case basis, really thinking about what it means to try to transmit knowledge in a totally different medium. I think there is a huge opportunity there, so I'm hopeful that we'll see some really great innovation in that UI/UX space soon.
You know how every once in awhile you hear about some celebrity's phone getting "hacked" and their contact list stolen?

HHmmmmm........
> the law says you can own intangible rights

Sorry if my wording was unclear. You can be granted rights (or more accurately powers), but you cannot own information. It is physically impossible by definition.
I would love that too. Hopefully Tim is smarter than than -- all he has to do is send a nice, not dangerous letter back with a bunch of meaningless words in it. It is mostly about making it seem like the congressman is actually doing his job, he doesn't care that much.

It may also be time for Apple to call its lobbyists. They appear to be slacking of.
Are you taking the position that only auto-generated passwords can be secure? I'm trying to understand what conclusion to draw from your comment.

My point was that imposing length validations on passwords is not hard. Complexity validation, while more difficult, is also not exactly a novel problem.

I feel like I'm in bizarro-world with all these people telling me that sending a plaintext password via email is more secure than giving users the option to follow an authenticated link to create their own password because...users can't be trusted to choose good passwords?! Really?
"This week, several antivirus vendors declared the Google CDN version of jQuery 1.7.1 to be malicious, most likely as innocent bystanders to a major unrelated Wordpress attack."

This is why you should always download jquery and link to it locally.
It would be nice to think that the things that the Obama administration have got right on that count could trump that sort of silliness in most forums. Killing bin Laden is a good headline, for example.

(I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican, being from outside the US; I'm just a guy who wishes the US would get its house in order on this one so governments elsewhere in the world have to stop pointing at the US and saying "Well, they do it!" as if it's some sort of justification for their own security theatre.)
Craigslist has a big spam problem to deal with; anonymous e-mail based accounts make spamming very easy. They've dealt with this through phone verification -- if you try to post to a high-spam category, or your account is otherwise suspicious looking, you get prompted to enter a phone number and take an automated call or SMS with a code to put in the site. That phone number gets tied to your e-mail and can't be used to authenticate another, so spamming now requires throwaway phone numbers (harder to acquire) instead of throwaway emails.

I haven't made any attempt to test it, but they probably block using VOIP and other non-fixed phone numbers too. There are APIs available to check whether a number is one of those types, so, say, you can't sign up for a bunch of numbers through Twilio and use those to spam Craigslist.
I was specifically referring to Git.
I liked this better:

L1 - You've already started eating the sandwich, and only need to move your mouth and take another bite. (2 seconds)

L2 - There is a sandwich on the counter, so you need only find it, pick it up, and begin eating. (10 seconds)

RAM - You're near the fridge, but you need to open it and quickly throw together a sandwich. (3 minutes)

HD - Drive to store, purchase seeds, grow seeds, harvest etc. (1 year)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/90tge/hey_rprog...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702713
What does declining gasoline consumption mean?
I use a repeating "all day" event in Google Calendar, which I can easily update via Web or mobile. Added benefit: I can email it to myself every morning, to see what's on deck.

In the past I've used .txt scratchpads and note files in the old Palm/Palm desktop application. I've tried various To-Do apps, including the one that works with Google Calendar, as well as the Palm To-Do list, but they never quite worked for me. I found activating priority, expiration dates and other app settings generally got in the way.
governments ... are actively trying to find out what is being said and transmitted over their airwaves and networks.

Ahem... their airwaves and networks? Perhaps part of the problem here is that the governments believe that they own these communications channels. But the airwaves and networks are like the seas and the atmosphere: some of it happens to fall within a government's borders, but it's impossible to "own" them.
I wasn't talking about student entrepreneurs. I was talking about professors who want to use their time to build businesses while still teaching.
Leaving aside the why, I'm highly doubtful they'd be able to pull it off. Back in the Conficker days, it was rumored that it could be used to shut down the Internet with a similar mechanism. Conficker, I can see. Anon? Hell no.
> isn't valid justification for not taking precautions.

As long as the precautions are effective, I have no problem with them. But 9-11 was a rule changer: even if terrorists got on the planes now, they would not be able to control the passengers or highjack the plane and would, most likely, get lynched after stabbing one or two passengers. 9-11 was a spectacular win for the bad guys, but that same trick cannot be used twice.

Before 9-11 passengers had an incentive to cooperate with highjackers - they were the highly valuable item that would be exchanged for something else. 9-11 changed that rule. Now, in most cases, the winning scenario is taking back the plane at any cost.

I don't think this level of precaution is warranted.
Isn't this what automated unit and performance testing is for? If a refactor (or any code change) causes slippage on any of those indicators it should be flagged or rejected.
Scribd over-complicating things since they used PDFs to display text.

I just visited their site again, I'm not exactly sure what they are using now, it does look good, but my god is it slow on my low end machine.

I am not surprised to hear they are needlessly complicating session tracking as well.
Gotta love how the absence of state laws restricting what contracts between private individuals can include is described as being "the most repressive".

Ultimately these clauses are part of private, consenting employment agreements. If you don't like a non-compete clause offered by an employer (which is possible in MA since are no strong laws against it), nothing is forcing you to sign it.

Especially since it's a "suppliers market" for labor in our industry, you should be able to easily negotiate out of one if an employer tries to bring it up.
CPU register: there is a bite of sandwich in your mouth.
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Wouldn't it be great if I could just click on a file system object (like a drive in the file browser) and view a diagram of concentric circles for registers, cache, ram, io layer (disk buffers/caches), and finally the actual physical device.

The size of each circle would be relative to the avg. amount of time needed to move data to the CPU. To me this would be more intuitive than charting system data.
Obama recently made LNCB [1] optional ... my state (CA) still hasn't opted out

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
I worked in the coin-op/vending industry for over a decade. Every single time a new dollar coin was prepared, all the way back to the Susan B Anthony, the manufacturers were ready with coin acceptors and related mechs. Hell, most of the time they were ready BEFORE the coins were issued. Most modern acceptors can even be reprogrammed in the field.

The industry WANTS the dollar coin. They've lobbied for it for decades. They've been knocked down by the other lobby, the "Save The Greenback" coalition which was primarily backed by Trent Lott and Ted Kennedy's factions.

Why Lott and Kennedy? Lott represented cotton growers, who made the cotton that went into the paper that was manufactured by Crane, the only government-approved mill that could make US Currency stock. Guess where Crane is located?

Everyone in the business knew that we couldn't get traction on the dollar coin until the paper dollar is killed. Paper dollars wear out every 18 months as opposed to 30 years for a minted coin. Yet, here we are. Now there's the stigma of "oh, these dollar coins keep failing, let's just stop this nonsense." Understand the precise reason why they've failed and we can fix this.
I love the dollar coins. I used to take all my change to the post office, put it all in the stamp machine at once, buy a single stamp and get my change back in $1 coins.

A lot of people must have done that because the software was changed at some point to not allow it.
This is a serious question:

Are you actually in a state of terror by this Pastebin entry, or are you just saying it's rhetorical 'terrorism'?
"No, they have been taught to share and that anyone can create a movie or a piece of music and distribute it for free."
Those are two wonderful lessons, which I believe will make the future a better place."

This only works for so long. Eventually, you run out of other people's content to share and little to no new content is created as a result.
Why does transferring knowledge across domains have such exponential returns?

Is it only because the time it takes other fields to adapt to new methodology is longer - or are there other factors?

EDIT: Holy crap, I worded this terribly.

Rewritten: Why does going across domains with new ideas have such high returns? Obviously you're a fresh idea but are there other reasons that influence your success?
Regardless of his motives, this is a good move for HP.
Now if they had kept the touchpad and introduced this plan along with it, that would be impressive.
I think the really important point here is that readers need to understand that an encyclopedia is a record of academic consensus rather than a compendium of solid facts. The former is a useful but imperfect tool. The latter is an impossible ideal to strive for which will inevitably result in something less reliable than the former.
This guy is definitely a hustler... but something doesn't sit right with me about crashing events for charity. Every drink or meal he consumes is money taken directly out of the charity's pocket. He tries to justify his unethical actions by saying that crashing these events will make him much more likely to become successful (rich), and therefore he'll be able to buy lots of charity tickets in the future.

Sorry dude, crashing parties and ripping off charities is not going to make you successful.
So it's not just me. Thanks.
And so Google Public DNS is not really related to these Root NS then. They just simply offer it as a service for those that want to use it.
Years ago people said that the AppStore approval thing would save us from this. It clearly has not. I do not think more rules will help.
So you were dishonest and bragged about it in a blog post with your name and picture. Some of the very people you tricked may even be reading it now that it made the front page of Hacker News.

You'd think that you would have learned something after spending so much time with so many successful people. Apparently not.
R7RS public review process has begun
I think Anonymous doesn't really know how DNS works. The root nameservers don't serve zone data for most sites that people use anyways.

DNS is a distributed hierarchy for serving requests. It's designed to be fault-tolerant because if every name resolution (google.com->8.8.8.8) performed by a browser had to reach 13 servers in the world, we'd still be using gopher and newsgroups instead of the web.

DNS is distributed, hierarchical, redundant, and cached all over the place as much as possible. Even my laptop caches DNS queries until a reboot. Even if a DNS cache misses (which is infrequent), it goes to the nameserver hosting the zone, which isn't a root name server.

Bottom line, it's probably just a joke designed to get some attention and to experiment and see what actually does happen if you hit those servers.
Buy it second hand from Amazon - they are much cheaper! ($17)

+1 for the book recommendation - I also have a copy of that.
It's not TSA-free, but the fact that LaGuardia is free of naked scanners means it is the only place I fly into New York.
Possibly. I haven't read the particular technique they're planning to use here, but I recall some old attacks against Bind relied on query reflection, which might work in the absence of cached data.
Expert knowledge has insights, meta-knowledge if you will. It is the insights, the ability to see the thing and then see the stuff that go into it being that thing, which give the exponential returns.
Most TTLs for nameservers are on the order of days.
no. are you really trying to start an argument? clearly, you knew what i meant.

there is a difference between a web developer who did not understand some specifics regarding a protocol and a "average joe" user who does not even know what a protocol is.