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'Illegal' is regime specific. It's absurd to argue legality within a context of hacked emails. If we are being strictly legalistic we should discard this evidence as being illegally obtained.

So let's change your question to is it okay to gain intelligence by venality? My answer is it is a continuum. Would I advocate bribing North Korean officials to gain insight on what they're doing? Yes. For Germany? No. STRATFOR, through the incentives in our global political regime, snaps into public opinion modulated by the risk of getting caught (as any agent in a political society does).

Generalising this de-spirits the debate. The fact is this information is being collected and will continue to be collected because it has tremendous intrinsic value. The question is how widely available it will be. I can pay for it. I just thought people liked having access to it as well. I would understand, though, if people preferred pretending reality isn't as it is.
That is a really dramatic graph. It's hard to imagine an industry coming back from something like that.
> The material contains privileged information about the US government's attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor's own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks.

I'm getting tired of Wikileak's bullshit. Either you have proof about this and you should just publish it in a pastebin, or you shut up. You don't publish 5 million emails and hint that there is material in there that could take down governments.
I'm glad you made it, it's much better than the subreddit! It would be cool if you were able to include video examples of the things in action (sometimes) as use cases.
The true cost of beef is staggering. It is, by far, one of our most selfish indulgences the rich have. It's sad that our economic model doesn't adequately capture this.

A lot of numbers get thrown around, but the amount of grain and water you need for 1 pound of beef is enough to feed something like 25 people. Then there's the environmental impact (land, pollution, ....). The more I travel the world, the harder it is for me to eat beef.
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I know Sonic is publicly against limits and throttling [1]. Their DSL connections don't have any sort of caps. Now, with Fiber the scale may be different, but I don't see their position changing.

Their CEO also said that bandwidth wasn't their biggest cost. (but I can't find the link...)

[1] http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/12/02/web-hogs/
Vegetarians from birth will probably not be inclined to eat this. They've never acquired a taste for meat.

I think this is awesome. Livestock are a haven for pollution and pestilence, most recently implicated in producing antibiotic-resistant superbugs that will probably be the death of us all.
While the conflict resolution is a nice thing, the burden of implementation lies almost entirely on the app developer, not icloud. The same code could easily trigger whenever Dropbox replaces the open file or adds a renamed conflicted version.
Read the writeup linked here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637392 (Use this video instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLr_XrooLs

(But I'll quote for you: "Then we figured out that it would
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This. A thousand times this. The issues I've had with ISP DNS...

ISP A making their very fast service look dog-slow with terrible DNS (and a terrible wireless router, to boot). ISP B sending mangled responses to some popular requests including facebook.com (which is what made fixing it a priority in my household) and so on...
I'm pretty sure strict vegans (is there any other kind?) would continue to have a problem with it. The original definition is:

Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals

Note that they consider honey to be an exploitation of animals...so I assume extracting muscle tissues from a cow would also be considered exploitation of animals. Furthermore, it pretty explicitly states "living on the products of the plant kingdom".
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It seems eerily accurate. Some quotes that caught my eye.

>Equipped with radio links, a pda can serve as an appliance-control remote, a digital wallet, a cell phone, an identity badge, an e-mail station, a digital book, a pager and perhaps even a digital camera <- iOS/Android

>One can imagine driving in the car, asking our WIDGET [Smartphone] for the name of the nearest Thai restaurant, getting an answer, asking for reservations and then for directions.<- Siri

>Privacy will come at a premium. Enormous quantities of data about our daily affairs will flow across the Internet, working to make our lives easier. Despite our penchant for giving up privacy in exchange for convenience, our experiences online may make us yearn for the anonymity of the past.<- Facebook etc.
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I think worrying about the realism of VR misses the mark. We know that we can create a thoroughly compelling virtual universe with black-and-white text on paper. Graphics are relatively unimportant; intelligent people have spent years of their life staring at Dwarf Fortress. Before that it was Dungeons and Dragons. I'm sure I'm not alone in the opinion that the most groundbreaking gaming experience to date is not a Battlefield, Elder Scrolls or Mass Effect game, but Minecraft with a hi-res texture pack. [0]

The only thing missing is the same thing that has always been missing, and the only real reason that hallucinogens or opiates don't fill this hole already: Some kind of meaningful connection to the real world. Sure, play around with your brain interfaces or augmented reality displays, but don't expect that to be your revolution-- as soon as somebody builds the most trivial Minecraft server mod that means you can create enough real-world value to feed and house yourself just by playing the game, that will become the sole activity of several hundred million people at least.

Although I expect they'll find what superstars and drug addicts alike have long since realized: in the long run, having all of your dreams fulfilled, just like regular life, evens out to about "Meh."

[0] Which will blow your mind, if you haven't seen it. ex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raR9kd0fGuY
I think you might be a little. I may be overestimating the average user, but I believe iCloud over-abstracts the filesystem. A normal office worker has a ton of files already. It may be messy, but the world at large at least have some sort of workflow they carved out over the years of using the typical user facing filesystem. I can't imagine most people know how to get these files onto their iOS devices using iCloud. My iOS addicted family certainly doesn't. I honestly don't even really get it. If properly presented by HTC/Dropbox/Android, it is a superior solution.

Rather that trying to figure out what the user wants and often frustrating them with invisible restrictions, a Dropbox solution just powerfully augments what the normal person already does on a computer. Put all of your stuff here. Press on your file, you get presented with a series of apps that can work with your stuff. And when you are done, put it back in the box that magically keeps all of your stuff. And the stuff in this box will work with any application that can parse that particular file on your phone/tablet/laptop/work computer, not just on a certain subset of apps on a certain subset of devices.
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The ability of the author to predict the future of technology is spot on. Makes me shudder to think about what will be written when we're all 90 year old men. What science / technological wonders we'll never see.
I actually have the opposite opinion - I'm more worried by the current situation. I think the reason the current web startup scene goes after such small problems is that folks are coming right out of undergrad (or earlier) and haven't had PhD-type training to learn what hard problems are really out there. It's routing potentially great engineers away from training that would have let them make a serious impact.
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I'm waiting for the technology to reach the point where we can create whole new meats. Like, imagine a world where pigs had never evolved, and then a scientist, working in a lab, invented bacon. They'd make millions and millions of dollars, and dramatically improve the lives of a billion fat people.

And even in our world, just think: There are meats out there, waiting to be invented, that are a thousand times more delicious than bacon.
Forgive me if I've misread the article, but isn't the Project Evaluation essentially just a spec, with the option to actually implement the spec or not?
I'm a meat-eater and I want my meal to bleed and experience death.
The price is actually ≈ $70 per month. From the article ...

Update: the initial version of this article mistakenly listed the price of Sonic's gigabit service at $79.95; it is actually $69.95.

That's amazing. Here I thought I was getting a bargain with 15Mbps SDSL for $25 per month (our mid-rise condo building in downtown San Jose, CA struck a deal with our ISP if some percentage of residents signed up).
In the film noir classic 'Double Indemnity', the writers Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler needed to resolve a particular conceit in the plot where the femme fatale shows up at the doomed hero's apartment but needs to be hidden from an occupant inside. They decided to use an outward-opening door.

This small detail has caused much discussion ever since, a good example is here: http://jpgamboa.com/archives/1424
I can't speak for development work, but for consulting work this is fantastic.

We completely turned my old business around using this. We went from fighting to sign 3k/month retainer clients to signing multiple 8k, 10k, 12k and even a 17k month retainer using this strategy.

In my experience, the clients that don't like this arrangement are the ones that end up being bad clients down the road anyways. The ones that do like this, see the value in seeing an expert evaluation of the problem before spending lots of money to fix something they haven't yet identified.
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"... they are encouraged to exercise and build up their strength by being given their own gym equipment (pieces of Velcro to which they can anchor themselves in order to stretch and relax spontaneously)."

Creepy. Do they give these cells an electric jolt to make them exercise?
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Interesting take. Isn't that, in practice, the same as just refusing to enter non-paid competition and taking an advancement for every project? The work put into the "evaluation" sounds like information architecture + tech specs + development planning, which would normally answer for 30-50% of a project's cost. I wonder if marketing this phase as an independent package makes a difference in sales, as he appears to suggest?
"For example, NYU’s Jeff Han demonstrated a set of sophisticated multi-touch applications at a 2006 TED Talk. Apple’s genius was largely to recognize that these same multi-touch gestures could be usefully translated to the form-factor of a cell phone."

Han's talk was Aug. 2006 and the iPhone was unveiled Jan. 2007. It seems like a joke to imply Apple saw the demo and realized it could apply that to a phone that it showed 3 months later. Just look at how long it's taken Android to get proper multitouch. It doesn't happen in 3 month.
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I don't know about you but when I apply for a job I like to tailor my cv to highlight the particular requirements of that position. Also depending on the type of role - Developer, Business Analyst, Project Manager etc then the CV might look very different.

I also find emailing around Word version of CVs seems a little dated... I mean we are in the age of the Cloud aren't we??

So I've come up with cvcloud.me :)

http://cvcloud.me

The site allows you to create multiple CV's at an URL like cvcloud.me/joebloggs/44aa6 this way people will only find your CV if you send them the URL, just as if you emailed them the document.

You can track when people view your document and where they are located. The viewer can also download a PDF version of the document if they really need to. I am considering adding MS Word support if this is really wanted.

You can also import your profile from Linkedin to save on typing.

Anyhow feel free to use and let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions, loves/hates etc.

thanks
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Yes, but one has to wonder whether linear output requiring nearly constant animal input, vs. linear output requiring linear animal input, will cause some people to rethink this (thus resulting in a split in veganism). Every burger may ultimately come from exploitation of a cow, but if the burger in front of you does not come from any additional exploitation of a cow, many people may not have a problem with it.

Unless there are already existing products that have this property, in which case I guess we have our answer. Or if it's not so non-linear as it sounds, in which case there's no question.
Almost as important as the technology is the marketing. They need to get on message for this even at this early stage. Calling it "Artificial Meat" is already conceding the battle. It's not artificial, it's real meat.

"Cultured"? Conjures up images of lab coats. "Man-made"? Not much better.

I'd say some better ideas:

- Humane meat

- Painless meat

- Slaughterless meat

- Guiltless meat

- Pure meat

To me, pure meat probably wins. It's meat, but without all the ugly impurities introduced by having an animal grow it in the wild. See how much of a difference successful framing can make to how you "feel" about a product?
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These are mostly softballs though...1-at-a-time:

"I can saturate a 100mbps connection by booting a diskless computer. Why shouldn't our operating systems/environments be stored "in the cloud"?"

Clouds go down, your computer goes down. There's no compelling reason to put the OS "in the cloud". Your data? Maybe, if you can handle not having access to it every second of the day. And even today, one can RDP or VNC perfectly comfortably on a 20Mbps connection provided all the "cloudy" parts of the internet behave. More importantly, if the server and the links between you and the server aren't capable of giving you 100mbps then you can't saturate the connection.

"Why shouldn't I have more than one computer in my house?"

How does not having a 1Gbps internet connection prevent this?

"Remind me again why I can't have cameras all over my house and see them all at once while somewhere else."

Why can't you do that today? Streaming 1080p from x-number of cameras, multiplexed into a single display that's probably no better than 1080p is silly. The proper approach, regardless of bandwidth, is to downsample the displays before multiplexing at the broadcast side. Then you're just streaming a single video stream anyways, which is perfectly doable at 20Mbps.

"Why shouldn't I be able to speak to an SO wondering around the house doing chores while I'm in a hotel room?"

Again, why can't you do that today? There's no reason to stream video from empty parts of the house. In your use-case, you're only sending one or two video streams at a time anyway...again still healthily within the realm of 20Mpbs.

"All that aside, think of the games and entertainment that can be enabled. TVs are large enough to be almost life size now. Why shouldn't I be able to stand in front of one with a doctor or Amazon employee on the other side being able to examine each other, products, packaging etc in high resolution detail. (Note 1080 is not even close to high resolution for life size.)"

This is the only compelling case you've provided I think, but bandwidth is not the principle problem in this use-case. Everything from cameras to encoders to compressors to display devices are a bigger problem in this case.

And yes, you'll have to compress even at 1gbps. A 1920x1080 display with 24bit color at 60fps is something like 3GigaBytes per second or around 24gbps.

The next gen of TV is likely to be some variant of super hi-vision which is 7680x4320. @24bit and 60fps that's just shy of 48Gigabytes per second uncompressed or 384gbps.

So yeah, bandwidth will be a bottleneck in those applications, but 1gbps is not even close to handling it and I'm guessing the hardware required to real-time encode and compress video for a stream like that is astronomical.
Nobody seems to be asking, but I will - why isn't network cable grouped under the same class of utilities provided by local governments that include roads, sewers, and in some countries, electricity?

I know in America we have the completely stupid system where electricity is at a regulated rate but privately provided by a given monopoly company at any given household.

That is actually another example of the problem. If governments didn't suck, and our collective interests were not clouded and in general ill thought, we would have fiber to the home be a national works project to help pull the country out of the recession.

It is currently so expensive to lay fiber because the demand and supply are in this convoluted state, where no one demands it due to the monopolies so no one makes it in great quantity so prices are artificially high so no one wants it.

If we had a gov't project to lay fiber, the massive demand (unless the gov't did the entire supply chain like they did with the NHS) would spur industry growth, and we could then export our huge fiber industry (which is high tech manufacturing, like carbon nanotubes would be in bulk) to everyone else and actually have industry again.

Of course, that would never happen, because governments almost never do anything right. And if they do it right, they do it insanely over budget and late. But it is nice to dream.

I think it might possibly work at the local level. It doesn't have the huge instantaneous demand boom of the material as a national project, but regions that have access to the raw components used in fiber tubing (sand is a silica right? Not pure enough I assume, we make the stuff somewhere out of silicates though) could subsidize and start the industry, and then sell the company after they spur demand by using their own fiber supply to give every home 100 gigabit internet connections.

Fast forward a decade and the initial cost investment to build the industry would be paying dividends in national productivity and the export market we would have for fiber. Rather than go from (on average) 56 kbps internet in 2000 to 300kbps in 2012, we could have a third of the population on fiber in a decade.

It really comes back to infrastructure. Nobody makes subways or national transit systems or lays railroads across the nation unless there is a huge unrealistic demand that forces businesses to act or if the collective power of representational government uses the investment potential of taxpayers to create and fund the services that make everyone's lives better but no one can justify giving on a case by case basis for a quick profit in the next quarter financial report.

Alas, pipe dreams. I wish I had sonic, I get the lovely fun of picking between the staunchly competitive only ISP in my area that provides single banded DSL at 300 kbps for $50 over the copper phone lines that have been in the ground for half a century. God bless America.
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I think the authors of this article may not realize that a gigabit is equivalent to 125 megabytes. The caption saying that it's "actually much faster" than the 134 Mbps listed by speedtest is silly.
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The context for the control quote is here: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/202526_re-insight-venezuel...
To be fair, Android has had a lot of these features for a while.

* Calendars and contacts have always been synced with my gmail and across all my android devices since my G1.

* Bookmarks are now being synced through the new Chrome for android

* On Android you pretty much rely on Google Docs for your document needs, which of course is cloud-based

* Photos have been synced with picasa (now part of G+) across all my devices for a while now too

* Google music

(can't comment on google's book offering, as I haven't really used it yet)

Now, I'm not gonna say Google's implementation is better or anything, but a lot of that functionality has been there for so long, it seems at least comprable to apple's offering at this point (if a bit 'fragmented'). I only just got my first iOS device a few weeks ago (an ipad2 from my work), and since it's my only one I can't say I've tested out iCloud fully enough to give an in-depth comparison. I do hope google eventually come out with an API for their cloud storage for android though, as that seems to be the only major thing that's missing.

I will say one thing though, I find it quite nice that I can access all the synced data on my Android devices from any browser anywhere, conveniently within the services I already use, and not just from my Androids/personal computers.