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Currently living in the same setup in Toronto (same price point for 100mbps unlimted), although it's not available to new subscribers anymore unfortunately. They upped the price $5 and added a 300GB cap. That's with Telus in downtown Toronto. It's been available for the last 8 or so years I believe. Since 2004.

I noticed Hamilton Ontario (and much of it's south-easternly towns) of all places has unlimited 100mbps available via Shaw Hamilton. That only costs ~$100/month: http://www.shawhamilton.ca/index.php?internet

I am seriously considering moving to hamilton after I move out of this place literally just for the internet connection.
I don't buy the argument that you're above the law if you're a manufacturer. A credible argument for tort or truth in advertising reform across the board? For tax reform across the board? Sure.

But this whole they're so fluffy for building things in America so let's treat them specially, regardless of how superficial special might seem in this cases, is an insult to the rule of law.
I suspect Cornell do have mechanical copyright in some recordings of birdsongs - which'd allow them to charge royalties on anybody using copies of the recordings they made, but there'd be no composer or performer to own the actual "song". (Sort of like how you can't claim copyright in every photo of a sunrise just 'cause you took one, but you do have rights with regards to the particular sunrise photograph you shot.)
I agree. I too keep wondering "why?"
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I'm not condoning this, but they are obviously trying to troll the NK president, as a response to the trolling he himself has done to the international media, by continuing to make threats with the only purpose of flexing his muscles. The media eats it up, so he keeps doing it.
What in the world are you talking about? Politicians blackmailing each other for personal gain is unethical. And I'm pretty sure that "the electorate" doesn't qualify as a "governmental official".

"Is it not possible to profit by bribing/blackmailing a government official and benefit the public at the same time?"

The ethical content of an action is not determined by accidental effects. If I shoot a gun blindly into a street and accidentally save someone by shooting their attacker, that doesn't make my actions ethical. Bribing an official for information that you can then sell to the highest bidder is corruption. The intent matters.

"Please think these things through next time before you cathartically post that someone is "the enemy"."

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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This is like TekSavvy in Toronto, at least in my experience. I call, less than one ring, "Billing press 1, Support press 2" 2 "Hello, TekSavvy Technical support" Hi, I can ping 4.2.2.2 but it seems I'm getting 96% packet loss and the web is completely unusable. "Mac, Linux or Windows" Linux. "Awesome. Can you check the dhcp settings" Sure, I just forget the command "dhclient" Awesome [...] Find out it is a problem with the cable box for the building in under 2 mins. If I were with rogers they probably would have had to send someone to my house to get this type of response.
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I had always heard that here in NYC, it was regulation and monopolization by the larger telcos (mainly TWC) that stopped us from getting higher speeds. The slow rollout for FiOS has reportedly been due to a problem with having to dig up streets and all that..
> There are many scientific groups where even today, no form of version control is used, even for internal work ...

Where I work (government research lab) people think of Subversion as a sporadic backup target, typically doing a commit every month or so, despite making frequent changes to operational code.

Paradoxically, one scientist I spoke to was scared about overwriting code if he did an incorrect commit, but he's perfectly happy to have mycode.py, mycode2.py, mycode_this_one_works.py, mycode_this_one_works3.py, ...
Although the name (and acronym ) WIDGET is as silly as Smartphone. He wasn't wrong in that.
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> But the lack of a comprehensive solution for photo synchronization is telling as well.

If you turn on Google+ Instant Upload, you get very good photo synchronization support, especially for Android. Photos are synced to Google+ in the background, and since that is backed by Picasa, they automatically show up in the Galleries of any other Android device you have. I've been impressed with how quickly and easily you can browse your uploaded photos on another device.

It isn't for everyone because Google+ limits the maximum resolution of Instant Upload photos, but it is for a lot of people because they give you "unlimited storage" in exchange.
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OpenDNS could do this too. I don't see how this is a disturbing outcome. If Google wanted this information, it wouldn't really need GDNS (and it's probably not even the best way for Google to do it).
A melody has recently (here in Australia) been granted copyright protection (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under_%28song%29#Copyright... ).
I don't know about "dumb clients" as it specifically talks about scriptable agents.
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Want to enforce minimum wages laws? No problems - it will just change work flow to workers from other countries where local ones will be left without one extra option.
Figure I'd chime in since I currently work in this industry. We make power supplies that have many thousands of lines of custom-written flashed firmware on a microcontroller that's a switching buck regulator. With it you can do all sorts of crazy tricks with the control loop to reduce the number of components and increase efficiency. I'd say most of the design meetings are about testing ideas about the control loop.

There have been a bunch of startups in this space over the past 10 years, although most eventually get acquired by a bigger IC vendor to deal with foundry sourcing.

Many computing companies have slowly been getting rid of power supply design engineers, and shouldering the burden onto the IC vendor's application's engineer to help with the design. Dealing with a giant company (like apple, dell, etc.) requires a lot of effort, as they'll negotiate down your margins heavily, have a backup design with your competitor, and require your field apps engineer to be waiting at your service if something goes wrong. It's not uncommon to have apps engineers dedicated to a really big customer and stay at their offices.
In my experience, the bulk of the awesomeness of gigabit Internet is that it turns the Internet into a LAN. I think anybody who uses the Internet in a LAN-like manner can definitely benefit from gigabit speeds (and can I get 10Gbps soon, please? I'm ready!)

For instance, I (regularly) upload my 20~60GB VMWare VM files between my house and the office, because I don't want to carry a computer/disk around with me. At work, I tend to have a bunch of Remote Desktop connection to my home machines, which I leave up 24/7, as its not enough bandwidth to make a perceptible difference. And while most backup services like CrashPlan or Mozy or whatever definitely are the bottleneck, if you are backing up to your own remote servers, or to AWS via something like Arq, the speed really makes a difference, just as much as with a LAN (at least up to 100Mbps with AWS, anyway... at that point I think they become the gating factor).

I agree you don't get a huge benefit when surfing normal Internet websites, and that the benefits break down when the remote end of the connection is international, but for stuff like the above, the faster the better.
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Well, there is a difference. A 28.8 and even a 56k connection were easy to saturate with something a simple as listening to streaming radio.

I don't believe I've even approached saturating 20Mbps with multiple users in the house streaming multiple video streams and downloading as much data as they could. The other end and the in-between-bits has always been a limiting factor and has been once you get over about T-1 speeds.

Put another way, buffering in software for 28.8 was usually needed because your end couldn't stream something like a 3 minute song smoothly. Buffering on a 28Mbps connection is because the provider can't stream something like a 3 minute hi-def music video smoothly.

In principle I'd love gigabit Internet, but I honestly wouldn't know what to do with it.
Err, what? This is a web page about cool tweaks to vim. What does that have to do with emacs and/or editor wars?
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The argument for forced sharing of the last mile isn’t that it’s a natural monopoly – that’s unempirical but commonly claimed. (Prior to FedEx and UPS, smart people thought package delivery was a natural monopoly.)

The better argument is that the providers of last mile are beneficiaries of prior regulation which meant that they were able to build a gov’t-protected monopoly.

The latter is a legitimate but, to me, not dispositive. We want competition on the last mile (and every mile) and line-sharing regulation simply cements incumbents, as no new entrant would desire to be in a business of regulated rates.

Now, we might simply accept that prior damage has ruined that market beyond repair and the least-bad solution is to force line-sharing. But I’d rather see lots of Sonic’s building a new set of last miles.
I think "don't send me long emails" is shorthand for "communicate clearly and crisply" - lots of people ramble and I can't be bothered to pick out the one important detail.
It's people saying stuff on the internet. It's highly unlikely any of them will put any effort in following through on what they say... unless what they say is they are about to assassinate a bottle of Mountain Dew.
Correction, that's how Teksavvy used to be. However recently they've gotten too big to be able to offer that level of support. A few months ago hold times were up to 1-2 hours because they couldn't hire quick enough. They've since hired enough staff that the hold times are down but obviously it takes a while for staff to train up to that level.

But they do appear to be doing it right: instilling the right attitude in their employees and treating them properly so that they stick around.
I guess the question that I have is: Is Stratfor shaping the information that it is supplying to its retail subscribers, for whatever reason (either for the benefit of their corporate subscribers, or for themselves)? It certainly seems like this is something that Friedman and Stratfor are capable of doing. Is it possible that they are employing propaganda techniques through their retail arm in order to get a desired response from the tens of thousands of subscribers that they have?

I don't have the answer to this question. Their hedge fund is a bit suspicious to me, and the fact that we are dealing with seemingly experts in propaganda might make me think twice about their motivations. I thought they were a news organization, but suppose I was wrong.

I'll still going to subscribe to them (when they begin their subscription service again), but I'll definitely be taking a lot of their information with a grain of salt... just in case they aren't who they say they are. At the very least, I've woken up to the fact that they aren't a news organization.
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Of course, in the Jobsian view of the World, everything is a feature and there are no 3rd party products.
> google music works like this

It's funny, I like a lot of the ways Google has abstracted away from files (e.g. Google Docs or Picasa), but Google Music drives me batty.

Even though they're wonderful about streaming and "pinning" songs offline (even over 3G), I just want to download the music and know where it is. I often use players other than Google Music, so that's part of it, but I think I also just want tighter control over music than I want over other things. I've ended up using Amazon Cloud Player instead, even though I successfully download or stream over 3G once in a blue moon (if that).
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Build it, and they will come. Expanding this kind of service to the majority of domestic internet users would be a game-changer for the types of new apps and sites it could enable.
Thank you for the reference - I agree, that's the most likely interpretation of the email. I wonder why this wasn't called out more strongly when the hedge fund was mentioned in the press release.
But that's a chicken and egg problem. Upgrading ISP to home link creates incentives for others in the chain to upgrade their link.
Well, "fraud" in non-legal English is generally taken to mean false or deceiving statements. And falsely claiming to hold rights one does not hold is, well, a false and/or deceiving statement.

Though in the realm of copyright, "slander of title" might be the more appropriate phrase.
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In reality, how achiveable/practical the scenarios you just explained regarding REST for both server and client side?

Your example also seems to be optimized for REST.

I am not suggesting that SOAP is much better.
It's interesting that he says:

"There’s no way, as far as I know, to keep my IM windows synced between devices."

Trillian introduced this feature around a year ago:

http://blog.trillian.im/?p=1949

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2011/03/hands-on-trilli...

It's sometimes buggy, but it's definitely the first client to offer such a feature.
Stratfor sought to make a profit. Journalists seek to make a living. A lot of the journalists I know would be perfectly happy to work for a not-for-profit organization because they're in it for the work, not the money.
What if people band together into a sort of Union, and agree (in a binding way, with punishment for defectors) as a group (through some sort of majority vote, since consensus is impossible in a large group) to demand a certain wage?

You'd have... a republic with a minimum wage law.
Copyright law does have the tort of slander of title; if Rumblefish's actions are interpreted by a court as claiming rights Rumblefish does not have, that could be a quite serious issue separate from anything YouTube has in a contract or EULA.
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Doesn't seem to be doing anything for me. Installed it, clicked on a ton of links from hacker news, clicked on "more" a few times, and don't see anything recommended. The extension is definitely installed; I can see the small icon in the omnibox when browsing HN. Is there anything else I need to do?
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Is there a library/resource for css code to easily alter the front-end design of my website? Like copy/paste code.

I have extensive back-end design already done on my website.
Thanks! I just read the first few pages and I'm liking it already. I also like the Ancient Simian Proverb in the dedication. Looks like a keeper.

Edit: This prefigures the For Dummies books by what, 80 years?
The Matrix.

No really. Some form of "The Matrix". Think about it. Look at our world. All the land has already been claimed. There's no where new left to go to. If society wanted to start over and try out a new government that's next to impossible without serious bloodshed because there's no land left to escape to and settle on. You have to take it from someone else. Just look at the Palistinian/Israeli conflict. Ownership over one little strip of land has caused so much bloodshed and destroyed so many lives. On top of that, all the good spots have already been taken (fertile land). But with virtual reality you can simulate all of these things.

In it's current form "second life" is a sad representation of virtual reality because of a lack of advancement in the underlying technology. The way we build worlds, the limitation of their size, the way we render 3D environments, the way we allow people to control their limited actions in that world are all very pathetic at the moment.

But looking at brain wave readers, simulators, contact lens displays. In the future Virtual Reality will be the ultimate escape. Look at how desperate people are to escape reality already. They drink themselves to near death, LSD, Weed, hallucinogens, meth, anti-depressants. People are so desperate to escape the pain of reality that they are even willing to self destruct and put themselves in deliberate harm. So if you can make a way for people to fulfill their dreams safely, you've hit gold. Better than gold actually. Hope. Happiness. Life. What every human being wants. Fuck the gold. You can bypass it.
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It seems big companies fold to pressure from large companies and political pressure. It is sad they see a creator as less valid then a bigger company. I think they fear the legal teams of these larger companies. Many of them have legal teams waiting around to file suit and since they are salaried lawyers it costs the companies nothing extra to sue. On the other hand music companies already lost billions on free music being used. It appears every industry is either going through or will go through a lower cost or free model. Examples are books, music, newspapers, and the list goes on. Who pay 15 for a cd when it is easy to download for 0. I am happy many top music acts still make so much that it doesnt matter. Firemen, teachers, and cops make pennies compared to Snoop Dogg? Who deserves more? That's the dizzle for schizzle my nizzle!
Meebo has had this feature for many many years.
Differentials and integrals are part of life. People need to be able to understand when a politicians is giving them the differential of the figure they asked for, rather than the figure itself.

But yes, statistics is very important too, for similar reasons.
Current speeds are not really enough for HD video. Even if you get 1080p video online it is still highly compressed for online transmission. If I remember correctly I think blue ray is 40-60 Mbps. Higher compression means there simply isn't as much detail.
Try resetting the data from the options. Make sure to close any hacker news tabs while doing so.
Even if entered into voluntarily, without an opportunity to exit slavery is still the correct term.
These exist in China and India.
That's the genius of Sonic's plan. Advertise gigabit, customers use 20 Mbps, everybody's happy.
Why lock them down? Why not just rent computers for $1/hr, like at a cyber cafe? That is a solved problem.
The news organisations seek to make a profit just as much as STRATFOR. When that interferes with their ethics you get News Corp. When it doesn't we have reputable journals.

The people at STRATFOR, similarly, could generally earn much more by working at macro hedge funds. Why they choose not to is their personal decision to make.

I'm not trying to tease out a nuance here, but simply demonstrate that a profit motive doesn't inherently corrupt information collection and analysis.
Fascinating to me how histrionical the article headline is. I don't see a mention anywhere that this somehow competes against iCloud.

If the article headline is correct and HTC believes this is an answer, HTC's leadership is braindead. Giving your users 25 GB of free storage is not the same as pervasive, painless syncing across every core service on your device, as well as giving 3rd party developers access to APIs to do the same.
Am I the only one that thinks that it makes no sense to compare Dropbox and iCloud?

Dropbox is glorified rsync, and, in my eyes, is great for syncing files between my laptops that still use a file management paradigm from 20+ years ago.

iCloud abstracts files away from the user, so that the user doesn't need to worry about folders and extensions and filesystems. iCloud CAN do what Dropbox does, but it takes it so much further.

Am I totally off base?
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You're right about that, but I think it isn't purely an optimization scenario. Altogether new use cases emerge when your workplace and home are linked with such dramatically higher speeds.

Even more new scenarios shake out when work, home, and most of your friends' and family members' homes are so linked.

When connections get orders of magnitude faster, it becomes about doing new things, in addition to doing the old things faster.

I surf the web the same way with 1Gbps fiber in Tokyo as I did a few years ago with 3Mbps DSL in Ithaca, NY. But surfing the web is just a small part of what I do via the Internet nowdays.
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Netflix has argued that it is.

The companies that are trying to do remote-gaming are probably having issues with bandwidth.

The days it took to upload my music collection to Google Music all argue it is.

Bandwidth isn't the only bottleneck, but it's holding some technology back.
The university I used to work at had walkways with at least 5 years with of dirt trails from being used as walkways across the grass.. When the administration had paths built.. they built them in completely different locations so that they matched the aesthetic of the other paths in the area when viewed from the top of the hill.

Now they have great looking new paths (unused) AND the dirt trails across all of the grass..
I agree, I hadn't heard of the Burroughs guys until this post. The two papers I linked to were always the earliest ones I was aware of.

There's a surprising amount of stuff that gets built though without understanding all of the theory behind it. So it doesn't surprise me if a "pre-theory" example of VM was built.

After all, we had the wheel for thousands of years before figuring out PI.