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This article reads like a pre-napster time machine that knows nothing of the last 10-15 years of digital copying/copyright.

I'm sure the Pinterest terms of use were simply holding the user and not the company responsible for any copyright violations. Did she really think that Pinterest has negotiated licensing for all photos on the Internet, or were willing to indemnify a user that isn't paying for a service?
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>>Are you trying to claim that all Palestinians are terrorists

You assumed I wouldn't check back a few days later, so you could safely add another dishonest strawman attack?

Already in the brother comment to yours, I gave a link to one of my comments which answer this latest strawman. The relevant quote from it:

You do realize that there is a difference between an official policy (mural paintings and celebrations when children are murdered with a knife in their sleep, etc) -- and the attitudes of individuals.
The people who pay overdraft fees are the people who barely have enough money in their bank account to get by; they are usually living from paycheck to paycheck. In other words, it's the poorest people who are funding free banking for the better off.
NAC, sticky mac, max mac/port, trusted DHCP, root guard, bpdu guard, multicast and broadcast storm control, they're all features that can help. Most people don't enable all of them because of management overhead, but each solves a problem that can happen in basically any network. It just a matter of weighing security risk vs the cost of managing the features.
But consider that tier 1 capital ratios are on the order of 10%, so they're leveraging the deposits many times over. Further, they're probably not reinvesting the deposits in treasuries, but rather making commercial or personal loans at more than 4% (minus what they pay out in interest on the checking, which if it's anything like mine is more of an insult than an incentive). So it would probably yield closer to $40K before taking into account loan default risks and other costs.

The other post saying this is about the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill is probably much closer to the truth. You also have to take into account (JPM-Chase's CEO) Jamie Dimon's extremely vocal position on the bill.
If you think allowing unrestricted DNS is moronic, you haven't seen anything ;) One of our major ISPs has paid wifi networks in many cities here in Portugal, but they allow connections to any server on port 443 (HTTPS).
You don't even need a server, there are free VPNs that use that port to ensure compatibility with more restricted networks.
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No, you won't. I say this as a lawyer: if you're scared of doing something because of the legal "ramifications", then you clearly did not understand what you were told, or you're thinking of doing some really serious stuff.

The lawer in the linked post has an incomplete understanding of copyright law, especially in regards to the fair use doctrine and the DMCA, and indemnity as it is practiced in most of this country.
Because verifying an answer is easy, but creating it from scratch is hard. Analogous to this is intuition is that verifying a proof is simpler than coming up with the proof.
The marginal cost for servicing an account should be roughly 0. There's no reason accounts with 1.50 should be unprofitable if you have updated your tech and business processes. Plenty of services survive with customer values in the fractions of pennies.
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> It appears that deep thoughts, consistency, rigor
> and all other things we value as scientists aren’t
> that important for mass adoption of programming languages.

Perhaps the premise is confused, and programming languages are at least as much about comprehension and readability to humans as they are about theoretical purity from a mathematical perspective -- I don't think it's very surprising that many of the most popular programming languages of the last ten years were designed by individual hackers. Fortunately, academia doesn't have a monopoly on "deep thoughts".
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Goldman Sachs can securitize those for you, easy. The US economy was entirely built around houses that no one lived in
I think that's a weak argument in this case.

It's not like the author 'cracked his way in'. He got a cheaper price because he learned something from a friend and tried an experiment, which worked. Using something you've learned to get a better price seems fine with me. Especially, if it's 'ok' for someone stumbling around with the wrong user-agent.

To me, it just feels like a form of arbitrage.
The difference, though, is that adding something to your favorites is simply adding it to a list; copying is incidental.

Adding a movie to your harddrive by necessity requires the act of copying.

And in the courtroom, that distinction makes all the difference.
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"The opposition to Iraq would have come quicker [...]"

The opposition to the war was pretty quick already, coming at least three months before the invasion began.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/us/threats-responses-disse...

http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=iraq+war+protest...
tl:dr - this site sucks on the iPad.

It's a shame that so much effort is put into an HTML5 page that is obviously trying to demonstrate the frameworks it is promoting and yet get the experience so awfully wrong on a touch screen device like the iPad.
It is a horrible summary of Fair Use.

Unfortunately, posting the statute itself is also a horrible, and nearly meaningless, summary of Fair Use as well. The doctrine is so case driven that you simply cannot understand the boundaries without delving deep into the chaotic and often nonsensical caselaw.
Advice needed: Intern at exploding startup vs. return to school
I work for a tiny Silicon Valley startup that is likely about to make it big. I won't say why, but I'm privy to almost all communications, and the big players we've been talking to lately and the interest they've communicated tells me a lot, and I think there is a strong likelyhood this company will likely have a few million at least within a year, with further potential beyond that. I've been there for 5 months as an intern breaking even financially at less than $9 dollars an hour. They have trusted me with so many things, and I've done so many little things that are hard to put a value on, from product design to dealing directly with customers, building and manning a booth at trade shows, to marketing and web design, to literally modifying the early products, packaging and shipping them. I got an immense spike in traffic awhile back (10,000pageview/day - which earned the first online sale) and I have personally interacted with so many different potential buyers. I pleased our first and only refundee to reconsider, and they will likely be buying more in the future.

They all really like me. I've gone beyond what they've expected of me. The CEO has already told me he wants me to remain their full-time since I know the product better than anyone else. I am literally his right-hand man (okay, slave :P) fixing every tiny problem he can't do himself (website, his phone, you name it). My boss has already told me if it made it "Apple big... or maybe not THAT big..." that I would be completely taken-care of. I understand skepticism to such a statement, and with anyone else I wouldn't think much of it, but he built a successful business of 20 years before this and is one of the most stand-up guy's I've ever known. I know and trust his character very well; I have faith in almost nothing, and I have faith in him.

My dilemma is I'm supposed to return to school this upcoming spring quarter far away in a different city. I'm at a very critical point, and I've already pushed finishing school back a few years, so I'm in my mid-20s, and the heat from my family (and myself) to finish school is strong.

I would very much like to remain working with this company considering it's potential upside, but I'm not sure how to ask whether staying around would be worth my while. This won't get "Apple-big," but it is definitely a potentially amazing opportunity that could rocket me places a degree would never really offer. Worst case scenario, I return to school a few months later.

While the experience and potential foot in the ground floor of a new technology is great and all, my shit wage isn't going to do it for me.

I would really like to get somewhere around $15/hour for the time being, but I would't consider staying around if the possible BIG upside weren't a big factor. Really, how do I ask for more 'reassurance' for putting my education (and life) on hold for a bit to help make this great? My father has advised trying to get profit-sharing / stock, but I don't really know how to ask for that.

Any advice would be awesome.
I think that is completely opposite of the employees at Mojang. They promote a fun, take money off the table and make great games atmosphere. If people would rather ski than make games, then they wouldn't work there.
Umm, didn't England (and later Scotland) exactly extract the wealth from the ground, in the form of coal, which enabled the industrial revolution.

Spanish coal on the other hand seems difficult to mine.

Cue Jared Diamond and all that "there's actually a reason for that" can of worms.
There is not. That's a great idea, though.
Yeah, but it is mutual. They don't want the money either which is often the case for customers. You/I work with them because you meet them, not because you/I should.
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Charging extra for a mandatory peice is unacceptable to me. Buying the system, with a 32gb memory card and a AAA game is going over $400 american. For a handheld with a sub par browser that just doesn't make sense.
for simplicity and reducing time to market, outsource it to S3 or an S3 API-compatible storage provider. you can always buy disk boxes down the road and slap an S3-like API in front of them.

in addition, you could use WebRTC to build a BitTorrent-like P2P distribution system that's native to the web, where your servers act as "seeds." this is to reduce your bandwidth costs for >1 clients downloading/streaming the same file.
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I doubt there is any objective metric for choosing "the two most famous and influential psychological experiments ever conducted" but I immediately assumed you meant Pavlov's dogs as the other.
That's an interesting article, its basically advising you to submit to an abusive relationship because its the best chance you've got. Faulting people for deciding that they don't like it, so they're not going to participate.

We are aware of and tracking this issue under the Bug ID listed above in the bug >State (Duplicate/XXXX). To check the status of the original bug report, please update your report directly and we will provide you with any available information.

So not only are their bugs secret, they're so super-duper secret you don't even get read access to the original when your ticket is marked as a dupe? And on top of that you have to intermittently beg to find out of there was any update to the status of the original ticket? They don't even have a box in their tracker software for "Add note to pleeb's tickets".

And once you do that, you're still not done. You have to go put your ticket on a 3rd party site that duplicates the ticket functionality so that other people with the same problem have even some visibility into the beast, and then you get to go pimp your ticket on twitter.

Oh, and don't forget to engage one of the men behind the curtain, your "evangelist" directly. Because after all that bullshit you went through, you still haven't networked with somebody who can go and grease some wheels for you inside of Apple.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that people are saying "fuck that noise" and not filing a bug at all.
There are substantial differences between movies and other forms of art (i.e,. photos, books, music, etc.), such that what applies to one form may not (and usually, does not) apply to the others.
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You're not alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Crit...
> Fortunately, academia doesn't have a monopoly on "deep thoughts"

Are there many examples of language features / designs where expressive power isn't derived from prior academic research?

I've used quite a few popular programming languages and they certainly feel "useful" because of syntax, libraries, easy to run on UNIX, etc. Most the "deep thoughts" in these programming languages can be easily found in prior academic literature.

Glad to hear of some examples if you have any! :)

There's plenty of evidence that good engineering can be accomplished with popular programming languages. But I think we're still a long ways off from beautiful engineering. Any way forward needs to elegantly intertwingle Theory & Praxis.
TL;DR: some guys bought a bunch of WebKit zero-days, gained root on an Android 2.x device, installed a surveillance app and demoed it at RSA conf.

It would be nice to get hold of some more of the technical details involved.
Anybody tried to connect a roomba to an android phone? Wondering if it s possible to power a phone via the serial interface
Doesn't a modular compiler framework like LLVM significantly reduce this barrier-to-entry?
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Counter: subpoeana Pinterest for the IP address(es) used to access its site using that email address, then subpoena the ISPs.
How secure is online shopping, really?
I'm in a situation now where, instead of walking 10min / day back and forth to the office my boss is expecting me to commute on buses and trains 4hrs / day (not exaggerating).

I consider this extra commuting time as unpaid overtime (up to 20hrs a week, even though I'm not "working") and hence want to deal with it as this article says I should: "No way, I quit".

Yet I feel bad about this; what would you do?
Giving attribution to imgur would be pointless as it is not a site known for original works. My guess is, the percentage of original images uploaded to imgur by the author is a small percentage.

What makes the connection between pinterest and flickr so interesting to me is that (if I remember correctly) A THIRD of pinterest images come from flickr, and pinterest thrives on using flickr's awesome repository of images against the law and the spirit under which most of the images were uploaded.

I believe I know why they are not hotlinking... if they did, they would immediately get a sh!!load of complaints from flickr authors about their images being used that way. (As anyone can attest who ever hotlinked flickr images on their sites, even WITH author attribution.)

If I were flickr, I would implement a feature "Your image has been pinned on pinterest!" with a notice that the views on pinterest will not register in the flickr stats, and allow the author to send a take-down notice to pinterest by pushing a button.
I'm curious if they used any Flash exploits in addition to the webkit vulnerabilities.
I thought the 'web 2' domain names came about, as most dictionary words had been taken. Take a dictionary word and make a small alteration - so that it is no longer a dictionary word - and it's likely you have something unique.

Search engine auto-correction must be an issue though!

I'd probably pick obscure word combos, that wouldn't naturally occur together. Good fun trying them out in a search engine too.
This isn't an article. It's a link to a porn site. No commentary whatsoever. Please don't upvote this.
That he is a friend from high school tells you about his relationship with me. It answers the question, "Why do you, carbocation, care what this person thinks?"

Note that I didn't tell you about his skin color, the color of his hair, or anything else that wasn't actually relevant. Prejudice is a tough nut to crack and is not the same thing as bigotry.
Submitted by a brand new account at that.
Sony does it again. Time and again this company keeps shooting itself in the foot, refusing to take notice.
Maybe smaller online banks (Banksimple, ING Direct) pick up the slack? Without physical branches to operate, maybe these kind of operations are more likely to make money off of checking accounts.
About 2 years ago I helped a local cellphone repair shop to promote its services online. Here is what I did to make the shop's iphone repair business very successful.

1) Get it listed on Google maps with the right keywords, this was the top walk in traffic generator and best bang for bucks because local listing was free.

2) Created a webapp to generate ads for Kijiji and Craigslist, app saved adds for later use, this could have been done with any word processor but I found that the owner liked the specialized app more.

3) Get it featured in Kijiji's repair section, after Google this was the best driver of traffic. Craigslist came in last but still a very valuable source of customers.

This was enough to get the owner and his tech too busy. I didn't test facebook, twitter and adwords, but the owner showed me one of his competitor using facebook really well for promotions. If iCracked can somehow streamline management of these channels then it has the potential to become a very valuable service.
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The fact hat you even mentioned the browser suggests that you may not be the target market.
There is a difference between being in public and being followed. You have no expectation of not being seen while in public, but you do have a reasonable expectation not to be followed everywhere you go, including into presumably non-public (i.e,. privately-owned) properties.

In the GPS case, the use of GPS trackers could include (and frequently did include) "following" a person into private property where the follower would not otherwise have permission to be, i.e.., the doctor's office, lawyer's office, etc.
Don't feel bad about it. Unless you just moved 2 hours away from your workplace it's not your fault.
I'd love that as well. But what does Valve has anything to do with it? If it's an open platform, it probably isn't a good idea for them to tell developers to do it their own way. It's up to the developers to decide that.
In theory yes, in practice no. There is nothing in the bitcoin design to allow this. The only real way to do it is to fork bitcoin and to get everyone to change to your new rolled-back block chain. Not everyone will agree (since co-ordinating all these people to change at about the same time is hard), and hence you'll have 2 different versions of bitcoin.

This also removes features of bitcoin that some view as advantages, namely that there are no chargebacks and no-one can forcibly remove your funds. In bitcoin, once you have it, no-one can take it from you (unlike, say, paypal). This has disadvantages if you're the victim of a theft. Bitcoin is also a decentralised system, so you'd have to convince everyone that you are the victim of a theft, and that these transactions are to be rolled back. Other wise someone could pay for a service in bitcoins, then try to get everyone to roll back the transaction, and hence deprive someone of the bitoins.
This is really bad advise. If I commit a TODO to my code, it's because the difficulty of fixing vastly outstrips the value of fixing it. If it was an easy thing to fix, I'd have done it myself.
I got to know this law by Derek Sivers's TED talk[1] and I totally agreed with him especially about personal programming project.
A downside of this approach is that you cannot get a feedback until you unveil first version.

[1] Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/derek_sivers_keep_your_goal...
JPMorgan hasn't had to figure out how to make those customers profitable because they've been able to load them up with fees. New regulations are giving them the option of pushing customers away, or figuring out how to make them profitable. Raise your hand if you think there's no efficiency gains to be had in banking services? They have been through this before when credit unions started offering free checking. Somehow they managed.

JPMorgan execs are saying they can't or won't adapt to the changing market. "We're a dinosaur. Save us Washington! Save us!" This article is part of their lobbying efforts. Entrepreneurs should see it as an opportunity.
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I believe the solution here is to get an SSD for your os. There is no reason in this day and age not to have one.
The author is entirely correct that evaluating the effectiveness of programming languages on programmer productivity is damned hard. This is largely because evaluating programmer productivity objectively in the first place is damned hard.

<tounge in cheek> Perhaps developing useful metrics of productivity, rather than strong AI, should have been the real Holy Grail of Computer Science.
A lot of companies that deal in 'virtual goods', e.g. World of Warcraft, don't like the idea that the bits are property, because then it's hard for them to take the bits away from people (say for cheating), or if they want to shut down the servers etc.
Youtube only offers you ad income if you register (and are accepted) with their Partner Program, not to any random user. The uploader said and so ads would be placed on my video, which means there weren't any ads before, which means he wasn't offered any ad income. They took nothing away from her/him.

The only thing YT did was:

1. Add ads to a video hosted on their website

2. Take part of their ad income and give it to some company

I fail to see what exactly is evil about this.
Not all lawyers are good lawyers. Not all clients are good clients. A lawyer's job is to help the client understand the risks of his actions. The client's job is to decided if the risks are outweighed by the potential rewards. In practice, these roles are often very much confused. What should have been a mere threat assessment becomes strong advice on a course of action. The lawyer overstates the risk in a CYA type way, the client interprets this as a "should do" and everyone feels that the safest thing to do is just to lock themselves in padded rooms. (except for paying the $250/hour legal bill; That's always safe).
I think you're mistaken, Frostbite doesn't run on any OpenGL-esque systems.
* 2,630,760 FIXMEs
https://github.com/search?type=Code&q=FIXME

* 8,082,861 TODOs (though some of these are to-do apps <:)
https://github.com/search?type=Code&q=TODO
In this case the original numbers are totally worthless since they were transfered to someone else. The original owner has been completly deprived of the property.
I found beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/) to be a surprisingly effective commitment utility. The goal has to be measurable, and you have to trust yourself somewhat enough not to subvert the rules, but since there is a counter-party most people's sense of personal ethics should be sufficient.