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Let me tell you a story.

A friend of a friend runs an independent midsize hotel here in Germany.

They used to offer free internet access. Then one of their guests used the connection to download copyrighted stuff.

In due course a nasty letter from a lawyer arrived, demanding payment of around 1000€ and as fighting and losing would have been much more expensive, they payed.
They were unable to recover the money, because there was no way to prove which of their guests at that time was responsible.

The very next thing they did was to shut down the free internet and bring in an outside company to provide it (with per day and per hour fees for the guests).

The reasons:

1) By having someone else legally responsible for the internet connection, they don't have any liability for future copyright violations.

2) All guests are now "helping" to pay back the money they lost.
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From that article, it's impossible to understand how this differs from ordinary cirularly polarized radio waves created routinely with helical antennas.

I assume the key difference is that the electric and magnetic field are not 90 degrees out of phase, but some other amount?

It's hard to get a real message through, so many outrageous claims and layers of "popularization" and jargon.
If you know of any source of such SIM cards, please post it here!

I've seen plenty of international-travel SIM cards that give cheap[er] texts and voice calls, but none that include any data. And trying to set up a pre-pay data SIM from a foreign ISP in a language you don't speak/read is a nightmare ...
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice.

The article mentions it is in the UK.

Relevant fraud statute appears to be this:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/section/2

It looks like all the criteria for it to be fraud are met.

However, it also looks like legislation in the UK disallows (and renders void) concerted practices which may affect trade within the United Kingdom, and have as their effect the distortion of competition within the United Kingdom, applying, in particular to practices which apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/section/2

A concerted practice of charging the owners of well-known brands of smartphones less than the owners of less-known brands for an equivalent transaction would have the effect of lessening competition, because people might eschew a lesser known smartphone (increasing the barriers of entry to the smartphone market in the UK).

So there appears to be a good defence that price discrimination practices like this are illegal and void, and therefore circumventing it is not fraudulent.

Of course, out of an abundance of caution, I don't think it would be wise to volunteer to be a test case for this.
I guess it gives the original sharer some feedback on the link otherwise they would never really know what interest it got? Looking at traffic I think the link was picked up off Twitter originally hence the URL shortener too.
This is beautiful, but it's such a shame that US law enforcement have been stealing .com domains from people for things that their users have done. We've had a bunch of Hacker News threads and I don't want to resurrect old beasts of that sort, but some option for non dot-com names would be wonderful. (Especially because .com reminds me of 1999-2001 at this point and it seems like we designers should perhaps be treating it as a ten-year-old fashion.)
If you give an interview you cannot pass, how do you distinguish between the quality of different correct responses?
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This, I was gonna say the same. Who wants a .com? Not me
I'm assuming there's some kind of protection for ISPs, or it'd be impossible to run one in Germany. Couldn't they apply to the same rules, since they're effectively an ISP?
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In that case, you're right. Fraud requires knowledge and intent. This guy, knowing that changing the UA would result in lower fees, did just that. He also (presumably) knew the reason for the different price points--that mobile users are likely to use less data than laptop users* .

On the other hand, if he had simply forgotten to change his UA back to the default (say, after doing some development work), then he couldn't possibly know that he was benefiting from the lower price, and it wouldn't be fraud at that point.

Personally, I have no problem with breaking trivial locks on otherwise non-sensitive networks. The word "fraud" usually conjures up much more serious crime.

* This is very quickly becoming a false assumption I think. Between listening to music from remote servers and watching video on my phone, I think mobile data use, especially in a vacation situation, is fast approaching that of "traditional" data use.
the fact that its a dumb shooter has nothing to do with its rendering ability. It's a dumb shooter because people have not learnt to buy $49 mobile games.

A mobile phone already exposes a touch-screen interface/proximity sensor/accelerometer/gps/bluetooth/etc The interface is richer, but different - in the same a dualshock is different from a keyboard. You do not need to separate a user from a phone if they have a power cord trailing to their phone.
But actually, you dont even need to do that. Your phone can remain docked and your joystick can have a mic to answer calls.

I do understand that a mobile chipset may trail PC chipsets - but I'm comparing mobiles to consoles, which already trail and are still accepted.
If that was enough for fraud, our whole society would have to be jailed.
> [I] suddenly had no more root permissions. In about half an hour I had downloaded a live CD and burned it and broken into my own box with chroot magic to usurp root permissions to re-add myself to that group

Except the difference here is that there is nothing to "break into" as there is no pretense at security..
"massive mind share and market share"

The only thing massive about Valves mind share is maybe the preception of it among HN users.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22valve%22%2C%22st...

There's always a tendency to wonder if any new product will be the new category killer. I think we can be confident this isn't. As the article says the Steambox isn't trying to compete with the next xbox, and for good reason -- it would lose horribly.

That doesn't mean it won't be good or I won't get one or it won't be a success. This is a good and logical move for Valve that provides good value for their existing userbase and opportunity for growth.
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The original Xbox consisted of commodity hardware (Intel P3 era Celeron CPU and a GeForce 3-like GPU, if I remember correctly). Although cheap to develop and produce initially, it apparently cost Microsoft dearly later on in the lifecycle because Microsoft didn't own the CPU design, which allowed Intel to charge for more than just manufacturing cost of the CPUs. Compare this to the XBox 360, the design of which Microsoft commissioned from IBM[1]; it's subsequently been through a few die shrinks, reducing production costs. Intel would have to be pretty desperate to license their commodity CPU designs to third parties. So I can't see an Intel-powered console happening anytime soon.

Having said that, I could imagine AMD licensing a CPU or APU design to Microsoft or Sony[2]. After all, the Wii and Xbox360 already contain custom GPUs of theirs. Still, the current consoles have done well with PPC, so they may just stick with that.

[1] Sony actually paid for some of it because it's basically 3 Cell PPUs glued together, but that's another story

[2] AMD's CPUs are probably not complicated enough for Sony's liking, though. :-P
On some domains I get a invalid domain message:

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Any ideas on why this is appearing or what it means?
>They were unable to recover the money, because there was no way to prove which of their guests at that time was responsible.

That's exactly why in all likelihood, they would've won. It's the perfect setup and - in germany - an argument for securing the wlan not better than the default-setting suggests.
I am always surprised by the "there is a chance we might loose and pay more, so we will pay"-attitude that seems to be common in such cases.
If anything this just seems like a violation of Terms of Service, the harshest punishment that should be allowed is them denying him internet.
In windows 8 the system is 'abstracted' behind metro. You can't access the system using conventional means, you have to launch applications from metro (unless you use the desktop or pin them to the status bar), and have to search in metro to access system configuration. In fact, it wouldn't be incorrect to say metro is the new start dialogue, since it binds to the windows key. This is as of the consumer preview, but it could change for the final release.

The 'integration', if you can call it that, is definitely no where near what it could be (task switching in metro and classic desktop are two different systems). They also introduce many new interactions for metro, that even I didn't know about till people told me (hot spot in top right, right click to access IE 10 metro controls). Of course, most touch based systems have these kinds of problems, but the question is will they be consistent across metro.

So really the best description of the system is Windows 7 with a new start dialogue that takes up the whole screen, can start applications itself, and even has its own task switching; all with some added sugar to the rest of the OS.
The original sharer is not sigma cloud (the bitly link creator).[1] Ostensibly the OP actually visited the site before posting it on HN so its not like the OP was only aware of the shortened link.

What's more important a consistent approach to privacy or "knowing how much interest someone's HN link received"?

[1] Conspiracy theory: jcloud is an astro-turfing account for sigma cloud. The jcloud account was created 377 days ago the same day a sigma cloud story was posted. Jcloud's first post was on the sigmacloud story and was complimentary of sigma cloud:

"Just discovered these guys. Nice interface actually.
Investigating a bit more but so far so good."

Of the three stories jcloud posted two were shortened with sg.cd and the third was a sigma cloud press release.
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Yup, that happens pretty regularly, some coianges being better than others.

For example, during the Beijing Olympics, various coaches and commentators unfortunately verbified 'medal'. The resulting sentences were not pleasant...
Wine isn't an emulator, it's an implementation of the Windows API, so there's not necessarily a performance hit.

Some games are known to run faster on WINE than on Windows.

Most games are slower, because the Direct3D implementation isn't as tuned as Windows' is, and much of it is done by translating into OpenGL. However, this hit is a lot smaller than you'd expect.
My point was that the first hit on the article is on Twitter and was from CloudSigma. So I'm guessing the URL was copy pasted from there. Looking at jclouds account, submissions do generally come from CloudSigma tweets but it seems to relate generally to wider things not that company. The residual value of a URL shortening isn't clear to do to the lengths you suggest. Your post gives more advertising than the submissions thus far ;-) The three submissions made by jclouds-fan seem to be of a high quality. The first relating to the same blog as this latest one so looks like a user with a narrow interest base!
Dude I honestly dream of some real time text parsing that seriously adds value to the quality of the conversation and moment. One of my goals is to make this for CompassionPit but I'd much rather get a killer solution from a 3rd party. I'd definitely pay for it too -- definitely at least $100/month.
I have used this guy for pre-paid SIM cards:

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He is basically a one man shop owner but is very knowledgable and reliable.
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This article is spot on. I love the metro UI but in its current form it's not quite ready for the desktop. Some things that were easy to accomplish before are now made more difficult. The removal of the start button is one. Having to click the corner of the screen to access the Start Screen is frustrating. The target to click is essentially smaller which requires more precision and effort to hit.

Closing apps is also more difficult. On the desktop you just click the big red button and the window disappears but in metro you're required to click the top of the screen and drag the app to the bottom of the screen. It's a lot more work and it's frustrating.

The interesting thing about all these frustrations on the PC is that on a tablet they'd be great! Metro is a great tablet UI. It's optimized for touch. This is clear so why force it onto the desktop? This clearly demonstrates the difference between Microsoft and Apple's philosophy on user experience. Microsoft is cannibalizing the desktop user experience to realize a utopian vision of one OS to run on all devices. If Windows 8 on tablets is a massive success then maybe to MIcrosoft that would have made it all worthwhile. People could always go back to windows 7 on the desktop if they prefer to. Maybe this is Microsoft realizing that we are indeed in a Post-PC era and it needs to succeed in this space at all costs!
Why? These robots look pretty simple and have no problem going up stairs.
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I found this wiki(a) site useful:

http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data
I doubt that there is much benefit in using a "hypervisor" than just using Linux. On the PS3 with its 256MB of RAM and its 20GB hard drive, ~10 megabytes of RAM for kernel + core libraries and ~5 gigabytes of hard drive is a lot just for the operating system. On a modern machine that's just noise.

As for CPU usage, a properly tuned Linux kernel with unneeded services turned off shouldn't be significantly different from a hypervisor once it's booted.

Valve may try and set things up so that X11 is optional but even that should get mostly out of the way if you use the right libraries. (DRI etc.)
While this makes some sense, what happens if you plug your laptop into your roommates port?
My university had a policy of disallowing students on the internal network - there was wifi and some special network ports with red cables for students. A classmate had a virus and was tracked down and yelled at in class because he was also plugged into the internal network...
Because people don't (want to) believe that they could have been pwned until they actually are pwned.
Someone will bring back an aftermarket progman.exe (application icons in a window on the desktop, kids) and find a way to block all the Metro triggers from the registry.
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If you were starting over again, just out of college(or dropping out of it), what would you do?

For how long do you want to run ycombinator like it is(with you working somehow close to the startups instead of just hiring people to do it)?

Do you regret your "venture" in painting? If not, why?
"with the end-user experience as sole differentiator"

Does Kinect not count as a hardware differentiator? For this reason alone MS has the be the favorite among dedicated game boxes.

Nintendo's been the most innovative historically but they've already shown their hand and sadly for them it's holding a ginormous controller that I'm 97% sure is a refurbished Sega Gamegear.

The only question left about Nintendo is who wins the exclusive rights to Mario/Link and co. It's probably worth the most to Microsoft but Apple has a lot of cash overseas they don't know what to do with.
Sadly you are so right! Internet nowadays is a utility though so I do think it is rude making people pay for it.
You'd still have trouble explaining that to a judge. The hotel has a reasonable expectation that if the traffic says it is coming from an iPad, it's actually coming from an iPad, and you don't have any non-infringing excuses to be using an iPad browser on your laptop.
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LOL, this is the second story where you have defended sigma cloud in regards to astroturfing. A bunch of your early posts where all sigmacloud stories. Are you affiliated with sigma cloud?
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I am a bit suspicious in this regard of algorithm questions for which the interviewer already has an answer. The interviewer may have a solution in hand that they never solved themselves, or solved at their leisure in a different context (e.g. not in front of several people using a marker board with dried up markers).

That said, an interview in isolation is sometimes an attempt to get a sense of how a person reacts under pressure or constraints. It is doubtful that this really matches with the type of pressure that comes with most jobs.
It's a rail shooter because of control issues, not power. Drop your phone in a dock attached to a gamepad, and those issues disappear.
If there were an expensive nightclub which had a cheaper bar round the corner that only admitted people with the first name of "Dan", who then get full access to the nightclub and cheaper drinks all night, would it be criminal fraud to lie about your name to the doorstaff?
The idea of ISP protection is to say that some particular other person is responsible, instead of the ISP, so that they can get sued/fined/imprisoned instead. Looks like these guys were not tracking that.
It's probably perfectly honest but this almost feels like a turk exercise to get other people to find short names for you.
The FE College I teach at (not residential) has a 'guest' wifi for any device you want. Just internet access, no https let alone any other protocol. The teenagers mainly use it with their Blackberry phones to get on BBM :-)

Full authentication is only for College owned devices, not sure how they are managing that.
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It should be possible to randomize. I'm only getting domain names starting with ba.
If Google sells ads to me, or my personal information that I gave them down the road, then that affects me.

If Microsoft uses their power to force future hardware to be unable to boot linux / other FOSS OSes, then that affects me WAY MORE.

So much more that I consider such actions to be on a different plane.
If reddit offered you ad income (and there are people who make a living off making youtube videos), then took it away arbitrarily and gave the income instead to a big company that claimed copyright over random bits of birdsong, without any appeal process, then that would be at best broken and at worst abusive, yes. Also, not much sense either.
“Right now they’re actually flying people out to the stores to spot check and do penetration basis, but now with something like this you don’t have to travel.”

They send them out in jiffy bags to the regional branches, manager plugs one in, they can stay at head office and check the (branch) network. Saves money, provides hard data.
* Game development that happened in the 80s (at least outside of Nintendo) is a beast so far removed from even what indie devs do today alone in a basement*

Really? Because 90% of, say, iPhone games would not feel out of place in an 80's Amiga.
Google and Apple are both involved in OS and hardware. Their locking decisions could be comparable, i.e. on the same plane.
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I don't know about the current climate for copyright cases in Germany, but I don't think that the board of a hotel chain will have or want any stake in the copyright fight as that is so far from their own business interests.

By choosing to pay €1000 this month they save a lot of money.That small amount of a settlement is pocket change for a hotel compared to the lengthy legal process that may be drawn out for months, and cost them much more and be without a guaranteed win in sight.

EDIT: Forgot that the hotel was independent, but my point still stands, especially for a hotel without the insurance of being in a hotel chain.
That's simply false (in germany!). The keyword is Access-Provider. See http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tmg/__7.html and http://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/providerhaftung-stoererhaftun...
As someone named Dan I feel compelled to point out that such policies are really good and absolutely fair :-)
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This sounds interesting and all, but who is going to be their customers? The 30 or so millions of their users obviously already HAVE their own hardware.

So is it going to target the current console owners? And persuade them how? "It's like your box, but you can install mods. It's like a PC but with less freedom."?

Anyway I'm looking forward to the development. The three big console manufacturers need a kick.

Edit: Also Steam doesn't have their own OS obviously. So is every box going to need a Win licence?
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