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> An example of this is netflix who use silverlight
> DRM on all of their streams so I cannot play them
> on my Linux HTPC.

Just thought I'd thank you for this bit of info. I'd been considering subscribing to Netflix for a while. Glad I found out it won't work on my computer before giving them any money.

I guess I'll have to see if I can find some other way to get access to films and TV shows via the Internet. Wish me luck.
For the purists, allow me to recommend adjusting the volume controls on your phone.
"Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art."

I will have to let the car designers know that. And the great chefs of the world. And probably dozens of other artists.
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...more likely an embattled people facing an existential threat resort to any means possible to slow down and thwart the efforts of an enemy developing a doomsday weapon.
The 95% comes from Google themselves - http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

AppBrain puts the SII at a staggering 11% marketshare... so tomorrow only 84% to 95% of Android users will be excluded.

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-phones
hallucinogens aren't the kind of thing you'd want to take every day or get addicted to.

what kind of drugs do you want to get addicted to?
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There are numbers out there, but the problem isn't just the amount of energy, it's where it's concentrated. The theory goes that because of its very short wavelength everything that gets absorbed is concentrated in the topmost layers of the skin, so the energy density where it might be damaging is much higher than the absolute amount of energy might suggest.

From memory part of the argument was that the studies hadn't yet been done which might show whether this could be a health issue, so claiming the scanners were safe was at best premature.
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Looking the assembly I see two things: (1) no name mangling. So either this was lost in the decompilation/deciphering phase by the Kaspersky guys or mysterious language does not support method overloading. (2) the assembly looks reasonably tight and optimized, so a solid code generation backend (GCC,LLVM,MSVC,...) was used.

Especially because of the name mangling i was thinking of Vala [0]. However, Vala relies on GObject and does probably not work on Windows. Anyways, I guess it's an OO language compiled to C in an intermediate step. This would explain (2).
I'd bet that the net consequence of every single person in society dosing acid once, like the Merry Pranksters dreamed of, would have been more along the lines of a slight decrease in net societal productivity than a total counter-cultural revolution.
I won't get into the interface-crossing issue except to say that exceptions to the convention do exist. For example:

http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#MustCompile
> The economic benefit they provide to content creators is the financing to be able to create the content in the first place

Music, video games, application/software development are all areas where this is completely false -- very minimal financing is required for any of this and we already see a growing, open media landscape as a result of it. You seem to forget the capitalistic tendency for market potential to dictate the cost of services as well.

That is to say, Hollywood movie budgets are extremely over-inflated because of the monopolistic business models that guarantee them capital they do not require to finance the creation of content in the first place. Actors, directors and writers do not require millions of dollars to write or produce this content anymore. A market for its production -- or at the very least a social imperative -- would exist regardless of this artificial establishment.

Walk through this with me:

* it costs nothing to distribute the content anymore (in stark contrast with even a decade ago)

* it costs very little to create most content, and where it does costs a lot, it's mostly because of copyright's existence

* it costs nothing to market the content anymore. Social media is in a dominating role.

Copyright depended on all of these factors being completely opposite. It depended on some cost for creation, or more broadly, some quantifiable scarcity. It depended on a publisher -- an intermediary -- to connect the consumer with the creator. It eventually depended on advertising and extremely competitive marketing as well.

The realities of 21st century communication and technology simply are not compatible. Financing the production of works by selling the right to copy it is absurd in this economic climate. It made sense when publishing was a capital-intensive and narrow industry, but it now forms the basis by which many people communicate today.

Instead, works should be financed by the public interest in its creation. Nobody has to pay more than they want for their "copy" of the "intellectual property", the artist is subsidized as much as they transparently request, and perhaps an arbiter is compensated under contract.

Regardless, it is unenforceable and ultimately counter-productive to support copyright, just about anything could be better.
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While perhaps not eloquently stated, the point is valid. Makefiles work as well as anything for most of these sorts of tasks.
Perhaps because this is no simple virus? Perhaps because Stuxnet/Duqu is one of if not the most sophisticated examples of cyber warfare* we have public examples of? Perhaps because its compiled binary is a whopping half-megabyte in size?

The amount of effort that went into Stuxnet is truly massive. It'd be no surprise if a custom framework or even a domain-specific language were written to support it.

* Usually I cringe at just hearing the phrase cyber warfare and at the ridiculous way in which it is used by media and the government. But looking at what Stuxnet accomplished (physically damaging or disabling critical components of the Iranian nuclear enrichment program), the term applies completely.
You got it! Except it's a bit confounded because a few of the schedule 1 drugs really, truly aren't medically usable because they are trumped by substances proven to be less harmful.
A related proposal to simplify "default" error rethrowing : http://canop.org/blog/?p=195
Increasing amounts of evidence?
Same here, the complete redesign of all Google main web products and the latest ICS show that Google is ready to make some big change such as making design one of the most important features of all of their products. There's also the changes that Larry Page brought to management etc. Marco is really anti-Google and it shows. I don't care if he's pro-Apple or pro-Whatever, I just don't understand the constant need to bash Google like that.
Thanks! Sounds exactly like what I need. The last time I even SAW any code were some DOS command lines during my studies.
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Dopamine agonists (heroin, cocaine, Farmville, et al.) are the kinds of drugs that people get addicted to. They are not the kinds of things you would want to get addicted to. Heroin and cocaine have other actions beyond dopamine, but Farmville and friends are a rather beautiful example of pure dopamine engines. The attached money pump increases the evil factor.
You keep making this point, but it's a straw man. The issue is whether we ought to study these drugs for therapeutic usages, and what such studies find.
It's pretty significant to us, because we're here :) Seriously, from our point of view, including adriand's, there is something to be lost from Mankind's destruction because it would be the end of our entire species. From the perspective of the universe as a whole, it may not be significant, but it seems eminently sensible for humans to be concerned about it.

Also, it is possible that Earth is significant to the universe because it's the only place where intelligent life has arisen. I don't expect that this is actually the case, but so far we have no evidence to the contrary, and if it were true it would be tragic if we wiped ourselves out by playing with virii and nuclear technology.
Oh definitely, I don't deny the dangers. I was merely mentioning one possible explanation for those dangers.
Is feeling stupid so bad? Must everything be fun and game-ish these days? Hard things are hard; learning to code is hard, I'll give you that.

Maybe I've just been taken aback recently by the number of "learn to code" sites recently, but if you don't love it, no amount of "fun and easy and social and badges!" is gonna make you stick with it.

That being said... for people who do, in fact, love coding, this (and the others) may be an excellent resource for learning, so good on you. It's not my method of choice, but who am I?
Amusing joke, yes, but the parent was pointing out that 5 years experience in Duqu framework might not be impossible. 2012 - 2007 = 5
Also (and probably foremost) trademark. If you have a trademark that predates the squatter, it is usually a simple, non-legal matter to file a complaint with ICANN that usually results in you getting the domain.
This has been open source for quite some time now.

This is probably what inspired the latest Microsoft Research demo http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/?id=160684

For those who don't know, Pranav Mistry worked in MS as a UX researcher.
LSD isn't addictive.
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What would have happened if you declined to take the course? Do you think you "learned your lesson", or would you do something like this again if you had the chance?
On a similar note, has anyone here had success getting therapeutic effect from MDMA?
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Just to clarify, the drug is produced to counter the pain that the baby feels or the pain that the mother feels?

Also, I'm very curious about this...is there a source I can read that you know of?
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Don't forget making it all the way to the register, money in hand, only to be told that because you are of a certain nationality that "they don't serve your kind here"(1).

(1) I used to think that analogy was ridiculous hyperbole. I'm less sure every day.
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> Makefiles work as well as anything

I'd argue that they always work better than any of these language-specific alternatives ever do.

I'm not saying that GNUMake or BSD's Make or any particular Make is perfect. Surely there is still a lot of evolution to happen in build systems.

What I am saying is that if you have a bunch of scripts to run & a bunch of files they produce, you can't beat a general purpose dependency graph with files for nodes and command lines for edges.

Lately, I `touch Makefile` as one of the absolute first things I do on a project, regardless of language or framework, even when just hacking around. I'll even write a Makefile if I'm just doing some data analysis, like multi-stage log grepping. I find `rm intermediate.file; make` to be a nice alternative to putzing with command history and avoiding waisting time redoing expensive steps.

Hell, we completely manage the configuration on our servers using Make instead of something like Puppet or Chef. So far, it's working pretty well, bit I'm still a newbie at sysadmin stuff.

We've even replaced all of the db migration & other common Rails rake tasks with a few short bash scripts and ~10 lines of Make. We use .sql files for migrations and store db/schema.sql instead of db/schema.rb. It's two orders of magnitude faster to run our tiny script/dump-schemas.sh against psql instead of loading the Rails environment to query the db.
Please, share one scholarly article that indicates causation between the "eye-opening" cultural effects of LSD and its criminalization.

As I see it, when the Controlled Substances Act passed, LSD was lumped in with a whole bunch of other drugs that do not have this effect.
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This is reminiscent of a similar "I can't believe how much time we're wasting in this meeting" site that I made with some friends a couple years ago:

http://meetordie.com

If you click through and submit a meeting, you're rewarded with some clever artwork making fun of the hot websites of the day (Facebook, Foursquare, etc.).

Good for a laugh. It was fun to put together.
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Snippets of this video have featured on HN and elsewhere last autumn.

But they focused on him saying he quit his job, not actually the bigger message Steve was trying to inspire in us.

So I hope this time we can all watch the whole thing and think about his message a bit more deeply.
There are upsides and downsides, certainly. I don't think that say... the Guardian pages on Flipboard are ugly, though. They are simple and quite beautiful while still retaining the house style. They are still focused on reading, after all.
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Thanks for the feedback, definitely a problem.
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Programming is unique in that it applies to a huge variety of information related tasks...which ate fairly ubiquitous these days. I'd love it if everyone learned to program at least at to the level that most learn typing and word processing
I'm certainly not qualified to answer. But there has certinally been some very impressive code written by people who spend a huge amount of their time in game development, kernel development, or any other large system that is written exclusively in C.

Frankly, even if Unix was that project, I'd expect that the "best" C programmer may actually be someone who is in a much visible position.

Then again, Ken may very well be the best C programmer, but Go doesn't much seem like a language designed to address the issues that C is currently being used to address. Frankly, it seems like a much better Java replacement IMO.
LSD was criminalised in 1964. However, people with permits to use it for research continued to do so till approximately 1970.
> So how come that the trips lasts 5-12 hs, with negligible blood concentrations?

Some drugs are very tightly bound to the receptors they target. (A few are even permanent, so the target protein has to be recycled to turn off the drug.) The blood-brain barrier serves as a one way gate that retains some drugs despite falling blood levels.
I've seen the theory that Stuxnet/Duqu was developed by a state thrown around a lot, but what's the actual evidence?

It's not particularly hard to write a simple programming language. Worms are very specialized pieces of code. It doesn't seem that crazy that someone would create a language tailored for worm development.
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I don't have a lot of time to update my homepage, so it's basic. It's way down on the bottom of my todo list to update it at some point but honestly those links will tell you far more about me than anything I could write about myself.
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It feels like the other way around too me -- in order to reach out and inspire a new generation, NASA willingly collaborated with Rovio to show people that (an abstraction of) space can be all sorts of fun. Its relevant physics puzzles in much more palatable form!

'Sides, at least it's a game about space where, for once the aliens are not exterminating humans and blowing up everything.

Oh wait on the blowing stuff up part. :)
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I think the most obvious case where this might be wrong in Microsoft's case is the Xbox. The original one was a salvo against Sony into a collapsing market. The new one is maybe the best general use consumer set top box on the market. Roads don't always lead you where you think they will, but if you focus on quality you can often come out ahead.

Of course, Microsoft has billions to sit on while they iterate. Most companies don't have that luxury.
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> blur is the solution

100% opaque is another solution.
Tested this out yesterday on a friends Android Phone, very impressive to say the least.

Voice to Text...
- Who do you want to text?
Nobody
- Aborting (something along these lines at least).

Shame it's not possible for the iPhone, activating an app via voice while it's sleeping. Very cool!

Shame that you can't select your language (Dutch/French/German etc...) - I wonder if this uses the Google Voice API?
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If this kind of thing interests you, I made an app that graphs last.fm song listens in the same way as Wolfram's graphed his emails.

I find changes in listening habits correlate well with big life changes.

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There's some evidence that ketamine, at least is released in near death experiences. Having taken ketamine twice, this is not something that I wish to happen to me. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in chidbirth also, but I don't know of any evidence pointing towards that.

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=ketamine+and+near+deat...
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It's pleasant to look back over your life - the graph probably reminds him of great stories that are too private to share :)
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This is meaningless palaver and, to the extent that it tells you anything actionable, that thing is frequently wrong.
I came away with a different feeling. He never really said anything about going and buying anything. Lots of kids already play Angry Birds, they know this and want to reach out to kids. So they're making a little pro-science advertisement "hey if you like this kind of stuff you better study science so you can become an astronaut".

What he forgot to mention was the part where probably most Physics graduates do not find work in their field and a very small fraction go on to become astronauts.
RFCs generally (or at least "modern RFCs when I was paying attention", which was about a decade ago) don't like to over-specify. e.g. RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) includes this paragraph:

HTTP communication usually takes place over TCP/IP connections. The default port is TCP 80, but other ports can be used. This does not preclude HTTP from being implemented on top of any other protocol on the Internet, or on other networks. HTTP only presumes a reliable transport; any protocol that provides such guarantees can be used; the mapping of the HTTP/1.1 request and response structures onto the transport data units of the protocol in question is outside the scope of this specification.

This makes clear that although you can use HTTP/1.1 over, say Unix domain sockets, and it would still work, and you could still call it HTTP/1.1, they expect it to be mostly used over TCP/IP port 80.

The language in the SPDY overview is probably the same sort of thing: making clear that they expect most usage to be over TCP, but allowing you to use something else if you really want to.

The TLS issue is probably intended to be the same thing: there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to use SPDY directly over TCP if the connection's between machines in my datacentre. But they don't make it explicit that they expect SPDY to run over TLS in normal use. Perhaps it's careless editing.
I don't see how this is selling out. Something kids care about is being used to promote math and science (and perhaps even help them understand it, in the case of gravity). He even says, quite directly, "learn math and science and get a neat job, like me" (or something to that effect). I can't help but see this as a good thing.

Especially when this is a physics based videogame where you learn to explore different solutions, test and refine your hypothesis, assess the stability of structures ... Not too bad in itself.

Also, he seems to have a really stuffy nose. Is that a zero gravity thing?
Sure, but they don't make clear their expectation that SPDY runs over SSL by default.
Sorry, anyone who is writing the "business logic" for a virus. Someone else might write the exploit.