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Main flaws from his conclusion:
1. "Don't filter reviews. If the site is supposed to be "Yelper" driven and democratic, so be it. Post them all!" The reviews are for Fior D'italia ARE posted, a handful are removed (10 out of 218+115 filtered reviews). The other 300 reviews are still there, which should be more than sufficient for someone to decide if they want to eat at that place. Of the 115 filtered reviews, ~50 of them were 4-5 star reviews made by reviewers with less than 3 reviews, it seems logical to filter those out.

2. "Allow businesses to opt out". Yelp shouldn't let them. It's the internet. There is some truth in this, but yelp exists to filter out the good and bad restaurants. I can see some lawsuits coming out of this.

3. "Give businesses a chance to post comments or respond at the top of their Yelp page where the public can read it before going to the reviews". If yelp were to do that, then businesses could just stall the bad reviews and only keep the good ones, rendering the review system useless.

4. "Post the filtered reviews where they are easy to find and review. Many customers of ours have had their reviews of the Fior filtered out, and they are livid." Filtered reviews are at the bottom, and they are pretty easy to find. As I said, the filtered reviews, have reasoning to be filtered in the first place.

5. Continued from above: "They don't understand why this is done, nor do we". I understand why those reviews were filtered perfectly. Of the 115 reviews, ~50 were 5 or 4 star reviews made by reviewers with less than 3 reviews, I can see why they would be filtered because they're probably bots.

Yelp's system is decent. If you only take the 23 Elite members' reviews, they give this place an average rating of ~3-stars, which is a bit better than the overall review. But the owner should really read his reviews, especially the 1-star reviews.

If for some reason, the guy who wrote this article reads this:
1. Read your 1-star reviews, half of them are saying your food is too salty. The other half is saying your service sucks ass, either because your waiters take too long, bad vouchers(?), bad pricing and bad environment. Price, I get for a $$$ restaurant people should be prepared to fork ~$100 for the meal, but I guess the quality wasn't worth the price.
If this guy wanted to take an objective opinion of a yelp review, why not take Ike's place's yelp review with 4,128 reviews.
2. Instead of complaining about it online, why don't you just ask your customers to write reviews. Provide them a link to your yelp review, ask them to review for 10% off or something, put computers with internet browsers with your yelp page as the home page. Make them scream how good or bad your place is.

If I'm ever in the area, I might check this place out, if my wallet can handle it.

But yeah, I've been seeing increasing reviews on how yelp is putting down positive reviews because they don't advertise with them.
This is a non-serious response. I think I'm going to talk to my congressperson about this.
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"Restauranteurs are very clear and vocal about why they hate yelp -- it is because Yelp uses reviews as a way to blackmail them into buying advertisements in Yelp. That is pretty fucked up behaviour and has been confirmed by many people many times."

No, it's been alleged many times -- by unreliable sources. It's never been shown to be true, and in fact, the allegations that have made it to court have been dismissed for lack of evidence:

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/4622094-478/extortion-law...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020450530457700...
I can't believe that this is the official TSA blog. I can understand trying to take steps to avoid the usual ridiculously dry press release style articles that governments and big businesses normally have, but.. this was just unprofessional.

You have "Blogger Bob" telling us to ignore the video "some guy" made and that everything's fine because this is just one of the way they protect you from "things that go BOOM".

Also, the blog never disputes the video. There is no text that tries to say that the video was faked or anything, or provides any indication that the video and the vulnerabilities contained therein aren't exactly as they appear.

Finally, just because I'm feeling particularly nitpicky tonight: they're using Blogger's favicon and are hosted on Google's servers (DNS resolves to ghs.l.GOOGLE.COM). Maybe it's just me, but that strikes me as a touch unprofessional as well.
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Guess how many of the people who work on the ground airside are scanned?

In any event the TSA is not taking enough credit here. Did you know their scanners have prevented meteorites? They have also prevented tiger attacks. Since installing them there has not been a single instance of meteorites hitting planes or tiger attacks on planes. I think the US government should borrow even more money so we can get them to also prevent giraffe attacks.
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I had the same reaction.

My eyes kept twitching from "things that go BOOM" to the URL, to the conceivably-fake logo, back to "things that go BOOM", back to the URL, back to the logo, etc. It took me a good six to seven seconds before reality sunk in.

I'm really hoping that this is simply an example of an organization that neither takes its blog seriously nor provides much oversite over its content. If anyone at the TSA read this post and signed off on it—wow.

The author of this post made no attempt to dispute the video, instead focusing on the fact that their are other security measures. Oh, and the author inexplicably felt it would be important mentioned that you can opt-out of the scanners if you want. What did I just read?!
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Spot on what I was imagining too!
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Fisheye was bought (as was Clover and Crucible) with Cenqua.

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There are no or very few restrictions, you can build what you want, you learn a lot, you meet new people or build stronger relationships with the ones you do know, and you may end up with something very cool.

There's more to it than this, but it comes down to it being fun and rewarding.
All I can say is many people love McDonald. I mean, that place wouldn't have succeeded and sold billions of burgers if it was at least partially satisfying it's customers. Sure the food might be horrible for you but I can't say I hate the taste of a BigMac.

You can tell by the look of the place that it's not a high end restaurant or a locally run restaurant. That should let you set your expectation for the place.
Shorter TSA: We're not going to deny that this guy can bring whatever he wants through, but having screened 600m passengers in the last year, we did once find a gun and some drugs. So you're safe! And if you don't think a dose of radiation is a good trade for pretend security, you can always wait another 15 minutes for a grumpy person to grope you.
The flippant behavior exhibited makes me both alarmed and angry.

Here's an interview with Blogger Bob that Google returned:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20063825-281.html

Apparently, being snarky on the government dime pays quite well. Dude appears to be rocking a Rolex.
I'm almost impressed by the linguistic gymnastics taken here to avoid saying outright that they got caught with their pants down.

The post concludes on an entirely unrelated point to the premise of the post

|Anybody can opt out of the body scanner for a pat-down.

Sure, I'm carrying in a gun in my shirt pocket I'd like to get on the plane. Let me just request the patdown to make sure I get caught.
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>Anonymous struck back, albeit in a somewhat childish way,

According to the article, Anon claimed Panda Sec helped jail 25 anons. How is that childish, purely from target perspective? It's either Law Enforcers, or their affiliates.
I'm betting it's fraud, started first by one teen girl to get attention, then "spread" to others as it became clear it would be a cool joke to play on adults, and get attention, get famous, etc. Is it possible it's truly some kind of involuntary medical/mental phenomenon? Of course. I'm just saying that I doubt it.
I'm running it in Chromium 17.0.963.56 on Ubuntu 11.10. I have two Intel Core i7-720QM CPUs, 4 cores each. My graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500. I just checked, WebGL appears to be disabled. I'll try to see if I can get WebGL to work on this machine tomorrow (maybe I can find new drivers for my card). If I succeed I'll let you know how CPU usage compares.
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I agree with crucible/fisheye being slow, but they have greatly improved it lately.
As for the UI you basically have to run a recent firefox/chrome/chromium.

All your other points I somewhat agree with but to their credit they all improve steadily each release.
Be mindful that the products were source individually from various places and need a lot of work to look and work together nicely.

Let me finish on some faint praise: they are by FAR the least worse of all the 'enterprise' software we use :-)
I agree, the wording is total revenue, gross at that, of the company even before you start on a Unity project. But hey, it's their engine so they can license it however they think works best for them.

But I wonder how it works if a company with that much gross revenue hires a third-party that does not make that much revenue to create the content for them. I guess the rule would apply to the third-party.
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I think the current reality is more of a mix between "A Brave New World" and "Farenheit 451". Bradbury deserves a mention there.
That is when "not every press is good press" is a good thing.
>A sick man deserves contempt, a sick woman deserves attention and caring.

This is unfortunate for men.
That was a really helpful answer, thanks! I'll be taking another look at djangorestframework; hopefully I didn't miss anything else.
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This has got to be one of the stupidest and (unintentionally) scary responses ever to a serious attempt to question security.

- Ad-Hominem attacks on the person raising the questions

- No direct refutatio of the specific points raised in the Video

- Co-relation and causation confusion (we have found x hence we are effective against the things in the video)

- Pathetic attempt at informal tone of voice

- Appeal to Stats and big impressive numbers when none is justified

In short - Americans need to be really upset that their security is handled by these buffoons.
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Publishers are right to fear Amazon, but a much better solution for mitigating it seems obvious to me: Sell DRM-free books. Amazon is getting an unassailable lockin on avid readers because they can never again use a device that amazon doesn't approve. If the books are DRM-free, then the distributor is the one who gets commoditized, rather than the publisher.

That said, I'm not entirely confident that DRM is as unnecessary for books as it is for music. Starting to read a book is much more of an investment, and also much more likely to be based on a recommendation from a friend who certainly has the book (and there's a long social history of legal lending.) So I guess it comes down to which they are more scared of, being disintermediated by Amazon, or disintermediated by their customers.
"tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs" go BOOM?? I can't help but notice the glossing over of the mission creep.

[quote from article]
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Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM.
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>Agree. And all of this is ridiculous anyway. A non-issue for the vast majority of startups who want to do something in the US. Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of?

You probably still want to check out your registrars reputation (and put valid info in the whois.) If your registrar has a 'shoot first and ask questions later' attitude, well, you are a lot more screwed than if, say, your web hosting provider is the same.

I mean, the article focuses on choosing your registry, but the registrar is the first point of contact for anyone trying to shut you down. Last time I looked (a few years back) to set up a registrar, you needed to pay a couple kilobucks annually to the registry, plus an additional $6.25 for every .com address you register... every year. With those kinds of costs, and the under $10/year price expectation of consumers, it doesn't take many complaints before what you have to pay humans to read them exceeds the amount of profit you could hope to derive from the customer. Reputation is the only motivation that business would have to do anything besides ignore the complaints until they could not be ignored any more, and then shut down the domain.

And valid contact info is important. You want people to complain to you, not your provider. Most of the time, the powers that be won't move without warning. I mean, yeah, depending on what you are doing, being contactable might not help and might even hurt, but for most things that are at least semi-legitimate, and certainly for anything you want to get venture funding for, being contactable helps a lot.

On that note, if you have /any/ user generated content of any type, pay your hundred bucks and get on the US 'Directory of Service Provider Agents for Notification of Claims of Infringement'

I mean none of this helps if the feds are really after you. But really, I don't know what would, in that case. Best you can hope for is to clear things up so that in the borderline cases they send you scary lawyer letters rather than shutting you down.
The one thing that's always skipped over in this kind of article is... Why? The universe doesn't care whether we're around or not. It sure as hell doesn't affect us whether people are around even as nearby as a thousand years from now. If you're worried about future generations suffering, then don't make them. That's a lot cheaper than spending fortunes on a technological solution. The money saved can be used to help those suffering now.
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The strongest selection pressure in the western world is for people to spend every waking hour making babies.

True as that may be, people are not acting the way that would lead you to expect.

World population appears to be on a logistic curve --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-2100...

-- and birth rates for a lot of the world are close to or below replacement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_rate

The selection pressure is real, but it is not the only force in play. Economic pressure is acting too, and it is against raising children; they are expensive to raise to adulthood, and you cannot derive any material benefit from them. It seems to me that, in this case, the economics have much greater force than the genetics. Whatever disposition toward childbearing you inherit from your parents, whether genetic or ideological, is a small thing compared to whether circumstances make providing for them practical.

In general, when dealing with a complex system, it is not enough to know that a single force is acting on it. You need to understand all the forces, and how strong they are and how they behave. All too often, this is the case with selection pressure arguments -- supposing that the force in question is the only one in play, without any regard for whether it has the power to do the job expected of it.

I find that the best course of action is usually to look at the actual data, and see how the system really is behaving, apart from theory. Nontrivial systems very rarely meet naive expectations.
Collaborative filtering would be cool, yes. However the situation for netflix is a bit different than restaurants. It's hard to get really good overlap with a large number of people for a lunch that exists only in one specific location, compared to a film which can be viewed anywhere in the world, at any time, by anyone (and then encouraged to review by their direct point of sale (Netflix)). Also the cost (mostly time) in generating a lot of reviews by a single person to establish any kind of baseline is much higher.

And, on top of that, it doesn't help the random anonymous user with 0 reviews submitted as much.

Someone should get on that though, because if you could solve the problem of how to set up proper recommendation systems for food, that'd be awesome.

Who knows, maybe Yelp as experimented with this? I don't know what kind of logged-in userbase they have though. Maybe if you had something integrated with the restaurants, where people could be logged in via their smartphones, and give a review to some NFC device at the restaurant. Lower the barrier of reviewing, encourage reviews right at the point of sale (similar to reviewing on netflix.com).

Someone must have already thought of this before though.
On a flight last week I overheard the TSA agent joke about the "torture" procedure he was about to inflict on my son when he opted out of a body scan. I don't find anything about the TSA to be humorous.
There is a Swedish movie review site (http://filmtipset.se) which gives you a predicted rating determined from your previous reviews. They are venturing into books and wine, using the same algorithm. Unfortunately they seem to be better mathematicians than web developers, so all of their sites are pretty crappy and they seem to have problems with monetization.

Another problem is that if your taste is not really mainstream, you have to rate quite a few movies to get accurate predictions. After I reached a couple of hundred movies, the predictions were nearly always completely accurate.
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Man, it does good to know that I'm not he only one it that situation, being one year younger I can understand it pretty good. Bad luck it took me a while to realize that a start-up was what I really wanted, mostl thanks to Paul Grahams essays. Well, maybe it's all about timing, and there I'm utterly convinced that even when you are older the timing will be right one day. The trick is to realize it.
I think they use User-agent detection.
You sound like someone who's never dealt with a blackspot on their credit history (as an aside, never leave bills in your name when you move out, trusting your ex-housemates not to be douchebags).

It's not about not being able to borrow, it's about companies refusing to accept your business because you're a "risk", even when you offer to pay out the entire contract up front to show you're good for the money. It's a fucking pain in the ass
I for one feel a lot safer thanks to this blog post from the TSA.

Keep up the great work TSA and thank you for putting my worries to rest.

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Do I need to put sarcasm tags?
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Sometimes I wonder if we would be better off if 1984 and the like had never been written. It feels like people have been using them as a how-to manual.
Myspace actually tried that.
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Thanks, but he hasn't contacted me yet. Putting up a competitive site now. j/k :)
There was also the funnest iPod.
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Back when I used to work retail, we constantly had customers who thought that the BBB was a government agency that would force us to do what they wanted.
In any case, surely the weakest link is airports in less developed countries, which always seem to be much less secure to me.
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This is terrifying on so many levels.
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Elegant.

What about random or next/previous buttons in the header in addition to the dropdown?
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Hehe, this is really true: I got an internship immediately from one of the companies sponsoring a hackathon I got second place at. People at other companies I talked to also liked it.

And, beyond that, it was some of the most fun I've had, for the longest time in a single go. Even if I didn't place, it would have been great.
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The tone is a little similar to GlaDOS in the portal games. "Friendly sinister". I don't believe the dismissive message, either.

I cannot imagine a scenario where the TSA becomes 'popular' now; where the populace as a whole gets respect back for them. I half expect the US government to perform a rebranding exercise within the next 5 years and hope that a change in the letterheads and badges resets the clock on an ever-more resentful populace.
Not that I'm condoning the machines, and perhaps I'm missing something, but...

Couldn't this "vulnerability" be fixed if they took two scans? Take one of front/back (current approach) and then ask the person to turn 90 degrees and take another scan? to see the sides?
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Coming at it from the other direction, how would a scientist with an interesting problem attract programmers to work on their project? Something like RHOK specifically for scientists?
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Ok now use it without a mouse/trackpad...
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I'm used to 960GS so I was at home when it came to bootstrap. I spent some time reading the examples provided, then started on a clean slate. Top nav, the mast then footer, then finally the main content. That way you are not technically tweaking their templates. You are branching out.