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Apple says, "As a result, we’ve created or supported more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers: from the engineer who helped invent the iPad to the delivery person who brings it to your door" [1]

It tries to include every person, just to make the number of jobs higher (it even includes healthcare workers).

Healthcare includes only jobs strictly associated with it - and that's embarrassing for Apple which had to include other industries.

"47,000 jobs at Apple" [1] - that's the real number of Apple jobs, and it's comparable with Intel (45375 jobs, 55% of their worldwide employment) [2]

[1] http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/

[2] http://bit.ly/AdgusU [PDF] Intel "2010 Annual Report and Form 10-K"
Or as I like to put it (regarding LedgerSMB):

All accounting software sucks, LedgerSMB included. We are working hard to reduce that until eventually we will be the first accounting software that doesn't suck. But that is no reason to withhold our progress from our userbase!
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I'm not asking him to pentest my network, just some recommended practices :)
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How is changing your UserAgent string fraud?
Is it legal to charge people different rates for the same service on different devices? I would argue it certainly isn't moral.

Switching user agent is perfectly legal.
It isn't!
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Using more words to say the same thing isn't necessarily being 'meaningful'. Especially when it's just to prevent a misunderstanding of intent. Intent is not nearly as important as the point being made.
Check out the HN profiles of people that make interesting comments. You'll start to notice a whole lot of self-funded one-person businesses in there.
So, the PS3 does support PSGL, but that's not actually what you are thinking of. PSGL is a GLES variant (Not exactally, iirc, GLES 2.0 wasn't out then, and GLES 1.0 didn't have the required shader support). If you wrote your game to run using PSGL, you were actually doing pretty good for a full OpenGL Port.

Now, you are actually in fact thinking of LibGCM, which has very few similarities to OpenGL, is much lower level, simpler, and is in fact, the library that most PS3 developers do end up using.

Do however keep in mind, that any major game that runs on Mobile, OS X, or Linux, has pretty much API compatible library usage with OpenGL.

Then while the PS3 doesn't give you OpenGL, any cross platform game that runs on both PS3 and another system generally has a graphics system abstracted enough to make porting to an OpenGL system while not trivial, a rather well contained and limited amount of work. Surely enough to make it warranted to port to whatever graphics API Valve chooses to use, should it be a successful console.

And frankly the Microsoft monopoly on rendering API's. These days modern OpenGL is close enough, to not really matter. Having nearly feature parity, and these days all the fancy stuff happens in shaders anyways, the API just doesn't matter as much as the platform lock-in these days.

Yes, the steam console doesn't automatically get access to the entire library, but keep in mind, Steam on the mac has been hugely successful, and it had a very limited selection of games to begin with. You say that valve can't get a majority of existing devs to sign-up to support OpenGL, frankly they don't have to, rather they have to get just enough Steam devs to do such, and that's something history has shown that they do in fact have influence over.
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Misuse of the infinitive

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After words which regularly take a preposition:
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Almost all software is buggy and terrible if you look at it closely enough. There are few truly elegant, robust programs out there. Even PostgreSQL has its warts....

However, the fact is..... you have to release continuously to make the software better, and quality is also relative. As a friend of mine said, if you are with a dwarf and you run into a dragon, you don't have to outrun the dragon, only the dwarf!

I like to think as bad as the software I work on is, we are outrunning the dwarves!
Not to sound incosiderate, but isn't computer programmer one of the worse jobs for a person with ADHD? Programming for a living requires hours of near constant focus, every day.

Have you considered an alternative career, where your condition is less of a drawback, or can perhaps even be turned into an advantage?
In other words, work on Quora problems for the privilege of working for free. Of course, there is the promise of being recognized, but no promises on being hired.
Will there be calendar integration, i.e., add an artist's SXSW showtime+venue to my calendar when I discover something I like? If so, I can stop working on this myself and move on to something else :)
Your first blog post is an admission of copyright infringement... and it's a video of a guy that's probably going to be imprisoned for doing the same thing. Are you sure you want to get into this business?
How does an intranet/VPN help with avoiding malware on end user computers? I don't see the connection, isn't that entirely orthogonal? The OP wasn't arguing that you shouldn't control end user's devices, just that having an intranet of some sorts is not helpful.

If you run a large network, you'll have to deal with malware on users devices, and you'll have to deal with people gaining access to your network in other ways, such as this white box.

Having an "internal" network that isn't actually internal only gives you a false sense of security. Having access to an internal network should never give anyone higher access levels, but the whole idea of a "corporate intranet" pushes you in that direction.
Wouldn't that cause a huge performance hit? I wonder how hard it would be to get a few big name games working in linux.
The wifi network never asked him what device type he was using, it just made an assumption based on something as unreliable as a user agent string. How is it fraud?
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Yep, I found out about them when they got hacked recently. Still, if you like trading and want something in between serious currency/stock trading and play money, this is great.
These aren't stuff we are looking to use ourselves. We're choosing these problems (which we have already solved in a more complex form ourselves) because we think it'll be interesting for others to try to apply their programming skills at "real world problems" that startups solve.
He knowingly manipulated their device detection system. Yes, it's true their device detection system is trivial to manipulate, but that doesn't change the legality. If a bank forgets to lock their vault, you still wouldn't want to clean them out and admit to it on your blog.
Modern game consoles run with an OS that acts much more like a hypervisor than an actual operating system. There is a very distinct possibility that valve has choosen to develop the system components required to manage the running game, and the requisite steam services, without actually needing to take an existing off-the-shelf kernel +- any userland. Combine that with the fact that there are tons of other existing kernels which could fit the bill, BSD, l4, even darwin is out there.

And frankly Microsoft could be licensing them some sort of Windows variant OS. Afaik, they maintain a positive relationship with Microsoft, and other than the conflict of interest with consoles, Microsoft knows that Valve is a very powerful player in the market. Also, do recall that Microsoft has licensed out their OS before, it as a different world at the time, but the Dreamcast was using a Microsoft derived kernel.
I've implemented two projects using SSL Client Certificates in the last few years, and one of them, a B2B kind of thing, has been live for a couple of years with several hundred customers using it day-to-day. Some times it works great, and other times it is an intractable pain, and the browser UI is a pain, and the end user doesn't really understand it at all. These are not high-tech people. They don't put passwords on their keyrings, they forget they're there, they buy new computers and give the old ones away and then their new PC doesn't work and they panic! For a small number of customers (<1%) it never really works on at least one of their PCs and I have no idea why.

I think it is a bit of a chicken and egg problem: no-one uses them because no-one understands them, and no-one understands them because no-one uses them. The certificate management UI is also awful, which doesn't help.
It's legal to price discriminate based on age (discounted cinema tickets for children and pensioners), gender (free entry to certain nightclubs for women), occupation (teachers get educational discounts on some software, even when they only use it at home), not to mention the tricks aeroplane/train companies pull. So why not legal to price discriminate net access based on the device you're accessing it with?
There is no law that you have to send any user agent at all, or indeed a valid one that matches your device/browser. It is just a hint for the server.

Edit: and IMO, it's toxic to the hacker spirit to be too quick in condemning ideas as illegal or immoral
Word to the wise: "circumventing the access restriction was easy to do, Your Honor, so I assumed it was OK" is not something you ever want to have to say.

There exist wifi systems where setting a cookie "paid=1" will save you $15. You might think there are no legal consequences for "writing a text file on your own computer." I strongly suggest not testing that.
That being the only sane option, I sincerely hope so.

Years of trying to explain to designers from a print background that it's much easier to think in pixels than doing a mental transformation from mm to dpi to screen and now the whole world goes crazy.
What if you just choose to change your user agent to something different because you prefer the experience? If you then get different offers as a result you can't be held liable.
It looks like I'll be sticking with Windows 7. The Metro interface is not worth the pain, especially if you don't even have a machine with a touchscreen already, which obviously most won't. There's no point in using Windows 8 on a PC/laptop other than slowing yourself down and getting frustrated with it.
I'm looking forward to the day when I stay in a 100$/night hotel and I don't have to pay for my fricking internet. Every motel/hostel has it for free as it should. To me charging for internet (in hotels/resturatns) in 2012 is the same as charging for using the shower or lights.
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that depends completely on where do you live. here in eastern europe it'd be _almost_ enough if you had nothing to start with and was smart about handling it.

in the us, that's 3 years of entry-level salary in software development...
I guess it probably isn't but in any case it isn't a robust discrimination method as this guy has shown ;-)
How is this different than the more than 100 other NoSQL databases? If it supports the Redis protocol them why can I not choose toUse Redis? Or memcached?
I am not trying to shoot this project down - I am just trying to understand all this " not invented here" syndrome.
Tell me where the 4chan threads will be so I can find you there.

As far as I can tell Grossman is an established professional with quite a portfolio.

From your profile, I see a whimsical Twitter stream.

So who's going where in your little scheme again?
Frostbite and Anvil run on DirectX and OpenGL-esq systems. IW engine even has games out on Wii. I kind of suspect that all the major engines out there have pretty decent cross-platform support these days. The publishers don't like to be locked into any one console unless they are getting an exclusivity kick-back from Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft.

It might require Valve to get people to recompile their games and tweak some stuff, but like you say, Valve are a juggernaut.
Sorry, lost track of that in this branch.
wouldn't it be cheaper to get a mobile router and a mobile flatrate for the country? Where I live 15€ would buy 1gb for a month.

I have wondered about easily obtaining prepaid cards for travel, might be a business opportunity if there is no good solution yet?
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I don't think those cases are even comparable. Lying that you paid (through whatever means) is different from using a different user agent, which has no (direct, expected) relation to money.

But if you think changing the user agent is somehow wrong, you could also go all the way of emulating the iPad browser on your laptop, and use that to sign in for the service.
OK, but there wasn't actually any abuse. Youtube owns the site. Putting ads on some page and giving part of the proceeds to any company they want is completely within their rights.

Is Reddit evil because they don't share the ad income from a particular thread with the submitter? Doesn't make much sense to me.
They may be collaborating with the European, Russian, Japanese space agencies. They have researchers traveling the world at any given time.

That said they certainly could restrict more access. It's a big challenge because NASA is ultimately a research facility where freedoms of researchers have to be carefully balanced with security and access control. Each department and project has its own needs so it has a very varied attack surface. It's not as simple as simply putting a giant international firewall up.

And they do have strict restrictions in place but it takes a single project, or sysadmin to drop the ball causing this sort of embarrassing situation. Clearly it needs to be even more effective.
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As far as I heard it referred to a game development company which had spend weeks making sure the code could compile for the new platform, setting up asset pipelines, etc.
It's plausible deniability, nothing more. Illegal stays illegal.
Wasn't there a time when browsers would spoof each other? How is this so different? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#Format

Safari even has a 'Develop' menu that lets me switch user agents in 2 clicks (without having to install anything first).
Implementing a paywall would be rather pointless, since that's a very bad way to monetize traffic.

However, StackOverflow can make big money by cleverly partnering with corporations: instead of a site that answers "how do I do XYZ with ABC toolkit" they could gradually shift to a site that answers "doing XYZ with BigCorp ExpensiveSolution: how I increased ROI and fixed my dental problems".

The point is that between "comunity" and "traffic monetization" there is a clear and obvious conflict of interest, and it's pretty obvious which side of this conflict will be taken by SO's sponsors.

Incidentally, this is also exactly why Wikipedia doesn't display ads or monetize traffic.
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That's the first explanation that makes sense so far!
>occupation (teachers get educational discounts on some software, even when they only use it at home) //

Suppose they say "teachers" and you have a teaching license but aren't currently teaching. You present your teaching license and say "is this acceptable" and they say yes, you only need a teaching license to get the discount.

That seems pretty analogous to the current situation. You possess the token they request and that they subsequently use to give you a lower price. You've not committed fraud because you're legally allowed to use that UA string. It's up to the provider to decide if their requirement is "passes us this UA string" or "declares ownership of this device" (I don't consider those things identical by a long stretch).

Now if they say when you pass a particular UA string "do you confirm you're owner of $deviceType" or "this service is only for users of $deviceType" then I think things switch around in the direction of [rather minor] fraud.
It might as well be a watermark. I don't think anyone removes it.
Ugh, a bit.ly link? Can someone change the URL to point to the actual address of the page?

http://viktorpetersson.com/2011/09/25/how-to-get-50-discount...

I love that people get up in arms about the change to google's privacy policy but have no trouble funneling traffic through bit.ly and other link shorteners...
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It's always interesting how the really cheap accomodation (hostels etc.) have free internet, but the expensive accomodation have expensive internet. It's a great example of price being based on what the market can bear. People who stay in cheap hostels will just go without internet, or stay at another hostel that has free internet. People who stay in fancy hotels don't care about €15 (or the company is paying)
There are tpm kernel modules and tpm-tools package (in Debian, for example). Also sometimes device must be turned on in BIOS Setup.
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You are implying you are something you are not.
Every motel/hostel that I've been to with free internet has ended up with internet so slow that its unusable. I'm happy to pay for it to be able to access at faster than dialup speeds. As for why they charge it's because they can. Their target markets are already paying a premium for a room so a small extra charge for internet isn't that much of a deal. People looking for the savings of a hostel are just as likely to go to Starbucks/McDonalds for free internet.
There are a few international sim-card providers, but I don't think any of them are really good. It is a business opportunity for sure, but it's also somewhat complex.

I usually try to get my hands on a local card when I travel, but the rates (and availability) varies significantly between countries.
It seems as if he was trying to define sociopathy as purely the act of doing what's socially unacceptable, and that if society condones it then it's by definition not sociopathic. However I don't believe that's true since gov != society and even society can be conditioned into sociopaths.

I'd say I consider sociopathic as anything that's harmful to society, regardless of how society perceives it.
If this is next week's iPad, wouldn't we expect both landscape and portrait resolutions? If I were in the rumor-making business, in combination with that iOS 6 version, I would call this a new apple TV running firmware claiming to be an iPad.
Problem is even when you do pay for it (at say a Marriott), it's still slow.
Starts at midnight where I live. Signed up out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll stay up till 5am. Wish I had learned about it sooner.
I was staying with my brothers at a hotel in Amsterdam and I had brought my laptop; the hotel offered free unencrypted WiFi for guests. Since it's in a big city, as you might imagine, you don't want the neighbors stealing all of your bandwidth, so even though it was free for us, there was a sign-in page -- you had to go downstairs and request that the desk official give you a token, then use that token to register with the system.

So I thought that, since I had permission to access this network anyway, I would break in -- just to see if I could. And I'd tell them about my results the next morning as we turned in our keys and headed off.

Actually since there wasn't any encryption there isn't much to say after that -- it was obvious that their system wasn't too sophisticated, so I just guessed "they check MAC addresses, don't they?"

Using the airotools-ng package for Ubuntu, I set my wireless card into "monitor mode", which (I'm not an expert) I guess is a fancy way of saying "it stopped ignoring everything it saw flying through the air in my hotel room." Normally your computer treats all of these other signals as noise relative to its own goal of connecting to the Internet -- but it's absolutely trivial to start listening to it. With the tool airodump-ng, I was able to see all of the routers at my hotel and MAC addresses of real users connecting to those routers. So I put one of those into my "Connect to the Internet" dialog box under "Cloned MAC address," and hey look, I just saved the desk clerk some time.

I mentioned that I'd done it the next day to the desk clerk as I checked out -- that any competent neighbor could steal their wireless access. I'll never forget his response: "yes, but they're all incompetent."

A similar experience: when I first came to live at my present household, I knew that we had shared WiFi but I didn't know the password -- and the guy who did know had just stepped into the shower. But it was using "WEP", a very old encryption policy which is vulnerable whenever you are transmitting data. So I fired up these same tools, found out that I was lucky -- he'd left a download running when he stepped into the shower or so -- and I captured a couple thousand data transactions. I didn't have to wait for him to finish showering before I had broken into my own Internet.

I'm always surprised by this sort of thing. The other day I had accidentally clobbered my sudo permission when reconfiguring Wireshark (something which can also listen to Internet traffic) to be more secure, and 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. (I have an encrypted disk, and I couldn't have done this without being able to decrypt it. However, most people that I know don't use disk encryption, so the point still stands.)

The lesson to take away: If some half-geek amateur like me can do these things, the professional inbreakers must have absolutely terrifying skills.
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I don't see the issue?

If you want the classic windows desktop experience, it's right there, isn't it? You have no one forcing you to use Metro if you don't like it.
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