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We're getting off track here, so I'm going to recuse myself, but I would argue that the most zealous proponents and antagonists of any concepts are likely mistaken, in some way.
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I'm still skeptical. These rumours have been around for so long without anything ever surfacing, it seems unlikely that anything ever will.
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They don't have to start for the first time. Who's going to publish the next Stephen King book when he's old, since someone can just take it and republish it without paying a dime right when he dies?
I've been supporting Blackberries since Models 950/957... (second gen) and I've seen this Train wreck in slow motion for the past few years. My blackberry users have felt left behind since the launch of the iPhone...and later Android. They've each suffered with several faulty devices... screws that back out on their own.. antennas that disconnect. OS updates that wipe out all their third party apps... phone reboots that take 5 minutes. All the while, RIM touting their superiority without trying to keep pace with Apple or Google.
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While I don't disagree that there is some difference between illegally copying something digitally and physically taking something, the effect is so similar that getting hung up on the linguistics seems a bit silly to me.
"Copy" probably doesn't refer to an actual copy, outside of the one Vonnegut probably made for himself -- it refers to the one sent.
The parent's point is that there is a (slightly) lower barrier to adoption due to the not-as-revolutionary-as-it-seems nature of the idea (i.e. it is arguing in favour of the idea).
Consider things like movie rights. It's not unusual for there to be a very long time lag between print publication and the release of a movie version (e.g., Watchmen or Hitchhiker's guide).
I've always liked the idea of setting copyright to expire n years after the expiration of the copyright owner (where n is long enough to handle the "take care of my family when I die" and "don't disincentivize publishing stuff made by older people" issues). n = 20 is my arbitrary proposal.
Copyright owned by deathless entities (corporations and such) maxes out at another arbitrary number (I like 40) and there are no options for renewals in either situation.
I don't think most countries have this option.
To be fair - most of the bay area is very similar to New England, just a lot more expensive, with better weather.
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It's hardly new... it's been a non starter for about 5 years: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/
This is great feedback. The magic about eight times increase in credit card capture is pretty huge. In my case, the application is very simple, and I think people need to use it before deciding to pay.

So I'm really thinking about going to a graduated payment/engagement solution. Doing up cells in the application might be the way to go for something with such a low price. In my case, I'm looking at charging $24 per year.

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Try a two fingered physical click, rather than a two fingered tap. I just checked a one-off test account that I'm sure I never reconfigured, and the former is not enabled, but the latter is.
This is an unfortunate but real human trait.

There's a book that describes the effect in war. The basic premise is that it's easier to kill people by dropping a bomb on them from an airplane than it is to shoot them with a rifle on the battlefield.

It's because in the latter you see your victim. And immediately relate to that victim [edit: 1]. Which makes shooting him or her exceedingly difficult.

It's an interesting parallel.

The book is called On Killing, by US Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.

[1] Unless the shooter is psychotic.
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It’s not anonymity, exactly, but (for want of a better term) noncorporeality. We all know plenty of people whose online personae are bold and crass, even though they write under their real name. In person, we’re wired to observe certain social niceties to fulfill, I don’t know, some innate sense of tribal duty. It’s a whole lot more difficult to shout at a man than at his words on a page. Bodilessness is dehumanising—for good and ill.
Or, you know, you could just use the electricity to convert water to hydrogen (itself a usable fuel). How much of the energy required for this reaction is actually coming from the carbon / atmosphere? I would guess very little.
Let's not forget the two billion dollar internet spy center from the NSA

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...
Your understanding of this issue is simplistic. Consider:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope...
Copyrights are currently free. Under your system, you'd have to figure out how to decide what counts as a single "work" for setting prices.
That's hilarious, its exactly the attitude in NYC.
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Which is a worthless number for any meaningful comparison. The effective tax rate for Fortune 500 companies is under 20%. Quoting from the Economist, Nov. 2011 (see http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/focus-0 ):

The statutory federal income tax rate for big American companies is 35%. But a study by the Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, two Washington, DC-based think-tanks, has assessed the tax records of 280 companies from the Fortune 500 list with reliable pre-tax profit reports. Among these companies the average effective tax rate between 2008-10 was only 18.5%. While 71 companies paid over 30% of their profits in federal income tax, 30 enjoyed negative tax rates over the whole three year period. Pepco, an electricity company, had the lowest effective tax rate of -57.6%. Wells Fargo, a bank, received the biggest tax subsidy over the three years of almost $18 billion, and was one of 25 companies which took more than half of the total $223 billion subsidy claimed. In at least one of the three years, 78 firms paid no or negative tax rates, and legally-by writing off capital investments before they actually wear out (known as "accelerated depreciation"), making use of tax deductible stock options and industry-specific tax breaks, and offshore tax havens.
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I'm from Wisconsin and I don't think there's much there. But perhaps that's exactly why you went?
Kudos for the step-by-step benchmarking. However, ideal situations and no business requirements can give you pretty impressive statistics. The most load producing elements of every Wordpress site I've worked on have been necessary to pay the bills, allow a reasonable workflow for content creators, or provide good user experience.

When you load in a sizable theme, warm up the DB with thousands of posts, tens of thousands of comments and users, and have requirements of short TTLs for new stories to be posted, comment administration, etc, and real world traffic... the picture looks a little different.
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I bought Gifts.io for a project but never got around to using it. What do you guys think is the best way to sell it? I tried contacting gifts.com but they never got back to me. Thanks!
Here is the link to the original Post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774416
I'm assuming 'everything is an object' will be done by copying C#. i.e. value-types, autoboxing.
The hardest part about finding early stage talent in SV is that everyone is off trying to start their own company.

The best part about finding early stage talent in SV is that everyone is earning their real world MBA the hard way, and when they succeed or fail at their venture they are going to be frighteningly well equipped to help you with yours.
Ah, sorry. Trying to get out the door here. heh
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how about this...let them decide on the yearly value...and enforce licensing costs equal to X% of that value.

that way they won't want to set the value high to pay the fees...and not too low since then the licensing costs would be too low
> It's a clever way to digitize books (and now street signs)

It used to be a cool idea when it benefited everyone, because it was used to ditigize public domain books that everyone could retrieve. Now, it's only a clever way for Google to use your brain to do stuff for their own purposes.
Also, we need to move towards a registration based copyright system. This post doesn't need copyright protection.

This idea seems very wrong to me, for two reasons. First, you might not deem this particular comment of yours worthy of copyright protection, but people might find themselves in different situations. Consider for example the following Reddit comments, don't they deserve copyright protection?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kkmm4/you_unexpec...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...

Secondly, a registration based system puts unsophisticated creators at a disadvantage. People who don't have the resources to register all their creations or lack knowledge of the procedures will be penalized.

I would be happy to live in a copyright-free society[1], as it would not favor anyone. But a registration based system would shift the balance even more to the advantage of big corporations and copyright trolls.

[1] As long as some moral rights are preserved, e.g. one cannot take credit for someone else's work.
The first time I read it, I also had that interpretation. On subsequent reading, it does seem like copy meant a copy that is not the original. Not so much, "the only copy in existence".

Suffice it to say, I was sufficiently confused as well.
Well that would be my boss; an ex-copper who was part of the working group that contributed to the new laws.

I can dig up another one if you really want :)
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Yeah that definition would have to be reviewed and I think the first ~10 years would should be free.
Great to see DDG gaining traction.

However, I switched my Chrome search to DDG last year and the one thing that I realised I couldn't live without was maps.

I didn't realise how often I must search for an address and to have location appear in search makes life so much easier.

If you guys integrated with Openstreetmap, I'd switch back in an instant!
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> There is only one problem. PGP and the current state of the art are too damn hard for the general population at large to use. [...]

I use enigmail + thunderbird, and it's pretty simple to use. It's only difficult because the tools are immature. Sending a mail and seeing a "verified from foo@bar.com", or "can only be viewed by foo@bar.com" isn't difficult to understand.

The smartphone vendors are in a unique position where they could make this happen.
Ya, the grass is always greener on the other side isn't it? :)
So many people date in NYC, so few commit for the rest of their lives.

You just made that up.
Great article.

Question: If you have Varnish running as a cache, should you really have the WP 3W Cache plugin running too? Seems redundant, but I'm not familiar this tech.
Well, you are in the unfortunate position of having a name that would be easily confused for an attempt at SQL injection.

I wonder if folks named "Insert", "And", "Where", "Not" etc would have similar problems...
"Look at mobile, 2007: J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry -> 2012: iOS, Android, Windows Phone."

Blackberry remains much more relevant than windows phone. You also forgot to mention Bada which also has more share than wp and is growing. I'm not trying to beat up on wp but as it stands reality conflicts significantly with marketing.

Edit: why the down mod? if I'm in error, please point out where.
Even as a developer of software, I've at times found myself forgetting that software is written by real people.

Just a few months ago, I bought an app from the Mac App Store. I became disenamored with the app due to a glaring fault. I regained consciousness about halfway through writing my negative review on the App Store (that'll be my excuse for getting as far as I did), with the thought, "Why don't I first email this guy and see if he'll fix it before writing this review?" So, I closed the review form and opened an email. Sure enough, he responded within the hour, and a new release came out the next week with my suggestion built in.

My next email to him was explaining why he should raise the price of his app. He was a real person.
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You mean the UN? Isn't the UN benign and wise? Or do you mean this? Time Magazine, 1955:

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,866343,00.html

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) from lampposts and triumphal arches set up along Boulevard Albert I, the spanking concrete highway that bisects the capital city of Leopoldville. In far-off mission churches, encircled by the rain forest that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in...

If you have a Time subscription (yeah right), you can read the whole thing on line. Otherwise, suffice it to say that (a) the memory hole is a lot deeper than you think, and (b) it's physically possible to teach Bantu children (and perhaps even pygmies) the Te Deum. Not clear that it's a safe and effective method for turning them into the King Ad-Rock, however.

The most interesting, and certainly the most effective, attempt to convert a Stone Age population directly to a civilized lifestyle wasn't even in the 20th century. Or the 19th. Consider the Reductions of Paraguay:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Reductions
You could offer a grace period (lets say 1 year) to give time to people to register their post if they want. Same as with the reform to Patents which occurred last year.
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I'm suspicious that these stories are an attempt to drive down RIM's share price for a takeover.

12-15 months just doesn't seem realistic. RIM is profitable with cash reserves plus strong corporate and Asian markets. They can transition into a company that is profitable but not innovative or a world leader.
You should not assume that these assumptions are indeed assumptions. For example, banks want you to have a physical address, so they can track you down for debt.

UK readers... Please remember that students are 1 of the only groups to officially have 2 permanent addresses. Furthermore, it's illegal to collect unnecessary information.
Yeah, I would say our vid is low key :)
That's a pretty classic calculation, yeah?

Stephen King books are bestsellers, generally, even if only for a few years. Especially when distributed digitally, it becomes no great burden to make hay for the final years of the author's life.

I was addressing the claim that no publisher would touch an old novelist because they might die--that makes no sense in the case of established, well-selling authors, and makes no difference in the case of most first-time geriatric novelists.
But in the letter he claims that the copy the recipient is holding is the only copy. Was he lying or did he somehow have it returned to him?
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Not really, among my age group it was true. In the Midwest many of my friends were getting married in college. In NYC, very few of my friends under 30 were married. In fact, I met more married people under 30 living apart (because it used to be tough to get a divorce in New York) than living together.
You're right though, that maybe it should say "so few commit for the rest of their lives at an early age." Most of my friends had absolutely no desire to get married before 30 in NYC.
One area I really want to see this take off in is Medicine.

As someone who had suffered from an unknown illness (no doctor could figure it out), I can rationalize how such a system would have been helpful. You see a bit of this with WebMD's Symptom Checker, but I feel tools like that aren't comprehensive enough and we end up with a lot of cyberchondria. You can't rely on co-relation to find absolute answers, but helping map out symptoms, lifestyle choices may be a tool to finding solutions faster.

It took about a year to resolve my illness. Going to the doctor 2-4 times a week for 10-20 minutes isn't enough to work with when you have no clear-cut diagnosis.

Now, to be clear, I am not talking about replacing doctors or devaluing doctors by allowing everyone to be an expert.
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I think you're putting too much emphasis on trying to maximize output from each individual creator. When, in every case I've ever heard or read of, creators already go as fast as they can (provided they can afford to live off their creations). And, further, despite those efforts very few find subsequent success.

So worrying that creators might sit by the proverbial poolside instead of creating new works seems silly to me and completely at odds with reality, even under our current copyright regime where copyright is effectively perpetual.

What I take into consideration when thinking about copyright terms, is trying to balance a reasonable time from which a creator can make a living off their work (given what we know about how creation happens), against a reasonable time before which others can try to make their living from that work.

As that is also what the public domain is about: freeing up old works for others to extend, adapt and interpret in their own attempt to make a living.

And along those lines, it's worth recognizing that there's a very real risk to the rate of 'new' creation that would come from shorter copyright terms. Should Mickey Mouse fall out of copyright, wouldn't the corporate incentive be to put Mickey Mouse into every children's work? (Particularly given the state of our risk-averse creative industries.)

The 'new' works we got might well start looking even more familiar than they do today.
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There is a sane middle ground. Copyright is granted upon creation, but infringement can only be pursued in cases where theft (or strongly probably) theft can be shown. Someone you don't know has the same idea? Tough cookies, you should have published. After public unveiling (registration, publication, etc), the timer starts. This puts some onus on the creator to not spread his work around willy-nilly, but allows him to shop publishers etc.
I believe there's even a startup that sells startup "plays", which are just excel spreadsheets with todo lists, and they're killing it.
Not a legal genius here but with work for hire arrangements, wouldn't Disney the corporation be considered the author thus giving them what they want?
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The seem to be backing up their site or something.
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It's worth pointing out (I can't edit my previous comment) I was just responding to the one issue, and the problem is more nuanced... for example:

- The law wasn't really reconsidered to deal with copyright infringement. It was changed to deal with situations where you broke into a computer and took copies of data (interesting to note that this was not actually a new issue at the time; if you broke into someone's office and took photos of data they couldn't charge you with theft - the reason it was changed this time I am not sure on, probably just the prevailing mood).

- Quite how much the extent of information loss on a public thing like an image (for which you have to undertake no infiltration or transformative process to recover) applies is largely untested, because this stuff is broadly dealt with under copyright infringement

- The extent to which money - both loss of, and the making of (by the infringer) - comes into it is undetermined.

- This is not a new change. It happened years ago (as in at least the 90's, perhaps before).

The real bottom line is that much of our laws are inadequate in dealing with the internet. :)

But; "theft" is no longer defined, in the UK at least, as the GP indicated.
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Although there are certainly some entrepreneurs who do everything in anticipation of a big reward in the end, this isn't true for me or for any of the entrepreneurs I know.

It's the work itself that's rewarding. It's creating something from nothing that's rewarding. It's having happy users and customers that's rewarding.

The "reward of a distant payoff" theory outlined in the blogpost indeed only explains serial entrepreneurs, not why people start companies in the first place. But this is strange. We have no concepts like "serial painter" or "serial poet". We think it's only natural that people who feel compelled to paint still feel compelled to paint 5 years or a decade later, and it's the same for nearly any other endeavor. Entrepreneurship isn't different, and I can't think of any reason why we would expect it to be.

So when successful entrepreneurs choose not to try again I expect this to be for other mundane reasons: wanting to spend more time with the family, to catch up on stuff they missed out on, to travel, or to pursue other dreams.
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"the fact that Samsung tries to confuse the public that their product is pretty much an iPad/iPhone"

I don't think that is a fact at all. Tricking people into buying your product isn't exactly a winning strategy. Most retailers who are selling these items have a no questions asked return policy. It wouldn't work. Besides, the box for the galaxy tab 10 has Google and Samsung clearly written on the front. Unless you somehow think that "Apple" is a code company name for "Samsung" ....well... I don't know...in that case you've fooled yourself.

Also, they're not cloning anything. It's a completely separate operating system. And it's definitely not cheap.
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I would be so much happier with a free 5GB product plus paid extra capacity than a free huge capacity which generates no revenue and thus gets neglected like every other non core Google product.
I don't think that's a bizarre request. FTP is one of the few reliable and free ways for users to transfer files between each other, which is the space that dropbox and google drive are/will be competing in. So it's just a question of interoperability.

Why should I have to download a file from an ftp server before re-uploading it to to the cloud rather than doing a direct transfer, especially in an era of local bandwidth caps, mobile computing etc?