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David "Lefty" Schlesinger calls me "thuggish" but here.... we have David "Lefty" Schlesinger aka Stonemirror - open source gadfly and part time dildo salesman ...

fantasizing about giving a journalist a gang style beat down!

Stone Mirror posted :

Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: Re: CentOS will continue [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/CENTOS-Freetard-Run-Piggy-...

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(If it's Miguel that Roy's worried about, I certainly wouldn't _blame_
Miguel for wanting to take a swing at Roy; in fact, if Miguel were to
ask me to--which he wouldn't--I'd be willing to seriously consider
holding Roy down while Miguel worked him over. That said, I have to
say that Miguel, who is more of a gentleman than I'll be in two
lifetimes, would never do such a thing: I've broken up an _actual
about-to-turn-into-a-fight_ with Miguel. Peacefully. He's a peaceful
guy. Me, I'm as peaceful as I _can_ be.)

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I'm sorry to play this card, but this is the (Tower of Babel)[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Genesis#11:...] all over again.

Perhaps the analogy is unnecessary, or even harmful, to make. But typically I have been taught, or rather I have learned by direct method, that some Christians believe BIBLE is an abbreviation, albeit a cheeky one, for "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth".

Often I wonder what the "imperative mood" of this document is supposed to be. Obviously it is not descriptive qua scientific authorship. We shouldn't assume this, surely, since a sophisticated method of science had not been yielded to the Hebrews of that time, etc. But yet it struggles, and seemingly succeeds, at preserving its descriptive weight, as vacuous as it is, in a time of reason and science. So we claim that it is allegory and tale. And so what if is? What is it describing? Like Aristotle, I believe, it describes a cycle of civilization: humanity's response to itself.

Obviously "God" in the story of the Tower of Babel is nothing more than the height of political force of Shinar. It responds to what they have built. So here we see the "confounding" of their language; like in our time, a confounding of the DNS system. What motivates this story? To what end does it serve?

Surely the U.S. government seeks to bolster the economy through its will, by "securing" our economic creativity. For "now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

As we can clearly see this is a response to Otto Neurath, the Logical Positivists, the adoption of ideal, scientific and pragmatic languages, etc. Neurath sought to liberate the proletariat of his time through a technological mode of thought applied to language: complex symbols efficiently characterized such that they might contain chains of propositions. The illiterate worker thus might be informed through a proximity of symbol to nature. Today, we see this with technology: big-face-hypermodern-informational-UIs-with-geriatric-buttons, usability research, cognitive-neuroscience centered on atypical neuropathologies, the mobile web, Helvetica, etc.

The U.S. will respond as it should, and I play this card because, in the end, the only argument we face from politicians is an uncritical one: _what we've been doing works, so it must work_. How much influence these governments have on ICANN is unclear to me, but given the list of possible TLDs; e.g., pepsi, etc., it isn't tough to reach for the assumption.
The Deficiencies of a National Goal
REST has improved a ton since 1.3- definitely check it out. Which binding are you using?
There are several problems with this implementation.

1. The image doesn't have a src attribute. This means if that script fails for any reason then none of the images on your site load.

2. You need to have width and height attributes on all of your images. This is a nightmare for both dynamically generated content and for responsive designs.

3. You need to have those two extra attributes on each of your image elements in order for it to work.

Our goal was to make retina.js zero-config. We wanted it to work on existing sites without any changes to the existing markup.
TBL is right in that they aren't needed, and it is true that it could break a lot- from code to legislation, costing a lot of people a lot of time and effort initially.

But, there are significant benefits: (1) it opens up a whole new market for domains which will probably get back to hosting companies and provide more money for infrastructure and IPv6 migration, making things get faster better, (2) it allows for shorter domains and shorter fully qualified hostnames, which will reduce traffic and make some things more efficient.

And, there are flaws in the existing TLD system. Not everything falls under com, edu, net, country code, etc. com, edu, net are U.S./English-centric, and the internet is global. And, people abuse it to be cute (e.g. misusing country codes like del.icio.us, bit.ly) which they wouldn't do as much if they hadn't been forced to.
I'm working on a hobby project to create a crowdsourced, "open data" alternative to proprietary geolocation services like Google or Skyhook. This would enable desktop applications (like freedesktop.org's GeoClue library) to geolocate (using a web API or by downloading data to use offline).

A possible player in this area is WiGLE (Wireless Geographic Logging Engine), a Wi-Fi "wardriving" website with a database of 60M Wi-Fi network's MAC addresses and lat/long positions. Unfortunately, they don't want to create a free service because they sell the database to undisclosed partners. Even though most of "their" data consists of 10 years of wardriving volunteers uploading their personal logs, WiGLE locks the community's data behind a crappy Java map application and doesn't make the crowdsourced data available for download or from a web API.

https://wigle.net/gps/gps/main/stats/
Thanks Paul, Didn't even think of that. I've fixed it.
On the invention of money
What we need is someone like Theo de Raadt to host a 'Coding Nightmares' show where he goes in an lambasts failing companies for their lack of skillz (yes, with a "Z").
I know it's not SPARQL, but the direction Cypher is taking is very promising.
Ooh, let me help you over-dramatize.

One great way to radio-fingerprint people is when they use a point-of-sale device like a credit card checkout or an ATM or a pay-at-the-pump gas station. Put a camera on it (if you don't have one already), and you get (1) a good picture of someone's face; (2) their name and maybe address; (3) a unique way to identify them (credit card number); and (4) a short list of their possible radio IDs. Within a few encounters, you can be 99.9% sure which radio IDs belong to them. Put this system in, oh, 7-11s, Shell gas stations, and pay ATMs, and pretty soon you'll have a match for a good chunk of the population. Plus of course it gets easier as you go along -- the more people you have affirmatively identified in a location, the easier it is to narrow down the rest.

The product is a subscription database that will show you a map of your surroundings with a mug shot for each person nearby. Click the picture and you can find out anything that can be learned from their name, address, magazine subscriptions, purchase history etc -- their politics, income, education, interests, relatives, etc. If you've managed to link their email yet, you can also get all their recent online activity ...

OK, maybe banks and gas companies aren't that evil, or at least would quickly be stopped. So let me ask this: what kind of radio-fingerprint database could someone build with a botnet? You control a webcam, a wireless card, and unencrypted access to the user's internet browsing. Where does that get you?

(Probably all of this is a bit silly, but it's fun to imagine what could be done with existing technology ...)
"Free to play but in-game real-money purchases have been going strong with casual games since it became easy to send money over the net."

Casual game examples cannot be applied to Diablo's model. They are between the game makers and the users (which is more similar to Blizzard selling their items for WoW).

Diablo 3 is unique because it's facilitating transactions between players, while taking a cut. Hold up, it's not the same as TF2 either. TF2 items are pure cosmetic, novelty. Items in Diablo will effect the avatars and in turn, effect other people as well in terms of game play. One can truely buy their way up, legally.

Another aspect is consider people owning multiple accounts. How many of your WoW friends/guildies own multiple accounts? Because of the nature of the game, there are obvious benefits to have multiple characters online at the same time. How many accounts does a TF2 player has? There's no reason to have more than 1 account because there's no unique player avatars, there's no attachment, no profession limits, no character limits. Giving away free TF2 accounts is different from giving away free D3 or even WoW accounts.

Each D3 account also have a limit on how much real money balance (Bnet dollars) it can carry. So if a person wants to deal in more money or more character slots (and there will be alot of them), they need to get another account – more money in Blizz's pockets.

The point is different game mechanics, different target audience have different approaches. What works in one may not work as well as in another.
i've googled and amazoned and the yale site is down. how do i buy a print version?
> I really wish people would stop submitting ExtremeTech articles.

I agree.

There are only a few people submitting ExtremeTech articles.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%28extremet...
>We had a very strict “no whining” rule

A good portion of the adults on the planet need this rule.
Google has been testing some pretty major algorithm changes in the last 5 or so days. Everything has been extremely volatile and major SERPs are changing every few hours.

Several prominent, white hat companies have even went missing in the Google's rankings for their [brand name] this week: https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/posts/NhssnKgf...

Not buying this as a long lasting rankings change until it sticks around for several weeks.
Don't forget, all that consent given in the TOS is pointless as nobody has time to read all the TOS they need to.

I am in 100% support of this law. Even if it impacts my ability to analyze users.
shrug

I'm assuming that you want people to use your work. People need convincing. There are thousands and thousands of ideas and projects out there. The ones that are well explained are the ones that will get attention. I do research for a living. The research itself is only half the job. Presenting the research - convincing people that what I did is important and useful - is the other half.

Basically, what is your objective: do you want to be right, or do you want to be heard? You said you welcome constructive criticism. That is what I'm trying to provide - except it's not about your work itself, but about better ways to present it.
I have been using nearlyfreespeech.net for several years now, and it has been just about perfect for my needs. If your site will have low traffic, or if you want just registration and DNS, then I would highly recommend NearlyFreeSpeech
Seems likely. Automotive engineers, and the companies that employ them, are (appropriately) conservative about things, give the $ involved, and the safety issues.

Toyota is only just starting to ship Lithium batteries in some of their hybrids, but they've been common in consumer electronics for years.
I actually was just in the middle of buying a domain name, decided that while I'd like to get away from GoDaddy I can't really afford to transfer all of my domain names right now and would like them all with the same register.

Well at checkout for some reason the PayPal button was missing and I didn't feel like typing in my CC (I know thats pretty lazy) so I decided to check and see NameCheap's price and with private registration (which was free) it was going to be $8 cheaper than GoDaddy. Needless to say I'm going to start moving my domains over.
Does NameCheap let you do (I forget what it's called) your own nameserver on your own domain for free?

i.e. having registered example.com with NC, can you set up ns1.example.com to be the nameserver for example.com free of charge? Many registrars charge a fee for this (when they really shouldn't)

EDIT

Seriously? Downvotes? It's just a question. There WAS a company that does that, it was mentioned here on HN during the great GoDaddy exodus, but I cannot recall which.
Are you searching for one or what?
2nd for me even though Matt Cutts (I follow on Google+) shared GoDaddy on Blogger.
Big Brother, where art thou?
The irony of his essay really hit home after watching the first few minutes the Alex Faaborg video he linked to. Alex uses an interview with jwz to introduce the philosophical foundation that Mozilla is built one. Times sure have changed.

I thought Jamie's essay was pretty reasonable. It highlights the open vs. closed debate that's been going on for decades. I doubt that open systems will ever be able to provide the end-to-end consistency and integration that an Apple-style walled garden can provide (if done right). You have to decide what's more important to you.
The perception is caused by the fact that the other domains are jokes. What is .info? .biz? Viable alternatives but totally useless.

The bar for getting a new TLD should be that you're doing something new and different, not just opening up a new namespace. .name is one example where they're at least trying to innovate.

A new TLD like .arpa that's used for some kind of underpinning would be a good idea if there was a technical requirement for it.

Otherwise you're just cluttering up the root zone with garbage and making it even more complicated for people to know what a legitimate domain is.

The public suffix list (http://publicsuffix.org/) is already full of garbage if you want to see how bad it is.
There were two reasonably-priced used copies of the book at the Strand in New York as of yesterday afternoon.
Good luck with diplomacy if you have no private communications.
I liked the title of the article, but then felt it fell flat. I thought it was going to be about spending less time on HN and more time coding.
I will say that Apple did a good job on the screen resolution of the Air line, although the lack of 8gb option for memory is a pain.

My biggest problem with non-Apple "ultrabooks" (thx Intel) is the weird off-center keyboard / touchpad. It is really hard to find a keyboard / touchpad that is actually centered. Never-mind Sony putting a numeric keypad on theirs. How am I supposed to sit centered to the screen and type properly? It looks like that thinkpad is centered but it is so hard to tell with the angled shots.
the key word being "open". IIRC its been in closed beta for a few months now.
> I guess I won’t have to worry about the kids education any more

Isn't Linus already a millionaire through the shares Redhat gave him a while ago?
I've never seen a registrar that does this, and I have five domains on Namecheap currently.
I work for Ning and wanted to let anyone who is interested know that there is some additional info on the Ning Blog about this issue if anyone is interested: http://www.ning.com/blog/2012/04/security-updates-on-ning-pl....

Hope that helps. Have a great weekend.

E
They refer to it as 'private nameservers', and it should be free.

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
How do you get by with the trackpoint/trackpad? (my current thinkpad has both)... my experience has been that the trackpoint still (to this day over a dozen+ years after it was introduced) still exhibits ghost motion, and the trackpads on PCs all still suck at palm rejection and responsiveness while typing.

When I want an super-portable laptop in "lap mode", I need the pointing device that doesn't suck. The only one that delivers is the Macbook. With all my PCs I've needed to connect a mouse for decent productivity, which really sucks for portability.
You can specify it in the domain settings. I haven't used it but the option is available (with out showing any upgrade button)
This goes back to the whole Jeff Atwood blog about banking buckets (I wish I could find the link!).

Chances are, if there's a company in the industry you want to target they've thought of your idea and realized that it's either not possible to make money on it or it's not possible to make as much money as they're currently making doing other things.
> You have to decide what's more important to you.

Unless the walls get too high. And of course there's the argument that the walled gardens are built on land fertilized by open systems; they can't survive alone.
How to appropriately lie on your resume
question: Why does getting a copy of an ISO doc cost money?
6 Changes to Make Before the Google Over Optimization Penalty
Steve Blank wrote about this a while ago, but it didn't seem to get much attention:

http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/sxsw-new-rules-for-the-new-...

The 'rules for the new bubble' section starts on slide 117.

Previous HN discussion on the presentation here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318208
iPhone reminds you multiple times daily if you do not have wifi turned on.
nobody is immune to marketing. Not even linus torvald.

thinkpads are ok (if you stay in the T series) and asus eeepc1000 was years ahead of any mac at the time. heck the air is a copy of that machine with a less plastic-ey case.

but neither asus nor lenovo buy billboards in times square and hollywood blvd, or center fold wired.

anyone that swears to buy apple after researching for the best is just a sad victim of marketing. Sadder as they will never accept it.
Sean Parker's Airtime is challenged by a self-funded startup from Ukraine
and the fact that 3 isn't current, 4 is. if you develop for the latest and greatest you get what, like 5% of the market.
Interesting. I will definitely add the buy button at the bottom, and make the top one larger. That's a very good suggestion.

As for the app itself, it's a little weird because I think the real power of it lays in the way it organizes your notes, and gives you quick access to anything you want. When showing it to people however, it was the autocomplete and somewhat the beautiful design that created the "wow" effect. So with that said, I'm still not sure what the best sales pitch should be.
To cover the operating costs, pay their employees, etc. If they gave them away free they'd need sponsors I guess.

So it's probably to maintain neutrality.
I am sorry, but from the press release they have only added two new industry partners to help develop this battery. There is still a long way to go before they have anything near a working product.

Press release:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37511.wss
I do this for all of my domains with no trouble and no additional cost.
I'd love to use Neo4j for future projects but I was wondering: How mature is it? There are not that many articles out there and I wonder how you go about durability and scalability with Neo4j. I really hope it will take off like other NoSQL solution like Couch, Redis and Mongo
What is the cost, time and money, of getting something ISO standardized?
While it might be using an unofficial sprite spec, everything you linked at 0x10co.de is using an unofficial input and graphics spec… That's what the community does: fill in the missing pieces!
I'm not sure what this buys Ruby or its community. Could someone explain? The Ruby community is already fragmented a bit with MRI and JRuby (and others, but primarily those two). Does it really need an ISO standard to slow those two implementations down whilst they try to become ISO compliant and maintain ISO compliance? Won't this be an opening for some other opensource group to implement some other ISO certified version that will also fragment the community further? Finally, adherence to an ISO standard and the red tape involved almost seems juxtaposed to the existing self-organized, small, agile culture that makes up the Ruby community. Don't get me wrong- ISO is great. I just don't think it fits.
It is similar to defer.deferToThread. The main difference is that this is only about 100 lines of code that depends only on the ioloop, as opposed to twisted.internet.defer, which also has stuff like defer.inlineCallbacks in there.
yep, after you use the clitmouse of a loooong time (mostly after I play a round of league of legends) and you try to move the cursor just slightly, it will ghost a little down or up. just pressing the red cap once will stop it until after the next game session.

but it's a damn small price to pay for the clitmouse.

no self respecting programmer should use any other mouse device. my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling
I think they're disabled because people were outing ones that wanted to be nameless and the tech rags lurking on HN looking for stories to recycle might prematurely write about them.
"Koffler says it's not necessarily hard to move data out of S3, it just may be more expensive than putting it in."

This is a ridiculous statement. PUTs are $0.01 for 1,000 requests, and GETs are $0.01 for 10,000. Deletion is free. Data transfer out per GB is comparable to the monthly cost per GB.

Sure, putting data in is cheap because you don't get charged for bandwidth, but storing it costs just as much per month as moving it out would. If you've got somewhere better to store your data than S3, you'll come out ahead price-wise after a single month, so you should do it. That's not lock-in, not even close.

Convenience-wise, yes, there's a lot of lock-in with AWS, no question. But that's a different problem, it's not fair to imply that you're locked in because of charges to actually get your data out.
Okay, so the points about Neurath are good stock.
Do You Have to "Work" 24/7 to Be a Successful Entrepreneur?
How is decorating your function with @in_thread_pool complex? The threads are managed automatically. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question.
GoDaddy still wins for "domain names" when I'm signed out or in.
I've developed apps for iPhone, Android, and WP7. While I use and prefer iPhone myself, I find WP7 to be vastly superior to the Android devices I've used. I'd recommend iPhone to people asking me, but for the people who just don't like Apple I'd recommend WP7 over Android.

As for whether or not they give an upgrade to 8 frankly it doesn't matter from a business standpoint. There just aren't enough people with WP7 phones at this point. It's not the same as comparing Android 2.2 when WP7 only has 1% of the smartphone market.
I would have expected that cost to be covered by those seeking to establish a standard rather than the people who want to implement it.

Does that mean submitters and downloaders pay or just downloaders?
First, it's not the comments I'm complaining about, it's the content, so no, my comment is not fulfilling any prophecy.

Second, the title is sensationalistic and misleading. To a casual reader the it implies that the battery is ready for use ("creates") and that it's unique to IBM. Neither are true. A more accurate title would be: IBM research department is trying to develop commercial lithium-air batteries, just like lots of other people.

The article is not in-depth, nor does it describe anything new or interesting in science. It is a brief, shallow overview of a line of research that has existed for decades. That is not news.

Battery research is slow and plodding, yet linkbait link this is often all over reddit and other technology blogs. Hacker News was supposed to be free, or at least low, on this kind of garbage, but the fact that this is the second time I see this very article (or an equivalent one) shows that the Hacker News userbase is no more discriminating than any other news site based on user voting.
If most of your code is not asynchronous, why are you using an asynchronous server framework?
It doesn't have anything to do with Steve Jobs, Ruby, Javascript or social networks. It also lacks the key phrase "why you should(n't)".

So, to answer your question - no.
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