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Except you can block read receipts in most sane mail clients (Thunderbird has options for always/prompt/never for example). It doesn't appear that there is a way to block your messages being marked as 'seen' on Facebook, unless it's buried deep in the frequently-changing privacy settings.
There's a pending IPO that disagrees with you in no small way.
Monetization possibility? Pay to be able to see who is looking at your photos, etc? Pay to keep your message read status private?
This whole episode has been a massive face plant for Blizzard.

Consider: they have access to all of the sales data so they know how many copies of the game could potentially be played at launch.

They ran an open beta so they should have a good idea of how everything scales relative to total simultaneous user count.

They have extensive experience with all aspects of patching, scaling, and server operations through World of Warcraft and Starcraft II.

They intentionally decided to go with a "single player" experience that required connectivity and incurred server load.

Given all of that, there really is no excuse to fail as hard as they did on launch day. It is 2012, the standards are pretty high for getting things right with digital distribution and with online games. More so, if you make a bold decision to force connectivity for a single player game you damned sure better get it right or you are going to destroy your credibility.

Blizzard is enormously lucky that they have a very strong history of compelling games, these sorts of issues could easily cause an upstart game studio to go out of business.
What does 'boomeranged' mean? Went away far, then turned back and hit him in the face?
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Yes, I saw it happen in one to one chat last night. It was super useful, as the person on the other end was on a flakey connection...
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Sounds like quite the opposite. If I sent you a message, and saw there was no read receipt, I'll assume you haven't logged in. Without it, I assume you read it and didn't reply...
Programming differs from other creative activities in that it's about creating a processes that create things.

Consider art. You draw a picture with pencil and a piece of paper. In programming, you define a process of drawing a picture.

True, you can still draw by hand just fine. However, imagine a picture that only exists when someone is looking at it—a picture that you can't draw in advance, only define a process that will draw it at someone's request. That's interaction, which is what programming is mostly about.

There are other activities that involve defining processes of building things—entrepreneurship comes to mind. However, programming seems to be the only one where building a process of creation is so pure and comparable to simply building a thing.
Yes, I saw it a day or two ago, in a one-on-one chat. And now I feel bad for not having responded to someone else when I was busy, as they may have received a similar notice.
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this is one is very trick & doesn't work most of the time
But the idea is innovative.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head.

On a related point: what would have happened had Bloch not been able to come up with a rangeCheck function quickly?

Would Google have stopped Android from shipping until it was complete? It's more likely they would have just left it as a bug to be fixed later.
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This is simple - he is lying, but as long as nobody can prove he is, it is fine for him. Lying for the benefit of the client is the thing that lawyers do. Of course he knows it couldn't possible take any intelligent person with basic knowledge in the field six month to write this trivial piece of code. But he is hired to try and prove that Google owes Oracle 2 billion dollars for it. So he wouldn't be a good lawyer if he didn't try to claim it is a big deal. Just as criminal defense attorney would not be a good lawyer if he didn't try to claim his client is not guilty even though privately he would think the client did it. Of course, sometimes it looks hilarious, but in most cases it works, and works very well, judging by how much these people earn.
This isn't technically a nuclear reactor (not critical), so it doesn't appear on any of the usual lists like [1] or [2] (prior to edits made after this story came out). It isn't mentioned on any major NRC page, although they host some of its paperwork [3].

[1] http://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_nuclear_r...

[3] https://www.google.com/?hl=en#q=kodak+site:nrc.gov+-filetype...
Here's another way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:

Delete your facebook account.
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Lately, I've read many tech and science news articles that could have been written better by a brick.
I think there's plenty of evidence that users want the hardware choices they make:

1. Apple's strongest competitor, Samsung is probably the world record holder for number of different smartphone models / form factors sold simultaneously. Even with the Galaxy S II family as their top sellers, they aren't the bulk of its portfolio. While there are some experiments in there (like the Note was), I'm sure they're not setting that record just for the fun of it. If some people didn't want those choices, Samsung's smartphone strategy would not be viable.

2. The Galaxy S II isn't almost identical to the iPhone hardware. You can (and Apple and Samsung do) argue about the level of aesthetic similarity, but there are many hardware differences: size, screen, removable battery, microSD slot ... and all of these differences are things a customer can easily see in a store.

3. One of the dimensions that users obviously want choice is price - and that leads to hardware fragmentation all by itself (by using cheaper or more expensive components depending on the target price).

4. More than a few experienced iPhone users have specifically talked about switching from an iPhone to the Galaxy Note. They all talk about making the switch because of hardware differences.
LinkedIn already does this sort of, which is annoying. People can see you browsing them if they also agree to have themselves be seen. Tit for Tat. I believe there is also a monetization component but I don't know the details. I think some of the paid plans allow you to see who is viewing you regardless of their own setting.

Though somehow I feel it's less creepy for "professional" sites vs. personal sites. I don't really care about coworkers looking for me, or if I'm looking at coworkers. But if it's friends from 10 years ago it is awkward.
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Try this one (no URL junk):

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The only problem is, that Facebook only sends email notification after a 15-30 minutes delay. And if one clicks the little red notifications, no emails are sent at all for the messages that are newer than those 15-30 minutes....

This doesn't make a very lively conversation, and annoys the hell out of me. If someone comments my status update I have the email notification even sooner than the website tells me (can see from Gmail new email popup), but for messages I cannot enable immediate notification...... Stupefying....
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No real way to hide from those you want to ignore now.

Then, umm, don't add them as friends.

BBM has statuses for delivered (the message has arrived on the recipients device) and read (they have actually opened it). It's very very useful. You know at a glance where a conversation stands, you never have to "follow-up" to check a message arrived, you know if a message isn't in state D not to bother because they'll be out of reception, etc. It basically makes a BBM conversation much more natural than on SMS, or any of the big chat networks.
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"Expensive" is incurring a tremendous amount of bad PR for a game on launch day. "Expensive" is having the launch of one of your flagship games be forever used as the butt of a joke. "Expensive" is turning your own customer base against you by having people who took days off work or stayed up until well after midnight to play one of the most anticipated games of the last decade being thwarted in their attempts. "Expensive" is people deciding to put off their purchases, perhaps forever, because they see the problems people are having. "Expensive" is having your brand reputation dented to such a degree that it affects future sales of all of your games.

That's expensive.

Compared to that servers are cheap.
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Haha, OKCupid does that, you can pay for "Alpha" status that means you can stalk people's profiles without them knowing.
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Given how much people love Blizzard, I wonder if they really care /that/ much about launch day issues?

They have massive amounts of experience in this field, I'm sure they had the capability to make launch day run much smoother, so why didn't it? Perhaps they thought 'unprecedented demand for new game forces it temporarily offline' sounds like a nice headline in the paper.

It's just one day after all, and all the people who play on launch day have already spent their money, and probably aren't really the type to get a refund.
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Thanks, I had repressed my memories of Lotus Notus for many years :-|

Now I have to make an appointment with my shrink again.
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Really? How shallow thinking is that? I'm a sysadmin and our most problems are not buggy software related.
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Sure hope they don't have smoke detectors in their homes there...
AOL did this back in the 90's for any mail sent within the confines of its walled garden. You could also unsend a message.

At the time, I believe the purpose was to engender a sense of trust in "the new medium of email." Obviously that's not the purpose of the implementation on FB.

So, what is the purpose?

Maybe it's the extremely late hour, but my cynical feeling is that this seems really a psychologically driven feature... driven by some kind of awkward, socially obsessive mindset.
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> ...terahertz waves penetrate many materials as effectively as X-rays but deposit far less energy and therefore cause less damage.

Less damage? How about "no damage at all"? Terahertz radiation is on the opposite side of visible light from the ionizing frequencies.

And where the hell are they getting this "penetrate materials as effectively as X-Rays" business? It penetrates roughly the same materials as existing microwave systems, and lacks the single most commonly-known feature of X-rays, since it only penetrates a couple of millimeters into human flesh. IIRC terahertz radiation is worse at penetration than microwaves, but I'm not too certain of that.

At least they have decent numbers for the range and they mention the increased channel capacity. I'll bet they got those numbers from the research paper and tried to bullshit a description of what THz radiation is.

edit: I just reread that and I feel like it comes off as more harsh than I intended and more certain than I am of most of those facts. I was bothered by the conflation of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
Ya but sometimes you just don't know who's in charge of making these decisions. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came out and said this was a calculated business decision. Nothing surprises anymore.
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>Content will become scarce indeed if no one pays for it

An common, but unproven claim, which also confuses content creation
with distribution. It's the monopoly over the latter that I and many others
object to. We are currently seeing the beginning of an era where sharing and
remixing is giving rise to an unprecedented number of new art and culture. It
has never been easier to produce content.

>It is a time-limited monopoly designed to promote progress in science and arts.

Though I'm from Europe, I'm quite familiar with that phrase, and I don't buy it.
The problem with it is that it's from a time where the copyright industry was, to
a certain degree, necessary for the dissemination of content. The founding fathers
could have never even anticipated something like the Internet and technological
advancements like BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, which pretty much
invalidate a lot of the assumptions made when the constitution was written.

Also, as far as I remember, copyright is merely something congress is allowed to
make laws about, not a constitutionally granted right.
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> Then, umm, don't add them as friends.

This completely ignores the reality of how people use Facebook, as if one could partition every personal relationship in your life into two homogeneous groups "friends" and "not friends."

Yes, I know you can have friend lists on Facebook, but this feature clearly embraces its uniformity.
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Ouch, I must admit that I use JRuby on internal facing windows servers (no SSL required and, unfortunately, no capistrano) so have not run into these problems.
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Or the person who had an extra name added by a Wikipedia editor, which was then copied by mainstream media. The hoaxers then used that as a citation, creating "truth". Wow!
No. Click the lock icon in the address bar.

"Your connection with torrentfreak.com is encrypted with 256-bit encryption. However, this page includes other resources which are not secure. These resources can be viewed by others while in transit, and can be modified by an attacker to change the behaviour of the page."

A very cursory glance of the source shows them including the article's image (dotpirate.png), Twitter widget, Facebook Like button, their ads and Google Analytics over http rather than https.
If MS had thrown all their weight behind WP7 and made it their base platform for mobile computing going forward, with no compromises, I'd say fine. They missed the boat in 2007 but they're doing all the right things to catch up.

But their'e not. WP7 is a technological dead end that will be replaced within the next 12 months by a phone version of Windows 8. Current Silverlight apps will run on that, but in reality developers will need to rewrite for the WinRT platform to get the benefits of full native performance and functionality. Meanwhile you can't develop WP7 apps in C or C++, it's .NET/XNA only.

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In terms of capital + human capital multiplying your effort, programming is pretty hard to beat. Compare sales calls, meetings with important people, instructions delivered to staff, farming with tractor; even hands-free investing requires a lot of time.

I think the most similar skill to coding is writing. John Updike remarked, several decades ago, that fiction creates value without destroying anything (ok, a trivial fraction of the value). But it's clearly not just about being able to put some words on a page.
If they can actually increase the quality of their user monetization, then they certainly could bring in a lot of revenues.

Ok, but that's like saying if they can make more money per user they'll make more money. It feels like that's just restating the problem. So what things would happen for them to "increase the quality of their user monetization"? I'm looking for a lever they could pull or push to get more cash out of, say, me or you.

It's like channel surfing as opposed to going to the library to work on a research project.

Channel surfing is a very un-motivated state of mind for the user to be in, so you're less likely to be able to get them to do something you want. The best at this seem to be Zynga et al, but they only work on a subset of the population. Increasing the quality of user monetization will require that either you are able to leverage their dis-interested state of mind, or change it.

You don't select users based on keyword searches. You can select your users based on their interests, their age, etc. And this information is likely to be much more accurate than the information that Google distills from the sites you click on, etc.

I'm absolutely sure my daily searches give Google more info than what I feed Facebook. Today, Google knows which tech stack I'm working in and what problem I want solved this very minute. It knows which stocks I want news about, which types of mountain bike I'm reading about, images I'm searching for, etc. Compared to that, Facebook is trying to get me to search for more friends from my school, because it's figured out that I went to X schools. It might know I have said I "like" something, but that's usually a friend who asked me to like their business.

I think Facebook have an incredible strong position for maintaining the best social graph. It'll take infinity to get my older relatives on anything else. It's just not going to happen. But as to making serious money, I can't see it. Still, I'd like to see how they would do it.
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Letting users see who has browsed their profile

Actually that would be a very interesting feature because you would see your profile being "browsed" by all sorts of strange sources from all over the world. Most users simply have no idea how much this information is being scraped and analysed. It would probably scare some of them away from Facebook.

The feature itself is an old one that was around before Facebook. It seems to make good sense for a site like Facebook in the early days when it was primarily used by college students. But there is no way they would implement it now in my opinion because what it would reveal to users would freak them out.
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The best article is the original one, which also hosts the primary sources (NRC documents). Maybe you could change the submission?

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/...

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/assets/pdf/A2189208511.p...

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/assets/pdf/A2189207511.p...

some stuff:

* It's a subcritical (K_eff = 0.99) neutron multiplier using 1.5 kg highly-enriched (93%) uranium. K_eff = 0.99 means each fission event triggers a cascade of ~100 more fission events before the activity ceases. In a critical reactor (K_eff = 1) the chain reaction doesn't stop, it perpetuates itself

* The primary neutron source is californium-252, a radioactive isotope which emits neutrons when it decays (by spontaneous fission)

* Highly-enriched uranium is the neutron multiplier (operating as a subcritical reactor). For each neutron in, you get ~100 fissions and ~240 fission neutrons, of which <140 are excess (not absorbed by the uranium itself)

* Runs at about 6 watts => 4 * 10^11 neutrons/second created

* 0.33 Curies of spent "fuel" remain
The 'impressions' is very similar to the dot-com 'eyeballs' though. Luckily they have what seems like a lock-in on those impressions so they should have a decade or two to work it out!

But you're absolutely right - it's basically TV-type advertising.
>Oh and anything that involves the file system is not friendly for a surprisingly huge number of users.

"User friendliness" in this case also includes developers, who could easily write a
program that interacts with the device. For example, any media player could be used
to synchronize music (if it supports that feature).
A SpySpace style add on for Facebook (a hacked together java/action/?script exploiting piece of code that trapped users viewing your page, their ip, clipboard, etc) would net Facebook a large chunk of revenue as an add on feature.

I loved having SpySpace installed, certainly made MySpace, and trolling friends based off the contents of their clipboards, a whole lot of (somewhat nebulous) fun.
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Couldn't they have sold more digital copies than anticipated? I know I didn't preorder (not like I was worried about stock outs or anything), just bought it in the morning when it came out.
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