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To clarify your first point: They've justified this by saying that compression algorithms have gotten better meaning people can store more on less, which is idiotic, seeing how files get a lot bigger because of higher quality. Their explanations are based on a study that isn't even available to the public. The tax is also levied on SD cards, which afaik no one ever uses for anything else than as a storage for media you produce yourself, since they are used mostly in cameras and smartphones.
The point is that in typical apartment fire, the temperature rises to at least to 800C. Steel has good thermal conductivity, and therefore steel structures start to bend greatly when temperature hits 600C in a single floor. This usually causes a collapse. It's very important to quickly evacuate steel building if it's on fire.

With massive wood structures the situation is different. The wood is very good heat insulator, so if the skin gets to 1000C the inside might still be lot less than 250C. Wood doesn't burn that quickly as it has to evaporate first (we usually call this smoke) before it can burn.

Of course this is all dependent of scale. If you try this out at your fireplace with something that fit's there, the story is completely different.

My info comes from Helsinki university of technology construction material lectures. So I can't really paste sources here.
izs mentioned @tacoconf that he wanted to get people to switch to 0.8.x @nodeconf
I came here to say the same. Very nice idea (and I know I've needed it in the past), but it's not working terribly well currently. I have, however, installed it, and will be using it.
I think people have an entitlement attitude about digital content (movies, music, software, games, etc) that doesn't exist for other tangible products. And I think this entitlement has come out of being able to get away with stealing the content easily.

Many people can't afford/don't want to pay for a Rolls Royce, they aren't their target market, but they don't feel entitled to drive one. So they don't go out and steal one and then say "if only you had made the Rolls Royce available at the local dealership in Randomtown, USA instead of Manhattan and at a more reasonable price of $30,000 I wouldn't have stolen the car".
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Can you just buy from another European country and import?

Yes that's one of the fundamental reasons for setting up the European Union. A Single Market.
There's a nugget of truth in their concerns which makes them harder to dismiss. Equally, can you say that local storage is more secure, tapes in a "fire-proof" safe, etc? I have reservations about the cloud (Amazon's outage was a wake-up moment for me) but nothing's perfect.

As for Google Mail vs Exchange, my personal opinion is that Gmail is superior in evey way. If you need discovery, you can always shove email through your own gateway (running Postfix) and set it to store all emails it sends and receives. You could also use Postini which I think gives extra facilities like discovery. Might be a bit hacky for some organisations I suppose but I've never found Exchange that elegant or easy to manage.
To be fair, I don't know how much is coming from Netflix and how much from the Hollywood company MRC, but $100 million for 26 episodes isn't outrageous.
Good point. :) However, there were maps on the Palm, just from a different vendor. Probably MapQuest, now that I think of it. The main point is that, imo, there was a step change when it became possible to find directions/restaurant info away from a computer. Now it's a bit more convenient, but just an incremental change in comparison.

In any case, it's certainly not the case that 2002 was some ancient era where we all used payphones, at least not in the West. That's hyperbole at best.
IconFinder is a great site, very happy for them! And it's got a lot of potential beyond merely being a search engine.
SSDs live long enough. You get magnitudes more IOPS performance out of a single SSD than a RAID of 15k disks, it consumes magnitudes less power, it costs less, and it needs less maintenance. It's a complete no-brainer these days to put an SSD in your database server.
Maps worked fine on the Palm. Not as nice as today's maps, but they were sufficient. Also, Sprint introduced a reasonably priced uncapped plan around 2002 or 2003 or so, coinciding with the introduction of one of the Treo models, so there wasn't really a data-charges problem. In fact, the data plans got worse for a period later in the decade. There was a time in the late-2000s when Sprint re-introduced per-MB bandwidth charges, except that Palm phones were grandfathered in on the old plan, so you got unlimited data on Palm, but not on anything else.

It's true that uptake has increased over the last decade, though. Partly due to product improvements, but I think largely due to cultural changes.
How much is growth worth?
AFAIK the levy on computers is only for the first retail, not on subsequent second hand sales.
It is a fixed rate for a category of products.
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I'm from Sweden and we have a similar tax. I used to import from Germany but now I need to find a new source.
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Unless you have a leaking plugin, Firefox is likely doing that for performance. You have a lot more than 500MB RAM, right? Why not take advantage of it?
Give me examples of pages that have it
It's very remarkable to see how that totally absurd law violating all principles of justice is accepted by governments both in developed countries such as the USA and Germany, and not so developed such as Russia. Does it mean that governments around the world are equally ignorant and unprincipled, regardless of a country's wealth, culture or democratic freedom?
Germany has had it since 1965. The news is the massive increase, not the existence of the tax.
They actually made "floating floors" from concrete panels. I was wondering if it's still possible with wood. Question is what will happen if some water gets below the concrete. I guess it's self drying as there is void between ceiling and wood structure.
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Hacker News for iPhone/iPad.

http://www.hackerno.de
Would you say that that 50% first found the site through a search engine though? I know i did. And only after did i start talking about it. Love the service btw
Not any more nowadays. I am the original author of Photon and today PHP is extremely robust and you can catch all the exceptions/errors (outside the ones which are making your code invalid, but hey, do your homework). The current PHP 5.3 is also wonderful at not leaking memory. So you get the speed of bare PHP with a framework (because nothing is reloaded, the framework can really load once, reuse many times).

On a small system, a standard HTTP request through Mongrel2, to the framework and back is about 2ms (including 1ms of network latency between the hosts, data from my production monitoring). This is the "hello world" latency. It makes using PHP very fun and very fast. Also, a single PHP process running in the background uses about 12MB, it means that with 12MBx3 + 10MB Mongrel2, you can serve 1000's of users with nearly no load on your system (if you push the load only when needed at the DB level). Tracing a PHP process, you can run it without system calls at all (only gettimeoftheday for logging).

But, this is cutting edge, so, you need to be open minded and ready to dig in the code (less than 25k SLOC anyway I think).
Its not very nice that the author turns a 'security researcher' (his words) who is effectively helping (if not actually doing) the authors job for him into a pantomime villain.

[edit: I do get that they became 'friends', which gives some levity to these descriptions, but it still strikes me as casting aspersions not just on the individual but more generally on the way he and others like choose to work]
Well, there's some facts that you still need to take into account:

* The fee used to be a flat 0.10 Euros, negotiated in 2008. Since then, the storage sizes have gone up dramatically, so an increase in price is certainly warranted.
* This is the move of the ZPÜ after negotiations failed. Their negotiating partner, the bitcom made an offer that basically called for keeping the old price. So the ZPÜ did what every negotiator will do: The put up a demand where they have room to lower the price.

So all in all, I'm annoyed that the price has gone up, but I'm not as outraged as many are. I don't buy tens or hundreds of USB-Sticks anyways, so the net result for me is negligible. It's the price we chose to pay when private copying was legalized and me for one, I'm happy to pay that price.

In the end, this is the wrong battle to fight, the copyright-issue will be decided on other fronts. We need a complete overhaul of the current system, so don't waste your breath here.
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There are many vegetarian Buddhists here in Taiwan and their food is sadly well-known for being overly greasy (as to add flavor). It doesn't help that the local Buddhists avoid onion and garlic, two staples in non-vegetarian local food. It's considered normal to eat supplements, but that's of course a recent phenomenon.

I'm not saying it's all bad (I'm mostly vegetarian), but the studies are all over the place as with everything in nutrition :)
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Actually, IPvFOX (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfox/) is even better. Sixornot only shows dns lookups for the page's domain, this one shows IP address for every loaded resource in it.
And if the photographer is reading - PLEASE FILE A DMCA TAKEDOWN NOTICE.

(Companies aren't going to pay attention to you as a little guy until you kick them in the pants. Have at it.)
OSX support requires OSX contributors. So don't ask Mozilla what the excuse is, ask your fellow OSX programmers.
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From Samsung, supporting linux is not exactly a new trend as they are among the funding members of the Linux Mobile foundation and were silver members of the Linux foundation before the discussed story.
Its worth noting that the events described occurred in 2010.
You would think so, but I've never been able to find a definitive answer, in public at least. Some forum posts seem to imply you should answer YES if you utilize HTTPS/SSL even if it's just through the iOS standard frameworks. Whether anyone _really_ cares remains to be seen. The vague wording is probably Apple's way to C.Y.A. should any problems arise later.
Anyone know about using Tesla coils to generate electricity inexpensively from Earth's magnetic field?
I was thinking of doing something like this without the GAE component, purely on-browser. Obviously your solution has many advantages, like automatic browser compatibility. Also, it exists.

Is it open source? I'd like to help you add other sites. For instance, I'd like to have the Metafilter and BoingBoing reactions available too.
If I lived in a country where the "pirate" levy was in place I would feel justified in copyright infringement because I would feel I have already paid for it.
Yes I just made a copie paste to let the community know
The information come from this 2 @Nodejs tweets :

http://twitter.com/nodejs/status/210160851225821184
and
http://twitter.com/nodejs/status/210218802451972097

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It's the laws which create criminals and the law needs to change. Society owns the laws and we have all changed, so the law needs to change with us. Any business which is unable to compete with its customers is out of business - why postpone the inevitable?
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IMO Chrome is great, but Firefox has more features that I like. The minor speed differences are inconsequential and FireFox is faster at some things anyway.
First Impression leaves me very doubtful, i understand you might have wanted to keep a clean layout but more than clean this is just empty. There should be something that encourages the user to sign up. A logo and a signup button i am afraid is not enough. At the bottom right there is a broken image.
Anyway to try to help i signed up, the first dashboard page i a bit empty but i can understand this because there is only one game, The team page looks nice, i tried to select five user and it created an entry, i have never used one of this game, but shouldn't i be able to see/modify his entry? how? where? i did not find anything.
Anyway good luck, i hope my feedback helps.
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I'd even guess that people who are happy and at peace with what they eat might outlive hardcore perfectionists. Are there any studies about that? (I'm thinking of a parallel to the study where religious people lived longer.)
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Mozilla take in millions a year from Google. If nobody is contributing to a major platform - pay someone to. I don't even own a mac, but simply can't understand how Mozilla are failing so badly at it.
I can't find anything saying where the money actually goes.

One injustice of levies like this is that the money may not actually go to those who piracy is harming, but instead it lines the pockets of whoever can already afford to lobby for the fee.

In the Netherlands (IIRC) it is distributed to producers of music and film (note: not software).
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What I love about web apps is that they're so ephemeral. You open it, try it, close the window, and it's gone. And it only comes back if you ever go to that domain again

Downloading an app, worrying about spyware, having something run constantly in the background, no thanks

Got to love that sandboxing
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"Note to our salespeople: for security purposes, please make it more difficult to purchase our product."

This guy still does not get it...
This isn't a prototype computer. This is a prototype relay that can only open. If they'd given their engineers just two more months they'd have been able to show off a grid of pixels - something that would work in multiple orientations with arbitrary UI elements. Show me the full relay and an adder and I'll be happy.
I'm not 100% sure how the users find it initially, but about 25% of total traffic is from Google now - many come via Image search.
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In some countries (I don't know about Germany) it is not the same as 'fair use'. E.g. in The Netherlands the result of these levies is that you can legally download music and movies from Usenet for personal use, without purchasing an original copy. However, you are not allowed to upload music or movies.

This was a direct translation of how the law worked before: I could not make a copy of an album for you, but you could borrow it from me, make a copy, and return the original to me.
We had a really craptastic time trying (and failing) to debug what seems to be race conditions in waf (it uses two workers by default, and they get deadlocked intermittently when doing build jobs). So I look forward to at least getting that sorted out by way of node abandoning waf.
As an Emacs fan, I really enjoy the Firemacs extension.
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Rendering pixels was never the problem.

With gross oversimplification: office had binary formats (Spolsky has written about clever-clog date handling, now forced to collide with ISO). This binary is/was actually a memory dump of the MFC application, a serialisation on FAT block-based file.

Newer formats are complex, because they are almost an automatic transliteration to XML tags to keep backwards compatibility with the status quo. All this means, that it is highly not trivial to read Office formats without being 100% compatible with MFC. Which is not 100% possible -- even for MS itself ...let alone others (ie. competitors). This becomes apparent, when you try to insert a page, paragraph with copy paste into an existing document within Word: sometimes fitting into the existing OO hierarchy will inevitably fail. This is a long standing wont-fix bug, for good technical reasons.
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I'm sure this was meant as a joke.
I couldn't bear reading that article.

The story could've been good, but the style of writing is neither witty nor clever and when I arrived at reserved seats in the front row at Black Hat I closed the tab with a quick sigh of relief afterwards. Horrible.
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I think the web could handle a fully re-imagined stack. So long as it adhered to well defined standards and kept dns, with buy in from the major browsers the two stacks could co-exist.
Very cool idea to lay it out like this, but unfortunately it didn't work very well for either, apart from the Twitter mentions.
Really? For more context here is the entire paragraph:

"Barnaby chose my company's ATM arbitrarily, it was just the most conveniently available to purchase on the web and be delivered to his home. Note to our salespeople: for security purposes, please make it more difficult to purchase our product."
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Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article as one single whole: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/06/long...
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It's a joke. He later on describes how they've become friends.
I actually use SD-cards for audio files. They're small, sturdy, convenient, every modern macbook has a suitable slot and lots of car audio systems accept them. They're kind of like a usb-stick without the clunky connector and wrapping.
Yes, really. The whole article is thick with sarcasm and jokey stabs
I don't understand why everybody won't be nepalem.

Ancient entities like Diablo and Imperius recognise you being nephalem because the difference is as obvious to them as the difference between an ape and a human.
Excruciating, hammy read - wish he'd tone down the dramatic prose and just give us the info.
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That's a shame, since S+M has the potential to become the true next-gen HTTP, an improvement for everyone, while SPDY only is useful for "the elite" websites who has purchased a SSL certificate.

Most small websites with no need for SSL, unless they're hosted on a service like Tumblr or Webly, will be stuck on HTTP 1.1 "forever". It sucks that independently hosted "real" websites will have a technological disadvantage to websites hosted on third-party services unless they're willing to shell out a not insignificant amount of money ($15+ USD per year per site).
Indeed, FTA:

"Platinum membership is $500,000 per year."

"including fellow Platinum members IBM, Oracle, Intel, Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center"

So Linux Foundation is getting at least 3MM USD per year now.
When they announced on HN last year, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2749124
most people thought their prices were too low...
Well, I think you are 81% right...... ;)
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We already have a tax like this in the U.S. on blank CDs and cassettes, passed in 1992. Despite the rhetoric, the U.S. is not really against "social market" type policies in general. If I'm being cynical, my take is that socialism is only unpopular when it might help anyone poor. :)
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I've had also quite strange experience when departing from the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv two months ago. Neglecting the fact I got a very thorough security check for no apparent reason, have been asked questions like "Did you like it in Syria?", and got my pants wiped with a bomb detectors, the most humiliating thing that happened was that they asked me to unlock my iPhone and then walked away with it for a good few minutes.

I have no idea what did they do with the phone, did they read my emails? check my photos? installed some spyware? I have no idea, but I'm sure if I rejected to unlock it, I would be missed my flight. I felt like crap after that.

Interestingly, they didn't care about my second phone, an old Nokia, probably iPhone is more popular.
But I don't want to do that. I don't want to store anything broadcasted on radio or tv to disc. Why would I have to pay in that case?
Make it optional, make it opt-in. Allow people to go to GEMA or equivalent and buy one year subscription if they want to use the "right to make copies of copyrighted content", but please don't force me, or anyone else to pay for it if we don't want it.
tmpfs for mysqld's tmpdir is a similar option, perhaps even better if, as I'd hope, tmpfs's internals are simpler and faster because it has an easier job to do that ext3-sans-journal. Obviously needs the RAM though.
> One regularly repeated meme of the era was that people didn't want to pirate music, they just wanted it "as easy" or "no drm" or "ala carte" or "all you can eat".

Someone put it well recently: "We don’t want everything for free. We just want everything"

http://questioncopyright.org/we_want_everything
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If you read it all the way down, the author reveals that he befriended the hacker and was very grateful for helping and co-operating with the fix. The villain part in the beginning was just joking, although I did not particularly enjoy that style of writing either.
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I'm in almost the exact same position, except that I didn't know I had v6 access until I happened to think of the IPv6 launch sometime last week, wondered if I was online with it yet, and tried it by enabling it on the AirPort base station. It works perfectly: no glitches, as fast as v4, gets v4, v4/v6, and v6 sites perfectly. It does, as you say, just work.

Props to Comcast for putting the future of the internet into their customers' hands.
Can't find a full length video of the presentation anymore online. Anyone else find a copy of the presentaton?
It seems you fall squarely into the bucket of 'people who haven't even tried' (and some other unfavorable buckets, but I'll leave that to your older self to judge).
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Well, your description is more or less how it works where I live (Switzerland). Downloading for yourself is not illegal here (it's in a legal grey zone, there have never been convictions against private downloaders and the government recently explicitly stated that this is how it's going to stay). It's probably only possible because we don't have a very powerful media lobby.