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A successful defamation case in America requires proof that the offender had committed so called actual malice.

Only a subset of plaintiffs in defamation cases are required to prove "actual malice" (a specialized legal term defined below). The general law in the United States is

"Depending on the circumstances, the plaintiff will either need to prove that the defendant acted negligently, if the plaintiff is a private figure, or with actual malice, if the plaintiff is a public figure or official."

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/proving-fault-actual-...

"The First Amendment requires that a defamation plaintiff prove actual malice or reckless disregard of the truth when the plaintiff is a public official or public figure. New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). This is a much higher burden of proof for a public figure plaintiff. Instead of showing objectively that a "reasonable person" knew or should have known the defamatory statement was false, a public figure plaintiff must prove the intent of the defendant was malicious, or that they acted with reckless disregard for the truth. This allows the defendant to prove its good faith intent and efforts as a defense."

It's a debatable question in this case whether or not FunnyJunk's role in this litigation triggers the requirement to allege "actual malice" (it is certainly not a public official), so maybe FunnyJunk doesn't need to allege "actual malice."

"Actual Malice

"In a legal sense, 'actual malice' has nothing to do with ill will or disliking someone and wishing him harm. Rather, courts have defined 'actual malice' in the defamation context as publishing a statement while either

"knowing that it is false; or

"acting with reckless disregard for the statement's truth or falsity.

"It should be noted that the actual malice standard focuses on the defendant's actual state of mind at the time of publication. Unlike the negligence standard discussed later in this section, the actual malice standard is not measured by what a reasonable person would have published or investigated prior to publication. Instead, the plaintiff must produce clear and convincing evidence that the defendant actually knew the information was false or entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication. In making this determination, a court will look for evidence of the defendant's state of mind at the time of publication and will likely examine the steps he took in researching, editing, and fact checking his work. It is generally not sufficient, however, for a plaintiff to merely show that the defendant didn't like her, failed to contact her for comment, knew she had denied the information, relied on a single biased source, or failed to correct the statement after publication."

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/proving-fault-actual-...
Yammer has already won their segment.

Depends on how narrowly they define their segment. I've done a ton of customer development interviews with people over the past 8 or 9 months, exploring this whole "enterprise 2.0" space, and I've found that - by and large - most people haven't even heard of Yammer (or Jive, or Broadvision, or Lotus Connections, etc). My perception is that anyone playing in this space isn't even really competing with Yammer (or Jive or whoever) they're competing to convert current non-users of this kind of technology.
Where was S3 mentioned? The post said CloudFront.
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"But the real problem for companies lies in the practice of using out-of-the-box programs to protect data."

No, no, no, no, no. The real problem lies in either rolling your own, or using out of date out-of-the-box programs. When it comes to cryptography the only way to do it (unless you're hiring a cryptographer) is to use an out-of-the-box program that's up to date.
I doubt a movie skewering pentecostalism would lead to legions of fundies protesting. Growing up southern baptist, as fundie as it gets, we too would make fun of pentecostals.
Move over, quantum cryptography: Classical physics can be unbreakable too
Moral dilemmas involving driverless vehicles are best solved by programming the intelligent agent governance to simulate an ethical human driver. In this fashion, the agent reuses the existing human-applicable laws and conventions.

To be sure, laws will have to be revised to accomodate certain super-human powers of vehicle-controlling intelligent agents. For example, I suppose that such agents will be much more aware of various environmental aspects due to their mesh-networking with other vehicles, roadside features, etc.

Suppose that blind pedestrians have smartphones that mesh-network with nearby driverless cars. Existing driving laws could then be revised to require driverless cars to yield right of way, even if the blind pedestrian is not holding a cane, or is not otherwise visible.
Voyager 1 about to enter interstellar space
Is Microsoft launching its own tablet?
Drag and drop in the demo doesn't seem to work for me (Win 7/Chrome 19).

Otherwise, awesome.
Heh, perhaps I do give the guy too much credit.

On the language point, considering the nature of the language I use in my letters and agreements I draft, I found his letter to be quite refreshing (at least in terms of the language used rather than its intention!).
Oh, forgot to add purchased with a student discount. So when you're saving $200 and you take a $200 hit it's really $400 less then retail.
Ring supports streaming (via Java InputStreams), but not non-blocking I/O.
Once I had more than about 4-5 years of experience.

How did you get a job before you had the experience and the skillset?

I think recruiters are not that effective (at least in programming), but it seems like a 'safe' and 'obvious' investment for someone with money and no idea of how engineers think and work.
I would LOVE it if DB became a YouTube competitor. I don't share many videos on YT because it is so annoying to upload them. If I could just fling them in a DB folder and know my online video library was growing, my family and I would be posting many, many more.

However, I'd understand why DB would stay far away from that (too distracting from the core mission). They have to find somewhere new to grow into, though.

I'd look into building an app to do it, but they limit apps to 150MB files.
At one time I thought Marcus Chong would be ideal but he's too old now. Maybe one of Rae Dawn's kids? They're probably old enough.
Pretty much what I described above. The bad parts of haskell (compile time, memory usage while compiling, bad syntax, terrible dependency/package/module management) are all present in scala, and it is semantically an inferior language to haskell. Scala is certainly a whole lot closer to haskell than go is, and I certainly don't blame anyone involved in the creation of scala for its limitations, the JVM limits how good they can get. But at the end of the day, using scala would solve none of the problems I have with haskell, and leave me with a less powerful language.
I think you glossed over the deeper meaning of the letter, which addresses exactly what you're describing. Its not a how-to on the various problems you may or may not face, written during a time when the only problem with marriage was male infidelity--its a overarching philosophy where he only used one example for illustration.

You get what you put in.

The context implies that there is another side the coin, and that this isn't a scientific destruction of the institution of marriage. It, and I think this is implied, assumes that the other person is also putting in what they hope to get out, and that you're marrying the right person.
Everything between the mountain ranges is 'midwest' to many folks.
Normally I'd say it's difficult for the retailer to support enthusiast needs like this. It can just be too costly. For example, maybe their return inspection policy is to run some Windows test software or something and it would have to be rewritten to multi-platform, or all their inspectors would have to spend time learning how to and reinstalling Windows, etc..

Push them too hard and they will run away from Linux crying due to the higher costs for few sales, like some sellers of hardware with Linux out of the box have done, or competitors not footing the bill will beat them out. It is a very low margin business where just having the automatic conveyor belts to put bins near where the parts have to be picked off the shelves helps immensely.

Newegg sells a ton of components to enthusiasts and small time computer shops upgrading and building their machines part by part, however. I think they'd be better off with a more lax policy regarding OS installs considering their customer base.
> The coolest moment in the entire book involves somebody saying "I'm sure they'll listen to reason" and then pulling out an enormous gun labelled "REASON"

It's actually quite a small gun, labeled "Ultima Ratio Regum", and the original owner (who delivers that line) dies when its software crashes. And if you think that was the coolest moment, I'm not sure what book you were reading... Did you miss the downhill skateboarding in an office building? The nuclear-powered cyborg security drone? Hiro deflects a spear with a katana. There's a man with his own nuclear deterrence strategy.

Snow Crash is definitely action, and definitely dated (it's more alternate present than near future at this point), but if it's dumb I would sure like to see smart.
> Stephenson's later books are much better (though after Diamond Age they become too long to film anyway).

I disagree - his most recent novel, REAMDE, is twice as long as it needs to be (and badly in need of a ruthless editor), takes itself far too seriously, is full of absurdly unlikely plot scenarios, and is in general almost totally unreadable.
Nice stuff man. As other have said it, the design is old school. Looking at your personal site, I know do design work as well. But I think we can all benefit from additional design help. Also, can you include the common grid marks, 960, 1280, etc.
Well, I'm looking forward to seeing the progress. Good luck!
"When we choose a short-lived laptop over a more robust model that’s a quarter of an inch thicker, what does that say about our values?"

It says that we value our time, and have other things we wish to do with our time than spend it upgrading a computer.
Cool. I could see myself using this. I couldn't find what it costs (I looked for a bit). No reason not to put it on the landing/home page.
"Snail Mail is 30 Times More Efficient than Email"

...and at least 30 times more expensive.

Mailchimp campaign:

1000 mails sent

40 people open it

10 people visit the website

cost: $15

Snail mail campaign

1000 mails sent

100 people open it/read it

50 people visit the website

cost: $1500

It may be more efficient from a conversion perspective, but it's certainly not capital-efficient.
If this were in their policy, I would sort of agree. A return policy is not a warranty, and therefore a policy that disallowed returns after a major OS modification could potentially be reasonable.

The problem here is that Newegg is not stating this up front.

I've never had an issue with a mfg warranty in a case like this (most recommend not including the HD with returns anyway). I'm still a little confused as to why the customer didn't approach the mfg first.

> I don't think any Linux vendors(Dell, System76,etc) will happily accept returns after you installed Windows on it.

Citation, please? I am not aware of any other vendor with this limitation.
Did HN's "no editorializing the original title" policy change, or does it go absent on Fridays? How did "My Perception of CoffeeScript" get changed to "Finally, an objective and balanced look at Coffeescript vs Javascript"?
cool idea. May I suggest that you show the preview before we click Next ? This way,we know how it looks like before proceeding.
Probably not, at least not for Apple.

A large part of their profit margin comes from making only very few models that share commonality in parts. Nobody is screaming for an optical drive either, so I suspect that the old unibody laptops will only be kept around for 1-2 years until demand decreases.

There's bound to be other companies that will cater to that market, but they won't be able to ship OSX on their laptops.
3D Flyover and Turn-by-Turn Navigation ported to iPhone 4
So let's say Funnyjunk stops threatening and decides not to sue. What have they lost?

* Legal fees for sending a couple of threating letters.

What have they gained?

* A full-page spread in The Oatmeal advertising the fact to all readers of Slashdot, HN, and many other social media sites that Funnyjunk exists, carries user-submitted comics such as would be interesting to readers of The Oatmeal, and are friendlier to content submitters than they are to the DMCA.

* Massive SEO links. Four out of the first six search results for "the oatmeal" from DDG refer to Funnyjunk. Funnyjunk has an entire section on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oatmeal#FunnyJunk_legal_dis... and an entire article dedicated to the dispute.

Now most of us want to believe "But this is negative publicity and Funnyjunk couldn't possibly want that". But before you conclude that, consider how little people are going to remember about this incident in just a few weeks. For example, do you remember even today the name of the Funnyjunk CEO or of his lawyer? I don't, but I remember Funnyjunk whereas I had never heard of it at all before. I've even been to their site several times now (following up on links posted at The Oatmeal).

I hate to say it, but this was brilliant and The Oatmeal fell for it.
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Vortext.js
They are charging $14.99. You have to go 2 levels next.
To me the Macbook Pro is a misnoma, if it's designed for "pros" to do whatever they want with them. The fact is when you buy a mac, you work with it's constraints, both hardware and OS (try setting up the perfect macosx and linux dual boot environment). If we expect high spec with compact design, we need to confront the fact that our options for upgrading are limited. Apple are merging high specs with slim compact design, so something has to give here.
Any sufficiently advanced technology . . .
Working about work
I think it's for dealing with emotions. Malcolm doesn't seem upset at the start of this exchange.
"Veritas Ex Gustu" ... but who knows Latin?

I love her light-heartedness and wish I still had mine. And does anyone else think of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" when reading the title of her blog ("Never Seconds")? I keep hearing "Please sir, I want some more" in my head.

I'm certainly glad to have kids like this in the world ... she's made more of a difference already than most of us will in our life-times. She's just passed the 35,000 pound mark for donations to Mary's Meals, feeding 3500 children for a year. Wow!
there is a preview screen before you get to the payment page (after entering in the addresses)
Why I had it all wrong about Boston's high-tech scene
I don't think The Oatmeal "fell" for anything. They got even more publicity than FJ-- and it was all positive. Seems more like a classic "pick a fight and everyone wins" situation.
Song of our people?

God says...
generation.

14:19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this
people, from Egypt even until now.

14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 14:21
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory
of the LORD.

14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles,
which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now
these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 14:23 Surely they
shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall
any of them that provoked me see it: 14:24 But my servant Caleb,
because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully,
him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall
possess it.
Well we're in agreement about wanting it to be open source and wanting the patent holders to fuck themselves, but you're wrong about this not being possible as an HTML5 app with offline access.
In a way Google itself has from the start been based on ignoring (certain aspects) of a dumb law: copyright.

They download/copy content from millions of sites without explicit permission.

Of course that example is more ambiguous as the definition of fair use is vague (and ever-changing), but is not all that different.

If every business followed every law in the books the economy would crawl to a halt.
There's good and bad publicity, and while the line might be blurred for software startups, it's fairly clear for film studios. Pissing off the conservative crowd in North America comes with some consequences for an entertainment/media company.

Case in point: The Golden Compass. The studio was shooting for a $30 million dollar opening weekend. They grossed something like $8.8 mil. You might recall that leading up to the opening there was a lot discussion (and a few calls for protests) surrounding some of the material in the books.

Compare/contrast "The Chronicles of Narnia". Both movies had similar budgets and targeted the same audience. Chronicles wasn't burdened by a bunch of controversy and pulled in ~$20 mil on the opening weekend.
thanks for the feedback - yes, I agree this would be better on the home page.
Do compete, Quantcast and Alexa also track your application usage?

Wakoopa started as an application tracker, i.e. I'm using Firefox 32% of the time, Photoshop 10% and this quirky little Twitter client 45% of my time.

That's more difficult than it might seem, as detecting which one is in use is not always easy (or universal) and different versions of different applications report themselves differently all the time.
"after entering in the addresses"
Exactly. Why should I enter the address to see a preview. I am interested in knowing how it looks right away. Address is not the key input. You can always collect it during payment time.
Bad, Bad, Bad idea.. I pay for Dropbox every month however if they are going to start cutting useful features I might as well just go with iCloud.
It's possible (although I have no idea how plausible) that Mr Balasubramani could have written that letter pro bono, which would be excellent advertising given the coverage this is getting, and since he's on the Good Team, it's probably more valuable publicity than that of the other fellow.

I speculate (at the risk of demonstrating my ignorance) that this letter, at 1 page of background and ~4 pages of analysis, may not actually have taken all that long to prepare, especially for someone with intimate knowledge of DMCA and libel/defamation case-law.

Of course, it's a lot more complicated if he has arranged representation rather than just letter-writing, and the contact telephone at the end perhaps suggests he has, so it's quite possible I'm wrong.
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EVE Online has always had what we call the "in-game browser". It used to be this rather terrible system that was a custom built environment that had maybe 15 HTML tags supported. It was not a very good system.

Eventually, CCP made a deal with someone (I forget which framework they went with, I want to say it's webkit based?) and they embedded a modern browser with JavaScript support.

They've also done some modifications of the system -- when you are in-game, you can instruct your browser to "trust" the remote web site. If you do that, the browser starts sending along headers that include information like your location in-game, your character name/ID, what corporation you're in, etc. It's a rather abysmal system of authentication, but it works OK for basic things.

They also added some JavaScript APIS so you can do some things in-game from the browser. I.e., display "show info" windows, do some UI stuff, etc. This makes you able to build web sites that are slightly more interactive and useful and actually connect with the game you're playing.

The ERP we've built is, unfortunately for me, in .NET. It's an ASP.NET system (maybe C#?) and so I can't really work on it. (I'm a Perl/Python/Go guy mostly.) I have built some other systems that my corporation and alliance uses, though, that are not part of our ERP or EMC (corporation management application).

A screenshot of the production view of our ERP:

http://xb95.com/pics/eve-erp.png

Note that it has order priority, build location, item, quantity. The icons on the right allow the producer to handle the order -- "resources ordered" (turns out we didn't have it, so I had to order stuff), "build started" (it's in build, wait for it to finish), "buy instead" (turns out it's better to buy it, resubmit this to procurement), and cancel, comments, info, etc.
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enjoy the blurry antialias artifacts or straight-up blocky/ incorrectly pixel-aligned letters, in both visual studio and vim. Might as well use DOS. /s