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The game is easy and boring in the end. He's purposely letting it go on and on.
Your chances of getting ICS on your legacy device are virtually zero. whereas getting IOS 6 on the iphone 4S is assured.

Yes, but how important is this really in practice? With both platforms approaching maturity deploying major OS updates OTA is going to be less important.

Google can ride the natural device upgrade cycle to get out new versions. If they can make the browser and email client and a few other key apps independent of the OS they can rev those a lot faster. No doubt they'd like to have Apple's upgrade muscle but I'm not convinced they really need it in the long term.
I've already tried that with no success
Software that appears to be packed/obfuscated throws up red flags.

Rather than attempting to look like some badass in leather, flame/stuxnet dresses in a cheap ill-fitting suit with a bad microsoft tie so no one will suspect it.
I do suppose it would be better to just be able to force them to obey the GPL (and distribute their code), than disallow them to use it.
This is the old bullet-list fallacy. Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list. Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list, so every manufacturer thought that all they had to do was add a touch screen to their existing platform, and hordes of just like the "LG ENV Touch" flooded carriers. Feature phones had small app stores where you could buy a dozen useless apps, so they beat the iPhone on that bullet item.
>I am thinking, though, that as the two major personal computer platforms become more closed, it gradually opens a market for some savvy company to go in the opposite direction: targeting those who want more customization, not less, without sacrificing hardware quality.

All 10 of them? Maybe VA Linux has a market after all.
I don't think he's saying that at all. I interpreted it as, given unlimited resources, Eve can determine that Alice and Bob are communicating over encrypted channels which, for Alice and Bob, is almost as bad as having their encryption broken.
mtgx theorized it would be easier with access to the Windows source, and it would, and you know it would, and you're purposely being obtuse; arguing for the sake of arguing.

There is a reason we have programming languages, and we don't all write directly in machine code. Just because it's techincally possible to do things in a more difficult way doesn't mean they would be done that way with a faster, easier option readily available.

Stop being silly. :P
Yes, but this just amounts to scaling via the compositor and graphics stack (hardware-accellerated, of course), as opposed to being left to the 'screen' (post-GPU-hardware/firmware) as would be the case when actually driving a screen at non-native resolution.

See the Safari/Chrome comparison in the article to see what this means in real terms...
With "accelerated greencard process" do you simply mean the greencard process as it exists for people that are already employed in the US as opposed to the slower / more uncertain process for people that, for example, use the Diversity Lottery or that are employer-sponsored but not already in the US?
Thanks. I did not know about AppHarbor, I will look it up.
I agree, but I didn't want to get bogged down in a "GOTO bad or not" discussion, which is why I left this detail out.
Same here. I won't buy an Android device before making sure it can be easily rooted and that it runs a custom build I like.
I think we did not see new Mac Pros and new iMacs because Apple wants to update them to use a retina display as well. I think it's more likely that Apple expects the displays to be available soon than that Apple doesn't care about these lines anymore.
If Apple wants to update the big screens, it will need to update the iMac and the Thunderbolt displays at the same time. Since the MacPro should be able to use the Thunderbolt retina display, it probably should be updated at the same time.
I might be wrong that it's the screens they are waiting for, maybe it's the graphics cards, but I am sure all those product lines will be updated at the same time and they all will get Retina and probably within the next 6 months.
That's not exactly a shared memory model. A better example would be a static look-up table for fixed game state information and a bunch of AI worker threads.

With the correct protocol you can even write to that shared memory. For example a sudoku solver where each tread looks for contradictions and then overwrites the shared states with their findings. This works because there is no contradictions, dirty reads are ok, and there is no contention with all threads writing 0's and nobody writing 1's. You can go even further where any thread can flip the error flag if a contradiction shows up or solution flag if a solution is found, but again it works because nothing clears those flags.

PS: The article's author uses a less strict defintion of lock free where it's ok to use locks for individual atomic operations like counters. But, that still creates performance issues at scale.
That would require a magical sim swap while the kindle is in transit.
Can you please give an example of that? You've got my curiosity piqued :)

Btw, another place this can't be used is across multiple files, at least the way ST does it.
The Current Education System
HN managed to generate 22 comments discussing a 6 line lighthearted hypothetical musing on LWN.

>pedantic people for extended discussions of absurdities.

And here we are!
How can I get a pointer to my cursor in Javascript? I might find this useful in automating certain processes.
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I was blown away at the simplicity and effectiveness of that solution in particular. It needs to be made known and implemented on a larger scale.
In some cases, Eve is willing to arrest/maim/kill anyone caught using Bob's encryption scheme. Eve has the ability to control at least some of the intermediary systems. Eve doesn't need to specifically break the scheme, just be able to figure out who's using it so she can go apply some lead pipe cryptanalysis [0].

[0] http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-10-19
If you read the linked thread you'll find out why.

First of all the game was technically won thousands of years back but he kept playing. And now they are in a stalemate that no one can break.

His thread is basically all about asking for help (and fresh ideas) to end this.
>ICS ecosystem is almost vaporware, it is supposed to be the best release yet, but i actually never saw it. Maybe its the best thing since sliced bread, but if nobody uses it, what exactly is the point?!

Your chances of getting ICS on your legacy device are virtually zero. whereas getting IOS 6 on the iphone 4S is assured.

There are two kinds of Android users in this world - those who care about this issue, and those who don't. The former tend to be the innovators and early adopters who pay attention to every new OS release and whatnot, the latter are the mainstream users who just want a working phone and don't follow the tech rags and don't really care about the details.

So what I wonder is, if you're in the former group, why buy any Android phone other than a Nexus variant straight from Google, which is the only one guaranteed to get the latest greatest OS updates as painlessly as possible? I'm in that group, and I couldn't imagine buying some mangled, bloated carrier-modified version of Android. Is it just the marginally better hardware specs that attract people?
This is awesome. The world is finally waking up! :)
Wish he had stated which UK bank since most of the ones I am aware of use 2-factor authentication using a card reader device. They even seem to use an identical card reader!
well going from UK to Europe "Engineers" are MUCH MUCH Higher status jobs.

The wife of the Number 2 at BT labs (you know the place that desigend and built Colossus) once got asked what sort of cars her husband worked on :-(

And yes they did think he was a car mechanic.
A high school diploma in a developed country doesn't get you that far these days.
>With both platforms approaching maturity...

I can't agree with that. Many felt that way in 2006 and definitely turned out not to be the case.
First, do you really think people creating weapons of war would bother obeying the GPL?

Sure, most weapons of war are created by companies which act within the law in order to do so.

A broader question is: I don't think you can revise the GPL, can you? If you change the GPL it's no longer the GPL referred to by the GPL when the GPL says that anything produced with the GPL must be licensed under the GPL, thus all existing GPL software will still be under the old GPL not the new GPL.

You'd have to start from scratch with a new licence and develop a new codebase.
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Hopefully, it's the first step towards truly resolution-independent interfaces. Imagine differences in screen resolution being differences in quality, as opposed to scale. Of course there will need to be a lot of research into UI/UX to make the most of the opportunities.

In a way, when referring to monitors, the word 'resolution' is in itself a misnomer, as we're not actually talking about density but instead about absolute pixel measurements.
"There's never been an easy way to explore social media content from a particular time and place."

I have a hard time believing this.
Sort is F9 on my machine, not F5.
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Apple iOS 6 vs. Android: Google has some work to do
Both Apple and Windows have always hardcoded their PPI values to 72 and 96 respectively. I've never quite understood this.
Thousands of Twitter accounts wide open after TweetGif hack
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Inman sounds smart enough to have personally archived some evidence or found a reliable archive he can count on.

There are definitely caches. What scares me is: will that count as viable evidence and will the judge understand what has happened?
What does this mean? iOS6? What is ICS?
(don't answer those questions.. I know what ICS is)

My point is the average user isn't sitting there with their Galaxy-Titan-whatever in their hands feverishly checking what version of Android they're running and yelling "Where is my ICS!!" They're posting to Facebook, emailing, tweeting, searching for restaurants..etc

It's all about features.. and the fact is that iOS6 is catching up with Android 2.2... not 4.0
I'll be brutally honest. I think it's a great effort, and almost moved back to Sublime Text w Vintage mode several times. And each time, I'll run a command that Vintage mode doesn't have yet, and leave.

I'd love it if ST managed to replace vim. I (very unfortunately!) don't see it happening soon. Vim just has so many features and so many plugins.

NOTE: Half of my plugins in Vim are only there to make vim behave like a decent, modern editor. In fact, half of my plugins in Vim are there to make it behave more like Sublime Text.
Shaky Battery Maker Claims a Breakthrough
People bring up the "ridiculous markup", but when you compare the MacBook Air vs. the ASUS Zenbook, Apple really is competing on price in the "Ultrabook" market. When the form factor and construction are similar, the Apple version only adds about $150.
I looked into this a while ago and I believe that Lloyds TSB must be the bank as it uses telephone authentication as follows: http://www.lloydstsb.com/security/security_improvements_we_h...

"When you set up a new payment, we’ll give you a call to ensure that the instruction is coming from you.

Step-by-step payment security:

All you need is a telephone near you. You’ll be able to choose which number we call you on, provided it’s a number we already hold for you.

You’ll receive an automated call asking you to confirm details about your transaction.

Then you’ll need to enter a four digit number that will appear on your screen into your telephone keypad."

There's a Flash demo of this here: http://www.lloydstsb.com/new_internet_banking_demo/index.htm...
note: changing password will not help!
Aperture no more supported on Snow Leopard
"Aperture can't be installed on Macintosh because Mac OS X version 10.7.4 or later is required."

At WWDC, Apple just claimed that 40% of OSX users switched to Lion, touting it way better than Win7 migration.

But I don't think any comparison is worthwhile, if such forced-upgrade-tactics are used.
I'm not suggesting that civ is anyway up to the task but in all seriousness does any government systematically simulate policy decisions? I can't even remember a UK policy decision that even acknowledge the possibility it might not be a complete success let alone suggested criteria by which it should be ultimately evaluated.
Predictably most of the comments are about the android upgrade issues, but the solution is simple, people who care about these features buy a google device, which receives timely upgrades, is cheaper than an iphone, and has its own advantages (+disadvantages) over iphone hardware

The people that dont care about these feature buy any random android and get this stuff later as the carriers catchup
I had a client who used to call me up and ask me to come up and meet them for a "very important meeting", wherein I'd arrive and they'd go to a strip club. They did this several times, and I was never particularly comfortable with it.

They were the opposite of a startup, but at the time I worked for a small company (who didn't want to risk alienating them). My salesperson (who was a woman) was very adamant that I attend these meetings, as they were an important customer.

After my company got acquired, the new, enormous company that I worked for rather sensibly freaked the hell out about those sorts of things (one of the few benefits to working at a large company).

And as an aside, I'm incredibly disappointed to learn that "Twin Peaks" isn't a restaurant themed after the TV show. I'd totally hang out in that place.
On the search engine side, there's been a couple of solid court decisions in the United States:

- In SearchKing vs. Google, a company sued because it didn't like its rankings/PageRank. SearchKing had been selling links that passed PageRank, which violates Google's quality guidelines. The court determined that "PageRanks are opinions - opinions of the significance of particular web sites as they correspond to a search query. Other search engines express different opinions, as each search engine's method of determining relative significance is unique. The Court simply finds there is no conceivable way to prove that the relative significance assigned to a given web site is false." As a result, Google was entitled to "full constitutional protection" for its opinions.

- In KinderStart.com vs. Google, a company sued Google over a lower ranking. The judge not only dismissed that case, he allowed sanctions against KinderStart's counsel for making various claims (like Google skewing results for political/religious reasons) that couldn't be proven.

So in the U.S., we have a couple very nice court cases that establish that search engine rankings are opinions and protected speech. If someone tried to sue over a set of search results, I believe they would find that a very hard case to make.

Of course, things like libel and defamation apply online as well as offline.
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I use this too, but I don't think it actually prevents the attack described in the article, at least in my case. When I setup my 2-factor auth for my Google account, I also setup a series of backups in case I lost access to my phone. One of them was my phone number, and another was a phone number of a trusted friend.
> So someone who's got ADHD and depression should effectively be stopped from using the internet in case they get bullied?

No, as long as people caring for them know the potential risks and impact. It's up to parents to ensure their children are aware of how to view/use the internet.

If your child has epilepsy, then you have to be careful with strobe lights etc. It's just basic risk assessment.

> Would you say that if someone sends you a text message you should ignore it because it 'could be a bot'.

Every so often I get an automated bot SMS messages from vodafone. If someone/something sends you a message that you don't care about, delete it. Move on. If you're getting lots, then maybe you need a technological solution to filter out the spam/bots. The point is, don't start waging a war against the noise, just ignore it.

> "Just the same way you'd expect the police to help you out if someone started making abusive phone calls to your house."

I doubt the police would care unless there were specific threats to your life, or stalking etc. More likely you'd just be told to block their number.

It's a very slippery slope from this, toward "I find this joke offensive, the joke teller should be prosecuted".
Research shows humans primary cause of global ocean warming
That's one of the main points of the new subreddit I've linked to. From the original thread:

>> We just need the savegame...
> (original author) I'll upload it this evening when I get home

So we just have to wait.
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This was interesting as a simulation cum case study, but rather miserable as far as gaming goes.

There is no way a game of Civ II isn't eminently beatable - militarily or otherwise.

For one thing, there's no excuse to not operate as a Fundamentalism (0 population unrest) late game. Virtually all other forms of government, particularly Democracy, are an annoying cavalcade of civil unrest late game.

I enjoyed the read. It really brought me back in time to playing this game with fervent addiction in middle school.
What does your sound guy need that a top-end MBP with Thunderbolt storage wouldn't handle?
Like 250 million iOS users out of 365 can't use 2 of the biggest features of iOS - Siri and the 3D Maps (and also turn by turn I believe). How is that for fragmentation?

Yes, Apple does port an iOS version to most devices, and yes manufacturers have been very slow with ICS, but Apple doesn't push all the features when they port the OS to older hardware either, and sometime they are major features.
Right. It always comes back to the people performing the task. Because people are generally "good" (IMHO), "evil" isn't particularly easy to get away with. This goes for geeks, police and even the military. Commands can be issued, but real people with real emotions have to deliver. This is why whistle-blower protection is so key to our economy and society.

And while politics may attract a disproportionate level of narcissists and sociopaths, I'm guessing CS doesn't.
Some points, yes. Unfortunately, at least for my they have stated that they won't be bringing back the features that kill it for me (tape support.)
I can explain why a smartphone costs more to add-on than a basic phone. If you buy an iPhone, you're paying $200 for a $650 phone. If you buy a random dumbphone, you're likely paying $0-50 for a $100-200 phone. As such, the carrier has a much smaller subsidy to recoup. If Americans bought phones without a subsidy, then data would be data. However, that isn't the case.

In the end, it probably comes out around the same. Over two years, you pay an extra $240 ($10/mo) while getting a $250-$350 additional subsidy up-front.

In terms of the price difference between laptops and tablets, I can't see a reason for that. At least the iPad is sold unsubsidized and so I can't see why they would want to charge more for it. Maybe they're assuming the laptop users will (due to the nature of having a full computing interface) use more data and that they'll make up the low add-on fee with additional usage. That logic seems a bit weak to me, but it might be what they're thinking.
On the higher levels, specifically Deity, it seems that there are some variables set in the AI's favor that go beyond normal game play manipulations... Or maybe I am just misdiagnosing my own failures :(
Whilst a cunning idea if it catches some unsophisticated crook who just dives in and starts looking for goodies, I'd expect that it's common enough knowledge (e.g. image-bugs dropped in spam to check account liveness) that a serious attacker would either slurp your account via IMAP/POP and browse with external resource loading disabled, or just enable that setting in your gmail account itself, which exists for exactly the reason mentioned above.

The main improvement I can see you've made is that it's real-time enough that you should be able to jump on it straight away and do something rather than the batch processes I suspect spammers use.

There was a cunning|creepy trick used by Facebook I recall reading about not that long ago[1] that relied on Outlook autoloading bgsound attributes despite image loading settings, but I don't know of any comparable holes in gmail.

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...
No, they can't ride the natural device upgrade cycle to get out new versions because there is no requirement for new devices to install the newest version. Apple on the other hand, can ride the device upgrade cycle because when you go pick up a new phone at the Apple store it is running the newest version of the operating system, and the features get rolled out to everyone.

I would argue that as new features in newer versions of operating systems become more and more of a spectacle that people everywhere, not just geeks are watching, Pushing major OS updates becomes more and more important.

If you're going to show off a new feature to the world, it's nice if most people can actually get at it.
How is that a kludge? You have to add them to a Mac Pro exactly the same. And you can just stick all of your "desktop" stuff on a USB hub and call it a docking station...
why buy any Android phone other than a Nexus variant straight from Google

Because the Nexus has been getting pretty mediocre reviews and none of the Nexus variants really interest me from a hardware point of view.
Can't be that old, has to post-date the declassification of the F-117A in 1988. On the other hand, has to predate the subsuming of McDonell-Douglas into Boeing in 1997.

I was going to try to get more specific by figuring out when exactly Grumman (maker of the F-14) and General Dynamics (maker of the F-16) got subsumed into McDonnell-Douglas, but it turns out that they never did, they wound up in Lockheed. So whoever wrote this clearly didn't know all that much about fighter aircraft.