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Who are those people, Apple Research Department? Very innovative. This hasn't ever been done before - oh wait, except the exact same thing was done way back in 1986 by Pavel Pavel's team: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/move/past.html But wait, they have three more people on the "walking" teams - 18 instead of 15, what innovation! Quick, somebody patent this!
Choosing not to answer does not imply guilt, however simply stone walling with "no comment" is probably not as good an idea as it would be in the US (although a solicitor would be able to advise you on what you should answer).

I'm not sure whether "questioned" just means when you are at the police station or also during the time of the arrest. I would assume it could refer to both "why did you not bring this to the attention of the officer at the time of the arrest?".

Although I would imagine a rational jury would think that waiting for legal advice was a sensible thing to do.

Regards duty solicitors, I always thought that these were really private solicitors who were put on a rotation and were strictly kept separate from the police?

http://www.jfhlaw.co.uk/faqs/crime-faqs/what-is-a-duty-solic...

If there is a case of corruption here then that would be extremely worrying as the people most likely to be charged with crimes are also the people with the least ability to pay a private solicitor. Is there anything to back this up?

I'm also not sure I would want a solicitor who "hates" the police, I would want somebody motivated to help me, not get one over on someone else. The adversarial relationship between the police and solicitor should be professional and not personal.
According to the Extradition Act 2003 of the UK Parliament [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003 , http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/UK_USA_extradition.p... ], article 2.1, "An offense shall be an extraditable offense if the conduct on which the offense is based is punishable under the laws in both States by deprivation of liberty for a period of one year or more or by a more severe penalty.".

I suspect the UK law that was broken was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010 and that is being used by US to request the extradition.

Once on US territory, US law would apply.

At that level of income, a significant part of his audience could be proven to be from US. It would also matter if he used US servers, US registrars (.net is controlled by Verisign which is an American corporation) and so on, but I doubt prosecutors would have much issues in proving US jurisdiction once he's in USA.
The idea that a quantitative analysis can be performed as a means to determine the acceptability for an investment for what are fundamentally and primarily subjective decisions made on discrete investments with no correlation is ludicrous. At its core, VC investments are made as a combination of the experience of the investors in a particular market, the ability for the venture to convince the investors they are worth the risk, and non-quantitative factors that are highly dependent on inter-personal relationships.

Long story short, if they like you and your market and believe you, they'll give you money. If not, they won't. That's pretty much the extent of any sort of "quantitative" analysis you can do here.

I suspect the OP wanted to imply there was a quantitative element to their analysis so that they can assert that they don't make "shoot from the hip" decisions and it's all based on some sort of model. But it's not. There's no quantitative basis here despite their assertions otherwise. There's more analysis in your typical neighborhood investment club than what happens in a typical (poorly performing) VC.
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As a C programmer, this is flattering, but I also know it isn't true. I wrestled with Erlang for a good while before I got the hang of it. Going from C up the tree of C-like programming languages has its disadvantages.
I've already made something like this some months ago: http://demos.bfontaine.net/d/icheckboxes
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In the case of bit.ly: since bit.ly is used for legitimate purposes other than piracy, it can be protected by the DMCA if they comply with takedown requests. However a site which has no purpose other than to facilitate copyright infringement might be considered illegal.
The idea that you can be extradited to a country you don't live in for something that isn't even a crime which was committed somewhere else is, as they say, completely fucked.
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Somehow people protested all over Europe againist ACTA, and governments backed off, and nobody got killed by predator drones or otherwise.

Governments and publishers want to censor internet, but we're not yet at the point of no return, we can still fight them with demonstrations and petitions and watching their hands. And that's what we should be doing.
Maybe from music or something, but not from app sales...

a) they don't actually get 30% (they get what is left over after giving the developer 70% and then subtracting their fixed costs... small money transactions is considerable in fees, bandwidth for them is cheap but not free, etc.)

b) it is now public (due to the Oracle case) that the Android division of Google actually lost money in 2010

c) despite their massive volume, Apple's App Store makes sufficiently little profit that they don't even break it out as a separate line item on their 10-Q (instead lumping it under "music related products and services", the same category that handles both iTunes and iBooks)

To expand on #C, it is seriously my understanding that Apple manages to only barely stay in in the black on the whole App Store model: their goal is ecosystem control and a competive advantage for their hardware platform, which in turn is where they make their real money.

Looking further at Apple's business model, you get ~$170 margin per iPhone sold; I know many people who have owned 3 iPhones over the last 5 years, but absolutely no one who has purchased the $1700 in apps that would be required for even the full 30% (that Apple can't possibly be keeping all of) to make that same amount of money.

In essence, you just can't subsidize a piece of hardware like this with app sales. I mean, this is going to be ludicrously obvious if you just take the individual device: if they wanted to subsidize it by even $100, and even if they managed to keep the full 30% (and again: they can't and aren't), then the average tablet user would have to purchase >$330 in apps per tablet... that is ludicrously unlikely.
Now I don't think this guy should be extradited, but it is worth taking a look at what his site was. Here is the last capture I could find in the way back machine. This doesn't look like a search engine to me, more like a curated collection of links to copyrighted TV shows and movies. I couldn't say whether he was 'trying to follow the law' or not.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090629190857/http://tvshack.net...

The FAQ is particularly amusing:

"""
7- Why are there so many Megavideo hosted videos on TV Shack? Can't you use another video host?

A: TV Shack staff is currently working toward providing many different alternatives to hosting sites that are accepted for submission. There is a movement taking place (thanks to our regulars) to provide an alternate link for all Megavideo links on the website as evidenced by The Megavideo Replacement Initiative. We have very little control over where videos are hosted being that we are not the ones hosting the videos ourselves. TV Shack simply links to these hosting sites. Nevertheless, please ask yourselves, would you rather not watch the video at all? Megavideo has "bad" aspects to it, such as limiting the time that you can watch. Fortunately, it also has very good aspects, such as good quality, very fast streaming and fast upload abilities.

Also, please keep in mind that you're watching videos for free as opposed to spending over 20 dollars at the movie theater or purchasing a show. This should help you put things in perspective (keep in mind that prices change but this is a normal, typical price). The following prices are in US dollars!

Prices for 1 adult to go to the movie theater:

Typical US movie theater ticket: $10
Typical US nacho-coke or popcorn-coke combo: $10
Typical US parking (if it's in garage such as at the mall): $5

Total for 1 adult to go to the movies: $25

Prices for 1 season of a popular show:

Scrubs - The Complete First Season (2001) bought at Walmart (link) (it's the cheapest place from what I have seen and heard):

Discounted: $34.86
List Price: $49.99

So, as you see, you're saving quite a lot of money (especially when putting several visits to the theater or seasons together) by having to wait a little bit of time.

In other words, yes, we will try to find videos on other hosts for our users. We will even try to provide alternate links for you to watch the video on whichever host you enjoy. However, when there is no other host which has the video, we will link to Megavideo because something is better than nothing (or having to spend quite a bit of money on it).
"""
"fair and balanced extradition arrangements with the US"

I'm sorry, what? These extradition arrangements are completely lopsided and need to be reformed.
Actually Nemerle is a language worth talking about. What those guys are doing is brilliant. I remember even years ago - playing with the language - I was able to embed a natural syntax for a constraint programming library, encode a clean syntax on top of/for phantom types and write a monad system with transformers (via the macro system - think Lisp not C). This was back before Monads were cool in the regular community but very old hat in the haskell community.

What they are doing with version 2 is even more impressive and they are now sponsored by JetBrains.

F# is an excellent language* if you are doing Windows programming right now, you would be doing yourself a disservice not to look at it due to preoptimized worries. The language source is available , hacked on and ahead of Microsoft's version in certain aspects. In the case of a dumping, the community is talented and F# generates IL, unless C# is abandoned there is really nothing to worry about.

* I'm experimenting with intelligent, data based programming with a mix of Steffen Forkmann's JSON schema inference + ConceptNet + custom query syntax + embedded prolog + machine learning.
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>the benchmark is pretty much irrelevant, because if it was we would all be coding in C or Fortran

The point being debated is that the JVM is being developed and advanced more rapidly than the CLR. Performance is one way to demonstrate this. Performance does matter in many cases, and most folks aren't prepared to write their web services in Fortran.

>is doing quite great against java 7 (commercial implementation, unless I misread)

I would hardly classify 7x slower as "quite great"

>It would be interesting to see how the openJDK is performing ? (the real question would be : is openJDK crippled compared to the Oracle - JDK ?)

OpenJDK runs HotSpot, so no major difference
I am not a lawyer nor do I understand the legal aspects, but if this fella's site only offers links to songs, then it strikes me that search companies like Google, Bing etc may be on same murky legal grounds. Do a search for the mp3 from your favourite artist, and some warez sites will pop up offering links to your artists' songs.

Is this just a case of a bully picking on someone who has little hope of defending himself?
Ah... I didn't realise. I have to agree with that. The hardware components are excellent.
That's understandable. It'll be very interesting to see how they are going to subsidize (if they do it at all).

I guess there'll be some kind of catch..
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Expected a "10 things you already know" list, but ended up quite surprised by some of these.

I found the last two especially interesting.
Even though they're technically correct, that specific horse has been flogged to subatomic particles - heck, even MSFT has renounced its creation, back in 2009 when IE8 launched. (It's now fashionable to hate on IE7, with IE8 and old FFs coming up fast.)
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> The real point you should take from the article is not that Gore or Valve or GitHub are lucky, but that we approach problem solving in a very different way and that might be an interesting thing to take a look at. If all you read in an article like this is that we're 'goofy' or 'kooky' then you're missing everything that's important and it's a waste of time for you to read the article at all. In fact, if that's what you take and then you try to copy us you will fail horribly in what you do, because you're blindly copying the least important of the many symptoms of this approach.

Well said, sir. Reminded me of this article on cargo cult management [1]

[1] http://gigaom.com/2009/06/21/cargo-cult-management/
It's a great price point. I only wish I had a particular need for a tablet. As it is I don't even need more than a single-core for reading ebooks, watching video, or surfing (I don't play games), and here comes an inexpensive quadcore. If anything the problem to solve is improving battery life significantly, so we don't need to limit usage if we're out and about for a while.

What cool/handy things do you guys do with your tablets?
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I have tried many other tools, but really loved the flexibility within Trello. How does symphonical compare to it?

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Yes, before this I think the cheapest Tegra 3 tablet was the ASUS TF300 at $399/32GB and $379/16GB.

Knocking $120 off of that (16GB vs 16GB) is pretty impressive, especially since I'm not sure that a 7" screen at the same resolution is actually cheaper.

That being said, cheap is not enough. It's just a starting point. The real question is: What can Jelly Bean do on this? And is it enough to compete with the iPad and Windows tablets (not to mention inspire Android OEMs to do better)?
That's ACTA, which is a trivial distraction from extraditions at the moment. Its a pacifier rather than a major policy change.
Video games market IS antiquated. Crappy gamepad controllers, requirement to use TVs, hardware upgrades lock for 5-6 years, dumbed down games (as a result of gamepad use).
Sure, it has billion marketing budgets, easy to start using equipment, but technologically it is antiquated.
12 core GPU? Am I missing something here? I thought even the IPad was only quad core?
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> It's unethical to break the law (assuming the law was instated ethically), which, in theory, is a set of rules everyone agrees to play by. However pirating movies and tv shows is not inherently unethical as it is just an arbitrary law we put in place to control for an outcome.

I can't following your reasoning on this. Is your point that copyright laws have been instated unethically?

Why does it matter that they are arbitrary if people generally agree that copyright is good?

> If the content creator can't feed himself because everyone is "stealing" his work then he should a) find a new line of work or b) find a way to properly monetize it

Seriously? So, if people choose to consume someone's work, yet avoid paying for it, then it's the content creators fault?
This is outrageous and another example revealing the bad state of democracy in these two countries. The government does the exact opposite of what vast majority of citizens want. I would never vote again political parties that are in government and don't do anything to stop this.
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A great $200 tablet is coming soon, and when it does it will be huge. Tablets start looking a lot less like a luxury at that price point.

This is still pure rumor, though.
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A not-so entirely tangential thought:

Would Jimmy Wales have taken up this cause if Richard O'Dwyer wasn't a put-together specimen?
You know if he was a socially-awkward, not-sure-of-himself, social-grace-lacking and all around clumsy-looking hacker.
If the answer to this was manifestly in the affirmative, the question wouldn't be begging to be asked.

This is a no-lose proposition for Jimmy. Whether the guy is actually extradited or worse convicted, this low hanging PR fruit is already in Jimmy's satchel.

This is not to cast a doubt on JW's intentions.

However, holding all details of the alleged crime constant, I bet he wouldn't touch this case with a 10 foot pole if the guy didn't fit the archetype that wouldn't soil JW's image.
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What you say makes sense, assuming that jurisdiction is clearly with the country that is requesting extradition.

What I fail to understand is why the US has jurisdiction here. What brings this crime to the US? If it is just that the US is on the Internet too, then the logical extension would be to pass this guy around every country in the world, which is clearly ridiculous.

He should be answerable to the law. But the UK seems like the appropriate jurisdiction here, not the US. If the problem is that UK law doesn't cover this case, then that is what should be questioned, rather than pretending that the US has jurisdiction in order to work around the rule of law.
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If I host content in the United States that is illegal in Iran does that mean I can be extradited to Iran to face charges?

I hope this kid fights this tooth and nail with good lawyers. He needs good representation as this case has potential to set very important precedents surrounding basic issues of sovereignty and jurisdictional precedence.

Is the US government going to argue that physical location is irrelevant on the internet? Does a crime committed on the internet happen simultaneously in every country? I'm really curious how the US government will present their arguments in this case. And equally curious how much the UK is willing to lose its right of sovereignty.
> Whoever runs the DNS aided and abeted the alledged crime. Google is just as guilty by this precedence being set.

This would never stand in criminal law. Criminal law cares about intent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
> From the article it seems that this guy ran a search engine which might or might nor be illegal in the United States. However, he is British, most of the visitors are British and the servers are not in the United States, yet the US wants him extradited and tried in an American court.

The site was not a search engine.

It may have had a search function, but the links were added manually by contributors (who O'Dwyer selected), and O'Dwyer exerted a great deal of control over the content that was included on the site.

It was almost certainly illegal in the US (authorising copyright infringement). A UK judge has also ruled the allegations, if true, would also constitute an offence under UK law (O'Dwyer's editorial control over the site prevented him from using a "mere conduit" defence) and thus approved the extradition.

O'Dwyer is bang to rights as far as the law currently stands. At this point it's more a case of challenging the absurdity of the law (simply linking to infringing material being an offence) and the absurdity of extraditing a young man to be tried in a foreign court under a foreign jurisdiction for such an offence.
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I never realized that. One of my apps has it's title in keywords and clearly the Angry Birds apps do too. But I know it often comes down to the luck of which reviewer you get.
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> You spend $100,000,000 of your investors' money on Nullsoft because you think with you on their side, they'll be worth more than $100,000,000.

Or to eliminate potential competitor as with ridiculous money Facebook paid for Instagram.
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100% slowdown ("streched to 100% as long") would be half the speed. "Slowed down 700%" in this case means "stretched to 700% of its original duration".
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