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This is not a new development driven by technology.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
- Mark Twain, "On the Decay of the Art of Lying"

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson

(By the way, Twain's essay is great: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.txt)
>>I think the author basically intended to affirm another Svbtle author's candid and personal revelations by saying we should all be so honest.

aah okay - I missed that. Pretty long winded +1.

As to honesty - well, there is a time and a place for the kind of honesty that just puts it all out there and a time and a place for an abbreviated version.

Not every interaction requires the in-depth/verbose honesty because every interaction has its context.....for example - checkout girl - you aren't really going to spill your guts to her when she greets you with a cheery "How you doin' today?". It would be a bit weird to respond "yeah, I'm not so good actually, let me tell you all about it"
"Um...okaaaay, that'l be $25.95 please".

anyhooooo staw men small talk, just my thoughts. :)
I wonder about a 7.7" screen vs 7" screen for PDFs. Here is the same Google Books PDF (they are image scans of books, so no reflow) on a 7.7" and 7" screen:

Galaxy Tab 7.7 (1280x800): http://mikecanex.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/techfondle04121...

NookColor 7" (1024x600): http://mikecanex.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/gbpdfs002.jpg

I don't own either of those -- or any. I'm still undecided on which would be best. [typo edit]
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It is local, it's just the browser is the interface. Or am I missing something?
This graphic needs more context/metrics. Are these judgments made on past trends? Usage numbers? Something like how MacRumors buying guide averages out past release schedules to determine the next likely update:

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
My proposal:

1. Use SSL ("check for the padlock")

2. Use a well-known URL (www.fbi.gov)

3. Don't provide any downloads, or anything to click, just ask the user to contact their ISP.
If I'm really that unsure I can click on 'info' and be taken to the Google wallet transaction.

Which is where you started! It says "Google Commerce received your order". How does that help make you certain? You're stuck in a loop between a site that says another site got your order, while the other site says it is "Complete".

I am mostly sure it's coming. I am relaxed. My original point was that this is not a fuss over an "unannounced ship date". People are fine with those, like they are with Apple's "Ships withn 3-4 weeks".

The OP's "fuss" was that the communication here is terrible, and it suggests that Google hasn't taken on board all the customer services issues that made selling Nexus handsets such a disaster for them.
Google's all about the web. Even local apps are web apps in their world.

Which isn't to say that's a bad idea...
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Unless you provide statistics as to what percentage of IIT students go fro start ups wiz a wiz MIT/Stanford, this blog lacks credibility.

Number of people who want to take risk are always a small fraction of any sample set.
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A good command of chromes inspector etc makes this largely a non issue for me ...
The problem is that, unlike other countries, garbage is not segregated by the civic authorities. Home owners aren't required to segregate their garbage, either. (Civic bodies of a few cities do segregate their garbage and dispose it properly). This prevents authorities from recycling platic/metal waste and decomposing decayable waste.

At home level, garbage is disposed by 3 ways -

a) Either it is collected from your door by municipality or a private contractor / sweeper

b) Home owners throw their garbage in a community garbage dump

c) Home owners dispose their garbage wherever they can.

The private contractors, who are supposed to take the collected garbage to the dumping grounds, usually don'd do it and dump it in open spaces (like this one -http://cj.ibnlive.in.com/slideshow7815.html). Worst part is that they aren't fined by authorities.

Municipal authorities mark certain grounds/wastelands away from populated areas as dumping grounds, dump the trash there and let it decay. (like this one - http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0805_biggest_garbage...)

Also, Indians, in general, while traveling or commuting or walking, dispose paper wrappers, plastic plates, flowers, water bottles, chewing gums or any other garbage on road or in public places.

For example, it's a common site to see a family having ice creams or chips or peanuts or soft drinks in parks. But when they leave, they leave the waste as it is. Even when there is a garbage can in sight. (see this - http://rhetoric2reality.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/public-p...)

An example of trash thrown by train travelers - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BA99LRmPyaA/TYsZstie7fI/AAAAAAAACC...

Heck, we can't even keep our places of worship clean. These are flowers, incense sticks and other offerings thrown in Ganga river after worshiping (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cO-PjFR2Kcw/TjgKYEIQiFI/AAAAAAAABG...). Ain't this ironical? Indians can pray and pollute a same object.

Coming to the decaying and non-decaying part - Most of it is decayable. However, the sheer volume of it does not allow nature to work. Hence it starts rotting and stinking. Also, stray animals (cows,dogs and pigs) dig through the trash mountain to find anything edible and in turn spread it more.

Having said that, things are improving. I have seen many young people (my friends included) carry the plastic trash or water bottles with them till they find a garbage can. Also, a few educated people are running cleaning campaigns in their cities (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clean-Vadodara-Green-Vadodara-...). Also, shopping malls and large stores have started to charge for plastic carry bags. This has reduced plastic waste by bit.
Working for a medium size manufacturing plant that wants to get a handle on movement of goods and people, I can tell you that this technology would be a game changer. We can't afford to use RFID and 1m accuracy of Wifi positioning is not worth the hassle. This site says they can get .2m accuracy, no extra infrastructure required, we will be watching this technology very closely. It is a lot easier to stick an iPod touch in someone's pocket than install RFID infrastructure.
Try using Chrome developer tools or firebug to inspect css. Its's better.
Ugh "Cybersecurity" legislation shows signs of life.
As opposed to comments on US news websites, which usually alternate liberal conspiracy theorizing with conservative conspiracy theorizing, the actual article only having the slightest relevance to the keyword-triggered axe-grinding that immediately commences.
You can't select a local file. You have to upload file even if it's local.
Thanks for the links - didn't know about the property browser thing.

It's not quite as simple as waiting for Qt5. From my earlier link:
The components are hosted as a Qt Playground project and won’t be a part of the 5.0 release. They will instead have separate releases, most likely in sync with the Qt 5 releases. At some point we will look at making them a proper part of Qt 5.

These separate component releases will be important, as the proxy widget mechanism won't be available for Qt5's QSceneGraph-backed QML. Nor does there seem to be a replacement coming yet, mostly for performance reasons [1].

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/development@qt-project.org/msg04...
There has been evidence in the UK that this is how the thieves are doing it (people finding their cars with the drivers window smashed and the OBD cover lying on the floor). See http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670339 - at least one of the guys posted there is police.
That doesn't justify passing 700 megabyte files via my browser when they could be simply opened being local.
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This weekend, I had the misfortune of attending Bloc Weekend, a music festival in London that was shut-down by police due to overcrowding (http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/bloc-weekend-shut-down-amidst-over-crowding/).

The ticket vendor, ironically named CrowdSurge, are wiping their hands clean of the incident:

"Upon release of any further information from Baselogic, in particular the refund process for which they are solely responsible, we will contact you again."

The really interesting bit for me is that there were obvious problems with the ticketing system with the barcodes not being scanned correctly, I saw numerous people experiencing this.

I had 3 tickets, each sent to me via email. The ticket contains a barcode, which was scanned at the door. Allow me to present the HTML from the ticket below, in all it's secure glory:

http://crowdsurge.com/et-TicketBarcodeBig.php?code=862484
http://crowdsurge.com/et-TicketBarcodeBig.php?code=862483
http://crowdsurge.com/et-TicketBarcodeBig.php?code=862482

Now I'm not saying that CrowdSurge are solely responsible for what happened at the event, but as you can plainly see above, it's not very difficult at all to fake a ticket. Buy one, you'll have the numeric sequence, print numerous, arrive early, you're in.

Obviously the barcode image URLs need to be protected by unguessable ids with some sort of brute-force velocity checking, not just a URL that you can pass any number into and get a valid barcode in return.

The really unfortunate thing here is that CrowdSurge are a startup trying to disrupt the industry, but surely they have to get their technology a whole lot smarter than this if they want any skin in the game.
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Completely agree. While the Government doing something wrong here is bad enough, what worries me most is the change in culture for both the authorities and the people. If the people start getting used to it, that means there could be decades of abuses until people decide that maybe accepting it wasn't such a good idea to begin with, and they need to reverse the trend (which could take another couple of decades).
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I use Dvorak - really suggest you don't buy a specific keyboard for it. Just switch the layout in your OS and learn to touch type. I you want Das Keyboard, get one, leave it blank :)
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all the debate aside, lets face it India has way more social problems than most of the other countries in the world.
It isn't solved for computer networks, this is exactly the same as the current debate about secure boot. Secure boot is an open standard, but we've not agreed about who can hold the keys: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot

Here, the EU has effectively said that someone with physical access to the car can generate their own keys (since anyone can pretend to be a mechanic, and all mechanics are allowed to generate keys), and the car manufacturers are saying that they should have the root keys, so that only approved dealers can create new ones. Much like Microsoft saying to ARM tablet manufacturers that they have to allow only Microsoft's keys in ARM tablets, blocking end users from installing their self-signed OS.

tl;dr: the problem is not protocols, it is key management.
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Yes, you can do similar in a traditional RDMS, you have a table called Person and another table called Person_properties with a schema of pid, property, value, timestamp. The object model for Person would have a save() and load() method that knows which properties belong to the base table (base properties) and which properties spill over in into the triple table. The separate properties table has the convenience of stashing arbitrary persistent properties in a Person without needing to migrate the underlying schema or change the base definition.
Totally agree. Imagine how the mining industry will benefit :).
I'm amused to see slashdot doing with mondaynote.com's article exactly the same trick mondaynote.com is pointing out that huffpo is doing to wsj… Seems they couldn't find a more seo-linkbaity headline though.
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BMW has a proprietary diagnostic system called MODIC with it's own connector near the engine under the hood. That provides more utility to the service tech than the OBD port. Those devices are only available to BMW dealers.

The security loophole here seems to be that someone could extract information out of the OBD port to generate a new key. That should only be available from the factory port.
CSS is the easiest part of the design cycle. (The hard part is actually mocking something to look great.. implementing it is the fun part.)

Creating CSS which matches your design should not really be an issue, and as others have pointed out, if you see something on another website that you like, then you can just use chrome inspector which would always work by an order of magnitude better than using a main.max.css sheet as you suggest.

I'm not going to be elitist and say that learning CSS is a non-issue, but maintaining a commented CSS would be ridiculous. Especially when all of my CSS is automatically compliled (lessCSS) and comments are stripped.

What would your main.max.css look like?

.container {
border: 1px solid black; // This adds a solid black border
float: left; // Remove element from doc flow, and align left
padding: 10px; // This adds a 10px padding
background: white; // This sets the background white
}

When I read the title of this post, I thought that you might of been suggesting that developers maintain two sheets, a

[1] main.min.css

[2] main.max.css

Inside of the min CSS, you might use all of your layouting styles and lightweight background styles. However, inside of the max you would add all of your complementary styles.

Such as all of the background gradients. All of your vendor specific box shadows, border-radius', box-sizing, opacitys, etc. Getting background gradients compatible accross different browser vendors totally bloats my CSS (by about a 100-140kb (since I use alot of high quality gradients instead of png).

I could perhaps get behind the idea to seperate two sheets. One min.css for pure templating and layout, and a max.css for all that awesomeness.

The only benefit this would give is being able to detect a user agent and serve up the more lightweight version.

Anyway, big NO NO, for your suggestion. I can't get behind that idea.
I guess this would be a relatively relevant place to ask, does anyone know of an affordable technology that can be used for precision (inches) tracking of 8-36 items indoor or out? The caveat would be affordable. The use case would is BMX Racing. Scoring is still done by hand! I've looked into RFID tagging but the docs and manufacturer's specs are all over the place. Any ideas?
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Unfortunately what your post seems to say, to me, is this; everywhere in India has one or more major problems, of different types.

So even if the problems vary across the country it strikes me that their widespread existence reflects an underlying problem

I don't know, I dislike judging other cultures from my own singular perspective. But I can't help shuddering at some of the things he describes, and wonder how are people in your country not more outraged by them.

(with all that said; I equally dislike the snobby-western-judgemental attitude of the author... it smacks of colonial superiority, "the poor brown people staring in awe at the god like white man" (that's really not far off of a quote..). chuck)
That route does seem to have failed us. Or at least not have gone much of anywhere in the years since.

I'd like to reference the recent Higgs result as a compare contrast example from a different field.

The search for the Higgs is slightly younger than the search for AI - but of about the same age so it's worth comparing. It took a very long time to yield basic results -- namely "does it exist?" The search for the Higgs was pure Research. The day after the Higgs discovery nothing changed in the world except that we now know it exists. Given 20-30 more years of R&D we might get a hoverboard, or faster blenders or something, and the total time investment will have been about 70 years from "notion on a chalk board" to "hoverboard".

AI researchers might use the Higgs as an example to not poo poo their field since they are still in that long long time between theoretical proposal and working discovery. Detractors might say "but all you propose is just shoving more factoids into your AI model hoping it springs to life"! The analogy with the Higgs is that researchers were for a long time simply proposing to build bigger and bigger accelerators until the Higgs fell out.

I'm not a physicist but I'm hoping that there was a stronger theoretical framework surrounding the Higgs then "let's keep crashing stuff into each other harder and harder till what we want comes out of it". Likewise, I'm not a Cyc-style semantic AI researcher (or an AI researcher of any particular type), but I'm hoping that the field has more going for it than "let's keeping tossing factoids into our Semantic Graph until it springs to life".

I'm willing to think that a 70 year R&D time is worth it if we end up with commercially ready 1.0 equivalent Minds at the end http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_(The_Culture).

But at this point I don't think we're any closer to this then we were 20 or 30 years ago. It's a perpetual Research horizon at this point. To put it back into perspective with the Higgs, 15 years ago they were starting construction on the LHC.

AI researchers will lament the lack of funding in their field, etc. But I have yet to hear a compelling research direction the field would go if it were suddenly gifted the cost of an LHC or two to advance the field.
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I did get an incidental 500 server error, guess the server is getting bombarded. Keep an eye folks.
Share the faith? I think a better question is if they share the same beliefs. Which the answer to that question is no, there are a million denominations with different beliefs, many of which would completely disagree with the actions of this particular organization. That's what makes it so hard -- if a Christian felt responsible for all supposedly-Christian actions taken by other Christians, that Christian would spend every millisecond of their life and a thousand more responding in disagreement to the actions of the other Christians.
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> If you don't know the c2 page for this, you should feel deep shame.

Consider me shamed, mind sharing a link? I know the quote from Alan Perlis you're talking about, but the Google search results for "perlis languages" is dominated by Fogus's blog post with the same title, and your comment is the first result for "perlis languages c2", followed by a few other wiki pages.
This seems, on the surface at least, very similar to what ScraperWiki is trying to do, by converting messy publicly available data in to a more structured format.

Am I correct in that understanding, or did I miss the boat?
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GPL V3 so I would not take a chance with it.
Take a look at http://www.yourbrainonporn.com/. It's an entire site dedicated to explaining the effects of porn on your sex drive and encouraging men to give it up. Lots of links to supporting evidence there.

The article is really more about the author's personal experience with giving up porn and that of his readers. I gave it up myself earlier this year, and have noticed a definite improvement. Don't have issues with getting/keeping it up. I don't think my results were as near as impressive as others were either, as I wasn't anywhere near watching it daily.

As for the book on how to attract women, I'm not sure what advising guys to give up porn has to do with it. Wouldn't you be fine with guys watching it, because that encourages them to idealize women and fantasize about sleeping with them more? Giving up porn would cause them to become less obsessed with their sex life and focus more on the rest of their lives. Don't know how that means they're more likely to buy dating advice. Which is fine by us because we're gearing the site to be less and less about dating these days :)
Does he actually have to spell out for you that he is one person who screams the blindingly obvious that he can only generalize on the basis of his experience? So when he says 'All of it. The entire country' that is an expression of his impression - the 'all' he saw. If you can't get that maybe you should leave off reading accounts where meticulous ( and unnecessary fo most of us ) qualification is absent.
They are all totally meaningless without defining time scales. If you wait long enough the sun will burn out.

Anyway, those 'Inevitabilities' don't sound inevitable to me. For example the broadcast TV one - the programs might be streamed rather than broadcast but a lot of them (debates, entertainment) will be streamed live and they will be produced by broadcast corporations so they're not going anywhere.
Is not capitalizing the first word in a sentence the thing to do now?
I thank you for making me realize that this post sounds offensive. I didn't mean it that way. I ll update the post with my apologies.

I would like to clear few things here.

[1] This is not a post against IITians or anybody for that matter.
[2] I wrote this post out of concern and in search of a solution that will change the startup scene here in India. It sounds over-ambitious but I want to be a part of such a revolution, however little I contribute.
[3] This article concerns only to related people. I hope I have conveyed that at least

"Of course, there are really pleasant opportunities available that one need not look at entrepreneurship as the only possible work. But my only worry is that people with real motivation also get lost in this place."

[4] I didn't mean it, when I told "IIT guys will never do it". I sincerely apologize again.
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True. But with very general code, like this library, it would be difficult for unit tests to cover more than a small fraction of the domain.
Lots of local women want to meet me.

It's probably because of all the iPads I've won.