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> No one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device. Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras.

Not the case. McDonald's employees in Prague, CZ got pretty pissed at me for taking picture, and were quite rude about it. I think it's McDonald's corporate policy to not allow pictures, at least in EMEA. Lots of stores in high-traffic areas have private security. I think this incident was probably caused by power-crazed security implementing McDonald's policy in an inappropriate way.
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The client/user-agent gets to control what session-id gets sent to which sites.

That makes it possible for a UI design where the user can press a button and say "don't surf this site anonymously" with the default being a new random session-id for all other sites.

That will make tracking and correlation of webusage much harder, which I really don't see a downside to.

Deflate is bad on its own, it is a DoS amplifier and it makes the job of load-balancers much more resource intensive, because they have to retain compression state for all connections and spend CPU and memory on the inflation.

The server is perfectly justified in customizing content, and we have a header for saying that is the case: Cache-Control.

The problem with cookies is that they disable caching of everything on the site, including favicon.ico and there is nothing the server can do about it, because the cookies are sent on all requests.

Javascript will also have access to the session-id.
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Making hypothetical statments about the motivations of an alien mind that may be millions of years ahead of us, and then using the implausibility of it as an argument to dismiss any contrary evidence, is the weakest argument against this phenomenon. But it is always repeated in every single discussion about this topic by someone!
Stranger following you with a cam is not much worse than stranger following you 24/7, period.

But now you would be able to film that fact and then sue him for annoying behavior.
Very true, this reminds me of the failed Corel Linux years back.

If the attitude towards fragmentation is to fork a new distro for every application, am I supposed to restart my computer every time I want to task switch or run hundreds of virtual machines?

There are some specialised situations where a custom distro makes sense, like appliance type applications (smoothwall, backtrack etc)
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What he is trying to explain is that he is NOT making a permanent video record of everything he sees.

Any computer vision system is going to have an image buffer.

When you break the system it's going to stop overwriting that buffer with new images.

If he had been left alone the images on his blog would have been overwritten with new images.

Does it make more sense to you now?
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Being a flash game developer from the very first day of my game dev days, it really feels sad to see how flash is being "overcome" by HTML5 and stuff. :( But I'll still be a Flash game developer always :D flash FTW!
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I don't think you can dismiss the possibility of an as-yet-undiscovered end-run around these limits. The problem with a critique of a hypothetically more technologically advanced civilization than our own which is based on modern understandings of physics is problematic at best.

There are larger problems with the ET hypothesis, though, and that is why generally, descriptions of beings associated with lights in the sky, although also often associated with knowledge of new technology and with kidnapping, are described in physical details differently by different cultures. Even in somewhere as narrow 10th century Europe, you have at least three different, if you will, species of entity associated with this sort of thing.

So this leaves the ET hypothesis with two bad choices, which are either we are more observant than our ancestors which is patently false, or else there is some intersteller convention somewhere which divvies up cultures for observation and follows them as they move around, and stops when the culture changes sufficiently. That starts to sound very implausible.
Whatever "Essential Frenchness" is, it most certainly is not centered around the milieu of the "beur".
We agree that visitors don't come to France to be greeted by the likes of Galliano but they don't come looking for the likes of Salafists like Mohammed Merah either.
Get your act together before its too late.
You can only sweep these things under the rug for so long.
And that is what phk is advocating as part of his proposal. Cookies are the wrong tool to be used for session management.
Minecraft isn't really "native" since it targets the Java VM.
Eh, switching from Fedora to Ubuntu would not be a big deal at all. The differences really are quite minimal and the actual install would take what, half an hour tops? The effort to install a windows partition would be much higher.
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I just signed up as i thought it was interesting, only to find out there is no action in Berlin, Germany. Not really surprised by that.

So i thought, ok, let's set up a group and a diner in a nice restaurant... So why the hell am i supposed to provide my credit card data to potentially pay $22 (??) for a meetup in a UNKNOWN, not freely choosable restaurant in Berlin?

It just tells me "yo, we will set up a nice partner restaurant for you"...

So i have to pay upfront (if enough people signup) for a meetup in a restaurant which i cannot choose, somewhere in Berlin, not knowing if grubwithus will actually be able to book a table in a decent restaurant (how would they know my taste....). It's also entirely unclear how much of the money goes to grubwithus, which should be clearly explained somewhere without me having to look it up in the terms and conditions or wherever it might be hidden.

I'm not fast in saying "This concept will fail", but I am pretty sure this model is fundamentally flawed and will fail...

I misinterpreted the platform as a nice way of setting up a diner with friends + some strangers in a restaurant of my choice (where i know the quality is good), but grubwithus doesn't allow me to do that.

It's also really weird that i cannot comment in my recently created group, because the system tells me to "Slow down there partner!".
So you are blaming users for myspace's fail? or myspace itself which created a platform that led users to make myspace useless.
nvidia drivers still have plenty of issues, especially if you are trying to use more than one monitor and use stuff like flash and compositing.
Making Outlook use Word as the default rendering engine was a pretty huge effort back in Office 2007. There was some underlying work that happened in this time frame that also led to Word Services in Office 2010.

The reason why Office made the switch to using Word as the default (and not even allowing Trident as an option) was to unify the layout results between authoring and reading emails. A common complaint "back in the day" was that users would write emails and they would end up looking different, since IE and Word render things differently.

While Word will read and render HTML, making it a standards-compliant rendering engine was and is not a priority (HTML is a convenient storage format that happens to also be rendered by other programs). So, the decision was made to make Word the default email renderer, and cut Trident from Outlook as an email renderer.

(I work on Word, but I don't and have never directly worked on wordmail, but I've heard this explained in hallways over the past few years when I complain that Word doesn't render animated gifs, I am not an official MS representative, etc. etc. etc.).
Yup. Jumping on the IE6 bandwagon when it's been an object of unanimous hate for many years. Hey, any PR is good PR, right?
They have to target a sympathetic group or they probably wouldn't get donations. Hardly anyone gives a crap what happens to men, especially other men. I'm actually unsure whether or not I would want my rivals to be better at negotiating and interviewing (driving market rates higher but closer to unsustainable levels, and schmoozing into positions that few of any gender are qualified for).
He is saying you failed because you have stupid friends.
"Leakable" in the sense that you can hand it to somebody else and they can actually use it.

A cookie is leakable because the client chooses to send it, so copying it to somebody else is really bad. A server-assigned per-connection ID is not leakable unless you can spoof the IP address of the one you're sending as.
I think Haxe is unique in the balance it is trying to find between compilation speed, platform consistency/reach, and advanced language features. My personal observation is that Nicolas and the other language authors seem to prioritize things as I've just listed them.

Compilation speed thing is a "big deal" that I don't hear talked about a lot on HN. Haxe's compiler is so fast that it provides autocompletions by itself. So, completing fields from "using" mixins, constructor inference, structural types, or macro generated methods are all very fast, and guaranteed to be correct. So, perhaps while Haxe's features are not as robust as a few other languages, they feel much more tightly integrated with most coding workflows.
Sure, you could also argue that what banks are doing is useful to society since the government, which is elected by the people, tolerates it.

But I will continue to argue that companies have leeway in how they use patents, and exploiting a broken patent system is not in the interest of society.
No, totally incorrect. It's not the visitation that is pointless. It's the lack of any "actual" visitation. But it's worse than that. It's like "open secret" visitation. You can play your "One cannot divine the mind of God" game all you want but your argument is still ridiculous. No one said coming to Earth in itself is ridiculous, but it's this whole other game you want to play with it that is just too much.
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Yes you should. See sites like airbnb.com and theverge.com one of their USP is their design/usability

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Lots of good meetups for devs in LA. Let's grab a coffee sometime.
> Note that on a modern display, these graphics are tiny, and the site itself only takes up about a 5th of the page (if that much). We've "gone Retina" maybe three or four times since 1997, we just didn't have Apple telling us that doubling display resolution was an epochal shift in computing technology and a legion of fans to carry forth the message.

Display pixel density (some call it resolution, a term that is bit overloaded these days) has been hovering at 100 PPI for a long time. There has been almost zero development in that area. Even in the old CRT days, 19" screens were used at 1600x1200 (roughly 100PPI), and almost all desktop monitors since have been <100 PPI (or close to that). And now Apple is doubling the pixel density to >200 PPI. I'd call that a fundamental technological shift.

> Final point: The shift from CRT to LCD was much more dramatic than this shift, and we all made it through. Scaremongering is pointless.

Did you live an alternative history? There was almost no change in the outputted picture in CRT->LCD transition. And especially very little change that required attention of software developers.
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Will be interesting to see what happens to games sales/usage figures when they release this.

I'm going to guess that most people who are Linux users but are also interested in games will already have a Windows partition that they use for gaming.

So it might be that any increase in Linux gaming on Steam is exactly matched by a decrease in Windows gaming.

I doubt there are many gamers out there who would love to play AAA proprietary games but are holding out until they are ported to Linux.
It's also no place for gratuitously throwing around words like fuck and dick. Try extending your vocabulary.
His concern about appendicitis is rather interesting. I wonder if preemptively removing it is something that has been considered. They do that with a keyhole operation these days if I recall correctly, so accidental injury during recovery would probably be fairly minimal.
Anecdotes ignore selection effects. Data tries to control for them.
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Once you have a concept of a session unique nonce, cookies are needless. Browsers can implement a locally encrypted resumption store where the user entered entropy never touches the network to resume a session on the same machine. Resuming a session on a new machine could use 2 factor auth with fallback one time capabilities. That's big, doubly so given the clear historical trends in users ability to memorize entropy and the likelihood of hashed password database disclosure.

What you need to understand, is that we can get rid of cookies, live in a more secure world, and give up nothing. The only thing holding us back is unwillingness to understand the underlying issues and fear that we stand to lose something by advocating change.

On top of that, by standardizing on a nonce we avoid all cookie request overhead larger than the nonce, which is not trivial. Every mandatory request byte we save under MTU is huge.
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If you want your website, app, whatever to look like it was made by someone who dedicates their time and energy to design, you'd better find someone who meets that description.
> That makes it possible for a UI design where the user can press a button and say "don't surf this site anonymously" with the default being a new random session-id for all other sites.

This is already possible, just give tabs their own cookie context by default. (Browsers don't make this the default, but they all have some variant of "incognito mode" already...)

> The problem with cookies is that they disable caching of everything on the site, including favicon.ico and there is nothing the server can do about it, because the cookies are sent on all requests.

I admit that I don't know much about HTTP caching, but I don't see why the Cookie header would inhibit caching. (Edit: Isn't the purpose of the Vary header to specify which request headers affected the result, including Cookie?)
Just because it is seems unreasonable to you in human terms, is precisely why it may be perfectly reasonable to (what you admit) to be non-human entities! And just because it is unreasonale or implausible to you or anyone else does not mean it is not real or not happening. Quantum physics seems very implausible to me but that has no bearing on it being true.
For c3d, I could have stopped your response at the beginning. I claim what was done in 1512 was not physics. It was proto-science. The crux of that point was the science of today is qualitatively different from that of 1500s so arguments like "Well we thought fire was made of phlogiston" don't work. I even cited that one so not sure why you gave those examples.
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The current suffix is 'cloud'.

The industry movers and shakers (marketeers) will be sure to tell us what the next word is shortly.
Our startup is about a game construction platform built entirely on the web. users will be able to create a certain type of game using an editor we supply on our website and download it to a 'game player' on their mobile device, so the site isn't just a HTML with some CSS, it's a serious application. We've got most of the logic behind the scenes already figured out , but we don't have the touch for doing design .. ;-)
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Those "massive usability improvements" for you were a massive step backwards for me and many other power users. It confirmed tat my switch to OSX was the right choice, as I had to abandon all of the hard-learned short cuts anyway.

I strongly agree with the original post - there has been no real pace of improvement in Office, and that's just sad.
I would think that this is just the first stage towards said box. First, they make their software work on the only OS you can ship for free and then they make their own distro, which they put on their box. If they're smart about it, their distro will be fairly common, with few customizations, so that they can pull in a lot of the open source fixes.
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This is a pointless argument, since both views are "correct". Even Joe Armstrong says that
"You can take two views, you can say that either erlang isn't object oriented... [or] you can say its more object oriented than all the object oriented languages."

But I do not think it's very useful to say that Erlang is object oriented, since it will confuse a lot of people, since it is not anything like the other "object oriented languages".

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Erlang-Joe-Armstrong
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How protocol adoption happens, in three steps:

1. Working code.
2. Publicity.
3. Ubiquity.

That's it. Kamp is making a lot of the right noises here, but he's already lost ground to SPDY just because they've shipped code. No amount of sitting round tables bashing out the finer details of a better spec will help as much as getting code written - even if it's just a placeholder for an extensible spec, as long as that placeholder does something useful.
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Cookies are almost never mentioned in Vary: so all caches have to assume that the precense of cookies means non-cacheable.
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What is it that truly makes design intuitive?
which raises the question - I could not find MS Access in this release. Is it there?
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As I said above, you can take pictures of monuments, outdoors, and of people you know, indoors, where it makes sense (a restaurant, people at your table).

But if you try to take pictures of strangers -- anywhere -- you will generate a very aggressive reaction.

These rules are not written down so they're hard for strangers to understand; it's very possible for a tourist to feel photography is totally "free" in France when visiting tourist locations, and then find herself in the middle of a fight because she took her camera out of her bag at the wrong time in the wrong place (never in the subway for example!)

The funny thing with these kinds of "rules" / customs is that you internalize them; I can't even imagine myself taking pictures in the subway...
Why would radar recordings or radioactive soil samples not count as data (in the same sense that fossils are data)?
This totally depends on the network card chipset. A fresh Windows 7 install on my PC requires external NIC drivers before I get on the net.
I think they are responding to the suggestion that Valve releases their own distro.

Would certainly take me significantly more than half an hour to switch to Fedora though since I would need to re-learn the package manager, move all my settings across and figure out the subtle differences in configuration etc.
If the cuffs cannot be reused then costs go up. If costs go up I pay more tax to cover this.
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Nothing gratuitous about my use of those words. I thought carefully about using them, and I believe they vividly and correctly convey my vehemence and disdain for racists.
Cross-platform tools often have a single user interface that tends to look foreign on every platform (sencha touch), or they force you to code a different ui for every targeted platform (titanium?).

How is the ui problem is usually tackled with haxe? I tried googling a bit, but didn't come up with a conclusive answer.
I'm not sure. There are atheists communities gathering on Sundays and chanting songs. In principle, one could imagine a religion grounded in reality.

Now if we're talking about actually competing with the Roman Catholic Church, well… yeah, tough luck.
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Not only that, but they are also available on Desura, which supports linux.
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This looks cool. Maybe you can consider a similar format to learn languages (e.g. memorize words or grammar rules?)
Well I did not buy AAA games that I wanted to play that were windows only(like Portal 2[1]), but I would bought them if they are ported to Linux, so I would argue that they will expand their user base(a little). I must admit that in case of some games were to good to miss and I played them on wine(like Witcher 2 - my excuse is that it was DRM free and different enough that it was worth rewarding even when there were no Linux version).

edit: [1] - I mean games with no native Linux version(Portal 2 have also Mac version)
Well....while I would agree that many are flocking to California, but the beauty about the internet is that you don't have to be there to make a good living.

Also, that doesn't mean that everybody needs to build the largest companies they can. But, it does mean that everybody that wants to - can.

If you have the ability to, you probably should at least try.

What's the worst that can happen? Even if you go for broke and end up being broke, given that you were the type to go for broke, it's highly likely that you will be very employable.
I don't think its victim blaming. For example, I would be seriously offended if someone takes my picture without my permission.

Because I don't why they are taking it. Are they spying? Or is that guy a terrorist surveying the place? Or he might just be a guy who would morph my pic and upload that to a wrong a site.

Regardless, if you are wearing a computing device which will assist you do some things its OK. But plainly shooting pictures of unknown people, their premises and property is not something everybody will be comfortable with.
There's only one thing I'm sure of. Visitors coming to France certainly don't visit to meet your likes.