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RMS and the FSF take a fairly narrow view of what they push for freedom on: they only care about code. In my opinion, this stems from two issues.

First, I think that as people who write code, RMS and the FSF don't immediately see value in things other than code, and in particular don't see the value in supporting a community of developers around something other than code. If you don't know how to produce something, you might not see the value in making it open, because you personally don't have the ability to contribute to it. Many non-programmers don't immediately see the value in Free Software / Open Source Software, because they don't personally have the ability to contribute to it.

Second, the FSF has produced a large number of works of opinion, and they have rather specific thoughts about what they want done with those opinions, which for some reason they don't see as inconsistent with their views on software. Note that all of the essays on gnu.org/philosophy/ have a license that allows redistribution but not modification; in many different places, they've expressed the opinion that works of opinion need not have free licenses, because changing such works would change the opinions expressed.

Personally, this seems entirely wrong to me. If I take a copy of CSS3 and modify it, it no longer matches the CSS3 standard. However, I could still usefully use it for other purposes, such as talking about the implications of different CSS models, or making a proposal for what I'd like to see in CSS. And if for some reason I attempted to describe my modified version as CSS3 (or CSS3.1), that would make it no different than any other random bit of factual inaccuracy or buggy code on the Internet. The same goes for a modified version of a philosophical essay, or the script or art for a game.
Compared to pianos, violins are really, really simple machines. You have strings, a bridge, a sound box with some holes in it and a couple of posts inside, some tuning pegs and that's about it. A single key on a piano has way more parts, and most of them move.

The design and construction of string instruments like violins is pretty much a solved problem. Yes there is variation in the way the wood is shaped and carved, which gives you the different grades of quality, but the basic engineering problem of "how do you make a violin" is solved.

Because a piano is much more complex there is a lot of room for continual innovation in both materials and construction. This might be the reason that you don't see people performing on old pianos - the newer ones are just technologically superior. That and it just takes so much effort (and money) to maintain a quality piano.

That being said, there is a legion of both pianists and violinists that will tell you (incorrectly or not) that the sound of an instrument improves with age. Something about the fibers in the wood being affected by vibration.

[Edit: maintenance cost as a factor]
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woops! @antirez in person :-) amazing job you have done with Redis.

Initially we didn't add compression to save bandwidth but to solve the network bandwidth issues between amazon and rackspace. However, it turns out that you can save on the bill quite a lot, in our case about ~ $700.

Regarding the binary, would be very nice to have. The first though is that compression would work better for us than binary since our keys are quite long (50/100 bytes) and very regular on their patterns, so compression works very well in our case. Probably can be extrapolated for other cases where the keys are typically heavier than the values.
See http://freedomdefined.org/Definition for a view (not RMS's) which extends the spirit of the Free Software definition to "Cultural Works", including art, music, etc.

Creative Commons has adopted the language of "Free Culture Approved" for licenses which meet this definition. Not all CC licenses do (in particular, non-commercial or no derivatives clauses are incompatible).
Well, since the client won't interpret it as an image it will just look like spam garbage.

Easily filtered spam garbage.
Few things I'd like to clarify -

Order quality is high from the govt contracts, great from firms which use contractors, Most MNCs and hit/miss from other firms.

Large govt contracts are always going to favor large firms, so that was redundant.
I wanted to explain that in the govt projects, the firms that do get it tend to be MNCs or larger firms and the MNCs aren't paying bribes.

There is corruption in the country, and I don't doubt things get twisted.

I'm not portraying India as having a working system. I am saying that it's not as bleak and that reforms are tightening the noose.

For example recently service taxes were changed drastically and that's going to bite into the underground economy and bring more firms into the tax net.

it's a bit complex but in essence the govt has decided that they are going to use the larger more established firms to drive smaller firms to register. And they are now going to use the big firms to essentially collect taxes.
This seems to be a common reaction to new major versions. After KDE4 came out people also started their own KDE3 fork: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php
FFIII was an NES game. One presumes the "remake" is just running the original ROM in an emulator. So the "development work" involved is essentially just getting a license written up and signed. Maybe they'll update some copyrights and artwork, too.
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The email address is/was easily found by a google search. I don't think it was private information but I can see how it is 'personal'. It really depends on how Twitter defines "personal information".
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I wonder how similar the act is? Lots and lots of books are crap that is printed on cheap paper for sale in airports, and I don't see much reason to lament tossing such a thing (especially if it is damaged).

I suppose you should take care to not extend the sentiment to finely crafted foods.
But will people pay for these?
I agree on the app store. We cut the netflix subscription for Amazon Instant Video (the wife and I just don't watch enough videos in a month for $8/month), and the lack of that app makes Apple TV basically just a better way of screen sharing photos. Which is no mean feat, as I've been defeated trying to get the resolution perfect every time I've tried to hook up my Air to a TV via HDMI and use iPhoto.
I don't know what sort of data they're storing in redis, but it seems like you would want any over-the-internet replication of any kind to be encrypted via ssh tunnel or some other means.
Spike Lee (Director) tweeted somebody's physical address.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/spike-lee-apologizes-geo...

His account is still good though.

https://twitter.com/SpikeLee
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that's a good point... as mentioned in the post we use ssh tunnels and have experienced quite a few glitches, but in this case it has been running without a hiccup for 3 weeks (proof of nothing of course).

I suspect (guess) that not having an idle connection help the tunnel to not randomly drop.
Yamaha. Even an older Yamaha will play well. The proof: try finding a used Yamaha. After watching Craigslist for months, we ended up buying one new for our son, who had been hacking away at a keyboard in the garage for a year, and put in another 6 months of lessons. We waited something like 3 months to get it because of parts shortages in Japan.
Perception is reality. To the geeks this is "just android in a box" to everyone else this is a gaming platform that comes with a lot of games for free and is dirt cheap.

People seem to have forgotten on of the major reasons why the PS1 became so successful.

It wasn't it's superior hardware or software or numbers of colors. It was the simple fact that it could be modded and thus allowed you to play games for free.
In the pure theoretical definition, packet switched networks (the internet) are not capable of giving you any guarantees on the throughput. Because of this, parties such as Amazon / Rackspace are unlikely to give you these guarantees either.

The closest thing you can get to guaranteed bandwidth today is to rent (dark) fiber between multiple DC's yourself.
Completely agree. It feels very clunky. Apple TV with it's responsive UI does smoke the experience on Roku. However, content is king.
I, for one, know that there is a thing called "Google" that I use for solving mysteries like these. Plus, applied in a general context, do you expect Twitter now to contact every email address posted on the platform to check back with the owner on the legality of disclosing the email address to the public?
Very sad to me. Digital pianos are a great innovation in many respects but are sort of analogous to microwave ovens in cooking. Work well enough to be widely adopted, but are unlikely ever to be the means of producing a masterpiece.

The relative lack of (touch) sensitivity and the more limited variation in timbre are immediately noticeable. One of the other qualities of a traditional piano that I instantly miss in even the best digital simulations is sympathetic vibration. Holding the sustain pedal down will not simply allow the notes to play longer. Other strings that freed up begin to vibrate as well. It produces an effect that - the last I checked - is not well emulated in a digital environment.

Reflective of the values of our age I guess. Small, relatively portable, low maintenance wins out in many other arenas. Why not music...
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That was very much the goal of "Systems Theory"[1]. The problem is it's focused on "natural systems" with quantitative relationships. The work has fallen short in capturing phenomenological relationships.

I think Wilber's AQAL ontology comes closest to being the most "well defined"[2] but also a little whacky. The cornerstone of the model is differentiation across pronouns. The assertion is perspectives are partitioned across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person perspectives. So for example, art, ethics, and "truth" are the broad knowledge domains. He takes this further by then saying you can take a 1st/2nd/3rd person perspective on actual 1st/2nd/3rd persons.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory

[2] http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/kosmos/excerptC/appen...
The Twitter Rules state "Privacy: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission."

The lines are a little blurred when they consider an executive's email address which is already on a public website to be private or confidential contact information.

On the other hand, Twitter probably decided that suspending one user rather than upsetting NBC was an okay trade off. That appears to have been a miscalculation.

I doubt Twitter will suffer very long for it.
My grandma find politics very disgusting and discussing it would mean the same as CP for you. She is from ex-USSR. Does this means we should ban politics in darknets too?

And it is your approach is naive. You ignore technology. You can not technically limit information propagation in any kind of network. It will find a way. But if people will think that the only reason to go to any time of crypted network - is to fetch CP - here we go - society prepared for laws preventing cryptography (you can be imprisoned in UK for not giving crypto keys for a several years!)

Again - we might want to work on technology recognizing nudity, or abuse or whatever and protect ourselves and our kids or our moms from this type of content, but this should be completely separated from technology used to share this data! Just like there are parts of big cities which are not safe for white/black/chinese/etc guys. It doesn't mean we have to put tall wall around this part of city. Instead whoever think it is not safe there - just do not go there.
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The comments criticizing this for using WebKit are ridiculous. Most Safari users would never guess that Chrome runs on the same layout engine, but with a different JavaScript core, networking code, a sandbox, an extension architecture, and UI.

Using Haskell for any of the above components (especially the last three) could help make a browser that's more configurable and safer than anything Firefox Chrome or Safari could ever offer.
Totally agreed ; I should have pointed that this is only a guideline.
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Whether or not the e-mail address could be found out with "30 seconds of free time and access to Google" is irrelevant. Posting private information about someone violates twitter's TOS and therefore the account was banned.

The fact it's someone who criticized a sponsor of twitter is irrelevant because that account would not have been suspended if an e-mail address (personal information) had not been posted.
I also really enjoyed the pacing and voice. I'm looking forward to the next episodes.
I've had this on pre-order for about two months, and it'll be a little like Christmas morning for me when it finally arrives.
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Is the US under DDS or something? first HN is down last night, then JanRain Engage, then Mixpanel...
I feel the same way about Boxee.

The Boxee netflix app is painful to use. It's so much faster to load up Netflix on the iPad and then use Airplay to stream to the Boxee.
You can see some decrease in the number of contributors: https://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome/contributors/summary

However, note that the current slide in the numbers is something that only happened after February-March 2012, which was when the previous major release was launched. In 2010 another slide lasted from April until October, so I suppose there is a need to worry if contributions don't pick up around Sep-Oct.

That said, the situation for GNOME is certainly different now, given that they lost their biggest distribution channel in Ubuntu doing their own thing.
Anyway, if I want to take gratuitous pokes at a language, I usually choose XML; sometimes java.
He's long had a bit of that game-theoretic view, that it may be worth compromising if you don't think you can win a given situation with a hardline approach. That's the reason for the existence of the LGPL, for example, which is recommended to be used in cases where the quasi-ultimatum of the GPL wouldn't be a successful strategy:

Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library.

This is why we used the Lesser GPL for the GNU C library. After all, there are plenty of other C libraries; using the GPL for ours would have driven proprietary software developers to use another—no problem for them, only for us.
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I've worked on many SEM campaigns over the last 5+ years spending millions on Google and calling it a "scam" seems a bit extreme for the following reasons:

1) Very few categories have CPCs upwards of $3. If that's what you were paying, it's either that you had a poor quality score (hence high opportunity cost to show your ad according to Google) or it was a category that was competitive and had the economics to justify a $3+ CPC (simple economics).

2) Google has extensive bot traffic and fraud prevention to ensure ad clicks are not coming from fake people. You tend to find much lower quality clicks when you opt into the content network but from the search network, I've never seen much fake activity (looking at logs/analytics, etc.).

3) It doesn't even matter what is being charged by Google, unless an advertiser is completely naive, they should be paying the cost that makes sense for their business. I don't care if I pay $25 per click if I can make that back overall. Similarly, even if a portion of the clicks are fraudulent or bots, you should be adjusting your bids downward to reflect that.
You mean something like these?

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What if you walked into the bank and there was a line of people with sticky pictures of dead kids in their hands waiting to enter the safe deposit box area. Would you come back?

Here's a thought...

Put on your foil hat for a second. Let's say you were a government and you wanted your citizens not to use systems like Tor and FreeNet. Wouldn't flooding them with extremely disturbing porn be a great way to make sure these systems weren't used by anyone except CP wankers? Wouldn't it be a great way to get people to go along with outlawing them?

This is a technical problem. When you think about it like that, it becomes obvious that this is a vulnerability in the security/crypto sense. I'd state the problem this way: these networks are trivially vulnerable to a particularly devastating social engineering spam attack that renders the network virtually unusable by most people. Call it a social DOS attack.

Edit: I believe I can state the problem succinctly:

Design a darknet/freenet network that is anonymous, uncensorable, and yet is not trivially vulnerable to social engineering DOS attack.

Hard problem. Hard equals interesting.
Well, you get 80% of what a normal cable or satellite subscription would cost at like a quarter of the price. And there are still less commercials.

I'm no fan of commercials, but it certainly beats paying $3/episode from iTunes.
tl;dr: "lalala, we can't hear you, we'll keep doing what we're doing". Looks like I'm not coming back to gnome in the foreseeable future.
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Are they seriously using one of the official Battlefield 3 wallpapers as their background?
It looks like Konsole is trying to use a bold font. Inconsolata does not have a bold variant therefore there is bold emulation.
I don't think it was the selection of rentals, but other reasons including: Apple TV wasn't as popular as it is now [1]; and, most likely, you're already paying for TV Service with your internet service provider - so why you would pay (again) for a show you've already paid for? (And, most likely, you're paying for DVR service, so you could have just recorded your show for future (and, potentially, unlimited) viewing.)

1. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/07/24/apple-tv-xbox
True - although you can get pretty good approximations. Still though, the point is valid: it would be very expensive to guarantee. Performance profile could drop badly pretty much any time.
Things like these make the "private information" argument super fishy. Twitter has taken a very free speech oriented position in the past (just remember the not shutting down of lulzsec/anonymous accounts). The actions of Twitter in the NBC case and the close sponsorship alliance between both make Twitter appear as a very weak when it comes to standing up against corporate interests.
People use pre-paid credit cards and an IP unblocker to get past the IP Wall.

It's kind of ridiculous how much more stuff is on US Netflix and HuluPlus compared to Canadian Netflix.

I wonder how many roadblocks they've put into the way for signing up on Hulu Plus from Canada? You might need a US iTunes account as well to get the app.
The Pipedrive guys have been super helpful in helping to form our distribution strategy, independent of their great product. Congrats guys!
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I poked around the website but wasn't able to find the answer to: Where are you located?

I ask because of your 'geography' rejections, not in the valley?
To learn from and improve our tools is the heart of our species. They've consented to not behaving as adults, and it's grossly hindered progress in a field of growing importance.
Maybe I just felt iMacs were geared towards young artists.

Young artists become older artists who continue buying hardware and software.
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faith my friend, they will get used to. "Getting used to" is the art every Indian has mastered.
Compressing the replication stream will likely buy you time (at the cost of added complexity resulting from having to maintain and monitor the ssh tunnel), but it won't solve your problem in the long term.

If your replication stream bandwidth continues to grow, the returns on compression will eventually diminish. As the cloud providers can't guarantee network throughput, it might be a good time to start planning to evacuate the cloud (or at least this part of the architecture).

If your business is growing that fast, this is a good problem to have. :)
Hmmm... I think you're still missing the point, so let me try.

The point was that for most TV shows the viewer is likely going to watch the entire series not just the current season. The GP's point was not that the back catalog is available for free in a clunky way, but that that most viewers won't care about old episodes.
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Oh, definitely. I was (poorly?) highlighting that molten/frozen/vaporized/etc are used relative to the normal state for a substance at "local" temperature.
I think that the GPL uses the term "derivative work" which is quite vague when it is not applied to code. Many software distributions encourage their upstream to use specific licenses such as one of the Creative Common licenses to cover art.

That's true for text too ; for example most pages on gnu.org are licensed under CC-BY-ND.

Unfortunately, as the -NC and -ND licenses add restrictions, some distributions such as Debian don't consider it free software (cf. [DFSG]).

[DFSG]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract
Not really, this is just off the top of my head and I'm sufficiently unfamiliar with bot programming and FB advertising that I'm sure that plenty of better solutions must exist.

You are forgetting that there are growing numbers of programmers in developing nations for whom doing this sort of thing can be an attractive way to earn a living (or at least they are willing to try it). Look on any "hire a freelancer" type sites and you will find hundreds of postings for tasks that sound awfully like scamware development (usually at a couple of dollars an hour).

Browser hijacking is not so uncommon either, I've installed legit software in the past that has come bundled with some crapware that injects extra adverts into web-pages and other things.

The analysis would not be too difficult either, simply set a "click rate" and adjust it downwards until you are being charged > $0. Do facebook offer any method to get free trail credits? If so this could be abused, heavily.

The economics are roughly the same as with spam, if you do enough of it your "hit rate" doesn't matter so much.
I really don't understand why they don't do netflix premium with per-movie rentals for $4-5 per streamed movie.

Given that all the big box movie rental stores have died, this would make them a player vs iTunes and Amazon who manage to have better selection than Netflix.
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Pianos don't improve with age.

A decently constructed instrument in the violin family will, as will (to a lesser extent) brass instruments.

I don't have a particular set of citations, it's just musician lore.
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