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> The tv industry is not disruptable.

Of course it is, think out of the box. Netflix is already doing it, see the discussion elsewhere in the thread. Apple/Google might buy the Olympics rights and put it in iTunes/Play.
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timeouts of few seconds are decent alternative to captcha. they can't be beaten.
Would it work to do that by IP, and allow only X different IPs for an account to try to login on a single day? e.g. if you've tried to login with 10 different IPs on that day, you will no longer be able to login that day. (Of course this would mean saving some extra data.) The biggest problem I see is that this means people can lock you out of your account, which is probably unacceptable.
No, I'm not. From the wording of your question I thought you didn't know they digitized books, which is a revenue stream already. They might use it for other data indeed.
Yes, when I can, I will buy a new certificate, but I can't at the moment, sorry
You don't.

If account is locked - user can either wait, or request account recovery (get email).
With rate plans like 8MB for $50/mo ISP business is far not a low margin business.
A touchscreen is an invention but people managed to use touchscreens without slide to unlock for years. That is a separate and dependent invention.

Either the designers didn't think about this approach or thought it wasn't the best solution. If anyone produced such a solution or documented it the patent should be invalidated for prior art.

My initial reaction to the patent was probably that is a bit trivial but better than many that get granted and that there should be plenty of workarounds. The slide to unlock definitely seems obvious once you have seen it but I'm not sure it is so obvious before you have seen it (it's quite hard to unwind your mind to a state of unknowing). You certainly need to asking the right questions: how can we remove all the buttons, how do you prevent it waking too easily.

There is no need for touchscreen phones to go completely buttonless. That is a design choice not an essential feature to exist in the market.
The BBC aren't allowed to serve customers outside of the UK even if they wanted to due to the licensing agreements they have with content owners. NBC is the exclusive broadcaster in the United States. Anyone offering the Olympics to US viewers is in breach of their licensing agreement.
% is percentage, not mod (with our without signs). Damn normals!
No, depression is enough to distinguish from simple sadness, or grief, or other forms of sadness which are not pathological. Depression is already defined as an illness, and not simple sadness. Prefixing nonsense words does nothing to increase understanding of the illness of depression or of the normal forms of sadness that people experience.

Medical professionals do not ever call something clinical depression. They'll use words like reactive or endogenous etc.

The solution to people mis-using the term depression to apply it to things which are not depression is to stop people mis-using that term, not to invent other terms.

> When your sports team loses, you get depressed.

No, you are sad, fed-up, gutted, sick as a parrot, annoyed, frustrated, mournful, etc. You are not depressed, because depression is an illness.

The other problem with "clinical" is that it is widely used by cranks - see for example "clinical nutritionist".
I'm amazed that twitter for blackberry has as many users as twitter for android and iphone!
Wish there had been more hackers around when I started at the age of 15. But then that was 1972 :-)
The internet is unbearably slow for the next two weeks until the fiber to the mainland[1] comes online -- right now there's a 600ms satellite link, which is no fun. At the moment I've only got about 2-3mbit (though at least there's no data cap), but I'm hoping that'll improve drastically soon.

Visas are no problem. There's visa-free entry for any nationality, and we'll sort out new hires work permits once they get here.

And yeah, I really need to finish adding content to the website. Up until yesterday it was just a static splash page :)

[1] http://www.nation.sc/index.php?art=27434
I like the idea, but does the syntax have to be that terse? It's quite expressive but less readable than code (or JSON/YAML), and I'm not sure why that's useful in this context.
Hopefully this method won't become too mainstream since it requires some hacking.
Yeah, I've had more people say that than have actually applied for the job :)
Looks great. How about making home/end on external keyboards go to beginning/end of the line rather than the document?
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I'm actually very intrigued, I just booked a flight to Indonesia to spent a month or so hacking / designing for myself in Bali, but doing this with others sounds like a much better plan. Any details on the schedule yet?
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This is largely a historical anomaly in the rights. The terrestrial broadcasts were received in the Netherlands so broadcast rights the BBC gets still include this at tleast in some cases.

The Olympics are bought collective for Europe by the EBU/Eurovision and then their members broadcast them so for the Olypics the BBC may have Euopean rights from the IOC.
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It wasn't even moved, it remained in ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ - it's original directory and a very logical one at that.
It's surprising that a developer wouldn't have been able to figure this out, considering ~/Library/ is the directory where all application data and preference files are stored..
EXIF orientation handling is a ghetto
I wonder how much people spend on firmarms, learning how to use them, ammunition, guns safes, etc. ?

I saw a news report that the number of people applying for a gun license in Aurora after the shootings at the cinema went up quite a bit.

To me, as a non-American, that is quite scary. A guy kills and injures a lot of people and the reaction of the public is not "how could we have prevented this?" but "I need a gun so when this happens again I can kill the guy before he kills as many people!"

Scary and quite sad :(

I do not know if James Holmes is suffering from mental health issues and if they are the cause of his violent attack on the people of Aurora however I would suspect mental health problems are involved somewhere and perhaps this tragedy could have been averted had he had the proper help.
you probably should mention the guys providing the service.
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Though I agree those would be hard captchas if you tried to complete them properly, It's not overly hard to guess which one is the control- the control is always bold, very likely a nonsense word, and never cut off or partially visible, because the control is generated by an algorithm rather than a scanner. The captcha isn't really designed to be regenerated until both words make sense.
The same thing that the people need to access "How I need your mother".

After a few years, the easiest solution is to just buy a prxoy. Normally cheaper.
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This is exactly my point, I don't believe there is a Unix or Linux as a whole. Sure, there are Unix-like and Linux-like OS's out there and if you know 1 then you can easily adapt to using another. That is the point, you have to adapt. That is why unified standards are a good thing, you ideally only have to develop once.

I fear the stagnation caused by lack of competition much more than the adaption required to move from Linux to BSD or MacOSX, but to each his own. We've seen what happens when there's only one browser in town; an OS has the potential of being much worse.

I know exactly what anomaly means. We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I would argue that before the Desktop PC revolution, computing was niche and elitist. Desktop PC's opened the world of computing to everyone and hugely accelerated the take-up and rate of innovation in all things computing. Additionally this Desktop PC revolution was driven by IBM, Intel and Microsoft, not Unix/Linux.

There's nothing to disagree with, it's a fact. Desktop PC were "a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form" in that they didn't use a UNIX/-like OS.

I agree that they opened the world of computing to everyone and etc, but that's irrelevant to my point.

I am not going to argue this one as I am not going to be seen as bad mouthing Mozilla or Opera, especially as I am a huge fan of Firefox and have great respect for both companies. Perhaps I am just old and scared of change but I fail to see how forking or branching HTML5 standards can possibly be a good thing. Browsing and HTLML5 in particular is an important foundation in future development and I just hate to see standards possibly diverging in this.

We probably wouldn't have an HTML5 standard if it wasn't for the WHATWG fork; Mozilla and Opera proposed the W3C - who were caught on XHTML 2.0 - to continue the work in HTML and they were shut down, so they formed a new group and did it themselves.
This is all too complex for me to handle! (And "strange", and "weird", and "crazy" and ...)
I've succumbed into that populist crap (standing desks) for almost a year.

Then I talked to older people from standing-up-a-lot-and-working-with-your-hands professions. They usually end with flat feet and compressed spine and multitude of other issues.

The point being - yes, use standing desk, for a change. Do not make it exclusive. The real issue with programmers is that they are static in same position throughout the whole day. Change that and you're fine.
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Amen! Good analysis and solution.
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I set that method up for my fiancée yesterday, who is in the US right now. The Flash content on iPlayer works fine, which uses RTMP.

So my method works too, but my goal is 'watching iPlayer abroad', not 'tunnelling RTMP through the UK'.
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Which is more efficient if the sites don't care where the flash connection comes from (like, apparently, the BBC)
Who says it's coming at a cost? There is a very real chance the BBC have fixed sized pipes already paid for, that are not even close to being fully utilized.
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Hi, Can you elaborate a little more on some use-cases or some examples from your troubles?. Am writing a web application(moderately complex) in python and find myself annoyed by the amount of unit test cases needed. My reaction so far has been to write them whenever i seem to test more than a couple of times. But, have a feeling dynamic typing is actually creating problems by enlarging the number of test cases. Don't know enough haskell to comment on it's type system, but curious to learn. P.S: Feel free to mail me, if you don't want it to be blog post.
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It seems to me that the 800lb Gorilla in room is the impact of HFT on volatility which is not really covered here.
Sounds like there would be some issues with PHP script timeouts, since you'd have to tie up a whole web server thread with a connection that doesn't close.
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This looks really awesome. I did a company in Anguilla in the Caribbean during the 1990s crypto export ban period, and lived in Thailand for 6mo or so s couple years ago. A tropical place like that could be really great for a dev team forms while, although I think spending a few months a year back in centers of tech (us or asia or eu) would be really helpful.

Sort of thinking about a shared startup office in Hawaii for weeks or months with a team.
How is the raw number of apps relevant ? There could be hundred of millions of harmless apps, that doesn't make it okay to block a few of them based on a dubious agenda.
Look at the "download MP3" link's URL, the audio captcha comes from google.com/recaptcha.

I agree that the button itself should be easier to discover for blind people, like an image link with a title tag.
From the article: "t’s important to note the way reCAPTCHA works. Each user (or bot) is presented with a control word, and a word unrecognized by OCR. This control word is already known to Google (who runs reCAPTCHA). If you get this first word right, it is assumed that you get the second word correct as well. So, in reality, you only need to guess the key word correctly.

I decided to just guess the first word and hope “secretary” was the control. It wasn’t."

How is that being ignorant?
> If you must use reCaptcha on your website, do it like 4chan

This is not how Yotsuba's captcha works. If you screw up, you're still taken to the post submitted page, with the error "You seem to have mistyped the CAPTCHA. Please try again." and you must return to the page you tried to post from. What you're talking about is a feature of 4chan X.
This is indeed crazy talk. Ubuntu (8 years old), the most popular desktop variant of GNOME, has, what, 5% projected by end of this year? So now GnomeOS, which will compete directly with Ubuntu/Canonical and will somehow get to 20% in 7.5 years? With no OEM experience, no sales experience, no marketing experience, no independent hardware experience?

Now, we all know that Gnome is essentially a Red Hat project without Red Hat "owning" it. Even so, Red Hat would need to put in some serious horsepower to make this happen. And to this point, Red Hat has now shown the wherewithal to get hardware, touch, mobile and even desktop (UX) at all. This would massively have to change in the RH corporate culture and approach to be at all successful.

Sure, have goals, make plans, but don't sit there and tell me you'll get hockey stick curve adoption extrapolated singular data points.
Ok the client sounds really interesting to me. I am goung to play with it a bit.
Sign me up. I'm serious. I have actually always wondered why people don't go to tropical islands with their VC money. If I got the VC money, my company's office would be a wireless access point in a box next to a pool/beach with chairs, umbrellas and laptops.
Flash with Firefox on Linux respects the SOCKS proxy setting.
would be nice if you could use the keyboard
The 3GS is not free on contract in Germany. Fact is that there are cheaper phones and that may be of importance in markets where the average wage is lower than in the us. And since the article is about world-wide number of devices shipped, that makes a diffence.
That prevents brute force attacks against one specific account, but not against an attack against all users of a site. If you have the capability to make, say, 10k login attempts per second (no idea if that's realistic), you don't slow down to 1 attempt/second, you just attack 10k different accounts once every second.

IP blocks can be countered in other ways (botnets, tor, etc).

I'm not saying it's a bad idea though, there doesn't seem to be any downside apart from the book-keeping required. You could probably start with a higher delay (5 to 10 seconds seems very reasonable) and increase it to several minutes. But please don't make it 24 hours after 3 failed attempts, which happened to me when I tried to order train tickets online and forced me to make a trip to a physical ticket vending machine.
very cool, and apparently quite simple. but when I look at the network log with the developper tools apparently chrome doesnt register loading a new image. is it possible that it will never show up there because it doesnt finish loading?

looking at the response headers of online.png shows:

Cache-Control:no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0, false
Connection:Close
Date:Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:04:04 GMT
Expires:-1
Last-Modified:Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:04:04 GMT
Pragma:no-cache
Transfer-Encoding:chunked

so that can't be the jpeg mentioned
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Interesting how Microsoft and Google have different ideas of how percentage key (%) should work.

Relevant post by Raymond Chen:

“How does the [Windows] calculator percent key work?”

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/70474...

Implementing % button, Google chose an approach which is more mathematically sensible but arguably less obvious to users. For Google, 10% just an alias for 0.1. This means that if you want to calculate how much a dress with a price of $299 costs with a 20% discount, type in

299 + 299 × 20%

Perhaps, this is exactly how you think % should work.

Microsoft, however, chose to make “%” key more user-friendly, perhaps sacrificing some consistency. Windows calculator tries to use the last computed value as “the whole”. Therefore,

299 - 20%

will give you how much a $299 dress costs with 20% discount, and

299 + 5% - 20%

will help you calculate 5% tax before applying the discount.

Sadly, Google thinks

500 + 1% = 500.01

which is really not that helpful.
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> our main focus is on making something more usable for people

Considering that your games can be played by a random number generator with something like 10% success rate, you can just skip the captcha completely. Much more user friendly.

The other things you look at to increase security, like detecting patterns and behaviors that indicates bots can be done without a captcha.
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I got a Geekdesk and put my own top on it from Ikea. It works perfectly for me. http://jsndev.net/104/geekdesk-and-ikea-standing-desk/
They do a surprising amount, they seriously have vans that drive around scanning to see if you're watching television on a physical TV and if so if you don't have a licence they'll fine you

I'm not sure if they are actually finding out if you have a TV licence on the stream yet but I wouldn't be surprised if they are/do.
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I don't get it either. Maybe only US IPs?
Red Swede reporting in: only get a usual search query
It's for the bandwidth not the content. And I'm sure they wouldn't take it, I'd just like to see the response.
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Like most people here, I just don't like the fact that some people are trying to put digital walls around me.

To buy my nexus 1 phone, I had to use a machine in US. I bought some other stuff from UK that way, using my machine in UK. But then UK started blocking other sites, so I had move that machine to Germany.

Someone needs to come up with a research paper, showing the optimum number of virtual machines needed to access the whole internet (with their locations). Or better, make a business out of it.
That's right. There's no reason to give a shit about the Olympics these days. And if the IOC wants to make it hard for fans to watch, why should we make any effort to support their celebration of ... what does it stand for now ... obese cable subscribers watching fit people wreck their bodies?
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While it sucks for the few users that did use RSS reader in Mail.app, the truth is most people didn't actually use that feature in Mail.app and I actually like that Apple has removed feature bloat from Mail.app on a feature that has nothing to do with mail.

I think the only thing they should have done is the first time you start the new Mail.app is a warning comes up saying your RSS is gone and an option to export to some "easier to read" file on your desktop.
What a complete load of shit. You have to actually click the numbers, you can't use your computer's keyboard. Google, I am disappoint.
I'm not sure you'd want to involve NLP. I think it's more down to the fact that it's relatively easy to reverse engineer the function generating the question and get the parameters that way.

Wolfram Alpha won't answer very many questions of that sort[0] but a cracker can spent a couple of hourse to enumerate all kinds of questions and writing tailored functions (and a detection routine) for each. If your detection routine is naive (e.g. choose randomly) and some or all of your answering functions work badly, no problem, you only have to get it right occasionally anyway.

[0] And indeed it fails unsurprisingly if comically for the second question How many times does the word four appear within this sentence?, trimming it to How many times and showing details about the British newspaper.
It's working for me from the UK. I can't imagine why Google would want to geolocate this. Perhaps they've only partially rolled it out to some of their datacenters?
I just tested it and the percent key in the Google calculator doesn't work like the one described in the linked article. It really just divides by 100.

3 + 5% = 3 + 0.05 = 3.05
Don’t forget that the preferred method to do calculations with google is to put them into the search box.
Link that works for people with non-English Google:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator

(The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)
You can type your calculation as a google query and you'll get the result. This calculator is designed for people looking for a mouse- / touch-based UI.
Nice.

Much like fertile soil, the mind too needs to lie fallow.
I bought myself one off ebay for a couple of hundred pounds, has a little up/down controller which takes no more than a few seconds. I sit more than I stand, but it's a nice break. Not sure how I'd feel about this in a office though!

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Hey, thanks! I just finished up six months in Thailand as a freelance dev myself, though in Bangkok mostly rather than an island. Seychelles is a nice change of pace :)

A few months back in civilization per year is probably a good idea. I'll make a note to try and do it -- probably the US is a little far, but Asia/EU is probably doable.
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