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It highly depends in which state (Bundesland) you live. The most states have don't have those fees anymore, only 3 of 16 states have them as far as I know. The height of those fees is about 500 € per half-year.

Independent to those fees (which are called Studiengebühr) there are other fees which have to be paid in all universities: It is called "Semesterbeitrag" and is about 150 € per half-year (average guessed on my experience ;-) ). It is used to pay public-transport and such stuff.
Individual tax rates can vary considerably, but overall taxation is only about 2/3 as high in the US as in Germany, counting all taxes and sources. Germany's tax revenue is about 41% of the country's GDP, while all levels of U.S. government have tax revenue adding to only 27%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... (on Wikipedia but just reproducing a Heritage Foundation data set).

My own tax rates when I lived in the U.S. were hilariously low, but then I didn't make a lot of money either, and lived in Texas for part of the time. A household making even $200k pays only 24% in federal taxes if filing singly, or 19% if filing jointly, and that's assuming they take nothing but the standard deduction and none of it is capital gains, so it's quite possible for that to be even lower.

I do agree it's important to compare like-to-like. For example, my Danish taxes now are still higher than my US taxes would be for the same income, but not as much higher once you take into account that in the US I'd have to buy health insurance separately.
This reminds me of a place near me Galloping Ghost (http://gallopingghostarcade.com/). If you're ever in the Chicagoland area, check it out. They charge an entry fee of $15 but all their games are on free play. Better yet, they let you come and go as you please for the entire day with that one purchase (so 11 hours of potential play time). They find and restore beat up arcade games as well as have a few PS3 in an arcade box with newer games (Mortal Kombat as well as Street Fighter). There is nothing like playing Mortal Kombat II for hours on end with a friend and then going to play NFL Blitz 99, NBA Jam and then back again. The best (and also worst) part is that there is no risk to play new games since they are all free (it is bad because you'll occasionally walk up to a game and have to either wait for the time to expire in game or just kill the character because somebody walked away mid game).
No they aren't. I wish people would quit perpetuating such nonsense. Promoting this belief just makes the problem that much worse and adds to the adversarial / antagonistic relationship between hackers and the rest of the firm (and the customers).
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... and for the knowledge that you should probably replace your front door lock if it can be opened with a credit card in 5 seconds ... I would. But fortunately my lock's a bit more secure than that :)
I'm not sure it's any easier to get Google on the phone than Europe (in Kissinger's sense, not in the way we might apply it to smartphones).

As for the second part, crapware increases data collection. That's one of the things that makes it crapware in a mobile context. It collects everything from location to the contents of one's video downloads.
great, will be there...
That's not the same generation of consumers though. About a decade or so apart in age I reckon.

I bet hippies weren't too big or popular with the 12 year old crowd either when they were at their peak.

And BTW, Justin Bieber IS an internet meme. He was made famous through a youtube video clip that got him the attention of big producers, a contract and eventually "real" fame.
> So your fancy two factor authentication still ends up resting on one piece of secret info as the weak point. Am I missing something?

Yes: that email password cannot be used to change your password, cancel your account, etc. and can be revoked easily without breaking anything else. This also means that you're not entering the password which can do all of those things on a daily basis, further reducing the odds of someone else being able to capture it even if they do manage the total local compromise or strong SSL MITM needed to get your ASP.

Security is all about incremental improvements, not silver bullets.
This is true outside the banks as well. If you make any purchase exceeding 250 USD (approximating a purchase requiring 10+ 100RMB bills), chances are the store will have one of these machines.

China is also the only country I've found myself in possession of counterfeit currency. Sigh, I guess I should just take the loss of 100 RMB but I keep thinking a little luck in a taxi could keep the system flowing...
Really? Easily? I've yet to see anyone willing to hire someone to do off site work with a US company, in the Valley or elsewhere. At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour.

I've always found that a bit strange, but maybe you know something I don't?

For the record I'm based in Norway, and English is my second, not first language -- but even if it was just to recommend friends and acquaintances that are in a similar position as op -- I would really like to hear how you would suggest going about looking for such work?
A quick story regarding your frelance work. When I first moved to Poland, I had the mindset that since I was living in a cheap country, I should price my freelance work low as well. I'll hasten to add that this was my first attempt at freelancing, and for a PHP developer with over 10 years of experience, I was charging between $20 and $30/hour. Absurdly low prices.

Anyway, this was meant to be temporary, and I got a job for a year, before deciding to return to freelancing. This time, however, I figured that I had little to lose by attempting to charge what I wanted to get paid. I also switched to charging on a per-day basis.

What happened? In terms of work available, very little - there's lots of work out there. I found that I was able to spend longer on the initial discussion phase, as the cost of doing so was minimal compared to my overall day rate, and it led to happier clients - everyone wins.

My rates have continued to rise ever since, and I'm on the verge of hiring other programmers to take some of the load off me alone. I could go on and on about the charge-by-the-day option, and how everyone wins with it: clients don't worry about whether having a conversation with me will be charged - of course it won't! - and it gives me the freedom to create huge amounts of client satisfaction if I do a ten-minute fix for free.

So, charge good rates, in daily increments, and do so happy in the knowledge that you're charging a fair rate for valuable skills.
It sounds like MS hasn't gotten its way in the tablet and mobile OS market (by loosing to Android as the vendor choice), so it has tried to enter this end of the market itself. For the vendors to turnaround and say, stay off our new turf, or we might not choose your OS in the laptop and PC market is a ballsy move.

This move by MS might be their final demise (fingers crossed).
> 2. Application specific passwords are impossible to use on mobile apps

I completely agree that the overall UX needs serious improvement but … doesn't your mobile device support copy and paste? I do this from time to time and while it's a bit clunky it's a lot easier than typing the password in by hand.
The whole thing reeked of wrongdoings and corruption from the start.

There are video and image recordings of the raid, but guess what, the crown wants to suppress those.[1]

[1]http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/dotcom-kicked-kneed-in-polic...
News should not be about being entertained.
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> it won't protect you from someone stealing your phone and opening your authenticator to login to your account

Why do they (and your malicious ex) know the other half needed to login - your password?
What with it being Android, there's variation in the screen sizes and graphics chips in the hardware you're running on.

If XBMC wants to run with hardware acceleration then that will probably require extra effort to make sure that there are drivers it can work with.
I'd like to think Caine's Arcade has picked up steam.
> Our highest court has ruled that our voting system
> is against our contitution. Twice. What an embarrassment.

To be fair the ruling is part of your voting system needs to be tweaked to make it even more fair. That is no embarrassment. Quite the opposite I would say. Your system is working on further improving itself and that should look messy not neat and tidy.

Compared to many western democracies the German system is quite enviable.
I'll propose a sideways solution: implement an "Administrator" mode on these accounts that requires separate authentication--perhaps enforcing two-factor authentication there.

There are many complaints about how Microsoft didn't protect Windows users enough because everyone had administrator access as a default. But isn't that the same problem with these Google and Apple accounts? With your standard account, you can change your password, delete all data, and do many other damaging acts.

I don't really want to enter in multiple pins/passwords each time I read email. But I would be more than fine doing so before being given the ability to damage my account.
Article doesn't mention it, but I think a lot of people were reminded of Flynn's by Tron 2, and thought to themselves, hmm, what a good idea...
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As part of the new Baseline Requirements for public CAs, certificate authorities are not able to issue certificates for internal purposes after 2015.

This means that your client will have to have the certificate installed on it prior to authentication. So a random person connecting to your AP may be subject to an untrusted certificate, or require manual installation before connecting.

So.... in 2015, we might be fucked.
I agree, I can't overstate how weak your labs.im pitch is, especially in regards to your clearly very impressive skills. That pitch easily cuts your market rate by half, probably more. And as csomar mentioned, it's going to get you the crappiest, bottom-of-the-barrel jobs.

In all types of pitches — to employers, VCs, etc. — desperation is the absolute worst thing you should ever let transpire.
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In the US, a company/office will often contract a service to provide any or all of: coffee, tea, brewers/water heaters, pots/carafes, cream & sugar, water filtration, and vending machines.

It is often very bad coffee, usually pre-portioned and boxed by the gross. It tends to be purchased for cost and convenience rather than for flavor.

Some of us revolt form the corporate coffee overlords and form coffee clubs. We get wholesale deals from local roasters and buy in increments of 5# or more, and reap substantial discounts while enjoying better coffee.

If I built a business in your coffee shop, and you closed your space but remained in the trade, I'd give you first crack at my coffee needs. If I call it an obsession can I continue to deny that there might be an addiction?
I'm guessing the police are trained in one type of raid, which they apply for everything from "alleged copyright infringement" to "escaped from prison having just killed 15 guards". Not that this justifies unreasonable application of force, but I can at least understand why.
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Does it really make sense to think about Germany as a separate entity from the rest of the Euro Zone? Economically, I think Germany is more like the center of a huge country with Spain and Greece being the poorer provinces... It is a very strange situation caused by too diverse countries having the same currency.
Germany had a huge trade surplus before.

To devalue a currency is not a solution - the opposite. It may look attractive, but its effects are bad over long term. It for example makes imports more expensive.
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> It's a good idea, but it's not the weakest link in user security right now

I suspect Google is in a better position to judge how widespread account compromises are than you are. From my perspective, it definitely seems like security people are all saying that account compromises (keyloggers, phishing) have been the predominant threat for several years now because they're suitable for bulk attacks whereas social-engineering Apple is a more limited, if deeply disturbing, process.
Funny, I've come to use the same system some time ago, but for general to-dos. I just use more readable filenames, with spaces instead of dashes and more complete sentences, and in the file content I put more detailed info and links do resources.

The great thing about this is that it's utterly portable. You can sync with Dropbox, explore with a file manager, zip and send by email, grep, open and edit with scripts... The possibilities are endless, and you don't have to install anything.
The course is on how programming languages work. In order for an interpreter/compiler to interpret an programming language it must first parse all of the statements into a parse tree. Lisp is rare among programming languages in that its syntax is its parse-tree, which makes it an incredibly useful teaching tool for how programming languages work.
They should at least go as far as create/read/delete.

Then I can uncheck delete for my chat apps. Edit: And grandparent could uncheck read and delete for a couple of their use cases (which is a pretty big improvement).
What does "hilites" mean?
I don't assume that at all, it's why I say a one size fits all approach makes no sense.

Different things have different costs to develop, different value, different life span, different barriers to duplication and so on. Some of the things Apple have been granted patents to they'd have done if they had no protection at all, others they may not have bothered with.

But it's easy to look at the success of the iPhone and say "it's obvious it paid off" but not all R&D leads to an iPhone and not all companies are Apple. That's like talking about running and only using Usain Bolt as an example.

I agree that we should have different IP laws for different situations but I don't think profitability or size is a good metric to use.

EDIT: I wonder (thinking out loud) whether some sort of system where you have to be willing to license all patents on something like a FRAND basis might work (not FRAND in terms of the detail but the overall principal)? No-one gets exclusivity but you do get a return. Competing companies can then work out whether they think it's worth paying the modest fee or whether to develop and alternative themselves.
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If Drachmes are devalued, labour in Greece is cheaper than labour in Germany - workers get paid the same number of Drachmes as before devaluation, but they're paid less Euros.
Do you really want I send my friend address to a website ?

Some users already have difficulties with simple procedure and you want to complicate it. Without talking about issues with old "friend" who will hack you.

I think it is a good thing for an company intranet where you replace friends by collegues. But not for an end-user.
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I feel your pain, slightly, but isn't the majority of this list caused by the fact that Apple's software stinks? There's no way for apps on iOS to share the account details. You don't need to do any of that junk on Android. And you wouldn't have to do any of it on a Chromebook, either.
What does that have to do with the Euro? And why can such a policy not work if "other countries follow it within the Euro" zone?

Also I wasn't aware that the government determines the salaries here in Germany. You are aware that the cold war is over and capitalism won, even here in Germany? We don't have a communist/socialist regime that can simply set salaries. Although the government can of course affect salaries by raising taxes (less net salary for everyone).
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> I don't think Apple are arguing about some similarity, I think it's the sheer level of it - the physical design, the icons, the packaging and so on.

I can see how this argument might seem plausible if Apple were only going after Samsung, but they're not.

Apple's also going after HTC (going after, among other things, the Nexus One and the HTC Flyer), Motorola (Xoom)and at least a couple of smaller tablet vendors (and it is entirely possible that there are lawsuits and/or other legal actions I've missed). It's worth nothing that that list includes the top 3 Android OEMs in the US. It's also worth noting Apple is likely avoiding suing Sony because Sony has a trove of patents they could counter-attack with.

This isn't about copying, no matter how much Apple and their apologists try to pretend that it is. This is about Apple abusing the broken patent system to damage their competition - no more, no less.
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You yourself admitted that they produced more than comics and cat pictures.

Don't forget the Anonymous cracking outfit.
The current financial crisis is primarily one of debt. This is because of excessive government spending. How is an algorithm going to change that?
This article assumes self-signed certs anyway, and specifically addresses procedures for disseminating them.
I agree with csomar! Your pitch seems weak and I would hesitate to give you a project.

It looks like you have some skills - use them to promote yourself! :-)

Nice work!
It does but it's almost impossible to access the Google auth page on the mobile and get the passwords.
Does that question even make sense? Does it make sense to even consider countries - after all, they are all just provinces in the world? Of course everything is connected. But Germans don't make the politics in Greece or Spain.
The consumer experience extends beyond just watching TV, to things like managing and viewing photos, drawing, music, and interacting with others online. Here on HN it is easy to reduce "production" to coding. And it's true--the iPad is not a good platform for coding because the user does not have shell access, and Apple does not allow IDE apps in the App Store. However, the simplicity of the interface, the quality of the display, and the extreme mobility of the form factor, make it great for the more "consumer" type of production I mention above.

Incidentally the original Macintosh did not grant shell access to the user either, and for that reason was a favored web server platform of certain DOD programs. Those worried that Apple is closing off the possibility of programming should consider a longer view: with OS X, Apple introduced shell access to their OS, which is a certified Unix. Even with Mountain Lion, they are still introducing additional CLI functionality.

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/30/new-command-line-tools-in-mou...
Eh, from a direct reading its not that clear:

From Article 1, Section 8:
Congress shall have the Power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

I guess it's fair to say that 'the Progress of Science' is for the benefit of citizens, but there's definitely cutouts for the benefits of inventors & authors.

I think this muddiness definitely sits near the root of current IP debates.
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I don't see the problem. They are giving you the option of cheap hardware. A clean install fixes the bloatware issue. (Unless I'm overlooking that the hardware drivers are dependent on the bloatware for Acer laptops.) This is awesome for students.

A clean install is what a lot of power users do on buying a bloatware ridden laptop.

The main issue seems to be lack of knowledge for a majority of 'naive' consumer on how easy it is to do a clean install.

(Maybe someone can make a 10thingstodowhen.com, if it doesn't already exist.

This could not only include a list of things for '10 things to do when you buy a laptop' but other misc stuff like '10things to do when you install ubuntu 12.04' etc

Currently such lists are scattered all over the place.)

Edit: Looks like someone snapped it up :)

Creation date: 07 Aug 2012 15:44:00

Expiration date: 07 Aug 2013 07:44:00

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/prog/ is pretty funny
I'm pretty sure OUYA will not have access to the Play Store officially, and they will have their own store, which should also filter out all the apps that aren't specifically made for the TV experience.

So this is more like an "Angry Birds is coming to Kindle Fire" thing. Just because it's compatible, doesn't mean it will be available out of the box, if it doesn't have access to the Play Store, and since it's a much different form factor from phones and tablets, the interfaces will need to be changed quite a bit.
Thats what the print0 arg in find and the --null arg in xargs are for.

print0 prints the file name followed by a NULL character (rather than newline)
Using the --null/-0 arg makes xargs look for NULLs as delimiters and treat everything else literally.
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Nice try Facebook PR.
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Yeah, I'm sorry...I understand the parent post's rants, but to even bring up this scenario is absurd. If your nemesis knows your password, then you've royally screwed up, nevermind the problem with her having your phone.

Also, does the parent-commenter mistakenly believe that the authenticator code is all that's needed to log into an account? But maybe that underscores his point that the whole system may be overwhelming to the average user.
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They are forgetting the most powerful story of all:

"I am making a lot of money."
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Used to say the same thing about summers on Usenet. :)
So often we simply fall prey to looking at the wrong thing... or not looking at all.
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I can't understand how OEM:s think it is a good idea to get paid to preinstall trial versions. When I pay for aproduct, I don't want to be treated as their property to be sold to advertisers.

It's the same when I want to watch a movie trailer on the largest cinema chain here in Sweden. I have to watch an ad before I am allowed to watch the ad for the product they sell. It's ridiculous.
>Google 2-step auth is way too hard to use and for how hard it is to use it doesn't provide all that much protection. It protects against phishing (mostly) but not against someone who has your phone. Malicious ex-girlfriend trying to do you harm? Google 2-factor won't help you a bit as long as at some point she had access to your phone.

Can we not upvote bullshit? He's vocally ignorant. The one time key generator is useless without the password. For his situation to be an issue he must have already have given her the password.

I don't think promoting security advice from someone who gives out his plaintext password is the least bit responsible.
I spoke with the repo's owner. It's actually a leak. Contribute at your own risk :)