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>>It includes 2009 and 2010 blood samples consistent with blood doping.

You need to back that up with some data. Especially when the agency that refuses to accept his 'hundreds' of previous tests says this.

Besides your proof is:

a. Team mates that say he was doping. Must be taken at face value.

b. Doctors who are super experts and might be supplying drugs which no body else can detect.

Regarding b)- If its true then dope testing is seriously broken. And with that now everybody who has every played a sport needs to be rechecked again.

I think all the man is asking is to give him evidence based on tested samples. And why is it so difficult for the test agencies to disclose those reports when they claim to have found it in 2009-2010.
Information, design, ideas are abundant.
Natural resources are often limited.
So intuitively, shouldn't an ideal system have different ways of handling these things?
Even that may not be enough: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de...
Or maybe the lines between a startup and an OSS project are just being blurred in some weird new way.

A response from the people running the project leads me to believe this is true. Essentially it seems they're seeking funding for their product but the open sourcing of the project is a big cherry on top (rather than it being purely an "open source project").
I like how from 1980 to 1981 it was not Microsoft but really a front for Metallica to make it's big step in disrupting the corporate technology industry.
"And you will find that in areas without disproportionately large Asian-American populations, they are basically unheard of."

Yes I'm not claiming they are huge stars.

"Then why did you even mention Snoop Dogg? How is his popularity relevant at all?"

Pretty sure the answer to this question was in the part you didn't quote.
I'm curious as well, I understand the bug / typo, but I don't think I've seen it more than a handful in 20+ years of C-like languages (mostly game development). In contrast, typing a single '=' instead of '==' seems a more common error IME (although still not frequent enough to drive me towards Yoda conditions to catch it).

Why do you think you are encountering this particular mistake so often? Is it something about your projects, your organization, your colleagues, or Java itself?
I hate parallax/scrolling effects and.. this is perhaps the least offensive version I've seen. It seems useful as a way to draw attention to quotations and high res photography that's relevant to the narrative, rather than just being flashy.

I hope people don't take it too far, but I'm impressed by this. If everyone started to do it? I might change my mind ;-)
If you want to see the cause of #1 advanced, donate some money to Washington's "Yes on 502" group, http://www.newapproachwa.org

It looks like we're at or just barely over the 50% mark in favor of legalizing marijuana here in Washington, but there's a lot of moneyed interests (e.g. medical marijuana sellers) who are doing their best to kill the initiative.

Please note that I don't smoke pot. I might if it's legalized in the state, but choose not to because, among other reasons, it helps fund narco-terrorism.
Well, we'll see if this is legal in Europe. Website cookies are regulated already here, I guess this sort of abuse will have to be stopped as well. Shame on Microsoft for another outrageous decision.
He told me to aim higher. I'm not sure what I should be shooting for yet, though.
What the hell is fiber optics anyway?
Well if they did not pay for the fire brigade, what do they expect ?? It's like wanted the cake without paying the bill. I do not see anything shocking in your story. If I do not pay for a service, for an insurance, I am not supposed to get the benefit from it. It's perfectly natural.
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>>Please define "copying."

That's easy. Just look at the internal Samsung design documentation in which Samsung product engineers made recommendations to flat out imitate numerous aspects iPhone's design. Here it is for your convenience: http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluat...
Not really. There's a follow-up though in case you're interested.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426480
I guess I'm some sort of über Mensch, but I have no difficulty at all to separate an iP* for a ditto samsung version...
Well - if the iPhone is blocked in the US (which it won't be) I'm sure as hell not getting a Samsung.
+1. I'm not a fan of relative dates as a user (although I maybe a too "scientific" mind) but I can't see any other way to display dates if timezone matters.

When timezone no longer matters, e.g. after a few days, then I would switch back to absolute dates exactly to avoid such incomparable expressions.
The same thing happened to me in a UK school in the 1980s.

I was told off repeatedly - and my parents told - about my poor handwriting, my tendency to "rush" work, and even that I went to the toilet too often. Of course, the reality was that I was bored and the teacher was a vindictive fool.

I remember saying to my mum at 8: "I'm worried about my 's'es", and she said "it's hardly likely you'll be sacked from a job because of your 's'es is it?".
Nice calligraphy, sure, but hopefully not cursive. Careless cursive handwriting ends up illegible much, much faster than print handwriting, and relies way too much on context to let you figure out what individual words are for my liking. I've had to ask people who wrote cursive notes with just a couple of words instead of a full sentence what they actually wrote, since I couldn't make out the word without the priming of a full sentence of barely legible scribbles.
haha alexa #6 site for Norway too!

Pretty common for Scandinavian countries. Something about engagement plummeting whenever they try to change them. So they do it like Craigslist and never change anything.
No connections? Virtually all activities everywhere are carefully planned by the Korean labels. These groups can't even crap unless they have their handlers' permission.
I like the idea and service you've built! Congratulations

I do think, though, that the video explanation is a bit long and convoluted. It took me a while (almost 2 minutes into the video) to understand what exactly you where offering.

The explanation could be simpler, like:

Embed code in your site -> Your users can send you videos of their experience with it
> Yes I'm not claiming they are huge stars.

They're not stars at all. They've gained popularity among Asian Americans - no surprise there, K-pop is a pan-Asian phenomenon, and as recent immigrants, many Asian Americans have strong ties to their home countries' cultures.

But among those who are American through and through? Nothing.

> Pretty sure the answer to this question was in the part you didn't quote.

Pretty sure it wasn't. Snoop Dogg isn't some kind of control you can use for assessing the popularity over time of K-pop artists. If he's decreased in popularity, then it would appear as if they've increased, when in reality the increase was relative. In any case, past trends are not a solid indication of the future. K-pop's popularity in the US will probably plateau once the Asian American audience has been saturated.
It serves an important purpose for them no doubt, but it is surprisingly polished and addictive. Just shows you that it's worth putting time into perfecting even activities which might seem peripheral - I'll bet they'll find some good people via this game (the ones who finished it really quickly and with clever solutions).

I'm totally stuck on Level 7 after getting some waffles and have no time to continue though, oh well.
I cannot find any word other than "bullocks" to describe your argument. If you spent billions of dollars in R&D to come up with an innovative and revolutionary product and sold millions of it, and six months later someone produced imitations of it and sold millions as well, you would be pissed regardless of how many steps ahead you were. Reason is simple: they would be free-riding on your hard work.
Also no mention of how this relates to CEIP (Consumer Experience Improvement Program), Microsoft's program to gather usage metrics. Includes much more than just what programs you installed, but is very well anonymized.
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Awesome! Glad I could help. Keep us posted. Also, do you have a newsletter of some sorts? I'd like to signup.
I dont agree with your point. You fail to understand several things. I believe that when you have a building you need to be insured on your property, right ? Then, the lack of proper fire safety devices in your building should raise the risk on your property, and therefore raise significantly the cost of your building insurance. Should your building burn in flames and spread around, damaging a few other buildings around, your insurance would cover the costs (just like your car insurance covers the costs when you injure a 3rd party in an accident). On top of that, the surrounding property owners could sue you for financial reparations for lost opportunities (business, rent, etc...) for which you would have to pay.

In the end, anyway, the insurance contract would cover most of the damage costs. That's why insurance systems exist and are usually mandatory. And the free market should reflect the cost of having no fire protection in your property. Net, you would not need to have regulations to enforce that, the costs themselves would probably entice you to get at least minimum fire protection, based on the insurances recommendations.

Seriously, most people seem to be believe that regulations have existed forever and that civilization was born with it. On the contrary, the amount of regulations we deal with nowadays is a very recent thing in History, and most people lived before with other systems in place to ensure their safety without the need of Big-Ass Governments.
Hanke-Henry calendar is the most logical. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/rational-calendar/
Thank you for that insight mr Harrison. If you're talking about the packaging and connector, i completely agree. If you're talking about the form factor, I STRONGLY disagree.

Apple whole heartedly borrowed from knight Ridder. So what? The design is simple and makes sense. This is how society benefits - the simple stuff is copied. More complex things like algorithms deserve some protection, but not beveled edges, scrolling lists, etc.

Apple have behaved very badly in this law suit. They are not the only ones, but it does not excuse Apple at all.

My loyalty is to society and freedom to innovate (which includes standing on the shoulders of giants) - not to Apple or Samsung. I hope you share this perspective too, as your comment implied otherwise.
What actually happens on the ground is besides the point. Once again, I'm referring to contractual obligations. There is nothing stopping a successful K-pop group from signing with Interscope, as you yourself pointed out. The issue is that American labels are not interested in them, because there's little chance of them succeeding.

And why would JYP Entertainment or SM Entertainment refuse to allow a successful group like SNSD to sign with an American label, if that's what it takes to achieve success? Like you said yourself, success in America isn't possible unless you sign with a major label. So it seems like that's exactly what they'd do (and exactly what happened with SNSD). Yet SNSD hasn't succeeded in America. Care to explain that?
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You are not alone =)

The only Google product I was still using is Youtube. But now it won't let me log in unless I give in my phone number, so that's it. Fuck Google.
If you don't jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, then it's pretty much the same, and even worse, because the only way of getting the software is through the AppStore.
Actually quite impressed. Not because of the logo's quality, since it's not that a radical change, but because Microsoft finally got the guts to make a change.
The one thing about the bay area - particularly on the peninsula, is the incredibly moderate weather. I've lived here for 15 years, and have turned on the climate control in a house or apartment I've ever rented - no heat in the winter, and I've never been in a home with air conditioning.

I will admit, in one house with close to zero insulation and very large windows, having finally purchased an electric blanket for about 2 weeks out of the winter - but never turned on the central heat.

Certainly a change from the Cariboo Interior in British Columbia, let me tell you...
A 10-second sample misses the point of HQ v. LQ: a very few sections of most albums will sound better at HQ. The vast, vast majority of songs will sound the same. The point isn't that HQ is a little better most the time, it's that some of the time it is much better.

LTJ Bukem - Watercoulours comes to mind as a great example of the phenomenon.
This guy has a habit of trying to be a grandstanding security expert but being wrong a lot. In this example, he is wrong because although IIS will answer a SSLv2 connection, it will not actually process the request. Anyone who has done basic scanning for an audit is well aware of this false positive.

See here: http://billing.handsonwebhosting.com/knowledgebase.php?actio...

As he says:

"I haven’t checked whether Windows SmartScreen does in fact use SSLv2, but the fact that the Microsoft servers support it is concerning."

Yeah, maybe check next time before you shout that the sky is falling.

If you are concerned about the privacy issue (MS getting requests indicating what was installed - not the bogus MITM claim), disabling this is offered in the privacy settings, and it is even put in front of your face during OS install. Also, all major AV products do the same thing, except they're not as transparent about it.

Nothing to see here.
True, but it seems like nobody cares about Apple having that information.
Bias like this only helps fuel a flame war. Enjoying the pull down notification menu on your iPhone? You should be. That's a cheap 'rip off' by Apple, as per your definition.

>and selling for cheaper.

There are many people who want to pay only for what a product is worth and not twice the price of what its worth.

>Why doesn't Samsung actually make something better than the iPhone.

They did, check out the Galaxy S3, still a better gadget than your iPhone. Any day.
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>innovative and revolutionary product

Are you a salesman for Apple? Cut out the junk words, seriously. There's nothing wrong in defending a product/company you like, but just don't push it too far.
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Absence of previous proof of guilt is not proof of innocence. No smart doping doctor would employ a technology that was detectable, and from what we know of Lance, he sure wouldn't use it unless he was absolutely sure.

And, no, I don't need to prove it, the USADA does. And the only person currently standing in the way of proof being submitted is Lance. Google armstrong "fully consistent" "blood doping" and you'll see the USADA is widely reported as having this evidence. There's no doubt that they would bring it to court. And how would they convince 10 ex-teammates to testify against him if it wasn't true? Why would 10 different cyclists all decide now's the time to make up a story, if it meant their victories were also nullified?

If you want evidence, pressure him, not me. It's his legacy that's at stake here.

I've got all of his books, have followed him since forever, still have his victories on tape. I'd love, love for him to be innocent.
seems likely. One reason I can think of: have you seen the amounts of crap the average I-think-I-know-how-pcs-work human installs, causing the OS to become totally unusable? And then they start blaming it on the OS?
I was required to use a fountain pen at school (late 80s UK). Needless to say as a left handed person my enforced writing style one word, blot, one word, blot was anything but fluid.
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The article says a three-judge panel ruled on the decision, not a jury.
Isn't SmartScreen's job to validate the signature of the executable file with Microsoft? So it might just be sending the executable's signed public key to check for validity/revocation. Since OP hasn't posted the unencrypted communication we may not know. Doesn't Google do something similar with chrome, it sends a part of the hash of every site you visit to its servers for comparison to a list of malwares and phishing sites?
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Ticketmaster bots have become way much common these days and a whole lot of people are using it. This is because of the change in trend in ticket buying.
And then inside that is a Rush album on a compact phonograph record with the inscription, "From the Great Library at Temples of Syrinx. Please destroy at your convenience. Do not play. - Best Regards, The Priests."
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I'd refute that Apple are the first to invent most things. They rehash someone else's ideas (shoulders of giants stuff). Your attitude is that first to market has a monopoly, which hurts society and offends me. Algorithms can be justified being protected, but not trivialities (eg. Beveled edges, scrolling lists).
I posted earlier about knight Ridder v/s iPad (VERY similar looking devices, where Apple copied). I'm ok with that because the elements copied were simple, and frankly the best for their application at this time given technology.
You've either taken Ives out of context or he was wrong.
"They're not stars at all. "

The 'failure' we're talking about is contingent on some level of expectations. I didn't expect them to be stars. They are more notable then I would have expected given the history of Jpop and Cpop and Bollywood etc. in America. Obviously you're expectations of success were much higher so you can flatly declare them as failures.

"Snoop Dogg isn't some kind of control you can use for assessing the popularity over time of K-pop artists."

No one has suggested that is the case. Have mercy on the straw men, they've got kids to feed.

"K-pop's popularity in the US will probably plateau once the Asian American audience has been saturated."

I've seen conventional wisdom like this before. It's always supremely confident and sometimes it's right but just as often wrong. Anime was supposed to be a niche forever but DBZ is a part of every American kids upbringing now.
Interesting. One thing that's always jumped out at me over the years, for no particular reason, is the sometimes horrendous handwriting (and sometimes even spelling) of extremely skilled engineers. Sometimes their writing looks like they are holding the pencil vertically in their hand with 4 fingers wrapped around it.
At least you weren't forced to write with your right hand. I have been told that was fairly common a generation further back (At least, my dad claims so).
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It's a troll piece from the EFF and has been responded to on both sides in a similar fashion. Leave this nonsense for the Reddit boards. It's about time we all stopped being so damned idealogical about computing and computers, phones and tablets and actually spend the wasted cycles arguing about it to produce great things. All of it is just pissing in the wind.

And I don't care who started it.
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The data is very interesting, but as I read it it confirms that even in Australia there is a lot of fresh water coming down each year, and the problem is how to convert it into usable fresh water. Just like with solar irradiation: There is a lot of it coming, but it's very difficult to turn it into usable energy.

PS I've never been to Australia, but I'd like to come someday :)
Author here. Let me ask you something: Have you checked if SSLv2 connections are actually dropped?

The point of my article isn't SSLv2, it's privacy concerns. Also, I did actually check and disabling SmartScreen doesn't seem to be offered during OS install, did I miss something?

Thanks for the disgusting ad-hominem! It totally aids your missing the point.

Edit: Whoa, I think I've figured out why this guy is being so personal; his submission history includes promoting a security company I left after a brief stint. Small world!
>>Absence of previous proof of guilt is not proof of innocence.

Or in other words guilty unless proven innocent?? Sorry I don't think how standard justice system works any where in the whole world.

>>No smart doping doctor would employ a technology that was detectable, and from what we know of Lance, he sure wouldn't use it unless he was absolutely sure.

So we first totally convince ourselves that he is a cheat and then set up a game totally designed to prove that. Again presumption of guilt is not compatible with natural justice.

>>and you'll see the USADA is widely reported as having this evidence.

This is like person A accusing person B of being a thief. When asked to provide the proof- person A says he won't. But rather we must first decide that B is actually a thief and must prove his innocence other wise he is guilty by default.

I don't think his legacy is at stake here. It was clear that if USADA had any proof they would not be holding it since past 3-4 years.
vg's website has been the poster child for other scandinavian news papers. Apparently their butt-ugly layout works really well.
> Let this be a lesson to us all: when putting user experience as the first priority, the nirvana of writing your UI once in HTML and having it work universally still isn't there.

And it will never be. HTML just sucks for application development.

Why on earth exchange the benefits of using the hardware resources properly for the mess that HTML+CSS+JavaScript is? To mess the customer's experience?

Don't be afraid of touching C, C++ or any other language with native code compilers and at most rewrite the UI part. Or shell out some money for tools like Mono or similar.

Although I am forced to code Web applications at work, I am a firm believer that web should only be used for communication protocols and documents as such.
Why wouldn't you use it?
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How did you generate the graphs?
As much as I respect John Carmack, I have to say that I'm a little disappointed that he is rehashing this meme of software development not being a science... OK, wonderful, the state of the art in his shop doesn't rise to the level of being a consistently reproducible, measurable process, but that doesn't mean that this is a permanent condition or that its an insurmountable one.
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An IP address sending a public key could still be enough to identify that IP address x is trying to install software y.
I'd also say that the last 20% provides 80% of the learning. If you're always leaving projects unfinished then you don't really learn what works and what doesn't.

There's also a real learning experience when you make something public. Other peoples reactions are often (normally?) quite different to your own. That kind of feedback is really valuable, both good and bad. The bad because it provides an impartial view, and the good because it validates your views and encourages you to continue.
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Because, from the front page it's not clear what "it" is and why it would be of value to me.
Insert is not a mode.

Well, technically it is. But don't think of it as one.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the real issue be whether the Windows 8 client will use SSLv2, not whether the server does? I'm imagining a third party doing a MITM attack, posing as Microsoft's SmartScreen server and saying it only does SSLv2.
And yet the page's URL still had a ?id=1665 story id. id=1666 is a different Alzheimer's success story from the IACP State Associations of Chiefs of Police's Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Initiative!