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Not really the same IMHO.

Giving people access to healthcare and fire protection doesn't create any bad incentives. You can't 'use' healthcare for monetary gain.

Giving people food, money etc, gives people incentives to not bother working.

Also I would say that a national health service ensures that the public is 'healthy'. Which affects us all, as diseases are transmitted etc. Just as the fire services ensures fires don't spread and burn down all the houses.

The same isn't true of giving people food.
That's not entirely true. I'll confine my response to how things work in the US since that's where I live and it's what I know the most about.

Attempting to use an alternate medium of exchange may result in legal problems. In particular, Federal law says:

Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

That doesn't seem to exclude exchanging goods or services for precious metals or other commodities so long as they're not cast in to something resembling money. It would be difficult to make small day-to-day purchases that way.

The other problem is that income tax law in the US applies to non-monetary compensation. If I pay you 2kg of gold to work for me for a year on a software project and the IRS finds out about it, they will demand that you pay taxes on its dollar value.
Well, it sounds like a really consumerist way to interpret things.

While it is true that some countries will not let you leave your country and will impose obligations even if you don't live in the country, in most western democracies (and in particular the author's country):
* You can leave freely
* As soon as you're not resident, you pretty much have no obligation toward your origin country - hell, you can even get a citizenship from a different country and be done with it.

I think among western democracies, only US imposes taxes on non-residents citizens.

Most of the complains are irrelevant - of course they are rules you have to follow, and you didn't decide at some point to "agree" with them. The rules are usually for the benefit of the group, i.e. not being able to use a land you buy for anything you want prevent you to build a chemistry factory in the middle of a residential area.
That bit of information is worthy of a fresh article in itself. Will garner more people who can assist on carrying it on than it might hiding as a comment on a article that clearly has not heard about this great work.
That's because governments are widely agreed that the "sender" country is responsible if passenger has no right to enter "receiver" country. So to avoid the hassle, it's mandatory to check your passport when you leave Poland, but not whether you have right to leave Poland...
I think a 2 million city would be big enough. We can call it an special economic area. I do believe this is already happening.

We all know that this is the inevitable cyberpunk future - just substitute governments with corporations.
Raw TCP was considered for WebSockets, however briefly. Due to security reasons, WebSocket was designed so that it's impossible for a WebSocket client to spoof any existing protocol.

I would argue that things are actually swinging to the opposite direction right now. WebGL is very close to OpenGL ES 2.0, Web Audio API includes low level features, WebRTC 1.0 is slated to include datagram channels... Recent standards efforts are striking pretty good balance of flexibility, interoperability and security, IMHO.
> I'm just sayin' - legalize drugs and prostitution and 99% of these problems go away.

While I mostly agree with you, this statement is quite a long shot.
My 6 year old daughter is absolutely fascinated by QR codes. I've been nagged into scanning ones on posters, in magazines, and even one that showed up in the middle of a TV show...
I've yet to scan one of these codes, or see anyone scanning one. It seems like something from the 90s just came back for one last dying breath.
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Sure the original idea was that along with a recruitment drive for tools such as LLVM and so forth.

But I'm tied up launching a startup right now...

Definitely want to build a community / set of projects around it.

(EDIT: Let's also be clear there is a game of chess in play - hence the slow disclosure here.

My interpretation from reading various articles is Eben is fairly libertarian, I'd expect him to be pushing to open up everything possible - but Broadcom will be providing the usual big company resistance. So if the pieces are played correctly we will have everything open to the extent it doesn't impact the commercial objectives of Broadcom. In this case I suspect we will at the end of the games-play have open source where it needs to be, and at least have a hook for letting people write custom VideoCore Scalar/Vector and QPU code kernels with suitable documentation. This would be a lovely compromise. I'm sure Eben himself would be all for open sourcing his shader compilation VideoCore stuff (see the topic of his PhD thesis) - as everyone enjoys seeing their work get some recognition), but I dont think Broadcom would allow that :). )
You can pick up barcode battlers on ebay for cheap. Although they're probably antiques now.
It's fonts and a pageful of bitter people who cannot figure them out.
> Petrich has the old version of Google Maps working, yet says it’s still “crashy” and he isn’t ready to share the method quite yet.

I'll stick with using the Apple Maps app and web-based Google Maps then.

A working solution to mapping on iOS6 and not a link-bait breathless worthless bit of 'news'.
You're ignoring local failure, the much much much more common occurrence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Or Russian :O
(I'd be happy to assist that with a little bribery, though)
"left to your own devices"

That reminds me of the old status of being an outlaw - which really meant that you were outside of the protection of the law and anyone could do whatever they wanted to you. It was regarded as rather a harsh punishment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
Supporting Opera has in my experience, been as much work and pain as supporting IE6/IE7.
I agree. I think he could have been kinder while achieving his goals. But his vision is something I admire.
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the USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 is *2767*3855# can be
triggered from browser like this: <frame src="tel:*2767*3855%23" />
No, they clearly won’t. They know what they can and cannot do.
The page no longer works (I clicked it about 30 seconds ago, it loaded successfully then I accidentally hit ctrl-w and then tried to reopen it: and now I get "404 Page Not Found")
The modern version would probably be "freemen on the land": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land

"Freemen on the land" are people who believe that all statute law is contractual, and that such law is applicable only if an individual consents to be governed by it. They believe that they can therefore declare themselves independent of government jurisdiction, holding that the only "true" law is common law, as they define it.
Which means I have to have a computer already which is not < $200. Also, I really doubt I can use Firefox or Chrome to hook up some photocells to the machine and take readings or use the photocells as a musical instrument.
I think plenty countries are very accomodating - at least if you have enough money.
Pass - the partnership with Nissan is the turn off.
Local failure is obviously much more common than catastrophic failure (although the latter does have a much greater impact).

I like to think of it in terms of car crashes and catastrophes.

Companies are represented by cars - I pick good cars, with good people driving them, surrounded by a safe environment and hope they don't crash - it's how risk works.

Hurricanes destroy everyone - no matter how good the driver is - no exceptions.

The whole point of investing is to make above and beyond the S&P 500 benchmark over the long term - and that requires taking concentrated risks where one must bet on the right drivers with the right cars in awesome environments (most critical) and watching the horizon warily for distant hurricanes (debt crisis/nuclear war/WWIII/currency devaluations/governmental collapse).

I really can't do any more than that. It's a trade off obviously.

I understand local failures quite well - I rely on my ability to make decisions to mitigate that risk and the fact that I'm still young (older people should not do this).
Hello. I'm the guy who put this collection together. I've since tried to update it, and to hit 'delete' on it to avoid spreading misinformation, but Exquisite Tweets is still caching the original version. Mea culpa: I didn't do the research before passing it on.

There's been a lot of back-and-forth over whether it's true or not (check @pof's timeline for such), and a hell of a lot of people sending it on without double-checking. Myself included.

There is clearly a big security bug here (see the video linked), but it's extremely questionable as to whether it can be activated from a web page or whether it requires a bit of social engineering too!

[Edited to add: and just as I write this, @jwheare has cleared the cache and fixed the bug in Exquisite Tweets. Hopefully that should nip this in the bud.]
Note that iPlayer for radio is available outside the UK as well.
I had the good fortune of being born Australian. Through sheer dumb luck I'm entitled to:

- Free healthcare
- Free education
- Free roads and parks
- Free safety and security (i.e. a relatively well functioning police force that will protect me from violence)

These entitlements are far from perfect, and come with the caveat that if and when I start earning money, some of it will be taken from me (by threat of force, if necessary) to go into a communal fund to provide other Australians with these benefits.

That sucks a bit, but on the other hand I have a legal right to decide, along with other citizens, on the proportion of my income that is taken, as well as on the people in charge of managing these communal funds.

Perhaps more importantly, I get to live in a society where other people get these things too. I'm not saying this from a touchy-feely standpoint - there are huge benefits to the individual living in such a system.

Because virtually everyone in my country has food in their stomach, a roof over their head, and a shot at improving their situation through hard work, I rarely feel unsafe. From a purely selfish standpoint, I am extremely grateful that most of the people in my country feel they have more to gain by defending 'the system' than by attacking it.

As a business owner, I also have access to a large pool of highly educated people to work with and millions of (relatively) wealthy people to sell my products and services to.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I quite liked the article and often think about how silly and arbitrary things like nationalism and citizenship are.

And yet...

Sure it sucks that I never really had the opportunity to opt out of the system, but on the other hand - boy am I lucky that it was opt in by default.
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It's interesting that once upon a time, he was being called a shill for big Pharma, thanks to his anti-quackery (read: anti-homeopathy) stance.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Q2-0B04H...

demo on the issue
Looks like OP decided to pull this down to minimize damage. Makes me wonder was this a 0-day or he informed Samsung first.
Quit what?
A pretty major bug; but I'm guessing you'd need to hit dial to actually run this?
Europe's cloud computing strategy calls for more standardization
How much did you read?

I got far enough to see the first section was about whether the internals of the CPU were open source and thought "Why would I care about that if I'm trying to teach a kid to program?". I then very quickly scanned the article to see if there was anything that was vaguely relevant to the average use that this is intended for, decided there wasn't and closed it down.
Well, there's no limit to how much healthcare you can use, though. Hanson[1] suggests Americans already buy too much healthcare, and in the US, healthcare still costs most people something through copays, etc. So, I think it's quite arguable that giving people free healthcare can create bad incentives, if not limited some other way.

I also am not sure it makes sense to lump together healthcare (which includes a lot of long-term preventative care like vaccines and lifestyle advice) and fire protection (which is mostly emergency damage control). A better analogy might be if the government provided free fire insurance covering everything citizens own -- actually, the US does this sort of thing with hurricanes and floods, so there's a fairly exact analogy, and it seems clear that it does create bad incentives to build and rebuild in hurricane-prone and low-lying areas.

[1] http://hanson.gmu.edu/CutMed.htm
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Indeed.com was pretty much trash anyway. Maybe they can sell it as a write-off
Good point. Unbounded requests (hundreds or more of ten-char IDs) are definitely candidates for a POST workaround. It's a shame, but necessary. :S

My main beef with Drupal is that it uses POST for everything, whether it's to /jobs/1234 or to /files/?id[]=1234&id[]=3452&...
Petrich is a competent programmer, but yes I agree this isn't news-worthy. It was just a Twitter post.
In some places, fire protection is apparently up for debate. This family had their house burn down because they failed to pay the $75 tax. It's only fair after all:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tennessee-family-home-b...

I think it's even been given the unfortunate name 'pay to spray'. Fire prevention is just as much up for debate amongst people of a certain ideological bent as healthcare. It's the next logical step. Of course, most people don't want to live in that world which is why we have compulsory payments. Those who see them as a positive thing will probably always have to tolerate those who complain about how unfair they are.
This is an excellent observation. Might I also suggest that having some things closed or out of reach is also a fine way of encouraging people to dig in.

Some of the best young minds will search behind doors they are told not to look.

Its about getting the height of the hurdle just right!
I didn't really appreciate the weaknesses of modern soda-lime "pyrex" until I tried to use a baking dish to steam my oven for baking bread (normally I use a cast iron pan). The pyrex instantly shattered into a gazillion pieces, which was tons of fun to clean up.

In the future I plan on picking up proper borosilicate glass cookware (marinex appears to be one brand that makes such).
Well, you can't get the free power if Tesla legally prevents you from using the connector because they're looking to create a near-term advantage. That's the key. My comment was that Tesla would be harming themselves by not allowing others to use it. Others would come up with a standard and now you'd have all these Tesla vehicles with a non-standard connector.
Seems like the agent wasn't effectively closing, instead he was setting up a distracting, artificial "contest" between two prospective clients.

If he truly was "always closing", he would have given you his attention and sold each of you individually - and hard - on the merits of the place. (And maybe, parenthetically, mentioned how much interest there was in it among other prospective renters...)
Agreed about riding on the back of other articles.

Care to explain further? Why is it a poor attempt at philosophy?
Not surprised really. The front page is being flooded with rehashes of the same story.
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I tried reproducing it using a "USSD" that works on my venerable Nexus One (radio debug - * # * # 4636 # * # *), but on entering dialler app the input box is empty. This might simply mean the debug activity was started and got focus before the dialler app had its focus set, so if another such code triggered factory reset, might definitely still work.
Don't forget to add NFC. I want to tap a location through to the onboard Nav app from maps, contact, or an appointment on my phone.

Everytime I want to go somewhere new I have to type with that damn on-screen resistive nav screen keyboard. When 80% of the time I've already got the info in a contact, meeting, or search result on my phone.
Yes, at my workplace all the computers have the slot for a sim card. WWAN card has to be installed for it to function though. Everything from Lenovo Thinkpads to HP Elitebooks to Dell Latitudes have this.
The notion of Open Source Hardware is extremely slippery and while it can be argued on a moral plane, it doesn't work too well in practice.

Where do you stop when going down the layers of the stack? The article mentions OpenRISC but neglects the fact that the FPGA's that can run its HDL use proprietary, vendor-specific toolchains.

What about the peripherals? I don't know of any open source DRAM chips that could be used for the electronic designs. It's not a viable business model and never will be in such a competitive market I imagine.

In the end, the biggest value boards like the Raspberry Pi provide is accessibility. Every kid can have a computer of his own without worrying about getting scolded by mom for corrupting the disk. They give children a sense of control over these amazing machines which consequently allow them to dream up weird and crazy things they can do. Their real education lies here.

What else do you really care about? It's not the last and final RPi that will ever release! Things will only get better.
Which, if it were the only complaint, could easily be dismissed. But there's more to government bureaucracy than just the passport department. How many other government departments are there who are saying "but it's barely 5 cents a day!"? Hundreds? Thousands? At what stage do we say "Hang on, that's _too_ much"? $5/day? $50/day? $500/day?
It seems to be a really good step towards breaking away from the current journal publishing monopoly which makes access to cutting edge research so expensive. I hope other branches of science adopt this as well.
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does that mean premium rate numbers can also be triggered?
I was in a British train station the other day and saw a poster containing 20 QR codes, one for each of a set a possible journeys from the station. Since I'm techy and had time to kill I scanned it, waiting to see the timetable information. Sadly the company who installed the posters was having some downtime, so it just errored. The annoying thing was that they were really just a URL shortening company, forwarding you on to the correct mobile friendly page of the trainline website. I really don't know why the trainline couldn't have just made some nice short, typing friendly short URLs of their own, and posted these on the poster. Or just posted the actual time tables like they used to. In the olden days.

Whilst scanning it and trying to figure out what was wrong, the station master approached me to see what I was doing - since the poster had been installed he'd yet to see anyone use it, and had been waiting to ask someone what on earth it was for.

Still - if there is someone out there that wanted to hack me, they just have to place a qr code in a place where I am likely to have nothing to do for a while... At least with this poster it was actually easy to scan the codes, unlike those on billboards or posted on the tube here in the UK.
The authorities are precisely the proper people to turn the "child" over to. Only they would have the resources and skills required to determine whether the troll has performed similar acts before and whether he is a psychotic (of course the parents also likely know, but aren't likely to do anything effective).

Also because it provides a record of his activity for future reference.

I don't believe the "game" excuse - I think the troll is a full-blown psychopath.
I've got some somewhere, but I don't think they did QR codes and they certainly didn't launch a link - that's what she enjoys. No idea why, but I'm not going to discourage her from anything that gets her interested in technology. We're going to get a t-shirt printed for her with a QR code saying "If found, please ring [phone number]".
But good sir, it's empty!
Eric Schmidt: Google has not started work on Google Maps app for iOS6
No, as soon as you enter the last digit the code activates.
My friend's girlfriend is a public defender and has dealt with many of them.

If anyone here has not heard of them or knows very little, I would suggest doing some investigating. I don't have respect for them (mainly because the overwhelming majority don't have a clue of the legal system and obligations they have as a citizen yet argue obscure laws), but it will provide some entertainment and a very strange but interesting perspective.

Check out youtube for some interesting court room footage, such as this man who apparently controls the court room because a judge left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjv20sC5CY
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I'm using https://www.privateinternetaccess.com. They seem to be doing good privacy-wise: They claim to not do any logging, and they even encourage you to create a throwaway mail account and buy their service via bitcoin.
At FTF (Freescale Technology Forum) in 2011 at least (didn't go this year), used them on everyone's name tags and booths, so rather than passing out business cards, you used the iPod to scan them and it would send you a nicely formatted email along with the contacts for easy importing into whatever contacts you used. It was about the only time I felt they were done right.

And if you scanned the codes that were given in the different tracts, you were also sent the PDFs and slides of that tract.
My megacorp uses Saba (http://www.saba.com/) for in-house training. It's dependent on Flash, but what corporate image doesn't have Flash?

I'm not sure how it compares to Coursera, but you can have required training (ethics, compliance, etc), and training certificate programs with multiple classes.
Which Android antivirus will it have? I'd rather not get malware on my car.
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PS: I think the real issue is the assumption that the perfect diet is going to some sort of fortified bean paste. Simply picking a random ethnic food at each meal is a much better option.

Ironically, hummus is a very healthy ethnic food.
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Real reason: Finding a teacher who understands how to use or teach rpi is next to impossible.

Unfortunately, I believe Rpis sales were hype marketing that got out of hand. People thought they were getting a tiny usable computer at a great price. What they got was a bunch of chips that knowledgable people could use, yet the details go way over the head of the majority of impulse buyers. These buyers weren't missold, they just didn't have a clue what they were buying.
Allowing these things to happen is exactly how they circumvent the existing power structure.

This is not a "let's see what happens" type of situation.

The SPP for North America started the same way..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partner...

... once these "non-legislative partnerships" gather enough movement from the powers that be, they can be difficult things to stop, especially because they stretch beyond physical borders.