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Not exactly the best arguments:

> "Models are unreliable"	Models successfully reproduce temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean.

There are many aspects to climate change that you need to convince somebody of who doesn't believe in it:

* The climate is in fact changing

* The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising

* The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising because of human activity

* The rising CO2 levels cause global warming

* Climate change is a bad thing

* Human produced CO2 does not have a short term effect that can be absorbed by CO2 sinks in nature

* It's economically sensible to take action

While there is extremely good evidence for some of these points there isn't as good evidence for all of them as some people would have you believe.

IMO simple graphs like this (http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/co2_10000_years.gif) are far more convincing than complicated climate models that can be fitted to historical data. Having seen first hand how easily conclusions can be drawn without good evidence due to biases and faulty methods in science I have very little confidence in them until proven otherwise. Once climate models start to consistently predict considerably more accurately than simple curve extrapolations it's best to leave them out of climate change arguments.
Actually no we don't. The physical models are scrapped yearly, our predictions are incredibly inaccurate and we can't shake a stick at the to tiny amount of broken data we hold and extrapolate it. Every corporation and politician clamps onto hypothesis' if there is gain to be made, yet theories that result are impossible to challenge. That'snot science. Thatis religion.

It's more like we're arrogant blind fundamentalist religious zealots with not much data playing whack-a-mole in the dark and simultaneously fucking everyone in the process.
The problem is that you presume that anything the TSA did (or is doing) is making people safer.
>“I’m not talking about cellphone conversations,” he said, “I’m talking about your typing, which really is very loud and disruptive.”

I was at a loss. I learned to write on a typewriter, and apparently I still strike the keyboard of my laptop with obsolete force. “Well,” I said, trying to figure out which of us, if either, was the jerk here, “I don’t think I’m going to stop typing. I’m a writer; I sit in here so I can work.”

Funny, keyboard 'strikers' bug me too, but thought I was alone in that. Unless your keyboard is dying and requires force to operate, a light touch does less wear and tear, conserves your own energy (marginally, fwiw), and is much quieter for those around you. There's no apparent reason for the way some people almost attack their keyboard, other than misdirected zeal, eagerness, or angst.
You're right, money and power determines regulation. Let's just not fool ourselves into thinking it's something silly like "the consent of the governed".
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This is what I felt Rakuten did so well (besides the whole emphasis on marketplace and supply chain management optimization), giving brands control of their own identities and customers. If I was Rakuten, I would quickly counter this with emphasis on customer support for the merchants.
This surely will hurt the reputation of Lynch. The other news reports have quotes saying in effect this was perpetrated by senior management and that the whistleblower who came forward is still at HP/Autonomy, which by inference seems to point a rather stern finger at Lynch.
It's worse than that, because sheep don't walk around randomly; they follow repetitive, collectively-defined paths, like most herd animals.
Implementations and libraries are too balkanized. A problem which related languages like Common Lisp and Clojure don't have, and thus you're more likely to see them in use.

Even ultra-fans like Philip Greenspun (him of the eponymous tenth rule) picked more "batteries included" languages like Tcl when you had to interface with a database and web server.

In recent years, things have improved (e.g. Racket or Chicken), but on the other hand, lots of other languages aiming at the same market share enjoy popularity (from the aforementioned Clojure to Ruby, Ocaml and JavaScript).
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to note that within a profit center (marketing), cost cutting is useful.

I think it depends a lot on your audience. If you're selling an IT system to an IT director, you can emphasize the cost savings. But if you're selling the IT system to a CEO you might emphasize how it helps the company's customers and leads to more revenue in the long run.
haha :) ouch. I don't know why I particularily mentioned the Murci, maybe because I remember a similar story on wreckedexotics website (borrows from dad, the rest is obvious). I also recall TopGear describing this Lambo as particularily safe but only to a certain point after which it spins you to a certain crash. Yet I somehow expect more noob wreckages from RWDs.
Yeah, it's blazing fast for me; I don't understand the hate in the other comments. Unlike Bing maps, getting directions is intuitive for me, and I couldn't care less about satellite imagery. If caching works at all, this will be a useful app. Guess I will have to give it a week or so for evaluation, though.
Somewhat off topic, but I can wear my solid steel watch through the metal detectors at airports, and it won't set off the alarm (SF, Seattle, Toronto, Halifax, Chicago, etc). Yet, a coin or a belt buckle will.

Anyone have an idea as to why?
Vague rules are still better than nothing. Vague rules might be also be transformed in more efficient regulation if the effect still hurts in the long run.
The article opens by asserting that the EU has "ordered new regulation to regulate". I took this to mean regulation had been passed. Instead, this is analogous to the U.S. House of Representatives passing a motion to send an issue to committee (where legislation is subsequently drafted). Not insignificant, but nothing that will change too much on the ground (yet).
We absolutely are missing parts of the story. Negotiations and contracts at that scale are going to be massively complex, I can only imagine. Even my small shop's contracts with other businesses are multi-tiered and fairly dense.

Surely there is far more to this than simply "throwing weight" around by Apple, unfortunately. As well, it hasn't been that long since the carriers ruled everything about our experience with our phone. I'm sure there's plenty of old bureaucracy left for getting them to say "yes" to what all of us would want.

Perhaps, even, the things that frustrate you were some of the things Apple had to give up to give us the other awesomeness :P

Your reaction was my initial reaction as well, and definitely one I sympathize with (which made me actually comment). But, after thinking about my own basic experiences with contracts (and if you've ever signed a mortgage, for instance; a daunting amount of contractual repercussions, heh), I can only imagine the war room that negotiations must be with those carriers.

But all that, of course, is conjecture... Apple could just be assholes :P
Well, thinking that the science is uncertain or split 50/50 or even cuts against climate change is a pretty sure sign that they aren't aware of the science. It's akin to someone saying they don't like GMO foods because they're radioactive. They well know about the concepts of radioactivity and genetics, but that doesn't mean that they know the science. Even if it's a learned and purposeful disregard for scientific evidence, its still fair to say they're not well-acquainted with it.
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Short answer: Yes, it bothers me a lot.

Long answer: Being incompetent is not the issue as others already said. The issue is when people fail to realize their incompetency and even worse do not want to do anything about it.

"They didn't even read my email"

One of my biggest pet peeves at work. I am always amazed to see that people don't read important emails and will then call you asking for the same. Heck, they even get upset and when I ask "Did you read the email?", they will be like "uh oh. i didn't get any email.". i mean seriously, WTF. RTF(E)
No iPhones were harmed in the creation of this outage
Why did Apple's iMessage go down, and what does it mean for it's platform strength?
Yes, one is a subset of the other, but they are not the same. But ascribing characteristics to one race is not racism. Just like both are subsets of "a human behaviour", which is not racist.
I guess maybe the disconnect here is, and help me understand, but why did he need to gather 110k email addresses?

If he never had any intention of using them, or just wanted to publicize the breach, why not gather two or three and then go to the press?

I guess an analogy might be - I see a bunch of boxes on the curb outside a doctor's office. I open one up and look at the first manila folder - it's someone's medical records. I open the second, it's also medical records.

If I take those two to go show a reporter, or yell at the doctor's office, I'm ethically clean. But if I take the boxes home with me, I'm in a much trickier legal and ethical situation, as why did I need to take the records home?
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Wanna bet there is an exclusion for legislators in the bill?

Just like they get their own pass for the TSA at airports.
This is good. Thank you Europe. But what about regulations that favour market diversity? We should regulate the payment interface to encourage the emergence of non-US companies in the system.
Actually, after reading more about the subject, it seems that Apoteker actually was fooled. The due diligence was done by KPMG ( and Deloitte ), both very big customers of Autonomy. Again, can't tell too much, but a lot of gratuities went beween them at some point.

On a side note, Apoteker did a lot of unhealthy stuff for HP, like webOS, PC division are one of the biggest. So adding Autonomy bluff on the list seems natural. Nice for him, he got about $25m in compensations. So, no, money is not a measure of intelligence, but good lawyers ;-).
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I've tried having forms generated by javascript over a honeypot, and hashing the field names to make them impossible to memorize. I don't know yet how effective those would be but i'm sure people are going to complain about the js forms.
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maybe it's being up in the northeast, on trains that aren't standing room only past the first stop, but I generally see people respect the seat reservations. I've only seen a "that's my seat" discussion (not argument) maybe twice in the past three years.

My only complaint is people who think their ticket reserves a second seat for their jacket.

Oh, and the stag/hen dos in coming into Newcastle on Fridays, damn they can stink up a train.
I'm not sure what the deal was about the schools. An expectation of a top tier school is mostly useless. Yes a solid education is important, however just because you have credentials from a "top" school doesn't mean you'll be: 1. a good worker 2. motivation to perform the tasks 3. experience. Secondly, anyone who depends on a big name school to get by fails to understand economics. Yes you might be able to get a small premium for the name. However, the market can't afford to choose only the top names. Theres more work that is needed than the small group of "top school" names can fill.
I'm guessing that sneak wasn't referring to HTTP Basic Auth, but rather the fact that when an HTTP client says "GET", the server effectively says "HOW MUCH?" (A crude allusion to the classic "jump/how high?") I think sneak is arguing that receiving a response to an isolated GET request implies that the GET request was "authorized."

Edit: after reading selections of IRC logs and e-mails from the indictment, my sympathy with weev has been reduced. Granted, an indictment will select the most salacious excerpts to make its case in the strongest way possible, but the conversations in the indictment are far from white hat (unless the defendants manage to convince the court that their talk of phishing and spamming was merely juvenile humor).
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I understand how business reality requires Apple to push at least some of the carriers' bullshit onto the customers.

But the second a device is "unlocked", all this nonsense needs to be removed from it. There's no defensible reason for an "unlocked" iPhone to still be subject to ATT/VZW's anti-consumer preferences.
First, one government uses power to regulate who and how receives money. Than another government uses power to regulate who and how accepts money. Why nobody questions why governments are regulating money flow at all?

If nobody was after WikiLeaks, Visa and MasterCard would be happy to provide them with payments. Or, on the other hand, if Visa does not want to provide a service for any reason, why anyone should force them to?
Should an unlocked phone be able to function on any carrier without hacking? Yes. If I had my way, there would even be laws guaranteeing customers this ability.

However, I really can't sympathize with you at all. You intentionally and knowingly chose to do something that was not officially supported. Now you are complaining that your hack stopped working. If you wanted it to always work, you should not be doing something so weird.

Classic case of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
Yay to the EU Safe Harbour. Oh no wait a minute.

This is why we host all our stuff ourselves in a UK DC. Snooping legislation is crazy in the land of the free
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

I think it's like any other kind of investing: You have to diversify your doom and gloom. DHH was short Zynga too, and he claims that his last short of Salesforce ended up in positive territory:

http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/people/dhh-vs-the-stock-mar... (Don't miss DHH's recent comment at the bottom.)
Because shaming is a whole lot of fun.

So we will come up with whatever justifications needed to say it's okay.
Why bet on it becoming worse? Why won't it become better?
So, for example, if I operated a bus company, and I wanted not to accept, say, jews on my bus, it would be a "terrible decision and a massive step etc. etc." for the state to intervene?

Reductio ad absurdum doesn't work in political matters. Because reality isn't based on simple monotonic logic.
> "Climate has always changed."

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that's what my Geography teacher taught me and my class ~20 years ago (the general discussion was related to the Quaternary, Jurassic and all that), when I was in 6th or 7th grade, long before all this Climate Change talk. If it matters, he was very passionate about Geology in particular (my teacher was).

It's not all about politics and religion.
Can't you buy iPhone without a contract (and contract without a phone)?
What can I say, I really enjoyed my iphone, but it's been a year, I like my Galaxy just fine. It is not worth the trouble unlocking and constantly breaking into your own device. This is probably not what you want to hear.
Plus, when signal is weak, I can use wi-fi to make calls which saves battery and I don't have to go to special corner in the office other iphone users run to, to talk on their phones.
It is like pretty girl, if she tells you she doesn't like you, go on and find another girl.
Privilege and luck permeate every part of everyones' lives. Parents are always trying hard to find a better place for their children to live, get them into a better school, give them a better start than they did. Why? Privilege. Privilege comes from being in a place that offers you, personally, the greatest opportunity flow. Training and discipline hopefully prepares you to take them. As Henry Hartman put it, “Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity”.

So it begs the question: If you're fighting so hard to obtain privilege through location, social group, contacts and training, why do you also rail so hard against it? Why do you feel guilt? Isn't it about being the best you can be?

And no, luck is not largely based on privilege. Luck is just as much a result of things going wrong as things going right (I'd even go so far as to argue more in favor of things going wrong). I wouldn't even be in software if I hadn't been running from debt so many years ago. I wouldn't be as strong as I am today had I not lost everything except the clothes on my back (Three times! You'd think I'd have learned my lesson to just keep my head down and follow orders!).

Everyone ought to have privileges? Sounds nice in theory, but that's never been the reality and it never will. The last attempt to fair-it-share-it went under the name of "communism", and that didn't turn out so well.

Look, life is unfair and arbitrary. We take steps to shield ourselves from the more egregious forms of entropy, but you're not going to isolate yourself completely. Every attempt to do so has failed and left people worse off than when they started.

So, take stock of your privilege, keep watch for opportunities to raise your position, and be prepared to fight tooth and nail if someone tries to push you down, because nobody cares about a whiner.
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I'm in a similar position. I graduated last May, took a full-time job that has ended up being completely different than what was advertised and I'm about to quit.

During college I worked part-time for a small company doing ASP.NET and I'm close to starting up for them as a freelancer/consultant while I work on some product ideas I have. My hope is that I can leverage my experience with that company into other consulting gigs in the future.

My problem right now is that when I was working for them during college I was getting $20/hour. Before reading Patrick's post I was hoping to get up to $30, now I feel like that's inadequate! Just not sure how to ask them for more.
Agreed.

Interestingly, the blowback from early disclosure of unconfirmed [and bad] results can overwhelm subsequent disclosure of confirmed results. See: cold fusion. Cold fusion exists in a variety of forms, but, even in the face of continuing positive results, most in the public think that cold fusion is busted.

Note: I'm not claiming that cold fusion is a viable energy production technology, just that it certainly exists and that interesting results have been published about it over the last 20 years.
I am very very curious to see what they will announce. Maybe they found the birth certificate of Obama or the tax returns of Romney...Mars seems to be the perfect place to hide such things ;-)
In computers, the only quantities that matter are zero, one, or many. My guess: weev wrote a script that incremented IDs just to see what would happen, it ran for a short time, and... whoops, there's 110k addresses there!

It's difficult to analogize this to the physical world; maybe you could say that you are the garbage collector, so your automated truck picking up one box of trash that happened to contain medical records is the same as picking up all the boxes, but that's still far from a perfect analogy.
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what would they detect in the raw data if they scooped up a colony of extremophiles?
Where did all that money go? How many employee did the company have?
Would be great to see a follow-post on how segmented marketing affects the diversity of entrance points to the funnel. For example, if you have more targeted marketing towards 3-4 different groups, you'll likely have fewer points of entry but more successful conversion rates.
The point is that, despite what you've said, they found that it works.
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Oops, it looks like you did not read the article. The person in question owns an officially-unlocked iPhone. This involves an anti-competitive practice where the APN settings are locked to a specific carrier, AT&T -- even in the case of an unlocked phone. You really seem to be venturing into an area you're not educated in.
Subreddits not so much, but keywords, tags or topics that I could filter with would be immensely helpful.
I think in that case the scientists involved did everything they could think of to explain their data before going public. So I wouldn't call it an early disclosure of an unconfirmed result, more like "Hey everyone, this is really weird, and we we can't explain it"

Historically, this is where one of 2 things would happen, either it would have some mundane explanation that the original investigator missed, or it's one of those anomalies that leads to new scientific discoveries.

So I think they handled it correctly, and got the right kind o f attention.
The only thing a "top tier school" can really provide is the potential for a 'better' set of initial contacts in your network (eg startup founders and investors if you go to MIT, Rice, or Stanford).

Beyond that - it's all pretty much the same: can you get the job done? Can you think? Can you communicate coherently? Those are the real biggies when I interview.
Will we ever know how much Apple paid for Color?
I suppose it depends upon how sophisticated the spam bots you are dealing with are and whether they have human assistance.

We originally used phpBB and applied various anti-spam plugins, including some modifications that were made manually to the php code (including honeypot fields that were hidden with CSS) but the bots kept spamming it regardless.

I guess there is a sense of "we know this is a phpBB therefor we must be able to spam it so keep trying" vs "I don't know what this is","can I POST this form and see instant results?","no?","give up then".

If it had been a larger forum then I'm sure these tactics would not have been effective regardless since we would have suddenly become worthy of having a custom spam bot written just for us.

Those tactics are somewhat extreme, in many cases just giving form fields weird names has good results. Of course there is the problem of "what is bad for spam bots can be bad for screen readers".
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Or we could act based on actual scientific evidence instead of vaguely trying to approximate what our ancestors ate in a blind appeal to nature.

The thing really gets to me about it is that in addition to being based on fallacious thinking, the approximation is so selective. How can we equate a paleolithic human spending a day catching fish to a modern human buying a fish at the supermarket?

And don't even get me started on coconut. Getting to the meat of a coconut in the paleolithic era was a time intensive (and calorie burning) process that bears little resemblance to opening the jar of hexane-extracted coconut oil you bought at the health food store.
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There's only one consistent answer to any questions WRT consulting and that is "it depends."

I've been in your shoes before, trying to figure out exactly what consultants do and how to start doing it. Once I gave up on finding a simple answer and just did it I started to understand the game.
Possible solution? Trade handsets with someone who never upgraded to iOS 6.