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Yup. I also suspect that the US government itself doesn't give a fig for these copyright crimes, but is very concerned that any change to the law could prevent them extraditing UK-resident terrorist suspects to the US.

A week before Gary McKinnon was suddenly found to be non medically fit to be extradited to the US & the announcement that the law was to be reformed several individuals charged with terrorist-related crimes were extradited to the US by the UK. I personally doubt the order of these events was a co-incidence.
The extradition had been sorted out in the UK end and he was going to be sent to the US anyway. So there's no need for the US to arrange some deal to "trick" him into going to the US.

I'm curious why he has to go to actual America, and not just go to the embassy in London (which is US territory etc)?
I've heard people can get turned away for not having a return ticket, is that true?
Doubtful. These are entirely different parts of the toolchain, and the goals (while similar in wording) are entirely different from each other.
CNN's blog editors should be ashamed at having allowed this paragraph: "The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product point to studies that say the overuse of wireless technology could cause harmful heath effects."
What I want to know is, will it protect my computer from an EMP?;)
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I agree, because some may think the best is a tool that does as much as possible, and others may think the best is a tool perfectly suited for a particular task. Some people swear by multi-tools and swiss army knives, but other people hate them.
It's a useful extension to Chinese Google users.
Embarrassingly enough, I'm a Python dev on Win7 - now you know why I'm so paranoid. :)

Thanks anyway, though.
I'm not sure it matters more that you're using a Pi than it would matter which old laptop you're using.

And, when it's as low-level as simply making something work, rather than particularly optimising it (when the fact that it's a Pi or a 2003 T61 or a whatever do matter), I think that treating it as a slow Debian machine and finding a generic howto (or, better, a few generic howtos) is much more appropriate than insisting that you find a "How to install postfix and courier on as raspberry pi".

Obviously for troubleshooting problems the hardware's much more important, too, but so far I've just treated my Pi as just another Debian box and everything's just working.
I can see the logic in what you're saying, and in an ideal world I'd agree.
Xbmc is reported to work tolerably well & you can pay a £1 or so to get mpeg2 hardware decoding in the GPU along with the mpeg4 that you get by default. (I know, I know: software should be free. Sometimes you get to deal the cards you've got & if you want mpeg2 decoding on the pi GPU, you have to pay for the key to unlock it to cover the licensing costs for the codec.)

I'll have to try it out myself.
Many smartphones and tablets support plugging in USB devices with a $5 USB on-the-go cable and (sometimes) minor software modification.
This news was anticipated by an article in The Guardian as the speculation was building up, "Whatever the Curiosity rover has found, it's not evidence of life on Mars."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2012/n...

The author's evidence for that bold headline claim was earlier reporting on the issue as the speculation built up.

"Whatever Curiosity has found, it is not evidence for life on Mars. It can't be. Curiosity is not designed to look for life. Grotzinger has stated this himself. In a Nasa video about the mission, he says, 'Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We're not actually looking for life; we don't have the ability to detect life if it was there.'

"Following up the internet speculation, Jeffrey Kluger of Time talked to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory spokesperson Guy Webster and was told, 'It won't be earthshaking, but it will be interesting.'"

Organic molecules (molecules containing carbon) are commonplace in many lifeless places around the Solar system, so this is hardly surprising. It is moderately interesting, but certainly not earthshaking, as previously reported.

AFTER EDIT: Replying to the first reply kindly posted to my comment,

I'm not arguing whether Curiosity has found evidence for life on Mars or not but I would like to point out a logical fallacy in the cited argument; in particular, the statement "device X wasn't designed to do Y" does not imply "device X can't do Y".

I take the statement made by the NASA planners at face value for a simple reason. While the Curiosity rover, with its cameras, would surely be able to detect Martian megafauna, if there were such a thing, for example a Martian elephant, I trust the statement that Curiosity is incapable of providing unambiguous evidence of microorganisms on Mars. I cited the Guardian article in my first posting of this comment. The issue of detecting life, or not, was surely discussed by the NASA mission planners, who included astute exobiologists. The mission profile of Curiosity does not include a task of detecting life on Mars, and the instruments on Curiosity are not reliable for distinguishing organic molecules made by living microorganisms from organic molecules made by purely physical processes. Whatever Curiosity detects with its molecular analysis instruments, it cannot be taken as evidence for life on Mars. That is the statement of the article, based on interviews with people knowledgeable about the planning of the mission, and that is a credible statement, given the amount of thought the mission planners must have devoted to this issue.
> It does improve performance, but doesn't magically turn it into a ASM/C/C++ executable for the reasons set out above.

Isn't that, however, exactly what the Mono folks are doing with MonoTouch to get apps written in C# run on iOS (and approved in the App Store)?
You would be better off with Nginx rather than Apache with such limited hardware.
If you're running Chrome, just add cache: in front of the URL and boom! Google cached version.
Could someone please explain the risks of plugging into a random USB device?

I see a handful of people alluding to risks (viz. "USB Condom") but I don't understand precisely what the issue is.

On Windows, presumably there's autorun.inf which can launch any executable on the USB drive. Is that correct? What about if you plug in from Unix or MacOS?

Bonus question: What are the risk factors, both for you and the host, if you charge your smart-phone in a stranger's laptop through USB?
If that is worth pointing out, it's also worth pointing out that phreaking, as opposed to "piracy", is not a victimless IP-crime.

"The most typical use of a blue box [the device made and sold by Woz and Jobs] was to place free telephone calls"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
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Gah, this story always gets me riled up. I'm of the stance that linking to copyright material should most definitely NOT be breaking the law. It doesn't make sense on a number of levels (e.g. What position does this put any search engine in) but additionally he's not actually stolen the content, nor is he providing it, he is merely facilitating the access of it. Its equivalent to a sign on the street saying, "The staff have left this store, take what you want" and I really can't see how that could be construed to breaking the law.

However I think there are other more technical issues that are not based on morality, such as the fact that the destination of a link can change without with the any indication. One minute a link could point to example.com and the next, a copyright infringing video on another video host.

I do realise that in this case there was intent to provide a resource for those looking to illegally watch online content, but that is all it is, a resource.

And the Brit inside me is also getting wound up by the US's involvement in this, the whole extradition thing is completely over the top and as much as I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist exclaiming Hollywoods influence over the government, in this case I think its bang on. I completely agree with the sentiment expressed at the end, that "the US cannot be allowed to be the copyright cops of the world".
"There may be no signals from space, yet those with their antennas tuned to more anthropomorphic wavelengths are sure to pick up a buzz of social signaling in people’s attitudes towards the search for extraterrestrial beings. Such social background noise might in fact be one of the main obstacles to intellectual progress on many big picture topics."

I first apologize for being an obstacle to intellectual progress.

I then pose the question:

Is it impossible for Venus to have harboured some form of life (sentient or not) involved in a carbon cycle not unlike ours, hundreds of billion years ago, except (or perhaps similarly...) due to one of the "Great Filter" probability barriers, the life on the planet eventually produced a runaway greenhouse effect, which leads to the current state of Venus today (and over hundreds of millions of years, wiping all obvious traces of life)?
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Just a tip for a small change to make look better, put icons in the top menu (i think bootstrap has it already)
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It'll be interesting watching how the Android community deals with this, as they poured scorn on the fragile iPhone 4/4S glass back (note, happy, clumsy, ex-iPhone 4 owner, didn't break for me). They're right though, I'm surprised they didn't learn from the example of Apple and how many people did break their back glass.

Although glass cracking from a temperature shift is pretty odd, I would have thought it'd have gone through testing to isolate faults like that.
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I don't know why he didn't use "perhaps"; it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Am I the only one who's slightly offended by being portrayed like a rogue tribe of bushmen that researchers "go and live with" to study?

Hackers, aka. software developers, are just people with a specific job.
That was more 'covering my ass', I'm sure there are examples of the UK handing some people over.

The UK used to imprison without trial on UK soil some of it's UK citizens for terrorism crimes during it's recent civil war/unrest in Northern Ireland.
Yes, seen it happen but you can often talk your way out of it, or print a fake bus ticket. Other times you'll be less lucky, it really depends on how you get on the desk.
Technically its the law in a lot of countries but often not enforced.. up to you whether its worth the risk!
openelec and raspbmc work reasonably well on it.

there are still some kinks, random crashes, and menu lag that haven't been fully ironed out.
Thanks for playing with Mocktails.

I should have put some icons in there, but there were a lot of buttons that required icons (esp. in the properties popover), so I decided to ship it and beautify it later.
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EDIT: Reading comprehension problem -- you wanted clean HTML. I thought you meant you wanted an HTML5 viewer.

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This is nice:

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Example using this PDF:

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Clean, light, and doesn't require a GA login.
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No, if you watch the videos, Anders specifically says that they plan to eat their own dog food on this one and expose APIs to the same compiler they use. He also says that they're rewriting the C# compiler entirely in C# as part of Roslyn.
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No, but its important not to rule it out entirely, which is attitude I used to have, which I have since changed.
Agents often allow full flexibility by cancelling flights and crediting them to a new flight, allowing a lot more freedom than the independent route.
I know I saved a lot of money and was able to double my time in South America purely because I booked through an agent. It costs an extra $100 USD at the time but I changed the flights 4 separate times to extend dates, change destinations.. well worth it in that regard
I might have exaggerated a little, I have no idea how huge the virtual machine park is, but I would argue that they wouldn't invest in Ganeti with full-time employees if they weren't using it internally. During a talk, one of the developers said that they were running pretty large clusters.
My experience when I tried it on Windows 7:

0) Downloaded and installed it. For some reason the installer was in Spanish. Launched the IDE itself. Fortunately it was in English.

1) clicked file - new project, selected python, named it "test"

2) tried to type the project location, it wouldn't let me. Selected the project location via the "Examine..." button instead. (The filesystem browser launched in program files instead of my home folder.)

3) typed print("hello world") in __init__.py

4) hit F6 to run. This doesn't seem to do anything except pop up a save dialog. The only output I get is "Failed to start" with no further indication of what is wrong.

Chosing a "main file" in the project properties didn't seem to make any difference. I don't know how to make this thing execute code.
Everyone is missing the point of this product. It's not to stop wifi stealing - that's the marketing department badly trying to make the product easier to sell and the blog being lazy.

The reason you'd buy this is to keep the radio spectrum within your room yours. Like someone else said - this would open up more channels to you and prevent the guy downstairs running a microwave or buying a cordless phone from screwing with your signal.
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It could be methane molecules bound to sand particles. It would be surprising not to find methane on a planet in our solar system.
What exactly is wrong with the CLR? I agree with the first post - Python is my favorite language and I do love a bit of ruby now and again but I have to say that C# is pretty damn awesome when coming from an interpreted language background. Stuff like async/await, function blocks, lambdas and visual studio (which is hands down the best IDE I have used) is really cool.
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Offended? What, the great modern human is immune to being studied like all those primitive inferior bushmen?

Sorry to put words in your mouth; that's just what I heard in my head when I read that post.
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Perhaps every possible equipment is not possible given current funding; It could be a trade-off between probability of detecting possible indicators of life (organic compounds) and ability to detect more certain indicators of life (actual examples of life).

Imagine if you were only allowed to purchase $100 of equipment - it could either be a digital camera that can take pictures of fossils and definitively prove life exists on Mars once and for all, which is less likely than, a piece of equipment that detects the presence of methane in the atmosphere. (more likely but less definitive proof).
couldn't agree more, the things you book up front you will regret and wish you'd waited to arrange when you got there. 6 months in south america and the one thing I booked (machu picchu trek) was a constant annoyance to plan around. dont entirely rule out travel agents, they can offer even more flexibility in terms of flight changes, but stay well away from booking things in advance
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My game-inventing club has an ethnographer from the local University attending our meetings. We welcome here; teach her our gentle ways and show her how to achieve the good life: by inventing fun things!
I don't at all, but I still think it's a very interesting concept I'd love to see taken further. I almost felt bad hitting "No" because of it.

Maybe I'll become a convert.
I guess the question is would you rather have hundreds of separate sites that you don't trust but who each only have a very small amount of data on you, or one site that you slightly trust but who has every data to build a complete profile of you.
This is really strange to me as Anders Hejlsberg says they're implementing the C# compiler in C# as part of the Roslyn project.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/The-Roslyn-Project-Me...
True, but the current geek cultures are very much an extension of those departments. Anthropology is the study of men, and men do not often develop entirely new traditions. It would also be worth exploring if similarities between physics geeks and guild societies before that existed.
Don't underestimate the value of an early standardized test framework. This posting itself is a great opportunity to teach the community what a canononical Meteor application should look like and not having testing baked in makes the code a lot less readable.

I'd like to see what a fully decomposed meteor application is supposed to look like from an architecture perspective but every time I see an example it looks like this.

Testing frameworks force you to break things up resulting in a better overall design. This is what should be exposed to a nascent community if you don't want serious growing pains later on (look at the struggles the php world is having adopting testing and modular architectures)
You have no idea how modern virtualisation works. Go read about hardware assisted virtualisation on x86/x86-64.

Most server operators don't care about performance. They have performance coming out of their ears. They care about redundancy and maintenance, or to put another way cost centres.

Your post is on the wrong side of history. Virtualisation is being rolled out in a massive scale right now. Essentially you can abstract your entire physical infrastructure away from your logical infrastructure.

You have a physical server die? The HV has already moved the image to a new node and started it. Before you even receive the e-mail notification the new server is already booting.

So now a hardware failure goes from being a massive panic, to being a small annoyance. You pull the dead hardware from the rack, and plug a new generic node in and that now becomes available for the HV to use.

You want to back up a server? Take a copy of the ENTIRE image in one go.
You want to deploy a template? Well that's trivial with images.
You want to do change management with the servers? Just put the images in GIT. Boom done.

What you're suggesting is essentially taking the cheapest bits of server management (i.e. the physical hardware) and acting like they're the most expensive bits (i.e. people, time, and flexibility).
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Or...

brew install ack
Where did I write that anything was wrong with it? I was referring to the original comment, which speculates wildly based on nothing and its mother.
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Exactly, and that has nothing at all to do with the position posted by Microsoft in terms of this thread.
cost of travelling is relative, it costs suprisingly little to travel in a lot of places (south east asia, south / central america). only barrier is flights and these are very cheap these days
I live in Holland and the dedicated bike paths here make cycling really safe. So safe that I don't see the use for this bike light here in the Netherlands although it will probably have a marginal benefit. However, last summer I rented a bike in London and it was truly terrifying. Never before have I felt so unsafe in traffic before, anything to improve this situation would be great. Nonetheless, proper training of drivers so they are more aware of cyclists and dedicated bike paths would help immensely.
Which in itself is a bit weird. Mars and Earth formed in the same solar system, from an orbital disk around the same sun. Similar conditions and building blocks.

Surely whatever improbability would be diminished because of this?
This has become an example of an organization losing control of it's PR when it goes viral. This is damaging to the credibility of those involved. If / when the details are given they will be "historic" either for their scientific importance or the hit it has done to NASA.
I agree, not with every point, but with your conclusion.

My company (PicDigest) is betting on a paid web-first model and planning a mobile app as a companion, even in the crowded space of photo sharing where incumbents supposedly have the market sewn up. Yes, it's a long-shot play, but the wager is based on the assumption that many people will pay a little money for what I'm offering.
Is this "feature" new?

All of the sudden recently I noticed a lot of single word quoted replies happening to me, and I figured it was a bug.
There's always the risk that it is wired in such a way that it attempts to fry the port it connects to.

The risk of hostile software should be relatively easy to deal with (even on ancient versions of Windows).
Correct. And it seems people have only figured that out recently. Companies that really do only hire the top 1% are starting to post jobs that look like a whole lot more people are qualified for. See Instagram, for example:

http://instagram.com/about/jobs/mobile-engineer

Tons and tons and tons of people meet those requirements, and they surely get a mountain of resumes, most of which never even get a phone screen. But they don't scare away people who are actually qualified but just don't see themselves as 'rockstars' or 'ninjas' or 'the best in the World' - even though they are.
however looking at it from an international perspective, if i am paid in BTC by someone operating out of the US (for example) and they tell the US taxman that they paid someone in the EU for the work then the US taxman is not coming looking for me.

as for meeting someone who turns out to be a tax investigator so what, localbitcoins.com and sites like it require no registration or even adding any personal details, unless I give the taxman my details he will not know who I am. Plus localbitcoins.com is not even necessary any forum could be used to arrange to meet and trade/sell BTC.

I guess what i am saying i that BTC allows people to avoid the taxman entirely. In your example of a company buying services, they are unlikely to use a BTC site to hire a feelancer, preferring to stay within the remit of fiat currencies and the taxman, however for individuals it is much more appropriate and much less interesting to the taxman,.
Or would you like to be able to right click a link on a SERP and copy the actual URL.
Goodness you are bitter. May I suggest taking a break from HN for a while?
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Usually the vacuum's functionality of scribd is used, but it seems to not work at this moment
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