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America is one united federation of states. The federal government still exercises surprisingly little control over individual states, although that control is increasing over time. Most of the federal controls exist merely to regulate inter-state commerce to make sure there are no unfair practices where Michigan can enact laws to keep Indiana businesses from operating in their state. However, two neighboring states can have wildly different laws on local issues. Michigan for the longest time required motorcyclists to wear helmets when the neighboring states didn't, and only allows heavy trucks to have two trailers where other surrounding states allow them to carry three trailers at once.

Classifying America as one solid country all across is, to be honest, quite inappropriate. It's more of a slightly more put-together European Union, with a federal government existing just to make sure everyone plays fairly.
Isn't Jerkson abandoned?
Could you please expand on why you felt v2 was a departure from Play v1 in terms of simplicity and elegance? Why do you think that is -- and why was that trade off not the right design decision (or was it?) in your point of view. And finally, why does this effort "help that."

I am genuinely curious about your conclusions, but I'm frustrated by not being able to guess how you got there as I'm not a java web developer.
I think you went hyperbolic in your GP post. You said that mine-rollers were "useless" - which they clearly are not if they can clear mines as a first pass (yes given the right terrain).
>> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I don't understand how anyone can think that the founding fathers would not have considered email and cell phone conversations to fall under this provision.

I'm so sad about our country's abandoning the principles of freedom.
Thanks for the links. Neither of those articles say anything about cold fusion. They discuss the possibility of a cold fission.

From the Discover article: "A growing cadre of scientists now suspect that Pons and Fleischmann’s [1989] observations were the result not of fusion but of more plausible physical processes." "Fusion requires enormous temperatures and pressures, which is why it occurs only in stars and bombs." The first section is even titled, "Cold, Yes, But Not Fusion."

What I get from reading those articles, is that scientists think there might have been something to the 1989 experiments, but that it's not fusion. Instead, they believe it's a clean, low-energy form of fission. While interesting, this does not confirm the existence of cold fusion.

From the Forbes article, it appears that scientists are now referring to it as "low-energy nuclear reactions" (LENR). Consistent with the Discover article, this is described as a clean form a fission that scientists are currently researching. That's a far cry from saying that LENR exists in the wild, let alone cold fusion.

Thank you for providing the links. I was actually unaware of the research in LENR before, and I'm happy to have learned about it.
1. Pickup an arduino and build something - maybe a r/c truck with some IR sensors and servos that scan for an "autonomous" powered car

2. If you can get your hands on a raspberry pi - I would highly recommend building something with it that is platform based. e.g. http://hackaday.com/2012/08/29/party-photo-printer-built-aro...

Either way focus on 1 project and get it built from start to finish. Even if it sucks, focus on completion - just my $0.02

:)
This is awesome! Please do open source it! I looked into doing this once before for ioloop, but ended up implementing IDLE with Twisted's twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client instead. The results were fairly good, but I don't think it was worth the trouble finding the right timeouts, etc.

Also, not sure if it makes sense for your use case, but I considered moving to Postmark's Inbound API (http://postmarkapp.com/inbound). May work well for some people.
If you'd like, you can drop in the JS code at the bottom of the page and it will make your footnotes easier to read automatically. It's not the jumping that's as much the problem as losing the context upon jumping.
Heartily agree. The Circuit Courts seem to be in agreement, and the Supreme Court has declined to review appeals on this topic which were sent to them. This suggests that there is no Constitutional issue here which needs a decision.

Or in other words - NYC passed a law prohibiting the sale of sugary drinks over 16 ounces in size. To the best of my knowledge, the Supreme Court has never made a decision on if that action is Constitutional. And I strongly doubt that it ever will. Does that mean the legality of the new law is under doubt? Absolutely not.
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There are good arguments against "automatic consent" but this isn't one of them.

You consent to lots of things by driving on public roads, yet many people's livelihoods depend on driving on public roads. It doesn't mean that the consent for driving wasn't given.
I think you (and many other people here) are confused about what Social API really is.

It's like BrowserID - a protocol that enables authentication. Facebook can implement BrowserID, StackExchange can implement BrowserID, Google can implement BrowserID; you get the idea.

The same goes for Social API. It's just a protocol for social networks. Anybody who wants to create a social site, can support the Social API and users can enable it to work on any site that offers such functionality.

Social API IS NOT "Facebook in my browser".
It isn't just when boarding airplanes:

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
Soon as in next month, January.
No; in fact, when AT&T switched from unlimited to metered bandwidth pricing for iPhone plans, 95% of customers (including me) saw that they had to pay less per month. The private market is simply not so broken for cellular telecoms right now that AT&T can charge a lot more than their costs for things like bandwidth: they are actually in fierce competition with Verizon, and for the vast vast majority of users the only thing they care about when choosing between these two companies is price.

Five years ago this was not as true as it is today, as at the high-end of the market (so only people with a lot of money to burn) people would sometimes select carriers based on what phones were available (hence the value of the AT&T-exclusive iPhone), but with a world where handset manufacturers carry most of the power (and in fact get even a good percentage of the money paid to carriers, due to the subsidy) and all of the best phones are available for every major carrier, this no longer matters: carriers are now dumb pipes to everyone but a small percentage of people living in an area with a major coverage disparity.
If you don't mind, could you perhaps shed a bit of light on this (or if not on this situation in particular, on the type of data to which you're referring)? I've often thought of DNS-derived data as a potential source of independent info on traffic patterns, fraudulent clicks, etc., so I'm particularly curious.
No, there are several hardware components:

1. It is all-but-certain that the Glass hardware won't be able to "blank out" anything real. At best, it would be able to superimpose a ghostly oreo on top of the real oreo, with the real oreo fairly clearly visible beneath.

2. I don't know whether the Glass hardware will be able to display anything in the center of your field of vision, and would certainly believe that it won't be able to.

3. Then there's the question of whether the graphics processor will be able to push enough pixels fast enough to have a smoothly animated image "live" in your field of vision. I'd tend to doubt it, but, again, don't know. It's not what it's designed for.

4. Then it's all-but-certain-again that the Glass hardware won't be able to locate an object in three dimensions at close range well enough to put different images on each lens (or even if it will be able to put different images on each lens). You'd need multiple cameras for that, assuming that nobody helpfully put some kind of locater device in your oreos.

And that's just the beginning of the difficulties. Your claim is something akin to saying that you can run Halo 4 on an original iPhone because, hey, an iPhone is a general purpose computing device with a color screen. Hardware is important.

And none of that touches the rank implausibility of software that can in natural environments locate "food" and make it seem bigger. I mean, sure, maybe if you're specifically looking for oreos, but for everyone whose diet problems are not restricted to idiosyncratic-looking cookies, it's just not going to happen in a time frame of "the next few years," even if the Glass hardware were infinitely capable.
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4.2 has been a real disappointment to me compared to 4.1. Since my update, the phone lags on input more, apps crash frequently, and restarts must happen more often. Just today, I had Google Voice slow down, crash, restart, and crash again. Then, after I took a picture, the whole phone locked up. It seems that 4.2 wasn't ready for prime time, but was pushed out for the Nexus 4 release.
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Humbled that you chose to mention AppSumo!

Some companies I like and that we've worked with recently at AppSumo: WP Engine (wpengine.com), Backblaze (backblaze.com), Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com)
(To be clear, I'm speaking more broadly about the topic and absolutely not condoning the weev's alleged actions. Lack of responsible disclosure, discussion of profiting from the flaw and exploiting it far beyond simple validation tests are all going to make it very difficult for him.)

Observing sequential identifiers in a URL and validating a gaping security hole is hardly something I'd classify along the lines of "stealing a database" nor should it be considered "unauthorized access", however the judicial system clearly feels different and that's the sort of changes I'm advocating that need to be adjusted.

Of course, discussing legislation changes that would allow anyone to execute security testing is probably not a very lucrative topic with the founder of a company that provides security research & testing.
Another possibility would be to place them as side-notes (the essays only take very little horizontal space -- the rest could be used for notes).
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Dude, that's brilliant. This idea needs some sort of presentation, video, early prototype or something to make it go "viral."
This is exactly what I was looking for. I have heard of both arduino, and raspberry pi, but I believe this is where my knowledge is lacking. What are their capabilities? Obviously I will look into them now, but what can they do? All I have done in my microcontrollers class is make an LED screen say different things, and move wheels forward and backward. Is this what these two do?
Not necessarily... My pitiably incomplete understanding of something called "fully homomorphic encryption" is that it offers the possibility of letting someone else do operations (math, search, etc) on your encrypted data, giving you useful results, without them ever actually seeing the plaintext data.

My understanding is that this is still in the experimental stage.
> Copyright needs to be enforced, but on a narrower set of IP. Patents should actually be innovative, unique, and original. Copyright should be specific, with broad fair use and protected status for parodies and satires.

The problems with arguments like these is that the are talking about a perfect system. In reality you will just not get such a system, that just not where the insentives for change of the system go.

There are so many goverment agencys, that have some nice intent but ultimilty end up doing nothing (or in some cases to opposite).

Bringing democracy to the third world. Forign Aid helping dictators. Free Trade Agreements that ristrict trade. The list goes on.

Its not the best wikipedia article but I think public choice theory clearly states that these kinds of institutional changes are just not going to happen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice_theory).

Crying abolish as loud as you can together with everybody else that has the same insentives, like start ups, bigger companys that do not have as many patents and political partys that are not in the goverment.

Institutional change allways hurts, or is unfair to somebody but institutonal change must happen anyway.

> Even the GPL depends on copyright enforcement

One could well agrue that the GPL only exists because there is was copyrights. Stallman would not have had all the trouple with the lisp maschine without copyrights. The lisp maschine code could have been used by both companys. Maybe we would all work with lisp maschines now (let a man dream).
BrainTree does payments. They have concerns about security that most apps do not. Who really cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app post twice to facebook? Probably no one. Who cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app bill them twice? Probably everyone.

BrainTree and you may not make the same decision, and you both could be right.
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>Even the GPL depends on copyright enforcement

I remember Stallman saying something along the lines that GPL is using copyright against itself.

So I don't think GPL "depending" on copyright enforcement is a valid point for IP enforcement.

GPL is just specifically tailored for the current system and would just morph to something else if the legal climate changes.
It is not high treason, and it is far more than integration with Facebook. Here's a bit of explanation from the following article:

"The idea is to be able to have a quick view into a site without having to switch back and forth between tabs...The Social API doesn’t have to work with only social sites. The API could be used by financial and sports sites to maintain a ticker or email providers could use it to make it easy to check in-coming messages. And since Firefox is open source, other browser makers could implement the Social API, though no other company has announced their intention to do so."

http://gigaom.com/2012/11/20/firefox-17-launches-with-social...

It's fine if you want to debate whether such functionality belongs in a web browser, but this isn't the 90s, and I think these capabilities make sense given what I often do on the web. You can find out more about its capabilities here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API

Cheers!
> Is this even possible when gate checking?

On a direct flight, your bag is safe. If you have connections, may god have mercy on your pants.
Don't give them any ideas. They might just add testicular cancer screenings to the current procedure.
I wouldn't expect it in the next decade. However, if you cycle forward the progression of laws and behavior represented by the last 10 to 15 years, then it seems likely that at a minimum the US will begin to intrude on Canadian sovereignty either through direct or indirect coercion.

Fascist countries don't tend to be very tolerant of their friendly neighbors.
Apparently, not that clear-cut

http://www.businessinsider.com/meg-whitman-hp-autonomy-blame...

"Why didn't the HP board question the purchase price in the first place?
That's what Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst for Barclays Capital, asked on the call. Whitman's answer: The board wasn't responsible. The two people who were responsible, in her view, are now gone: her predecessor, Léo Apotheker and HP's longtime strategy chief, Shane Robison, who retired in November 2011, shortly after the Autonomy deal went through.
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The UK does not have quite the racial divide that is prevalent in the US. Remember that minorities were treated as second-class citizens here as recently as the 1960s, and are still subject to institutionalized discrimination. Socioeconomic mobility is much worse here than in the UK, reinforcing the "ghettoization" of minority groups in the US.

Factor in easy access to modern weaponry, an actively-discriminating and mostly white police force, and the war on drugs, and you have a mixing pot of racial tension, poverty, and crime.

Oregon is mostly white, so is Minnesota, Vermont, and New Hampshire. A city like New Orleans is 67% black, is mostly poor, and has one of the highest homicide rates in the country. I haven't come across a city like that in the UK.

My home town, Portland, is extremely segregated. The black population here is concentrated in an area smaller than a square mile in the Northeast quarter, and both crime rates and gang activity there outrank the rest of the city by a factor of five. This is a consequence of Oregon's racist policies (our state constitution actually banned African-American residency) that were in force until World War II, when a large black population migrated here to work at a shipbuilding yard in Northeast. After the war, a flood took out the shipbuilding yard and put most of those families out of work; their descendants are still in the same area, subject to socioeconomic pressures that keep them there.

So while Portland might sound like a great place to live, it is only because the crime is segregated into a small section of the city while white people enjoy kitchy neighborhoods and craft fairs.
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Nice concept, is the dot pattern secret? Which is to say is this something you 'train' between the app and the stamp or is it programmed? And does it do a 'multi-touch' type stamp or are you doing sequences? And if the latter I'm guessing you can do a sequence that fingers can't and thus avoid 'faking' the stamp manually.

All in all very clever. Not sure what the use case is though.
I suspect they still haven't fixed the Cmd-arrow in Gmail issue. Yeesh. Not exactly an uncommon usage case.
> It's our responsibility as citizens to figure this stuff out.

Well, that, or flee.

> I refuse to succumb to the notion that all is lost simply because we've had 8-10 years of overreach.

If that's the case, I ask non-sarcastically: How many decades of tapped phones, illegal body searches, and indefinite detention and/or torture of political prisoners are you willing to wait for reform before you declare the US an unacceptable place for good and reasonable people to continue living in and paying taxes to?

I'm genuinely curious. Is there an upper bound?

For me, personally, it was ~8 years.

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are." --H. L. Mencken
I appreciate your thoroughness. I fear I am not focusing my argument well.

Administrative search at airports is legal, yes.
Consent is not required or relevant, yes.
Bag checks and scans are mandated by law, yes.
Magnetometer searches are protected by law, yes.
Weapons searches are protected by law, yes.
Carrying a meth pipe in your pocket is probably a bad idea, yes.

I am very specifically arguing that modern physical custody searches (aka "pat-downs") as performed by the TSA do not qualify under any Fourth Amendment exemptions. They have not been ruled as constitutionally reasonable upon by the SCOTUS, and that until they are, they are forbidden by the fourth amendment.

Administrative searches must be 'minimally intrusive' and 'escalat[e] in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening disclose[s] a reason to conduct a more probing search'. Custody searches, in my personal opinion, do not qualify as minimally intrusive. Prior to the TSA's inception they were only used in very restricted settings. Now they're considered commonplace.
Depends I guess on just how much liquid we're talking about here, and if damage is guaranteed or just unknown at this point. The air keyboard is reasonably spill-resistant, my girlfriend has had some accidental spills on her 11" Air without incident.

Before writing it off completely, pull it apart and inspect for damage. iFixit has teardown instructions, I'm sure, and if you don't feel comfortable doing it buy a cup of coffee for someone else in your office with the inclination to do so.
They redirect you to some ad (I'm not sure what, I have ad-block on so I don't see it, but I see the blank page). Then you can click through to the actual site. Presumably, that redirect is breaking for you for some reason. They may use a cookie to indicate what URL you are supposed to be redirected back to; do you have cookies disabled? Or you could just try clearing all of your cookies for that this site.
> In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he's the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. He's the guy who patented using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain – not just a better mousetrap, but the set of all possible better mousetraps. Roughly a third of his inventions are legal, a third are illegal, and the remainder are legal but will become illegal as soon as the legislatosaurus wakes up, smells the coffee, and panics. There are patent attorneys in Reno who swear that Manfred Macx is a pseudo, a net alias fronting for a bunch of crazed anonymous hackers armed with the Genetic Algorithm That Ate Calcutta: a kind of Serdar Argic of intellectual property, or maybe another Bourbaki math borg. There are lawyers in San Diego and Redmond who swear blind that Macx is an economic saboteur bent on wrecking the underpinning of capitalism, and there are communists in Prague who think he's the bastard spawn of Bill Gates by way of the Pope.

Excerpt from Accelerando by Charles Stross (cstross). Emphasis added.

I would love to see some sort of legal patent pool that grants free licenses only to entities that either do not have patents themselves, or which have granted licenses for all of their patents to other members of the pool. The trick of course is getting such a pool to a critical mass that joining it and licensing all your patents to it becomes worth it.
I am a huge fan, advocate, and frequent user and host on DogVacay - actually we are hosting a dog right now.

DogVacay is not a social network for pet owners, nor do they seem to want to be one, thankfully. DogVacay is really good at one thing - finding me dog owners who can take care of my dog better than a random professional kennel (and usually for less money). They are a marketplace disrupting the unsexy kennel business by taking advantage of the subtle facts that almost no dog owner likes kennels, most of them would trust another dog owner more than one, and that many dog owners (and even people without pets) and their dogs would actually enjoy hosting someone else's pet for a few days. I don't even do it for the money.
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Every company has its own share of date related bugs

Microsoft: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/how-a-leap-year-bug-...

Apple: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/apple-deleted-2am-and-2pm-...
My two cents:

- non-blocking IO with the powerful iteratee concepts (a nice approach to play with streams (EventSource/WebSockets/*) which is not only an event-based approach like in NodeJS, but more a "reactive" approach)

- functional approach of things with Scala

- everything is much more type-safe (especially templates) which make apps stronger (not prone to simple error like NPE in templates) but also faster (templates are compiled)
Not really alive at least and not compiled for Scala 2.10
I (accidentally) bought Mooncraft so you dont have to