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It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this).

I own a Kobo, but it's been seriously hacked by myself so it doesn't call home and only talks to SD cards. It also only gets non DRM epubs on it. Anything more would be considered virtual book burning on my part as well.
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I did a similar thing in high school. The formula was different: weight * length. Thus you could build a long bridge (limited by amount of materials) and place very little weight. We did not win.
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I came back to Ubuntu when I got a System 76 laptop earlier this year with it preinstalled. I was actually impressed. It was pretty good, with some tiling features I liked and lots of keyboard shortcuts. But the prospects of 12.10 spyware made me dump it for Slackware 14, which came out around the same time.

And I never looked back, because man, Slackware is great. Install that instead.
With this decision, I have now come to believe that Google is not the company that it used to be in the past. The user-friendly company with a quirky personality.

Somewhere in the mindless fighting with becoming the dominant social and mobile force on the planet, it has forgotten about the very users it once strived to please.

This has been more apparent since Larry took over Google as the CEO. His "more wood behind fewer arrows" has somewhere down the line taken away the humor with which Google has largely operated. 20% time? Google Labs? Hugely popular Google products scrapped into oblivion.

The only products that matter beyond search are - Android, Google+, YouTube and Google Apps which are fairly mature by now and are a serious threat to competitors.

The thing is they didn't need to do it because they aren't starving of computing resources for more important products and the marginal costs of adding free users is almost nil (although it exists).

I somehow feel betrayed by this decision. Google, so far, has resisted the temptation to shut down products that were important to it's users unlike other companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! I have been using Google Apps since they launched it a long ago. It feels like bait and switch.

This is completely right and there is nothing wrong with them shutting down a free service as a business but somehow it feels so non-Googly.
I've just done this. I never check the settings page so thanks for the advice!

Note: Google Instant gets turned off if you want more than 10 results per page.
It is pretty relevant...How do you objectively measure a "better UX"? IMO , there is no better measure than the users voting with their wallets (ie purchasing the app) .
In my experience, all these dribbble orgasm inducing designs just don't matter. Sure they may get your app featured by Apple, but good luck building a business based on winning that lottery. As an experiment, go on iTunes and tell me how many of the top non-games features a design with so-called better UX.
My simple theory of iOS UX design? Do shit that users expect!!
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It's a question of context and expectations. I expect people to look at me funny when I walk around in boxer shorts in public, but not at home. Were someone to stand at my window while I'm on my couch and complain about my choice in clothing, I'd have a right to complain.

Your angst over this new system depends largely on whether you consider behavior outside of your browser to take place in a public or private space.
It's just as easy to imagine Google getting undercut by a big company. Yahoo, here's your opening.

I always thought of free Google Apps as the company's brilliant play to control the fabric of the business internet. Can you name anything in the digital realm more important to businesses and organizations of all sizes than long-form communication (email) and content and information-driven collaboration?

Sadly for new users and for Google itself, the company's actions reveal a failure to recognize Apps as anything more than a collection of inter-related services ready for more aggressive monetization. Management fails to see the strategic benefit and leverage afforded by controlling the online fabric of every new business that starts operating as a small team. It's the type of short-term and profit-driven thinking that afflicts so many companies as they reach the complacency of scale.
Are accounts insured in BTC or EUR? It seems to me that closing the bank (and let's face it, that does happen in the real world from time to time) could cause a run on BTC since the supply is so limited compared to traditional currencies. If all accounts are actually insured in EUR, on the other hand, BTC deposits are either not covered or are treated as equivalent to EUR via an exchange rate, which implies actual equivalence.
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Exactly. Furthermore, thinking that way prevents people from investing themselves in their current situation, so of course that situation is never fulfilling.

As Buckaroo Banzai says: No matter where you go, there you are.

See also: Optimizers vs. satisficers.
Local searches do not remain private as there is only one search box for global and local stuff.

So when you type "goat porn" expecting it to open your folder of goat porn on your workstation, it will send it to amazon and show goat porn that you didn't want to see and tell amazon and canonical that you are interested in goat porn.

In a few years time[1], on your lifetime leased IPV6 address you will pop up a legitimate web site and get adverts for goat porn. Look at the display on the fridge: goat porn. Walk into the bedroom to see your Android Clock showing you the latest "Russian Bride Goats".

[1] This is apparently not possible at the moment as they "don't store or process your IP address", but we all know how Mark bends over when someone waves cash at him. After all he is a businessman.
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It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this).

That's almost the definition of rhetoric.
Actually one of my domains should have had 50 or 25. Not sure why it shows 10.

Anyways its still good for me.
In such cases even if you make it a policy to use only English, it can still bite you - for example, subtle grammar errors in variable names in a large codebase will be maddening for anyone except the original programmer.
I don't really think that's how communication works.
Surely there must be an exception for Tesla vehicles.
This is a great personal effort to bring improvements to a platform we all know and love - I've got many friends overseas who all speak (and most critically - think ) in English to varying degrees.

Localization is never a wasted effort.

I hope they hire you Garen!
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While it may be an intentional shortcoming, I feel GitHub is lacking in general discussion. Sometimes I just want to ask the developer a question about their code. Usually what I do is look for their Twitter account and @mention the question over to them. It would be nice to find a discussion around a particular repo just as we have here on Hacker News.
Not quite. It depends on the context. This was a pointer to issues, none of which are supporting the argument but are of secondary interest.
I've used Debian GNU/Linux as my primary desktop OS and as a server OS since 1995. Many ditros (such as Ubuntu) are derived from it. People who have grown accustomed to deb packages and synaptic, etc may like to try it.
You’re passion is whimsical…should you follow it?
The reason newspapers are sacrificing their credibility for money is quite simply because they're running out of money faster than they are running out of credibility.
I'm sure it will be a lot cheaper on AWS.
It is clear when you're on a browser that your search terms and text inputs go to a server somewhere. And RMS has plenty of warnings about such things as Google Instant, Facebook "likes" and other sneaky ways websites spy on you.

But at least up until now you could stay away from that stuff by just not opening a browser, and you knew to be careful when you did. Now there is no line, just "be careful what you type on a computer, period. You don't know who's watching". And that's a lot worse. What if your private journal on your hard drive is mined for targeted advertising? No, keep the web and my desktop separate, that's the point.
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I would like to find time to learn angularjs too. Seems pretty sleek framework. I've tried meteor stuff and kind of like it, but you still have to write client/server code...

Angularjs seems to being solving this making it much more like building desktop UI right?
Ubuntu install a custom application that does something involving sending data out -> We're doomed! They're spying and tracking you! Grab the pitchforks!

Of course, that's RMS' viewpoint and he's entitled to it, and it often provokes some very interesting discussions around it, but he's terrible at being anything other than over the top. For what it's worth I don't think what Ubuntu did was that a bad a thing, it's a nice revenue stream for those that use it and that's a good thing for the future of the project, but I can also understand the view point of people who are uncomfortable with search results peppered with ad's.
That depends on how you view the global search function - which is more like being in your back garden and looking at the view.

In that location people can and have successfully argued you should put some clothes on.
the comically awful managers who watch terrorist attacks on TV and then think, "I'd like to do that to a company!"

Sigh. Adding inflammatory rhetoric like this really doesn't help in painting you as a reliable commenter, either.
Have you seen the new version? It's practically a G+ skin for YouTube.
They're on it. :)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bu...
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What would you call this kind of thing then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-cus...
I use the compose key extensively and I think that one of the best .XCompose file out there is the one of kragen [1]. It has a lot of bindings and they are easy to remember.
λ is <Multi_key> <asterisk> <l> (actually all greek letters are on <Multi_key> <asterisk> [letter]).

[1] https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose
What is the advantage of using domain-specific calendar/docs over using them with your personal google account?
Given that there were people who would try to use the free version for their business, and then kvetch (on HN and/or other major technology blogs) when their account was hijacked and they lost business critical access and couldn't recover quickly because they didn't have the 24/7 phone support, it might actually be better that the free version is getting sunset....
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We don't associate google, amazon, twitter and facebook with free software and personal liberties though - where Ubuntu is traditionally associated with these due to it's origins.

Just because something is commonplace does not make it justified, and it's perfectly right to criticize the decision to do it. We criticize google and the rest for doing the same - just that most people are not concerned, or not informed.

IMO, any communication done by your OS to any server, without informed consent is a direct threat to privacy, and should be criticized, even if it's "convenient".
There is some mileage to this argument - the search box doesn't really pretend to be local-only. But for the last three releases (from when Unity was introduced), it was only a local search, and I think many users expected it to stay that way. It's also somewhat uncomfortable that the easiest way to launch an application or open a file is to do an online search.

For me, it's annoying, and I've turned it off in the settings. But it's not such a big deal that I want to fork Ubuntu, or even switch distro.
"Desktop" users, of the kind that Ubuntu wants to adopt, aren't going to be using find and grep.
At least with a human there's the possibility they could be persuaded, reasoned with, or even corrupted.

A computer on the other hand is utterly intractable. I'm not sure how that would help with unique, one off or under-specified problems.

If you want your bureaucracy to be more adaptable, I'd argue you need to give it more flexibility not less.
He didn't assert anything about peoples associations. He asserted that that there is an association between proprietary software and malicious treatment of the user. Now knowing a little about what RMS regards as malicious that is undoubtedly true in terms of the lack of freedoms.

Even on a narrower definition of malicious if it includes user tracking/monitoring then large amounts of proprietary software can be regarded as malicious. I would narrow my definition of malicious a little more personally but there are large amounts of fairly malicious software out there, very little of it Free software.

You might need to pick another line to take apart.
I find this spyware by default as wrong as Stallman. I dont want my machine to send anything anywhere without me explicitly telling it to do so.

What I find even more frightening is Mark Shuttelworths view of this:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

"Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root."

Looks like he gets the issues of privacy and trust completely wrong. Imagine catching your cleaning lady reading your diary. And she says, without a sign of guilt, "Don't trust me? Erm, I got keys to your apartment.".

Time for a new cleaning lady.

Time for a new distro. I happily switched to Mint.
I believe the paid business version of Google Apps has always had the option (by the domain administrator) to turn off advertising for Gmail on a site-wide basis.
No books were burned, although a few were traded in on Amazon.
Are there other distros with Wubi (or something like it) and automatic updates? If it weren't for Wubi I don't think I would have ever fully switched to Linux. VMs are OK for a bit and repartitioning is right out if all you want to do is try something out for a while. I don't use Ubuntu anymore but Wubi really was the gateway drug for me. I personally don't care about automatic updates but I think it's a big one for some others. When I switched away from Ubuntu I thought I'd be missing out on the community behind it but it's really the Linux community in general that's awesome, a lot of the stuff just ends up on Ubuntu forums and much of the advice is universal. I think people need to know that.
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It's pretty obvious from the post he meant explicitly local searches, like those he gives examples of.
I don't the the answer to your question, but here is a pretty crappy graphic of some gaming networks I have bought traffic r

Here are a couple bookmarks I had that might work:

http://cpmstar.com/
http://www.ad4game.com/
http://www.epicgameads.com/
http://www.adengage.com/
http://www.ad2games.com/
http://www.inviziads.com/
http://www.advertisegame.com/
http://www.game-advertising-online.com/
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Have you been talking to my neighbors?

I completely agree, but not everyone will, and that perception is key to the discussion.
This. Although I agree with his view for free software, the way he convey his messages smells too much of fanaticism for me to swallow.
For me, changing the GTK+ input method was as easy as right-clicking in any GTK+ dialog box and picking "Input Methods" → "System (Simple)", rather than having to mess with /etc/environment. That setting seems to have stuck even through reboots.

I also highly recommend you look through the standard XCompose file, since there's a lot of handy symbols—like <Compose><hyphen><hyphen><hyphen> for an em-dash, <Compose><hyphen><greater-than> for an arrow, or <Compose><C><C><C><P> for ☭.
I was only mentioning that sense of "free" tangentially, and I wasn't bemoaning my own situation, just theorizing that they could get much greater mass market penetration (which they seem to want) with a free tier.

I guess it wasn't very clear, but what I really meant was an open platform for hacking on. As it is it's very difficult to use Mathematica as a normal programming language, and it's clearly not designed for that (even though there is a vocal contingent at Wolfram that wants people to try anyway). If it were split off into two projects - a completely open core language and a set of closed symbolic math APIs + frontend tools on top of that language - then it would open it up for anyone to hack, create and innovate on, instead of playing around in their very heavy and very limited garden with no option to integrate with other tools, distribute, or improve and extend the language.
There is no local search. There only global search, but historically the global search was only for local files.
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It isn't nonsense. He disclosed material inside information, that apparently moved the stock, to a non-public list of "fans". All investors should have access to this information, not just people who like the company on Facebook.
They're not going to enforce anything right now, but things are still up in the air, and they may in the future. By warning now, they can get the word out to people who start (following the election victory) lighting up in public, that "you might want to be careful about that, and here's why."

So if they do decide to get more harsh on public use in the future, the the public will be more prepared, and there'll be less of a mess due to a sudden shift in enforcement.

It seems pretty clever, and good policy.
Google is one of those providers:

http://searchengineland.com/google-fired-two-employees-for-b...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/

http://readwrite.com/2010/09/27/googles_second_transparency_...

Google read your email and use it to throw targeted ads at you.

There is a fine line between profiling, tracking and analysing communications and utilising that data for something nefarious. The only deciding factor on how far it goes is cash.
Not fully accurate. The main search box does local+global search unless you turn off the global part in settings. But you can easily do local searches only: Super+F for files, Super+A for applications.
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But it's true in this case, there's a job posting in Interstate's headers.
"stop with the hyperbole that is actually misleading to readers about what the real situation is"

I wonder if readers do really understand the situation or not. I don't think the hyperbole is a bad idea when features like these should be opted in and not a default for everybody. I don't know if this feature is properly advertised by the system and if there will be someone that didn't know about it.

I'm a happy 12.04 user and, since it's LTS, I'll avoid 12.10 until this issue is sorted out.
1994 called, they want their bandwidth back! :)
How do people have so much free time lol?
Who is going to declare war with the strongest military power and most warlike nation on the planet? I believe in having minimum standards for cyber security in order to provide reasonable security for data but this seems incredibly alarmist. It seems like it should have the headline: "War on Terror II: This time it's going cyber!"
That was so absolutely not over the top I feel you're doing anyone who hasn't read the post yet a disservice.
Not disagreeing with your stated belief, but I believe most people in the linux community do associate proprietary software with maliciousness.
Yes fully accurate.

By DEFAULT it does local+global search.

Motivation for user to turn this off - low.

Education on what it's going to do - none.

This is about as unethical as it can get. Even Windows 8 asks religiously before sending anything.
No, the issue was:

log.Debug("Thing {0} happened", o.expensive_call())

could end up calling some method that took a very long time to run, only to be thrown away in the end. String construction isn't that big of a deal and their new API could avoiding doing it if the message won't be used.
SOME people spend that much on lattes. Others don't.

Anyway this is a decent compromise. I think the most compelling use case for free was the single user "experimental" use case anyway.
I think you may intend somewhere towards the 3(b) definition but even that doesn't quite fit. Maybe another dictionary has a definition for your intended meaning.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rhetoric

1.a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.

b. A treatise or book discussing this art.

2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.

3. a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.

b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.

4. Verbal communication; discourse.
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water utility using Internet tools available to anyone.

Why is any critical piece of infrastructure connected to the internet at all? Disconnect and use sneaker-net instead.
Maybe he just wanted to shake the "press/government" duopoly. Let's face it, a press release these days may actually reach fewer people than a Facebook posting.
More details in Google's blog post: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-goog...
I agree with you completely. The simplicity required for a peaceful life is really difficult to find in today's world.

Additionally, it's a common misconception that primordial man was a poor wretch that scrounged for food, fought larger predators and generally lived a life in constant fear and hunger.

I once read an article on Mark's Daily Apple (http://www.marksdailyapple.com/about-2/who-is-grok/#axzz2ENJ...) that paints quite a different picture of a paleolithic lifestyle.

From the article, the paleolithic man, "...leads a life of relative peace, consistent rhythm, adequate sleep, and little stress. There are times of scarcity, to be sure, but his body is adapted to generally weather their strain."

As an entrepreneur, my goal is to earn enough to allow me live more simply and get back into the proper rhythm of life. How much money is that? I don't know yet, but the primary goal isn't to get rich, it's to get free.
Yes, $50 is not much, but _you_ would need to pay $550/year for your 11 users if you signed up today. I guess that is too much for one person liking to have a few aliases.
As for me, I’ve became wary of Ubuntu since it started shipping Ubuntu One pre-installed. It was clear back then that personal liberties are not that important for Canonical.
Step 4. Only commercial sites from Germany are in Google, cause it's too much paperwork to have all these fees canceled if you're not doing this full time.

Both Google and newspapers in Germany are glad from such resolution, only some naive young people complain about something. They're surely pirates.