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Your comments demonstrate serious lack of understanding of business ethics, email marketing, marketing in general.

Your example is very clearly spam. It's unsolicited commercial email, which is THE definition of spam. Your idea that the spam is not a spam if it "provides value" is totally ridiculous. It's very arrogant of you to think that you can decide what will create value to your recipients. If viagra pushers believe that you need those pills, it's not a spam?

There is a big difference between bottom right corner ad on a website and your spam. To equate those things is extremely ignorant. With spam you are creating work for your recipient. He/she has to open your email, evaluate it and delete it or mark it as spam. You are forcing your recipients to spend time and effort to deal with your message. It's not possible to ignore them like they can ignore a bottom right corner ad on a website.

I'm pretty sure that the world and the IT would still reach current levels of civilization without intrusive and unethical marketing such as your spam, unethical phone and fax marketing, etc. There are ethical ways to market.

If you've "been told worse insults by better people" maybe you should seriously reconsider whether all those better people had a point.
Hey, that's not crap. It's herp herp.
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To this design, I think it should be an application rather than a webpage.
The article doesn't really say why they needed to keep Safari a secret. I guess Apple just has a culture of secrecy.
Immanuel Kant:

"""
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on--then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
"""
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There are limitations to CSV? As long as it's properly escaped, it works as well as any other I'm aware of. What would you suggest, XML?
The solution appears to be sending cash in the mail. That's a bit less than ideal.
You go to Facebook to find information?
Even when I lived 5 minutes from Akihabara I rarely bought anything there. You can do so much better ordering online.
I also immediately thought that this is very reminiscent of the new myspace look.
It is open sourced.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
All the people in this presentation look like professional models.

And "colloseum", really?
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Can someone explain to me how Google promoting their own services can be considered anti-trust? I'm genuinly curious for what the arguments are for that, since it's said so many time I imagine there is something valid in there.
That doesn't seem fair to me in this case, Maxious. Telling a daughter that certain circumstances makes her more likely to be a victim of crime is not the same as blaming her. Even advising her to avoid those circumstances is not blaming her.

It's perfectly consistent to counsel a daughter to avoid getting too drunk with hormone-and-mysogyny driven teenage boys, for fear of her safety, AND to love her and support her completely were she to ignore your advice and the worst happened.
It looks like a Microsoft concept. It has nice features, don't get me wrong. But I wouldn't like it to be the new design because of lots of reasons. Mostly because I don't like tile-structure for timelined events. I find that very confusing and looks messy. (Plus looks bad when your window is small).
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> We couldn’t ship with the real Safari user agent string disabled, but we came up with the next best thing — automatically enabling it after a certain date.

Does that mean that if you set the date of your computer back before 2003, the user agent will become Internet Explorer?
Does anyone know why Apple stopped doing this(or stopped doing it as thoroughly)? With the possible exception of the original, sites have consistently reported visits from iOS/iPhone:iPad user agents (and claimed that the ip originated within apple) well before launch.
Recent example: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/01/01/developers-begin-seei...
You wrote that because research costs money, nobody will fund it without patents, completely disregarding the argument that there are other ways to fund research.
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TLDR: for whatever reasons it was a very top-secret project, so they spoofed the user agent, the end.
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If you were able to run a copy of Safari version 48, it would probably look like a Gecko-based browser before this date.
A big problem is: Comments are too deep for mobile devices.
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I just tried with Safari 6 on Mountain Lion and it does not.

Obviously this must have been a feature of Safari 1.0
I'm glad we have Anonymous. I hope they bring a world of hurt to those involved in the rape and cover up.
But he seems to be saying that the code that enables this is still in Safari.
It doesn't. Hence the curiosities and concerns about general AI, non-human intelligence, hopefully created by us humans, the first intelligences intelligent enough to design their successor instead of letting a weaker non-intelligent design process such as evolution happen upon it by chance.

The site I linked to has some good introductory material to the related concepts. (http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/intro is short and to the point.) http://singularity.org/research/ lists some important texts to read, and following up on the authors will lead to more. (An author I will also recommend following for his practical pursuits is Ben Goertzel. Lastly, I think this is a good criticism of the Singularity Institute's general mode of operating: http://kruel.co/2012/11/03/what-i-would-like-the-singularity... But you should probably read that one last, if you intend to read anything at all beyond the simple introduction.)
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> The fact that some individuals use Tor for accessing child pornography is sad, but that constitutes a miniscule amount of its entire traffic.

Do you have a citation for this? Specifically, that illegal activities in general are a minuscule amount of its traffic?
The notion is that they have a "monopoly" on search, and therefore have an unfair advantage in that they can promote their products over those of their competitors in their search results.

As a simplistic example, say some grandmother suddenly decides she would like to check out this "social networking" business she's been hearing so much about, and types that term into Google. The Feds and anti-trust advocates are saying that it should be illegal for Google to return a link to Google Plus above a link to the much more popular Facebook.

Personally, I think it's an outrageous overreach. I'm not a huge Microsoft fan, but if I was an MS shareholder I would be livid with the government for basically hobbling them over a decade ago. Nearly every insider who goes on the record about their recent troubles says that that was the beginning of the end for them, and I believe it. Imagine having to worry about not just what your competitors are up to, but also how the government will react to nearly every step you take.

The notion of monopolies in Tech is pretty farcical given how quickly the landscape changes on its own and how quickly seemingly invincible incumbents are displaced, but especially so when you are talking about websites like Google and Facebook that have no real barriers to entry beyond brand recognition, customer goodwill, and the quality of their product.
I suggest you look at the author of the comment to which you replied, and compare his name to the author of the article…
Supposedly she was drugged after being tricked into going on a date with one of the rapists, who just happened to be friends with her ex-boyfriend, whom said she "would be sorry for breaking up with him".
Yes, only the original version of Safari.
The OP is using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to go directly to the first result. You can tell from the "&btnI=745" at the end of their link.
I've always wondered how one goes about building a voting ring.
...I thought I was the only one.

Especially when you're constantly fighting an establishment that doesn't understand what you're doing and only cares about trends vs sustainability.
AFAIK Fry's is the closest thing we have here in the valley.
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Since people tweeted about it and posted video/pictures that presumably crosses state borders, can the FBI get involved to prosecute these players? It seems clear the locals are all in cahoots.
Self-respecting googlers aren't using sense or touchwiz junk. They're rocking a Nexus phone or running something like CM.
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Getting different perspectives is always a positive and gender differences will certainly bring in different perspectives.

If you were holding a general non-language-specific web development conference and 17 out of the 22 possible speakers were focusing on Ruby development, would you not want some of the remaining 5 to not be focusing on Ruby, for diversity? I don't see this example as being all that different.

I don't quite agree with the OP in terms of how 'inexcusable' the situation was, but I do think that sometimes a bit of tokenism is fine if it serves towards reaching a critical mass of inclusiveness that isn't already naturally present.
I didn't get that sense at all. The article acknowledges multiple times that this is not a new breakthrough. The point is that the danger of lead is so well known that it's strange criminologists don't make a bigger deal of the lead/crime correlation. More recent studies show the lead is even more dangerous than previously thought.
Having been the target of that crap and a parent of a child who does everything in her power to be the target (dressing different, acting different, mentally ill), I'm pretty comfortable in saying things have gotten better. There is a lot of energy put into preventing and punishing bullying, a lot more than when I was a kid (before we had dirt).

It changed enough that one of those high school football players asked her to prom last year (needless to say, I was worried about a Never Been Kissed prom scene).

It is not perfect, and where you live still matters a lot, but it is better, and when supported by caring, empathetic parents, usually manageable. Sure, something could go drastically wrong, but I don't live my life around black swan events.
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I'm guessing it's not a secret or surprise to anyone that Apple would work on a new version of their operating system, nor that such operating system would include a browser.

Safari, on the other hand, was unexpected.
The standard Krugman/Keynsian style argument is, that Greece should use inflation (but can not, since they do not have control over their money). And note, the more a country is indebted, the harder it becomes to get the deficit under control using austerity. The reason is, that you need to cut expenses in such a way, that GDP is not stronger affected by the cuts. For example, a country which has a dept/GDP ratio of 50% needs to cut its expenses such that the GDP is not reduced by more than twice the cuts in order to reduce its dept/GDP ratio. ( The multiplier for the austerity program needs to be smaller than two.) On the other hand, if it manages to have a stimulus program with a multiplier larger than two, then it can reduce its dept/GDP ratio using this stimulus program. For 100% the critical multiplier is 1 and in general it is 1/R, where R is the dept to GDP ratio.)

So you need less and less effective stimuli programs, the higher the dept to GDP ratio is. ( And I do not know if anyone does claim that dept-financed stimulus is the cure for any economic ill. But if not enough money is the problem, one can simply print that stuff.)
That Apple makes the iPhone and iPad is not a secret. The article you link to is talking about stats that apps are reporting over the internet... the apps have to know what kind of device they are running on, and have to be able to handle differences between the devices (eg: the screen difference between the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5).

No real information is released with these hardware model numbers that's not already reasonably known.

The only exception is for devices that people might think are end of life, or unlikely to get a refresh soon.

For instance, the Mac Pro may start showing up in logs, and that would be news, because it is so rarely updated... or it would be news if Tim Cook hadn't said that they planned to release an update (in 2013? not sure when he said it would be.)

So, knowing that iOS 7 (8, 9, etc.) are under development doesn't give away any of the secrets-- eg: what the special features of those OSes will be.
Sure, just nitpicking.

How about half a baby? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon
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> Common-sensically, again, what is the rationalization
> for choosing to create a new human when you have
> the power to rescue a condemned innocent?

Rescuing a condemned innocent is difficult. Sometimes moreso than having a child of your own. Children in the system tend to be special needs of some sort whether it's behavioural issues, learning disabilities, or mentally challenged. Having your own child comes with such risks, but you're already invested by the time those risks bear out.
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Rietveld is a degoogled fork of it.
"Which explains why the Safari user agent string has so much extra information in it, e.g. KHTML, like Gecko — the names of other browser engines."

Wasn't Safari/WebKit largely based on KHTML in the beginning? This doesn't say it wasn't, but seems to imply that there was a separation of the two that was more complete than it really was.

I realize the OP is in a better position than I to know exactly what the reasoning here was, but it seems like reporting yourself as KHTML when you are largely based on the KHTML rendering engine would just be a sensible and practical thing to do outside of all this cloak and dagger stuff.

(Granted, I doubt there were very many websites, if any at all, that gave a rat's ass about special cases for KHTML compatibility).
Use a different front end for IOS: http://hackerwebapp.com/
You're not going to out-pedant me, damnit! :P

Given the original comment, yes, I think it's more likely he just didn't understand why a A/A test might sometimes show a false positive.

Even if the system were misconfigured, there's no reason to think it would manifest as a false positive in an A/A test. There are lots of ways it could manifest.
Nokia has thought for a long time that they were a software company. They have been repeating this back in 2005 or 6 (when I was there). I had a colleague who kept saying that this wasn't the case. Me, I don't know. I think it's a different issue. To me, it's about big corp middle and upper management: nobody dares to do big changes. They had a linux based OS back in 2004 or something. But went on with Symbian and NOS, because nobody dared to declare that they should drop Symbian and focus on Linux. So they released a single phone (after 3 series of mini tablets) with their linux based os.

And tried polishing symbian. Which had a number of terrible design decisions at the core (which may or may not have been good ones 15 years ago, when they were introduced into EPOC, the ancestor of Symbian). And those decisions affected everyone who worked with it, both internal Nokia developers and external app developers. It made developing for Symbian a pain. It was natural, that iOS and android (and Windows) passed by.
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Java. I'm not passionate about it at all and if I can't find the motivation to learn it then I'm not going to use it. The great thing about C is it's practically universal.

And the fact that you had no UI library in the NDK (this might have changed since 2.3) meant I was going nowhere with that on that front.
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Isn't it competition that makes capitalism (and innovation) flourish?

I would agree that competition helps innovation to flourish. I'm not so sure about capitalism, because the word "capitalism" can mean different things. Concentrating resources in the hands of a few large corporations can be viewed as "capitalism"; that's how the robber barons in the late 19th century in the US viewed it.

There is also government interference involved (as you imply with your comment about regulations). For example, those same robber barons did not make their money through fair competition; they made it by getting the government to outlaw fair competition, for example by handing out exclusive rights to run railroads through various parts of the country. Similar remarks apply to some of the other examples you give--cable/internet companies, for example, are largely local government-granted monopolies. (Wireless carriers are too, to an extent--for example, Verizon has an exclusive deal to put repeaters in the Washington, DC Metro tunnels, so their phones can get a signal but nobody else's can. Result: lots more commuters have Verizon phones.)
Fun fact: the banning of leaded gasoline was one of the biggest regulatory successes in history, and went a long way to validate the model.

The use of leaded gasoline was a classic market failure. It saved a small number of companies a relatively small amount of money, but was on the net a huge negative for the overall economic because it basically pumped lead directly into the bloodstream of children through their lungs, making them dumber. It didn't really make anybody sick, though, and the ultimate impact was both difficult to quantify and valuate as well as impossible to trace to any particular manufacturers leaded gasoline in any individual case.

The effect of the regulation was direct. As the phaseout was implemented between the 70's to the 90's, culminating in the outright ban of leaded gasoline in the 90's, the blood lead levels in the American population dropped from 16 micrograms per deciliter in 1976 to to 3 micrograms per deciliter in 1991. This drop corresponded to the avoidance of a several point drop in IQ among children (one study found a 3.9 point drop as lead levels in children were increased from 2.4 ugrams/deciliter to 10 ugrams/deciliter).[1]

The regulation ended up costing the auto/gasoline industry billions of dollars to retool. However, researchers estimated that the avoided cost from dropping blood lead levels was $17.2 billion annually per 1 ugram/deciliter reduction.[2]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257652/

[2] http://www.unep.org/transport/pcfv/pdf/brochurelead.pdf
Here, in the NL, it takes me to www.hln.be. A news site that I until now had never heard of. Apparently it is so popular in Belgium that it bumps both Youtube (2nd) and Facebook (3rd) even in The Netherlands.
Microsoft's whining about Google's abuse of patents or monopoly in general is a pinnacle of hypocrisy. May be they should look at themselves first?
Here's an interesting take on the situation that postulates this as a possible veiled attack on same-sex marriage. It also states more clearly that it is, in fact, the state that is taking this action against the will of the child's adoptive mothers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/31/kansas-sperm-donor-to-s...

Heh, Fox News, of all sources.
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That is exactly what he is saying. They added KHTML to the user agent string to improve compatibility with servers, since Webkit was essentially KHTML anyway, not to try to hide the actual user agent. Internet Explorer is what they used when hiding the user agent.
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If he is trying to say that, then he has my sincere apologies, but it doesn't read like that, at least to me.

eg. he says "the names of other browser engines", not "the name of the browser engine our code was originally based on".

The "like Gecko" part is a bit of a red herring here and mostly irrelevant, as that is simply what KHTML/Konquerer used in its own UA ("KHTML, like Gecko").
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If they were worried about server admins correlating Apple's IP addresses with a new User-Agent string, the team could have VPN'd to a non-Apple network to access the web.
Yes, WebKit was based on KHTML and KJS. Even in the beginning, we made a few fundamental changes. Some of those were folded back in, but eventually those differences grew much, much larger.

There actually were some sites (in Europe, as I recall) that behaved a bit better when "KHTML" was in the user agent string.

I also included it as a nod to the original project. I wanted to show respect for the fine work of Lars Knoll and the other contributors.
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Notice how the orange button in the one with sharp edges is much uglier than the other one, although the green buttons improve?
Seems British English gets the male voice and this only happens to the US female voice.

To switch to the US voice, use this link:
http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en

After using that, I got the female voice and it "worked".
At the time, Microsoft's hegemony over the web browser market was at its peak. Firefox was the only real competitor. If web pages checked the user agent, they probably only accounted for these two browsers. Anything else fell back to legacy behavior, disabling DHTML (later called Web 2.0). This made Gmail suck.

KHTML had almost no market share - it only ran on KDE, and most KDE users used Firefox. Nothing recognized its user agent string, so reporting "KHTML" would have been as ineffectual as reporting "Safari" or "WebKit".
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The full quote is:

"That allowed me to tweak the string for maximum compatibility with the websites of that time. Which explains why the Safari user agent string has so much extra information in it, e.g. KHTML, like Gecko — the names of other browser engines."

I interpret that as KHTML and Gecko are names of other browser engines that are listed in Safari's user agent string for compatibility purposes.
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Nice. Reminds me of my Bubble Project concept from a couple of years ago. http://valentinlaube.de/projects/bubble%20project/

Edit: check out the interactive prototype on the bottom of the page
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v38. You'd not see it with v48.
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"At the time, Microsoft's hegemony over the web browser market was at its peak. Firefox was the only real competitor."

Actually at the time this is referencing Firefox didn't exist (Gecko did, but Firefox didn't). I'm well aware of the history and why browsers trick out their user agents. If you want to go one level deeper, look no further than the fact that IE still pretends to be Mozilla because of the early days when they were late to the party.
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