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Well, we're talking about Europe here, and the rationale underlying continental European copyright is not the same as that for British/US copyright.

Continental European copyright (which generally is not called "copyright", but some variation on "author's right", such as "droit d'auteur") assumes that authors have a natural, personal, inalienable right in their creations (following Kant and Beaumarchais) because each creative work embodies part of the author's personality.

In short: the continental European model treats copyright as a right, not as a privilege.

Whether that right encourages people to produce new works is absolutely irrelevant under that theory; its goal is to protect authors, not to incentivize creation. Note, for example, that under French law, moral rights are indeed perpetual, lasting forever (which does create the occasional problem for museums).
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I try to do the same thing in lectures. Unless I'm late or the lecturer is a particularly fast talker, I can usually process the information to the point where I'm writing my current understanding in my own words. Much better for me than taking dictation for an hour.
One day my daughter will ask me how we tolerated this
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This gets posted in every topic about qr codes but no one can deny they are popular in Japan.
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This story is 9 months old, it was first on local news (with the same source from the same police department):

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/03/14/tide-detergent-beco...

and again:

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/03/23/prince-georges-coun...

Then extended as a feature in The Daily later that month:

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/12/031212-news-tide-the...

Which lead it to becoming a subject on Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/tide.asp

It seems that the writer at NYMag hit his word count by extending the background on the brand, since he had a ready source available with the marketing/PR department at Procter. I think this could have been more interesting if it went into the direction of exploring the economics at work.
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A > B is the only thing that matters. Anything else is bullshit that you can't trust and still have to read the patch notes for anyway.
It's above current-gen console prices, but next-gen consoles will probably be around $600.
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No, the developers I know are working for large companies.

Some of my disconnect may be due to where I live. My peers may also be relatively inexperienced, so maybe these salaries aren't nuts. I just wish I knew these numbers before I took my last couple of jobs!
Harder to enter on a touchscreen. There's no reason they can't coexist...
IRC Has Lost 60% Of Its Users Since 2003, But Life As A Robot Is Just Beginning
Brilliant comment below the article:
http://allthingsd.com/20130107/hi-im-from-the-government-and...
If you control the Wifi setup you can see the traffic passing through it, easy way to pick up ideas if a developer happens to be working on a project using it. Not saying that Google would do this, but they have done this in the past with streetview cars picking up and listening in on unprotected public Wifi connections
I'm not sure what is referred to by "lossless" rotation in the case of axis-aligned orientation. I can't see how you can do a lossy rotation.
Fantastic plugin, shall be using this in my next project
"Learning how to sell deliberately."

Easier said than done. It can be hard to not get distracted by "the next big thing". Especially when the last big thing isn't doing too well. I once read that it's 20% initial effort and 80% testing and optimizing.

Great read!
Not just that, but there was a self-help page for self-registering your own account (the first screenshot):

> It seems that Facebook was trying to avoid the creation of accounts in Accellion after removing the register form from the pageview

> I discovered that if you know the direct location of the form (/courier/web/1000@/wmReg.html), You can easily bypass that protection and create an account in files.fb.com,

Once he created his own accounts, he could test out his exploit code on his created accounts.
" and those standards to a lot of good in terms of setting best-practices and documenting procedures than can result in repeatable, robust results."

No

Especially the more closed/monetized ones.

Good standards are open and developed together with an implementation of it.

And don't get me started on HL7
Because of math, the JPEG format does support lossless rotation, as long as the dimensions of the image are multiples of 16 pixels (or 8 depending on the file). But this requires working directly with the JPEG image data, so a package like ImageMagick that reads a formatted file into a pixel buffer, then transforms it and writes it from that buffer to a new formatted file can't support the feature.
Quick design comment: I like the clean look, but I find the home page a bit long (i.e., a lot of scrolling is required), even if that's the style these days. Best wishes with your project. I look forward to updates. Cheers.
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>Seems like I'm in the minority on this, but I'm always amazed by the rage some people have for other people using the courts to redress wrongs. Call me naive, but the U.S. justice system is for all Americans, not just for the rich and powerful.

The trouble is that the court system has ceased to be a forum in which it is cost-effective to obtain justice for ordinary people. If you're a small business, anyone can file a lawsuit against you for millions of dollars using lawyers working for "free" on contingency that they get a large chunk of the judgment if they win, and the cost of defending against that lawsuit in court even if it's totally without merit is enough to bankrupt the large majority of small businesses. Which converts the primary consequence of filing a lawsuit from "redress grievances" to "impose large unrecoverable costs on ultimately victorious defendants" and makes unjust settlement of specious claims the norm since it costs less than fighting them.

That said, the jackass in this particular instance got only a part of what was coming to him and no one should have any sympathy for him.
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You have to give more specific details (country/state,marital status etc.) before a reasonable answer can be provided. But to give you a general idea, being self employed in the US can cost anywhere from $100-$1000 per month depending on how kind of insurance you need/want with deductibles, co-insurance limits, out of pocket expenses, in-network vs. out-network etc.

If you want to do some comparisons for US, try http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/

In my case, I use my wife's health insurance from her job and don't bother buying it myself.If I had to, it would probably cost me at least $500 per month.
It is a digital world and the Internet is our drug
"I’m doing some research into software used by ________. Just curious, is there any software you’ve been looking for?..."

I think you would be surprised at how many people get confused by "software." I've received answers like "Safari" to this same exact question.

Just a thought, but instead of focusing on providing another piece of software (and phrasing it that way), look to provide business value. I know that's your end result, but I would present it that way from the first interaction.

Also, when you've picked the market/client base you want, I highly recommend seeing if you can visit the business for a day or two (if you can find time.) There's nothing better than immersing yourself...it will lead to better insight.
Can we make changes? I have submitted, but would like to amend my resume to include some of my relevant side projects.
Do you have any examples of someone further explaining what you are suggesting? Or if you have time, can you further elaborate on this point? I glanced at the nounce article on wikipedia and if I understand correctly you are suggesting:

1) user creates account (which generates nounce)

2) when password resetting via email auth via nounce.

3) when password is reset regen nounce

Is that right? Just trying to better understand what appears to be a good approach to password resets.
Ideas, execution, problems, audience....

They are all part of the same thing.

You can choose to be the gold digger or the merchant. It doesn't matter. One is filled with risk but great fortune. The other is more secure but the prospects of making it big are much less.
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YES !
Beside the fact that ask for uploading a resume is not a good move. Resume can be very quickly outdated, why not asking to link a linkedin account instead ?
It only encodes orientations that result from rotation around the axis perpendicular to the line of sight (in other words, the rotations that can be reversed by display software). Parent was asking about the orientation with camera above the subject pointing directly down. I don't think EXIF can encode that -- there's no reason to, since display software has no way to reverse it.
3 full reads of a book? That's highly inefficient, and it probably becomes very boring (at least for me -- but that might be my ADHD).
Definitely. If I drink more than a cup of coffee (admittedly, coffee here is strong stuff) per day, I would get anxious, derpy, and a little physically dependent. I restrict my caffeine to one cup of coffee per day and one or two cups of tea in the afternoon for just that reason.
Seems some technology inspires development thereof, but few are interested in using it. Fun to create, boring to use.

I've an itch to put a QR code on my business card. Having no illusions that anyone will in fact care enough to scan it or be wowed by the results if they do, I've refrained.

Momentum strikes me as a big issue. Not just the effort which goes into using it (dig out phone, fire up app, position camera, read results), but the average payoff in doing so (as adjacent post notes, QR codes give a consistent "so what? WTF did I waste my time for?" experience).
Sorry, meant the image off the image processor, which has already processed the raw data into a grid of RGB.
I remember a woman - Austrian? - who sold suicide kits that contained something people were to inhale.

I don't know whatever happened to her or that story, but I am sure she's not the only one in the "market".

Enabling people who want to harm themselves is probably more dangerous than this. The superlative makes this article a little bombastic to read.
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Ubuntu phones are DOA. Whatever they promise us now will not be what potential customers expect from a smartphone in six months, let alone a year+. The mobile market changes at such an insane rate. They have an incredible amount of ground to cover, deals to make, and markets to enter if they expect to get any ROI at all.
Then I expect the average developer could get a big bump in salary working for an SF company.

But it's not a free lunch: cost of living is high here and some things like commuting are terrible. I know developers who moved back to Minnesota so they could waste less of their lives in their cars.

Hence the appeal of "work from Ohio". 100% remote seems to be an ever more realistic option, but I expect it's still harder to find work, although work is so easy to find this may not matter much. A bigger issue may be finding a 100% remote job at a company with a remote culture. Working remotely with a company whose culture is centred around an office can be an exercise in a thousand little tediums.

The different social dynamics of working remotely can be a challenge as well.

I feel as though my post reads a bit like "don't try to work for an SF company", but that's not really my intent. I mean more to convey that the pitchbox salaries are perfectly real, but it's not too good to be true. Moving to SF to work, or working remotely are options, but salary isn't everything and these choices won't be right for everyone.
Iran Reportedly Developing 'Intelligent Software' to Control Social Media Access
They are using it to make sure the value doesn't interfere with the syntax of HTTP headers, i.e. for escaping, not for encryption. That's exactly what base64 is for. They simply have no encryption at all.
I don't see where on the Vert.x site that it mentions that it's "VMware's IP". I wonder if TM's will soon start popping up everywhere now that corporate lawyers are owning it.

This is disconcerting to anyone who considers the personal project leadership when deciding what open source projects they're going to use in their stack.

How do we know this won't happen to, say, Python now that GvR has left Google for Python? Google certainly seems to be more clueful than EMC/VMware, but how do we know?
I very much doubt that this is Valve's "official" steam box offering. This article is a bit more sensational than others' that have been posted on the subject today.
I hope this guy crawls into a dark hole and never emerges to start another company.
Right, but when you look through your photos laters, it has to transform them so up is up on the display.
Is there any reason for copyrights so long? I see what labels gain from it, but I guess the politicians approving these must have argued it to the public somehow. Or did they just say that the labels want this law so they will implement it?

I can't see any reason in it. The 50 years was way too long anyways.
Google expects to be making money off of this somehow. They are willing to go pretty indirect routes to make their money sometimes, like offering android for free in the hopes of driving web search. But the added revenue from search in a place already as connected as Chelsea seems like it would be pretty tiny to me.

So if they are doing this to eventually make money (and not as some sort of brand building, "look at us we're so generous" exercise) I can only imagine that they believe the data they will collect from that network will be more valuable than its cost.

There are ways to collect metrics from that sort of a network that don't freak me out. But wiring up a place of that size still sounds expensive to me (though that's admittedly just a guess). The data they collect feels like it would have to be pretty valuable to make up for it, and one sort of data that would fit the bill would be the sort of location based data you could collect from wifi. By triangulating signals using multiple routers , it wouldn't surprise me if they could get a pretty good guess as to which apartment that laptop is in. And that sort of data collection really does scare me.

Of course, there are more harmless sorts of metrics they could be collecting. And my shaky chain of reasoning based on a random tech crunch story could definitely be off. So I'm less saying this is what they're doing than there is the possibility that this is what they're doing. Please take it with a grain of salt.
s/VMWare/VMware/g;
<rant>

For reasons unknown to me, intro-level books for programming languages stopped including exercises. K&R had exercises, SICP had exercises, Dragon Book had exercises. Clojure in Action, Clojure programming, Joy of Clojure, Programming Erlang — none of those have any. What happened? Are they trying to conserve space?

</rant>
Certainly!
Here are stats from the London's bus timetable QR
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/01/real-qr-statistics-from-tfl/
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/04/tfl-qr-followup-5000-scans-p...

Here are stats from Tesco (large UK retailer)
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/10/no-one-scans-qr-codes-apart-...

Finally, some QR stats from the back of a train ticket.
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/12/no-one-scans-qr-codes-apart-...

So, in the UK at least, well designed QR codes get a significant response from "normal" people.
I can't afford it is a choice
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Stand up comedy. As a business school graduate, I can say that there aren't enough courses doing speaking. I'm signing up for an improv course next month so that I can get better.
This is why the concepts of startups typically rubs me the wrong way. You get a guy with some technical expertise and a plan to make money. It's not that good of an idea, and it has many negative effects on people that will never know who he or his company is. Then when he experiences the reasonable backlash for his idea, he blames everyone and everything except himself and his stupid idea. Yeah, it's the government's fault that they're not going to let you siphon money out of a public resource.

What's next, the government preventing me from damming the Hudson River and charging boats $1000 to go through my locks? Why must the government stand in the way of me getting money by screwing the rest of society over? Why must they only support businesses that add value to society? The system is rigged and everyone is out to get me.

Uh huh. The government is the bad guy...
At this late stage in the game, learning a new language for me is a matter of deciding on a project and building it while keeping some appropriate reference at hand. If I read a book linearly at all it's to read just enough to get the "Hello, World" going.

BTW, it doesn't take very long to become usefully productive in a language. When I hire developers who've never worked with a language before I budget 6 weeks for them to start being productive and 6 months until they're truly proficient.

Because of that, I place a higher premium on their raw talent and level of interest in the platform and type of work we have than on the particular stack they're already familiar with.
No real need to elaborate on this, as it's the correct advice.

Valid reasons for leaving college to go into software development include having build an app/site/open-source-thing that's exploding to the point where you've demonstrated beyond a doubt that you're good at this stuff and therefore don't need a piece of paper from a 3rd party saying as much. It doesn't sound like you (original poster) have done that yet.

The quick test is this: Has Twitter offered you six figures to come work for them? If not, then no, you don't get to skip college yet. Stick it out until that happens, then go. Otherwise all you're doing is stacking the deck against yourself.

And in the meantime, try a bit harder to enjoy your time at university. Forty-year-old you will probably look back at it as one of the best parts of your life.
Programmers who committed suicide
Google Goggles scans QR codes and it came installed on my Android phone.
Reading through, Nathan wasn't expecting any realistic answers to this question. It was just an ice breaker to establish contact for the follow up call.

As to your last paragraph; this is solid advice. I've picked up a few software ideas by viewing businesses "in action" and observing the pain points.
They've released the stuff their obliged to release under the GPL, that's not the problem. However they also promised to release more, and now apparently have no intention on following up on that promise.
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I would argue that even if it was true, it isn't an easy and practical solution, given the fear of budget deficits and spending that has infected Congress - hiring more federal employees isn't always the easiest sell.

So for the article to suggest that there is such a simple solution to this problem that the government is too stupid to overlook seems quite incorrect.
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MS is a dangerous bed-mate.

Nokia can market and build a brand on, say, Lumias, rather than the OS.

A Nokia made Android phone will make a whole lot of people happy and will generate a huge demand.
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I think vert.x looks pretty cool and was just about to try it out before this. I'm doing some work that requires a neat Java based NIO web server. I've done a lot of work on top of Netty directly but vert.x looks like a nice higher level abstraction (e.g. routing etc.).

nodejs is great but having the JVM and it's vast set of libraries is pretty compelling.
They also have the same mandate as the board of any other publicly traded company: maximize value for the shareholders.

This is wrong.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...
Showing up correctly on Mobile Safari on iPad.
As others have pointed out, I meant that there is a generic QR scanner for every phone. I didn't need to download the "Condiment Scanner" which was incompatible with "Heinz Scanner" etc.

Interestingly, Windows Phone has a QR scanner built in to its visual search tool which is pre-installed with every device. Some Android phones have it installed. ISTR that BlackBerry comes with a scanner pre-loaded as part of BBM - but I haven't checked.
The retina support is really welcome.

Up until now, using firefox on a retina mac was kind of disappointing.
I expect location matters more. Even here, the salary difference between working in SF and only slightly further north can be $30-$50k for comparable jobs.
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> Imo if I am paying for the course then it shouldn't be boring as such.

Says who? That's like saying that just because you pay for a gym membership it shouldn't be tiring to run on a treadmill.
Also it bears noting that the Department of Commerce has somewhat more responsibility for the DNS system than simply regulating it...
My programming II professor would always tell us to step away from the keyboard/monitor, and physically write out a source file x times to help learn a language. There is definitely something to this process that helps language syntax piece itself together in the brain. Probably because it's similar to the process we use to practice writing and reading our human languages.
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Samsung makes Android phones?
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The salt packet is cute, but I don't think QR codes can go small enough to dominate this area for long.

There are inherent limitations: http://www.qrstuff.com/blog/2011/11/23/qr-code-minimum-size
Are you seriously suggesting wikipedia becomes a single page app?

No really, I realize you say that server refreshes work for wikipedia, but you really seem to be suggesting that all websites should be single page apps.
Go back to uni - you've just put yourself at a massive disadvantage compared to everyone who successfully graduates.

If you absolutely do not want to do that, then you need to create something that makes a ton of money. I'd get started now if I were you.
. . . and is still super, super fun to work on.
Wow, neat idea and nice looking web page. One comment comes to mind: Think about applying to school and getting in first (that what I recommend, in fact). You will then find a place to stay even if you have to do it after you arrive in Cali for school. Sure, you might have to work out a temporary solution, such as crashing on a couch or short-term rental, but being on the ground and meeting people and seeing places will be best, IMHO. That's how I've done it and that's how thousands of students do it. I did it myself like that when I was a student and I've hosted multiple students in my home now that I am in a position to do that. Have fun and best wishes! Cheers :)
Wow I guess your what they call a "sucker"