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Thanks for your response, I'll keep this brief but I want to correct a few apparent misconcetions.

>I am saying a MAC was not an identity to begin with //

That's not important. The person accessing the system realised that it was being used to enforce a per person limitation. They spoofed MAC in order to misidentify their access. That misidentification was it appears to acquire documents in an attempt to publish them against the will of the license holders.

I'm pro-copyright and patent as I genuinely believe that they are required to ensure proper compensation of authors/inventors. I use CC-BY primarily, which is facilitated by copyright.

However, what I'm absolutely against is copyright or patent terms that don't stimulate innovation or artistic creation. Terms should be no more than about 9 years for either.

>Turns out we want to monetize copying instead, so we are reducing individual freedoms and access rights. //

We need fair exchange. Producing copyright works costs just like producing food or goods. Unless you give food, drink, shelter, etc., free to artisans then you can't demand their work to be free. Quid pro quo.

I am absolutely sympathetic to the idea of releasing JSTOR data, indeed any and all scientific data, and applaud the apparent sentiment. But I'm not about to overlook the pretty obvious truth in order to promote that position - releasing JSTOR's data to the public would be a highly damaging commercial act. Morally justifiable IMO but certainly against the law. So, was aaronsw guilty, it appears certain from what I've read of the case that he was.

>but looking onto a property (a physical computer) is not a crime //

Fixing an image from a private property is in many jurisdictions (not sure on USA, most likely it's situationally variable).

You're creating a false equivalence in any case, having your IP address is looking at your property from afar, logging in to your SSH and taking your files is picking the lock (or swinging the gate open) and walking in and taking something.

Which brings us back to authorised. Unauthorised is "not authorised", that may seem pedantic truism but it moves towards the next point. Just because my door is wide open doesn't mean you have the right to access my house, you are authorised by active assent not by failure to prevent access. Running sshd with a weak password doesn't mean I'm authorised to access your computer, I'm clearly not authorised, I could perhaps run an exploit on it or brute-force it but that doesn't make me authorised to access it.

If you truly hold the position you're espousing then presumably if someone takes money from you you'd consider it "authorised" because you failed to prevent them?
mid 50s? mid 30s with kids already makes it look problematic.
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Biased or not, the OS/platform arguments always need a context. I agree that Linux/Unix is better for me but I would not uninstall my mother's copy of Windows 8 and slap Ubuntu on there. The stability, flexibility, etc. actually feels like overhead when you don't need it to be there. The same thing goes for iOS vs. Android, in my opinion. It's not even a matter of saying "oh well let's just dumb down the interface and call it friendly."

In my experience, the heuristic I use for any device is "how much obstacle is there between me and what I want to get done?" If I want to run some development VM's or do full-stack web programming, I would hands down choose OSX or Linux because of their native support for that kind of stuff. If I wanted to log in to a computer, get a quick survey of pending emails, messages, and other generic consumer content, I have to say that Windows 8 did a decent job of delivering that kind of experience.

Sure, there aren't many viruses for Linux or OSX but it's partly because the writers of the viruses have a statistically better opportunity right now to target Windows. There have been plenty of OSX and cross-platform exploits. Most of the famous hacking stories are a person getting a rootkit to let the ssh into a backdoor on some Linux webserver.

As in most things, context matters.
Although a lot of things were "not quite novel" in those times (as are not nowadays), there were a lot of improvement and development to be done around them (something valid today, too).
I think this is inspiring in the sense that being in India, and a startup, it's actually a dream to hack your way into CES. With no direct connections or a million dollar funding this is good to know the amount of hard work that has been put in. Best of luck!
There's something to "live like no one else so later you can live like no one else" though. This is pretty much "live like no one else for the rest of your life". I mean..wouldn't you rather work a little longer so you can increase your lifestyle in retirement?
Ramit Sethi's advice on this really rang true with me "Stop saving on lattes, that doesn't matter, negotiate a $5k+ per year pay increase instead"
If you're interested in the work being done to understand Indus script, Rajesh Rao delivered a TED talk with plenty of machine learning goodness:

http://www.ted.com/talks/rajesh_rao_computing_a_rosetta_ston...
And I get 21 HD TV channels over-the-air for free!

Now let me tell you about my couponing...
Well not as far as I can tell. We thought it was quiet original.
While I agree that keeping worrying about $4 latte is wrong, I disagree that getting rid of cable or some other entertainment is hard. It is hard if it is part of your daily routine or is habit. So to make it work (and stop worrying about spending or not $4 for latte) you need to re-adjust process of your life. Once everything will fit naturally into your daily routine - you will not get stressed about it anymore.

But I agree - if you can't fit cut into your routine - stressing about it worse than not saving extra few percents.

And yeah - negotiating $5k increase is first thing you need to tackle, and only once it is done - proceed with the rest probably :)
Is your software too big to fail?
Be working during the relatively high inflation of the 80s (wages lead inflation), retire during the record low rates of 00s so you're money stretches further/longer is definitely a nicer story then the other way around...
You can raise your lifestyle over time.

Given the hedonic treadmill, you are more likely to feel happiness from any increase in your standard of living, but you reset to your prior level of happiness. So make your bumps in standard of living as small as possible.
Did I say anything about cost?
> The reason it fails is because it ignores basic psychology.

What about economics, it assumes that you have a return of 5% over inflation on your investment. Is this really a good assumption?

According to this link(http://home.earthlink.net/~intelligentbear/com-dj-infl.htm) the annual Dow Jones return adjusted for inflation and after taxes is more like 1.1%.
The suggestion that I could, living in New York, both live off of half of my take home pay and retire early based on the amount I'd have in the bank after 16 years of doing so, is completely absurd
Xerox made an IP deal with Jobs. Gates didn't do the same with Jobs/Apple until later after a settlement (not that I think he needed to).
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As a full-time student and husband-to-be, finding time in the midst my other priorities. Make sure you carve out time to work or it'll never happen.
I think it already works that way.
Linkbait junk.
There's also an argument that relaxation and consumerism breeds motivation.

Relaxation: I work better during the week if I've had a relaxed weekend. Working better leads to a greater likelihood of promotion and thus more income. Also I'm more likely to job hunt if I feel confident about myself. That positive psyche comes from positive environment and often that means having relaxation time at home.

Consumerism: The very reason I got my first job was because I wanted to buy a Dreamcast. When I wanted a house, I changed to a better paid job. Then I wanted nicer things for my house and a car, so I asked for a pay rise. Sometimes greed can be a positive force (if channelled appropriately).
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this is never going to happen.... its too fucking profitable to have someone pulling 40,000 dollars of medications for 40 years, that is largely government subsidized vs. a one time 10,000 dollar fix. i mean yall realize how outstandingly different those two numbers are right? 40,000 * 40 = 1.6 million dollars in government subsidized money PER person... vs 10,000.... the former is literally 16 times more profitable... no way these industries back off that business model. ( i realize im just guessing at what a one time gene therapy fix would have to reasonably cost, but you could double it or triple it, quintuple it and its still significantly less profitable than the former. )
>If you save a reasonable percentage of your take-home pay, like 50%, and live on the remaining 50%, you’ll be Ready to Rock (aka “financially independent”) in a reasonable number of years – about 16 according to this chart

In what universe is saving half your paycheck a reasonable percentage?
Its a very sycophantic article that gives Apple far too much credit. No "genius" strategy was involved it was just fortunate (for Apple) that they could acquire the remnants of Color for such a low price.
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Thank you for pointing out the hard-work and persistence part. I had to do day and nighters to pull this one.

IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word. Your comment is well-taken.
He's using US stock market data for his argument. The US stock market over the last 100 years has been an obvious outlier. In that time the US grew from a small fraction of the world economy to dominating it.

If you want to make this argument, you have to use global stock market data.

Personally, I use 2% after inflation for my calculations, and consider that to be optimistic. There are lots of examples of stock markets returning less than inflation over long term periods.
Exactly. I was going to post exactly that, but your post resonates with me...

And of course your nickname is "pragmatic".

: )
Am I the only one that feels like I'd rather be making money and enjoying myself at the same time, rather than stressing out about putting 50% of my income towards retirement?
I finally shipped it! PennyPincher2 is a complete rewrite of an app I've had sitting on the app store for a while. A blog post is forthcoming, but the idea is the same, but I have completely changed the interface from a tab-based design (old and moldy) to a new design centered around an almost full-screen map.
It comes to a balance. Yeah, if you spend - you help economy. But if we all end up in dept - it will crash economy too. So savings should be reasonable. That's what in theory government should regulate.
"Forget about viruses" - sounds like an Apple commercial. What an archaic way of thinking.
What was being "hung over his head" was 7 years in prison.

I still find 7 years offensive, but we need to understand the basic facts:

- 6 months is what he would get with plea bargain

- 6-7 years is what he would get if he went to trial and lost

- 35 years was what was in press releases to deter other people from committing the crime
I've seen LOTR, and I read the book (at an appropriate age too haha). I "know" The Hobbit is no less pompous and derpificated a conversion. Just looking at still images of it is enough for me. The good guys are good looking, the bad guys are ugly, music tells you what to feel every step along of the way, all of that crap; I know it, and I don't see anyone denying it. So I'm simply trusting my intuition on this, you know?

How much shovelware do I have to take before I am allowed to skip one? I don't even think Tolkien was the greatest author ever (there's just so much random stuff in LOTR for example), but for me there is bounds and leaps more humanity in one of any of those books than in all LOTR movies combined; so unless I missed the dude remarking that LOTR was horrible, and that he is making The Hobbit differently to make up for it, I know that for me this thing is going to be neither subtle, nor beautiful. I just didn't want to point all of this out in detail because it makes me seem like such a snob, I'll take the "troll" thanks. If this stuff is fine art for you, I'll be rolling in the dirt having fun.
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I prefer sans-serif too.

I feel like it's easier to recognise simple shapes than shapes with lots of extra lines distracting the eye. But that could just be rationalisation for a learned preference.

Reading is quite a recent development in evolutionary terms - the first evidence of writing is from about 10k years ago. I wonder if different people might learn to do it using different neural mechanisms, some of them helped by serifs and others hindered.
Flight prices change really fast so its possible the flight price actually changed in the time they checked for the deal and the time you clicked through
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Except that in this case, you can still use the package.
No, the plan is to save money but not make too much assumptions on how far it will get you, and most importantly not make any decisions that make you completely dependant on your investment returns.
I believe it will always comes down to context. Some people love pixel fonts (like Silkscreen), but they generally don't have a place in larger sizes or on paper. Likewise, browsers handling serifs' mix of thick and thin line weights can lead to unwanted results. When all of the lines are the same weight, you run into less problems with individual letters. That said, they can have a complete lack of personality. I rather prefer a hybrid typeface like the one Portland's TriMet uses - http://portlandafoot.org/documents/IdTrimetCasestudy.pdf (on the headers of the print pieces and the words "Trip Center" in the signage on page 3).
Hmmm....

> Strings are the most common and fundamental form of handling text in software. Logically, and often physically, they contain contiguous arrays (vectors) of basic units. Most of the ICU API functions work directly with simple strings, and where possible, this is preferred.

Nope.

Though the UText API was promising... unfortunately, it is totally incomplete.
Thank you. CES was a dream come true!
It's a lot easier to blame a defendants suicide on his mental state than on your prosecution.

Aarons parents are under no obligation to acknowledge their sons mental state because he has acknowledged so himself in lots of places. That does not mean that this absolves everybody else from blame.
Here's a secret: they continue to use email marketing because it works.
Sadly there is no idTech5 or UT3 engine on Linux and AFAIK there are no plans to port them.
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Thank you. Glad you liked the video.
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I read stuff from both of them and they both have good stuff. MMM says that your marginal utility from a salary somewhere above $100,000 is ridiculous and Ramit disagrees. MMM actually did a case study post on how saving was more effective than salary increases: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/11/14/doubling-your-sala...
The genius here was Bill Nguyen turning a failing company and a pittance $11mm offer from one failing company (Nokia) into an $80-160mm buyout from a real company (Apple), essentially though hustle alone.

But it's zero-sum genius. I can respect him for being good at playing a specific game, but it's not a game I want to play myself.
and smart cards cannot be hacked! oh wait...
http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security...

i guess we need 3 factor authentication, yeah, that's the ticket!
It's not discontinued. Jacob started up again, so if anybody wants to switch back to ERE, go for it.
Reminds me of a great article I saw posted on HN a few months ago. I wish I could remember where it was, but it basically said "You'll never get anywhere by skipping coffee and bringing lunch to work, focus on the big gains like increasing your salary by 30% instead".

The frugal lifestyle BS most likely does more harm than good for the average person. People shouldn't be sacrificing quality of life because they're worried about nickels and dimes, especially not in retirement.
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He has another article where he mentions that since he refused to remove the word "badassity" from his blog, the credit card companies revoked his affiliate agreement, costing him something like 800 dollars a month in blog revenues. But apparently this wasn't a big deal.
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Not to mention databases with thousands of user details. Desktops will have -if you're lucky- just a households worth of data, and even then you'd have to probe for that.
I used to think this, but I found the latest version of TouchWiz to be quite enjoyable.
A slap on the wrist plus a lot of debt, for him and possibly also other members of his family...
Aaron knew it wasn't 35 years. Aaron's own lawyers have said it was 6-7 years.

Yes, I think 6-7 years is still too much, but you aren't helping anything by telling everyone something that isn't true, i.e., Aaron thought he would face 35 years in jail if he lost.

35 years is absolutely what Ortiz said -- to the public. Ortiz also wants to discourage other people.
Oh please. There is fantasy land and then there is reality. Press releases are not guns. White-collar criminals do not die resisting arrest. And internet bullies like Torvalds cause way more suicides than prosecutors like Ortiz.
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I don't understand.

They bought Lala. The sought-after employees left even after being offered a $80M golden leash.

They were bought again with Color. What stops these employees from leaving again, with a much less lucrative golden leash this time around?
Damn man, I've been averaging every 6 years... I'd say I won't do that anymore (it sucked in the past, though clearly not enough to annoy me into purchase), but it actually seems easier to do that these days without missing out on all the games. 6 is still pushing it though, but 4 is very doable, barring another shader-engine-arms-race type of situation (I'm two years in and not feeling any obsolescence).

If it's your hobby though......
Great stuff. That is some amazing social engineering at work, right there :)
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Of course people can change their lifestyle. I have no doubt that MMM and the extreme early retirement guy, and some of the devotees of those blogs, have done exactly that.

That doesn't mean extreme frugality is the first thing people should focus on though. People have limited willpower. Using it to cut out $20/week worth of lattes or $100/month worth of cable just isn't the best use of it, unless you've already covered the more important things. As I've tried to illustrate above, focusing on the wrong things (and failing), can be very counter-productive. Personally, I think your limited willpower is almost always better spent adding to or honing the skills that will allow you to produce more.
What remains to be seen though is if what any of those employees produce for Apple is worth anything near either price.
In the blog author's. He makes a pretty compelling case for it - I recommend reading through more of the blog.
Yours is a very pessimistic view. You have no faith in your fellow human beings. There are a lot of smart enough people out there with sufficient will power to make these changes in their life if only they have the education and awareness of the opportunities. Sometimes all it takes is seeing the impact these changes have.

One of the best quotes I have seen about finances is this:

Poor people spend what they have and invest the rest.
Rich people invest what they have and spend the rest.

I've unwittingly been following this advice for a long time. When I save up enough money, I buy a HOUSE. An entire house I'm not just talking down payment. I have 5 houses now. I rent them out. I flip them. I live in them. Did you know you can buy an entire house for less than $5,000? A lot of people don't. I think those that buy houses retail or rent are silly. You think people who try to convince others that giving up coffee works are silly. To each his own. Why buy stocks and bonds when you can buy a house that pays $500/mo rent on a $5000 purchase?

Most people think I'm insane when I say that kind of thing, but it happens and it works. It takes experience, research, and time. It takes dedication and will. Strength of character and determination. Those are the characteristics that are lacking in our population right now and unfortunately those things aren't being taught. Those are the things needed to launch a startup, build wealth, and pay off credit card debt. They are also what is needed to give up coffee at Starbucks, so start with the coffee and you'll build better people for the long run -- that's what's important.

> There's no medium ever invented that does this better than television.

I internet is better for me, but I get your point.

> They want coffee, and buying one at the starbucks next
> to work is a lot easier and tastier than brewing it
> yourself.

If Starbucks is tastier and easier than your home brew, you're doing it wrong.

> automate your finances

If you think automating your finances is easier than not getting a coffee at starbucks -- well, I disagree entirely. Most people can't even balance a checkbook.

> purchase the bond/equity ratios that suit your age

Really? These are advanced investment concepts and it takes a lot of education to get there. Start first with not spending more than you make. I think that's the point of the article. Once you manage that, then start thinking about where to invest. You're putting the cart before the horse.

All these concepts can and are being learned by people all over the world. It just takes time. You have to crawl before you walk. Crawling out of the hole of debt is the first move. If you keep spending at starbucks and paying 20% interest while you're trying to get 6% on bonds (if you're lucky) then you're still losing money. The secret to building wealth is first and foremost to stop losing money.
How open do they need to be?
I've been involved in publishing too (LaTeX, QuarkXPress) and...

It is a fact that for short texts (eg titles) Sans-Serif is actually much easier to read. Studies have been conducted: this is precisely the reason city names and exit names on the highways are using sans-serif. Security (and lifes) are at work here: not just reading speed. The last thing you want is people reading Serif on the highways, being distracted by all the fancy curves, and realizing too late it's their exit and suddenly switching lanes in a hurry and hence potentially causing accidents.

But for long strectches of text, like inside books? I don't know. My take on it is that basically the reading speed is the same but that Serif looks nicer from a typographical standpoint. There's hardly anything that beats the beauty of the ligature of a Serif font between a 'f' and an 'i' (i.e. when the dot of the 'i' is connected to the 'f').

I do prefer: sans-serif for everything except serif for printed medium, where the resolution is at least 600 dpi (no, retina ain't close enough yet).

So, yes, for printed books I still prefer Serif.

As a side note: this effectively means I cannot yet get a PDF which I find pleasant to read both on screen and printed.

And of course I configure my browser to use sans-serif fonts instead of serif fonts wherever possible.

P.S: as to my coding / shell font(s)... Pixel perfect fonts of course. Like the Proggy family or the Terminus family. I hate being distracted by the blurriness of anti-aliasing / sub-pixel anti-aliasing (RGB decimation). But I've got a very good eyesight.