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According to Microsoft’s own “Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems”,[0] on non-ARM systems it is obligatory to offer the ability to disable Secure Boot:

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18. Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.

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0. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/jj1...
I know the rule is in S94A, but that's the section that governs actually applying to be placed on the roll, which is not relevant to running for election.

The place that rule isn't is in S93, which is the relevant section.
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Just disabling the driver doesn't seem like the ultimate solution... Have they even identified the problem itself? Why aren't they just fixing it? Is it on the hardware site or in the driver software? They should fix that.
Nice read, well written but it won't work.

Just like many self-help articles or books - the article mistakes consequences for causes and tries to guide the person to eliminate destructive consequences, without even looking or touching the causes.

Addictions is a mind reaction to avoid pain. In many cases it's an inner emotional pain alike feelings of guilt, worthlessness, desperation or depression.
Addictive substance or destructive habit is nothing more than a painkiller - the only way mind know how to avoid feeling or reducing pain.

The real cure is not "replacing your destructive behavior with something better.".

If the real cause of addiction - the inner pain is not taken care of - the addiction returns in different shape, form, habit or substance.

THe real solution is steering mind to look at the pain directly, observe it, feel it, see it for what it really is and let it be dissolved with the light of your consciousness.

Addiction starts with pain and ends with pain, or more precise it ends when pain is observed directly, without mind interference.
I'm not typically one to have artistic considerations ahead of business, but...

It hurt to know that one of the leads from the sci-fi strategy epic 'Alpha Centauri' was working at the place that made Farmville - a known sucker-magnet. It must have been soul-destroying.

Good luck to him.
Companies (and their regulators) have frequently been shamed into doing what they should have in the first place by independent critics. Nader and automobiles as previously detailed, Rachel Carson and Silent Spring (ultimately resulting in the Clean Air and Clean Water acts and the EPA, created by Republican president Richard Nixon). Upton Sinclair and food processing.

Wikipedia's Whistleblower article notes a few other interesting cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers
It would actually be easier for the USA to extradite Assange from the UK than from Sweden. Extraditions under European Arrest Warrants are governed by a EU Council document which gives the veto powers to prevent re-extradition while proceedings are underway.
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Do enlighten.
Fuel price calculator: How much do you pay?
Need a dedicated maintainer for node-redis. May be you can help?
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Considering all the titles he worked on were verbatim copies of other IP's I think his loss won't be noticed that much.
A Bad Robot in a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Just because the "artistic" values of those two games differ doesn't mean working on FarmVille was "soul destroying".

FarmVille is a game with hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, with a constraint to make as much money as possible and keep current users coming back, and with fierce competition. Sounds like an interesting space to be in.
I was about to pick one of these laptops up late last year until I happened to stumble across that very bug report myself:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557?comme... Everyone seems to have it working fine with UEFI disabled, and several people have noted the vendor or Samsung has provided a replacement in the cases where it was bricked.

At least in their darkest hours, Linux users can still put on a smile:

"[...] they changed the motherboard and it's working again now. I won't try to install Ubuntu again though. The whole process took about 2 weeks."
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This again? This debate surfaces every other month and the arguments are always the same. Basically, it all comes down to the job and the person. In big organizations, sometimes designers can get away with only being Photoshop people. In smaller firms, designers have to be more flexible and should be expected to implement their own designs.

Also, when did HTML and CSS become "code?" These are markup and style languages and are the very basic building block of the web. If you design for the web, you should be able to implement those designs in HTML and CSS. I wouldn't, however, expect that same designer to build out the Rails backend.
Ha, well I'm not in a tight spot, I just want to write some jQuery plugins. They will all be open sourced on github of course.
Did these seem to think that the o-rings were made of an explosive material, or did they seem to be worried that by selling o-rings the store was somehow enabling shoddy safety engineering?

Sometimes, I just have to try and convince myself that I'm missing the sarcasm and the general public is smarter than it appears.
So what do you read online then? I'm a displaced Melburnian living in the States and have been reading The Age online for ages, simply because it was the paper I use to read when I live there, many moons ago...
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S94 is the relevant section because it defines eligible overseas electors.

S94(1)(c) gives the 6-year rule and S94A(1)(d) restates it as part of the enrollment procedure.

The relevancy of S94 and S94A for overseas electors is established in Interpretation, 4(1): ""Eligible overseas elector" means an elector who is entitled under section 94 or 95 to be treated as an eligible overseas elector."
I used to enjoy reading SMH when I lived in OZ, about 10 years ago, I even kept up with smh.com.au when I returned but in the last 6 or 7 years I have probably checked it about 6 times and each time realised why i dont go there any more.
html5 video and a good codec are a way better use of bandwidth.
This technique is good for animations with few moving parts. For example the Alfa animation http://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor/gallery#alfa needs to download 14 additional images for a total of 3.5 megabytes for a few seconds' worth of animation.
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Maybe not pressure from Australia. But a whole load of other people, including governments, would take the opportunity to turn it into a PR nightmare.
It's a bad time to be any agent acting against the plutocracy that rules the world as it is today.
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I can understand that, he might not want to do all the clones they did, and he might not want to do games that probably isn't considered games by many gamers standards.

I know how it feels to produce crap as a day job.
what a crappy spammy side design
We just need to port all Sublime 2 features( 3 maybe) to JS and add as onload and I am set.

:D
Yeah I agree, that takes a toll on you.
Oh no, that's a shame. Now who's going to help complete Zynga's next game, Rollercoaster Tycoon I mean Rollercoaster Entrepreneur? Seriously though, good riddance. The dude was responsible for helping rip off graphics from other games from sometimes smaller developers, I doubt this is much of a loss and more like an image boost if they can hire someone with some original ideas...
It depends on how you define bad. On whole, it isn't (based on my personal definition of 'bad'). The power to control your own destiny, to choose the manner and date of your death is a great freedom that should not be deprived to anyone willing to exercise it.

Sometimes, the world is a hopeless place and the future holds little for you. But that is for you to decide, not someone commenting on the internet. Sometimes, your life is great, and you want to end on that highnote and not watch it slowly erode. I won't judge a stranger as good or bad based on their life choices, because I am not their judge. I had a grandfather that chose to drive to a park, watch a beautiful sunset, and finish it off with a shotgun. He was not a bad man, he didn't need to be "cured", in fact, he probably had 10 years of life ahead of him, but he chose not to live it. And that is a beautiful choice, just one of the infinite number of choices any of us can make.
I was in Laos and Cambodia around 2001/2 and was advised when talking to hill tribes to always ask before taking pictures, the kids loved it, especially seeing themselves on a digital camera, however the older generations usually didnt want to be photgraphed (we were advised that it was usually for this reason but I never pushed it).
Or a simple link check.
Even old-fashioned gasoline cars carry with them a tank of incredibly flammable fuel, a battery that can dump hundreds of amps into a short circuit (and that vents explosive gas in normal operation), and a much higher risk of colliding with other things on the ground. IIRC car crashes kill on the order of 30,000 people a year in the US.

That said, I have had my engine catch fire while driving down the Interstate. It took me a few seconds to pull over and get out of the car. The best pilot ever isn't about to land a 787 from cruising altitude anywhere near as fast. I can only hope the design keeps the battery fire from endangering life or taking out anything else important in the meantime.

But my understanding is the rate of spectacular li-ion battery failures is phenomenally low. Incidents happen, but the vast majority of batteries behave themselves. From the early reports I've heard, the Boeing situation sounds like one of abuse.

But like I said with the Fisker situation, we won't really know anything about Boeing's situation until the investigations are complete.

Either way, I'll drop my phone in my pocket today with confidence, right before doing something else far more likely to hurt me: driving to work.
It's a good point in general, however while the line:

> this is your context which is away from the norm

holds really well for the first example (being unable to move away from IDs due to various constraints), it doesn't seem to hold up so well for the latter example. I guess most people do care if their logo is not visible when being printed, and if is hidden in google searches. So, would that mean that it's the author's context which is away from the norm here?
This would materially affect any Australian government how, exactly?

A particularly spicy Monbiot column? Gosh!
I must have it wrong, whilst I understood the schools could be non-profits in a limited sense (though wages of course can be inflated to extract funds) I had it that 3rd party investors were capable of extract a profit from their lending and other involvement.

If there are no profits to make, how do you convince companies to get involved; most companies don't appear to be so altruistic.

I think perhaps I'm under a misapprehension on labelling, that Free Schools are a subset of Academies; see eg http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/25/free-schools....
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Oh dear: BlackBerry exec's radio appearance suggests RIM is clueless
Quite likely it will be locked down. Even if it's not, however, I don't think Microsoft's EFI implementation will be so crap that drivers can brick the device.
I would say this:

Next time so called designer gives you HTML and CSS crap, ask them to give programmable and composable UI components OR get the hell out of this business.
Curiously, you didn't say, "when somebody says they went to college, its 'full of shit'". If people are as untrustworthy as you claim, it is a real concern. I assume you take steps to verify that everyone who claims to hold one actually does?

Of course, in programming specifically, it is so easy to verify expertise, relatively speaking, that observing any claim made by the applicant seems pointless.
There's not really an age when women outnumber men 24:1 though [1]

[1] Figure 2, http://cnx.org/content/m42935/latest/?collection=col11407/la...
Everyone understood BIOS? Really? I thought one of the issues with BIOS that almost nobody understood how it actually worked any more. Large chunks of it are tens of years old and the people who created them have moved on...
So basically Boeing chose to use the cheaper kind of batteries, instead of the more secure kind. I imagine isolating thousands of tiny cells is quite a bit more expensive than isolating much larger ones.
Nice - I remember the 380z. Had a bus which was a simple IDC ribbon cable, weighed a ton and sort of barely coped with CP/M.
> make as much money as possible and keep current users coming back, and with fierce competition.

This encourages antisocial and exploitative techniques, which many consider soul destroying.
"...submissions grew from 82 in the first year to over 500 in its fifth and final year."

The article describes the program as a resounding success. Anyone know why it ended?
Great idea but that wouldn't work in the UK.

The children would skive off and be found on street corners drinking WKD within half an hour.
Before suicide was announced, it was my gut feeling (not knowing him at all) based on the earlier msuster's post about him that mentioned a recent tattoo 'I'm awesome' on his hand. When reading that, it struck me as a very disturbing signal indicating problems and suicide risk.

I mean, IMHO you make such a tattoo if you're (a) young, stupid and drunk, in which case you might do anything whatsoever or (b) you have a serious internal hurt or a selfesteem issue - and a temporary, fluctuating one, since you felt awesome when you made it, but you knew that you often feel not awesome and need to be reminded of it. Which is something that really correlates to people with clinical depression episodes or bipolar episodes - that also are a big suicide risk.

Maybe I'm oversensitive to such signals since I've been thinking a lot about these diseases, but they should matter.
This issue came up again recently with the Democrats' voter registration application (http://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2013/01/dnc_voter_reg_foss.htm...).

The take-home is don't do that. Don't modify a standard open source contract on a whim as it will inevitably cause serious hassle later. Okay if you have some major ethical/legal objection, then just beware it will cause some major hassle.

JSON is an exception. It came along when the programming world was desperate to be liberated from XML bondage...a fine solution surfaced at the right place and right time. And also at a time when people cared less about open source license specifics. For any average project, you're adding more barriers to adoption than you probably realise.

(I said more about this the last time http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762261)
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Bastian Allgeier describes his idea of decentralized sytems that build the web in the future focusing on self-distributed servers.
How would you spend $100 million?
One thing that soured us on startups was actually dealing with a startup.

Or rather, not dealing with them: they folded two years after we acquired the application. Leaving us with a very important tool written in a language nobody at our company knew.

This closed the door on future opportunity. "Nice product, will they be around in two years? Remember XYZ ..."
It's sad that everybody wants to lock everything down. It's like no one learned anything from the success of the PC.
Will higher education help to solve our Medicare/Medicaid problems?
RIM, "what did you learn from the iPhone?"
So random academic question - Should it be literally possible for an OS to "brick" hardware even if the OS was intentionally designed to do just that?

Now I know in this particular case Samsung wrote both the driver and the firmware, so it is easy to point blame here.

But more broadly, should hardware be built/designed so it has a "fail safe" mode where it just won't allow its self to be damaged by OS/software instruction?

PS - Let's just assume BIOS/uEFI firmware updates are off the table for this discussion. Since many modern uEFIs allow you to disable user updates entirely.
Bastian Allgeier describes his idea of decentralized sytems that build the web in the future focusing on self-distributed servers.
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Hey, article author here!

The ‘away from the norm’ bit refers only to the first example:

> In the first case […] this is your context which is away from the norm.

It’s not always about the norm, but about differing context. In the second example the context is balancing performance and semantics. If your context is more concerned with brand image etc then that’s the difference (nothing to do with norms, really) :)

(I hope I worded that okay, it felt very clumsy!)
I own a small hotel in Europe and we are looking for a PMS. Does your software sync the availabilities with the major booking sites? Is your software in English?
To many, a hacker is anyone who does something with a computer that is not trivially understood. To law-enforcement and the criminal justice system, a hacker is someone who commits a computer-involved crime.

So to clarify, it's actually still a great time to be the former. It's not now, nor has it really ever been, a good time (or a good idea) to be the latter.

The rest of the article seems to just be an explanation of why that is.
Hmm. Almost right, until they introduced ACPI which in itself is much more of a clusterfuck because most of the vendors actually do it all wrong.
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Exactly, I get it. Wonder, why everyone here is discussing the issue seriously rather than noting the humor in the piece.
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I have to wonder if the flood of posts about suicide on a site like HN might actually push someone over the edge.

There were quite a few Aaron Swartz related threads and "let's save his legacy" etc. type posts.

I'm picturing someone that is depressed, followed those weeks on HN and is thinking to themselves "well if I kill myself people will remember"

Maybe I'm just a cynic though.
I noticed that ITWire has also come up with a new twist on interstitial ads (the ones you have to close before you can read the content). Their interstitial ad is a floating box and on my browser (Chrome) it floats to the top of the screen. In fact, it floats so high that the checkbox to close the ad is obscured. I couldn't figure out how to close the ad, so I didn't bother to read the article.
Bios is outdated, but UEFI is even worse and became such a mess. It did not fix BIOS's issues and is unnecessary complicated. The efforts are regretfully wasted on UI.
For the diseases you mention, it's not only the perception and nontreatment - I mean, the currently used drugs generally reduce the positive symptoms, but the negative symptoms remain, and the suicide risk is serious even if the patient understands it and is being treated.
I wish UEFI was designed more with the user in mind and less politics and corporate decisions.

To start, it should not possible to brick a hardware in any way...

Interestingly, the UEFI looks to me sufficiently complex to control the device graphics and input before the OS boots, I wonder if that can be used to abuse the system and do again some "on the metal" coding for high performance stuff (ie: games... and scientific things).

I think maybe that cannot be done because probably no UEFI comes with drivers for video hardware acceleration.
I'm curious. Was there a reason to write that in Latin, other than to be pretentious?
There are exceptions to this rule, like the free diving world champion, Natalia Avseenko. Check out this short video, warning, NSFW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxjdnkD1gBA

There was a longer documentary, called Ceiling, online, but it was removed unfortunately.
The difference is that, "my preferred expert" took the trouble to explain his reasoning which I will paraphrase as "Thermal runaway in Lithium batteries."
He's also designed Civ 1 and 2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_(game_designer)
What if someone uses the code to build a weapon and then kills people with it? Can the court hold you liable?
I'm not sure if he had anything to do with that. Wikipedia only credits a single game to him under Zynga, and that's "The Pioneer Trail". Perhaps someone else can comment on whether that game followed the same pattern of rip-offs as many of the others, but from the description, it seems to be a plain rewrite of the Oregon Trail.

Anyways, Reynolds seems to have been (despite the credit generally going to Sid Meier) the lead designer of Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri, both of which are classics. Personally, I thought Rise of Nations was an even greater achievement, it successfully marries the style of Civ with Age of Empires.
Love this version. It's like writing on nice paper.
just about anywhere towards the end of January
When you tender, you trigger a taxable event. If you are sitting on a position with a capital loss, to participate in the buyback you have to take a loss.

With a dividend, while you take a tax hit for the dividend, your cost basis is adjusted accordingly (so you don't take a capital gains event) which is important if you have a losing position (you are only allowed to take a certain amount of loss in your tax return under certain circumstances, making the buyback unpalatable in the context of a larger return with other sources of capital loss)

Try to do your own taxes this year. It's a learning experience.
I don't think there's an issue with saying "you're getting a 0 on the exam until you furnish proof of death and proof of relation, at which point you can (re)take the exam." Surely even the most bureaucratic university would have some mechanism in place to allow a student to take an exam, even a final, later than planned (or even the next semester?)
Hilarious and somewhat disturbing to listen to.
I don't know Brian at all (in fact, I never heard of him before now). Are you claiming Zynga's strategy of ripping off other games derived from Brian?

According to Wikipedia, he's been the lead designer of a number of highly acclaimed games:

Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties (2007) (creative director)
Rise of Nations (2003) (lead designer)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999) (lead designer)
Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996) (lead designer)
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (1992) (lead programmer)

I doubt his resignation will save Zynga, or fix its reputation.