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> I'm the product of a Western-European system. Yearly tuition was like $2k. Your 44k would have covered 4 years in college including housing, food and ample beer.

You still have to factor in housing and food and opportunity cost, cheaper tuition alone doesn't invalidate the argument. Also the way learning is done in College is often counter productive and not necessarily relevant to your future occupation.
And it's already back up.
I was under the impression that the "last mile" was owned by whatever company had been granted the local monopoly. If the "last mile" is owned by the government, and the power companies connect at hubs, then there is no actual "natural monopoly." I think that's actually a good solution.

A better solution would be to have the "last mile" owned by the people who own properties, but that may be nit picking. And I think that's probably how things would have eventually developed without government intervention.

Now, I think that in reality, power companies (in the US, at least) almost always are regulatory monopolies, i.e., government-granted ones. But, because of the "last mile" solution, they don't _need_ to be.

In summary, I feel like my point that natural monopolies don't exist is still supported.

When a corporation thinks it can make money by suing municipalities that form broadband networks, they do so. Like in Lafayette.

You can't (logically) use one abuse of government power to justify other government power that counteracts it, which seems to be your argument.

In the example you gave, the abuse is being able to win invalid lawsuits, and that is being used to justify government regulation of arbitrary industries (telco, in this specific case).

Better to just make it so you can't win invalid lawsuits.

Because the cable companies and the ISPs and the media companies are largely owned by the same people, and collude monopolistically.

They do collude monopolistically: the telcos have government-granted regulatory monopolies.

deregulation achieved through the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Given that the telco industry is 100% made up of government-granted regulatory monopolies, this act clearly did not implement deregulation.
I don’t quite understand your entitlement.

The usual case is that people have to be paid for their work. If that’s sometimes not the case then that’s a bonus, not something you can expect and be angry if it doesn’t happen.

You don’t want to pay for it? Fine, that’s great. You are free not to. It’s also not appealing for me personally. But complaining about someone wanting money for work? Sorry, that’s wretched.
In the case of JailbreakMe 2.0 (the exploit last year), the makers of the JB actually released a Cydia patch for that exact reason. In that instance, the JB'ed device was in that regard more secure than the stock device.
Supersonic Ping Pong Ball Gun [pdf]
I'd rather do it with a jolt pistol. The discs have a long range, but they're terribly inaccurate and slow. The single dart fired by a dart is slow to reload, but fairly accurate and fast, perfect for assassinations.
Soccer in the World's Most Violent City
OK, good -- thought I might be taking troll-bait, but in that case, glad I could provide information.

In principle, you're exactly right -- but iOS in particular has been notoriously picky about app sandboxing, and there is a very short list of permissions that apps are allowed to ask for: location, push notification, and I believe now address book access.
It's a much less mature engineering field than any of the others, so it's still a lot of R&D to get anything done. PhD is a big help in teaching you to do that well. I still recommend it, though at some point in the future it won't be necessary.
What theory says society is run by people at the edge of the bell curve?

Edit: though if you mean politicians then you're right, they're definitely at the edge - just the wrong edge. Bzing!
> This behavior isn’t inherently unsafe, after all we had to manually build our exploit string and manually instantiate our class. The problem only comes when we put all of these things together.

This is very much the wrong way to think about security. Weakness will be exploited. An attacker only has to find one path past your defenses; you have to guard every possible door. Saying, "look how strange and unlikely the interaction of these weaknesses was," misses the point. Code interacts lots of ways, and if it hadn't been this interaction, it could have been another.

Treating user data as untrustworthy is a good start, and you should do that. But you also ought to make each piece of your code base secure and robust, even if you can't think of how it would be exploited, now.
Effort Building to Change US Pot Laws
No, go back and listen. The blog thing was always there. It was a part of Atwoods general opinion that people are better off if they are totally in the public.
That this passes for analysis speaks more to the state of journalism than science education.

Girls in the US score 120 points higher than they do in Uruguay - a country about the size and population of Alabama. Singapore is a data point in favor of women though the difference in scores is less than 0.2% and it has the population of Metro Atlanta. Likewise, Iceland is a data point where men lead by one point. It has a smaller population than metro-Evansville Indiana-KY.

Counting countries is meaningless, except as an excuse for a linkbait title.
To give credence to the notion that "cow methane is not humans' fault" is also utterly disingenuous. "ultimately our doing" also suggests there is a long and arduous causality chain which equally absurd. Humans raise cows on diets cows would not choose for themselves (and resulting in more cow methane) and in numbers that the cows would not be able to maintain on their own. Cow methane is our fault in the exact same way that burning stuff and releasing CO2 is our fault. Seriously are you going to say burning coal is not a human source of methane, or at least sit around and say "be nice to the idiot arguing it?"

Sorry, your whole point is more intellectually dishonest than you accuse the "complete nonsense" phrase of being.
While I can appreciate your misgivings, I might point out a counter data point: Blender. Now, I'm not saying this software is Blender, but if it can be ransomed into OSS for an equitable price, why not?
Looks like Biden is pissed about the US debt getting downgraded.
doesn't mozilla get all their funding from google? type about:config in FF and search for google entries its everywhere
I have a certain level of trust in the ability of scientific processes (and the institutions that enforce/practice them) to provide us with better understanding of the world. It's the same reason I'm prepared to fly in a plane even though I don't have the physics or engineering qualifications or knowledge to asses whether it will stay in the air.

The problem with this is that the scientific processes in the two cases (climate science vs. physics and engineering of airplanes) are not actually comparable. That's part of the problem: climate scientists have used the "it's Science, therefore it's right" argument to keep from having to actually prove that their processes are as reliable as the ones in physics and engineering that have given the public its confidence in Science.

When you look at the processes in climate science, they aren't even close. To take just one example, in physics or engineering, the sorts of admissions climate scientists have made about losing raw data, not archiving it properly, not properly recording the manipulations they've made to the data, etc., would be grounds for dismissal of the people involved and repudiation of all of their conclusions. The work would have to be re-done from scratch using proper procedures.
3.1 Export as few functions as possible from a module — 3.2 Try to reduce intermodule dependencies

At last a coding convention guide that deals with something other than syntax. And at the very beginning to boot. If I ever have a say to such things at work, I'm going to take some inspiration from that.
At least for IT, I suspect part of the reason there are so few women is because they have better options - stay home and have kids, or do something more socially rewarding (involving interaction with other people) that earns less money (because they don't need to earn a lot of money, that's what their husbands do, or because they are smart enough to figure out that happiness is more important than money). I guess you could say "maths is hard, let's go shopping". I am aware that this is not a political correct hypothesis. I also don't have anything against women entering IT.

We tend to romantizice IT because in theory a single person is free to follow their visions. Being a hacker at home working on fancy projects is indeed cool. However, most IT jobs are a drag, you spend most of your time motionless in front of a computer, more often than not in an office in the basement while the (mostly female) PR department has their offices on the top floor with a view on the skyline.
Also, the fact that so far, climate change has been more extreme than most projections.

Actually, warming has not occurred at all in the last 15 years or so. So how "extreme" we've been is a matter of vantage point.

While I'm not in the camp to suggest the last 15 years are anything but a variation in the overall trend, be careful what you use to support dire predictions.
Fair enough, completely understandable.

My question is, how do most sites get away with this then? Popular ones too.. I dont remember the last time I got a double opt in email.
That was my implied point of the whole article. An attacker can use your code against you in unexpected ways.
OP here, I'd just like to point out I'm a real person who submitted the article on my own volition.
>When people finally try to self-organize (e.g. municipal development projects), the oligopoly turns to lawsuits and lobbying to beat them down.

Examples?

EDIT: Okay. Wow. Had no idea. Has any municipality tried to create a wireless mesh network that connected through a few high-bandwidth connections?
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You rock. This is crazy useful for trying out styles on stuff i'm building. I'd echo one of the suggestions here, there needs to be a way to apply to non-body elements.
> These symptoms are not vague.

Of course they are. And there's a lot of variability in diagnosis between practitioners. Some even say that depression isn't really a disease at all.

There is an excellent book on this topic that I cannot recommend highly enough:

Title: "Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease"

Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=U-lvlVSGeEEC

Quote: (about Congitive-behavioral therapy) “a method of indoctrination into the pieties of American optimism, an ideology as much as a medical treatment.”

Here's a discussion of the book (and topic) at the New Yorker entitled "Head Case": http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100...
Indeed.

I suppose it's the broader point that concerns me, and that I was really focused - the fact is that the tanking of the economy based on fraud and negligence resulted in no jailtime. I feel, and folks may think I'm wrong in this, that this is very visible to ordinary men and women in America and has a corrosive effect on the nation and its body politic.
dear wise downvoters, do you downvote on pure reflex ? did you bother reading the article ? can you venture a guess why mco ( not s&p but mco ) fell ? in the very high likelihood that mco ( again, not s&p, but mco) bounces back tomorrow, isn't this a nice buying op ? moody's has not been in lockstep with s&p w.r.t cdo ratings.
The similarities are superficial at best. Fashion, almost by definition, is ephemeral. Design, on the other hand, strives for permanence.

"Constantly reinvention" is just total bullshit when you start talking about salt and pepper shakers. And so is the idea of "staying ahead of the curve" when doing so means a non-stop torrent of additions to landfills everywhere. Good designers get this. They're actually very resourceful people who are trying to make the world work better in ways both small and large. Squandering resources with a stream of pointless variations doesn't square with this ethos at all.

The difference between design and trash is that good design is what you hold onto for years, even generations. What the best designers strive for is the elegant solution, a perfect convergence of form and function that resists further change for as long as humanly possible.

Again, the opposite of fashion.
Fine, to be more specific -- he was referring to lack of women "in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions". IMO, people assume those positions are held by people that score well on traditional IQ tests. He was basically saying, it's OK we don't see women there -- it's in the biology, there aren't women at the edges of the bell curve. That's pretty disparaging.

Edit: hah, yes I agree on politics.
That article is misleading in its claims. In the derided western countries where "girls do worse", the girls still do better than the praised countries where girls do better than boys.

Look at the four countries to the right where the girls did best relative to boys and the girls scores: Kyrgyz Republic (340), Qatar (393), Albania (406) and Jordan (433).

Compare to the girls score in countries where girls are alleged to be failing: United States (495), Denmark (494), Netherlands (520), Liechtenstein (511), Chile (433).

Notice that girls are doing better in the countries the NYT thinks are bad, like the US, than in the countries the NYT thinks are good such as Jordan.
You see a mirrored image of yourself and a non-mirrored image of the other party.
p2p live sports and ppv incoming
IIRC, ejabberd is agnostic about the XMPP messages going through, you should be able to use strophe.js to craft the proper Jingle packets from the browser's offer/answer session description.

Given codec and SRTP compatibility with clients, eg GTalk (which I don't know about), you should be good to go.
I went through a period of depression two years back. My family and friends were the last people to notice it. I put on a strong face for them and went out of my way not to worry them. The people who did notice were professors and classmates, people who I didn't make much of an effort to "impress". When those close to me started to realize they all began to rationalize it as being the result of drugs or sleep loss or a recent break up. You just aren't the type of person to be depressed they said, it's not like you. Sad as it may be, they knew even less about how I was than random strangers on the bus. I suspect a lot of it had to do with how they viewed depression and the stigma surrounding it.
I've used a ransomware model a few times in the past. It worked out OK. The source got released, the coder got paid (never me, it was always stuff I was contracting out to well-known hackers within the community where the work was being done and I was contributing about half of the money...the ransom was to sweeten the pot), everybody was happy. And, I've contributed to ransoms as an outsider, as well.

I don't think it's "deeply, deeply disrespectful" to anyone. It's asking for money so someone can work on what they want to (and presumably some others want them to do the same). No one is forced to participate or contribute. The only way it is disrespectful is if the code doesn't get released or proves to be shoddy after the funding is raised.
In many countries "Engineer" is a protected title, and can only be used by someone who holds a Bachelor of Engineering or better. The difference between a BEng and BSc at my University basically amounted to more stringent record keeping and auditing standards for the University, and slightly more expensive tuition because of that.
Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?
I'd accept placeholders as labels the day I see a reason to remove labels. And, no, fashion is not a reason.
"And then forgive the "debt" they created and pretend like it was "paid back"."

Could you substantiate this claim?

I'm genuinely interested. I was under the impression that the overwhelming majority of the bailout money was paid back. I'd read in reputable newspapers that this was the case. If it was "forgiven" instead, I'd be very interested to see the proof.
LocalStorage manager (lm.js)
Yes - as the other comment reply said too. You're both right, of course. It's civil not criminal.

I suppose I was making a broader point about the crisis in general and its aftermath. The fact that all of the shenanigans, fraud and outright illegality that led to the financial crisis and its life-ruining effects on millions of Americans, resulted in more wealth for the perpetrators and no significan punishments or disincentives for future bad behavior is a very troubling thing.
I think they downvoted because they're hackers reading this who have no idea about what you wrote and downvoted much like the high school bully punching you for saying something nerdy. Please, in the future just complain about gov't injustice: much better for karma.
We use Prosody.IM, which is a jabber server powered by LUA. Before that we used the Java-based openfire/wildfire jabber server.

Clients are left open to personal preference, but the chat-server itself is Jabber.
Gearman is pretty solid once you have it working, but it can be a huge pain to get to that point. We spent probably two years (on-and-off, of course) tweaking code to get our framework talking nicely to gearman. PHP's gearman-manager library is a little... wonky, and we were seeing no shortage of bizarre APC interference.

Although in this case, I imagine the real problem is portability. Curl is available pretty much everywhere. exec (or more directly, pcntl/posix extensions) aren't in any out-of-the-box installation, and anything that needs to be further daemonized to get up and running (such as gearmand and gearman-manager) are even harder to use in a one-click solution.
That might be one of the manifest effects, but it's arguable as to whether that effect is actually the primary intention of driving users away from web content and toward standalone clients.

I doubt that most of the media sources that are pushing native apps are even thinking about it in these terms; most of it is probably bandwaggoning, and the originators of the phenomena probably just wanted a way of keeping their brand and content visible on the dashboard to avoid "out of site, out of mind".

In all likelihood, the net effect of attempting to shovel users off the web and into native apps is probably detrimental to the bottom line.
How about the first result for "Municipal Fiber Lawsuit"?
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/telco-to-town-w...

There are plenty of other cases, but the OP is right. The telco incumbents will use any means necessary - propaganda ("it's anti-capitalist!"), bribes (aka, lobbying) and lawsuits - to keep extracting as much profit as possible from people while delivering the barest minimum service possible.
Thanks for sharing, this is cool.

Is it possible to preload the image before applying the style? The flashes to what I think is the normal bg image and image loading progress thing makes it harder to compare backgrounds.
http://stopthecap.com/2010/05/04/north-carolina-action-alert...

http://www.wilsontimes.com/greenlight/Story/Settlement-Gets-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328116
Where can I find documentation to learn about this?
Here's two, from a quick search:

Monticello, Minnesota (2008): http://www.ilsr.org/monticello-fiber-network-fighting-frivol...

Lafayette, Louisiana (2010): http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/lousiana-fiber-ne...
Yeah, that costs $200/mo in my area, not including the TV.
How do you compete with free ?
"What was she supposed to do? Treat alleged suicide risks specially?"

This is entirely separate from the rest of the injustices surrounding Aaron's persecution and suicide, but: yes, yes she should have. It's incomprehensible to me that you're suggesting otherwise: if someone is known as being a suicide risk, you make attempts to eliminate or mitigate as much as possible that risk. Even if it gets in the way of some secondary goals like career advancement or can be manipulated by certain malefactors.

Taren's wrong on this in some ways: Aaron's depression, or at least his unique mental disposition, definitely played a big part in everything. But that doesn't exonerate the prosecutors; it puts more blood on their hands.
Screen reader will still read the label element because it's in the dom, right? It was about whether having labels lead to more user errors, not about omitting then from the DOM?

If that's true, then yeah, that's a terrible idea. You should never omit it from the DOM. I like to use icons to substitute for label text and just pack all the information I can into the legend. Text as a label is what I'm debating.
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Situation: You are working in your first engineer job at a startup, but you are young so you made the mistake of working for cheap on what was supposed to be a 3-week trial contract, but inevitably lasted a little longer. No big deal, the venture is funded the boss wants to put you on salary now. He's already asking you to name a number and for various reasons it feels really wrong to stick it to him and say "no, you name a number and I'll let you know."
What do you do?
So instead of a very simple and straightforward html tag you propose a full js module and animations and so on?

And all this just to remove an important cue from the sight of your users?
Why are we comparing performance on "science", when there are hundreds of sub-disciplines that fall under that umbrella? Isn't it reasonable that in different countries with different cultures, you will see men and women move into different disciplines, and therefore develop different scores on some generic "science" exam?

This looks like journalists attempting to get screen-views by using some vague data to stir up battle-of-the-sexes arguments.
Absolutely––this is high on the priority list.
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I agree actually, I'd pay probably 2-3k for something like this. Problem would be finding people who are experts in this field and not slimy (like the pickup field or any of that)
You've set up a false dichotomy, I think. Why use high-res low-quality images instead of just sticking with low-res high-quality images? It's all going to look fuzzy when you zoom in.

Also, palette images should get some love too. A high-res dithered GIF or 8-bit PNG might meet your needs (looks good on retina displays at normal zoom, stays crisp when zoomed in, smallish file size) better than the other options.
I get what you're saying and I find it hard to disagree with any of it.

I do think though that there are real world consequences - even if they're secondary effects and tangential - of showing the world that the senior figures in our political system are buffoons, and that the folks who get millions of votes from ordinary Americans think of the world this way. I think the effects are cumulative and not just in Iran but in our friendly countries, where it becomes increasingly an embarrassment and politically awkward to support America even when America is in the right.

In Europe anti-Americanism is so detached from reality and often requires one to ally oneself with truly awful people just in order to oppose anything America says, and those who hold these positions are treated with far more respect than they should be, largely because of how tired people are at the noise they here coming from the US. It's wrong, and it's foolish, because whatever criticisms one levels at the US Europe has far more in common with the US than its enemies.

I suppose my point is gut-feeling and frustration, rather than well argued, but it rings true to me.
So you prefer that we actually cultivate a loafer class and a worker class?
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