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Do an product need to be intact to count? If this is the core of Monsanto argument, then it sounds to me as completely rubbish and something a court should have no problems throwing out.

Lets say I bought a new mousetrap. After purchase, I go around and add/remove aspect of it. I change the color scheme. I change the cheese to a more smelly version. Has it now suddenly become a new mousetrap and is thus no longer the same physical object as first sold?

If the seed still embodies the details described in the patent, how is it not still the same object? I could understand Monsanto counterargument if no aspect of 1G seed existed in the 2G seed but thats of course not true. More likely, all patented aspect of 1G seed is all still in 2G seed. If that was not true, than even if Monsanto won, they would loose as they then would have no claim on 2G. Thus the only changes of 1G -> 2G must be trivial and not covered by the patent.
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thank you for feedback. The µ docs site is trying to satisfy the Designer and the Developer, two very important roles in my framework design strategy. You are very right about Sinatra and I will definitely add more examples. Counting on the community to improve the docs as soon as µ gets more traction, this is why the docs site is open source too :)
What 7 Million Jailbreaks Are Saying. Is Apple Listening?
...technology is making knowledge workers more effective and efficient. It's not even close to replacing them.

Making knowledge workers more effective and efficient replaces some of them.

I work at a former tech giant, now a small media company. 10-15 years ago, this company hired people to write a scalable TCL enabled webserver [1], a time series collection system, and all sorts of other basic software systems.

Today, you'd just use apache, graphite, etc. You wouldn't hire someone to build them for you. Technology has replaced developers.

[1] https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver
What's missing in the article - what the author wants to achieve.

I mean, I agree with the description of gender bias and the other stuff, I have seen events like this first hand, and I have reflectively noticed my own biases that were unfair, so I'd like to correct that.

But after the article, what would you like me (as a 'dude' in a science field) to do? Your own point #5 states that you do not want just to be 'heard and understood'; so what actions would you like to be the result of this?
Have you looked into using webRTC for the stream transfer and using the server only for signalling? Not sure if these apis are available within extensions but this would make the server much cheaper to run.
The 'Yes/no' reply button has an option to add one tweet length of text. So my answer might be "No - but ask me again next week as I have time then". It also has a "This is not a yes/no question" button which allows me to invite the sender to reclassify the question.
Your claim is based on the knowledge of what actual facts?

(That said, I can see another problem in cases such as this: what if some of the "volunteering lawyers" are set by the government?).
Your first point basically matches mine - in a lot of other countries, it is an act of God. Only in central European countries is it considered to be the responsibility of the home owner. After all, if you don't have power over that sidewalk, why should you have responsibility over it? Unless, of course, it works out as best for the society...

Germany has something like the absolute best set of bicycle lanes of any country in the world, with the possible exception of the low countries. That you are still unhappy about the way that people treat them is a very strong indication of my point ;-) Come look at the bike lanes in Spain, France, the US or the UK, instead.
More to the point the EFF's lawyers are US lawyers. Canada is an entirely different beast from the US in terms of legal system. Their separate mailing list may have Canadian lawyers, but I'd suspect that the vast majority are US lawyers.
"screw societies where people live like robots and survive on weekend alcoholic binges"

I agree. Not sure what relevance that statement has to Germany, though. I've spent quite a lot of time in Germany and traveled to a lot of the country, and I'm certainly not seeing the resemblance.
>Of course you have to laugh hard at the mediocrity of the second part of the "attack": directly contacting servers which can be reverse-looked up. Doh!

Is it mediocrity, or is it intended in order to send a message?

"We are on to you", etc?
I've been happily using boxvpn.com's (who don't collect logs, or so they say) SSTP service (China has blocked most/all PPTP and L2TP connections and peoples have to shift to SSTP), before that I was with strongvpn.com (who do collect logs).
With secureboot enabled (the default on windows 8 certified hardware, or pretty much all x86 consumer platforms), you can't simply insert a linux installer or livedisk. You have to either play around with keys, or disable secureboot in the UEFI configuration.

If your OS doesn't allow arbitrary code to be run on the raw machine (so a chain of trust on executables), microsoft provides a signing service. This is a problem for linux, due to the way it allows any code to run privileged. This is a problem because if a generic linux kernel was signed, it could be used to bypass secureboot (since it allows you to run any code, and it would be trusted).

Some distros are looking at disabling all these features, so that their distro image can be signed. This would disable all third-party modules, and disallow other features (that most people probably don't use anyway).

This specific post is about an a key management program, that allows a user to install their own keys, so they can sign their own linux image. A simpler option allows you to put your machine in another mode that disables secureboot. Like the UEFI configuration option, this is a roadblock to new users, who want something to "just work". So unfortunately yes, it's still an issue.
Isn't that what got Sandra Bullock's character in "The Net"?

Speak to a lawyer and/or some journalists.
bingo, you've just described every genegenering company's wet dream, patent licenses fees in perpetuity, that also exponentially increase with each generation
Did These Elite Economists Actually Make A Basic Error?
The real scandal is that somebody studying catholic theology can become education minister.
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Spot on!

I 'invented' it… :-)
I don't agree. It seems to imply that a way around robo-graders is to list facts, and don't worry so much if the essay hangs together. In any case, your view and mine are hypothetical. I haven't seen an analysis of how well the system works in practice, or how easy it is to spoof. And it looks like it's the system at a whole which must be analyzed, if there's a second tier human layer which might review odd-ball papers.
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I'll make a note of that. Sounds very cool and useable…
You are simply complaining about words and letters being stretched too far. If you pick up a random novel, you'll see that paragraphs are justified, through a variety of devices such as hyphenation, letter spacing, and generally microtypography. Most of the time this is done professionally and you have no idea because you don't notice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kownnnxs7eI There has been a pen input method since Vista at least.
Its not about power its about expressiveness. For example, in Python you can't pass a generator function as an argument to `map`, since map doesn't use yields when calling its argument. On the other hand, in Lua the "generator-ness" is a runtime concept instead of a syntactic one so you can pass a generator to `map` and it will still work fine.

I won't bother asking what model is the better one. The Python version is more rigid but its also more explicit...
I guess group C is Islam?
I'm sorry, I thought this was "hacker" news. I Expected people would know that Google's OTR and OTR XMPP spec are different. My point was that you shouldn't be using 3rd party services to talk to people if the information is legitimately sensitive.
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I'm so glad html5 has saved us from the cpu eating plague of flash websites.
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I think even Bill Gates would appreciate the extra info and know he can expect an email from me within 3 days. Then imagine his surprise when I reply within an hour.

In fact, that is what I did with every investor and journalist that emailed me. I replied to most within minutes.
If you have two monitors, you can toss the whole Metro interface from one to the other under Windows 8. It's efficient and effective.
I am pretty skeptical about self-driving cars, for the simple reason that we don't even have self-driving trains yet, outside relatively small systems like the DLR, Heathrow Pod, etc, and it would seem to be that the job of driving a train (no steering, no collision avoidance, predetermined stops, etc) would be 100x easier.
>I mean: honestly, scientists should start to worry about overheating their CPU that are going to melt?

My officemate is working with some neural networks researchers, trying to get near-peak throughput running convolutional neural networks on NVIDIA's new K20 GPUs. Several GPUs have already died and they're looking for better cooling for the rest. So, I don't know if peak utilization of multi-core CPUs can still be hazardous, but it's definitely true for graphics cards.
I don't see why. The code could be very complicated to understand, or the grading mechanism could be hard or impossible to reverse. (Just like cryptographic hashes.)

Better would be access to the training corpus. Then use that to train, say, a Markov generator, and have it replace words from a thesaurus, in hopes of bypassing a similarity detector.
Handy tool. Write readme file...
Towards a New Buddhist Story
Safer Internet Day 2013, protégeons les jeunes des dangers d'internet.
This reminds me a of a line by Trigg in the classic UK comedy Only Fools and Horses (Trigg is a road sweeper for context).

In this classic scene, Trigger claims that he's had his road sweeper's broom for 20 years. But then he adds that the broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

"How can it be the same bloody broom then?" asks Sid the café owner. Trigger produces a picture of him and his broom and asks: "what more proof do you need?"

From 'Heroes and Villains' (1996)

http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/579394
As you said. "Virtually". All of this relies on you trusting the third party involved here and that was my point. Whether its Google or some 23 year old kid, or if its open source or not doesn't matter.

He is quite literally doing the same thing as I could do in setting us open fire on a box and inviting everyone to conne t and turn on their client side OTR. Just because it's a chrome extension and written in JavaScript somehow changes that? No.
I will add an example. My goal is to leave the framework as lean as possible and add functionality by using various extensions. I can see the security functionality added as a µ Extension enabling a set of filters and specific web pages; ala Devise. The Extensions allow you to create a completely independent "mini-site" and inject its functions into the main app. With extensions you can add your own filters, routes, controllers and specialized dynamic content/web-UI. Please have a look at: https://github.com/florinpatrascu/micro-extensions/tree/mast..., as an example implementation of the aspects mentioned above. I see something like Devise being built this way.
I presume so, because the VM manager is a critical and very stable component.

Even google://'virtual memory "changelog" site:kernel.org' doesn't seem to uncover any significant changes.
>Like any form of art, it's completely subjective.

My sides.
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Eclipse has done more to create jobs than any other software, except maybe SAP.
How about he contact CSIS directly, and clarify...?
I live in Germany and I claim that Austria (Germany's neighbouring country) has a title fetish. Austria's title fetish is said to be a relict from Austro-Hungarian Monarchy times that has preserved there until today (although it is declining slowly).

To give an example: on many tombstones on Austrian graveyards the official titles the person had are written; even more strange: for women even the title of their men is implied in the title on their tomb stones (for example: "Oberamtsratsgattin" (I really find this word funny) - a word that cannot really expressed in English for a lack of words for official titles; I'd translate it clumsily with "wife of a man that was a public official with the official title "Oberamtsrat" [a rather respected official title]")

So if you claim Germans have a title fetish, go to Austria. When you come back, you'll consider Germany a really-not-title-obsessed contry.
Assuming there are existing lecture notes highlighting key information, you could probably pump them into the sort of "article spinners" used by SEO spammers and produce something that looked like accurate, original writing to a computer algorithm, without having any actual knowledge of the subject at all.

Studying history (even at junior high school level in the UK) is more about interpreting sources and making reasoned arguments, than simply regurgitating facts and references. You can parrot or parody a list of facts and references you've been given whilst being a hopeless history student. Sounds like a machine comparing with a "model essay", meanwhile, would penalise those students foolish enough to construct original arguments and support them with reference material beyond the compulsory reading list.
I'd say you dismissed the content, but I'd also say that, in your own words, you did it by going down "the rabbit hole of personal opinion/perspective" ...

Which is to say, you can't have much of a discussion if you only allow a recital of facts.
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Microsoft is actually in quite an interesting situation here. Although they have a lot of power in deciding what they sign, they also have a large obligation due to their now monopoly position. It's these situations that antitrust laws can start applying, but Microsoft would have to abuse their position for that to happen.
> The interface tuple returned by a() is ([]int, nil), comparing this to nil, which is a (nil,nil) returns false(!)

It's certainly a subtlety that can bite you, but I'd say that in this form it is arguably more consistent: assigning a type to an interface and having that be nil is not the same as assigning nil to an interface - those two variables are not equal and should be treated as such.
You still need some sort of unit to track resource consumption, maybe that's the Joule instead of the Dollar, but as long as there needs to be decisions made of the form, which is better/should we do, X or Y, then you need a quantitative way to think about it. Von Mises called this "economic calculation".
And another question: what is the average age?
Gender differences definitely do exist - the question to prove is if they are small or orthogonal to actual ability, or somehow relevant. For example, if a job position requires hauling refrigerators to customers, then the requirements do favor males, and a genetic subset of them with large body frames. The question is, if any of this actually applies to positions such as orchestra musician or mathematician?

There are many studies about significant differences between twins caused by a single gene expression. There are studies about differences in physical properties, mental abilities and inherited diseases linked to genes of ethnic/racial groups - I believe the Ashkenazi case is the most popular, but there are others. And there are numerous studies about male/female differences - for example, in expressiveness of agression, average temperament and different cooperate/defect-style decisions in game theory and econometrics experiments.

But it all is irrelevant - the whole concept of gender/race/etc equality is that it is grossly unfair to use group-membership to judge individuals, and we should evaluate each person on her/his own merits.
>As rsc has pointed out a few times, this problem is just a matter of someone doing the work to make it happen, not a fundamental limitation of the language itself.

Yes, but as neither he nor any other Go designer went ahead and did it the problem exists.
Sorry but respectively, no. I can't allow you to trash Aaron's name like that. Aaron was actually a child prodigy and a borderline genius who had done more than this at 14 years old. This kid plays with JavaScript and wrote a chrome extension that adheres to the XMPP spec. They're not in the same league.
The condemned philosopher paradox. Can someone explain it to me?
Lack of examples, sorry. Country and Language are both supported. You can create the following properties file: messages_en_GB.properties, and you have a language and country based translation!

I will clarify this aspect in the docs, many thanks for catching that!
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

- JFK
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So, you're going to start your blogpost on sexism with a quote from JFK... how does that work?

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/100566/jfk-mons...
That is an outrageous claim. Do you have any references to it being proven 'over and over again'?
I'm pretty sure the md5 hash is just to test the integrity, to make sure it isn't corrupt. Due to all the other trust issues (no HTTPS), the insecure aspects of md5 don't really matter.
Printing messages on condom wrappers Good idea?
The question I have after reading the article is - when all purchasable soybean seeds on the market end up being composed of seeds that originated from Monsanto's genetically modified stock (apparently they already mostly are in grain silos), how is anyone going to be able to purchase and grow soybeans without infringing on Monsanto's patent portfolio?
Well, our experience differs in this case I guess. There are some vibrant parts of youth culture in Germany (in Berlin, etc), but for the most part it is work + weekend binges. There is a coldness one cannot really explain, except if you have leaved in "warmer" societies.

I've heard from people living there that Sweden/Denmark etc are even worse in this aspect.
"golf, and do many things that require little mental facility"

Does golf really require that little mental facility? Would Tiger Woods agree with you?

People are extremely unpredictable in what they do with their leisure time. Over 10 years of working to encourage and develop amateur creators in the film world has left me with the conviction that we simply don't know what would happen if 100% of a Western country's people didn't need to work to survive any more.

We'd almost certainly hit a sudden epidemic of depression, to start with. Tim Ferriss' book "The Four Hour Work Week" has a fascinating section on surviving the transition to not having to work any more - it's harder than you'd think.

But subsequently? A surprising amount of popular activities in leisure time right now are actually very mentally engaging. Both watching and playing sports are actually reasonably mentally engaged activities for a lot of people - try memorising half the statistics that the average baseball fan has at his fingertips and see how far you get. The most popular drama television is getting more complex and sophisticated, not less. And of course games are actively mentally engaging, and increasingly creative - Minecraft's the biggest gaming sensation since World of Warcraft.

The fact that the two biggest gaming sensations of the last decade are ones in which the primary activities are a) working with groups of up to 40 other people to complete complex, challenging, multifaceted choreographed tasks and b) building massive structures up to and including 1-1 replicas of goddamn cathedrals does not lead me to believe that most of the population doesn't like to use their brain.

Add to that the fact that there's actually a startlingly large number of amateur musicians, painters, writers, bloggers, artisans, chefs and similar pursuits out there. Here's a link - http://www.amateurorchestras.org.uk/ - to a list of the 1,121 amateur ORCHESTRAS in the UK, for example.

You might see a very interesting world develop after about 10 years.
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I can't speak for fedora (possibly febootstrap?) but it is already easy to install Arch in a chroot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archbootstrap

If ChromeOS doesn't provide you enough tools to run archbootstrap, you can run archbootstrap on a separate machine with the chrome disk attached and then put the disk in the ChromeOS laptop. A bit of hassle but perfectly doable.
I never used Matlab, but I am very familiar with R which I think is quite similar. So I'd advise your girlfriend to just play with the Matlab repl (enter 1+1 and see that it returns 2, plot a function, assign a variable, etc.), and then write some function on a text editor and load them into Matlab.

You can also help her to load some data (from a text file, a csv file, or maybe a database connection, depending on what's used at her lab), and then do some basic operations on them (calculate some basic statistics and do some easy plots).

When she can do all of that (and I don't think it should take her much time to learn), she'll be able to work with Matlab autonomously.
I like the language a lot but that is definitely a part that I dislike a lot. This doesn't feel consistent with the simplicity and obviousness of the rest of the language and it is error prone. Working full time with Go, it already happened 2 or 3 times this got me into an hour of debugging.
The problem with this approach is that it leads to everyone reading every email just in case they might have some relevant insight. I see this at my current job - there's a strong "just cc the whole team" attitude which leads to a frustrating quantity of irrelevant email.
As far as I know Roundup is a general use herbicide. If it was only licensed for use with Monsanto's GM products then I think Monsanto would have a case - assuming there were equivalent non-Monsanto herbicides freely available. I doubt Monsanto would be pretty happy about that however.

UPDATE: There was supposed to be some form of "terminator" gene included in the GM products to explicitly prevent generation two seeds from being replanted. I guess since we are talking about law-suits that did not really work as expected.
How is this more consistent? This can produce nil pointer dereferences.