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> the BBC is a public service broadcaster primarily funded by the licence fee paid by UK households

So DRM-ing BBC programmes would be very much alike, uhm... publishing publicly funded research in journals that require paid subscriptions? ...ain't that cute
The thing to recognize here is that Swiss culture is the exception, not the rule. Large parts of the rest of the world do not have a culture like the Swiss and would very likely end up like the United States if you flooded them with guns and ammunition.

The idea that the presence or absence of guns is totally divorced from gunviolence is ridiculous, motive, means and opportunity. Take away the bulk means of easily dispatching fellow human beings in your average culture and you see a decrease in violent deaths. See Australia.
> They may have authoritarian governments but those governments have limited authority to enact things.

Corruption is an integral part of the system in those countries. It is not that respective governments have limited authority (quite otherwise in actuality) - they allow this to happen. It is how they function. What you perceive as lawlessness is a normal (desired) state of affairs.

If, for instance, you're a honest law enforcement official or a dutiful member of the parliament, you will not fit in and will have to either accept the rules of the system or be expelled (imprisoned or killed if you're stubborn).
That would explain why the same party has won every single election since independence.
I get that you had a bad experience but what careful research could you have done to prevent it? Is there something on the bookit.com site that would have steered you away if you had seen it?

I live in hotels most of the time and use several online booking sites regularly. I've never had a problem worse than a hotel clerk digging around a pile of faxes to find my reservation. Given the volume of reservations made through travel websites it's inevitable that some will get lost or messed up. It's no fun when it happens to you but a sample of one bad experience doesn't indict all travel websites.
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Does anybody else wonder how an external hard drive could be mistaken as a speaker ? Seems quite improbable to me that police would remove the laptop but not the external hard drive attached to it. Also, once the owner died, how could the laptop continued to make backup of the files inside, enough for them to know that there was an 'attacker' who accessed those files? This suggests that there's some form of automatic backup script running in the background AND the laptop had been turned on throughout AND connected to the external hard drive. Up to the moment of 'recovery' by the police, who stupidly failed to notice this ?

Whenever we watch Holywood hacking movies, we couldn't help but notice the hilarious 'techie' scene. However, there shouldn't be such consistencies in this article because this is supposed to be based on reality.
If your requests are CPU intensive, Node.js won't help since it doesn't support preemption.

And even if you're primarily IO-limited, a single request that consumes too much CPU will cause queuing.
Sad to know. `httpd -k restart` was available since the beginning of time.
Let's see what the statistics have to say, first for Singapore:

"Total pedestrian fatalities dropped from 49 in 2011 to 44 in 2012" [1] Singapores' population is ~5 million[wikipedia], so the odds of being killed by a car for the total population is ~0.00088%

For a comparison let's look at NYC, which has roughly double the population within City Limits (~8 million for NYC):

"From 2002 to 2006, 843 pedestrians were killed"[2] That's ~211 deaths per year. Making the percentage odds ~0.0026375%

So you're about 1/3 as likely to be hit and killed by a car in Singapore than NYC. That's fairly significant, but there are a couple things to point out. NYC does have a significantly higher population density and I would assume it has a higher amount of vehicle traffic.

I think overall while it's clearly less likely to be killed as a pedestrian in Singapore, I wouldn't exactly call it "rare". And while I'm no professional on Singapore, I don't know why you characterize Singapore as somewhere that doesn't have large roads or many vehicles (There are 965,192 vehicles in Singapore[1]). Also I don't think CCTV is nearly as ubiquitous as you think, from the few news articles I've read they probably only have a few thousand with more only starting to roll-out recently[3][4]. It's certainly not up to London standards, and I doubt even there ever single pedestrian death is caught by CCTV.

[1]http://driving-in-singapore.spf.gov.sg/services/driving_in_s...

[2]http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc_ped_safety_stu...

[3]http://www.safetrolley.com/latest-news/singapore-police-inst...

[4]http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1S...
UK citizens pay for a TV license which gives them access to BBC broadcasts - through IPlayer, freeview TV, radio, and websites.

The BBC is also able to sell DVDs of their programs in the UK, and internationally (through BBC World). In theory, DRM would prevent people selling bootlegged copies that would severely impact this revenue stream.
The same could be said about all the PhD's in maths and physics who went to work as quant in Wall Street.
Are there any projects using emscripten that aren't just demos?
Is it just me or is the copyright debate the wrong problem to be working on ?

Around the world we have people trying to speak freely about matters of justice, life and death, and they are being arrested, shot, mortared and harassed.

TOR and similar are steps in the right direction, but mobile hardware is still clearly identifiable and root is getting taken from people and given to the network operators.

Solve the problems of those who cannot speak freely, give them tools and anonymity and innovation around freedom once more and we shall see the problems of copyright solved in new ways.

Solve for X.
Shame on you BBC.
Technology cannot prevent IP theft. You can outlaw it and hope fear will stop people from sharing. Or else you can find better ways to monetize your IP.
BBC should be working on putting that license money to better use.

Our greed knows no bounds. People with money and power have the means to act on their greed. Left in their hands, the internet will become as useful as the tv is today. Anything that is not certified by the moneybags will become illegal.
Shame on you bbc for taking money from the same people whom you intend to screw.
There are already solutions for full stack DRM. The player would output video stream only decryptable by licensed display devices. ( Which you could hack or just film the output with a camera)
I felt this was a fairly poor article. One of the most telling (for me) quotes was: "Dedicating itself to sharing knowledge and creativity - not just in the UK, but everywhere in the world - is an important and worthy cause, and I will happily pay my (compulsory) £145.50 each year to support the BBC in this."

This, I feel, misses the entire point of DRM. It is the belief of the BBC that adding DRM makes them money, by making it easier for them to sell their content, both as DVDs and overseas. I don't believe the BBC would put DRM on their content purely for the fun of irritating people.

So, the question isn't "would you pay your £145.50". The question is, how much more would you pay?

Taking some very vague numbers, there are just under 25 million TV licenses, and BBC international made £160 million profit last year on a turnover of £1bn. I'm not sure how much of that turnover is "value for the BBC" (are they paying to make TV programs?), but this means I can badly handwave that removing DRM might cost between around £7 to £40.

Would most people in the UK accept an increase in their licence fee of £7 in return for DRM free, and allowing everyone around the world to get free access to BBC programs? I suspect, unfortunately, the answer is no.

(Sorry if this is a bit simplistic, a true "the money of DRM" would be interesting, if contraversal. But, I feel this article really is ignoring the real most important issue, the money).
Sorry but this is rather ignorant. Enough people have cars and the roads are definitely wide enough, just like anywhere else, for traffic accidents to occur regularly. Surveillance might be omnipresent, but it's not a CCTV state like the UK.
Hence the rider about ensuring their ability to sue the people bypassing their DRM.
This whole we can't optimize for Rails anymore seems like a red herring. Dumb (random) routing is dumb routing. It doesn't matter if you have single threaded Rails or Django stack or highly concurrent Node.js or Erlang serving requests, if you distribute the requests randomly you're not going to efficiently use your resources and the Heroku "promise" of spinning up a 2nd dyno and getting 100% more concurrency is just not true.

All it changes is the details of the analysis, not the core finding. It makes the problem not as worse, but it's still pretty bad, and it's worse the more uneven your traffic is (in terms of how long each request takes to service).

All apps, even Unicorn, JRuby, Node.js, Erlang, etc. would benefit from something better than random routing.
Can you give some examples of legal financial crimes? Not saying you're wrong, I've just never heard that. I know they are a tax haven and have lax financial controls, but the "victims" of that are the tax man in foreign governments.
Huawei has been deemed a security risk by powerful US lawmakers

Shane had deep misgivings about the project he was working on and feared he was compromising US national security

The fact he didn't walk away in the first moment he felt this way, most likely means one of the US agencies killed him. We are apparently already allowed to kill citizens without trial when they are not on US soil.

Well written article though and the presentation was helpful.
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Why add DRM? It is consistently bypassed. The BBC only needs it for iPlayer, but DRM there is pointless since everything on iPlayer was broadcast prior on unprotected terrestial TV.

Just use HTTPS, check referrers, prevent iframing and require passing a one-use token, locked to IP address, embedded in the page. That won't protect you from people stealing the content, sure. But at least it prevents bandwidth-stealing.
The BBC makes a lot of content available for free. (The licence fee is payable whether you watch BBC tv or not).

The BBC doesn't produce all the content they show.

Rights owners have considerable control over what happens to the content.

Thus, many BBC radio programmes are downloadable as MP3 and can be kept forever. An excellent programme In Our Time[1] has made their entire back catalogue available, but a programme that has music (Desert Island Discs, or any live concerts on BBC Radio 1) will have much more restricted download conditions.

iPlayer (hateful stupid ridiculous name) really is amazing. The BBC led OnDemand viewing in the UK. And what we've got now is very very much better than the RealAudio kludge we had years ago.

So, really, the target here should be stupid rights holders who don't understand the benefits to greater viewership.

They need to come up with some other way of paying people who create content. The BBC is (at least, I hope they are) collecting a lot of data about how often programmes get watched or downloaded over their various online services; so maybe payment could be linked to download amounts somehow.

Paying content creators in a better way would also help "archive" services like BBC Radio FourExtra, which suffers from heavy rolling repeats.
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> Why add DRM?

The only reason: The people selling content to the BBC require that the BBC has DRM measures in place.
Why? They have a right to do whatever they like with their content In accordance with the rules laid down to them.

If it means that I in Sweden can pay and watch BBC content then where is the shame in that.
Not exactly, because it'd be against their own rules - the BBC is actually forbidden to encrypt its broadcasts. That's why their DVDs were always region 0 and bereft of copy-protection.

Things get a little more murky where we're talking about "downloads" as opposed to "broadcasts" - both the BBC and theit regulator, Ofcom, have confirmed on numerous occasions that it's mandatory that the BBC's "public service content remains free to air i.e. unencrypted." ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8352241.stm ) but they've been allowed to place limits on downloaded content such as iPlayer not letting you store content forever.

I suspect this is less about "BBC wants DRM" and more about "BBC is under massive pressure to use DRM"

Either way, I was disappointed when I first saw their submission to W3C talking about their support for DRM'd media - I've always been gratified by the way the BBC was the only big media corp. out there that wasn't chasing the dream of total control over its content. If they're making a U-turn on that I'll have to rethink my policy on paying the license fee.

(Before anyone steps up with the "it's mandatory" - it isn't if you don't own & use a TV, and I'd feel no sorrow at all about getting rid of my TV)
This might be enough for me to settle on Puppet over Chef. Haven't really compared them in depth and only played around with Chef so far.

Either way it seems pretty cool.
In India postmen also can gauge the contents of the letter or document. For example, they can recognize US college acceptance letters for students trying for further studies. Many of them will then ask for gifts for delivering the good news.
Will, I'm glad you wrote this. I'm sure it'll help some people who were unnecessarily discourage by a YC rejection.

Slightly OT: This post could really benefit from some editing (re clarity, overall length, succinctness). I like to think a lack of editing is why some people think they "can't write". They don't realize how much editing helps, even if they do it themselves.

Next time you write something, ask a few friends to review it, especially if you intend to channel PG ;). I'd be happy to help, too (I'm by no means an expert, though. I'm not even a native speaker)
Are you suggesting its legal for corporate intersts to kill people in Singapore (or anywhere)? Think we'll need a citation for that...
I grew up in Singapore. I was there for almost 17 years. I'm in Sydney now.

Parent is right, a lot of the negative media attention is completely over blown. Things like "outdoor gatherings of five or more persons still require police permits" while I think is still technically true, is never enforced. Obviously, because then you would require a gathering permit for a small family and the police would be running around every day busting school children.

Some of the laws are strict, but you'll see people breaking minor laws everyday with no repercussions. Just like every other city, the police have to use their brains to determine how best to spend their time.

They definitely take some offenses very very seriously e.g drug trafficing and possession. And some things seem a bit crazy like banning chewing gum. But I was there when this law came into effect and the difference it made to the city's cleanliness was noticeable.

There are other good things too. Its quite modern. Smoking is banned almost everywhere. It's really safe. Even for women at night. Public transport is good. It's multicultural and you get all the major religious holidays even if they are not your own.

It's actually a pretty good place to live.
Same here, since Pinboard is protocol compatible to Del.icio.us its well integrated almost everywhere (also an option in lots of mobile apps). Everywhere else I use just the great boomarklet.

Especially great is their page archiving ... goodbye link rot and you can even download the archives of your bookmarks
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As a license payer (who doesn't even own a TV), yes.

However I do understand that many would say no. Also the license fee is a pretty regressive tax[1]. I can easily afford it, but many people living in the council estate near by likely have some trouble paying it, and rich pensioners living in the posh bit of the village in their £1m houses get it for free.

[1] Yes, I know it's not strictly speaking a "tax".
> UK citizens pay for a TV license which gives them access to BBC broadcasts

More correctly, UK citizens pay for a TV licence which gives them access to any tv broadcast. TV and broadcast are defined in law, but it's pretty much anything broadcast live over any medium.

Thus, people living in the south of England who use a satellite dish to receive French telly (and nothing else) will need to pay a licence fee.

Weirdly, I use the BBC a lot (all day radio, Video on demand) and don't need to pay the licence.
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Certainly.

I find the ancient civilisations, and especially Greece, to be more intellectual, in that the very idea of society, laws, progress etc is under scrutiny and question in a self-reflective way. But even Europe itself was far more intellectual until around the early 20th century.

E.g Compare the top social discourse of early 20th century Vienna or 19th century Paris with today's NYT best-seller list or political pundits. Or compare ancient greek tragedy (which was at the time mass entertainment) to present day mass entertainment (that would be, blockbuster movies at worst and something like Black Swan or Godfather at its best).

From that time on, the emergence of a mass culture (which killed a less extensive but higher quality upper-middle class culture), the prevalence of market values and the blind respect of "experts" (and "progress" as a non-testable goal in itself) killed the intellectual traits I describe above.
There's a picture in the article - it's in a dock, almost vertical but leaning back at a slight angle, which makes it look a bit like a speaker. Direct link to the image: http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/bb2e144a-7653-11e2-8e...
I think they are just corrupt on a much higher level. Sure, you might not have everyday bribery, but if a big company chooses to fuck you they will not have a problem with closing both eyes for a minute.
I think the capabilities of the Angular team are quite respectable as well. Speaking of "reach" and thought leadership makes think of the fact that these guys are working at Google! This seems to have several positive aspects:

a) Possibly a more solid stance on development (stable APIs, not ditching a project and rewriting (Sproutcore -> Ember). Sorry if I simplify too much here.

b) Being a little "strategic" for Google: In this podcast [1] Igor Minar seems to suggest that they have some influence with other people at Google who work on web standards.

Logic: Google goes great length to optimize Chrome performance - therefore needs to understand how modern websites work, therefore may want to influence how modern web development is done (through their own js framework) so that the Browser can optimize better etc.

c) Also note the existance of a Chrome extension [2] for displaying and debugging Angular.js models in the browser.

Logic: Google wanting to promote their browser - therefore adressing important multiplicators like web developers with useful tools for development, leading to more websites being developed, tested primarily on Chrome, making use of Chrome features etc.

Do you agree? I haven't heard too much commentary on the "big picture"!

[1] http://basementcoders.com/2011/08/episode-41-interview-with-...
[2] https://github.com/angular/angularjs-batarangfor Chrome helping with displaying
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It's funny how all the rage is descending upon BBC while the 3 other companies that back up the DRM proposal (Google, Microsoft and Netflix) entice zero attention.
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As a relative beginner - "It's a very different approach when compared to using jQuery for everything" — is a bit misleading. They're both very different to jQuery (or Backbone/Spine - which are beautifully simple).

Totally anecdotal:
- Backbone I learnt straight away and have been progressively writing better code for around a year. It gives you enough rope to hang yourself but you can usually see what you've done and refactor. Which is nice.
- Ember I've been trying to learn a couple of times for the past year. Keep trying. Find a tutorial. It's out of date. Get frustrated. Try again. Find another one. It's poorly written. Try Again. Find another one. Can't get something to work and Ember is too much of a blackbox to debug. Give up.

The docs on the site are getting better (but still suck) - the PeepCode tutorial was great (not the Play By Play with Yehuda; don't waste your money on that) - but it still only did relatively trivial things. Would be great if PeepCode did a Play By Play with a Rails API and relational data etc.

- Angular scared me for ages too - the docs, as with Ember, are written by people who know how to use the framework for people who know how to use it already. Then Egghead.io happened. Wow. The concepts actually aren't that hard!

I think what the community sorely needs is a good Ember teacher - one that isn't patronising or aimed at computer scientists!
So correct me if I am wrong, to disable ptrace?

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

Grsecurity kernels also seem to have

/proc/sys/kernel/grsecurity.harden_ptrace
Corporate interests? In a lot of cases and places, corporate interests are one with those of the state.

What I suggest is that the legal structure of a state might give it the option to approve and perform those things. You'd be surprised how many western countries have also invaded places or killed people for specific corporate interests that coincide with those of the state.

It's not as if they do it for the benefit of some small company. We're talking corporations with the level of influence and budget that's bigger than a lot of countries.
Doesn't that take around a second?
This was a good blog post. If those corporations give their oversized megaphones to racists and misogynists, they should face retaliation. That's just plain activism. (Because their decisionmaking is private; they hire voices they want and exclude those they don't.)

The guy already has free speech. He can post his masculine drivel on the internet without fearing police. So much for so-called "thoughtcrime".

As for him not being able to get a cushy job writing words, we could discuss some advanced egalitarian society where we're all guaranteed a decent living. But not the world we live in, and in fact he's writing screeds against people trying to equalize gender relations.
If your Ruby code deploys to X you should know X, if it's part of your stack it should be part of your toolbox.

"create software that makes managing Apache, Redis, PostgreSQL" Like Plesk, but better, faster and less resource hungry.
It'd be interesting to see how jobs listings from "Tell HN: Who's hiring" threads perform. Both from employer and candidate perspectives.

Is anyone willing to share?
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