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> yet if this were any other traditional company you would side with the reporter.

[citation needed].

Given the claims made and the data provided, I doubt anyone would be so deliberately obtuse as to reach a different conclusion simply because of the company involved.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel there's more than a hint of satire in this essay? Did Benjamin Franklin propose DST as a joke to save resources? I'm a bit confused here.
"they should be looking to sell analytics and insights - thats where their value is"

This seems incredibly obvious to me, and is what I meant elsewhere in the thread where I mentioned knowing what everyone in the world is thinking right now.

Yes, it is hard. But they've got the profile and the money to round up the talent for it.

Making money from ads is cute and all, but there's a whole other level they could be working on.
1) They shouldn't be asking this type of question in the first place. They're promoting insecure practices, and can't seriously expect all their customers to know they should lie in their answers.

2) Knowing the answers to those questions shouldn't allow an attacker direct access to the account. It should initiate a password reset via email.
I don't have a car, but if you are willing to pay $60 per picture, I will be able to (legally) source pictures of neighbours' cars for you.
Seems like it doesn't need any legislation: it can just be an FTC rule.
Imagine a country where all decisions are taken by the popularity of the issue....
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" I doubt anyone would be so deliberately obtuse as to reach a different conclusion simply because of the company involved."

I thought that too. Then I saw how some people on HN (you can use the search to find some of the posts) were arguing that NYT was lying merely based on the fact that Musk is a scientist or because he was trying to change the world. And frankly, some people really are unable to separate their love for Musk and electric cars from the situation.

I read all of the accounts, starting from the original Broder article, and it's clear that Broder didn't "work[...] very hard to force our car to stop running." (http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive).
many decisions are allready based on popularity (voting is a popularity contest), I cant see that this direct measure is any worse.
This is completely wrongheaded. We don't want legal characterizations of these transactions to be "licenses". If what we pay money for is a good that we purchased, we get to keep that copy - and sell it if we no longer want it. Who cares if there's DRM on it. There will always be DRM on it. Without DRM there's no way we'd be able to resell the copy that we purchased. Apple recently received a patent on this very topic.
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This soooo needs to happen, but the lobby against such a bill would be so gigantic that it would never pass. The vast majority of people do not realize just how restrictive the digital goods terms of service typically are, and it will take many years and many instances of accounts being locked, hacked, companies shutting down auth servers or going out of business before changes happen.
backwards and forwards mixed up.

loved the other parts and as a whole app is great!

good job.
And who is forcing women to go to events like the Berlin Geekettes Hackathon?

http://berlingeekettes.github.com/hackathon/
Can you propose a method of doing this that isn't bitcoin?
The FTC's power in that area comes from a very small piece of legislation, and is limited to only what that legislation provides.

From 15 USC §45:

> The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations ... from using unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.

> The Commission shall have no authority under this section or section 57a of this title to declare unlawful an act or practice on the grounds that such act or practice is unfair unless the act or practice causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition.

Considering we have decades of clickwrap licenses being enforced in all levels of court, I don't think an FTC memo would be enough to declare software/media arriving with a license agreement illegal. IANAL of course.
You miss the point. DRMed digital goods cannot be resold. When you go to Kindle and get an ebook, all of the buttons say buy prominently, yet everything in the license says you are merely renting it for an undetermined amount of time, until the company decides otherwise. How is that not false advertising? They should be forced to change their text.
He is my professor now. He showed a video of Dreamtheater with it on our first day.
I can see that some people have had serious problems with them. For what it's worth, though, I used their service for the first time last week. It worked fine, and only took a few moments for them to complete the transaction after I deposited the cash.
They saying goes that if you are not paying you are the product (or will become eventually).
Wonder how much people are willing to pay? And what it would cost?
But personally I fear the biggest road-bump will the paying itself.
There are already other responses to your assertion that prioritizing for female employees is morally wrong. But how often do you hear startups talking about "culture fit" playing a role in hiring decisions? Is it morally wrong to prioritize culture fit over competency? If your answer is "no", it may surprise you to find that this is considered acceptable practice in many companies.
I've seen this before, but it's always seemed curious to me. Does anyone know the circumstances of this letter?

Was there really a journal of Paris? Was it some kind of English language paper for ex-pats, which would explain why Franklin was writing an letter in English to it? Or was he writing a letter in English to a "Journal de Paris", assuming that anybody educated enough to read was educated enough to read English? Or is the whole "journal" thing just a joke, and it's just a pamphlet for general publication making fun of the Parisians (which would also explain the English language)?

On a broader note, Franklin and Jefferson spent an awful lot of time in Paris, but I never run across any letters or writings of theirs in French. Do these things exist but just don't show up often, was there some kind of social faux pas that explains this, or was their French just kind of sucky?
> When do you think debian strives to hard to be perfect?

The apt repo format with pools and the indexes, it's a nice idea, I see how pools can save space, but ultimately they add complexity with little in return. The deb control files, all broken up instead of a single spec file, I understand the urge to modularize, but ultimately is makes it harder to work with while adding little value. What they do with apache and nginx with mods-available, mods-enabled, sites-available, sites-enabled. Again, I understand how that could seem better, more modular, easier to manage, but ultimately in my experience it's just a pain to deal with -- they tried too hard.

> I am not sure what "half-backed" means but it does not matter because you are talking about Ubuntu and not Debian.

Half-baked means unfinished or not well thought out. I think Ubuntu gets this because of their strict 6 month release cycle (not the "when it's done" attitude Debian and Red Hat traditionally have). Also they seem to lack attention to detail when it comes to server stuff. No, Debian stable is not half-baked. But the OP specifically asked about "Debian-derived Linux distributions" so I included something Ubuntu specific.

> Do you think debian comes with poor documentation for new/changed features?

While I prefer Red Hat/Fedora [online] documentation, no I don't think Debian documentation is poor. Debian actually updates man pages when they make changes, unlike Ubuntu. The reason I like Red Hat documentation better is that it has a more focused voice, it comes across as official and clear. Debian documentation often comes across as personal opinions, and appears more scattered to me.

> iptables-persistent is installed on 1.17% of machines that supply popcon data[1]. Lets face it compared to pf iptables sucks, but it sucks a lot less when you use shorewall.

Ah, yes pf's syntax and features put netfilter/iptables to shame. I would much rather run pf as a network [gateway] firewall. But I also think you should have a host firewall, they are really needed in the cloud, so iptables it is. According to the popularity contest only 2.49% have shorewall, and 1.87% have ufw. I'm guessing a lot of people rolled there own with shell scripts. Which is another gripe I have. There is no default persistent firewall, to me that is crazy. iptables-persistent doesn't even support IPv6 in squeeze (current stable). It makes me feel like Debian lacks direction, no one cares enough to make it happen, there's no project manager insisting it get done because customers want it, people just do what they want.

I don't mean to pick on Debian, Debian is great, I just wish they'd do some things more like Red Hat :)
Yes, but if you can afford a suborbital flight, you can probably afford to spend those 18 hours in international first class, where you'll have access to a bed, unlimited champagne, caviar, and whatever else you want. Why cut that party short?
With a bar for "evil" so absurdly low, it strikes me as rather silly to become so indignant over such labels.
actually pretty fair, considering his usual style

Which, sadly, brings us back to what they say about why Top Gear US can't be like Top Gear UK. Try that style in the US, and everybody is jumping down your throat.
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Yes, and such a country would not be one that I'd want to live in. The tyranny of the majority can, at times, oppress the minority.
> Without DRM there's no way we'd be able to resell the copy that we purchased.

It's not clear what you mean by this. We didn't need DRM to resell music, movies, books before computers.
Yeah, I for one think that Musk was being entirely unreasonable when he got upset with Top Gear (I mean come on, this is a show that gave a good review to a car because they were able to drive it upside-down in a tunnel...).

His issues with the Times seem far more reasonable.
In no way is "buy" in and of itself incorrect terminology. One can "buy" or "purchase" goods, services, subscriptions or -- yes -- licenses.

And by the way, when one buys a copy of software, what one really buys is at best a perpetual license to use it; one is not buying the software itself. (This point, of course, is at the heart of considerable open source ideology.)

The petition's authors have a reasonable claim to make that buying an e-book on Amazon should not be portrayed as the equivalent of buying a paper book. But the way they actually worded the redress requested in their petition is not well-supported by the facts.
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re: 2- the attackers apparently had an email address very similar to the victim's email. Most likely just convinced the tech support that the victim's email addr had a typo.
You can't not communicate with a typeface - they always have a certain feel, which is why there's a whole lot of them. Typefaces also have characteristics that make them more suitable for certain situations. For example, Georgia is designed for the screen with a tall x-height but Garamond looks better in print with its small x-height. Then there's condensed fonts, small caps.. It's certainly hard for a non-designer to catch all the visual differences but I believe they are sensed subconsciously by all.
I think this was from Le Journal de Paris. "Journal" in this case actually means "newspaper" -- it was a daily that ran from the 1770's to the 1840's. I have a copy, but sadly it has no Benjamin Franklin essays in it.
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By paying for the picture, you agree that the picture is for your own use only. You can't show it to anyone else. You can't sell it to anyone else. You can't do anything with it but look at it, and only when you're alone.

And you don't get told that until after you've paid for it.
"gave a good review to a car because they were able to drive it upside-down in a tunnel"

Musk aside, is there a youtube link for that?
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Yes, I claim that you made mistakes in your analysis of the presentation, and that you are covering up the mistakes by not addressing my critique.

For example, I said that the presenter did not make the argument that 'Because woman are not the main focus, therefore men are, therefore games are sexist'. You have never present the reasoning behind that assertion, and I did not get the same conclusion from the presentation.

For example, you said "Dinosaur Planet was transformed to a StarFox game because it makes so much business sense but unsurprisingly she didn't mention this _extremely_ obvious fact.", and I show that while it wasn't explicitly said, it was a simple inferences from two other statements, to wit "the transformation used the damsel-in-distress trope" and "game companies often use the damsel-in-distress trope to make more sales".

This does leave the possibility that the change was done for other reasons, but I think it's reasonable to infer that the speaker knows that it makes business sense, but also believes it doesn't make good moral sense.

For example, you describe 'objectification' as the dictionary definition of "To become/transform into an object", and argued that the speaker was using "false attribution." I responded by pointing out that the speaker was using the definition as it's used in the philosophy of ethics, with a heritage dating even back to Kant, and that that was the appropriate definition for this presentation. I don't see where the presenter used false attribution.

As as for ad hominem, I realize that you do have experience in that matter. The phrase "doing it in a overly-formal tone just to look more serious" is ad hominem, in that it references the presenter's style, rather than the logic.

So please, justify your original assertions rather than making new statements. Otherwise I could just as easily say that you used the "overly-formal tone" of naming common logical fallacies "just to look more serious" in your opposition to the contents of the presentation. And where's the fun in me being a parrot?
He's aiming to go D. D. Harriman one better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos_D._Harriman
I don't really understand the hate on Times. It's more or less the perfect neutral font when you want to say "I didn't make a choice because this document is of a nature where a design choice need not or should not be made." It is sufficiently serious that the reader is not distracted from the content of the writing by the character of the letter forms. It's neutral, and a non-choice, in my opinion.
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Where are the Tesla/Broder call logs?
Perhaps he is speaking of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbpgZ2Dt0A

I think they also mentioned when reviewing one of those crazy open-wheelers that it was supposed to be able to drive upside-down simply due to downforce, but I don't think they demo'd that.
Interestingly, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater is involved with this product.
Like to see them working together again someday and integrating more. Apple should buy Google.
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Let's see. I've actually modeled the fiscal problems I talk about in Excel and understand how they work and where the levers might be. Most people (right, left, whatever) watch TV and allow themselves to be indoctrinated.

No brother, I am far from cargo culture, very far. On fiscal issues the stuff you'll see me write might seem to align with the Republicans. On social issues the right wing would burn me on a cross if they could because I tend to align with the godless left (gay rights, religion, abortion, gun rights, war, etc.)

The thing about fiscal issues is that they are very, very simple. Anyone with high school math can confirm or refute claims. If you use a spreadsheet even better; you can model a far larger system and see how it actually works.

The problem with most who react negatively to calls for severe cuts, balanced budget and reduced government footprint is that they are simply parroting what has been indoctrinated into their brains without even making a small effort to put pen to paper and really understand how things work.

Here's a simple example. Model this in your spreadsheet and then tell me how YOU would solve the problem.

You hire a union gardener. He gets $200 a month. After working ten years he can retire with 80% of his salary for the rest of his life.

Ten years later he retires. Now you pay him $160 per month to stay home.

You still need a gardener and hire another one. Now that position effectively costs you $360 per month.

Ten years later this new guy retires. Now the position costs you $200 + $160 + 160 or $520 per month, nearly triple the salary for just one person.

If I hire non-union I pay my gardener $100 per year and, when he retires, I pay a similar gardener a similar amount.

Get it?
Yup, that's it!

F1 teams also commonly claim their cars could drive upsidedown, but the logistics of actually trying that would be absurd. You'd probably need a robotic driver at least...
True. I maintain a Windows virtual machine on Linux just to be able to use banking sites that require Java. the sites don't seem to ever work on Linux, even with the proprietary Java libraries installed.
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Server clocks should be set to UTC. And/or if you have to pick a DST timezone never set cronjobs to go from 2-3.
Try 10601 if you want something with a little less theory - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roni/10601/ . Lecture videos are only available for students though.
If you like the business decisions made by some developers, and you don't like the business decisions made by other developers, vote with your wallet and support the ones you like.
Goldman didn't do what they are being accused of, and if they did there is nothing wrong with it. Besides, the best way to prevent this sort of thing from ever happening again is to not punish anyone, except possibly the guy who blew the whistle.
I make games. I consider them important enough to get worked up over. =)
Some other obvious approaches mentioned down the thread: Charge for API access, charge for exceeding API limits, charge for exceeding certain follower numbers, charge (at various levels) for analytics, charge for feature sets inside things like Tweetdeck, charge for access to certain API functions and so on.

It's hard to see $9 billion worth in these ideas, but that's only if we think in the short term.

Twitter could be genuinely worth that in 5 or 10 years, but only if it focussed on customers, and that's only going to happen if the founders vision trumps the very short term investor greed.
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As far as interesting musical interfaces go, the axis 64 is the most amazing thing I've ever seen from a conceptual standpoint. It's like someone just laid down the same of all of these relationships that make music work and put into something your hands can push on. What's weird is that even though it's just an /interface/ it makes the /concepts/ easy to grasp, manipulate, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7OeRkXWTtQ
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Why on earth is he still talking about this? There is nothing to be gained from it at this point. The story played out with words back and forth, whatever opinions people have formed about who was "right" have been formed. No one is going to think better of Tesla from Elon Musk continuing to talk about it. It was an unfortunate little kerfuffle, let sleeping dogs lie and move on already.

I also think it's a mistake for Elon to continue claiming that the reporter acted in bad faith. There's no way to prove that; the data can show where the car went but not what was going on in the reporter's head.

Elon's passion is changing the world, and I admire him immensely. The problem with passion is that it can sometimes cause a person to act rashly. If I were Elon, I'd find a cool-headed trusted friend to help me choose my battles a little more wisely.
Queens/The Bronx/Harlem aren't that far from the Upper East Side... They're not Shenzhen by any means, but they should serve as a decent reminder, especially if they're aware that those places are relatively rich compared to lots of places.
> I wonder how common it was at the time to wake up around noon though?

Despite all his quotes about "early to rise", Franklin was known, during his time in Paris, as a party animal. This provides a lot of context to those jokes about waking up around noon.
There are no girls in computer science, just like there are no boys in computer science.

There are however, women in computer science.

This is part of the problem, women are not children, girls are and society sadly enforces this.

Think of how strange a title would be if someone talked about "being a boy in computer science".
seems to have a learning curve as well with the need of a new benchmark in piano music academia if this device is to be mainstream.

I'll have to agree that it might just have to remain as a novelty for now.
Great insight into the effort needed to build a game. I'm counting 19 man months of work. With an average yearly salary of $80'000 and a sales price of $0.99 the game needs to sell roughly 180'000 copies to pay for development.
If it was actually published in Journal de Paris, why the weird "Journal of Paris" thing? And did the actual Journal de Paris really publish letters in English sometimes? I've always heard Franklin was a big celebrity in Paris(that definitely might be propaganda in American schoolbooks), but English wasn't all that popular of a language at the time.

I can believe that Franklin was making a joking reference to Le Journal de Paris, but it seems hard to believe this actually got published there.
Of course "hungry" was not used literally. It's about being driven to better yourself. My grandparents, immigrants, landed in the new world with nearly nothing to their names. Nothing. They sought no handouts. They received no handouts. They worked hard and elevated themselves from absolutely nothing to eventually owning their own small business. This is the story of millions of immigrants who, hungry to succeed, pushed through thick and thin and made it happen.

A huge chunk of our population would be easy to look like sorry excuses for human being when compared to the stories most immigrants could tell you about their history in the new world.

Granted, we created some of these problems. That said, the human condition is such that some of us will not act unless put into a sink-or-swim predicament. Stories of able-bodied youngsters stuck in this alternate reality abound. Some have even taken to YouTube to very publicly show off what they can get for free from the government and actually talk about how you can do the same.

Look, I recognize there are a lot of things government has gotten right. That's the truth. However, today, it has degenerated into this thing that has been relentlessly destroying our country from the inside.
You can buy a ticket to Disney Land for ~$69, but buying Disney Land will probably cost a billion or more.

So....Buy a license to play a game vs. buy a game?
Interesting how Ben Franklin's solution was a prohibitive tax on window shades and post-sunset transit, a quota on candles, and a citywide alarm clock. After all those regulations that would be near impossible to enforce, maybe simply changing the clocks was a far more elegant solution.