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My experience:
I have had a Dell XPS 13 since 2007.
I had to replace the power supply last year (so after 5 years) because the connector had been broken (probably putting a foot over or pushing it with a chair). The way the connector broke made a shortcircuit in the motherboard and the laptop died but fortunately I still had an extended NBD warranty cover so they changed the mobo for free.
I had used this warranty also in the past to change the display when it had some problem a couple of years before.
The warranty didnt cover the powersupply (nor the various batteries I had to change in these 6 years, i think one every couple of years, the last one was a chinese compatible that was even bad and lasted probably 6 months).

In my previous company we had I think 5-6 XPS and 10 Latitude laptops and We had (i think) 1 motherboard problem, 1 or 2 power supply problems and dozens of batteries changed. We had also 70 or more desktops, very few failures.

I generally think Dell machines are good, but something has to be done for batteries (not only Dell ones...)
Does milk spoil while traveling at the speed of light?
I agree with your placing blame on traditional media displaying unverified information as facts, for sure. I guess the point I was trying to make is more that much of the incorrect info spread last week was a result of a chain reaction of people incorrectly interpreting breaking news.

For instance, on the matter of blaming the missing Brown student, I remember comments in a reddit thread that were quickly deleted showing a comparison of the face of the Brown student with the officially released FBI photos of "Suspect #2". The comment didn't claim they were the same person, it just raised the question. However, it only took minutes for the reddit hivemind to jump to the conclusion that the Brown student was "Suspect #2"
You can do things like deposit a physical incarnation of the stuff somewhere, or several locations, locked in a series of locks, and exchange geo coordinates and keys in a series of trades
Nice idea. I am sure there are startups doing that already, but don't know one offhand. TV news is a waste of time. It is addictive though.
After reading the interview, I have zero interest in reading any book from Eric Schmidt, but I am thoroughly fascinated by what Assange has to say. This interview is probably going to be much more insightful than any book Schmidt will write.
How is that vaguely superficially similar fraud relevant?
The point is that many people are planning many things on that particular day.

Maybe a particular student had an interview planned with admissions at a college and had no way to reschedule (parent took them, had to be back). And they would have made a good enough impression to get admitted to the school?

Maybe someone had a wedding planned (could have been a weekend just as easily, right?) that evening or a charity event and had paid deposits and had guests in transit and people didn't show up at the caterer. Who covers all these loses from a suggestion like this?

Forget whether these examples (as with the colo one) which are arbitrary mean anything to you in particular or matter at all to you.

I don't care at all about sports but I can understand a child being disappointed when he is supposed to go to a game with his father on a particular evening. (My point is not the merits of the downside I am presenting but rather whether it makes a difference to me vs. the child who misses the game).

"If a colo felt it was important for staff to be on hand, there were likely staff on hand."

I don't think you can assume that the employees at the colo would agree to show up just like that, that they wouldn't have pressure to not go (from spouses) or that they wouldn't have to cover for a spouse that worked at another job (say medicine or law enforcement).

The point is much resources were dedicated to catching this one individual (even the deployment of so many "assets" without respect to the impact it had on anyone at all.

Is the same concentrated deployment of assets being done in cities such as Camden, Newark, Detroit with high murder rates and daily crime?)
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A general tool would do that :) I try to use LICENSE for my projects.
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If it doesn't matter, then why don't they just read him his rights? If reading the rights is just a formality, then why all the effort and trouble to avoid doing it? The problem really isn't this case specifically, the problem is what this says about the attitude of the government toward the rights of people who are accused of crimes. The government seems to be sliding toward the position that accused people do not have rights, and this is troubling. Basically, it is an important to ask whether the government should be allowed to have whatever it is that the government believes it is gaining by not reading the suspect his rights in this case.
yes because percentage is a great statistical tool. And I agree, a popup is off putting and I cringe everytime I get those. Take that as feedback!
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A quick note: in the first or second lecture when you multiply a state vector by a constant and use number 2 as an example, it's a bit confusing: it does not preserve the unitarity. A better example would be a complex number exp(i\phi).
This article kind of misses the point in a few ways

1. During important events, a lot of us want to be/feel connected to what's going on. Watching on TV does that and following reddit/twitter/web does that too, but picking up the paper hours later doesn't. You could make the same argument as the article about the super bowl: if you want to know what happened, don't use twitter or watch the game on TV (remember when everyone thought the 49ers were going to score on that last drive to win the game? LOL FAIL!) just wait until a few hours after it's over and read about it on your favorite website! I mean, that's all true, but it misses the point. For a lot of events, for better or worse, we want to know what's happening as it happens.

2. I use twitter to follow breaking news and news related to my profession (I'm an economist), so I choose who to follow based on that and know which people are reliable and unreliable; @AntDeRosa (among others) is awesome and responsible; I stopped following some other people for irresponsibility during hurricane sandy, etc. So there's no universal "twitter." I get a lot of valuable "breaking news" out of twitter and reddit, but depending on how other people use it, they may not. I really doubt that the Manjoo really believed that all of the rumors he read online were true.

3. Pretty much all of the relevant breaking news on, say, cyprus was coming from twitter. There are many other examples. For breaking non-mainstream news, there is no alternative to twitter etc. For this event, some of the threads on r/news were amazingly informative.

4. From what I've read, a lot of the misinformation problems were caused by journalists either on TV or online. Point fingers at them.

edit: and by "them" I mean those particular people, not "journalists" as a group.
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don't really trust it.
"I suspect I'd be much more concerned about the apprehension"

I suggest then that you try building up from scratch a business using your own money, time and effort over the course of many many years where you have large customers that can and easily drop you and see if you feel the same way.

Have you ever owned a business where you have major customers that expect everything will just work and the buck stops with you?

Many things in the world work this way no excuses matter. Same as if you are taking a LSAT or MCAT test which will determine if you are going to get admitted to a good school or an OK school and something happens where you don't do well on the test it doesn't matter why. You suffer the consequences.
All of those things can also be totally valid parts of a well-told story. Not only that, any historically significant factual account of human beings is likely to contain at least one and probably more of those things.

Yes, only using those things, or using them to prop up otherwise poor writing, is most certainly a crutch. But generalizing that too far takes very significant parts of our nature and behavior -- for better or worse -- and casts them in an artificially negative light as invalid literary mechanics.
Milk can't travel at the speed of light. Nor can anything else with mass.
The difference is that the problems are much, much worse with some brands. For instance, I have ordered three Dell computers for myself and I have never taken delivery of a single one. In every case Dell screwed up the order and I ended up canceling before the computer actually arrived.

At the same time, I used to buy Dell machines for my employer. We were a large customer, so we got relatively good service and I never experienced any significant problems.

So the moral of the story, to me, is that Dell is fine for corporate purchases, but I'll stick with Lenovo for my personal purchases until Lenovo screws me over and I go looking for a new vendor.
Seems that it does not allow creating dissectors that use wireshark ability to reassemble TCP (_pdus() function).
Fines would make the DMCA the exclusive weapon of major corporations with big piles of money for legal stuff.

Oh, wait...

The biggest issue with the DMCA is that it exists. There's no way of mitigating the basic concept of putting exercising the law into the hands of those who profit from it.
If I see a preview for a movie that shows, in slo-mo, the hero running towards the camera with a gigantic fiery explosion behind him, I know for sure it'll be a boring movie.

I far prefer movies with an interesting plot.
You'd think that, but they never step back and give an organized summary.
BTC doesn't solve Byzantine Generals, as it is trivially hackable by the 51% attack.
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Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon
Natural News has now confirmed that at least five private military contractors were operating on scene at the Boston marathon, and that they all carried black backpacks which look very similar to the backpack carrying the pressure cooker bomb.
I believe that with enough creativity, everything can be modeled under thermodynamics.
In other words, it comes down to intent (i.e. the difference between manslaughter and murder).
Fairness is what perceived by consumers or customers. Remember the episode of Apple decreasing the price of iPhone by $200.
I feel pretty comfortable being upset with both of them over it.
Great advice, as long as you've been born in a fairly privileged part of the world.
The correct answer doesn't exist. There's a methodology you can follow to find an answer for every product, and it will vary case-by-case and sometimes over the lifetime over the product. Your gut reaction will be right many times but wrong sometimes as well. It's entirely possible to run the numbers and figure out what the right decision is right now for this game.
Am I the only one who pictured a beer pong tournament on the roof of a skyscraper before reading the link?
Maybe a particular student had an interview planned with admissions at a college and had no way to reschedule (parent took them, had to be back). And they would have made a good enough impression to get admitted to the school?

Shit happens. In this case it was a manhunt, but it could easily have been a highway accident, gas main break, flood or snowstorm that caused a student to miss an interview. I don't see your point.

I don't care at all about sports but I can understand a child being disappointed when he is supposed to go to a game with his father on a particular evening.

This has happened to my biz partner who promised to take his son to BoSox games and then had to cancel because of work. Kids gets over it.

I don't think you can assume that the employees at the colo would agree to show up just like that, that they wouldn't have pressure to not go (from spouses)

The same pressure could have been applied if the bomber wasn't caught, although over multiple days instead of just one.

Is the same concentrated deployment of assets being done in cities such as Camden, Newark, Detroit with high murder rates and daily crime?

As I mentioned in another post in this thread, yes you do see deployment of resources and police asking citizens to stay indoors when chasing armed suspects/gang suspects who have killed innocents. The search areas tend to be smaller and the deployment not as extreme, but then again the threats tend to be proportionally smaller (1-2 guys with handguns vs 1-2 guys with automatic weapons and explosives). I live in a high-crime city and have seen it happen first hand.
I'm curious - Why would a startup, that apparently was struggling, acquire another company just two months ago?

"YC-Backed Referly Acquires LaunchGram, Eyes Ramen Profitability"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251196
There was an good discussion on this topic earlier today, but somehow it disappeared from the front page of HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580972
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Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to delve into AI, but one interesting conversation I had the other day we discussed one difference between (current) software and people is that a code duplication checker would miss a number of things a human could look at and recognize as obviously similar, if not identical. Applying things like Bayes can help (to an extent), but the question is, where is the line drawn? If we get a piece of software that can automatically refactor, does that count as AI?
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Still think it is an unnecessary dig at Apple. My brothers MacBook charger only died at 4 years old due to him spiling a drink on it.
The product that you appear to be buying is instantaneous transmission of the news, perhaps as much as a minute or two ahead of others.

The product you are actually buying is non-existent. You are the product. People pay good money in order to manipulate your social drive to keep you as viewers.

I said this to some friends on FB yesterday, but it bears repeating. Of all the players in this terrible tragedy, the terrorists, the police, the news media, the administration, the politicians, the security-industrial complex and so forth -- it's in everybody's interest to create and sustain some huge public spectacle. That's not a good thing for a democracy or the continuation of a free society. </rant>
Can you tell me what the error was (see the stdout + stderr output of Xcode)? I'd really like to help you get it to run, and figure out why it didn't out of the box (it should).

Which video card do you have? It should work even on an Intel 3000.
Whether someone starts a new company to do their work or works within an existing one is completely irrelevant to the significance of their work. You're focusing on the companies rather than the people, which makes no sense considering that we're comparing the relative economic significance of the people, not their companies.

Apple's entire product line is built on top of Ritchie's work. That's an unusually obvious example of standing on the shoulders of giants, and Ritchie and Thompson are the giants. Jobs just brought their work (and the work of others) to market successfully.

You're absolutely right that Ritchie's not the kind of figure that grasps the public attention, but he and Thompson did turn over whole sections of the economy. They just did it by proxy. The people doing the actual work are the ones with economic significance, not the proxy that happens to sell a lot of copies of it.
Wow, I really didn't know that they also made laptops! Thanks!
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Quit being so negative!
Am I the only one who noticed his "clock" is an aircraft altimeter?
This guy is awesome! :)
The level of 'approximation' involved here would be like making a square that was .0001% too long on one side. You wouldn't be able to tell at all.

The page you listed also says: "There has been an industry trend towards sampling rates well beyond the basic requirements; 96 kHz and even 192 kHz are available.[1] This is in contrast with laboratory experiments, which have failed to show that ultrasonic frequencies are audible to human observers"
Great Job Alec!
'its share'
Yes, the issue with the breaking news fiasco is that there's no more fact-checking built in. I believe that everyday people are just as capable to fact-check as anyone with a degree from Columbia J-School, but erasing something from the Internet is hard. News sites need to work in a way to show "this has been refuted as false" into their reports.
"the laptop's bottom surface is coated in soft checkerboard patterned plastic"

Looks like carbon fiber to me.
3 downvotes for that? I've been using gimp for over 13 years, and it sucks compared to paint shop pro.
I really wish github had an automated tool to add a license file (by easily choosing from a list of existing licenses, of course). I always neglect to include a license on my projects ... and then procrastinate doing it afterwards.
Totally agree. This is what I keep telling people whenever they moan about Game Of Thrones/A Song Of Ice And Fire being porn and/or too violent.
Aristotle himself lists spectacle as one of the essential components of drama, alongside other indispensables such as a plot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle)

That's not to say that writers with poor plots don't resort to amplified spectacle when trying to conceal their failings. But it's a mistake to think that spectacle, in and of itself, has no place in well constructed drama. In many ways, good drama is what justifies a major spectacle, which is the show in show business.
Slightly closer to the original topic, here's Windows 95 running on a Nokia N900:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMYuCHxBgE
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>There'll be camera footage from the 7-11 that they held up

They didn't hold up the 7-11.

http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/15/live-blog-multiple-explosions...
He said it was put back online after 15 days. That's how it's supposed to work. There is a gap between the content being taken down and going back up to allow time for a copyright holder to go to court and get an injunction.
It absolutely is a drug. There has to be some study showing what chemicals are released in our brain when we see little tidbits of new information flowing. Look at the biggest new websites - facebook, twitter, reddit - they're all the same thing. Tiny interesting tidbits constantly streaming. There's something addicting about it.
I'm not a laywer, nor I know US laws, but mustn't DMCA takedown notice include full contact details on entity who owns a copyrighted materials and, thus, sent the notice?

I'm not sure, but I suspect, without those, the notice is legally void and provider should just drop it as junk mail.
Read said law. That's not what it requires. The only part of the notice that is under penalty of perjury is "that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed" (H.R. 2281, Title II, Sec. 512 (3) (vi)), not the other 5 required elements of the notice, including the list of allegedly infringing activity.

All of the claims in a DMCA notice are about alleged infringement, because copyright holders are not judges and cannot proclaim infringement to have occurred. The most they can have is a good-faith belief that the use was not authorized, and even if that belief turns out to be true, that doesn't necessarily mean the unauthorized use is infringing. There's nothing wrong with using that language in the notice.
What library names? I've never noticed that in LÖVE's docs.
Remember the age poll and the <10 option?
Same thing happened to me. Sent the account $20 and it was refunded about an hour later. I mean, I'm more than happy to support this.

_why could make one hell of a kickstarter, if he wanted to.
As an aside, how does this cooperate with cache_digests from rails 4?
"it's clear that the regulatory agencies are gunning up to get more involved in "digital health" products which make healthcare claims"

They're really not any more empowered than they are with nutraceuticals. And yes, all health products should be regulated, and they shouldn't be as deregulated as they are now.

"If you ever want to sell b2b (which is where healthcare dollars are at) then you'll need more."

Non-evidence based medicine doesn't seem to be running into any roadblocks.
Looks less sophisticated than the CCC's Blinkenlights project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaXP7hLHEs
> However, yesterday a couple million people really needed to know what was going on immediately.

Reminds me of energy drinks.

Energy drinks make sense for some athletes, in some situations. But mostly, they're purchased by people who have been conditioned, in some way and to some extent or another, to think they need an energy drink.
While you may think so, GPL is based on copyright, and it's what the copyright law and courts say which count. Linked modules contain code covered under copyright and hence is regulated by the GPL. A connection via TCP/IP does not.

It would be odd indeed to connect to Facebook's web site via TCP/IP, and claim that the Facebook system and my TCP client code are all part of one system, so Facebook has violated my copyright.
Maybe you should avoid generalizations that need to be carefully qualified just to become less wrong. This is such a broad statement about a type of business that can be almost any business that even before you try to make a statement about it you've almost certainly made yourself incorrect.

You have an experience that's valuable and you're presenting it to people; that's good and helpful. Stick with that. There's no need to try and apply it to a much wider audience than is actually relevant.
There was the class action suit: https://www.adaptersettlement.com/default.aspx

There is an instructable for how to fix your cable: http://www.instructables.com/id/MacBook-Mag-Safe-Charger-Bud...

Google images for "magsafe adapter" 10/56 images are of frayed cables.
They're literally selling hours of commercials to snake-oil peddlers.
The blurbs on Watsi are fluff? No they aren't. They're so much the opposite of fluff that if that's what you mean, I'm going to ahead and say you've never looked at the site. Each profile on Watsi lists the specific medical condition that an actual human being needs remediated. For instance, paraphrasing, "had half of body horribly burned in petrol fire".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

The governor makes it sound like "all of Boston, all of Boston" ...
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