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I am sure he knows better than I. However from my point of view, those two positions are likely to be "extreme" and "very extreme".

(My point of view is that we would be better off without software patents. It would be hard to find a US patent lawyer or court who would agree.)

Also a random note in case anyone gets confused. There is only one such court, but cases are often heard by a subset of the justices. So what result you get can depend on which justices hear the case. Mark Lemley's claim is that there is a sharp divide between the justices.
The 35 hours to lose 1 lb. of fat is VERY questionable to me. There are ~3500 calories in a lb. of fat. Walking or running 1 mile consumes at LEAST 100 calories but usually closer to 120 calories. So they are walking 1 hour miles?

Not all "cardio" is equal. I generally run 20 to 40 miles per week at 7:30/ mile pace. So my caloric burn is 120 calories per mile x 1 hour (8 miles) = 960 calories. So I could lose 1 pound of fat per 3.5 hours.

Someone walking 3mph (20 minute miles) on a treadmill would burn 300 to 360 calories in contrast. So that means they would lose 1 pound every ~10 hours. This is very doable for most people. This of course assumes they don't eat more.

Then the OP is very hand wavey about the idea that you have more muscle so your metabolic rate is so much higher. It's quite hard to build many pounds of lean muscle too!

An interesting section on individual metabolic rate differences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate#Causes_of_...
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The first thought I had was: Why doesn't someone organize an "Occupy Malibu"? Hundreds or thousands of people peacefully (and cleanly) making use of the public beaches in these "exclusive" areas for the entire summer. Keep it clean, civilized, respectable, don't leave trash behind and be considerate. In other words, give absolutely no reason to label you negatively in any way.
I think what crowdfunding has been showing us is that we have gone through a dark ages of internet business models (ads), in that the ease of marketing through ads blindsided people to pursuing more creative (and yes, often more laborious) business models.

I disagree ads are what keeps the internet alive. What keeps it alive are hackers and artists. They share this: an itch to create. They will create even for free. But we would have been so much ahead in creative business models that they could explore (see Kickstarter) in an alternate reality where ads did not exist.
It's 2013 now. Manning was taken into custody in 2010. When do we get to assume people seriously debating the events around Manning's trial will at least be vaguely aware of the big details? Especially since we're discussing Manning in the context of wider U.S. legal policy now.

Garbage in means garbage out, every time. How can you draw accurate parallels from one case to another if you don't even bother to do the barest of research about the case you're drawing from?
I'd read something about it, but am not finding my sources, so I'll drop the claim for now.

However, it does seem to follow inherently from:

1) Precedent (as policy, not any particular instance)
2) The ability to determine/resolve contradictions between laws
3) The supremacy clause of the Constitution

If the court finds (per 2) that a given law is in contradiction with the Constitution, they must resolve the issue by deferring to the Constitution (per 3). Later courts must find the same (per 1). Therefor, you have a law which is effectively overturned by being deemed in conflict with the Constitution.
There seems to be a drive in some of the core standards to allow as flexible "human" encoding as possible. Instead of writing a tight-as-possible encoding, it's like it becomes a game to see how complicated yet still unambiguous they can make syntax.

HTTP and SIP, for instance, have ridiculous parsing rules and tons of edge cases. The SIP authors even put together a "torture test" RFC where they take glee in making the most insane messages that still parse. And when they don't parse, they suggest the implementation infer the meaning. Seriously.

HTTP and SIP allow newlines in headers that get consumed in parsing, so you can manually word-wrap lines. They allow comments in HTTP messages. SIP (HTTP too?) allows headers _in the URL_.

When a non-committee (TCPIP) or non-academic (SPDY) entity does a spec, they tend to remove a lot of this cruft and realise that human-readability comes second (unlike in programming languages).
I'll agree with that (four year military veteran here). You serve your country by striving to make it better.

I guess to me patriotism isn't telling everyone else how much better you are than other countries, it's constantly reminding yourself how much better your country can be, and striving to make it happen. Don't need to be in the military to do that, and sometimes going into the military might be counter productive to that goal.
Here is the kicker: they would not allow that.
Except that's not remotely the case, at all. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issues precedent binding on all the lower federal courts in the country, to the exclusion of any of the other Courts of Appeal. The FISC issues precedent binding on... no one (other than itself).
> Consider logrotate. Here is the only documentation I can find on the topic [1].

Using Salt's logrotate module might be more than you need. You can always just have salt manage a file in /etc/logrotate.d/ and keep it up to date, which would be a lot easier.

The salt module is meant for more complex, fine-grained tuning of logrotate files, but I'm not really sure why I would use it.

> My uswgi + nginx configuration - translating that into salt - I don't know where to begin.

The approach that I use: check your entire nginx configuration into git (e.g. your whole /etc/nginx directory) and then you can configure salt to check it out and keep it updated.

Also, if you're custom-compiling nginx into /opt/local/nginx or something, you can actually have salt recursively copy the entire directory to your slaves.
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@Lerc: I think its pretty cool you decided to write your own. I'm working something similar, for a different use case. I'm looking at something more embedded, for Cortex-M4[1] class SoCs.

The concept of a HTML5 "Desktop" is being developed by Firefox OS[2] and Tizen[3] so there is likely benefits to this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Cortex-M4

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
Probably because there are about a million other more important injustices to work on first.
Somewhat oversimplifying, you can think of hierarchical individualists as akin to conservative Republicans, and egalitarian communitarians as liberal Democrats.

Somewhat? That's like saying that black is a dark colour like navy blue and white is more like royal blue.

Personally, I think the US would benefit by understanding just where in the overall spectrum they fit politically and how limited their "typical" options are.

Americans probably have the most limited options of any modern democracy on the planet, and yet most people think they are so different.
> The U.S. doesn't get most of its oil from abroad though. We get most of it between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Canada and Mexico are part of "abroad", unless they've secretly been annexed when we were all distracted by Snowden.

Also, it doesn't get "most" from Canada and Mexico. More like a third of its imports.

> The idea that the U.S. is ravenously hounding Arab countries for their oil is pretty much just a leftist myth at this point.

OPEC, as a large cartel that controls enough of the world supply to substantially influence market prices, is an important target for influence for any purchaser of oil whether or not they directly get oil from them. That said, the US gets lots of oil from OPEC, including its Arab members; Saudi Arabia, for instance, is the #2 source of imported US oil, and Iraq and Kuwait, and are significant sources as well -- and of the non-Arab OPEC members, Venezuela is #4, some months topping Mexico as #3, and Nigeria is significant as well.)

See: http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_...
Don't forget Egan-Jones!

"The trouble for the firm started on July 16, 2011, when Egan-Jones downgraded the U.S.’s sovereign debt by one notch, to AA+ from AAA... Two days later, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations contacted the firm seeking information about its rating decision...

on Oct. 12, Egan-Jones received a call from the SEC notifying the firm of a Wells Notice, an indication that it was being investigated.

On April 5 of this year, Egan-Jones again downgraded the U.S. sovereign debt, to AA from AA+. On April 19, leaks started emanating from the SEC that it had voted to start an “administrative law proceeding” against the firm. And on April 24, the SEC filed its complaint."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-30/sec-sues-the-one-ra...
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Why should we love our countries unconditionally? Why be brain-washed like that? We are all intelligent people here, surely we know better than to be slaves, even to an idea?

Now, I am no anarchist; no mindless rebel.

I know what team I play for, and I try to do the right thing by them, and play by the rules of the game, but I definitely don't love my country unconditionally; nor do I shy away from speaking out when criticism is due.

I am not perfect, nor is my family, community or country. We have done evil things in the past, and we continue to do them today: the state commits some grievous crimes, but frequently we have no choice, caught as we are between a rock and a hard place. Only be acknowledging the evil can we hope to counter it. If pride makes us shy away from understanding our faults, then we are doomed.

So, my loyalty to my state, morally dubious organ that it is, is entirely contingent on it being the least-worst option available; on showing at least some promise of improving over time, and on us collectively having the self-awareness and the humility to acknowledge failure when it occurs, and to recognise evil when it breeds.

A self-aware and enlightened populace is necessary, but not sufficient, for a self-aware and enlightened state.
I will try to find balance. I definitely want to get rid of the "wanting approval" aspect. I also want to continue to post my genuine thoughts but I a want to use more of a filter in what thoughts I post and post them to the appropriate channels. I am somewhat new to all of this and I am trying to find my balance. Thank you for your support.
why does this app cost $30,000? They should be able to get a high quality app like this developed for 1/10th the cost.
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It's also served over standard HTTP, so the script itself could be MITMd even if the original is safe.
tried this recently on a macbook air without an ethernet port - it's actually not even as simple as downloading the relevant .deb on a flash drive and moving it over, as the default .deb will, sometimes, insist on downloading the actual firmware blob from the manufacturer during the install process! I refuse to pay for a USB ethernet adapter which I will use once, so I'm sticking with virtual machines for now.

I agree, normal humans simply don't put up with this stuff - in the end, even I didn't!
State management is about a lot more than 'execute this command on a server' (which is discussed in the article). It's about creating a set of rules and performing idempotent actions.

If you're just running shell commands, it's easy to screw up and waste your time or break your server by accidentally having the same commands run twice.
Those same things happen in Brazil too, wealthy people put gates, make the entrance hard to find and even do lobby to have people enforcing paid parking to restrain access to public beaches, there is no such a thing as private beach, but somehow they manage to fake the "ownership".
I'm not a developer of any sort and this is exactly what I was thinking. "What's the guarantee that they don't change the code inside the .js file? I would've already provided them a hardlink and long forgotten about it by the time they start their shenanigans".
In Hawaii they take it a step further and require that there be access to the coast for the public every N hundred feet. You can find some pretty cool ways down to the water in some of the more expensive neighborhoods.
> you care about network security, why are you exposing ssh ports in public anyhow? Put them behind a VPN.

Why are you exposing VPN ports in public anyhow? Put them behind a VPN.

Seriously though, there isn't anything to say a VPN is any more secure than SSH.
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Hollywood can make the story without his side, they have enough info. You can bet, a hundred people are furiously and actively penning their scripts regarding this.
I think there's a difference between what Fry's describing and normal introversion. Normal introversion is "I just want to be left alone for a few hours", or at most, "I just want to be left alone this weekend". Introverts have normal need for community, they like being around people - they just can't stand to be around people too much, because it's energy draining for them. Fry seems to talk in terms of "I just want to be left alone this lifetime."

There're a lot of personality traits that are perfectly normal over the short term that become pathological over the long term. Sadness, for example - he describes how before medication he would consider suicide daily, while now he can still feel sad, but it doesn't feel like this all-consuming ever-present companion. Anger too: it's normal to get angry, it's not normal to be angry. And loneliness, and drive, and even things like hope or rationality.

I remember describing to my therapist that I have this tendency to get super-obsessed with whatever I'm working on and block out everything for a couple days so that I can concentrate on it. Her first question was, "Do you return to your normal life at the end of those few days, or do you feel like it consumes you until you finish it?" When I said I usually return to normal after a bit, she was like, "Maybe that's just a personality trait of yourself that you have to learn to accept." It's (generally) not pathological if it's temporary, if you feel you have a "self" outside of the trait.
The section mentioned in the misleading sign isn't even the right section. 602(n) appears to deal with motor vehicles?...

602(n)
"Driving any vehicle, as defined in Section 670 of the Vehicle Code, upon real property belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and known not to be open to the general public, without the consent of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession."
Unreality. You can't run a business on Kickstarter money. It's a kick start. After that you need money from somewhere. Or do you expect people to eat bits?
> nothing supernatural other than reincarnation, if that qualifies

Evidence of reincarnation would be astounding! Interestingly, even if reincarnation were proven, scientifically, to happen, it wouldn't change my belief at all. My duty is to Earth life in general, and the human organism in particular, and that's true whether my mind is the same age, or very much older, than the body I'm currently wearing. :)
With 1/10th of the cost ($3000) you can pay a good programmer for something like a week at most. Do you think this app will be completely done within one week?
100% Correct -- the reality here is that the city council is likely to respond to the wealthy tax payers. The last thing the city wants is a mass exodus of the wealthy on the hunt for more private beach property.
My assumption is for the inevitable legal battle when one of the homeowners tries to sue to app out of existence.
There's nothing terribly complicated about recursive queries and common table expressions, and for the use cases in which they're commonly used (hierarchical data being one of those) they perform significantly better than all of the popular SQL alternatives in almost every case.
It also happens to be a president who spearheaded that great adventure in nation-building which continues to serve as a catalyst for a broad swath of the epic plauge human rights abuses we're presently, and systematicaly, engaged in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Afghanistan#Covert_action

including, in particular, the drone and other airstrikes he's referring to, and the continuing use of Guantanamo.
It seems to me that if they really wanted to disrupt the Malibu beach scene and provide more access for the public to the beaches, that they would just release the data as an annotated geojson file, rather than raise 30k(!) to create an app that will no longer be updated in a year.

Props to them for doing a civil service, but it seems to me that it is also very-much motivated by money.
> One of the reasons given by Thomas Jefferson for the separation from Great Britain was a desire to rid America of the evil of slavery imposed on them by the British.

That is blatantly false.

Jefferson wrote several times about possibly supporting gradual emancipation if it included deportation of former slaves, but his actions speak much louder than his words.

Not only did he refuse to support actual plans for gradual emancipation several times in his career, but Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves in his lifetime, even bringing them with him while he lived in France and to the White House during his presidency (which truthfully was not uncommon for presidents of the time). Jefferson viewed slavery as part of the Southern way of life.

At the time of his death, he had freed a grand total of about 7 slaves, but 130 slaves were sold from Monticello after his death. Compare that to other wealthy slaveowners like George Washington, who freed all of their slaves upon their death.

Here's Jefferson, writing on freed African-Americans:

> "For men probably of any color, but of this color we know, brought from their infancy without necessity for thought or forecast, are by their habits rendered as incapable as children of taking care of themselves, and are extinguished promptly wherever industry is necessary for raising young. In the mean time they are pests in society by their idleness, and the depredations to which this leads them." [1]

[1] http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefLett....
My "claim" was so far this year. It's not a claim, it's data. The red line down the bottom is the sea ice anomaly, and as you can see it's been above average for most of the year.
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While I don't necessarily agree with the grandparent post, we should think back to the early days (in the early '90s) before the Net's full-scale commercialisation. It was a different Internet, much smaller and more uneven, but not necessarily a worse one. People paid for their own web hosting or used space provided by educational institutions/government.

The Internet didn't always run on big business - business gradually shaped it into the way it is today.
What is a patriot then? Someone willing to die for their country or someone to makes sacrifices for their country? Just last week, I painted a school (volunteer work) and I currently fix up donor computers to give to underprivileged youth. Am I not acting patriotically, or am I just helpful? Because I understood that to mean that I was trying to build a better future, in a completely non-partisan, non-policy, not-subject-to-interpretation, way.

I'd like to think that selfless and concrete action is also patriotic. Is that not the case? If not then... well.. I'm not terribly skilled with weapons, not that strong, not that athletic, and my eyesight is kind of meh -- I'm not sure I can be that kind of patriot.
To be honest it never has for me. If I see an aggressive person the first thing I do is assess my exit strategy in general. It is the first thing I learnt from my sifu(s) in kung fu, best to remove yourself from potential danger than risk any altercation.

That said, I can't recall any time I felt weird at any clubs/etc either, but depending on the crowds I could see where you might be more alert in certain circumstances. I just don't think that's any different than anywhere though.

Maybe its because I grew up around the idea of more ubiquitous guns that the idea doesn't scare me, or I''m crazy, probably both. :)

Eh, cheers mate, if you're ever in the twin cities ill buy a round.
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> There is only one such court, but cases are often heard by a subset of the justices.

To be specific, like all U.S. Courts of Appeal, the Federal Circuit hears cases in panels of three judges, drawn from the overall pool. In certain circumstances (notably, anything that requires a prior panel opinion to be overruled), a majority of the judges on the court may vote to rehear a matter en banc, in which case all the judges on the court vote on the outcome.

If I recall correctly, the panels are assigned randomly as the cases come in, so if there is a marked division in opinions within the court, the outcome can depend heavily on the luck of the draw.
Well it depends on the book store really. For example Barnes and Noble lets you return books up to 2 weeks after purchase. Amazon allows you to return kindle ebooks, but I'm not sure of their policy on physical books. And of course you could always go to your local library and see if the book is available there.
A "gaming company" that has knowingly developed and distributed spyware.
Even PRISM turned out to not be spying on U.S. citizens though. The NSL or FISA warrant required demonstrating that the target was more likely than not to be a foreigner.

Verizon metadata is different perhaps, as is the idea of 641A-style mass interception of communications. But PRISM itself automated FISA compliance, it didn't actually create more NSA powers than existed before it.
An article with that title should have mentioned the possibility of an error cascade. Occasionally - not often, but sometimes - the "consensus scientific view" on a subject happens to be wrong. Wrong views can persist for quite a while, and are more likely to do so when the subject is politically charged. Preference falsification even among scientists can lead them to a false belief regarding what their peers believe.

Here's a good discussion of error cascades in the context of climate change: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1642

On the use of terms like 'deniers':

> "Sound theory doesn’t have to be buttressed by demonizing its opponents; it demonstrates itself with predictive success."
Contra-anecdotal evidence: I owned 3 iPhones over the years (original, 3GS, 4S) and never used a case. I never broke anything on them. The only concession to preservation I made was to make sure it was the only thing in that pocket (no change, keys, pocketknife, etc. in there with it)
what is most interesting to me is doing multivariate testing well enough to tell us "what we don't know we don't know".

not interested in traditional a/b testing, it has been done to death and there are many software tools that make execution easy.
I think the real story here is the use of Kickstarter to remove the risk from further developments on the Android app. If you want to go ahead and create something, but are worried about it panning out, this starts to open up new options.

It's not the first time it's been done, but it's encouraging to see creators being able to deliver to those who want their products with less question marks in the process.
It's the same in France, including along rivers. But especially for rivers, homeowners often block access and it might be difficult to get them to open it.