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I'm so conflicted. Just as I'd decided to move on from Angular to Polymers, there seems to have been an explosion in interest and resources for Angular.
MSN Music http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-su...

"The news will likely upset a number of Microsoft's customers, who bought music from MSN Music before the company launched the Zune Marketplace and decided to ditch the old store. Microsoft's decision to turn off the MSN Music authorization servers serves as a painful reminder that DRM ultimately severely limits your rights. Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it. Some Major League Baseball fans learned this the hard way last fall."

I wouldn't trust anything from Microsoft where in order for it to keep working, it would have to phone home to MS DRM servers. MS will eventually shut down those DRM servers without giving their customers a solution to use their DRM'd products post-shutdown.
Quake wasn't made by a marketing team. Also, here on the PC side, things still seem fine as ever, maybe even better when you consider the fact that we have fully drm-free options these days.
Microsoft submits Pointer Events patch to Mozilla Firefox
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Yes, and it seems more like a PR coup than anything else, seriously. For a company that has as much resources as Google, this is far from being significant.
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It is a known fact Powell lied to the UN (since he is obviously offering an apology for something) but by saying sorry somehow that makes it all ok?

Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of that lie! How is that an overstatement?
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It looks Nokia is in the vantage position now. Nokia can afford walking away from Windows Phone. But Microsoft can't. Nokia accounts for roughly 80%* of all Windows Phones. If Nokia leaves, WP is basically doomed.

*http://blog.adduplex.com/2013/05/adduplex-windows-phone-stat...
Swap out hard drives, mail them to kim dotcom with a bill. Its a good idea anyways.
> Breakers have the upper hand here, breaking is a lot easier than building and criticizing is easier than creating.

Actually, in cryptography, breaking is hard, too.
Ask Amazon how it turned out for them with the Kindle. Sold only online. No retailers. They crushed all the other physical ebook-readers re-sellers.
I believe these statements are sidestepping the facts. Explicit requests for user data and backdoor access are a separate issue. If Prism involves capturing and storing packets at major Internet backbones (perhaps just upstream from private networks like Google's), anything plaintext could be searched and extracted after the fact - email messages, web browsing, chat, etc. To this day, a significant amount of communication related Internet traffic is not encrypted. I've worked on software that does exactly this. Here is a public marketing writeup:

"Every packet is recorded, classified, and indexed, making quick discovery, reconstruction, and delivery of files in their original formats easy and intuitive. Reconstruct email attachments, windows file transfers, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more, giving you full visibility into everything on your network.... Show all activity over time for a single user or all file-type activity over time for all users."

NSA could apply simple port based filtering to limit capture to only those packets related to communication, thereby streamlining storage requirements. If this was the Prism architecture, then these company statements would be truthful, but misleading. The NSA does not have direct access to their systems or user data, but if the NSA is allowed to record user traffic before it enters, or after it leaves their doors, then the end result is similar.
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Much of this ISP / Tier 1 Network sniffing by Narus and other private tech companies is documented in James Bamfords' book about the NSA dating back to 2008.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-Ameri...

It has been going on for a long time.
This is going to sound a bit glib, but the problem sort of fixes itself.

Look at China. "Sweatshop" sort of manufacturing has largely left. Now the country has more Rolls Royces and Bentleys sold there vs any other sans the US. Where did those shops go? Well, places like indonesia. But, guess what, those manufacturing outfits have since left and gone to Bangladesh.

The money goes where people will do work for less. Nobody can stop this. But where it does go, it leaves a wake of prosperity. Maybe not for the people themselves--the kids doing the sweating--but for their kids--or really, their neighbors' kids.

Over the last 30 years, 1 billion -- with a 'b'-- people have come out of extreme poverty as defined by international standards. Why? Because people in some countries stopped wanting to do horrible work and others would. And then when those countries stopped wanting to do it, others would.

Guess who is next? Myanmar.

And round and round and round it goes.

This kind of thinking only works if you are ok with generational problem-solving. If not a single person, ever, no matter what, cannot be allowed to not live according to elite Western Standards--then, yeah, it's a problem. Otherwise, international capital flows do the work no single entity or popular movement could ever do:give money to those who actually want it most.
Qualifying Phrases of this decade:

"Under this program"

"That we know of"

"Not willfully"

They are like a get-out-of-jail-free card.

"No more illegal wiretapping of all US citizens like under Bush" (we'll just make it legal instead).
Stories like this always astound me. Learning Forth is probably less difficult than the average GUI widget library. Anyone who I'd trust around a C compiler could probably become a serviceable Forth coder in a weekend.

Do moderately bright kids not get exposed to HP RPN calculators anymore?
>Do moderately bright kids not get exposed to HP RPN calculators anymore?

No, they learn BASIC (maybe) on the TI graphing calculators.
That is really not the case. Even on the Xbox 360 today, you can either buy a disc or download a game from the marketplace. Physical and digital distribution models have coexisted since the '90s.
Odd. My immediate conclusion from your story was that Seattle was a bad idea.
I'm pretty sure that was written by a lawyer according to talking points from PR and given a glance and stamp by the CEO

Really it's all for nothing though until the politics are sorted out
Sure, but Google has been pushing enabling HTTPS including forward secrecy by default for years now.
Of course, the one thing we know for certain is that to the extent that a company is required to assist with extra-Constitutional surveillance efforts, they are also required to lie about it if asked.

So this is yet another zero-information thread on the subject.
Correction, windows phone is doomed, irrespective of Nokia or Microsoft's actions. People just hate windows; Microsoft should just change the name and I swear they'd sell like gangbusters.

You have to understand, Nokia and Microsoft Both lost position in the market as a result of working together. There's a big portion of the world that would buy a decent nokia phone, just because of the history. Fuck Microsoft, make the world's most badass android phone and they stand a chance. Standing with Microsoft is killing them.
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The Dalek Ovens (as I call them) in Canberra, Australia, have a regular hourly cleaning cycle. You get plenty of warning to get out, and then they turn on the hoses. I presume it reduces their utility as a form of cheap housing.
I've never made software professionally, but I imagine the curve of getting used to a new company's systems would eat up most of that time, making it more of a hassle than it's worth.

If there is a way to overcome that though, this sounds like a cool idea.
Microsoft should just change the name

How about "Portals"?
Does swearing make you feel more grown up?
Ask HN: Any Mac users on Chrome facing constant crashes and lag lately?
This began for me probably 2 months or so ago, and I know many of my friends who use Chrome on Macbooks have the exact same issue.

I've been using Firefox for a few weeks now but dying to switch back.

Chrome causes a spinning wheel of death which will not disappear - I am forced to hard reboot my computer.
How do you discriminate this from auto-generated email addy spam? Am I missing something?
A while ago, some folks in my country of origin started to make efforts towards a bill that (had it passed -- needless to say, it had no chance) might have provided some form of solution here. The essence of the bill was that, if one of these bullies sent an unfounded cease and desist letter that failed to explicitly cite its legal basis and was aimed at a company for whom full legal procedures would have had a significant financial impact, it would be assimilated as blackmail and treated accordingly. Blackmail is treated fairly seriously by the legal system, and makes quite the reputation. Do you think this could be a solution for cases like these?

Alternatively, how about the possibility of allowing small companies to demonstrate that they cannot withstand the costs of a trial upfront, in which case the trial would be paid for by the state; if the trial is lost, the owners pay (fair enough...). Otherwise, the state can get its money back from the damages paid by the suing company.
Nokia can still control the market by releasing Android phones.
That's a debian feature. Not an Apache feature.
Nokia is doing so badly with WP8 even Microsoft doesn't want them. What does that tell you about their current strategy?

I've always believed, and I still think it would be true - if Nokia would adopt Android, they could probably even beat Samsung. It would've certainly been true if they did it 2-3 years ago, before Samsung got a chance to become the king of smartphones, but I think it can still happen if they do it now, and wait 2-3 years for it to happen. Obviously it won't happen overnight, but at least they have a shot at it with Android.

They'll never do it with WP8. The math just doesn't add up. They'll always be limited by the WP ecosystem and the WP market share. Samsung has 30% of the smartphone market, which is about 40% of the Android market share.

Nokia will have at most 50% of the WP market share. It only has more now because the market is very tiny, but that would change if WP market grew. That means that for Nokia to beat Samsung, WP will need to get to 60% of the smartphone market share, and it means beating Android in market share. WP will never get that much market share, and even the most optimistic (and I believe, unrealistic) predictions by research firms put WP at 20% - 5 years from now.

So if Nokia wants to stop being more than a niche smartphone player in the future, they'll have no choice but to at least also adopt Android. It's the right strategy for the Nokia board to pick. They just seem to be very stubborn about it, just like they were too stubborn to fire the Nokia CEO before Elop, for 4 years after the iPhone launched. The Nokia board needs to smarten up if they don't want to make an almost fatal mistake once again. Or the shareholders need to overhaul the board. One of the two needs to happen.
Numbers scare people. Windows phone 8 sounds scary. Why not Windows "Portal" or Windows "Air" or simply "Air".

Microsoft just sucks at marketing and so does Nokia; which is run by an ex-Microsoft employee. I swear he went to Nokia to ruin them and put them in a position where Microsoft could acquire them.
Amazon has a fairly liberal order modification window.

Why not just audit the orders the same way they were entered? A Mechanical Turk redundancy layer if you will.
That's what's so incredible. Again and again, Microsoft has persisted in their delusion that the trademark "Windows" somehow holds value in consumer space. The Windows brand has yet to earn them a dime's worth of consumer attention or goodwill, but Ballmer keeps humping the chicken. He just knows that there's a golden egg in there, somewhere amongst all those feathers.

The only thing "Windows" means to the consumer is the certainty that, whenever they see the term come up at work, for whatever reason, in whatever context, they are going to have to call the helpdesk. Again.
Fun fact: I heard of several ex-iPhone owners Nokia with Windows is the perfect phone.

But yes, Microsoft still has a bad name. Maybe they should call it NokiaOs
What a Hacking Idea. Seriously!
But they suck and they won't do it.

I hate to put it that way, but how many years has this bullshit been going on? I loved Nokia. They made amazing phones once upon a time, but it has been a decade of crap. When's it gonna change? What's it gonna take?

I thought when marten from Eucalyptus and MySQL joined the board things would change but that hasn't been the case.
> I believe that it is felt by some that

What is your opinion?
Source encryption does not guarantee endpoint encryption. In the case of gmail via https, an email recipient might download or forward in it in plaintext via pop, imap, smtp or an http email client.
The doubled frequency is just the way the market works. It is actually kind of nice when you are trying to compare sticks that are double sided vs. sticks that are single sided and actually run at the listed frequency.
As a non american, this is the first american postcode I can think of off the top of my head.
We're in the process of upgrading to 2048 bits: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/23/google-to-upgrade-it...
I actually rip digital copies of my kids' DVDs, then stream them to the TV over my network for precisely this reason. Left to their own devices, they will trash any given DVD in under a week.
As long as Elop (ex Microsoft) is there Nokia will not move to Android.

Nokia makes super hardware though, they could still turn the ship around if they wanted to and give Samsung and Apple a run for their money.

Microsoft got all the advantages of owning Nokia without having to pay for it, windows phone is so rare I can't even find someone that has one in my circle of friends. The only person that owned a windows phone received it from her employer, promptly bought an android phone and switched the sim over.
"PC3-14400" wouldn't be half so bad if there wasn't also "PC3-14440", "PC3-14444", "PC3-14000", and maybe "PC3-14402" depending on which manufacturer you are buying from. To make things even more dandy, they aren't interchangeable.
It makes sense for multiplayer games to not be hosted on arbitrary client boxes, but on some kind of neutral, low-latency "cloud" device (I know you said other than this, but I thought this was the biggest selling point for it in the first place).

It also makes sense for "complex" calculations. It's how stuff like Google search and Google maps works - you send the query, big machines chomp on the query and spit out a result, and your netbook doesn't have to go into overdrive trying to figure anything out. Basically anything that can take 100ms or so to complete could be moved off of the appliance and onto Microsoft servers. Why? Well, why not? Make some more room for rendering, I guess.
This reminds me a lot of How it's made, except the video is in looping GIFs and the narration is in text form in between.
"No comment. Ask the NSA", or, "By the 2013 Alexander Act, I reserve the right not to incriminate myself."
There is if the content provider stipulates one as part of the terms of the consumption. That is, "If you consume this, you can't give out copies."

No one's making you agree to that.
That's a shame. I've always given my ZIP code when asked, on the theory that the retailer was using that information to determine where to open new stores. If that's not the case, then they can have fun sending their snail-mail spam to my namesake in 90210.
Agreed, I'll be instantly interested in buying a Nokia phone once they start shipping the latest version of stock Android (ideally without any bloatware and useless customizations that Samsung / HTC pushes).

Elop needs to go now. What an ass clown. It's been a while since we've seen someone with such bad ideas making such horrible decisions, one after another. He reaped what he sowed, and the board can thank him for decimating a once fantastic phone company.
As someone who's never owned a mac pro can someone give an indication of how often "power" users are upgrading their CPU.

When I was a windows desktop user (up until about 8 years ago) I found that everytime i wanted upgrade the internals the CPU socket had changed along with the Mobo chipset necessitating a upgrade of not just CPU, but Mobo and memory.

I can understand swapping out gfx cards fairly regularly but are there that main users who completely gut their mac pro on a regular basis?
> You could buy a digital copy and sell it or gift it to a friend (a previously unheard-of policy in digital games)

Steam??
From what I understand, it's not entirely stubbornness. The exclusivity agreement they made with Microsoft has significant penalties if they pull out - starting with paying back all of Microsoft's "platform support" payments (over USD 1 billion at this point, IIRC), but not ending there, I believe.

That was probably the biggest mistake 2 years ago - not just making the wrong choice (which is fixable), but walling off the best alternatives.
It depends on the country. Sure most people in the West live in Brave New World, but in places like North Korea, those people are definitely living in 1984.
If you are proficient in Python/Java already. There is no reason for you not to choose a Lisp language. Clojure is a good choice.
I haven't been following this thing but I presumed it was something outrageously wrong with the Xbox One that triggered all this backlash.

I'm baffled to see that these are the reasons. Seriously?
Betting on microsoft wp was a bold move! unfortunately (for them) it didn't pay off so far...
They can still change their mind and start producing great android phones improve their revenue and tag behind samsung & htc.
Starting a company in teh USA is similar to plugging a winxp sp1 machine into the network. Only a few seconds til the first law suit/virus.
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plaintext: "Don't you wished everybody used Ivory(tm) soap?"
Except anyone can edit the emails, even now.
Similar to the comments below, all of the companies I have worked for (global banks) use an amalgamation.

<Location> - 3 letters (city)

<Build> - OS

<Environment> - Dev/UAT/Prd/Sit

<Number> - Server reference number
Exactly! That's why I never use remote controls for any television in my house. I want to live an active lifestyle
Uh, the internet did no such thing. The internet revolted because Microsoft is incapable of making a "sharing" system for the 1 that isn't ridiculously anti-customer garbage.
stopwatching.us's letter to Congress is based on the premise that the Guardian and WashPo articles are true. Of course, Google and others are swearing that it's false. So why would Google want to sign that letter?

This also assumes that a letter like this does any good. I would think that Google actually filing a legal challenge with FISA is going to be more effective.
Also agreed. Microsoft doesn't need to throw money down a hole when Nokia is already doing Microsoft a favor for free.

Microsoft doesn't need to buy a huge company like Nokia that makes phones that nobody wants. Microsoft can make their own phones that nobody wants for much cheaper.
Credit Card companies have rules in their merchant agreements that prevent companies from using credit card numbers as unique identifiers.
Hiring process at Google and data-driven outcomes by Google SVP
Chrome also uses ChannelID.
tl;dr

Forth is a programming language from the 1970s. This is the canonical book, published by someone who works at Forth Inc. (as K&R is to C)

Forth is interesting, not because of widespread usage, but because it has a different way of looking at things. Reminiscent of people who tell you that you should learn LISP because you'll never use it, but it will make you a better programmer.

The key difference is that it is stack based. (For those who are more mathy, you may have heard of RPN on the HP calculators)

e.g.
2 5 * 3 -

is take 2 and 5, multiply them. Take the result and 3, subtract them. get 7.

The wiki article has a nice picture of stacks that may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

(btw, not super knowledgable about this stuff; just super confused, did some digging and figured others would be confused as well. Happy to edit.)

EDIT 1: Habits die hard. Corrected Fourth to Forth.
I get a kick out it daily, "I'm not dead yet!"

I've been meaning to look at other options, like newsblur, but I'm still checking my feeds on Reader.
> If you consider sharing to be going over to a friend's house, entering your password, then waiting 3.5 hours for a download to finish to be in some way innovative or interesting

MS is playing the long game. The console will probably be around for 6-7 years. Back then my internet connection speed at home was about 6Mbit, today its 100Mbits and a download of 10GB usually takes about 20 minutes, so i would really love to do as much digitally as possible.
Granted internet speeds arent like this everywhere, but in a few years time they probably will.
Registered Apple developers should watch WWDC 2013 session 109 to get a taste of what the new Mac Pro is capable of.
Nope not really, the one thing that has changed is that I can no longer use the swipe left to go back command. Swiping forward still works.
Spot on. After watching the value inflate over the last 10 years, I left! It's too damn expensive to be in China now. Imported products are ridiculously expensive, too. Wander down to Hanoi just over the border in north Vietnam for a pleasant shock!
Wait, I thought colorful language was how humans displayed sexual maturity? Much the same way that a peacock displays its colorful plumage to advertise its quality as a mate?
> Gas stations on the other hand use Zip Codes as a way to prevent fraud.

This also locks out customers with a non-US address (e.g. tourists) which often don't even have a 5-digit zip code or store it differently so that the check will fail, arguably defeating the entire point of owning a credit card.
An MS buyout is exactly the end of the Nokia story I'd anticipated once they set the Windows Phone course, so I guess the only thing I'm surprised about was that it somehow fell apart.

Looking back, maybe I overestimated the value of Nokia's patents and distribution reach -- maybe the patent war flamed up/out too fast, maybe competition already made the distribution moot.

Or maybe it's hard to convince MS that Nokia really has much value to offer them after they were essentially able to get Nokia to yield significant control to them for almost nothing.
Do people really not trust that it wouldn't actually be disabled if you disabled it?

No, of course not, and that caution is entirely justified. Consider how effective Samsung's Smart TV security was, right up until they got rooted at the end of last year, at which point if the only privacy safeguards are under software control then they are essentially worthless.
I live in Berlin and definitely double check you're ok with all its downsides before moving here.. It's not all rosy and neither is the startup ecosystem there
Don't account to malice what can be accounted to incompetence. :)
If MS acquired Nokia it would sink only lower, and MS knows it, that's why they killed the deal.