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> It is constantly surprising to me how nearly-deterministic these votes are, each respective quartet of the court votes along what's seen as party lines, with Kennedy being the swing vote

I think there is probably a bit of confirmation bias and media distortion here; plenty of Supreme Court decisions, even on high profile topics, aren't 5-4 or are 5-4 but don't break "conservative 4" + "liberal 4" + Kennedy (e.g., the decision uphold the Affordable Care Act [1] was 5-4, with Roberts plus the four liberals in the majority, and the four remaining conservatives, including Kennedy, in the minority.) But for the months the case was before the Supreme Court, the media was harping on how it was bound to be 5-4 with Kennedy as the swing vote, so what do you think sticks more in people's minds -- the actual result that was highlighted on the day of the decision and then dropped, or the "everyone knows" that was a focus of attention for months?

And, on the decision letting stand the District Court decision [2] striking down Prop. 8 in California based on the Prop. 8 supporters lack of standing to appeal the decision, also announced today, the 5-4 decision had Roberts, Scalia, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kagan in the majority with Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, and Sotomayor in the minority.

[1] NFIB v. Sebelius, http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf
[2] Hollingworth v. Perry, http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf
I'm going to University of Illinois the tuition for the engineering department = $19,980, and the living expenses = $7,000 ($400 rent, $100 food, $40 internet per month with roommate).

That's a total of $26,980 not including books, parking permits, clothes, any possible fun, computer, etc.

I made ~$25,000 working a year at jimmy johns as a delivery driver 20 hours a week (averaged $18 an hour), my 40 hour a week summer job ($10 an hour), and my website/youtube income (only $500 or so). This year i'm broke, but I went to a junior college for two years at $4000 a year, saved up, and I should graduate with a bachelors in C.S. with a minor in BioE for a total loan (for two years) I took out myself of ~$50,000.

1-2 years to pay back the loan, did it myself (I did have a cosigner for the loan, but it is still in my name AKA I call it doing it myself because i'm liable and am pretty responsible)

Quite frankly I would rather require each student to take out a loan themselves, than have my future self pay for the students to drink and screw around. My GPA is 3.5/4.0, i'll graduate when i'm 22 (currently 21), I have always worked 20-60 hours a week, I have 110 credit hours and a year to go (i've taken classes every semester including summer), and I have kept a girlfriend even. Its possible, you just have to be serious enough to do it.

OR you could take $100,000 in loans, work 10 years to pay it back ($500,000 by the end with interest).

Part of the reason it costs so much to go to school is so many people default. Do you think I will? Perhaps take some of the pressure off the public to pay, put it on the student and less people will default because only the most serious will go to expensive universities. Like I said, $4000 a semester at a junior college and I honestly think my education there was about the same quality as U of I, I had professors from Argonne national labs, one guy even designed the electronics for the f-18 hornet and taught as a kind of retirement.

Sorry for the rant, but the point is, I did it all myself and all of these comments about how hard or ridiculous it is it is are pathetic. Go to a junior college for a couple years, transfer, take out some loans, pay them back and get off the public's back (too many college students party to consider it a worthy public investment). Although it's harder, its definitely more gratifying to do it yourself.
So can a website read a users clipboard, and if yes, how can we disable this "feature"?
Learn a little Ruby on Rails or Django. Do what others are suggesting and build websites for people. Learning either framework is a snap as they do a lot of work for you but are flexible enough to meet the various requirements you will encounter. And you can also get the benefit of transitioning into freelancing with startups with web apps built in whichever framework you chose to specialize in.

You can even take up contracts on oDesk or similar if you're not finding enough local opportunities.
The irony here is that Pinker then embraces the American prison-industrial complex in The Blank Slate as being a necessary part of this trend, when the US is probably an outlier.

There is a similarity between Pinker (at least in The Blank Slate) and Gray in that they both paint their targets with one big flaw before bashing them. Gray's template straw man is a humanist who didn't read The Selfish Gene.
For one, I'm pleased - it will hopefully mean it's much easier for me to move to the states with my (male) partner, who's a citizen. In particular, it means I don't have to fret about finding a sponsor and opens up the option to work with a startup or other smaller company.

I can't imagine it'll be anything but a good thing for these companies, ultimately.
Create a heroku app that offsites our db backups for $10-20 a month and I'll be happy to pay to have redundancy to heroku's free backup.
It also appears that a large part of their ruling bases on the argument that DOMA is unconstitutional, because some states have gone to the effort of providing legal protections.

In other words, DOMA was quite possibly constitutional right up until any state passed laws explicitly granting protections and rights to same-sex marriages. At that point however, it was in direct conflict with state laws and in an area where state laws prevail.
I'm elated. There might be some hope for this country, after all.
That's fantastic! I guess it's coming in July or August?
I disagree with the "CCTV everywhere" movement, but I agree that it is preferable to the invasions put forth by the NSA/US Government.
Especially not surprising because working for CIA he expected to be monitored, and it's just self preservation to publicly espouse the "correct" ideologies.
Does this mean Glenn Greenwald can move back to the US now?
We also didn't have price explosion.

A generation was told "go to college, don't worry about how much it costs, just go to college." And the colleges priced accordingly.

Make college debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and you will see real price pressure. No school will expect any student to go more than $10,000 in debt because they'll discharge and walk away.
While they could update the list, it's still typo correction. As implemented, the url needs to be typed in the location bar and the domain can't exist.

Edit: sorry about that last part. http://amazon.co does exist and does get corrected.
This idea has been around for a while; I call it "microsubscription". Several companies have tried and failed to make a go of it. Kachingle is still limping along, though fatally hamstrung itself by picking a dumb, public fight with the New York Times.

As I said in reply to another of your comments, I've been working on the technology to make it possible to do this reliably for some time now. It's harder than it looks.
Great one! i would suggest to have a look at http://noteflight.com/ html5 version.

I am a big fan of, changing the octave and converting from piano -> clarinet etc..

i was planning to do something like this, but you have already done a great job
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That's not the point of the article. The point is to give men a guide on a woman's perspective when he approaches her. Yes, the entire game should be changed, but that is beside the point.

It is a valid assumption that men are the initiators because in most cases this is how the world works. If you want to change it, feel free.
$ pm2 kill // let's simulate a pm2 stop
$ pm2 resurect // All my processes are now up and running

Should that be "resurrect" and not "resurect"?
Is your best argument really calling someone an asshole just because, you know, he has a different view than yours? You could also try to find a typo in his comment just to further strengthen your argument.
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I edited my answer a bit, try for an example amazon.co.ukk, still no difference?
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The Prop 8 standing decision was Roberts, Scalia, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kagan.
You still have access to all the services and protection provided by the US embassy and consulates.

I'm not saying that it's appropriate for someone to pay the taxes, but it's not true to say you get no services as a US citizen abroad.
There is no right to privacy in public spaces and no expectation thereof either. The only thing those cameras do is replace police officers. Another thing you are also forgetting is that people were aware of those cameras the second they were installed. No secret court bullshit. With personal correspondences on the other hand, people expect the contents of their messages to be entirely private. That secrecy should only be invaded upon within the confines of a morally justifiable law, especially when a foreign agency is doing the invading.
I would argue that the USSR was far more concerned about not antagonizing the US than the Russia of today: Before it quickly escalated and turned into a major spectacle, used to demonize and vilify if not to justify military activities (every time the USSR did anything that played poorly in the US press, you could hear the military contractors cheer at the new destroyer and fighter aircraft orders incoming), whereas now there are attempts by both sides to brush it under the table. As an aside, Russia has negligible trade with the United States.

Russia stills flies nuclear bombers to the edge of US and Canada airspace. It still has agents throughout the West, many who have built lives here. The leadership in Russia is still emboldened and lauded for standing up to the US in various ways.

In many, many ways it is the same as it always was.

The only reason I think Russia might not care much about Snowden's info is the fact that Snowden got the info in the first place -- if a 6 month outside contractor had the keys to the palace, there's a good probability Russia already knows everything he knows.
You need a basic understanding of Constitutional law to understand the decision/opinion. (Note: this is not intended to be an insult by any means, EP is a very complicated subtopic within Constitutional law, which is a complicated area of the law on its own)

Essentially, when a law targets a certain group then Equal Protection is triggered, this requires the Courts to apply a standard/scrutiny. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause) Specifically, read up the section on "Tiered scrutiny". In this instance DOMA would require a "legitimate purpose" to target this group (like mid-level scrutiny), it is not that the SCOTUS could not find a legitimate purpose to over turn the law (as I believe you interpret), but that the law was overturned because the legislature did not have a legitimate purpose in creating the law (other than disparage and injure the targeted group, according to the majority opinion).

>Doesn't this sort of judicial activism weaken the separation of powers

The idea of Judicial Activism is a red herring, when any court rules against ones own personal bias/interest. For example, Brown v. Board and Brown v. Board II are typically called judicial activism, but generally only by those who prefer Jim Crow laws. Moreover, this is precisely what the Court was meant to do, review a law and determine whether the legislature enacted a law that violates the Constitution, if this is "judicial activism" then what is SCOTUS for and how would they be a check on the legislature?
The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately owned and have no connection to the state.

The 4 million+ cameras in the UK statistic which has been floating around for about 10 years now was extrapolated from two streets in Wandsworth and was only ever really media bait. If you believed all these statistics the number of cameras in the UK would have dropped by more than half (over the past 10 years), since the last large scale estimate was under 2 million.
> Roberts has generally been considered the swing vote in cases where he needs to sort of fall-on-his-sword to preserve the non-partisan appearance of the court.

I think this is a fairly strained interpretation to try to defend the idea that the court is iron-locked into the "liberal 4" + "conservative 4" + Kennedy divide (casting a different divide as Roberts trying to create an illusion about the court), and it falls down when you have high profile cases like the today's Hollingsworth v. Perry [1] where the majority is made up of Roberts, Scalia, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kagan.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf
I don't think there's anything in the article that suggests that a woman can't talk to a man. I took it as "If you are going to talk to a woman, here's a few things to keep in mind." This isn't necessarily about how to "get what [men] want" but more about being a decent person, by getting a better understanding of how our [male] behaviour can affect those around us, in ways that we don't normally have to consider.
Someone who went to college in 1981 does seem ancient to me, after all my mom went to college just a few years before that and she smoked cigarettes in class ($0.25 a pack!), but this guy is only 48! Now I'm 35 and rapidly catching up! I think the theory of logarithmic experience of aging where you have experienced half your life by age 12 is totally true.
there's also the building code and inspectors, at least here in the US. A complete PITA when doing remodeling, but this system truly does save lives.
What I find disturbing: the author of Adblock Plus famously went on a rant a long time ago about how people approached him to pay him to do various things with his popular extension, such as change default search engines. He refused, very publically, and bemoaned the likelihood that other extension authors might not.

And then the oxymoronic "Acceptable Ads" happened, and the painfully bad "typo correction" anti-feature (no, I really mean wikimedia, not wikipedia), and now this which ties into the "typo correction" bits. All of which are either on by default or pester the user to turn them on. And every one of these creates a new support issue for me with people I set up Adblock Plus for.
> How do you actually evaluate how much your skills are worth as a freelancer? How do you match with clients who need and are willing to pay for your particular skill level?

They are worth what a client will pay.

Trick: if you show a client “this will make you $20K in 6 months for this, this, and this reason, as I have done for this, this, and this client”—they don't care how much you make an hour. Bid $8K for the project, even if it only takes you a week, and they're still crazy happy.
For me, it boils down to this: every time I turn off AdBlock I have to turn it back on because of the blinking and other very distracting ads. They are so "in your face" that I can't concentrate on the content. I usually last a day.

Perhaps I should just selectively block ads on the sites that do this, but I've found that tedious in the past.
Today, our manufacturing base has been destroyed.

The USA manufacturers more than it ever has. However, it does so with fewer workers, just like the agricultural revolution moved us from 90% of people needing to be farmers to 2%.

When you graduate high school today, what options do you have besides go to college? There are simply not enough good paying jobs that don't require a college degree to go around. Not even close.

I agree with these facts, but probably not your conclusion. A lot of jobs that supposedly require college education really don't require a college education at all. However, since so many people have a college education, employers are free to use the presence of a bachelor's degree as a test for your socioeconomic status.
Good point. I can certainly imagine open-sourcing the code for this app. I'm not sure how soon that would be, though.
Writing good docs is not a bad thing :) Are you actually writing packages or the usual text plus macros plus package list?
reply to edit:

If I change the .com to .comm it changes the URL to:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga...

So this is only for mistyped (edit) manually typed referrer URLs?
Yes, there is. If you get into my VPN, all you get is another connection to the public Internet. If you get into my SSH you have my server. VPN adds another layer to the onion.
>> - Contract up ... always >.<

yes a million times. Don't think of it as being confrontational, think of it as memorializing an agreement. You want to make sure you and your client are on the same page, and it's a great reference (particularly when it comes to defining a scope of work) down the line. It's as much for the client's protection as it is for yours and as long as you keep it simple and to the point, you'll be fine.
If we're pulling out all the statistics then it's overwhelmingly more likely that the rapist will be a friend or acquaintance, rather than a random stranger, strangers being the focus of the article.
What if this were written in the 1850s? Of course slavery is normal. All cultures have had slavery. So all those loony abolitionists with their progress notions are beating their heads against the fixity of human nature.

Take your is-ought fallacy and... well... this is a family web site.
Re: Texas, the Texas constitution can be amended by a simple majority in a referendum, so the status of the SSM ban there is roughly the same as it was in California under Prop 8 (i.e. it can be overturned by 50% + 1 vote).

In general it's nearly useless as a constitution, in the sense of a stable document setting forth some general principles. It's been amended 474 times! So it's more like a giant grab-bag of legislation. That's usually bad, but in this case good (if you support SSM), since it's not set in stone.

The bigger issue isn't the structure of it being in the constitution, but the fact that supporters of SSM can't currently get within striking distance of 50% support in the state.
The rape statistics are really sad, but this way of talking about it is misleading. Most rapes are committed by someone the woman already has a relationship with. Therefore all the stuff she's talking about is actually focusing on the less common issue because the more prevalent problem is so much harder to address.
| Again the conversation shifts away from the
| bureaucracy and towards those who threaten it.

Journalism is about presenting both sides of a story so that the reader can make up their own mind. It's also worth noting that you're bringing up a single article to show that "the conversation is shifting." By this logic, I could bring up any story in any publication that doesn't have anything to do with the NSA and claim that the MSM is trying to bury the story by reporting on Hollywood gossip or something else.

I agree that the focus should be on the NSA, but hopefully all of the stories about the subject matter keep the topic in the public's thoughts. Possibly enough for some people to do more research and change their minds (from "All the way NSA!" to "Hmmm. Maybe they went too far").
It's a race to the bottom. Give almost everyone a college degree, and employers will require a college degree for extremely basic jobs.

Give nearly almost everyone a graduate degree, and employers will require a graduate degree for basic jobs.

The upper-class don't care about this; they can afford to keep their kids in post-secondary for 10 years both economically and socially. Even if you waved a magic wand and made college "free" for everyone, this constant credential race would hurt the lower class the most.
Your skills are worth what someone will pay. "How much are you worth?" It depends on how you frame the question. Consider the following scenarios for the same question.

If you make yourself available on oDesk or similiar, your client is looking for a cheap code monkey to do usually, crappy work. You'll maybe get $10-$15 an hour.

If you get yourself a permie job at a small agency in Edinburgh where i'm from, you'll get maybe £28k a year.

If you become a contractor and work in London, you'll command £450 a day.

If you position yourself as a technical business consultant that provides a piece of software that allows an international car manufacturer to sell more cars every year, you'll earn millions.

All of those things can be true for "a rails developer". It depends on a lot of other factors that have nothing to do with programming and are often overlooked by developers.
IIRC I've seen it suggest me typo corrections even when visiting valid websites.
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I think the word "rewrite" is misleading in that context. ABP does not rewrite existing referrers (which would in fact be "mafia style"), instead it adds its own referrer when correcting/rewriting links with a typo:

amazon.com/?tag=someReferrer will not be changed
amazon.comm will be rewritten to amazon.com/?tag=uf024-20
I assume that the exact same reasoning will eventually be used to overturn state-level laws. There's nothing in the majority's decision that persuasively argues that their reasoning should only apply at the federal level.
I think one of the most common misconceptions people have about freelancers, is that we know everything about every project we throw ourselves into. That couldn't be further from the truth (at least for me).

As a freelancer, the most important skill is NOT coding. Yes, writing code gets you to the end-goal, but what the client really wants, is results and growth for their business. As a freelancer, you will often have to work on something that you don't know 100%, and maybe even having barriers to accomplish the project. However, hiring a freelancer is very much looking at their past successes, and using that to gauge the result of their current project, along with the value this freelancer can bring. As long as you get it done and bring results, and maintain an amiable relationship with the client, not much else matters.

So in on that note, I would say which language you choose hardly matters. But that's not true. You want to choose a language you are familiar with, and one that seems to be brought up in whichever areas you are looking for clients.

As many have already said, and I kind of hinted at above, learn as you build. This is the best and fastest way to gain the knowledge and skills you need. Much like building a startup, have something early on to put out into the world, and build on top of that.

Any projects can prove to someone you are worth hiring. As a freelancer, part of your job is to instill confidence into this potential client, and demonstrate to the the VALUE you add to their business. Not the algorithmic complexity, not the pretty code, not how many lines of code you've written, but the VALUE (increase in revenue, lower costs, higher conversions, putting their product on the forefront, etc) you bring to them.

I wrote a blog post[1] recently about things you should know about freelancing, it's not too in depth as it's targetted towards people who have not begun freelancing and are curious about it.

Keep improving yourself, and good luck!

[1] http://www.jayhuang.org/blog/things-you-should-know-about-fr...
Minimum wage, which is what most college students earn, hasn't exactly kept pace with inflation either though.
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Russia wins by doing nothing.

Russia wins by copying his files and denying it. Espionage is alive and well, just last month a CIA officer was arrested allegedly trying to recruit agents for as much as $1 Mil a pop. The info Snowden has in his laptop is super valuable, why not have it?
I think you mean there is no reasonable legal expectation of privacy on a public street. I certainly expect that you will not follow me around videotaping me.