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Massachusetts enacts sales tax on 'pre-written' software
Title sounds like the start of a joke...
The article mentions North Korea's frequent GPS jamming, but doesn't mention that it's suspected as a cause of the fatal drone accident last May: http://lemondronor.com/blog/index.php/2013/3/gps-loss-kicked...

I haven't been able to find any more recent info about the incident.
OVH is still the cheapest host I've ever seen. 1 TB disk space, 100mbps connection speed, 5TB bandwidth, all for $20/mo?

I'm not complaining, nor have I seen better.
Microsoft focusing on increasing Windows Phone volume; features coming later
What about hidden services? In my opinion that's the real heart of Tor. I think the value of exit nodes will start to wane as Tor gains a larger and larger user base and becomes it's own truly viable darknet. As it stands the majority of security related discussions I've come across regarding Tor strongly discourage spending any large amount of time on clearnet services anyway as this create many potential security/privacy risks.
This sounds reallly interesting, but it feels very painful for reporting. Trying to run reports on this type of data for a dashboard seems out of the question.

I understand adhoc research is done via command line, but if you wanted to have a dashboard which shows stats, how would you handle that? I assume you would have to import into a db of some sort to run queries regularly?
Bitcoin is a tool. It is useful for some things, and it is not useful for others.

Any country who prohibits, like any country who prohibits any tool, it is putting their residents at a disadvantage. By definition. In those situations where the nail is a Bitcoin, Thai people will have no hammer, but a wrench with which to bang the nail in.

The beauty of Bitcoin is it only needs to thrive in one of the 200+ countries in the world for it to achieve Proof of Concept status. And once it does that, other countries will follow, and eventually any countries who prohibit it will need to allow it to stay competitive.
It would have been relevant to mention in your original post that you are living in the country, unlike >70% of Australians who live in a major city.
I think it's just what happens when you're exposing yourself to potentially hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. From that sample size, there will always be a lot of abusive idiots, even though they might reflect a tiny fraction of the total audience. That small percentage can end up dominating the conversation because of the nature of (most) electronic communication.

Unfortunately the medium itself is such that someone who is an abusive idiot is a gazillion times more likely to go out of their way to contact you or post something than someone who actually has something meaningful to say. The same goes for online forums and mailing lists. There's just a natural bias towards people posting extremely negative/inflammatory/abusive things. There's also a natural bias towards the people who have the least to contribute being the most likely to hop in with a comment, because they're the ones most likely to have strong kneejerk responses that they just have to share with the world right away.

To make matters worse, there's some sort of signal:noise entropy dynamic. Anyone who was into Usenet in the 90's or has followed the same online community over the course of many years has probably seen this. Online forums tend to get worse over time, and never ever ever get better, aside from attempts to impose moderation which always meet with strong resistance. It seems like one lousy comment (or commenter) breeds two more, which drive away the good commenters (meaning, people who actually try and don't just post knee-jerk responses to things). This is how things like YouTube happen.
New iPhone with biometric fingerprint sensor seemingly confirmed by iOS leak
I remember reading with great amusement an article written by an X.400 proponent, sometime in the late 80's, asserting that X.400 would start to dominate SMTP once the telecoms got the price of sending an X.400 message under a dollar per e-mail. (And this was back in the 80's, when dollars were bigger back then!)

Thus proving that the OSI folks really didn't have a clue....
Go seems like a reasonable
That stereotype is largely true, in my experience, having grown up in the US. There are, of course, exceptions, but they're exceptions. The snotty Frenchman is the exception, though, probably borne from our disproportionate exposure to Paris. So in that case the stereotype isn't warranted.
good add! show Hello World. plus, show snippets which illustrate what makes your language so special. Why it's worth existing in a world that already has several pre-existing languages and ecosystems to choose from.
This is one of the bizarre comforts I feel when I acknowledge that I will never be a math super-genius... the fact that there is a high correlation between math super-genius and "overflowing" to insanity. Godel, Nash...
Hmmm. Another way to see it would be that having a few months of issues might be a plus and incentive for a person to subscribe, which he might not have done otherwise. I'm not sure what kind of magazine you are planning to release, but mostly when I buy magazines, I'm not that interested in the old issues.

Hit me with an email - Holger@Uninkd.com - if you are planning to release a magazine, but this is a deal breaker.
Phil wasn't just "swimming in a sea of shit", he was shitting in the sea of shit and splashing it at other swimmers. He is not some innocent victim, he has consistently been an abusive asshole. The fact that people responded in kind isn't wonderful, but it also isn't shocking.
A new GPS made for commercial, certified use (eg. for use in aviation) will cost way more that $5K. Just a software update to it might cost as much. Technology is getting cheaper, certifying it isn't. In don't know about ships, but I assume there is some form of certification for nav equipment there as well.
Oh the irony... It would be funny if it wasn't so sad...
That's what we get for breeding a society of consumers. If you don't have a meaningful way to express yourself productively, you pour all that tension into the wrong things. You become a buly, a stalker, a heckler, you name it. You get worked up about your experiences with other people's creative output, instead of channeling all that energy into your own endeavours.

I think the world would be much better off if we encouraged everyone of all ages to develop creative hobbies, instead of spending all their leisure time passively consuming the work of others. Then they would all gain a better perspective on the whole creative process and feel more accomplished all around - and happier for it!
This. And we also do it to ourselves when looking for work, exacerbating the problem and pushing onto future IT personnel. Just look at the job descriptions for most IT jobs out there and you'll see that IT personnel are expected to know way too much, when really you just need the fundamentals (everything else can be learned just-in-time). I've written a much longer answer detailing a specific job description that helps flare up my imposter syndrome: http://typicalrunt.me/2013/07/29/a-response-to-crushing-the-...
Perhaps more accurately: "How a Single Designer Who Knows HTML and CSS Can Replace a Designer Who Doesn't Know HTML or CSS and a Junior Developer Who Can't Design."
Okay I don't want to get into debate of religion as the topic here because that never ends well. But in general more open minded people are willing to give anything a shot, and more importantly, they're willing to say "You know what, I was wrong in thinking that you need large engines to get more horsepower. I didn't know you could add turbos or have direct injection to increase power without increasing engine capacity."

A closeminded person would say, "Yeah, so what if it shows it has 200HP for a 1.8l engine, that's still not real power. I mean, you're using turbos and DI unlike me. I'm using `pure` engine power".

[I shifted gears (no pun intended) to something else because in my experience debate/discussion on religion NEVER ends well)
Because the drunk driver's lack of consent isn't the problem with drunk driving: it's the lack of consent from everyone else on the road.

The issue with consent while drunk isn't about what you do to yourself while drunk: it is about hurting other people. You have the right to get drunk to the point of passing out in front of the stereo with The Cure's worst album at full blast, the dishes undone, leftovers on the stove and that still doesn't give anyone the right to steal your stereo, sharpie your face or fuck you (even if they shake you hard enough to get some vague affirmatory groan out of your body).
Oles (Octave Klaba, the CEO)'s French is always terrible. This is probably one of his best written sentences.
It's true that APL was originally designed as a notation tool, and maybe J fails at that, at least for beginners (which I am; only a few months in), but it certainly works very well for me as a language. Bonus; if my prop trading algos ever get lifted, there are only a few people who will be able to make anything of 'em.
I see above you're looking at its successor, K. Maybe you will like it better, but ultimately the idea was to reduce J's character set to one-character per primitive.
Not necessarily true. Steam Australia, for instance, sells in USD.
I worked on that, but have not seen that particular article. There are actually a whole lot of them going by the Newark Airport even today.
> But Nanded is in a part of the country where people eat intensely hot chili peppers

Isn't current consensus that chili peppers have nothing to do with causing ulcers, and may actually prevent them?
I don't think it really makes much sense to say that a victim is 'part of the problem' when they respond to thousands of slurs, threats, and near-constant abuse by telling the abuser to go kill themselves. It's not as if they don't actually wish the abuser were dead...

Yes, Phil Fish is part of the problem by existing. He's solved this by leaving the industry entirely. That's a helpful way of looking at it, isn't it?
There are "not relevant to what you do" because most of the people you meet at work probably don't give a crap about anything else than the end of their (short) noses. It's common in people in general.

I actually tend to bring out issues like SOPA or NSA at work regularly, only to find them losing to topics like "what's your opinion on the last Game of Thrones episode".

Even in a situation a company could take a meaningful stand, the issue typically gets dismissed as "it doesn't affect the bottomline". And it sucks to be the only person around who cares, so at some point you just stop bringing issues up.
PHOTO: Embroidery scissors from Dovo.
Simon Posford (Shpongle) shares his views of piracy and record labels
Aww, I was running a relay for more than two years on mine. Hopefully it only means exit nodes.
Shucks :)

As an aside, my best buddy, lead Dys programmer and co-project manager Teddy is now hacking around with Oculus Rift things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoj9EU7pWs
Please compute for me the number of bits per atom you will be storing if current trends continue for a thousand years.
1. Theoretically yes. This is probably something we should look into in the future by making links that "time out".

2. You can't have non-renewing subscription in a newsstand magazine. Apple doesn't allow that.

4. Can you hit me with an email - Holger@Uninkd.com - telling me a bit more about what you plan to do. Would love to see if we'd be a good fit.

Which browser are you using? We still have a bit of issues with Firefox (we suggest chrome).

What did you do with the login/demo? Clicked "Try Demo" and and signed up in the upper right corner?
Ok, let's start over. Hello, how are you?
I guess the part Im really keen to setup is the S3 + Hive/EMR part. But it sounds like it will be a bit too expensive to have up-to-date stats, and better to just do batch processing to run reports.
Oh this is moronic.

Trades unions did not come into existence to protect the jobs of middle income workers just to spite the selfless and innovative capitalists.

The move out of the fields and into towns was unbelievably painful for the families and workers living through it. Starvation was common throughout nineteenth century Britain, workhouses a reality for swathes of the population. And then they were exploited by the privileged - sexually sometimes, almost always working in dangerous conditions.

Unionisation gave them a voice and a place at the table - it took long years, with real violence, death and sacrifice as the cost.

I am just fucking outraged that this is now dismissed as fat union leaders taking their lazy time to protect disrupted jobs. It's a meme I see here in the UK too and each time I fail to hear how amazingly innovative the bosses are, because most could not manage their way out of a paper bag.

And there is one more reason I think that the history of unions is important - they came out of a period when almost all the workers moved out of the fields and into the factories - and we are on the cusp of a time when all the workers will move out of the offices, and into cyberspace.

I am a middle aged, middle class, educated, skilled worker in the fifth largest economy in the world. Trying to exploit me is like trying to take advantage of a Hippo with a headache.

That is not true of all of the other seven billion people who will benefit from a trip to cyberspace. Some will lack education, healthcare, security, credit, law and plain good luck.

They will need unions. Those unions will not look like the current damaged crop. But they will be needed - history tells us that much. Now disrupt in that direction and I will be there to help.
It is still stop the world.
You clearly know this stuff. You should expand this into a step-by-step article, with what to use rather than just what not to use. Denouncing the article we have without providing clear alternatives may give you and some in-the-know friends a good time, but it's useless to me. You might consider hooking the rest of us up with some actual knowledge, rather than a vague incitement to "do research" on "forums."
I got to hold one of these Zimbabwean bills the other day. One hundred trillion dollars, IIRC. Pretty cool.
Reminds me of the Hough transform and the Radon transform.

Edit: Hough
What I say in the book is "chronic busyness destroys creativity, self-knowledge, emotional well-being, your ability to be social" and that I would argue is true. Deliberate practice to me means intense focus on one specific activity for a long period, not trying to juggle long to do lists or multitasking. Crucially, deliberate practice also I would argue an internally imposed task - in that the practitioner chooses to focus on it - rather than switching among hundreds of tasks a day on an externally imposed schedule. What I argue against in the book is trying to master "busyness" - because quite simply our brains are not designed to be busy and when they are busy the amazing things our brains can do are suppressed. That's my hypothesis - I think it's testable.
how exactly does a well compressed H264 stream at 500 MB per hour work out to 3 TB a year? Wouldn't a years worth of video and audio come closer to thousands of terabytes?
You can hijack it, but there are monitoring systems in place to detect if something is out of place. Also, ATC will usually notice flight path deviations quite quickly, at least on manned airports with radar coverage.
If you are a control freak and you are writing a library, you would want to control how and where people can call your code. Most languages support private function because it has found to be a good idea. Sure most of them are doing it as a hack.
I don't really see exceptions used that much in real-life products. Any thoughts on this?
This kind of censorship is not bad. It's needed. That's why we have a word "moderation", to distinguish that process from a similar one (but stronger), with negative connotations.
You have options! If you need to talk to someone call the BC Crisis Line @ 1-800-784-2433 [1]. I have called it on behalf of someone before and they are extremely understanding. You can also go to a walk in medical clinic and they can give you a referral to talk to someone.

Unemployment can be a tough spot when you have obligations, trust me, I have been unemployed too, you are not alone in this fight! BC is a beautiful place to live, and there are plenty of jobs in the lower mainland. I'm not sure where you are, but in Vancouver, you can check out bctia.org Tech Jobs section [2], there are 1215 listings. If you live on Vancouver Island, check out Viatec's Job Listings [3].

I would suggest you call the crisis line and also apply for the BC Employment and Assistance program [4], which will likely help you cover your house payment while you look for work. If your mother is unable to work then you would look at getting assistance for her too.

Also, keep your options open, there are lots of day labor places which you can just show up in the morning and get paid cash. It's summer, so landscaping is an option, etc. There are lots of jobs outside of IT which will help you cover your costs. Constructions is also an option. You can almost walk onto a site if you have boots and a hardhat.

[1] http://www.crisislines.bc.ca/

[2] http://www.bctia.org/Resources/BC-Tech-Jobs

[3] http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/results

[4] http://www.eia.gov.bc.ca/publicat/bcea/BCEA.htm
Yeah, I was hoping it was the ten minutes before market close every day and some evil genius HFT operator was trying to exploit lack of time sync at the exchange.
As somebody who's primary field of study is GPS / Navigation / Positioning, I'd like to remark that survey grade receivers such as in the eLoran stations can cost much, much more than £2,000.

Their price isn't so much the hardware itself, in fact, most of the receivers seen in cell phones today cost less than $1USD. However, when dealing with more accurate receivers, the receivers typically need extensive calibration and testing. I mean, it's possible to get measurements from GPS accurate to 1mm, but you need to have both a careful setup and very good knowledge about the errors associated with your receiver. So yeah, these receivers are actually quite expensive, and most of it is because the calibration on repeatability and stability of these sensors is of the utmost importance.

On a secondary note, survey-grade receivers are typically not as prone to jamming as consumer-grade receivers, mostly because they can use multiple GPS frequencies / can collect over a wider bandwidth. There's a lot more to it than that, but effectively the point I'm making is that the receivers spoken of in the article are not the same as everyday GPS receivers.

If you want to see how crazy the prices on these receivers can get, look no further than http://www.surveyorsmart.com/product.sc?productId=548. I doubt many surveyors would go for that particular model by Leica, as it is definitely expensive, even for survey equipment standards, but it's not unreal in terms of pricing.
Bitcoin is more than a virtual currency or miners running rigs. It's the first self-sufficient, decentralized, monetary system that renders 3rd party entities like banks obsolete.

At the very least it's an intriguing concept in relation to sociology, economy, and new forms of governance. It's a paradigm shift, and as such, it will meet a lot of misunderstanding and opposition. Particularly from those whose power is at stake - banks and governments.

As once, the idea of equality and democracy shook the kingdoms during the Enlightenment, the idea of Bitcoin, if you look closely, is not far from it.
If you are more interested in the hidden services aspect, did you also have a look at I2P [1]? It is more geared toward this aspect (exit nodes = outproxies in i2p-speak for example are just standard hidden services)

[1] https://geti2p.net/
Who are talking about surveillance? We are talking about identification of an IP adress. If they were asking for everything his user has done in the past century, and a direct fiber to every data... it would be surveillance but who were using a single ip during a single moment, this is not surveillance.
Your answer implicitly casts the drunk person being acted upon, rather than an actor. I see this a lot and I have a feeling this stems from society's sexist views regarding sex that we've all internalized (men are always the actor, women passive). The point is assuming the drunk person (lets assume a women) is giving "enthusiastic consent", and thus is a "drunk actor" in this situation, why is responsibility invalidated in the case of sex, but not in the case of drunk driving?
That's a problem qualitative social scientists often have with this kind of work. In their view, the right way to analyze something like this would require at least several months of classic ethnographic fieldwork: interview and observe people in a community, read its newspapers, try to understand how to it functions, what socioeconomic class categories people see themselves and others as a part of, what problems frequently come up around that, etc. Only after a phase of open-ended investigation to try to understand what's going on would you then try to abstract any general conclusions about how social class in Berkeley impacts something as broad as "ethics".

By contrast, the quantitative psych-influenced approach is to pick a proxy variable and measure it, either in the lab or in the field. Much less work, and many people will actually think that style of work is more scientific (it has numbers and p-values). It also makes for better definitive soundbites, because it states a bold conclusion that it doesn't qualify with the dozens of caveats you'd find in a year of real investigation. But it's also considerably more superficial and at risk of measuring based on problematic choices of categories and proxies.
I hope you'll think of me when you're spending your new-found wealth.
But i think people can still operate Tor Hidden services from there
Link bait! The author doesn't truly answer the question in the title and even worse, the author throws a whole generation of people under the bus, so to speak. There is no balance to the explanation as it is one-sided with the employees to blame. Find me a corporation (that still exists) that is truly loyal to its employees... The author needs to read Richard Wolff.
We can only hope that Google kindly complies.
He was quoting Futurama (which he did not note).

Either way, responding to hate with more hate doesn't mean it's OK to continue the death threats.
Wow, what a meaningless title.
Sure thing, thought I haven't had a reason to go to Utah before, but you never know
I am confused; why do you, as the creative person, need to tell the world about the death of a family person or if you are getting married (Looking at you, Neil Gaiman)? Why has this become a thing? Why can't you STFU, get off twitter/facebook/whatever social network and go do your creative thing?
I don't know about presently, but in the past the GPS transmitters had an introduced error known as "Selective Availability," the purpose of which was to deny pin-point accuracy to unauthorized devices.

For a price, one could acquire the necessary hardware/software to mitigate Selective Availability in order to increase the accuracy of GPS readings, although I forget what those prices were/are.
Thanks! i2p is on my list of 'privacy stuff to learn' but your comment may have bumped it up a bit in priority.
There are plenty of step-by-step articles out there. Personally, I use FreePBX to manage an Asterisk system with Grandstream, Cisco and Siemens endpoints. Any google search for FreePBX will find lots of guides.