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Activision buys out Vivendi in a deal worth $8.17 billion
If you believed in it back then, you are gullible enough to keep believing in it now.
Loading != calculation. Excel has a multi-threaded calculation engine:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/bb687899.aspx

Apparently LO does not:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/5371/is-lo-calc-capab...
Ok, let’s say they charged him with of "aiding the enemy". That also carries the death penalty.

Who knows what kind of trumped up charges the government where planning to throw at him.

But there's no way he'd be getting a fair trial, so why on earth would he be offering himself up for trial.
Look, I am a developer from India. An above average developer by Indian Standards, but the problem is most Indian clients are also below an average client. They dont know what exactly they want. This ends up increasing number of iterations, which is ok. But then I have never experienced a client appreciating these iterations.
Please come down off the throne, oh king of the Internet, and join the world around you.

/s

> For all I know

Of course the claims would need to be corroborated by local health officials in order for circumstance to be verified. Also, defamation and deciet to punish a bad employer via libel are not protected speech, even if posted online.

Look, I agree with you, the pizza parlor guy seems to have had it coming to him, and is acting pretty seedy from the POV of PopeHat. But this could also be something innocuous that a burned former employee is blowing out of proportion. And we're whipping up an Internet mob. Dude seems like a crook, but that don't make him one, even if we think it quacks like it.
Indeed, we should not think of 2007-Obama, 2008-Obama and 2012-Obama as the same people. What one said can't be held against the other.
Nobody forces you to believe in it. Some people must bear the consequences of too many people choosing to believe in it, though.
Even if I have the money, I don't want more human servants, I want more automation so that the sum total of menial work done by people goes down. How about a robot that does laundry? I'm thinking of a third robot that interacts with our existing and totally fabulous washing machine and dryer robots instead of a human.
Didn't github do this (just ship a vm that you run) with their "behind your firewall" version?
Woah! I'm the technical founder of this company and I hadn't even seen this article yet. Pretty surreal to see it on hacker news.
"After one of the most thorough processes in history..."

What?
Is there a qualifier missing there? Or maybe it really was among the most thorough processes in history by any measure. How is process thoroughness even measured?
And indeed, following on from Mirage, there's a project which directly targets the Xen hypervisor: http://erlangonxen.org/
In theory, the shared narrative of America is rooted in Enlightenment values, including a respect for reason, education and history. The lack of a proactive attempt to preserve that history, let alone to erase it intentionally, goes against the principles of the Age of Reason.

In practice, obviously, this story is at best an ideal we strive for, and that we only achieve partially or intermittently.
Well you don't 'have to think about it' even if you licence your code as GPL (or any other licence). It's not as if someone forces you to chase after violators.
Microsoft just won their place in the market, in part by using ruthless business tactics (and lots of luck). Everybody wanted everyone to get a computer, it was the default vision of the future. It would have happened without Gates, maybe with better software, maybe not.
The biggest danger to the USA tech industry isn't even the customer blowback, which might blow over soon enough. The biggest danger is an opportunity for local competition to lobby the local governments to legitimately regulate US competition out of the market. For instance if the German government demands that all operating systems have to be open source (to prevent backdors) and replaces Windows with something like LiMux (which will of course be serviced by local companies who lobbied) and all companies dealing with citizen data have to use it as well, Microsoft could lose a huge chunk of market almost over night.
When the PC first came out, it only catered for the rich. Same with cell phones, cars, etc.

How about restaurants? Why should people eat out when it's cheaper to cook at home?

If founders listen to people like you, nothing will be built.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell

Stuff like apt-get works great until it doesn't. You've run into this no doubt. Jails/LXC abstract dependencies away in an attempt to avoid this class of problems.

In other words: this helps to avoid mutating your system state with every command you run from the shell. :)
Isn't that what will ultimately happen? Once a business has the financial incentive to optimize how it's done they will eventually get to automating it when that is possible/economical.
I think http://speakerdeck.com/ is even better. IMO the UI is very cool and the entire site very easy to navigate; I actually find it hard to believe it's not a very popular slides sharing platform.
Good for you. Thoroughly understandable, that money could help to build infrastructure in your own country. At the same time, the economic cost will undoubtedly help to end this undemocratic insanity, and will make these guys far more sensitive to their endless xenophobia.
Oh look, a comment that can see through the lies we've been fed, and shows us the malice of those who are 'above' us! And no citations or examples, to boot!
While I agree, is there any reason to expect different behavior from a replacement?

Even scarier than a single corrupt tyrant, or even a cabal of "shadow government" figures, is the possibility that these institutions have taken on a life of their own, independent from any one actor.

http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
As the guy said at the end of the film Contact, "that is interesting, isn't it?"

Keith Ellison: "For the government to just collect people's data without any sense of that individual warrants or merits and investigation of some kind is a problem. I am pretty disappointed we didn't pass it, but I am pretty impressed with how well we did. This issue is not over. There will be more voters and there will be more bills. I feel confident we can perhaps prevail."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/narrow-defeat-ns...
Right... "exploiting". I guess that's what every business that charges money for something the customer wants to obtain is doing.
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All I can say is sometimes the printer may not provide enough information via status pages. Had it happen to me where one was was in a bad state and didn't play well with others.

Models that you can configure via on-printer displays are way faster to setup and easier to deal with technicalities in the long run.
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Only the K2 $50 one listed there is equal to the 16G, not the K1

The 16G is effectively half the price.

And I believe people buy ovh servers in other countries all the time for backups, maybe you need an account with them first in your own country (but they are not in AUS I guess?)
I don't think that you need to bring countries into this.

Ubiquitous surveillance goes hand in hand with corruption and authoritarianism. Cloud services make surveillance easier - get off the cloud and run your own services.
While this article lists bad apples, there's a ton of companies which comply with GPL (and other licences from which they use code). If that was not the case Linux would not be where it is today.
Ah I see what you mean, though the argument could be made that people treat the internet like casual verbal communication. There's nothing to preserve because its supposed to be ephemeral.
> - Can the extra $5 pay for the cost of the person who is picking up and delivering the laundry (a truck driver probably gets much more than minimum wage), the fuel and maintenance of the trucks, insurance, office space, computers, etc. and still provide profit for Prim?

That would depend on how many different pickups/dropoffs the drivers can get per units of time/fuel.
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The videos are quite funny as well. Well, not so funny per se, but good enough to get the job done.
http://www.shopinprivate.com/fresh-balls.html
The simulation theory would also explain some weirdnesses about quantum mechanics; I remember reading a piece by a quantum computing researcher[1] saying that the universe can be modeled as the largest ever quantum computer; at some point, simulated universe and real quantum universe become a distinction without a difference.

[1] Pretty sure it was Seth Lloyd's "Programming the Universe": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_the_Universe
This is because the UAVs have a high degree of autonomy - the technology is probably closer to the Mars probes than to the RC drones.
Well? He promised "change," didn't he? It changed.
You're forgetting that the same industry is already getting the US government to lean on non-US governments to relax their privacy laws so that the US info sector can perpetrate it's own massive privacy violations thing for fun and profit.

As far as non-US citizens and their privacy is concerned, the US tech industry and the NSA are just two sides of the same coin.
Partially, intermittently or accidentally.
Marco Arment twitted this today and I wholeheartedly agree,

"It’s hard to celebrate a big company’s misfortune since it involves so many people’s jobs, but fuck Zynga and good riddance to their profit."
Throughout the years of my life I have learned of certain inalienable truths. The fact that politicians are not trust-worthy is one of them.
I think this is sensational, but it got me looking around the archive[1], and it's a pretty good read.

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Improve Intelligence Capacity and Protect Civil Liberties

* Improve Information Sharing and Analysis: Improve our intelligence system by creating a senior position to coordinate domestic intelligence gathering, establishing a grant program to support thousands more state and local level intelligence analysts, and increasing our capacity to share intelligence across all levels of government.

* Give Real Authority to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board: Support efforts to strengthen the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board with subpoena powers and reporting responsibilities. Give the Board a robust mandate designed to protect American civil liberties and demand transparency from the Board to ensure accountability.

* Strengthen Institutions to Fight Terrorism: Establish a Shared Security Partnership Program overseas to invest $5 billion over three years to improve cooperation between U.S. and foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

--

He f'ing nailed 2 of those.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130425003939/http://change.gov/...
What you're saying doesn't make any sense to me. Obama said different things than other people said in 2008, including Hillary. It didn't make anyone who believed that Obama meant it gullible, especially looking at his history. And it doesn't AT ALL mean that anyone who believed him then would continue to believe him after he went against his promises.
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And what does Google lobby for? Amongst other things, getting the EU to relax it's privacy protections.

Yeah, those are really the guys I want on my side when it comes to fighting for civil liberties...
She will receive the Democratic party's full support against any challenger.

It's a huge advantage.

Obviously anyone can challenge her in the next election, but it's going to be an uphill battle. The only way it's going to work is if the challenger has a REALLY active grassroots movement behind him/her, and even then Pelosi is probably going to outspend you 10:1 or worse.
More specifically, it guards against another site (bad.com) building a form that submits a valid request to modify data on another site (good.com) since it's impossible for the bad.com to know the value of the token associated with the user's cookies on good.com
I think you're right. Latency is very disorientating.

Here's how I would do it:
The craft has two wide angle cameras. The Oculus viewer is at the center of a sphere in 3D space. Project the video feed onto the inside of the sphere, and keep the position of the feed anchored to where the camera is currently positioned in relation to the craft.

Moving your head moves the frustum immediately, and the camera position lags behind, so if you moved too quickly (say, turned 180 degrees) the frustum moves right away, but the video only comes into view after the cameras are repositioned. There could be numbered checkerboard or other pattern shown wherever the video feed is not projected, so spatial disorientation is minimized.

That way you get the cockpit feel and immediate movement in the Oculus, but avoid the uneasiness that latency would give with a more simplistic approach.

Another option would be to use 360 degree cameras to fill up the entire sphere, and then use the binocular cameras to provide high detail.
She wouldn't even debate the republican in 2010...

http://youtu.be/D0JrUhHv8kI

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/10/15/pelosi_won...
The whole cert structure has always been a house of cards. As evidenced last year, e.g, with the Turkish provider ...

Since I first looked through the original Netscape, I've never had -any- reason to put so much trust in the hands of these Blue-Ribbon names. Or any ISP, for that matter. If US intelligence goes through with this, then only end-to-end (which has been deliberately stalled off and roadblocked and stonewalled for decades) will be left.

At that point we'll find out just how much power we've left to defend the privacy of our communications, our relationships, our finances and our movements. The Cryptocat guy may yet become a legend... or someone like him.
I believe it was their plan to create both an Android and a web version.

Just can't find the link to the video..
Only if people are willing to put up with having more servants in their lives in the interim. But if not, people will just keep doing their own laundry and the business will fold, or perhaps just reach a level where for some people it offers a slight improvement on existing laundry services. Whereas a laundry robot would be really quite the revolution, it would end up being a new mandatory home appliance after dishwasher, stove, fridge, washer, and dryer if it worked out. But then again, it's probably super hard to build such a thing.
She worked against the amendment because the President was against it.

It's all about partisan hackery.
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For many purposes it is a reason.
https://backupsy.com/

$80/mo for 2TB. Deals floating around as well as "40% Off For Life Coupon: 40PERCENT" on the home page.

Just signed up with them, and they are having problems with credit card billing, so only feedback so far is they seem responsive to tickets...
It's 2.99 euro, or $3.97 (not $2.99). Still under $5, though.
How Samsung is beating Apple in China
I'm not sure; but in their position that's how I'd do it.
From my experience with employees who originally came from russia to germany is that they were all pretty smart... most of them were also really good at chess for example, so i guess its something about the education there...seems to be quite math heavy
Hopefully the author is reading this. And please spare the downvotes, I'm trying to help without laying any judgement.

Please fix the spelling in the sidebar.

Recieve a digest of my best content every month about software, startups, and life.

"Recieve" should be "Receive"

Since this is in the sidebar of your site, it stands out and puts a negative spin on the rest of what you have to say. Unfair? Maybe, but this is such a basic error that people will judge you based on such a basic mistake, simply because it will be easily caught by any spell-checker.
People don't use AWS because it's cheap. People use it because its scalable. You can deploy hundreds of new servers in minutes literally to meet any demand. You pay for that flexibility.
Why not both?

After making his fortune, Bill is now working to better the world by using it to power his charitable foundation. If you're really confident then both tasks are within your reach. Don't listen to the nay-sayers who'd rather we all work as volunteers for the Peace Corps
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Besides not rallying for a witch-hunt, which is of course extremely commendable, he could acknowledge Snowden as a whistle-blower who sacrificed comfort and freedom for protecting constitution. Even while pursuing him for prosecution.
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Hetzner DOES ask for the same kind of documentation. I am in India and they asked me to send id and address proof when I signed up with them, which I did. And they don't charge me VAT.
To be fair, in places that aren't the Valley wash-and-fold services are a dime a dozen, the product is heavily commoditized, and availability is high. You wouldn't need a high-tech web-based provider of laundry, because there's a perfectly good low-tech one already doing it, doing it cheap, and doing it well.

This is not a case of a new product being upmarket before working its way downmarket. It's a case where something that exists at rock-bottom prices everywhere else is being introduced to the Valley at a premium, because for some crazy reason the SF/Bay hasn't figured out laundry by now.

This feels like a business that solves a Bay Area Problem. The question is how many other geographies are there where there is sufficient demand, insufficient development of local alternatives, and the income level to support this kind of pricing.

I think it's safe to say that this sort of service doesn't stand a stone cold chance in hell in a place like NYC, where laundromats are everywhere, pick-up-drop-off services a dime a dozen, competition fierce, prices low, and being VC-funded with a cool mobile app doesn't earn you many (if any) points.
Statistical analysis to figure the optimal use of police resources is a great idea, particularly to prevent violent crime and theft in public areas.

What concerns me, however, is the idea of predictive analytics being used on the vast databases collected by NSA/GCHQ (there's no reason to suspect they're not doing this already). Such a system of "pre-crime" would be bound to have false positives, and suddenly based on your Google searches, movie preferences, musical tastes, friendships, or who knows what, the state decides that you are a "person of interest".
How is he supposed to know in advance that they will not try to kill him if that legal option is on the table and they are known to be willing to make examples out of previous whistleblowers like Bradley Manning?

And even if he is not threatened with outright execution, even slightly less radical but more likely punishments, like that of Manning, are sufficiently radical to justify defecting to the Soviet Union. Even a simple life in some far away Siberian village will be more endurable than a US 24/7 waterboarding & force-feeding facility.
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I'll give it up to Rovio.

They had an original idea, a great product, they kept releasing new additions to the product. They built a large business around it. They branded the product, they created merchandise, they never scummed their employees and took their early equity.

They're a good company.
This is a great opportunity for non-US based startups to make a killing.
I have used Prim a few times and have been extremely satisfied by the quality of the service. It's also very refreshing to see the founders go out of their way to satisfy the customer.

In one instance I had to change the delivery by a few hours since I wasn't going to be home and I got an instant response. Yin Yin personally delivered the washed clothes when I was home.
This is how most VC's and kids calling themselves "entrepreneurs" these days see the world.

If I have to hear one more idiot with an app or another 56th version of a similar service like Instagram say they're "changing the world" I might lose it. Ha!
Freud's ghost hates that expression.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/EPqt8An_Sj2i...
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> Why haven't they called?

Here's how far our out going call has gone:

http://zidbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/how-far-in-spa...
I wonder what would happen if EU privacy protections was relaxed such that Google's infamously controversial new privacy policies was allowed.
What's the point of having wifi on those buses then?
I have a fool-proof way to test your retarded theory: (and I call it retarded only because its the best word in the modern human lexicon to discuss such topics of self-delusion)

Why don't we make a non-stop replaying channel of all the ridiculous bullshit propaganda campaign promises that Obama (and all other campaigning politicians) tells us, for everyone to see. Make it time-stamped, tagged, listed, searchable and correlated to their current actions - let people vote comment and review all things said.

After all - are we not for open-source code, which allows us to review for bugs and malicious code?

We need open-source politics that allows for the same.
This is how bitcoin works. The network will adopt whatever the majority agree on in terms what transactions happened. As a result, you can't man-in-the-middle bitcoin and it remains secure even without centralized key signers, because you can increase your confidence by confirming a transaction with as many nodes as you want. This is how you validate a local block chain - you connect to enough other bitcoin clients in the swarm such that at some confidence threshold you agree your chain is the correct one. The usual number is 8 independent connections in the bitcoin network (both for blockchain verification and confirmation of transaction acceptance) because the probability of getting 8 bad actors agreeing to the same fraudulent transaction is mathematically demonstrated to be sufficiently low.

Note: that is (besides the 51% attack vector) the primary reason the bigger parts of the crypto scene won't call bitcoin truly secure. Because there is still a risk of insecurity, it is just abysmally small, and disrupting one node doesn't mean the degradation of the web of trust because as long as the majority still agrees on the correct state of affairs (and as a false block chain diverges it becomes more expensive to maintain that public facing fork to disrupt other clients).
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In India we have had PRIM for decades and we call it DHOBI (The Washerman). They will come down to your place, take your clothes, Wash , Iron and Starch your clothes (also dry clean on request). Deliver them back to your place. Sometimes within the same day or the next.
You may file to your hearts content but what is likely to come of it?
I strongly dislike headlines like this (which all the crappy science news digests, like New Scientist, frequently indulge in).

If light could actually be "stopped", it wouldn't be light any more. It also can't be "slowed down"; it always travels at exactly the speed of light in whatever medium it's in. OTOH, if the light's energy is absorbed by electrons, it's not "light" any more. All matter does this trick all day every day - it's not news.

This sort of sentence only sows confusion in a lot of minds.