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Escape the country.

Going into a foreign embassy is not gonna do you any good. "The Free World" spies on, and jails its own people, and it will not risk another Mohammad cartoongate helping you. So don't even think about requesting asylum at an embassy.

Sell all you own and head to the nearest border/coastal town. Pay off smugglers or fishermen and get the fuck out.
Indeed; I once lost what might have otherwise been a good job at a startup because the other non-founder programmer, who got his job through nepotism, was a constant fury of coding and debugging.

Compared to him I appeared to be a slacker, I spent a lot more time thinking, much less time coding, and very little time debugging. And produced a lot more working code per unit of time. But this was in 1984 using PCs with no server, there was no way to objectively measure what I was accomplishing vs. him.
David Foster Wallace had some interesting thoughts on the importance of boredom. I'm on a mobile so I can't provide links, but google that!
See comment 16.

The bug report is not about the legal contractual agreement between Google and Mozilla, but rather about user expectation from a "do not track me" option. Some users, maybe faulty or silly, consider a "do not track me" option to simply mean, do not track me.

It doesn't mater if Google sign a service contract that Mozilla pays $150k/year. "Do not track me" means, do not track me. It doesn't matter if Google promise to not be evil. Do not track me still means, do not send tracking data to Google. It doesn't even matter how extremely useful or good intention Mozilla or Google has with the tracking data. "Do not track me" really do mean, do not track me.
You do know that you're putting your trust into a browser extension created by a third-party with a shady business agenda, right?

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2280451/Google-Paying-t...
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In the EU, the two situations I described are both legal obligations

What EU law requires a web site to check for and act on DNT?
How many years are you going in prison? How do you feel giving away equity?
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And you think the US will grant him a visa to work being a fugitive of a muslim country?
The people who push for cube farms never like to see this mentioned, but one of the major motivations is taxes. In some jurisdictions, property tax (paid directly or passed on as rent) is based in part on built space - including offices with real walls/doors but not cubes. Therefore, the cube farm is taxed less or not at all, lowering overhead costs. It has nothing to do with productivity, communication, or any such.
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If you want a sneak peek of the prototype: http://wigwamm.co.uk
Look at the FileInputStream and FileOutputStream classes in Java. The finalize method in them makes sure the file is closed when the object is reclaimed, to prevent file handle leaking.

It's not particularly effective a strategy for managing file handles unfortunately and if you forget to close your output streams, your program will crash with "too many open files".
"That's also why mainstream corporate work will never be able to accommodate depression or anxiety disorders." I've always dealt with this to some extent since I was about 12 years old. It really became an actual problem after working for a mega corp. My soul was crushed. I was working crazy shifts and having needless stress piled on by my manager for things that weren't even a big deal. When I had to work weekends 1 person had to be manning the phone at all times (since it was a support role). I ask my boss "what about when I go to the bathroom". His answer was that you "must take the phone and answer it at all times". I left that job and landed in startup that ended up getting purchased by another mega corp. Still having trouble dealing with it.
I work in an open-plan office and none of the stuff in this article rings true. The office is open-plan for everyone, from the lowliest intern to the CEO. Desks are not categorized by rank - the new CTO occupies the desk formerly held by a 3 day/week freelancer. A few people are stuck in marginally smaller desks due to a space crunch, but apart from that all the desks have the same model #.

As for the risk of my boss sneaking up on me while I'm looking at baby elephants on /r/aww, I'm sure it's happened since I make no attempt to hide it. It's a complete non-event.

The lack of outward signs of power is actually confusing. A person who sits in the vicinity of accounting recently came over and started asking for progress reports from a developer. It took about a week before that developer's manager informed him that the "accountant" was actually the CEO.

Don't get me wrong - I can make criticisms of open office plans, mainly about the distractions and the ease with which one can be interrupted. But the pseudo-marxist critique of power dynamics embedded in this article doesn't ring true for me.
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(i am very sorry for your situation. this response is assuming you cannot find any way to get out of jail. i hope you do though.)

i had a friend from the internet who went to jail before. we used to run topsites together back in the day. he would usually wind up getting the boxes and affiliations, and i would wind up taking care of them, scripting them, and maintaining them. we had a good racket going.

one day he wound up going to jail for something incredibly stupid and unrelated, for almost a year. he gave me all his passwords and i just took care of the sites while he was gone. if i needed to interact with someone he knew, i just logged into his IM or email and pretended to be him. nobody even knew. then he came back and it was like nothing ever happened.

it's hard, but do you think you would be able to find someone like that? if not a friend, then maybe someone you could employ?
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Whats the company address?
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Open source your code. It might not be as much of a competitive advantage as you think and open sourcing it will help with the bug fixes and features

Concentrate on the value that you and your brand provides - if your main customers are in your home country then you can already provide value from localisation. Can you hire someone to handle the marketing and support?
Can I ask what your name is? I'm a free speech activist in the area and would love to see if I can help.

On topic: Post more information about the SaaS. Someone where could want to buy it.
Right, a Gmail address. Like he should write anything sensitive there.
Hire a developer (to add features) and a support guy (for emails and bug reports). At least have these as your backup while you think of other ideas.
The apache http server uses that allocation strategy, actually. For each request you have a separate memory pool and you allocate out of that. There's no function to free memory you've got from a pool and the entire pool is destroyed/released after the request has been served.
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An escrow service would return the goods and funds to their original owners if something went wrong. Here the transaction is mirrored by the money in the box which is liable to destruction.
It's an excellent riposte to the frankly silly amounts of hash tagging that's now occurring. I personally blame Instagram for it as the root cause.
This kind of stuff actually happens:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-coul...
> But you don't have a right to say what runs on my computer, or make it tell you what I'm doing. This is where our perceived rights collide.

You already have control over this. That doesn't contradict someones right to track how people use the site.

> No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules.

And again, you already have control over this. However, if you give data to a remote server, they have the right to use that data. You are, in fact, giving them that data.

> No, people get offended when you try to turn their computer into a device that spies on them. And we get more offended that this sort of stuff happens without most people even being aware its going on.

That's a result of people wanting defaults, and most people change those defaults to be the least annoying as possible, regardless of security/privacy implications, even if it's explained to them.

> And it's so lovely of you to have made the decision for me that it's to my benefit, so I don't have to worry about pesky things like privacy concerns, or having control over my own computing.

But you do. You can prevent cookies from being put on your computer. You can prevent 3rd party cookies. You do have this control.

What do you not have control over that you feel you should have control over? You keep talking about control as if you don't have it?
Would be very grateful for comments.

A sneak peek of the app is available to play with here: http://wigwamm.co.uk
I got a "502 Bad Gateway | nginx" error, then it loaded (nice use of Bootstrap 3 RC1) and then it was slow.
If Nashx was a mediator:

1. It would require them to hire experts in all markets they wish to support.

2. And since mediation has a human factor, there will always be scammers with some success rate of fooling experts around. Considering the mediator has no power to fight back at anonymous/remote scammers, the cost of attack is very-very low.

By requiring both parties to risk their funds up-front, the cost of attack on a mediator becomes irrelevant. Scammers would have to either convince their victims that the good is delivered and get payment; or try to hack nashx website to hijack people's funds when they are being transferred back and forth.

Another funny part: no payment method except Bitcoin allows provable destruction without everyone gathering in the same room.
During that time, Ancel Keys did a few experiments to help develop a protocol for that exact issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
That's an interesting way of counting homeless people - I wonder how accurate its assumed to be?
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http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2013-08/when.html

Currently the estimate indicates September 2014.
Depending on how long you are likely to go away, it's probably best do just do the time.

Escaping, as others suggested, would mean leaving your life behind, likely living as an illegal elsewhere (without the ability to open a bank account or own a business). If it's probably just a couple of years, it's probably best to sit it out, and resume your life after.

You need to hook up with someone you really trust, and give them 50% revenue of the startup (after a while, they will see it as theirs, and wonder why they are paying you if it's less). Family would be good, but otherwise an old friend. If they are technically literate, maybe they can outsource the actual work so long as they remain in control.
I'm impressed so far. Is there any chance you could send me the current beta APK file to test on my BlackBerry PlayBook? Web application works alright, but selecting text to style doesn't work :(

Yeah yeah I know, obscure device and all that. :P
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Attention Captain Obvious: If he could leave the country, he probably would.
These obligations are meaningless unless there is a way to verify compliance.
Currently with feminism all the rage, and sue happy people all the rage, there are lots of good reasons to avoid getting sued.

Don't blame "feminism" for that. False rape/harassment accusations occur and it's very wrong that they do, but they're not a product of feminism.

False rape/harassment accusations are the antithesis of feminism. First of all, that game is old as empire: women using social power and implicit credibility to get other men to use violence or bring social harm on men who displease them. It happened in the antebellum South, which is not exactly known for being a stronghold of feminism. It has probably existed in every society.

Women have a certain social power-- the ability to make men fight over them, to defend their honor, et cetera-- that is decidedly unfeminist in origin. Whether they choose to use it comes down to the individual. If anything, a feminist should be less likely to use that, instead preferring to solve her own problems instead of calling in a man to rough someone up.

Feminism and bad female behavior shouldn't be linked together. Bad behavior is as old as dirt on all sides of any class, gender, or race divide, and it's irrelevant to the real debate. At any rate, feminism is about equality, and abuse of archaic, gendered social powers goes directly against that purpose.
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What was wrong with the word "stealing" in this context?
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What I love most about bitcoin (I don't own any) are all these creative ways people are using it. Like this or say Satoshi Dice. The rate at which these ideas are emerging makes me wonder if the real bitcoin killer app has yet to be discovered.
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Hire someone outside your country for a percentage of the profit. Don't worry too much about the paperwork. Just hire a well known guy(meaning open source projects, vocal on technical issues etc.) in the hacker community to find someone trustworthy. I am sure many of us would be happy to help. Though I may not be qualified I am up for it.
The $('.pure-g h3.l-hashtags')-Headline is driving me insane.

I guess this is not satire, since this tool suggests some tags. (I guess the hashtagging of every word is just a little side-joke.)
From my personal experience, You don't need rockstar programmers to build great software. I also believes you need to hire people with character over skills, as skills can be build in 6 months, character can not.
Something to consider. In Firefox, the DNT options have a Learn More link that answers the question:

"Do Not Track is a feature in Firefox that allows you to let a website know you would like to opt-out of third-party tracking for purposes including behavioral advertising. It does this by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header every time your data is requested from the Web."

While you can debate whether that's the appropriate place for that information, it's not as if Mozilla is hiding this information. It's easily reached, and not at all intentionally hidden away. Nothing devious. Just a question of how to appropriately display the information.
1. Thanks for the second link - both "Total Patent Applications" and "Total Patent Grants" show a similar upward trajectory, both roughly doubling since the late nineties. The first link is uninteresting - acceptance rate fluctuations don't matter much in the face of steadily rising numbers of both applications and grants.

2.3.4. I come to my opinions as a veteran professional programmer, a named inventor on three US software patents (which I now regret signing off on), a software business owner, and a long-time avid follower of this issue. I'm sure that others, perhaps yourself included, may know more about the ins and outs of the patent legal system than I do, but I submit that you and your patent-defending ilk can't see the forest for the trees. The forest is that the vast majority of software-related patents are total bullshit. Given your role here as patent apologist, I don't think I will try to make a case to you why that is; I don't think that would be time well spent.

5. Find me a chart like your second link which shows the staffing levels of the USPTO over time. I'll bet it shows the same upward trend as patent applications and grants.
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Yeah but you don't have to deal with for instance healthcare cost should you or your family get into trouble. And believe me, you do not want to be caught of guard in the US without proper healthcare which for a self-employed is really expensive and sub par to working in a large organisation with a proper healthcare setup.
I can't see an architecture doc, or other docs describing the build toolchain. Since pypy doesn't use commonly used build tools (or does it?) porting is going to be harder than something that uses a well know build toolchain like autotools/cmake/etc for example.

What would a high level porting strategy be? Get it running on CPython first, run tests..., set up platform specific details in files X,Y,Z, then try and translate? Perhaps the people who did the ARM port could write a short post on the strategy they took? What things can you disable to get a minimal pypy working first?

CPython has a short Porting document of which the style could be mostly copied and improved on with pypy specific details. https://github.com/python-git/python/blob/master/Misc/Portin...

I like the "Bang on it until you get a >>> prompt" :)
When I middle-click on a link, I expect it to open in a new tab. When browsing lists of things I tend to scroll through the list and open a bunch of tabs, then peruse them at my leisure later on, and I can't do that on your site.
Yes, there are a few quite prominent ones operating on tor.
You can persuade the C++ constructor to run on an arbitrary address trivially with "placement-new". See here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placement_syntax . In short, you can do:

void* mem;
... snip ...
MyClass* thing = new (mem) MyClass;

And that doesn't allocate memory, but calls the constructor on the mem pointer. You are responsible for having allocated enough memory. You cannot call delete normally on this object though. You'll need to call the destructor manually as such:

thing->~MyClass();

before the memory is deallocated. If the destructor doesn't actually do anything, you can safely skip this.
It does make sense given that it's the private workforce that pays for the rest.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for everybody who is involved in this and is trying to do a good, professional job under difficult and onerous circumstances. However, this is also political, and, as the saying goes, you cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs.

If we stuck to politically correct, anodyne, low-fat, impartial statements, we would never get anything done. The whole point of making comments is to exert pressure. To exert pressure, you have to throw your weight around, to engage in ad-hominem attacks and all sorts of underhanded sophistry.

It is unfortunate; I wish it were some other way, but you have to make a caricature of your position to have any impact whatsoever. I have said some pretty inflammatory things in the past: but does that mean that I would assault one of the targets of my vitriol if I met them on the street?

Of course not.

That would be rude.

Even more so, if I were debating the issue face-to-face, my position would be conciliatory rather than inflammatory ... but internet forums present an entirely different medium of exchange from civilised discussion, and, much like public speaking, the medium is a particularly partisan and divisive one.

In fact -- and this may be a contentious point given the current forum -- I think that the state should continue to collect this sort of information -- and indeed more of it. I think that there is a tremendous amount of social good that can be derived from a better understanding of how we function -- both as individuals and as a society. I also think that denying this information to the state will result in worse decision making than might otherwise be the case.

If you can sense a "but" coming, your instincts are serving you well.

But, however professional and well-vetted the individuals in authority may be, they are still human. And being human is all about being fallible. We pretty much suck at everything we try from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Some of us are better at hiding it than others, but that does not mean that the suck is not hiding in there somewhere.

So, by all means, collect all the information that can lay your hands on for everybody in the whole world, but please make sure that there are robust, physical processes in place to reduce both the impact of any abuses that may occur, and also the probability that those abuses might occur in the first place.
> Switching it all off is harmful to the internet.

See comment 28 in the report. No one has argued to turn of all analytics on website. That is a straw man argument. The bug report simply ask that users who explicitly do not want to be tracked, can have their request granted. Turn off analytics for them and the problem is solved. Alternatively, they can use analytics that do not track each individual user.

We used to live in a world where statistics did not include 100% tallied votes. It was simply too expensive to do survey on all customers, all citizens, all users. Trends and data was extracted out of a limited sized sample, commonly from a opt-in basis. With websites however, it as cheaply and easy to track all users as it is to track a limited set of users, so data tend to be 100% rather then a subset. Thus, total tracking has always been about the price, rather than need.
Should a distinction be made between "Do not track me" and "Do not track anonymous/aggregate user's paths".

Serious question. I think that's what's being suggested here?
Rather than attempt to reply to all the misconceptions below, I figured I'd post here.

I'm not on your server. My browser isn't on your site. It sent a request to your server to send me a copy of some content. Your server sent that content. It's all on my computer.

This, in my opinion, is why Do Not Track is silly: You, nor your server, have any right to the expectation that I'll send tracking information (that your site provided in, say, a cookie) with every request. Meaning that the browser makers should be providing users options in this space- the power lies entirely with the browser makers and their users. Of course, completely omitting cookies and other tracking details leaves you, the site owner, making assumptions about user behavior on your site from a limited number of details like IP address and perhaps user agent strings. The ever popular cookie was the answer to maintaining session data across requests, and Double Click made famous the idea of tracking users across many sites (by embedding their assets [a blank pixel, a JavaScript, etc] and giving the user a doubleclick.net cookie.) Double Click's concept was, in the minds of most Internet users, a perversion of the purpose of cookies.
That was my first thought while reading this - and not only is he a business major - he teaches it.

I guess it's difficult to apply knowledge to one's own life. I know people who work in banks who have credit card debt.
> All that's happened is I've requested some data from the server and they've given it to me, from then on how I display it and what gets run is entirely up to me.

You currently already have this option. You can control all this. That you've setup your browser to, by default, automatically grant JavaScript the right to run or accept cookies from third parties or numerous other things is on you.

That's it has become fairly standard practice is a result of the masses wanting it that way.