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Here is something interesting regarding the mind-state of some 'techno-geeks'. If you ask a question, you will likely get the reply 'RTFM' or some similar sounding poem. If you make a statement that is very likely to be incorrect, a lot of people who originally said 'RTFM' will now give you detailed explanations on why you are wrong. You are expected to auto-learn, but that is mostly forgotten when you feign arrogance.

I find this to be a profound dichotomy. It gets even more profound when someone makes a statement, then said statement is misunderstood by some 'techno-geeks' due to poor natural language skills. A load of 'geeks' reply to this statement taken out of context, explaining the poster's apparent ignorance of technology.

The best reply to this: 'LSFE'
Yikes. Seems like importing is not the best idea. I've always been skeptical of "save password" features.
Because it's not the price that is at the heart of the debate. FxOS is an attempt at an alternative to the current mobile OS behemoths in iOS and Android and their anti-consumer features and policies.
`rustc` already has a `--pretty` flag, though it's not great, and has bit-rotted a bit.
Aw crap. Now I may have to setup my Apple IIGSs and begin another marathon Apple hacking session. My wife always finds these times trying/amusing/annoying.
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Plz define 'real host'. My pentium s clocked at 120MHz is a damn real host.
I said it before, and I'll say it again, but any attempt to differentiate packets based on use rather than quantity is a violation of network neutrality. All packets are created equally, why should any ISP care why my packets exist?
The internet has never been based on a philosophy of all nodes being equal. It's only in the past few years that such an arrangement is even technically possible. For the vast majority of the internet's history, communicating nodes could be assumed to be grossly unequal in both bandwidth and latency.
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I don't see erlang mentioned at all, yet he's talking specifically about things erlang can do.
Home users don't really want unmetered connections, the costs would be too high, and it'd be wasteful.
We work with technology and love to see cool new things developed and released in the world, but like anything, it can be used for evil too. There shouldn't be any cognitive dissonance and it's good that you're cognizant of the possible downsides. I wish more people would think of the possible negatives before they lay finger to keyboard and start coding.

What can you do? Keep talking about it; don't give up. Most people have to be exposed to an idea many, many times, and also see social proof (i.e. their peers accepting the idea too) before they will accept it. This is why we as entrepreneurs love early adopters because they give us the social proof we need to pull new, less adventurous customers on board.

What else can you do? Don't code bad shit and compete against those that do. Make the privacy destroyers lose.
Servers are not just a tool for businesses but have a lot of different uses as addressed in the article.
Oh my god, this is it.

I posted a story a while back saying that I receive messages from a FB account created with my email. I suspected that somebody may have made an account with my email by mistake, but FB keeps on sending messages with "you know this guys?" etc, and it's about people I know.

So I had a FB shadow account created, it inferred my email (probably through looking up some of my friends address books on their email), and now it keeps trying to make me join FB with that account.

This is both creepy and scary. Yet, I'll leave it be because it adds to the noise in the data they have.
Go look at any hands on video or flash it yourself on a device that runs Android. It's clear as day that Firefox OS is far from fast and responsive on hardware that Android doesn't have issues with. And this makes a ton of logical sense, as it would be a goddamn miracle if Mozilla managed to make web technologies an order of magnitude faster and more memory efficient than anyone else.

Or hell, just run Firefox on your existing Android device - that's all Firefox OS is in reality. Mozilla makes a bunch of claims about how it's "closer to the metal" or some such nonsense, but it isn't. It's not like Android runs all native code in a VM - it's as "close to the metal" as you can get, with the exception that system calls go to the kernel. Just as they do in Firefox OS. Particularly since Firefox OS is built on top of Android.
"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away"

The TOS says "no servers", it doesn't say "non-commercial use' only.

Can I run a 1Gpbs upstream feed from my Kittycam to a million non-paying subscribers?
So, basically: "You can't run a server, unless it's a server-ish thing that most people use, in which case we encourage it." Really wish there was a clearer distinction they could make.

Maybe they're drawing a clear line at "legal and non-commercial"?
Quite everything does, and if you take the many ‘non-massive’ fatal accidents of modern roads together, you get one uber-massive fatal accident – so it might well be worth risking one ‘massive fatal accident’ if it avoids 500 smaller ones.
Why would Jane not be in your contacts? That way you add who you want, and Facebook doesn't keep tabs on your personal info until you want them to.
Please don't ask me to summarise the revelations of the last few months. Reading the Guardian reports on the issue would be a good starting point.

Tl;dr: Google allowed the NSA unrestricted access to every Google service. No legal challenges were made.
And how does a 15 year old kid without a credit card do that? Not everyone throwing a webpage up is 'serious' about it. Sometimes they're learning, or it's a hobby.

Google is simply continuing the tradition of making sure your users consume. If they are creating, they are not spending time looking at and clicking ads.
Here's a fantastic article on the variability hypothesis: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/01/gender-g...

Men having a higher variance in intelligence pretty much only holds for white americans. The opposite is true in other cultures, which to me, seems to indicate it's a cultural issue, not in innate biological difference.

You are right some feminists would argue that women are harmed by the "patriarchy" but they would also argue that the patriarchy hurts men too. Beyond that there are a plethora of widely varying feminist schools of thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_movements_and_ideologi...
I picked up the _Programming Elixir_ book a few weeks ago, and it had a solid overview on OTP. Definitely not a deep, but enough to get you started.
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Why force them to sell one product that is worse (capped) instead of two products with clearly delineated use cases?
Google allowed the NSA unrestricted access to every Google service

citation, please
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They should just say: you can't run a server that makes money. Of course, that opens up another can of worms...
This nonsense can stop if instead of having unlimited connections we have, we have connections that clearly state what the limits are and what constitutes allowed behavior.
Facebook has nothing to do medicine, exploration, or improving the human condition. Facebook isn't a business created to fund biomedical research or somehow make the world a better place, Facebook exists to collect personal data and serve advertising.
Then don't sell me one. If you need caps then add caps but don't sell me it uncapped and then complain when I use my connection that you sold me more than you intended.
Sorry, can't dig up a source. It's the explanation I've heard for IE Classic's handling of head elements.
am I missing something or is this not just typical TOS boilerplate to give Google power to ban bandwidth hogs? Are there any Google Fiber customers who have been banned for setting up servers that did not also involve moving tremendous amounts of data?
It's because it runs contrary to the concept of net neutrality -- ISPs are dumb pipes, and trying to differentiate between different "traffic patterns" can only lead us down a very dark hole of no return.
Why should I not be allowed to saturate my connection? What difference does it make how I am doing that? I am paying for a connection; if I can only use it in bursts, don't advertise it as "gigabit," advertise it as "gigabit for a few moments at a time."

The Internet is not a network where some nodes have different capabilities from others, or at least it was not supposed to be. This is not some ITU standard that favors large monopolies on communications service. All nodes have the same capabilities on the Internet, as far as sending and receiving packets to other nodes is concerned. TCP does not discriminate between "business" and "personal" computers.

This, of course, is what makes the Internet such a fantastic system and the reason that the Internet overtook all those online services we used to use. I doubt that Google could have gotten started if the Internet were designed any other way.
But this isn't about how much data a consumer uses- it is possible to consume large amounts of data as a client or a server.

This is a greater problem about the limits on a egalitarian Internet. In the Great Firewall/SOPA/NSA/Mega-scandal world we live in, it is fundamental that users should be able to share content from private, ordinary connections. This is what the Internet was about, remember? People sharing information, not "people uploading information to Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple/Twitter".

Decentralization is the Internet's greatest strength.
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I admire your positivity.

However, is it not the case that this:

Don't code bad shit and compete against those that do.
Make the privacy destroyers lose.

...has been disproved by facebook? They are (one of the larger) privacy destroyers. They are not -- at present -- losing.
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Two points stick out from this article:

1: > "By using the video and the distance traveled (195 feet) as well as the seconds that lapsed prior to the explosion – in his opinion, the car was traveling roughly 35 mph."

2: > "The pre-explosion could possibly explain the flash of light on the video that preceded the appearance of the car in the video. The pre-explosion and slower speed could also explain the minimal damage to the palm tree and the facts the rear tires rested against the curb. It also provides an explanation for the location of the engine and drive train at more than 100 feet from the tree impact area."

Also remember his body was cremated without permission [1] making this whole incident rather suspect.

[1] http://www.inquisitr.com/856084/michael-hastings-cremated-ag...
That lifehacker link should save a ton of time for "dajomu". If Wordpress is preferred, Ryan Sullivan wrote a quick blip about best hosting. Search for "Performance of 7 Top WordPress Hosting Companies Compared".
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iOS doesn't allow access to most of the items listed.

Others are prompt-based and can be disabled/prevented by the user in the iOS privacy settings.

http://0.tqn.com/d/ipod/1/0/S/O/-/-/ios-6-privacy.jpg
Network Neutrality is typically defined in terms of traffic sources, not use. It's both expected and encouraged that ISPs will differentiate between different types of packets based on what they contain.

For example, it would be obviously bad for Comcast to place Netflix at the bottom of the QOS stack, but perfectly reasonable to do so with Bittorrent.
And you swallow it down because they do it all under the banner of 'open source.'
Frankly the dancing around the term "server" stinks. It can be resolved quite easily by stipulating that one cannot operate a commercial business out of a home internet connection.
I believe people said the same thing about the Channel Tunnel, and it all seems to have worked out fine.
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They call it the second oldest profession but intelligence can take different shapes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Melville#Secret_Service... post-dates the British empire for example.

I didn't say anything about the majority US opinion (which is volatile of course), but it's plausible that a sufficiently large number of powerful Americans could call time out for a restructure as they see their international business interests heading rapidly towards the plughole. That could well be taking the shine off being the gatekeepers of the gov info economy for example.

As for the TSA, you may disagree but I'm sure Bruce Schneier has more intelligent things to say about it than me - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/tsa...
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Except for the fact that the NSA already cited the PATRIOT Act to justify PRISM, and law enforcement agencies have already used vaguely worded wire tapping legislation to prosecute unrelated things like video taping the police. Emphasis on past tense. Kill the hyperbole, dude. I'm arguing against granting additional powers to the government or looking the other way on abuse of existing powers. Where you see "convicting the government of thought crimes" in that is beyond me.
Exactly. The EFF and the TOS terms are clearly using different jargon.

The problem, though, is that the EFF's definition is the "correct" one at least as commonly understood by technical people. The license is using the term to connote things that it doesn't define, and that's a frustrating place to be if you as a user want to know if your gadget is permitted.

The linked FAQ is a great clarification, and Google should be commended for adding it (they may be alone among broadband ISPs in having language like this, I don't know). But they really need to get that clarity into the license itself.
http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-says-nsa-has-direct-a...
This man is pre-reporting news. Wasn't that a bond movie?
I've seen a request to merge duplicate gmail addresses before... but only once. Someone in our office created a Google account with our work domain and we then later started using Google Apps (created same). Google requested a purge/merge. Really weird.
I don't do game development at all, so please take my comment with a grain of salt.

How is this better than Flash/Flex/whatever Adobe has to play games? I mean waiting time is still there and I don't think Babylon.js works on all browsers the same (i.e. single code base for your game).

Second question: if I want to develop a game to be played on browsers AND mobile (iOS + Android) and I'm a single developer, isn't Adobe my best bet?
How else does one affect change? As a citizen you rely on elected officials to act in your best interest. Today that doesn't work. So where does democracy work if you feel it isn't possible here?
It is a major issue. People need to be able to play and tinker. As a child/teenager I didn't have money to pay for servers online but I still wanted to mess with that stuff.

My ISP didn't enforce the no-servers rule so I was able to run home servers but you shouldn't have rules that violate net neutrality that you "choose" when to enforce. People need to be able to tinker and figure things out without artificial restrictions that exist purely so that they can claim to not have bandwidth caps. It's borderline false advertisement and a violation of net neutrality.
It's 'best effort' bandwidth, not 'unlimited'...
They involve alternative communication mechanisms that are not shared memory.
Introvert/extrovert does have real meaning, but people generally use it as a sophisticated synonym for "shy/outgoing", which is utterly false.
This would require the source.
Ok, makes sense. By the way, switching on a type code like that is the classic use case for virtual functions.

http://sourcemaking.com/refactoring/replace-conditional-with...
Most home users would pay much less for their connections if they only paid for the data they used.
Not sure what to think of this story. I would appreciate less political content on 'hacker/startup news.'

That said there is no doubt what Hastings was working on would touch many in the tech community.
A source:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-michael-hastings...
Having owned/run an ISP I can tell you that you'll always have that small percentage of your user base that forces you to put in extra security measures, bandwidth limiters, storage limits, protective contract language, etc.

The language in the contract doesn't bother me. Comcast has that language, I run my own web server, and they've never hassled me about it.

Let us know when/if Google Fiber starts enforcing this contract term against people running servers for casual/personal use.
You meet $g at a caffeinated yogurt startup tasting party. You want to form an intimate relationship with person $g. $g looks you up on SureEros.com and finds a bogus profile for you claiming you actually don't like milk products or stimulants. $g figures you lied to get into $g's pants and you look like a lamer.

Race or religion $x takes over a large portion of the local government. You belong to race or religion $y. All of your friends tell facebook you're a $y and their clever algorithm confirms it based on your last name, which you actually only acquired when your father remarried into your stepmother's caffeinated yogurt family enterprise. Local, infiltrated gov't decides to launch a pogrom against $x. They come and get you.

You apply for a job at $q. All of your friends have been telling linkedin you're good at $r. You have no profile at linkedin. You show up at the interview. They say, "Well you have lots of $r experience, but we consider that wasted time, you probably picked up bad habits doing $r. We want someone who's spend more time on $q than $r and who doesn't lie about fermented dairy and alkaloids."

How do I come up with these scenarios? What is my formula? It's based on an article I once read by a Canadian politician who described the right to privacy as simply the right to not be known before someone actually meets you, to have no false representations before you. (And then I added details about yogurt and caffeine b/c that's what I'm consuming this morning and afternoon.)
Great work Colin! Love the simplicity.
Since the statistics are drawn from a single new site, over a few weeks, i'm not sure you can generalize the findings from such a small sample.

It sounds more likely that the site has not attracted enough pure designers yet.
Indeed! I'd like to see at least one tech titan take the mantle of personal/home servers and run with it. I recently said this was something Microsoft could do [1] to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive environment.

Marginalizing home servers perpetuates an insipid consume-only Internet usage model. The Internet I'd prefer to see is one where serving and consuming are both first-class features for all.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/microsoft (section 5)
"Personal use" does not in any way imply "no servers."

Nor does using/having/needing/running a server imply business use.
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In Austin, the business offerings are actually slower than the consumer offerings. They run over the exact same cables too, in TWC's case at least. Your (fewer) packets just get priority over others in the event of congestion. I utilized TWCBC for a year. 100 dollar installation and 150 dollars a month for 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, and one static IP. I could have spent an extra 100 dollars (edit: monthly) and upgraded to 20 Mbps down, and a whopping 2 Mbps up. Now, I get 21 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up on ATT Uverse (an apples to oranges technical comparison, I am aware, though TWC's consumer cable offerings were similar) for a third of that price, and can push and pull far more packets than TWCBC ever was willing to deliver.

This really has nothing to do with "network management," the go to catch-all that every ISP --including Google now, it seems-- trots out every time network neutrality comes up. This has everything to do with ensuring that old-school business models are propped up that expect captive, consuming audiences, rather than adhering to the decentralized model of independent nodes on the network.
Why not make it obvious what the use cases are rather than attacking customers based on the definition of "server"? It's unclear, vague, ambiguous, and a host of other similar synonyms.

Using the term "server" is open-ended and it gives ISPs unnecessary discretion over cutting users' connections. If the rationale is that customers whom are operating commercial businesses out of their home internet connection are abusing their internet connection, then put the goal-post there.

Using the term "server" allows ISPs to change the goal-post when its convenient for them, and that's unfair.
>'rule of law' means something specific.

No, it doesn't.

"Despite wide use by politicians, judges and academics, the rule of law has been described as 'an exceedingly elusive notion' giving rise to a 'rampant divergence of understandings ... everyone is for it but have contrasting convictions about what it is.'

"At least two principal conceptions of the rule of law can be identified: a formalist or 'thin' definition, and a substantive or 'thick' definition. Formalist definitions of the rule of law do not make a judgment about the 'justness' of law itself, but define specific procedural attributes that a legal framework must have in order to be in compliance with the rule of law. Substantive conceptions of the rule of law go beyond this and include certain substantive rights that are said to be based on, or derived from, the rule of law."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

If believing in the rule of law that you are defining here means that one would believe that one should absolutely follow all laws at all times, then I'm not a believer in the rule of law.
I've observed two reasons people perceive APL code as unreadable:

1. They are not familiar with the symbols. It's the equivalent of trying to read a label in a foreign language. The text may seem unreadable to you, but if you learn the alphabet/hieroglyphs and some vocab, it makes sense.

2. They aren't used to brevity of notation. An APL program is to be read character by character, the way one reads a Java program line by line. Brevity is an advantage because it allows you to see more of a program's structure at a glance.
Facebook made MySpace lose. MySpace made Friendster lose. Facebook isn't invincible, it's just that nobody has created the next Facebook.

People are growing tired of Facebook and it's becoming passe. People are leaving and new generations are failing to sign up because it's not longer cool. Teenagers give a shit about Tumblr, Instagram, and Twitter, and less about Facebook. A growing number of people are getting tired of it and becoming less active or leaving. It's becoming cool to deactivate your Facebook account, and that's the most hazardous thing to Facebook's longevity.

All brands die. Facebook isn't immune from this law.
This argument throws out the baby with the bathwater, though. "Parallel construction" is how every investigation is conducted. Investigators start with hunches, and search for evidence that proves/disproves this hunch. Parallel construction happens any time an investigator takes evidence and tells a story with it.

It doesn't matter much if you construct an investigation while being led by information obtained outside of the chain of evidence - at least it doesn't matter with any other kind of information.

You say, "basically they use evidence obtained illegally to prosecute someone" - but that's not what they're doing. They're doing exactly the opposite. They're using the legally obtained evidence to prosecute someone, and taking guidance from the other data that can't be admitted.