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Hi, I'm the author of rtccopy.com (https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTCCopy). Having just updated the site to support reliable connections, I was not aware that SCTP supported larger "chunk"/message sizes. Do you have a recommendation for a maximum size for Chrome or a spec for this?

I also still base64 encode files... I should probably update that as well.
Typical usage was to pack 3 6-bit characters into a word on these machines if you weren't simply using it as integer data. So it's "really" something closer to 12k of text or (assuming all the computations fit in the different word sizes) 16k of integer/pointer data.
Thank you for seeing that. I've fixed it now.
This is great! I added some of my domains here: http://namebox.io/bluetidepro
As realrocker said, this is only a reply to Novartis, after they failed to apply evergreening. It was a major pro-poor victory. If I remember correctly, it brought down the cost of Tuberclosis drug from Rs 10k to 350 Rupees only (I think that figure was per week/month maybe)

Nevertheless, indeed non-Indians have benefited (no offense) but that is due to people in India, specially Entrepreneurs waking up late to importance of IP.

Just Yesterday, I was attending the NASSCOM EMERGENCE CONCLAVE, where Founder of Naukri.com (India's biggest job portal) was speaking.

He revealed that it was Naukri.com FOUNDERS who first digitally collected trademark data in India, in 1989, which was about 80,000 applications, the biggest share out of total 6 lakh pending applications. They sent it to each pharmaceutical company, and made a huge profit out of it. Prior to founding Naukri.com

Though we are talking about patents here, that reference gives us a pretty good idea about the situation in India, in 1990s, when most of IP data was still in fat registers. He hired around 7-8 young college goers at intern prices, had them skip classes, and in 3 weeks collected two big bags full of registers. Which they then put throw a computer they got to use (pre pentium generation) from 10 pm to 4 am.

Today, the pending copyright applications stand at 14 lakh

1 lakh = 100,000 : For quick reference.
I thought I'd a CPU performance comparison between some of the laptop models we're discussing here.

Based on CPU Benchmakrs' High End CPUs list[1]:

- Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ (common on many[2] desktop replacement laptops) scores 7,949

- Intel® Core™ i7-4650U (MacBook Air i7) scores 4,442

- Intel® Core™ i7-4750HQ (Galago UltraPro) scores 4,185

- Intel® Core™ i7-3537U (higher-end Lenovo posted above) scores 3,885

- Intel® Core™ i5-4250U (MacBook Air i5) scores 3,572

[1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

[2] The system76 Gazelle Professional uses this. So do many gaming laptops (like the Sager/Clevo, which system76 is based on) and this Toshiba Qosmio (http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000098...).
As someone working in a highly regulated industry, we will never, ever be allowed to put our production data into "the cloud", no matter who's cloud it is or what it looks like.

Ignoring issues of latency, connectivity, and cloud provider outages, there's simply no way any cloud provider would ever be secure enough for us to be allowed to put our customer data on it.

Even if he pushes a company that "encrypts everything going to the cloud" there's not a level of encryption today that's more secure than "never putting your private data on a public wire in any form in the first place."

Sorry, Mr. Andreessen, the tech world is not comprised solely of cloud-happy, cowboy, internet connected startup companies. Those are the companies you know, because those are the companies that want/need/deserve your investment. The companies that have heavy regulation and serious data protection concerns typically don't need your attention, so it's understandable that you may not think they're out there.
Having perfect looking code has very little drawback.
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I don't know. Every legal concept is entirely the government's creation, including both physical and intellectual property, so I'm not sure it's worth quibbling about that part.
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Certainly, but those are all related to holding the middle mouse button and moving the mouse, not clicking per se. Similar behaviour is available on X with something like:

Option	"EmulateWheel"	"on"
Option	"EmulateWheelButton"	"2"
Option	"XAxisMapping"	"6 7"
Option	"YAxisMapping"	"4 5"

Which is exactly the way I scroll: Hold the middle button and move the trackpoint.
>give a kid a hammer and he'll figure out it's for pounding nails. //

How old is the kid? I think you'll just end up with everything broken, unless you present it with the nails then the combination of the two is unlikely to happen naturally I feel until the child is quite old (if then).
If it doesn't have animated weather maps, it's just a waste of disk space.
It isn't hard (actually it's pretty easy) to get in the habit of replacing magic numbers with named constants immediately. Any time you hardcode a number just name it instead, and on the line immediately above it define the constant with a "TODO: refactor to the right place" comment. That way when you're done with the current creative focus, you can go back and put it right. This fixing is great for boring meetings, warmup/rezoning time, and so on. Alternately just keep a bookmark to the #defines in your editor and go drop it in the right place immediately.

Doing this makes life convenient because magic numbers often turn out to be real problems - did you typo the number somewhere? Did you forget to update the magic in one spot? These bugs waste more time in hunts than they cost in "do it right immediately".
So as it seems "commercial" malware is coming to the linux desktop: Are there already any good, free anti virus programs for linux?

I had a quick look at http://www.clamav.net/ but it seems to target mainly windows stuff attached to mails and from some comments on the net isn't that reliable at detecting known malicous stuff ...
i did look at your links. Your "hard science" - SBM - is a personal, and shall we say "alternative", endeavor of a group of people having different opinion, and posting it is equivalent to like if i posted links to chiropractic sites. I was surprised by the low quality of your links, so i didn't even mention them.

Instead, one can look at NIH site:

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/chiropractic/introduction.htm

After that we can look at your statements:

>Chiropractic is a pseudo-profession. It is well established in scientific fields as a pseudo-profession and it has done very little to try and shed this image, besides making ad-homenim (if you can call it that) attacks against the rest of science screaming of prejudice.

yep, man, calling it a pseudo-profession in the face of NIH is a definition of ad-homenim. As well as calling 'true believer' people whose opinion is supported by NIH, yet contradict your own. Speaking about 'true believers' :)
For me it's not about nationalism as much as avoiding excessive centralization. I find it appalling that so many services are concentrated in a few buildings in northern Virginia. (Or is it one building?) Did you at least use a region other than us-east-1? I can't tell from reverse DNS lookups or traceroute.
How is this different to

http://www.domcop.com/domains/high-page-rank-expired-domains
It's well known that if you want to get a sales job you must first pass a Unicru test. The way to pass a Unicru test is to answer "strongly agree" to statements your boss would want to hear, and "strongly disagree" to statements he would not. One or two wrong answers get you demoted from "green" to "yellow" on the Unicru. Significantly more than that gets you "red" (no hire). Oh, and "agree" is a wrong answer to a question which should be answered "strongly agree".

The personality type the Unicru test selects for is bizarre and paradoxical; I doubt any living human could have these characteristics without wearing a cap (from The Tripods). You have to be a self-starter but have no mind of your own; you have to take initiative but only on things of which the company approves.

Nice to see this practice trickling into tech. I'd say "welcome to fucking America" except apparently this is in the UK.
The Mig-25 was fairly famous for using vacuum tubes - initially this was seen as rather funny in the West then people realised that they actually had some distinct advantages, including alleged resiliance to the EMP from nuclear explosions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25
My God, the tax! What country are you in?
+1 for /opt. We bundled our runtimes and data, and our stuff still works 10 years later (although, yeah, security vulnerabilities, although technically none of it was remote).

Um, good luck with your packages where you relied on the OS. Let's not talk about stdlibc++.

Hint: if you really want your stuff to work for a long time, depend on the kernel and nothing else.

/opt is really where: /opt/importantstuff goes. The stuff where they bundled the libc because Debian changes too fast. Freaky stuff. Telco stuff...
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Moe, I don't understand where your hostility comes from. It is fine if you don't like Phusion Passenger, but please don't say things that are untrue.

The open source version of Phusion Passenger is not a crippled version. It is used in production by many large users, including New York Times, AirBnB, etc. Your statement that the open source version is "crippled" goes right against the fact that we've been actively developing the open source version ever since Enterprise came out. In fact, open source development has become more active after Enterprise than before, thanks to Enterprise funds. If you check our commits at Github you will see that the rate of development has accelerated. If you take a look at all the new features in the open source version of Phusion Passenger 4 you will see that it is improving at a tremendous rate.

It is not true that the open source Phusion Passenger drops requests and serves 502 errors to users on every single deploy. Upon touching restart.txt, the open source versions blocks requests and resumes them after having restarting 1 process. The blocking only happens for the first process, not for the ones after. At no point will requests be dropped or will errors be served. We even have integration tests in place to check for this. If you see request drops or errors in the open source version, please contact us and we'll have a better look at the problem. If it's a bug, we'll fix, it's that simple.

"popping up shareware nag-screens at random intervals" is completely false. There are absolutely no nag-screens in Phusion Passenger. The open source version of Phusion Passenger is open source, so if you don't believe me, then dig into the source code and tell me where exactly the nag screens are.

The lack of rolling restarts in the open source version is not a secret. Our documentation clearly mentions the differences between the open source and the Enterprise version. With a few clicks, you can find out what the open source version does and does not have.

And actually, the open source version does not "lack" rolling restarts, it just does not automate it for you. You can implement rolling restarts using Phusion Passenger Standalone (open source version!) in the same way you do with Thin and Mongrel, i.e. by swapping sockets. It works fine and some of our users do exactly this. It is just more work than the automated, polished, error-resistant version that Enterprise offers.

And finally, you Unicorn and Puma "fully-functional" while implying that Phusion Passenger is not. This is not true. There are features in the open source version of Phusion Passenger that Puma and Unicorn does not have. The reverse is also true. It is even true that Unicorn has some features that Puma has and vice versa.
Refactoring out magic numbers (and magic strings!) is one of the easiest refactorings you can do.

Not putting in the effort to pull these out shows a complete disregard for code quality and maintenance.
> Chromium on Linux would interpret middle clicking on an unclickable part of the page to mean "interpret the text stored in the clipboard as a URL or search term, and go to it." Imagine the fun I had with the occasional misclick of a link before I found an extension that implements Windows-like middle click scroll

Opera does that, too, and I love it. No need to focus the address bar after selecting text, just click and go :)
yes. we realize that we might loose some users just for the sake of not having an email acc wit a popular provider. for some reason we assumed that users would have an acc with one of them and use it or try without signup..we dint think of the users who would want to signup but with an alternate email of theirs. back to drawing rooms on this! :)
I wonder if the better performance of the Core™ i7-4700MQ is worth it (in getting a desktop replacement rather than an ultraportable).
So first question came to mind: how do it inject code to processes? You need something for that: working exploit, CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability, you name it. Googling reveals just bunch of stupid articles that don't mention what you need to “install” that trojan.

According to http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/hand-...

The good news is that Hand of Thief must have the root
(or sudo) password in order to install.

So how would it be? “Yow, just add this line to sources.list and run apt-get cool-hd-wallpapers-2013”?

Hello there. I'm the unix virus. Please sudo run me.
'Date Display Type' under 'Settings' should have consistent sample date:

10/2/2013 [Numeric]

10/Dec/2013 [Short Month]

10/December/2013 [Long Month]

Probably there's a typo in first sample. Also DD > 12 helps unambiguously identify DD from MM.
100 minutes talk is outgoing and ingoing. Learned it the hard way. Luckily the interview was over.
@patio11 what do you think of this thing overall? (Not feature flags, but rather using a language-agnostic framework.)
If the click through rate is 0.0004%, I don't think the power users will care all that much. They're probably not getting any significant source of views from video responses. The more powerful tactic on YouTube seems to be linking to other videos at the end of your video.
Just read it. Utterly disgusted. If I had more than a few months savings in the bank I probably would have just quit. A company that lets exactly THAT kind of HR person make any decision, has succumbed to the PHBs.
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Don't get me wrong: I think the whole enterprise of airport security is a farce.
I've been personally involved in validity testing for graphic designers, and while the validity coefficients were reduced they were still of practical significance, and had incremental validity over cognitive ability testing (which is always the best predictor, but tends to show racial bias). I will see if I can find any published research as I've not seen any and am now curious myself.
It is clearly a beautiful design - and the workmanship is incredible as well. I can't imagine how long it must have taken to build just one of those things. It reminds me of the workings of a fine mechanical watch.

That said, I think it's grossly overpriced. Probably worth about $800-$1k (based on it's similarity to classic mechanical watches).
It's an offshoot of the Mellotron[1] which was basically the original sampler. The mellotron was/is a keyboard where pressing each key spooled out and played back an individual tape strip of a real string section, cello, flute etc. It's the string sound that's really famous and recognisable. The mechanisms make a VHS look simple, see the wiki article for diagrams.

The linked machine is a read-write version of the mellotron, created especially for the BBC to do sound effects for radio programmes. One of the many one-of-a-kind cutting edge devices commissioned by the BBC in the glory days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
I think it's two different markets. iPhone users are rather a different category from Nexus users; they're almost polar opposites. Mind you, I'm not knocking iPhones; they're excellent products. It's just a different way of purchasing, a different price point, and a different target audience.
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This is great. Hopefully crooked lawyers will be prevented from coming up with workarounds how it happens in Europe.
That's not my problem. My problem is: Where is the template file for xyz, or the doc, or the example config, or ...
There are plenty of cases in which the company just needs to have a policy that it's an unacceptable risk. For instance, if the job involves getting a security clearance, a felony on your background check basically means that you are unfit for the job. Or if you are dealing with highly sensitive financial data, there can just be too much of a risk.

I'm not saying that all HR departments should have such a policy (in fact, in some cases it can be illegal to request criminal background information, at least on the initial application form). But there are some cases in which a policy like that could be necessary and final.
I suspect it is more likely to be from terrestrial military hardware or a something like an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM
Also good: http://pineapple.io/tags/all
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MIT develops 110-core processor
Maybe we should formulate a Microsoft equivalent of Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion about Microsoft grows longer, the probability of an ex-Microsoftie bringing up stack ranking approaches 1."

("Ballmer's Law" has a nice ring to it..)
I hadn't thought the original piece was a takedown - she came across as sharp-elbowed but effective. But well done this author for pointing out how it's basically a grumble piece by the stuffed suits she is deposing.
Probably isn't, but then, there isn't the cultural deadweight of gigaloc of shell scripts making up an essential stratum on Windows, right?
What a super project this. It's braver than anything I'd ever attempt, I try to sweep my own street as much as possible but this is so far out of my comfort zone (starting with the climate) that I have nothing but sheer admiration for you.
yes as we mentioned in one of our above comments just create your resume and drop in a mail through contact us and we will send you the tex script.
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So I go to the Startup Guides, then to Getting Started. I open the PDF and under step one I see:

"NOTE: Curious about how we retain ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy while password creation
happens on the web? Click here for more details."

But no link. So... is this a joke? why can't they explain this in their FAQ instead of having to get a PDF then a (non-existent) link to it? I've been searching the FAQs and under Privacy and Passwords and all I can find is:

"More information about this is on our website in the engineering section of our website, which talks about our zero knowledge approach, the password policy, and encryption specifications."

Engineering section? I can't see where it is.

My point is, if "security and privacy" are one of the main selling points of the product... yet you have to jumpo through hoops and loops to get some details on the implementation and STILL don't have the info... smells fishy..
I'd suggest two things:

* Learn Python -- try making some small tools in it.

* Learn how to use Linux -- you can start with Kubuntu and familiarize yourself with terminal and the other things you'll encounter here.

But really -- if you want to be more "computer literate", just focus on programming. Writing small tools; and maybe even taking on a big project like building a 2D game (if that's what you want)...
I've been doing 1 hour of high intensity exercise 6 days a week for a year now. What's interesting is how much my eating habits changed. At first I would try to avoid junk foods entirely, but that just led to cravings and I'd binge. So I opted for allowing the odd junk food, while also stocking my shelves with healthy snacks (like raw mixed nuts, for example).

What's interesting is that now I don't have any cravings for potato chips or candy bars whatsoever. In fact, just the thought of eating something like that is mildly repulsive. I drink water all the time now because most of the juices are too sweet for me (coconut milk is ok though), and eat unprocessed foods most of the time, not for some ideological reason, but because they tend to offer a MUCH more satisfying meal. Every now and then I'll eat a pizza, but I've found I end up feeling queasy afterwards. The high salt content (at least I'm guessing it's the salt content. You can certainly taste it, there's so much of it!) in most restaurant food leaves me with hours of a constant feeling of thirstiness that won't go away no matter how much water I drink.

The thing is, it wasn't something I decided I should do because it's good for me; it's just me following my body's cravings.
Its ironic that in an America that lets legal shenanigans turn all kinds into criminals, that the same legal weaselling lets people get away with what is completely illegal, just because they say they didn't do it for the illegal reason, just some other reason they choose at the time.
Every legal concept is entirely the government's creation, including both physical and intellectual property, so I'm not sure it's worth quibbling about that part.

Not entirely true. I want to point out that we have to consider how lobbying is influencing lawmakers.
Awesome. A lot of places do things the way you used to do them, with one system that is the A/B testing source of truth and then crufty glue code to pass things back and forth to that system. Great to have more options for folks who don't want to do this, especially as heterogeneous architectures are only going to get more common going forward.
I'm ok with centralization. Again if a better provider pops up, I'll move there, but until then I'm fine with commodities going to the best providers.
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Think about how much software is blindly cloned from Github and executed by the unaware without so much as a look at the source. That's only one vector.
I'm embarking on my own backup solution: For $1.38 USD/month (Ramnode OpenVZ SSD-Cached 128mb RAM VPS with 31% off for life coupon) I get 50gb.

I just need to setup a synchronization/encryption schedule. I'm thinking rsync remotely to the server. Not sure on encryption yet.

I'm also using the servers as development and minor hosting for myself. It's practically a free storage solution?

Am I crazy?
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why do I keep getting a 'server not found' error ? you guys seem to be able to access this url.. however I had to google this heading and read the article @ http://www.mydogear.com/articles/521d762aa97dca07b21805ea
Ummm... the Linux way is better than the Mac OSX way?

They both use UNIX architecture...
I would recommend the 16gb model if it fits your budget. The extra gigs make a difference in this era of 1+ gig apps and 1080p video cameras, I have found.

If they offered a 64 gig model, I'd buy it. Obviously, a microSD slot would be ideal, but that would go against Google's current religious crusade to rid the world of local storage :)
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