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If totally different standards for different people/countries regarding intolerance is neither hypocrisy nor racism -- what is it?

My theory above is that totally different standards for different parts of the world really is political propaganda to the citizens of the country where the media writes.

Do you have another explanation?

(To take another example -- even with a Palestinian description of Israel, the Sudan atrocities were a thousand times worse. My local leftwing media (more or less all local media) complained many times more about Israel, anyway. And never about that Israel was criticized every year in UN but Sudan very little. How many thousands of times is reasonable for different standards?)

Edit: Note when I wrote that immigrants, even citizens now, in Sweden is criticized much less.. Not even that is neither racism nor double standards?!
First, basic reddit isn't even encrypted. Many probably use it that way because their https is slow.

Now since there are time stamps on reddit posts, even https could be possibly annonimized using traffic analysis.

And if you use Tor, there are tools that might work against Tor.

Considering all this, the fact that reddit sells anonymity, and people use it for really personal info - which could easily be hacked even by someone with a network sniffer - is not honest.
The shelf thing annoys me greatly, but I don't want paper copies for the most part - I'm on a clearing-out-the-house spree, digitizing everything.

But I'm concerned about what that does both for my relation to the media, and how it will change how my son gets introduced to things. So many of the ways I got introduced to books and music etc. was via what my parents had on the shelves or left out, or the radio the played etc.

I think this is part of a huge societal change we don't talk enough about: Our exposure is changing dramatically. E.g. we play much less music out loud at home than my parents did, because most of my music listening is with earphones from my phone during my commute. While we have quite a few books out (which I'm ironically, given my concern, quickly changing), most of what I read is never "visible" to my son unless/until he hacks my laptop.

I wrote a long piece about it on my blog a couple of weeks back: http://www.hokstad.com/the-hidden-library

It's not just for my son either - I find that I feel I have a different relationship to books that are out on the shelf: I get constant reminders about them, and refresh my memory, and will often flip through on or etc., while I've found myself even forgetting books I was right in the middle of on my Kindle app because it's not visible unless I pick up a device and start the app and look for it.

I've started thinking about what I want to do to address it, and one approach I want to play with is picture frames - exposing "content as art" in the form of jacket covers from books, albums etc. automatically on a few digital photo frames around the house, coupled with organizing a full "family library".
Aha, I believe that was the one!
I'm with you regarding the space. On the other hand I also think digital-only profoundly affects how I interact with books in a way I don't like (see a lengthy comment elsewhere with more on that). Putting a book on a shelf is much like putting photos on the wall to make them a constant part of your life instead of burying them in a photo album.
The legal system is a realistic option only if there was a written contract in place, which is not always the case.
Plus, walking into someone's house and seeing a bookshelf full of awesome books is a good way to know that I am probably going to like said person.
I wouldn't want to claim that mindset for anyone other than myself--and again, I support anonymous pseudonyms for people.
Lots of other distros work on the Chromebook (and have for longer). Here's for example Fedora 19 and Arch Linux instructions:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19/Remixes...
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/samsung-chro...

The next challenge is getting KVM working. The Chromebook has an A15 chip which has hardware assisted virtualization. Unfortunately the firmware disables HYP mode, but the Xen guys managed to workaround this in their bootloader so it should be possible for KVM too.

Another note about the Chromebook is it is not possible to boot it from an external hard drive. You have to boot it from USB flash although after boot you can of course use a real hard drive as the root filesystem.
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Yeah, that's true.

But at the end of the day your minimal ancient-unix hackerbook loses its luster when your computer chokes trying to open a Youtube link your friend sends you over your CLI jabber client stitched together with Awk no matter how much you hate the "consumer web". Sucks when you can't even take a moment to appreciate some Bruce Springsteen together with your IRC channel.

Also, as a Rails and Clojure developer, I'm just trying to keep up with the boot time of my dev tools. ;)
I don't get the whole ninja thing - I went to an interview with a set of swords, shurikens and a nunchucks and they refused to hire me. Go figure.

I think that being dishonest is stupid while hiring especially here and for a small start up. You want the elite - treat them like one. A non brain dead person will see through the bullshit in a seconds. So you will be left with second tier candidates.
Calibre accepts Bitcoin: http://calibre-ebook.com/donate
It is decorative, visitors can easily get a glance on what I am reading and might pick out something that interests them, and last but not least: archival purposes. I feel confident that, say, 50 years from now, most of my physical books will still be around somewhere (maybe in a room, maybe in a moving box), and waiting to be picked up to be read.

With my ebooks I am not so sure that I'll be disciplined about keeping backups on contemporary storage material, have a reader still able to read the format or a tool to convert them easily.
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I don't use Calibre to manage my library, I just use the News option, every morning at 7am it downloads rss/websites, parses them into a book, and emails them to amazon, so my kindle downloads them. Does mean I hardly ever get around to reading actual books though.
Well Quora does this. You can go anonymous for some answers. So is Quora the next big thing ?
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Yes, but there are no lecture videos. The lecture notes pdf's alone are not enough for thorough learning.
And, conversely, up until ebooks existed, walking into a flat without any books was a clear indicator that I’d be rather bored by the person living there.
Hey sytse,
Is there any downside to using the bitnami images?
I disagree that oil is a better business than Google. Each dollar of gross profit for a company like Exxon requires a lot more operations than each dollar of gross profit for a company like Google (It's something like 50% more now, even after Google has captured a significant majority of online advertising and begun dithering around looking for more businesses to get into). Microsoft's licensing power gives it a nearly silly position in this comparison (but that has long since ceased to be a major growth industry, disappointing investors).

Energy certainly provides an opportunity to establish a huge operation and make huge profits, but it also requires a huge amount of capital.
There is no stanard DRM format for EPUB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB#Digital_rights_management:

"An EPUB file can optionally contain DRM as an additional layer, but it is not required by the specifications.[24] In addition, the specification does not name any particular DRM system to use, so publishers can choose a DRM scheme to their liking."
Actually it is not anonymity that makes Reddit (or HN) successful. It is pseudonymity. You still have an identity, and the identity has value - karma. It is just disconnected from your biometric, "real life" identity.

The desire to protect the value of the pseudonymous identity is a powerful motivating force for making positive contributions. In many ways it is even more motivating than for your real life identity, because your real life, "biometric" identity is so precious that you will almost always favor low-zero risk contributions which are incredibly boring.

If Reddit was only anonymous it would be a horrible failure.
What is strange in the rumors is that the full-frame NEX is supposed to include antishake as well. Anti-shake and fullframe was supposed to be the combination that couldn't work on the NEX bayonete size.

E-glass has been pretty crappy so far. They're now launching a few good ones. I'm excited about the alpha mirrorless opportunities though. Maybe we'll finally be able to have a SLR-like body that's agnostic to mount.
It looks like I misunderstood you. When you said "This is an example of a major downfall with free software" I assumed you meant that it was a major downfall that was unique to free software, which implied that you thought it didn't affect other kinds of software development. Your reply here implies that you don't believe this, so I retract my previous comment.
I think I was misunderstood. If someone needs others around him then he should work towards fulfilling that need. In most cases he won't be able to somehow expell that need from his ego.
Kindle supports DRM free books. I have hundreds of DRM free books on my kindle.

You don't even need DRM to sell on the Kindle store, it's optional for authors.
What can I do to prevent rapes?
8 year olds used to put together and modify games in BASIC. Microsoft BASIC. How low we've fallen...
How about we let Reddit be Reddit and facebook be facebook?
I'm all for staging payment, and requiring final payment before delivering the goods, or even pursuing clients in the courts if necessary for non-payment (though usually that's fruitless), but when in dispute with a client you should never take retaliatory action like this, because it reflects an intemperance and lack of professionalism which means others will think twice about hiring you even if they have every intention of paying for your work. The same goes for a client not paying - if I hear someone hasn't paid their bills (for whatever reason), I'm then hesitant to work for them in any capacity unless it's a very clear-cut case. News travels quickly in many industries.

If you've already given them all the work without being paid, and with no contract, you have no recourse, but that doesn't mean you should use your technical privileges to try to exact revenge if you still have access to their server. If it's their hosting you're probably on difficult legal ground.

If you have to do this, you chose the wrong client, so tell everyone you know not to work with them, take note of the warning signs you saw and the failures of process that led to this point, and move on.
While I attended a retreat I somehow never felt lonely. I was around other poeple all the time, we ate together and of course meditated together, despite not sharing eye contact and staying silent. After the ten days on the last day everyone was allowed to talk and it was a It is a very moving experience. Everyone felt connected.

Not feeling connected, feeling isolated amongst other poeple, beeing unable to make meaningful connections is lonelyness for me.

For me it really comes down to a mutual feeling of acceptance. I've spend some nights with some punks, watching movies and going to town. We did not know us before hand but I felt accepted not lonely. Meeting with other students from my university? Felt lonely and disconnected. Your brain is a strange device... or I am just having problems dealing with big egos and "alpha male" bullshit.
Really? AFAIK in my country (Netherlands), a 'verbal agreement' is also legally binding. Is that different in US? Of course it may be harder to proof, but at the end of a website building job there's often enough paper and email trails to make your case.
On a related note, they now accept bitcoin: http://calibre-ebook.com/donate
All of these "install ... on Chromebook" articles fail to mention that on recent Chromebooks without a physical developer mode switch (Samsung's ARM-based one, Pixel) you have to press a specific hidden keyboard combination and endure the big scary "developer mode" warning on each boot. In my view that makes it practically useless for day-to-day use as a general purpose laptop.

You can flash the first stage bootloader to remove that warning, but that is not documented well (if you can call several contradictory forum threads documentation), involves taking the laptop apart and gives you exactly one try: it either works or bricks the device permanently.

In addition to that, at least Samsung's Chromebooks are not very well designed and can be seriously damaged from userspace when running a general-purpose distribution (Google for burning speakers on ARM Chromebook for instance)
I'll also mention HAL, which is spec'd in both JSON and XML and has been serving me quite well.

http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
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Read my comment more closely. My point was that SLT is already a big step towards mirrorless and alpha will be completely mirrorless in the next refresh. This will give you possibilities that haven't before been possible.

As for my example the D7100 you mention has the same 24MP sensor of the A77 and yet can only do 6fps. The point was that a 900$ camera could best a 6000$ one on dimensions that are very important to professional users like fps because of mirrorless technology. Mirrorless will give you some things only the very high-end could do before (or even the high-end couldn't do) at entry-level prices, that's textbook Innovators Dilemma.
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I completely agree that you really don't gain anything (as a user) by using a real identity. I'm not so sure the organization gains much on the other side either...
Do you have any links to references on the "membership model?" I've always felt that rating/ranking scales are unworkable, and I'm interested in other approaches.
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Reminds me a lot or ReactOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
That proprietary baggage is what makes Mac OS X worthwhile as an OS.

Without Objective-C and all the frameworks that make up the OS, it is no better than using a *BSD.
4chan is anonymous. Last I checked, it wasn't a horrible failure, and in some ways actually works better, since there's no "karma whoring"[1].

The Japanese equivalent of Reddit (2channel) is enormously successful, possibly even more so than reddit, and it's anonymous.

[1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karma-whore
If you think you aren't broken, you're very broken.
Google updates Play policies to require games to use its in-app billing service
>As I say, I think it's very likely that improvements to the on-sensor phase detection, as well as algorithmic improvements to the blending of the phase-detection and contrast-detection data, will mean that this is the future of action photography, but it's not there yet, and personally I'd say we're probably 2-3 generations away from a system that can track action as well as even a low-end DSLR that uses a separate dedicated phase-detection sensor.

Thanks for the detailed post. I haven't tested any of these systems so am going from specs only. It's an exciting time for camera technology indeed.
A note on the introduction: There's actually no evidence that there ever was a "solar death ray" created by, designed by or otherwise envisaged by Archimedes.
Sorry, that's wrong.

"Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" is the first single from the Backstreet Boys' _second_ international album from 1997.

They were huge thanks to their 1996 international album called "Backstreet Boys":

>becoming one of the biggest debut albums ever and contains a number of the band's most memorable singles
I imagine these agencies as being the same as big companies - huge bureaucratic messes with, hmm... not the best employees.
Well some people submit articles with '?' at the end or other such nonsense to post the same article others have. But in many instances submissions from 'green' accounts that have gained traction suddenly poofed in favor of the same article from a more established (account age) user.

I was not exactly concerned by it until it the same occurred to me. When the issue was raised, I received a wave of down-votes. To boot further submissions were hell-banned!

Flabbergasted, my tone and demeanor on this site has changed since. Cheers for the conversation instead of silent down-votes or condescending commentary, stephengillie.
As someone traveling abroad solo for 8 months, [1] I can relate. I had romanticized such travel for years, in part because of the connections I'd seen travelers make. However, I was basing a lot of this on people who studied abroad when they were half my age. Or at least working in an office. If you're working from home, it's way harder, even if you attend every expat meetup there is. As others have said, a lot of the connections there are superficial, or "professional," which is often the same thing. Dating helps, but the pool is rather limited if you're not fluent in the local language, or they know you're a short timer.

Another misconception is that traveling solo takes you out of your shell, and maybe I'm wasn't that introverted to begin with, but I don't feel any more extroverted. I was always comfortable chatting with people at a tech function or dinner party, but a generic cocktail mixer in a bar feels like hitting any meat market in any city, and it's still not something I'm comfortable with.

1. Details for the curious: http://philip.yurchuk.com/2012/12/07/basically-im-just-gonna...
All the people who had them died of CO poisoning.
Agree with all your points. On the other hand, these are cheap, widely available A15 devices with a reasonable amount of RAM, and that has a certain appeal for people who need ARM-based developer machines (we used them for porting Fedora, KVM, libvirt, libguestfs and the virt tools to ARM).

Also I used one for 2+ weeks exclusively (running Fedora 18) and it wasn't that bad:

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/some-thoughts-after-2-5...
That's probably the reason why I could never get used to a non-Lenovo laptop. I'm just way to much accustomed to the trackpoint.
You might enjoy "Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organized Crime":

http://www.amazon.com/Gangster-Capitalism-United-Globalizati...
Not necessarily only these two options...

About 10 years ago, I started working in for a small metal fabrication company who had their website done just before I joined. The boss never paid the developers' final invoice, and one day they did something similar: they replaced the front page of the website with a message saying saying something like "those people do not pay their bills".
Although I knew nothing about web development, I did have a good general IT knowledge, and used FTP before, so my boss, who paid for the hosting account, dug the details up, I logged in and realised they only renamed the index.html page and uploaded a new one. Within minutes the FTP login details were changed and the situation reverted.
I truly think there was a way for the developers to get paid before they pulled this trick, but not after. To me, although I wasn't happy with my boss not paying his bills, what they did felt wrong.

Fast forward to present day, and I'm a full-time freelance web developer. In the last 7 years of me being one, I had only two customers who didn't pay their final invoices. I could have done something like that, or could have even hinted that I am able to do this, but didn't, for two reasons:
1. I pride myself in my professionalism. This is unprofessional to me and I will not stoop down to this level.
2. In the last three or four years, I didn't have to look for work at all, it all came to me via current or past customers. Therefore, my reputation is the most important asset I have, and I want all my customers, even the ones who didn't pay in full, to have nothing negative to say about me.

Eventually, both customers paid in full, without me having to even make a hint of threat, so I do believe I handled things correctly.

One thing I did learn is to put two clauses in my contracts:
1. That the code will be hosted on my server, and will only be released to clients' server(s) once a full payment has been made.
2. That the code is my property, regardless of the server it hosted on, until full payment has been made.

The second is to cover the possibility of me releasing the code before the full payments. Even then, if I ever get to the stage where I feel that I need to take a similar action, I would rather delete the files (or some files) from the customer's server and not post anything defamatory about the customer on their website. But I find it hard to believe I will ever even go that far.
NEX currently sucks because it has no good compact lenses, so as you say I don't see the appeal of it versus a normal SLR. For me the real credible story of a good mirrorless system would be something that I can mount a fast small prime to and have a compact kit and yet also have the option of mounting a 70-400.

For the alpha the mirror box space being empty is a huge gain for people that want to make adapters. Suddenly a Nikon adapter becomes possible when before it wasn't because there simply wasn't enough space. If I was Sony I would do the alpha mirrorless by keeping the same mount but moving it back, removing the mirror box space. Traditional lenses would be mounted with an extension tube to mimic the mirror box distance and you could build extension tubes that switched the camera mount to Canon/Nikon/Olympus/whatever.
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Yes they just need to repair the karma with a tag system. So for example a user might have multiple karma values: karma-aww=2, karma-gonewild=1, karma-actual-content=1000, etc

You'd have a much better site!