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>I think Microsoft marketing was definitely to blame for their failure to properly distinguish the two (Surface Pro vs. Surface RT).

And here we are observing them do it all over again. Surface 2, Surface Pro 2. Just by the name you still could figure they are the same machine and maybe the pro is a little bit faster or has a bigger flash drive etc. Just as you figure with the different Windows editions. "Ultimate", "Professional" "Home" etc.

People who get the Surface 2 will still be very surprised to see that that they cannot do anything with it seeing as not one "exe" they already have will work on them.
Hopefully the NBN won't become the same as the other great Australian infrastructure project, the High Speed Rail Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Australia).
The article mentions Fusion IO drives for $2k/TB; any idea who sells them at that price? If I check [1], it's a lot more expencive. At $2k/TB, it would be worth it to buy and compare it to our Netezza. If it can compete, awesome, if not, I can beef up one of our normal SQL servers.

[1] http://www.solidstateworks.com/ioDrive-Octal.asp
> I feel like this would be a positive move overall

There is one aspect which really could gain from this: the eventual reduction of the harm from the "3/11 rule" fallout.

If and when Nvidia's hardware works acceptably well out of the box on linux systems, there will be less need for annoyed forum postings and endless "help, please" threads. AFAIK Google weighs recently updated pages more than older ones, so the negative PR hits from badly behaving hardware should fizzle and die out in time.

From a purely personal point of view, a unified DRM/KMS access scheme will be nice with Wayland in mind.
The free TV streaming service has been live for some time - www.clubcardtv.com . There's an Android app of course for the Hudl
What do people want in a podcast app that's not there yet? I'd like a small discussion board .. If the price is ~$2 or $3 I'm guessing it should keep trolls to a minimum.
Good points except for...

> an undefined and secret enemy

Just this month alone...

- Islamic terrorists gun down over 60 people in a shopping mall in Kenya.

- Islamic terrorists blow up over 70 people in a church in Pakistan.

- Islamic terrorists massacre over 160 travelers in Nigeria.

- Islamic terrorists take hundreds hostage in a coastal city in the Philippines.
http://www.storagepricing.org/fusion-io-pricing-at-ces-with-...

And $1/Gb is coming soon
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I had to invest in their training.

You see the problem.

Why are you not getting people from non tier 3 colleges and choose to not "train" them?

Your choice of "tier 3 " college graduates proves a lot about you.

What you want is pay these "tier3" college grads a minimum amount of money and then charge your clients/sell a produnt to get maximum profit.

No Sir , you are the one to blame yourself.

The greed and un ethical attitude of peopel like you and IT service companies is the one to blame.

First you want chaep labor , then you hire people for cheap , then you blame the education system.

If the IT companies really wanted a good supply of engineers why have they not opened an engineering college in India?

Becasue , No one after graduating from these colleges(assuming they deploy good teachers) would choose to work on BS maintiance projects.

Ok , please kill your body shop attitude , where you want people to work for you and YOU WANT profit.
If you want to create value , then either work for self or hire people whom you need not train.

Do not blame an engineering college.

Open one , I double dare these Infosys shit companies.
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a new gang of people who usually went to school together, that we choose (usually... diebold ... die bold ... risk it all take everything) every 4 years. supposedly we do this every 4 years to balance the power they wield from veering too far left or right and sticking to the countries interest.
More helpful link: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/...
> Other than inertia, and an overrated idea that proprietary drivers give you a "competitive advantage" over your competitors' very different hardware, why aren't more manufacturers making open source firmware for their hardware?

While this is arguably true for most hardware, GPUs are different from mundane hardware like ethernet adapters. The driver source code will reveal secrets about the hardware architecture, and the architecture changes in every generation. The advantage is not in the software itself, it is not showing the cards you are playing with.

In theory, it would be possible to give out the source code to the video drivers but it would not make sense to give out the source for chips in development. At best, you could get source code dumps after a new chip has rolled out. This is not really open source.

Yes, I want quality open source video drivers but on the other hand I want bleeding edge hardware and competition that drives hardware development.

Disclaimer: I write GPU drivers for living and I'm an open source enthusiast.
They don't even publish the Apple ID API inside the iOS SDK. There is no way to directly use Apple ID as a form of identification. Only 2nd-hand ways, like GameCenter, and iCloud.
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Not at all -- a "typical" number N has ln(ln(N)) distinct prime factors, and ln(ln(4,556,543,113,106,166,912,761,976,150) is about 4.15. Having 5 prime divisors is perfectly normal for a number of this size.
Because many employers, from the moment they hire you, endeavour to create the illusion they are giving you a hand-out, that they are oh-so-generous and that you're lucky to have a job. When I tell colleagues that it's a fair and equal exchange of their compensation and your labour, I get blank stares.
That still doesn't define who they are. Are you one of these terrorists? Am I?

It maybe helps justify the US' actions, but as far as "undefined and secret enemy" it is only one step further than saying "Who are we targeting? The... bad guys!"
I understand that it's a fun little story. But, for god's sake, at least make it somewhat believable!
>Now, I'm not talking about canned laughter. I think I can agree that adding laughter in post is bad. And Big Bang Theory is particularly guilty of 'sweetening' live audience reaction, meaning jokes that shouldn't be that funny often have huge waves of laughter. I don't appreciate that.

You are looking at it wrong. Do you know why the laughter is edited in post? You agreed that they film in front of a live audience (something most BBT bashers still can't accept from personal observations).

Now, one scene, multiple takes. The take that makes it into the show might have been the fifth one of the day. Of course the laughter that take produced is nowhere near as the initial response to the joke. So, you edit the laughter in post to make it fit. That has got nothing to do with "sweetening" anything. Unless you would rather they just use the laughter form the actual take, even though it was the 12th attempt and after seeing the joke 12 times the audience couldn't muster up so much as a snicker.
Somewhat unrelated -- SMS seriously needs to die.

Any phone carrier call center employee can check your inbox, supposedly that's an audited procedure but having worked in a call center I would tell you that I'd believe that nobody's watching anything. Just like email, SMS is a poor protocol/medium that has been contorted to doing way more than anyone ever intended originally.

But there is definitely a need for a commodity, cross-platform secure messaging protocol that can be implemented by anyone. It hardly seems like there's anyone incentivized to do that though -- why would Apple, for example, want to ferry traffic to/from non Apple phones. And why would they want to step aside and let someone else replace their seamless, secure-ish messaging experience with something else? None of the other messaging apps can achieve the level of integration with the rest of the phone that iMessage can.

The mere facts that iMessage is a) so good (integrated so well into the OS by way of unfair advantage) and b) closed, are probably sufficient to make sure that there won't ever be a common, secure messaging platform. It couldn't penetrate far enough into the iOS user base even if every Android user installed it.
Oh god... Where do you hide a tree? In the woods.

Everybody is talking about high level conspiracies regarding NSA, overseas intelligence agencies and whatsoever.

But the real concern should be about simply getting scammed! Of course our(end user) data is not safe, it was not designed from the very start to be so. I have no problem with NSA and Apple reading my messages because I am sure that they won't use the credit card linked to my account without my consent.

This... thing is a bit different. It is run by a third party provider somewhere outside of European and American jurisdictions. My concern is that if this app was created by Europeans or Americans, I would trust it my password and account, because I would have a tiny fraction of luck in case my account gets compromised and I loose money. There would be a possibility of an investigation, a court and a punishment. This, my friends, is a bit different scenario. If people get their accounts compromised and money gets stolen, Apple is not going to do a thing about it for two simple reasons:
1) Who wants to argue with China? What is the chance of even finding the physical location of the server all the data gets relayed back to?
2) Apple never authorised the use of third party apps.

This is my concern about China, nothing else. I would love to use this app for my every day needs, I would even pay for it! But the chance of my account being stolen with no possible outcome positive for me just rustles my jimmies.
I know this is nitpicking but this datum is at least confusing:

"The average (median) delay was just 2.6 seconds, but some mail was more severely delayed. However, this issue did not affect users' access to the Gmail page or other functionality."

What does "some" mean in Google's order of magnitude?

A median time without the maximum and minimum is not quite useful, as a mean time without more data.
Remove the w: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24177844

Edit: someone resubmitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434906
Great! Finally China can be as shallow and self-centered as the west. Can't wait to see chinese people posing with their friends "having fun" or pretending to eat sushi for that extra cultural and intellectual status.
I like the librarian comparison. Perhaps a receptionist would also work for this, they can give out some information about people working there (office phone number, etc) but not salaries.

> When is the onus on the web server owner to configure their security properly? When is a "200 OK" response actually not okay? This is the "mind reader" aspect the article mentions

This is why the laws usually care about the intent. It's a combination of the action and the reason that's important (which is why there's a difference between murder and manslaughter).

There are no hard and fast rules, and there simply cannot be.

Weev clearly knew that AT&T shouldn't be handing over the information. He wasn't there saying "Wait, this isn't a normal service?".

> The librarian is smart enough to not hand out things like access to the staff lounge, a list of employees and their salaries, or even things like an arbitrary library member's borrowing history.

If the librarian didn't know to restrict access to salary information, lets say the managers thought that if you knew the SSN that was enough of an ID to get access, and you repeat the example, it becomes a bit more clear how intent is important.

You: Can I have the salary of IanCal?
Recep: Sure, it's £X

You: Hmm, hey Dave, I think there's a security issue here, mind if I know your salary?
Dave: Sure, it's £Y
You: Can I have the salary of Dave?
Recep: Sure, it's £Y

You: Best go tell the managers.

That would be looked on very differently than:

You: Can I have the salary of IanCal?
Recep: Sure, it's £X

You: Hmm, hey Dave, I think there's a security issue here, can you generate SSN numbers?
Dave: Yeah I think so
You: Can I have the salary of SSN#1
Recep: Sure, it's £Y
...
You: Can I have the salary of SSN#147934
Recep: Sure, it's £Y
You: Hahahahaha, let's give all the info to a news site, bet you'd make money shorting the stock!

The core of it is the same, you've requested information for someone else that you shouldn't really have. Even if you remove the consent of Dave in the example, it's still different than the second example. And that was what was important.
While this level of human kindness and consideration is amazing, I am curious what would happen if there were hundreds of people they would have to do this for or if the cost was in the millions of dollars?

I mean there is no other alternative?

Will virtual simulations one day help calm and treat people with these disorders?
It's a shame really, because all evidence is fuzzy on some level. DNA could be planted, videos can be a of a lookalike, or being at a particular location at a particular time could be a coincidence. I don't know exactly how law enforcement works, but they really should be looking for connections and try to explain why a suspect is not the right guy, instead of the other way around. Maybe that is just wishful thinking.
Good comparison with the big inland empires. Any idea what qualifies as 'civilization' in the ground truth data?
Perhaps it could be sexist to men...
If your build commands are so complex that you need a shell script, go write the shell script and then in the README you tell the users what shell script to invoke and any required parameters. The point is that you always will have a README where you say "run this command to build". At its most basic this formatting is exactly as you would format such a README. It also supports more a complex series of commands, but for the 90% there will just be one command in the "How to build" section
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Lol, he looks the same.

Myself, i'm on the Insanity journey.
At least 30 minutes (mostly 40 and a max of 60), 6 days in a week.

Week 3 since Monday, ps. 7 minutes is way to little in my opinion.

25 minutes is the minimum of cardio your body is going to need for "any change".
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From the brief [1]: "There is no statute, nor any other law, supporting the government’s demands."

Does it mean that essentially the companies are intimidated to comply without the rule of law? Under what law and what sanctions do they face if full statistics is published?

[1] https://dt8kf6553cww8.cloudfront.net/static/docs/DropboxFISC...
That is freakin sweet!
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Ma Huateng (Tencent's CEO, aka the boss of QQ) isn't the government. He's just married to the daughter of a very prominent party member. But ... I can't remember who. (It's either Wen, or Hu - one of the former big two). And it's not on the front page of Google (black hat SEO?).
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Did Weev think that the email addresses didn't count as personal information, and were perfectly fine for anybody to scrape?

> If the server owner had so desired, they could have made the data private by adding a password.

But the server is still just sending data in response to a request, even with a password. The only reason a password is a line we draw is intent. It's hard to say you didn't realise that guessing at someones password was wrong.
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> Not as nice as a 100% open driver, but a massive improvement over proprietary binary glop in the kernel.

FWIW, the most of the Nvidia proprietary driver works in a user space library too. It would be a really bad idea to make your OpenGL implementation and other high-level facilities running in kernel space.
You can stream games from your desktop to Steam OS. That alone is awesome.
And if you were missing window panes altogether, is it open season on robbing your house?
>but its possible that the way the laugh track is mixed makes it more obvious than other shows, such as 90s sitcoms.

It isn't. It is exactly the same as any other sitcom that was filmed in front of a live audience. No better, no worse.

It is just that some people won't give BBT a pass on that usage.

And in a dramatic twist, most people who hate BBT loooooooooove The IT crowd. Somehow I have never heard any of those fans to criticize them for using a laugh track. Weird right? Cause that show does not only use one, it is completely canned laughter as they do not film in front of an audience. Just think what the BBT bashers would have to say if BBT did it like that and The IT crowd would use a live audience. They would go mental over this.
For the record, I understood that your assertion about 'the bias' against the relative impact of propaganda is not the same as 'there is no propaganda'.. I concede my pointless hyperbole clouded my argument.

However, implicit in your assertion is that the effect plays a minor role, whereas I would argue it plays a compounding role. My contention is given time and a reduction in military involvement, the marketability of pro-war propaganda would naturally decrease.
Let me give you an example.

Apple, NSA saw CC number in your chat log, but Apple, NSA, GHCQ, FRA or Israeli Intelligence won't steal your CC and use it.

However, the Chinese vendor could intercept CC info and sell it to blackmarket.
Ahem! The initial commit includes: https://github.com/jenkinsci/literate-api/blob/master/src/ma... however it is not completed yet ( see the comment in https://github.com/jenkinsci/literate-api/blob/master/src/ma... ) We had to prioritise which would get released first and I found the Markdown format more fun personally, so it got more love... plus you didn't give the YAML one any love either
At last. This is great news.
If you wander in shouting "Lol guys, we totally shouldn't be allowed in here! Their security is awful! Quick, take pictures of all their documents and we'll post them to a news site" then you've got a more reasonable analogy.
> Microsoft realized this a long time ago, and so did Apple (starting with iOS only)

This is a common misconception nowadays, but if you look at the early keynotes Jobs was more dismayed than thrilled by his baby being coopted by games. He resigned himself more than realized it.

It just happens that — on iOS anyway — gaming concerns and Apple concerns align in that both want a good equilibrium between CPU and GPU rather than a CPU-focused device.
And there is just no knowing what faulty device of some shady manufacturing one of these five hundred passengers is using.

Except that faulty device is already on the plane, and the lowest estimate seems to be there's about a 1-in-3 chance it's powered on already, despite regulations saying it needs to be off.

As many people are at pains to point out, if there were sufficient risk to justify action, then we would not be needing to have a debate and point to anecdotes (of which there are some in this discussion) from commercial pilots who once experienced an equipment problem and said "well, I heard maybe a cell phone could cause that". We would know beyond question that something's up from the corresponding number of serious incidents.
why would, say nvidia or AMD contribute their driver improvements upstream, especially if there isn't anything in it for them? unless there is some GPL clause requiring it of course.
Lets put it other way. Why someone should produce 10x more work, even if she/he could? Salary would be probably only 20% higher. And there is a huge pile of disadvantages (no holidays, extra support...). It is also career limiting move as someone becomes irreplaceable and can not get promoted.
But that's still more for resellers or large quantity buyers. I wasn't planning on getting 100TB; I was just looking for 1-2TB to load a demo set and compare to some of the stuff we do on our netezza. It's too bad there is no Microsoft Technology Center near where I could take this for a test drive...
> Did you do anything wrong?

Possibly, it depends on intent. Add in:

You: Hahaha, guys I can get anybodies cake!
You: Looool their security is awful!
You: Hahah, we could short this companies stock!

Then you clearly knew what you were doing and therefore did something wrong.
Ahhh good ol' github. Shows the author email and everything. Finally I can ask the author for his secret ingredients.
> After Steam announced steambox, and with the massive improvements since Steam for Linux, nVidia would want their drivers to be the best for Linux to sell Linux users on their video cards.

For a long time, the Nvidia proprietary driver has been the best gpu driver for Linux, not that it has been super good but the competition has been really awful. Only in the recent years there has been any competition if you want a GPU with good 3d features. Intel has had decent 3d only in their latest few generations of integrated GPUs and ATI drivers have ranged from not working at all to barely usable.

That being said, this is a very welcome change and will hopefully make the nouveau drivers better in the long run. In particular, this is good news for the common linux graphics architecture (dri/drm, etc) and Wayland.
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I'm one of the "MDN maintainer", volunteering my own time.
It seems like you have quite a lot of good ideas to improve MDN :-)

"To MDN maintainers: Please read some "The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White and some "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug, and improve MDN. You guys could have done better."

Over the years, I have noticed that lots of people have good ideas about MDN, but no one seems to care sharing them in a Mozilla channel or better, contribute to MDN! It's a wiki! Something is wrong or inappropriate? Go fix it!
(appropriate channel: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-mdc )

It's also been over a year now that Mozilla is building the wiki behing MDN. It's an open source project called Kuma
https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/
Check it out and contribute. I have not read the 2 books you're refering to. If you have, go share your ideas!
Me too. I'm really struggling with all the negative comments in here! Loved the story, thought I'd delve in to the comments to find more heart-warming goodness, but no...
Wow, this is so much more prohibitive than what we have in Europe. I can not remember being asked to switch my phone off it had an airplane mode.
The problem of `cpp -P` is:

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Us people who are "stereotyped" by this show think it's very funny, and don't really need you to be the white knight that saves us from a terrible Hollywood sitcom. If there's anything offensive here, it's your condescending attitude.

Did you similarly rail on "Sex in the City" for not realistically portraying women and sexuality?
Example is good, but not quite right as they weren't asking a neutral resource. The librarian (let's switch for clerk) was told that if someone looking like X came in and made a request they were allowed to hand over a Y to them, so each time the `You` came in you had to wear a disguise that convinced the clerk you were actually `X`.

AT&T should be rightly mocked for their poor security, but weev wasn't just stumbling through data, he'd made good attempts to impersonate the setup the server wanted. He'd put a pair of glasses and a funny moustache on and the server was alright with it, which is definitely ridiculous.