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> DRM [will] exist as long as the content exists [for] any form of entertainment that is digitally transmitted.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

True, HDCP shows a pretty aggressive spread of content protection into wires. BluRay doubled down on protecting physical discs even during the DeCSS art movement, when most of us were starting to view such efforts as futile.

Smashwords and other indie ebook publishers vs. Amazon and Google Books... it's a mixed field in eBooks, with DRM admittedly still largely dominant.

That's not wholly dissimilar to the status of AAC vs. mp3 in the marketplace for the first six years of iTunes though. DRM lost that round.

Will that happen again though? It's really impossible to know.

That exception relied on the particular marketplace factors at the time, such as Amazon's desire to spend a large amount of money to challenge Apple's monopoly, relying on the working examples of other unencumbered music sellers, like eMusic, to convince music publishers DRM wasn't necessary, and the widespread use of mp3s prior to the development of the mature digital music market.

We sometimes make the mistake of forecasting about technology based on first principles, imagining a utopia or dystopia enabled by technology, then running with it. It's easy to ignore the many contingencies involved, such as human institutions, cultural factors, even chance.

Tangential, but relevant, a recent Freakonomics podcast on "The Folly of Prediction:"
http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/14/new-freakonomics-radio-po...
I'm no expert on European history but I do think your example of Italy in such a period, despite the stupendous romance of the western art world for its painterly accomplishments, should probably be viewed as only one pre-modern human situation. Still earlier on and in proximity I think you would find more interesting situations, for example all of the great steppe metalwork (gold, etc.) preserved from the Slavic lands eastwards, bronze work from the eastern Mediterranean, the great art of Central Asia, Iran and India, Tang China, the Zomian region, etc. These places show not only metal work but textiles, architecture and utilitarian objects of beauty that in many cases strongly suggests a common wealth that truly permeated societies.

Re: end of empire energy failure - yeah, I agree a doomsday situation is far-fetched (but don't tell the deep Americans digging bunkers and stocking up on ammo! We may need them yet! ;). Serious systemic reform, on the other hand, is but a certainty... purely a matter of time.

(PS. I love threads like this!)
> the FSF is absolutist and views their particular politics as inseparable from the goals

I often see this kind of hyperbole and it seems very meaningless to me. Their particular strategy has remained pretty consistent and has managed to fund development of a good number of successful projects. If it's their PR you have a problem with, what is it that you want them to say? That it's okay to support the use of proprietary software sometimes, even though that's completely against the whole point?
Based on the word shape of the domain, please tell me that this is pronounced "lumpy."

If not, it should be.
SSMEs were commonly reused. Only 46 were built and 3 were used for each of the 135 missions. I wouldn't say that 9 missions per engine is rare.
Cocoa butter is a vegetable oil. I take your point, just being pedantic.

The trouble I have with US milk chocolate is that it's made with sour milk. It tastes like vomit to European taste buds.
it just like a blog and, nothing more ...
I think Christensen's statements on both iPod and iPhone stems from theories and sweeping generalizations on how technology field works. But with Apple, the devil is in the details. His argument is not taking into considerations things such as

1. Control of the supply chains so that other players can't get their hands on similar hardware.

2. Singularity of Taste coming from Jobs and Ive that blended with the hardware.

3. Software, that is very hard to replicate without years of effort.

The lesson is, theories are theories and Christensen is not god.
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Interesting. I forgot there were people like you. No, that is not what I would be planning on doing.

I was just reading someone's view on not giving kids cellphones and taking it on board as something to consider, a datapoint on the wide range of human opinion. As to whether I agree with him, I don't know, I haven't thought about it enough to reach a conclusion yet.
Where the fuck did that come from? It is neither baseless or FUD. That fingerprint will be sent over the wire at some point and the NSA will gladly pick it up. How you think otherwise is beyond me.

What operating system I prefer really has nothing to do with it, even if it is linux.

Posted from my iPhone, android, third mac mini, 2nd mac air, or first thinkpad who the fuck knows (or cares? oh you obviously)
It doesn't matter whether you call it "new 64-bit A7 architecture" or "4th gen Core i5" architecture. That's just a marketing label to attach to a bundle of improvements. It doesn't have to be an accurate reflection of what really makes the processor faster (remember the bit race with consoles?)

The bottom line point is that Apple delivered on the peformance front.
Because everyone hates centralized package info manager, for instance, Windows Registry.
For me it was the opposite - I was quite happy to pay, but didn't have enough control of, or visibility into, what was going on on the server.

I set up a minefold instance for my daughter and her friends to play on, having previously spent time setting up and maintaining a custom server for her and her friends. Unfortunately, disputes between kids tend to escalate into all out war unless you can monitor and keep a lid on things, so Minefold wasn't the answer either.
Why was this published as opinion? I see solid journalism here, not opinion.
Gawd, freemium is one thing, but it takes some balls to tell a for-profit company, "yeah, your product is great, you just need to make the whole thing free." I understand being accustomed to things being free on teh intarwebs, since I am as well, but do people not take the half-second necessary to realize that it has to be paid for somehow, or it doesn't happen at all? What fraction of the population is really this dumb?
"llvmpy" kind of looks like an Ancient Roman trying to write down a Welsh word.

And for good reason: The 'v' glyph was used for both the 'v' sound and the vowel 'u' sound before 'u' became its own letter.
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Also the topic of the latest This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/u...

Since it is Sunday and that's when they post the MP3s I listened to some of it today ... I had known of the dangers but had no idea how easy it was to get into dangerous territory. Interesting presentation as well.
You don't understand how it works, think about it as AB testing. They aren't interested in one movie, they are interested in lots of movies. They will try something different next time.
I think it's more than adequate security for App Store purchases.

My debit card, for example, has "paywave" short range payment support. So anybody who has my card can go around making small purchases, no PIN, no signature needed. I'm fine with this because the convenience far outweighs the security concern.

With the iPhone an attacker who replicates your fingerprint can make purchases to your iTunes account using your phone. They can't purchase to a different account, they can't purchase to a different device. In that sense, requiring a valid fingerprint is more than secure enough — even if faked it's not going to do much damage.

Creating a fake print that can fool the scanner is so much harder than stealing someone's debit/credit card. It's also so much less damaging to the victim (making purchases on their iTunes account vs. making any arbitrary purchase).

I think the balance between security and convenience for this technology is more than reasonable.
I agree. This is just like face unlock on Android. A nice feature, but not bulletproof.
Sad, really sad.

Despite being an Australian, I rarely follow the news there, so if someone closer to the action could confirm and clarify here: the notion was put forward to build fiber to the home across the country (extremely costly), it was passed by a government courageously (for supporting any long term benefit at immediate expense is tantamount to severing a near-term political limb), the government changed, and the new one is likely appointing the current chairman of what used to be the state-owned telecommunications provider (sold off by the incoming government in a prior reign) to 'fix' it.

Does it not appear then, on a macro scale, as if the government gave up its golden goose and wound up redistributing wealth to many private hands whilst reducing its actual capacity to get anything done or maintain a semblence of competitiveness with more successful but similar ventures elsewhere? (China, France and New Zealand come to mind)

After spending much time living in China, I can only conclude that two party democracies are essentially incompetent structures for long term infrastructure.

Perhaps my homeland could fix its NBN project with a pause to enforce transparency, issue public reports and a referendum. Of course, the government wouldn't do that ... the've just stolen the goose.
driverless cars.

I think google is years ahead of everyone else here, and it will be a product that will be high price, high margin. And the market is huge.

I really don't see how google could walk away from that one without gobs of cash in their pockets.
Part of the problem with reusing SSMEs was that they burned hydrogen and hydrogen embrittlement basically ensured that any sort of fast or cheap turn around with SSMEs was impossible.

Hydrogen is a pain in the ass to work with if you want a reusable rocket. The Space Shuttle was really only nominally reusable, the engines had to practically be rebuilt every time to make sure everything was alright (the SRBs were hardly any better, though at least they were simpler.) (Really, hydrogen is just a pain in the ass in general though. It isn't very dense and needs to be kept much cooler than LOX to boot (requiring all that foam on the external tanks), which is why the Shuttle external tank had to be so goddamn big. The massive efficiency of LOX/LH2 are somewhat mitigated by these factors.)

If SpaceX can get their F9R working well, that will likely be the first properly reusable rocket (first stage anyway). Those will burn RP-1 which won't suffer from hydrogen embrittlement.

The Soviets would have been better off continuing to neglect LH2/LOX and focus on the fuels they did best with (basically what they have done ever since they discontinued Energia). Also, while the Energia would have been suboptimal for non-Buran loads, it still would have been the heaviest lifting rocket they ever had, able to put 32,000kg into TLI (compared to the Saturn V's 47,000kg and the N1's never realized 23,500 kg). The Shuttle stack wasn't merely suboptimal for that sort of thing, it was worthless.
I can buy that view, yeah. It presents conclusions that are probably true, but the plot is a bit in the pop-science direction in doing so, in the sense that the plot itself is not really a rigorous way of establishing those conclusions. The paper doesn't include this kind of plot, probably for those reasons.
Nope, CA needs to be explicitly added to gatekeeper. http://strangetheorists.tumblr.com/post/30515713765/using-ow...
There are many open problems in Computational Complexity Theory.

https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo:P

It is a difficult subject matter: instead of proving something about a specific program, you must prove results about all possible programs that achieve a task given some set of constraints.

IMHO, it is amazing that any results (e.g. [1]) are known at all in that field given how little structure they must work with...

Think of this field as the particle physics of CS---not very useful in the real world, but still very cool to learn about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem
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Awesome. Best of luck, whatever you decide.
Disgraceful, IMO. The last Liberal government over here entrenched Telstra as a monopoly by selling it off in its entirety. They were kicked out of the process last time, due to not taking it seriously, now that their cronies are back in power, they're off the hook.

http://abbotsinternet.com.au/ gives a good idea of just how bad the offerings over here are. And that doesn't show half of it. My internet drops on a regular basis, and if you call out a technician you will typically get slugged with a callout fee of $100 or so regardless. From... Telstra, because they run all of the phone lines, even though I want to get as far away from them as possible.
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Actually he has admitted he was wrong about the iPhone, thinking of it as a high end phone instead of a low end (but very convienient) computer.

The author of the article, I think, makes a "phalous leap" from "He was wrong about the iPhone" to "disruption doesn't apply to consumer markets".

Primarily because the iPhone is a perfect case of this. It (and it's successor, the iPad) is disrupting the PC industry.

You have to look at the phone as a computer, not a phone. Then disruption theory REALLY makes sense.
how do you verify fingerprint if you only store a hashed reference?
And are probably least easily able to capture a high resolution image and reproduce a 2400 dpi heavy-ink image that is then used to create mould of your print.
Why go whitespace sensitive then actually choose to keep an "end" statement?
I'm thinking you didn't read my comment below about AB testing, or detected the sarcasm, or maybe me using the conditional of wanting to make buckets of money in this case wasn't clear enough…
"Tiny Farms is the edible insect company"
Future is here. First Soylent and now this. FTW!
An iPhone with a digitalised iPod inside of it. It is exactly a low cost competitor.
Yeah, it's the same story across the board really - not even many private hands, just a small handful of them.

Public infrastructure was never particularly invested in, even under Labour, but now that the Liberals are back in (I'm in Victoria, so double Liberal for me) it's "jobs for the boys", more roads, more private health insurance, etc, etc.
Mean SSME resuse was 8.8 flights per engine, median is 8. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/SSME_Flig...
Perhaps the Russians surpassed the US in terms of space research and development initially, but the US did more on the moon than plant a flag and play golf. You can't explore someplace you never actually reach in any case.

And as far as Russia being about research and the US being about militarizing space (which you seem to suggest upthread), I'd remind you that the Russians (as far as I know) were the only country to arm one of their space stations and test fire the weapon[1]: To suggest that either the US or Russia weren't keenly interested in using space as leverage against the other, as well as in scientific exploration, is probably not taking the entire picture into consideration.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz

... and yes, having more than one space station puts a check in the Russian column.
Can you not just `docker export [imageid] > myimage.tar` and `docker import - < myimage.tar`?

EDIT: from the [github issue](https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/332#issuecomment-2...):

"Currently the only way to "squash" the image is to create a container from it, export that container into a raw tarball, and re-import that as an image. Unfortunately that will cause all image metadata to be lost, including its history but also ports, env, default command, maintainer info etc. So it's really not great."
Hey Chris and Dave, This is Dan. I'd love for you to come on Techendo (http://techendo.co/) and have me interview you about your experiences running minefold. I think you've seen a lot and have a lot to share with other entrepreneurs who are trying their own thing now.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6342609
I'm noticing a bit of an exodus from programming to traditional engineering disciplines also, though primarily over working conditions, not mainly pay. One specific concentration is people leaving the game industry to do non-game simulation work at places like Lockheed. The pay is comparable and the environment is much nicer for someone over 30. Game companies complain they can't find enough good talent, but don't seem willing to own up to their role in driving away good talent.
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How hard is it to get at 2400 DPI finger print?

Left arrow key? Coffee cup? Left button of a mouse? Car door handle?
Potential side effect of TouchID: Due to the mass marketing of this feature it becomes cool for people to learn how to copy fingerprints, causing a massive headache for forensics teams everywhere.
From Apple's site [1]:

> Touch ID does not store any images of your fingerprint. It stores only a mathematical representation of your fingerprint.

> The Secure Enclave is walled off from the rest of A7 and as well as the rest of iOS. Therefore, your fingerprint data is never accessed by iOS or other apps, never stored on Apple servers, and never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. Only Touch ID uses it and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5949?viewlocale=en_US
Even if he got it wrong with apple (which I don't believe is the case) Christensen still is the one who got it mostly right.
I don't think this is supported by the content of his post, though, where he starts speculating about how Google will get '64-bit processors', as if that's the thing that matters (it's not).

Furthermore, it's repurposing an EXISTING label (64-bit has an established meaning for desktop CPUs) to mean something else. I think that's silly.
Exactly.

The iPhone was not en improvement of the phone but of the computer which also explains why 90% of the time is used for not ringing.
If you can generate a new public key for every transaction, how does it know what previous transactions to refer to as an input? I have a feeling it has something to do with how key signing works, like signing your old key with your new one or something, but I don't really know much about that.
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What's the actual business model?
You are absolutely right. 40 hours/week is the standard that was set more than 100 years ago and is long due for an update. As long as there are groups of people competing against each other to get the bigger part of the pie, it will continue this way until there is a big movement similar to the following:

From wiki:

"The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. The use of child labour was common. The working day could range from 10 to 16 hours for six days a week"

We now need a 4-hour day movement. :)
Which glass surface? The oleophobic glass on the iPhone itself?

If the print was copied directly from one of the phone surfaces, you'd think that the CCC would want to include that little tidbit.
I took a security class where, amongst other things, we learned how to pick locks. After we learned how to do so with provided equipment, the instructor said "So since these locks are insecure, should I have them in my home? Yes, because if a motivated intruder wanted to come into my home, I still have windows."
just to clarify, I realize there are plenty of options within the 'big box banking' world that mitigate overdraft fees (well, a few options anyway.)

What I was saying in the parent comment is that overdraft fees are a perfectly rational motivation to avoid major banks.

I personally bank with both Wells Fargo and Bank of America (for convenience, and because several family members that are international do the same; gotta have that free transfer service). I am close with a few people that have foregone banking, and paid out of pocket to have their paychecks cashed where ever they can. As far as I can understand, this is a rational decision if your income does not provide the ability to meet a minimum monthly balance of about $100 of 'slack'. If you've ever worked a menial job for a regular period, I'm sure you'll understand.

If your monthly balance variance is < ONE PAYCHECK +/- $50, a $35 overdraft fees represent a significant percentage of your income.

These overdraft fees are a profit center for banks. Even if there are options to mitigate them, what motivation do the poor have to pursue them? The burden of proof of utility is on the banks, as far as the poor are concerned. If it seems to be more convenient or cheaper to operate without them, people will. This may be partly due to ignorance, but for the most part, it is because there are small inherent costs associated with a bank account that the middle class doesn't seem to recognize.

You CAN operate with less expense with cashed checks and payment cards than you can with a bank account and a debit card. Hobos and junkies would not do so if it were not the case. Hard living makes people rational like a motherf*er. You may forego some potential interest incomes, bank protections, and countless conveniences associated with using a bank account, but when it comes down to brass tax, it just costs less.
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I have been at startups, my own or venture backed, or small businesses my whole career. I'm currently over a year at BigCo and have observed a lot. For example, the dynamics or risk and politics, the difference in developer culture and what product organization means in the post-Steve Jobs error.

What can I blog about that you'd be interested in?
But wasn't he talking about controlling it with your laptop? On Linux, this'd be no problem. But on Win7 I have this weird issue that causes my audio to go BZZZZPPT every few minutes or so (I think it's something to do with USB driver interrupts, but I haven't been able to dig up the root cause). It's usually not very noticeable small glitch (though annoying enough that it makes me rewind videos sometimes), anyway, but that would probably make for some "interesting" glitch lines in 3D printed models.
I think it is a very innovative step by Apple. It's going to convert a lot of people who never lock their devices into people who use quite a secure and easy-to-use method to lock their devices.

Just because it can be hacked does not mean it is a bad method to use.
I wouldn't count on that. See https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/381900643415240704
Autolandings may or may not be common in airliners, but my understanding of drones is that "The pilots are flying the plane through the automation" is in strong effect.
He was not able to use the moulded version of his finger to access Touch ID. Instead he had to "enrol" his fake finger as a new finger, and from that point was able to unlock the phone.
I'm curious, is there a Python to native executives compiler/builder?
Yeah. Actual sports teams never have their athletes do Crossfit because the number one commandment for strength & conditioning coaches is: Don't injure the players!
> Probably, apps will get access to capture raw prints themselves at some time.

Any company that designs their hardware so this is possible deserves the suit they'll get.
That's horrifying. There's absolutely no excuse for pushing a recreational exerciser to the point of contracting rhabdo. Gross negligence on the instructor's part IMO.