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This is the way to go for Microsoft. Cutting the licensing fee has nothing to lose since HTC decided to stop making Windows Phone last June. Another good move could be to make Windows Phone OS able to install on any Android Phone so consumers could choose on OS to install with their devices.
"Humanity" doesn't do anything. Humans do all sorts of things. Why do wolves form packs?
The problem is addiction rates for many drugs are exaggerated and the amount of people that live functional lives(functionally equivalent to normal people) is understated. People like you get a free pass with saying things like this but you have no real world experience.

I speak of cocaine specifically of that you mentioned and not crack-cocaine as I have no experience with that.
There is an approved form of pharmaceutical melatonin in the UK (Circadin, 2mg modified release), but it's only licensed for use in adults aged over 55.

Any doctor can prescribe it off-label if they wish, although they might be hesitant in the non-insomniac population due to the relatively high cost (>50p per 2mg dose)
Historically, different nations' intelligence agencies have often infiltrated each other. I'm sure someone will eventually gain access to the NSA's weapons, but I think they would be more likely to steal details to add to their own systems than "repurpose" the NSA's.
I find it hard to see what business it is of theirs. They're there to enforce the laws passed down by legislators, not make the laws.
his articles seem to be submitted in waves. Whenever he writes on some relevant topic there's always a big resurgence of interest in his site. Not that I'm complaining!
> I am very wary of appeals to "nature" and "natural"

I think it's an important distinction to be made here that melatonin is something you already produce at certain times of day (maybe not the desired time), and not something your body does not normally encounter, which you put into your body to interrupt a normal process.

This is not to say that any concerns about melatonin are invalid; only that one shouldn't be as wary of melatonin as of, say, Ambien.
The idea is cool but I would never serve my static sites with NodeJS. Don't ask why. Benchmark it.
That doesn't diagram using HTTP verbs correctly, it diagrams using HTTP response codes.

And it's also wrong viewed in light of RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), at least with regard to PUT (particularly, it doesn't address the case where the spec indicates the server must use a 301 for a PUT.)
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RCS format not RCS and only when text files are used.
I think you're drawing some sort of weird absolutist distinction here I don't understand at all. Why did the share prices go from the 10s of % to 95% or more? Because I correctly forecast everything important about the bet: that McCain had a much higher chance of winning the nomination than everyone else did, and the market was wrong. I won that bet in spades and realized a return. Why does it matter that at some point I closed out my contract?

(And actually no, it doesn't have to be differing estimates. It could also be risk aversion, liquidity constraints, noise, or a bunch of other things.)
> So much for dogfooding...

It's not maintained by start-up people or MBAs so they don't have to handicap themselves in a world of trite buzzwords. Also, it's still maintained because people still use it. Figured that would be obvious.
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It's not registering any votes, so I'm not sure what's up.
Good point, and Maps is a good example. Apple's whole image is around "it just works", so things are expected to just work. "If you're not embarrassed by it, you waited too long to release it" doesn't really work in Apple's case.
Does Cassandra follow semver[1]?

[1]: http://semver.org/
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Although this is off-topic from the original post, the reverse merger hijinks are an interesting read. Here is a 2011 list of the American companies this involved:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/complete-list-all-chinese-r...
There is a massive, massive difference between NSA surveillance and Netflix using technological measures to ensure you're not copying their content. You have a real, honest choice whether to do business with Netflix and subject yourself to their tracking. They are not an essential service, and they're not even the only provider of video entertainment. You cannot escape the NSA. And you're STILL not actually making an ethical argument, you're just restating your position in different terms.
Your article explicitly argues against that

Courts should invalidate any welfare definition change that seems too directly an attempt to favor a specific policy whose main rationale comes from other measurable
outcomes

That - and your "miles of road" example - seems to me to invalidate changing the welfare definition to add welfare weightings for tax levels.
General conclusion from all of the published leaks is that GCHQ punches (in technical capability and general quality of work) way above its weight class (funding and presumed staffing levels); they also seem much more willing than NSA to be completely unbound by any idea of domestic user privacy. Which is fitting for a country with the number of CCTV cameras they have.
I said elsewhere that it reads like serial killer fan fiction. The fan that would write such a story would be gay. I hope I'm beginning to make some sense, if not, please ask more questions.
The site is back up. Check it out at http://unfurlough.us

Also did some write up on the background if you're interested: http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2013/10/unfurlough-us-freelance...
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Are they human too? I always pictured the NSA being comprised of a bunch of Vogons.
I find Twitch useful for saving money, so many games out there and watching how they actually play lets me put my money to games that actually fit my play style.

There are some interesting personalities on Twitch, some of the money a few claim to pull in is impressive. Fortunately personality and ability drive followings, having cleavage and a cute face will only get you so far.
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What would change for you, if Netflix will change the terms from renting to buying? I think you confuse convenience of streaming service with benefits that renting of physical goods provide. Streaming service doesn't have to be equal to renting. See below.
If you're referring to "the children," I can't recall a case when someone asserting that we were starting down a slippery slope after some child-protection legislation had been passed has been wrong.

All of these national level DNS website blocks were sold as kiddie porn blocking.
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Typed Clojure prevents Null Pointer Exceptions
I should have thrown the word perceived in there. I don't necessarily think it is for the greater good, but I am not sure if that is the overall perception today and certainly wasn't when those laws were created.
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: the only guarantee that's carved in stone is that in X.Y.Z is backwards-compatible for all values of Z. Past that YMMV, e.g., typically X.Y+1 will be network-compatible for rolling upgrades, but we'll maintain disk-compatibility for longer.
I don't believe those applications are half-baked as much as your needs are more advanced than the target of those applications. Those applications work extremely well for the typical mac user. Firefox would just confuse my sister, and she wouldn't even know what an NFS server is. Linux would just make her stop using a computer.

And how is iChat half baked because you use Gmail chat? I could say the same for Gchat when I use iChat. (Not saying that ichat can't be improved, but your line of logic doesn't follow.)
Thanks for the advice! I have toyed with Clojure, but the idea of functional programming without a procedural escape hatch for any real world project puts me off a bit after doing ML at university.

What would be the best book to read to get me excited about Clojure, in your opinion?
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Actually the premium prices paid for apple products makes me expect it's perfect. I'm nog going to pay for a beta product that improves at those prices!
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Not really. Once you subvert the DRM module, you've already broken the law.
It's not a "Manhattan Project" if it's within the capabilities of any decent-sized organized crime syndicate. People here have short memories. In the 1990s, teenaged hackers owned up the backbone.
It's all about the money. There will always be a certain number of violent, power-hungry assholes out there, true. Banning drugs and thus enabling a black market in them means that people like that have a way to make money and create organizations dedicated to enforcing their will. Yeah, if we legalize drugs, they'll try to switch to something else to maintain their gangs and lifestyle, but nothing is as profitable as drugs, so there will be much less money available to such organizations, and they'll all either shrink dramatically or fall apart entirely.

It's also about how money influences people. Some people are irredeemably criminal/violent, but I think they're a minority. Most of the people in the market are probably following the money. They're doing it to make money, and they'll use violence if needed to preserve their market, but they probably don't have any desire in general to hurt people. Take away the need for violence by making it legal, and thus delegating violence to the police, and they'd probably be perfectly happy to be relatively normal businessmen.

Then again, maybe they'll just get involved in the Government instead :-/
> There is a massive, massive difference between NSA surveillance and Netflix using technological measures to ensure you're not copying their content.

Massive? I don't see a major difference. You accept running some black box surveillance software which exists because of the mere reason of some publishers considering you a potential criminal (infringer) without any warrant and probable cause, based on them by default not trusting you. Now, why are you suddenly supposed to trust them in return that they aren't going to abuse that?
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Many enterprises will only use RHEL (tooling, support, market maturity etc), hence 'enterprise-grade'.
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Actually, I'd say there is more justification for the later. Passive analysis nails everyone. It's a scary capability to have.

Malware is a fundamentally targeted endeavor since known exploits get patched.

The question of course, is are the targets legitimate?
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Hyundai is also deferring loan payments for furloughed employees. Good marketing too, it's the main reason I looked at and ended up purchasing a Hyundai this week.
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Good point Zac, It's interesting to see how banks are shifting away from traditional sources of revenue based on trading, balance sheet leverage, advisory, etc into potential new sources that involve the monetization of data more like a traditional technology company. I'm curious if there will be a dramatic cultural shift within banks as traditionally technology has always been viewed as "back-office"...
One of my previous employers still uses CVS to version and deploy configuration. One reason why git is not an option is the simple fact that you can't check out subdirectories in git.
Git was released in 2005. I will bet you a dollar that about 80% of the sysadmins in the world have been working with some kind of revision control since before 2005. It follows that they would have been familiar with something other than the Git model. Combine this with the laughable idea that not every sysadmin knows git, and the parent statement makes sense.

Also, your experience is probably not exactly the same as 80% of sysadmins. But I don't have a citation for that.
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Hmm. They might have removed them. I sort of remember hearing about that.
The main problem is people twist the quote, change its meaning almost entirely, and still posit it to be an authentic quote.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Those qualifiers change the meaning dramatically- Essential Liberty, Temporary Safety
The existence of things like WebGL and Emscripten should make it obvious that in 2013 the browser is no longer just for documents.
Some people take the "Always Be Pushing" mantra very seriously. That's exactly it.
I'd like to offer a counter experience where the upgrades are pretty simple: stop, git pull, rake a bit, update a few configs (maybe), start. It's certainly not trivial or painless, but it isn't that bad and it's nice that they're releasing regularly (22nd of each month, I believe).

I agree that it is absolutely meant for groups more than individuals. We use GitLab like crazy in the office, but we also have GitHub accounts for community contributions and BitBucket accounts for private/personal stuff.

Edit: see their 6.0 to 6.1 release notes for more: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/update/...
So let's say that in 2050 all cars and trucks -- along with lawn mowers, leaf blowers, air compressors, etc. -- are based on electric motors descended from the current Tesla. So much so that internal combustion engines are completely obsolete.

That does not imply that developing internal combustion engines was a waste of time -- they have been useful for decades for a variety of purposes. Even if they're never used again in the history of mankind, the uses they've already had are enough.

The current state of robotics has allowed some of great things to be built. Industrial automation, mine sweeping robots, goofy little vacuum cleaners, solenoid-driven irrigation systems, etc. So even if it's all ultimately a technological dead end, it's still been justified.

In any case, I don't share any of your certainty about the direction of future robotics. With the increase in accessibility over the last decade of microcontrollers, sensors, and effectors, and the corresponding increasing in accessibility of enabling technologies like 3D printing and CNC, I think it's entirely possible that we're about to see an explosion in the availability of products with embedded robotics in common day-to-day items -- things that start as hobbyist projects built by hackers but quickly become commercialized into consumer products. This may not be what you mean by "robots" but it is an obvious, useful application for the technologies in robotics nonetheless.
> I find this to be dubious.

I don't. People are lazy and don't want to use PGP because it's confusing and hard. PGP-related questions were some of the most common help problems, on /r/SilkRoad, people would regularly mention not encrypting their address (ranked up there with early finalization for being incredibly frustrating for those of us who knew what we were doing), and the Atlantis CEO stated that like 90% of Atlantis users relied on the Atlantis-provided PGP encryption rather than encrypting it themselves.

> When people communicated with SR vendors, did they use email (where PGP might matter) or did they use the SR software?

SR had an internal message system, much like Reddit's PMs. You would copy the public key off the vendor's profile page on SR (or possibly from a thread on the forums), you'd ASCII-armored encrypt your address to the public key, and paste it into an address form field during the order process. You'd do the same thing for a regular PM.

> Did their forum software allow people to sign their posts?

Sure: ASCII armor, remember. Any forum which allows you to type in text, allows PGP signing of messages. Few people bothered, except for important statements like from DPR about new rules or .onion addresses or stuff like that.
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I’m writing this from my latest gen macbook air. And I have a 5S coming (goldie baby).

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It's a common technique to serialize arbitrary data into blob fields in SQL databases--I've seen it for years. Usually, it is considered an anti-pattern. Postgres 9.1 doesn't do much other than verify the JSON data is valid JSON and then stores it unchanged, though successive versions are adding more first-class JSON support.
I think Friedman concedes that this certainly could happen. Of course, with government, all competitors are already pushed out, and it's already a complete monopoly.
Difference between apple and sun is that apple is a consumer product. Companies make cost effective decisions. Consumers emotional factors.
God I hope Apple doesn't start releasing shoddy beta-quality software like we've all been forced to expect from the web.
What if I were to make a website that organizes the data that I've scraped. Would that be okay as well? Under what conditions?
It's as or more reasonable to say that governments evolved out of the need to mediate conflicts between people living in groups.
Furthermore, while Al Capone could have found other crimes to orchestrate to make himself rich, he wouldn't have been able to perform those crimes as well as liquor smuggling, limiting his supply of cash (lets face it, he was probably doing those things in our history timeline as well as smuggling).

Alternatively, if we suppose some crime that he really did neglect in favor of smuggling, why did he neglect it in favor of smuggling? Because it was not as profitable or carried greater risk (in our history timeline, he was able to manage his risk effectively. He wasn't killed in the act and was only eventually caught for tax evasion. Had he been, say, robbing banks instead, he undoubtedly would not have lasted as long.)

Any way you slice it, prohibition made dealing with Capone worse than it otherwise would have been.
In the complete system, most or all parties would already be contracted with a rights enforcement agency, and each rights enforcement agency will already be contracted with an arbiter (court).
This is not true. Transaction volume for consumer banking, even including credit card processing, is minuscule - a heavy customer might generate a half-dozen transactions over the course of a day, and many of those (particularly credit card transactions) are able to be asynchronously processed over the course of days or weeks.

Ultimately banks are in the business of money management, not money tracking and have been for the 700 or so years they've been around in recognizable form.

Whether they could do this with less overhead than they presently do with new technology is a separate issue.
Surely Dexter isn't technically a vigilante, given he works out of a police station.
Why not simply use an online broker in your own country? I assume any online broker will allow you to buy stock on Nasdaq, where Tesla is traded. (I'm in Europe and just bought some Tesla stock through an online trader)
"We have 100 vacancies, but we’ll be fortunate if we can fill half with hires in the UK,” says Errol Damelin, the boss of Wonga. Often talent has to be imported from America or elsewhere, but immigration rules for hires from outside the European Union are still “extremely cumbersome”, he complains

Another reason is that Wonga is morally bankrupt as it takes advantage of the desperate and the ill-informed. It's harder for them to hire as they want good engineers but need them to be unconcerned with what their skills are being used for.
What makes someone creepy has nothing to do with the guy who comes off as creepy. Creepiness is an internal experience indicating that you (the person feeling creeped out) are uncomfortable and disturbed.

In this case, I would hazard most straight guys who read this article and feel disturbed are disturbed that someone can induce a state of homosexual attraction within them. Further, aside from the obvious fear of homosexual attraction, there's also the empathy for women who are subjected to methods like this.

It's easy to rationalize some form of this behavior as "fair game". Would you still consider it fair game if you put yourself in that Marine's shoes, or in a woman's shoes, being subject to methods like this? Maybe, maybe not.

The sociopath sees his victims as an object, as something that he can play with and exercises his power. He gets off on being able to take a straight guy -- and I suppose, one idealized in the form of an ultra-macho Marine -- and seduce him, the power to turn him into something he is not. (Then kill him).

No one likes being treated like an object.

I've seen this kind of rationalization in many of the pick-up artist material, rendering the person into an object. Sometimes, the rationalization covers up their own sense of helplessness and impotency ("Stop putting women on a pedestal!" "Some people are afraid of the power of these techniques!") But that covers up the main issue: there's a particular shadow side to masculinity, where lust consumes the brain and the person who attracted you stops being a person and becomes an object to fulfill that lust. Further, it is related to another shadow side, that men want to feel that they have power over women and can conquer them. (And likewise, some women know this and exploit this emotional vulnerability).

There is some wisdom in the sociopath, in particular, being detached from being consumed by impulses and emotions. Sociopaths though, lack empathy. They lack the ability to feel as others do, and so will do some destructive things.

It's entirely possible to use the methods from the PUA community with empathy (and perhaps, compassion) ... but you know, in order to do that, you first have to get in touch with your own emotions. Most men tend to be wimpy about going deep within themselves or surrendering to truth and wisdom.
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