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You absolutely can in the UK. I pay £15/mo for the same service my friend pays £34/mo with a phone. He's in a 24month contract instead of my 12 and will end up some £150 down over the course of the contract.
"Comments are disabled for this video."... says it all.
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I think this is the real and telling part. Yes, they had to give up a 34mm bond sale because the top level bond market was refusing to buy. This is a short term problem caused by butt hurt bankers, not actual investor class bond buyers. The city is not actually defaulting on any real bonds, the bond investor class is not being hurt.

Yes it will cost more for 10 years until they can re-finance; but when the city offers a margin over market, actual people bond buyers will jump for the chance to make a % over market.
This has been talked about for a while and sounds like what Apple does on iOS.
Careful, if you troll using Microsoft talking points you might be mistaken for their shil.
The thing I don't understand is why the mugshots are being published in the first place in the US. Like it or not, the internet is a permanent record so that mugshot of you at your worst time (but not convicted of anything), will be out there forever in some capacity if it gets published.
Very inspiring and fun. I just create a clone of lunar lockout: http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6853173
Bad word choice on my part as I was thinking of "skid" like a car as in aircraft spend about zero time at zero angle of attack on the airfoil, not skid as in poor rudder use during turns.

I donno about crabbing all the way into the ground now a days but if you're crabbing when you hit the ground I suspect thats very hard on non-castering gear and/or its ground loop time.
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One thing the article doesn't mention - how long does it take? How many hours total would be spent grinding?
http://allarscopes.com/telescopes/488mm_f5/index2_eng.htm

This is a hardcore version. It is interesting that such extremely low technology methods have so precise results.
But in this case the server seems to have been a "setup and forget" kind of deal, and that also implies that it was a smaller company...

I don't think PowerShell (and DSC) is that relevant in that kind of setup, scripting and automation tend to become relevant when you have a larger setup. It sounds like there wasn't much to automate anyhow (maybe system upgrades).

Also, doesn't at least Red Hat also offer a 10 year support cycle?

Personally I would raise one issue with Windows that seems to make UNIX(-likes) a better choice for this kind of setup:

System updates are problematic with Windows because of the need to reboot whereas of course on UNIX systems you only need them after kernel upgrades. I would wager that rebooting would be the thing that "breaks" an unmaintained box such as this one, some day. Then again, system updates are another candidate.
Does anyone know how the IDs can be anonymous? What's stopping anyone from associating the ID (presumably sent as a header?) with an account on my site?

Is it maybe like an OTP based where google and chrome generate a new ID for every request, opaque to the intermediary but google can correlate them later?
> Verizon (and most of US) uses a competing "standard" called CDMA

Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. The frequencies that T-Mobile uses are non-standard, IIRC.

AT&T => 107.3M
Verizon => 116.8M
T-Mobile => 44M
Sprint => 64.3M

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_... (Note: the numbers on that page are different from the numbers on the individual carrier pages in some cases)
Do you mean to argue with what I'm saying or are you just being flippant in lack of a better approach?
Who said "I have serious issues on BETA software!" ?? Did you read that anywhere in the thread?

Please read carefully and read the attached link before you comment!
Is it so hard to deactivate auto updating for a beta version?
It's not fun to have a brick in the pocket when you are traveling.
Not everyone has 3 iPhones for testing purposes only.
We are talking about hundertthousands of beta users? That's not "Apple Thinking" about details, come on, that's embarrassing.
Luckily there's always Twitter: https://twitter.com/KirstyWark/status/385786002456842240
What about Boston area? Where it stands comparing to SF, Chicago, Austin and NYC? There many start-ups around, but I don't know how viable they are.
It's important because it is the last bastion of simplicity in the UNIX world. It's open, a single cohesive system, is cleanly documented, cleanly engineered and small enough to retain knowledge on.

It's the ideal foundation to build research upon which is where standards can be developed.

Everyone has benefitted from NetBSD being around and will probably continue to for a long time yet.
While I agree with railing about bad decisions, it is almost willfully ignorant to continue to argue against settled law. This is as much theft as it was in Connecticut.

As much as I hate it, "Wickard vs Fillburn", and "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission", "Gonzales v. Raich", and lastly "Kelo v. City of New London" ARE the laws of the land.

If the investment classes are going to be leveraging laws against homeowner to take property at 'current market prices'; how is it wrong for cities to force investor classes to do the same?

Change the laws, but don't decry the victims of fraud and systemic false market inflation turning the current laws against those who perpetuated the pump and dump scheme on them in the first place.

I think it will cost some financing issues/property costs, but then it will lead to the rise of a Community Trust bank or Credit Union. These are things that truly change communities.
The problem is that Apple did not give us the ability to do OTA update, then they suddenly with no prior notification they decided to deactivate the developers devices, then the forced us to put the device in the recovery mode to restore it!
The thing is because of people working in Swiss but living in France, housing in the part of France close to Swiss (Haute-Savoie) is amongst the most expensive. It's almost the level of Paris.
I didn't see mention anywhere in the article regarding why the police releases the mugshots - I'm told by people working in legal professions that it's actually a means of ensuring that the police aren't overstepping their bounds and that people aren't disappearing into jail without a valid conviction in court. By making all of the information public regarding who they arrested the police can't deny arresting them later on; by releasing the information about why he or she was arrested, the public can verify that the police are arresting people for legitimate reasons. This is useful to the public, but I think it's implemented in too naive a fashion. It takes sensitive data about me and broadcasts it out everyone, any one of which could store it indefinitely and rebroadcast it indefinitely.

You can't just not release the information for the aforementioned reasons. You can disallow rebroadcasting the information - if I can't release it to others, then the police could potentially take the information down after a few days, make you disappear, and then we're back at square one.

I think in this case the danger of misuse by third parties outweighs the danger of police abuse. Maybe there's a better way of keeping the police force accountable?
You approach looks very interesting. I was thinking how can SRS be used effectively for programming/software development skills. Can you please share your cards or any thing more on your approach?
> My guess is Microsoft is coercing both OEM's and retailers somehow

Talk to any of the market insiders, that's exactly what has been happening for decades now.
Then that's the problem for you, not the problem in general.
As an intermediate step, before starting with the SSE intrinsics I rewrote the code in a form that should have been reasonably suitable for an autovectorizer (an inner loop over a fixed number of elements - I imagine it probably looked fairly similar to your code), but my gcc with -ftree-vectorize didn't do much with it. I didn't really explore that path further though.

I actually did a version which did the reduction over minimum purely using SIMD and then a post step which reduced the SIMD minimums to a single scalar. It was somewhat tricky to get the index right, and in the end it turned out to not be faster (at least not for the little example of 32 objects, I imagine you would gain something on a more complex scene)

Anyway, it was a fun little exercise and it has sparked some interesting discussion. Thanks for posting the original.
That is what I mean, I am a developer and I own one iPhone device because it is costly to own an iPhone! So Apple should respect their developer and simply email them that they have to manually update their iOS 7 to the latest through the IPSW file (Although it should be updated automatically through OTA)
I think big banks will actually avoid the municipality like a plague for several years. But a community bank will rise and the locals will laugh.
This has nothing to do with Google's "business model", search is about relevance and despite the practices of these sites, I'm sure you can see how their content might be relevant and interesting to visitors. Those who processed the payment were the ones at fault since they were directly facilitating the blackmail.
Haven't seen the video yet, but I've gotta disagree with one part of the preceding article:

> Throughout the interview, Wark abandons even the pretence of doing what journalism is supposed to be about: interrogating the centres of power and holding them to account.

This is not journalism's role. It isn't even close to journalism's role. It is a closet perversion of journalism's role. It is some neo-anarchist's view of a journalist's role. This is not journalism's role.

Journalism's role is to get at the truth and to distribute it as widely as possible. That does not mean you target only centers of power. If that's all you do, you're just as much a schmuck for some other asshole's propaganda, just the difference is, this one can't pay you.

Once again, I haven't seen the video, but making such duplicitous statements about the role of journalism by someone who is fairly respected in the community is not the way to go.
short answer is that you can never be 100% sure you are remaining anonymous on the internet. The best you can settle with is that you trust the companies operating with the data not to abuse their power and stick to their word.
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Here's an Evil Idea for a open source equivalent: foss-testing.org. Innocuous name, but it chains together user identities with checkins they've made that were 1) style violations 2) turned out to be bugs 3) turned out to be later security issues.

What do I care whether I have a style violation? Well, it's about using the dark patterns to make your "user page" (collected from publically available information so legally proof) sound as bad as possible. Similar to the consumeraffairs deal where every review is bad. So your prospective employer searches for "Bob Bobson" and sees a nice, professionally designed page that claims:

Bob Bobson has trouble following best practices for code styling, which could indicate a problem with following corporate standards: link to 37 instances of inconsistent naming/indentation/brace style on github

Bob Bobson has 7 github repositories where he has checked in 90% of the source. This may indicate a "lone wolf" that does not play well with others

Bob Bobson has 14 open issues in github trackers. This may indicate lack of following through on a project

Bob Bobson has closed 41 github issues immediately as "wontfix". This may indicate a technologically orientated user that is insensitive to user and customer needs

We've analyzed Bob Bobson's commit messages, and assigned it a English Comprehension Score of 4 (out of 10). This may indicate a communication problem.

Failing anything else, you can smear Bob Bobson by the projects he associates with.

Bob Bobson has contributed to TOR. The TOR tool is associated with child pornographers and drug traffickers.

Bob Bobson has contributed to KDE. The KDE project has 523,123 outstanding bugs. We're not directly saying it's Bob's fault, but you know...

Of course, you can't start off writing all negative smear about everyone. You want to start out by being positive, writing cool blogs about how your company analyzes OSS. Maybe buy some licenses for expensive static analyzers and share the results. Make some cool pages about Linus' or Guido's checkins. Maybe even sponsor a few OSS projects or OSS people.

How does this make money? Well, Bob Bobson does not like to be known as a team player. Would Bob Bobson like to dispel that conclusion based on publically available data in our proprietary algorithms? Well, as it happens we also sell a "TeamWork Evaluation Survey", where if you think your team work skills have improved you under go a comprehensive psychometric test (signed off on by our team of psychometric specialists) that verifies your team work skills. Of course, such a test is expensive, but isn't the $199 worth it to be given a prominent "Team Work: Gold Badge" score? All that other stuff we said about you being a bad team player will go away.
It's not a disease, its a different type of mind.
I can't even begin to parse what you're saying here.

Mom is not the opposite of dad, they are just paired ideas. This isn't semantics, this is plain simple reality. We sometimes think of them as binaries but they aren't actually so.

The opposite of a Mom is a not-Mom, a concept which can include Dad but can also include a woman who hasn't had children.

"This is only true if the use of feminine and masculine descriptions when discussing tech is inherently sexist"

I wasn't arguing about anything being inherently sexist, I was arguing that it was contextually sexist. If you don't understand that words have connotations, people's reactions to sexism will always seem mysterious and arbitrary to you.

"Take your logic a little bit further and you might as well label gendered pronouns as sexist since they imply the sex of the subject"

You obviously don't understand my logic and are arguing about something completely different.
On the other hand, Poland recently abandoned it's compulsory military service.

If the service is obligatory for all, it means you're taking a million of people at the peak of their intellectual capabilities, and force them to do mundane tasks for half a year, or a year. Also, some people will fake their medical records to get out of this.

If it's not obligatory for students (like it was in Poland), people will find some bullshit universities to skip the service. And the vision of being force to essentially be imprisoned for a year if you get thrown out of university, will not be fun for anyone. This is how it looked like in Poland.

But - if I'm not mistaken - what made Poland change the law were those factors:
- it's costly. you need to mantain 1% of population fed, clothed and so on for a year or so. plus you need to maintain a huge infrastructure for this. that alone would cost U.S. how much - $15k * 4M = 60 billion? a year?
And that doesn't include the fact that those same people would otherwise bring in much more profit to the society - say $40k/year on average. So the hidden cost here goes another 160 billion of a hidden cost in case of U.S.
- it's inefficient. the wars are not won by who has more manpower anymore. they are won by the ones who have better technology, intelligence and logistics. So that 4 million army would be blown away by 100 thousand army of better trained and better equipped soldiers.

Finally - look at the countries you mentioned. They aren't exactly known for their entrepreneurial spirit, are they?
I think it might be a support thing. They don't want people to return the computer because they couldn't figure out how to do simple task X with the OS on the computer, or because an update broke the proprietary drivers required for some hardware.

Retailers don't have the resources to fix these problems, or to help fixing them. They don't have to if the customer installed their OS of choice themselves.
Factually you are absolutely correct. But bad outcomes like this are the result of bad decisions by the Supreme Court. We all have to live in a land run by "Kelo v. City of New London"

Maybe this can help get the laws under that decision changed.
> Google could create an anonymous identifier, tied to users of its Chrome browser on a specific device

That certainly is in the interest of the NSA as well.
It was a small company (family farm machinery outfit) but their requirement is far more common than a massive software deployment. There are literally millions of servers churning away on trivial jobs in people's offices etc.

Powershell allows automated maintenance and edge cases to be dealt with efficiently. DSC allows repeatable deployments i.e you can use it to represent all your basic tenets of a reliable secure system. You don't build a system then throw it in the field with fingers crossed that you remembered every step when you built it. I have personally written hundreds of pages on procedural documentation on this and I can now script up that knowledge easily.

RedHat is an option but the system is fragmented and randomly documented. Microsoft documentation is absolutely wonderful in comparison. Not only that, I can grab a competent sysadmin for the windows platform easily here in the UK. The Linux guys are few and far between and generally cowboys from experience (even at the £60k level).

Windows rarely needs rebooting unless you are doing something wrong. Not all updates need to be applied. We pick individual ones in scope with what is being deployed and used and push them out rather than use windows update. This is standard practice on servers. Desktops get windows updates on time as the attack window is usually way larger.

It is feasible not to update windows server if configured properly and if it's on a corporate LAN for example.
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You're most likely right, in that most people don't care about being tracked, but Google still isn't solving the basic problem, they are just working around the cookie restrictions.

The focus should be on making a profit, while respecting peoples privacy.
Good to hear you are not closing down! :)
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I believe it's a matter of definition (no Dominos), but here are the points from Sweden (Stockholm):

My local pizzeria: 60 SEK - 9.34 USD

Pizza Hut (Large): 209 SEK - 32.52 USD
Bangalore-India: Rs 340 ~ 5.35 USD (Dominos)
You should definitely check "Operational Research".

Although it is not as fun as machine learning and computer graphics, there is a strong industrial demand for strong mathematicians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

Many of the work do not involve much coding but require advanced mathematical skills to transform the original problem into something that can be send to a "solver".
"High-availability and scalability are exciting in general but there are certain problems that experts see over and over again." - that was the first line in Canonical's highscalability.com advertorial a couple of weeks ago :-)

To be fair, it's a general truism in tech that the cobbler's children never have shoes.
From my limited familiarity with British politics, this is sadly how most of UK public thinks.

Case in point: some of the most egregious privacy violations were done by GCHQ as opposed to NSA, who contracted out the sensitive spying to UK because of lax legal regulations. But can you see any electoral upheaval in UK that would even hold a candle to things happening in US? No MPs protesting, no public protesting - nothing.

Even my UK friends in IT industry, spending all of their time online - are shrugging shoulders saying "but spies spy, that's what they do, what's the big deal". I feel that Kirsty is just reflecting that cultural background.
I have a Kindle and have never paid for a book. There is (sadly) very little in the way of great literature that hasn't had its copyright already expire.
I have an algorithm that only takes 7 holes compared to your 12 which is seven bucks per sheep means make seven holes and shove 34 sheep into each money hole then count the total.

Its an interesting Sunday morning to rack my brain trying to figure out which algorithm "wins" when parallel processed.

Obviously 34 shamans working together could each count out seven dollars/rocks, but someone needs to count up all those rocks.

There's an obvious token passing algorithm involving three shamans and I believe 7+34=41 rocks and 4 holes where one does a long count of the total and count++ every time upstream hands him a rock, then upstreams upstream does the same. So one dude counts to 34 using 34 rocks one time, the next dude counts to 7 (and does it 34 times) using 7 rocks, and the last dude counts every time dude 2 hands him a rock and never resets to zero (at least until done) giving him a total.

You can tell scientists invented the original algorithm not engineers just by a simple observation of actually implementing the algo... "Yo shaman come over and mult 7 by 34 for me" "OK but how many rocks will I need to multiply this... do me a favor and whip out your iphone and google 7 asterisk 34 so I know a lower bound of how many rocks to bring to implement this algo.."

The worst part of the whole discussion is it reads like a really extraordinarily bad stereotypical tech interview question. "So, I see you've got extensive experience on the job with Scala and Mysql and play framework, thats all very nice, but a major problem we often have here at BigCorp is sometimes we want to measure precisely 4 oz of rum but we only have a 3 oz and 5 oz cup and we were wondering what you thought of that ..." You know some kind of space alien anthropologist is going to hear this is how those ancient "humans" used to select their programmers and the space aliens who hear pop sci stories about human programmer interviews are going to think 1) We were insane/stupid 2) They're superior. Theres not much other reason for the whole story.
>please stop the fucking whining.

Nice to see that comp.lang.c is still as toxic as it ever was.

I don't see people talking much about C having a 'culture problem' like they do with Lisp but I'm not sure why. Before the existence of things like stackoverflow asking for help with C was always just as much of a baptism of fire as asking for help with Common Lisp.
There's microsoft's pressure on one hand, and the preinstalled crap (for which vendors pay retailers) which moves most of the direct cost away from both retailers and users.

If you buy a laptop from the Microsoft store, you can pay a little more for "signature" which is ... Crap free windows. Directly from Microsoft. For an additional payment. I kid you not.
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OEM gets money from crapware preinstalled on Windows. Also OEM Windows license costs peanuts, so computer without Windows can be actually more expensive.
You can disagree with it as much as you like, but for most journalists holding the powerful to account is one of their biggest motivators and professional goals. So whether it's a weird perversion or a duplicitous statement about the role of journalism... just FYI it's a very widespread one.
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Perhaps because the average developer is more likely to be a newbie that seeks help when using CL?
It's strange how the author gives for granted that ebooks have DRM, so the piece ends up attacking all ebooks and not DRM (not mentioned at all).