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I used to play competitive DOOM (was in the ZDaemon top 10 almost a decade ago), and while the BFG9000 was certainly the most powerful weapon in the game, it was also the most seriously misunderstood.

New players would always attempt to spam the BFG in a crowded room, then duck behind a corner or run away. Due to the mechanics of the BFG, this is the opposite of the correct strategy.

A short time after a BFG impact with any surface or object, the game basically performs a cluster of hitscans radiating from the player in the direction the shot was fired. Thus the most effective BFG strategy is to stand to the side of an entrance to a crowded room, shoot the BFG at a wall, and strafe toward the entrance until as many enemies as possible come into view.

Get the timing right, and you turn the room into an uninhabitable no-man's land until your six shots run out (ten if you grab the ammo backpack).

I miss those days :)
We could rename it the Bat Wallet. It goes in your Bat Backpocket underneath the Bat Utility Belt.
> As you've pointed out, there are plenty of places where it is perfectly legal to do this.

.. Why the everloving fuck would this be illegal? What sense could it possibly make? -You have some property and you're letting someone use it for a fee.

I get that this actually might be illegal somewhere - I'm just trying to highlight the fact that it would be absolutely fucking insane.
But it is very different to use something server-side in your own environment where you can deploy updates easily, vs. client side on devices where the wrong kind of bugs can wreak havoc for millions of uses and make updates to fix them extremely much more complicated.
It's not that simple though. There's quite a few people who are not at risk of ever getting malaria, but who don't have any decent internet access. So for them, curing malaria will make 0 difference to their life.

Also, since when has Microsoft or Bill Gates ever been sold on the idea of the internet as a good thing?
Bill Gates (or realistically someone in his organization) should answer my emails. I'm going to deliver him a way to curb malaria spreading at cost, and nobody over there has gotten a hold of me yet. I'm severely tempted to just drive to his house and drop the prototype off....
Thus why cross-platform solutions are having tremendous growth. If web won't win out, it'll certainly be a cross-platform solution in the long run. My money's on web, if performance of those webviews catches up to native.
Did you read the entire article? The link headline is link-bait. He was asked a leading question and answered it. Gates didn't go out of his way to make the statement.
Is this news?! I thought it was common sense! Im really surprised about all the headlines. There are people all around the world that live happy lives without the internet. But there are no people that are happy they are dying in malaria.
The size of the animal doesn't really matter, the resistance of its body isn't function of its size.

According to the second answer the Eel is more resistant because it has a layer a fat. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of that, but at least it makes sens.
Those things are also about increasing our problems down the line IMHO

The world population has doubled in the last 30 years. Doesn't that scare anyone else?

Sure, you could save a few million poorly educated people from dying. Then what? They're all going to need food, energy, education, housing, etc etc.

Saving people from dying is no good at all if they still have a shitty life and die from something else anyway.
Is it possible to use KitKat and to disable Google Now and avoid the search bar?
I can't say as to whether your second termination was fair or not. However, I know of cases where networks were compromised by exactly this means - using a privileged computer through a guest network, computer got trojaned, now there's something running on the inside of the privileged network, and bad stuff starts happening. Maybe the company overreacted by firing you, but it wasn't for trivial reasons.

You're not going to learn as from events if you fail to look at them openly. You absolutely need to look at events from the other side as well as your own, in order to grow. Sometimes you'll still decide that you were 100% in the right. But that's really rare.

Think about what you were doing. Why were you bypassing network policies? Why didn't you ask if you could do that? That's really the question to ask yourself - why didn't you feel like you could ask "hey, this policy makes no sense, can I, a smart person, do something else?"
Bill should support Bradley's Kina Tonic, right at home in Seattle, and then move on to supporting internet access:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/161679272/bradleys-kina-...
Everybody is protesting.

But there must be huge business opportunities in mass surveillance. The biggest obstacle is politics, i.e. how to weasel your way to the data. Maybe an inexpensive stockpile of skill/personality/mental health profiles could make hiring/outsourcing more convenient? Better ideas, anybody?
He's not saying you can't do both, he's saying that we need to get our priorities straight. Which is true.
The answer to every single problem in the world is education. The internet is education... and cats.
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The country these people are living in should have hospitals. They should be able to affordably produce antibiotics, malaria nets and everything else.

Antibiotics and most other medical products are unnecesarilly burdened by patents and become prohibitevely expensive unless some rich patron grants them something they could buy at a much cheaper price.

Patents can be a tax on those who are unlucky. I think certain things deserve patents. But the company he represents taxes any linux device as a microsoft device.

I agree people should be healthy. But you know what? Maybe they should be able to make their own fucking choices in their own fucking hospital on their own fucking dime.

He is a cunt for being afraid of competition and supporting autonomy. That is a sign of the weak and those who are unable to deal with truly dynamic problems that come from actual competition.

In all honesty I understand his position. But for him to vocalize it as though he doesn't see the poor billions as potential competitors? Too fucking bad. He can have his own beliefs but fuck spreading a narrative.
Hah!

I wasn't born then, but me and my friends implemented a CoreWars 88' standard microprocessor in an FPGA for a school hardware project. It was possible to write code snippets in redcode and then we compiled it and sent it through usb and the FPGA was connected to a screen so we could see the progress.

The source is fairly messy but have a peek if it interests you: https://github.com/treeman/MARC
And does the eel survive?
reading these comments is quite amusing, something important to note:

this device is in all probability not targeted at you, infact on there website they state that they are only expecting to make ~200 devices

this _is_ _unquestionably_ a small niche marked device aimed directly at the people who want the rare, unusual specs this device has

i am one of them
> can a publicly traded corporation even choose to ignore it? Would shareholders be able to claim breach of fiduciary duties if they did?

Patents are a weapon, and if one huge corporation has no "weapons" to defend itself with, then others with "weapons" will attack it. That's why they all have to participate.

In this case, they all - Google included - rushed towards a particularly juicy weapons cache, and whoever got their hands on it was going to use it on the others.

This is fucking ridiculous and disgusting, of course. But it's not the fault of these corporations - they're forced to play, because if one doesn't, then others will just force a massive competitive disadvantage on it. The real problem is the US patent system, the US courts, and the culture of feverish bullshit litigation at every turn that pervades the US.
> The world population has doubled in the last 30 years. Doesn't that scare anyone else?

Not that greatly. Birth rates in near enough every country are dropping after having peaked. 7 billion in 2011, 8 billion in 2025, 9 billion in 2043, 10 billion in 2083 is what UNFPA predicts. As education improves and the relative value of each life, and as people live longer on average, the Malthusian catastrophe is one I would think we will avoid. In fact it is this stabilisation of the population that worries me because without any immediate pressure from something else, with no race, no competition and no Sturm and no Drang in progress, will we be destined to find the answer to the Fermi Paradox through our own fate?

Look at this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Populatio... and then consider that while the case of Japan seems about to be a portent for other countries. Doesn't this scare you even more - the thought of the human race ending with a whimper? Or will each of us be, by our current standards, a god among machines living a life a hundred times more valuable than those of their ancestors in their grasp over the earth. If anything these kinds of questions should probably keep you more awake than the thought of a Malthusian catastrophe at this point.
This is true for me too as long as I don't use OpenBSD. The cause is that GNU/Linux manpages are horrible. They are mostly outdated and not in sync with the versions that are actually installed.

As soon as you log in to your newly installed OpenBSD system, your root account has a mail in her mailbox stating to read the "afterboot" manpage. When I first time entered "man afterboot" in my shell, I was blown away.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot

The idea is to create a list of items that can be checked
off so that you have a warm fuzzy feeling that something
obvious has not been missed.

It gives you a fast introduction with all informations you need and then references all locations where you find every other topic. At that point, you don't need google anymore where you again find outdated and incorrect informations.

The documentation is so high quality that this is the biggest advantage I appreciate the most.
Funny thing is, we "know" relatively good, what the maximum of earths population will be and why. And we know (also relatively good) how fast we will lift people from poverty, given the actual and historical numbers.

Hans Rosling showed it quite well in a TED talk he gave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVk1ahRF78
Serisously, this is about malaria, internet, a better life for people and you start nagging about ms-vs-google-vs-linux etc?
No, Jeff Dean is not from UW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)
Getting rid of Malaria is obviously a higher priority than internet access from the perspective of any one person living in the third world today. I have much respect for Bill Gates for the work he's doing in that area.

However, there is a kind of shortsightedness in his attitude: The thing is, societies evolve because of technology and opportunities. So while it is preferable for each individual to have no internet and no malaria, society as a whole might progress more by taking care of the fundamental causes of poverty (lack of education and opportunity, government corruption, etc) rather than fighting the symptoms.

Even if it turns out that Gates is right and I'm wrong, dismissing the relevance of the internet as flippantly as he has done is intellectually dishonest to a certain extent.
Thanks man. Routes are hard to do with Google Maps + Google Directions. But you get an idea of the walking time it would take you, between steps. But there's a bug I have to fix there.
The country could potentially have their own corporations that produce a tax basis for hospitals. Those hospitals could have a much lower cost of setup.

You want me to pretend that his short time frame narrative matters? I'd be happy to die today I knew it was part of a meaningful step for others to get beyond the limits they were born into. Sadly socialist demagoguery tend to be run by worse fucks.
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They should have paid the guy - not send cheap trinkets. And also no chump change as well. He went out of his way to even help them roll-out the hot fix.

Don't be a 'cheap kind of company' linkedin. Pay up.
Thank you ! I really think the main problem with most of those apps is that you have to register to do anything. I was trying to avoid that.
People who campaign for wealth distribution refuse to acknowledge that the rise the in the standards of living in the UK was not mainly enabled by governments or unions but by industrialists. People like Salt, Peabody, Rowntree, these rich industrialists spent great sums of their money building better accommodation for either their workers or the poor. In some cases they had other benefits in doing this, like Salt getting healthier workers closer to his factories, but they also built churches and baths, these things don't directly correlate to profit.

The modern philanthropists like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are also showing a great way forward by giving away their fortunes before they die (after all do your children need to inherit billions?). But as businessmen and innovators these philanthropists are spending their money wisely, probably far more wisely than a government could. Bill Gates is well known for requiring a strong case and costs before giving money away, but when he does it can be vast amounts.

Our governments are stuck walking the wrong way on an escalator. In the UK the fuel escalator is a prime example of this, a programmed increase in fuel duty in the guise of an ecological tax, this tax is actually to offset inflation because it is one of the largest sources of indirect taxation. However it is obvious that taxing fuel in ever increasing amounts will restrict growth. Yes we need to deal with our carbon footprint, but that isn't really why the tax exists.

Also the levels of inheritance tax were designed to tax the super rich when the government was in a difficult spot. It was arguably a bad move because it broke up thousands of estates that employed hundreds of rural workers. But because the levels set haven't changed much and inflation has very much increased many thousands of normal people are now covered by a tax intended for the super rich.

Additionally companies aren't encouraged to look after their workers because they will be harassed by HMRC for "Benefit In Kind". Companies should be encouraged to look after their workers and increase their standards of living, that way we would be a more productive society with happy citizens.

Tax less, encourage philanthropy and enable growth.

I will probably be retiring outside of the UK, as they say: in the UK, you breath, your taxed.
For your ps: on the other hand, just think what would happen if every country did the same thing.
Last month I asked Ben if they are interested in H1B candidates.
After telling me that "yes Let me know a bit more about yourself and your experience, and perhaps we can chat further" I wrote him a 1600+ words personal letter where I try to document my skills and my deep interest in their problem space and mission. it took me long time to write. 42 days later and a remainder later, no one bother answering, not even a "thank you but no thank you" or some copy paste crap.

I find this way of dealing with people totally disrespectful. Nothing else to add, I understand that they might be overwhelmed with mails.
This post spoke to me in ways I had never imagined. This is what embedded programming is like!
So there's a philosophically sound argument that eradicating malaria comes before worldwide Internet access. Or does it just rely on majority consensus that the one should come before the other?

I mean if you keep asking "Why?" like a 5 year old, eventually you hit what underlies the reasoning: some basic assumptions that each person holds and that the rest of the argument is built on. E.g. Kant's categorical imperative.

The problem is not everyone might agree with your most fundamental assumptions, and when you arrive at questions like "Internet or malaria eradication first?" people will disagree. Unless you lay those assumptions bare, it's unnecessary argumentation.

E.g. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.." Well I might just not hold that that truth is self-evident, and disagree with you on any argument you build on that assumption.
super protip - theres a Karma level after which you are allowed edits.
Show us your solution.
A state-less browser-based Bitcoin wallet that connects to the p2p network using WebSocket? Using a deterministic wallet seeded with a password you type once when opening the page? Is this the technical core of what Dark Wallet is about?

Wow, I have been in Bitcoin for 3 years, and I can't believe I never put thin web client + deterministic seeded wallet together... Even without implementing anything else[1] this would be HUGE, INSANELY useful.

- There would be zero efforts in getting started using Bitcoin.

- No software/app to install.

- Open a Dark Wallet page (hosted anywhere), type in a password, that's it you can see your Bitcoin addresses and receive coins.

- If you received coins in the past, you see your balance, and are ready to send coins. Dark Wallet can use SPV[2] to automatically discover the balance of your addresses. It could use HTML5 local storage just to cache a few things to speed up auto-discovery.

- You could even save the Dark Wallet html/js on your local harddrive and just open this up next time.

- If Bitcoin nodes have native support for acting as WebSocket servers, this would make Dark Wallet completely server-less.

- Dark Wallet would dynamically find p2p Bitcoin nodes via DNS, just like Bitcoin-QT does it today.

- No need to back up or save anything. Coins cannot be accidentally lost as long as you remember your password and as long as the password is strong. The password you type is the seed generating your wallet's private keys.

[1] https://darkwallet.unsystem.net lists: auto-anonymizer, broadcasters, encrypted messaging, encrypted shop-front, contracts, escrows, etc.
[2] Simple Payment Verification.

EDIT: Looking more into Dark Wallet, it seems they want to implement it as a browser extension, which would involve a non-zero effort to install. Argh! There is a huge value to have NOTHING to install. Another way to understand what I suggest is a server-less blockchain.info wallet.
What is so frustrating is that the malaria problem has all but been solved. I have read on multiple occasions about our ability to breed genetically modified misquotes that can be used to decimate mosquito populations on the one hand and on the other create malaria immune mosquitoes that stop the transmission of the disease. So why hasn't it been done? Short answer: bullshit "unknowns" about long-term ecological effects. Well try explaining that to the 12 children who just died from malaria while I wrote this comment.
> I can start Firefox in Lightdm
without beeing logged in. Just add
an event then Evolution starts up.
Let's you also happily sends Mail
through the lightdm user.

That's pretty darn bad. You have reported this, right?
So why does he have to trash everyone else's priorities then?

What if I worked on making a fusion reactor technology that could give "free energy to everyone". Would I get to shit on Bill Gate's "anti-malaria" campaign, too, because I'd think my priority is more "important"?

Phone and Internet communications are very important to people. Much more important than it might seem at first glance. I come from a relatively poor country where people would spend "whole salaries" to buy a smartphone. Clearly people themselves have different priorities, and it's not just about the corporation's or government's priorities.

So I guess my point is, I'm sure Bill Gates could go about funding his anti-malaria campaign without trashing other priorities. If he wants to attack other people's priorities, how about attacking something like oil subsidies, that take important amounts of money from the tax payers, and give it to very profitable companies. That money could be used for fighting malaria instead - if you will. But again, not for Bill Gates to decide.
Which was inspired by Robot Battle, in turn inspired by Robot Wars on the Apple II.
Personally I'd like to see timezones disappear too. Why does 9am have to be morning in every country? What would be so difficult about everyone in the world sticking to one timezone? Hell we could go all in and start using star dates.
Can Snowden be targeted using the Adobe breach?
I for one would say the no brainer solution would be to abolish patents. I know blah blah medical research, years investment blah blah, but after the investment is made back, it is abused again. And shit like Monsanto. Abolishment would be best imho. But as that's not in the cards, the next simple thing would be; if you (the company the patent belongs to, bought or created; not a partial parent owner, not some entity you have shares in; no, the physical company) are not actively creating, selling and marketing a product(s) the patent(s) are about, you cannot attack companies who are. If the 'enemy' openly started selling/marketing/producing with the product before you did, you are just out of luck; even if you create it after that you cannot sue. This is easy to check and follow up; there will be thousands/millions traces of actual sold and delivered product to end clients on tax papers, logistics papers, manufacturing papers etc which proves who was first.

So if you had the patent, which was supposed to be original in the first place, then, because it was so 'original' (saying 'original' because at least in case of software it just never is and many(most) hardware cases aren't either) you could've easily been the first to exploit it right? If not; sorry for you, your patent lands in /dev/null. Will never happen but seems to be a logical and solid way of doing this.

Oh yes, and make the patent related to the investment used to come to it; you have to provide paper trail what 'enormous and painful investments in time and money' you did to get to that 'one click payment idea'; you can only sue others until your company made that investment back times X (X=10 or whatever), not after that.
Person of Interest? ;)

Do you guys hire world-wide remote? (Particularly from Europe).