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This is definitely a horrible move from Canonical, but I imagine they are simply following their legal counsel. In general terms, you have to prosecute violators of your trademark if you want to keep your trademark (unlike copyright or patents).

In this case, they're probably making things worse for themselves overall, but I wish people would take the complexities of trademark law in account before accusing them of censorship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights
this should give a nice boost to fixubuntu.com page hits. nice work canonical - I knew you secretly wanted people to disable the default security problems... cheers...
To the eating part; if you aren't on "vacation" the gyms on cruise ships are ghost towns usually. Good way to fight to free food factor.
That's a pretty unique definition of solipsism. As far as I'm aware a solipsist believes he can't know if reality exists outside his own mind.

But we've strayed pretty far from my original point, which was that you can't disregard centuries of philosophical thought with a story that doesn't address any of the arguments of the ontological frameworks it's trying to refute. I'm not personally a solipsist, but solipsism is by definition not falsifiable, so I'm a little confused about where this conversation is supposed to go...
The notepad looks like a standard US 11x8.5 in - perhaps that's good enough reference?
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Responsive to what?
Perhaps we agree more than you expected. I certainly agree that it is too simplistic to say that poor people are suffering because rich people have the money (and that therefore, if we take from the rich and give to the poor, the problem is solved). But that's a pretty 101 sort of critique anyway. Economic and cultural hegemony have been part of the left-wing conversation for a while now, and my main original point was that the concerns of the unemployed and underemployed have tended to be politically ignorable (due to lack of numbers, cultural shaming, the perception that unemployment is always temporary, etc.).

And I agree that being poor in a contemporary rich country isn't as miserable as other ways of being poor. I see you were quite careful to pin your example to "a minimum wage salary", which is a level of income and security that many people don't have. Since I think we probably both care a lot about equality of opportunity, we should agree that being billed preposterous sums for healthcare is still not a brilliant situation, just like not being able to afford to go to college, lacking access to banking services, and so on. I'm not saying we need to buy everyone an Xbox One because that's the new baseline, but I hope that liberals and conservatives can agree that there are powerful mechanisms that entrench people in poverty, to the general detriment of society.
Right, but not 1s+ lag like people are seeing on Windows/Linux.
Was this person right? I ask this because the other thing you need to think about is how this action will be perceived by the other employees. Will they think you treated this person unfairly? Will they resent having to take over this person's workload until you find a replacement? If so, then you may want to consider if getting rid of one person is worth poisoning your relationship with the other employees.

Ultimately, the decision is yours alone. Make the decision and won't worry about validating the decision with a random internet audience.
The analytics also work on iOS so I presume you can use the Android one on Google Play. It wouldn't make sense to restrict it to Amazon if they also offer an iOS version.
In addition tweeting a message that appears to be an endorsement without disclosing that you received something of value in return might technically put you in violation of FTC rules.

http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus71-ftcs-revised-end...
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I too work from a lot of different places, but I find that I absolutely need internet to be productive. Pulling a Gem for instance, or checking Stack Overflow.

My favourite places to work are all-inclusive holiday resorts. Lanzarote and the Algarve most recently. Being all inclusive means there is no thought process in eating or drinking. Nor any need to shop, clean, cook.

The most difficult thing is finding out what the internet situation is in hotels - but this has vastly improved even in the last year. I generally call up reception, and travel with an ethernet cable.

Incidentally for an individual or a couple, Airbnb is generally far more expensive than a reasonable half-board hotel. I've only ever found Airbnb type stuff useful in capital cities.

I've been at my most productive working in:

- Wetherspoons in Slough

- An apartment in Cairo

- A bungalow in Lanzarote

- The lobby of the Apex hotel in Dundee (current)

Downsides are seeing a laptop screen in the sun (wear a dark shirt) and being surrounded by happy couples while on one's own.

(I'm back to Lanzarote for a week at the start of December if anyone fancies a coffee)
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At some point we should stop being overly concerned about potential privacy issues as it would prevent alot of cool products otherwise.
Your smartphone probably has more useful data about you than the Xbox ever will.

Imo you americans should fix your government and let companies continue to built great and innovative products.
As an artist myself, I actually think making these assets would be quite easy. I already use layers in Photoshop to first draw my "diffuse map" image, then draw the shading as layers on top of it. It would essentially be the same exact process I already go through to draw cartoons, just with the added steps of drawing a couple more shading layers.
Yeah, a Datomic service would be soooo nice.
The idea of being able to travel around the world with just a laptop reminds me of being a 21st century writer. Take the notepad to a remote beach and just write. I love the idea of working on a cruise ship but I imagine it would get kind of hard to code without internet. Is that something you face?
Cool concept. I toyed with a similar concept on Pinterest when my wife got sick of seeing things for workouts, abs, core excercises, and the like. It's only a proof of concept bookmarklet and they may have changed up their source since I created it, but feel free to check it out and run with it:

https://github.com/cballou/Pinterest-Keyword-Removal-Tool

It searches for cards containing specific keywords and removes/hides the entirety of the card from the DOM so you don't have to look at it. It worked seamlessly with their infinite scrolling from my initial testing.
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I don't really see how Canonical can take away the right to use a trademark nominatively[1], as provided by law, just by declaring your rights to be gone in a policy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)
I disagree that I don't feel immoral when trying to optimize my financial situation when selling cars and buying vehicles.

First, a silly hypothetical that at least shows that when selling a car, I care about something other than price.
Option 1: sell my car to a single parent trying to support a family for $5k. This parent's old vehicle was destroyed in a wreck (not their fault) and they need a way to get to work.
Option 2: sell my car to an eclectic billionaire whose hobby is running over little cars in his monster truck. This billionaire is offering $5k + $.01

Almost certainly I will take option 1 despite the lower payout, and I suspect almost all of us would. When the difference between payouts is large enough - and that value will vary depending on the person - we will take the higher payout.

When buying food, especially meat, I absolutely do feel immoral sometimes. E.g. if I purchase low cost beef, with high probability I am supporting an agricultural organization which contributes to negative externalities. For example, many animal feeding operations create waste which harms the environment (and by extension many individuals), but this harm may not be fully reflected in the price.

It's not at all obvious to me what this means for buying and selling labor. For example, perhaps I'm an employer and I have a job opening for a full time position which pays well below a living wage, and further assume that somebody voluntarily fills that position. On the one hand, I feel bad that I'm paying my employee well below a living wage. I wonder about their happiness and health and that of their family, and this keeps me up at night. On the other hand, I believe that the employee would not have voluntarily taken this job unless they believed that the exchange of time for money was strictly beneficial to them. So every night I fall asleep content in the knowledge that I have improved someone's life...
Is this the technique that I glimpsed on TIGSource Screenshot Saturday the other week?

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=24094.msg958013#...
I don't like that the default is to search online as well as locally. But calling it spyware is hyperbole - the interface makes it quite obvious that it's doing a combined online+local search. I'd rather stick to more factual criticisms.
It's better to bootstrap than bake your cloud images
India is distorted - Kashmir and all. You better be careful about the borders that are under dispute. I took into consideration that it's a low-res border, even then it's way off.

I dont know if the details of map itself are important or not, because I understand it's an exhibition of the interface itself. Just my opinion.
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Brazil, Germany debut UN Web privacy resolution
You got power and noise/fan savings and hardware fixes. In almost 9 years you went through 3-4 generations of video card technology, yet the 360 I buy today has similar performance of the one that shipped in 2005.

My PC from 2005 would be a joke to game on.

I think a lot of this shows the lack of competition in this area and plain greed. Why redesign when we can milk the current design? Our only real competitor feels the same and those critical of this will just buy PC games. Seems like console gamers are being abused a bit by these policies and the gaming world is always many years behind on consoles.
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HTML, not "html"
Do you suspect this was in preparation for the inevitable day when Google would require real names on youtube comments?
Uh, there was a lot of rah-rah and jingoism. You must be exhausted of someone else saying it had a happy ending.

"I was there, serving at the time as senior vice president for production in the administration of Frank Yablans, then-CEO of the company, when Yablans declared in no uncertain terms that he wanted to make the ultimate jingoistic movie and that Al Haig would take him there. “It will be a sure-fire international blockbuster,” Yablans enthused.
...
Even Milius, a stoic, good-natured individual who is more about bluster than action, became alarmed. Wandering into my office one day, he confided his concern that he was being railroaded into what he described as “a flag-waving, jingoistic movie.” Milius said his intent was to make a movie about the “futility of war,” adding, “I have a nervous feeling that Yablans and Haig are jabbering away on their hot line about a different movie.”"

http://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/red-dawn-shooting-it-...
Fail Whale creator didn't get any TWTR
The name is a bit silly. It should be called just "Datomic Starter".

I'm still hoping for an open source edition :)
I'm going to assume you get written permission from the NFL every time you use your DVR, have some friends over to watch the game, or talk about the game with your friends and coworkers.
In nature, the animals will push for all they can get - red in tooth and claw etc.

No thanks, we are above that shit.
In other words, he was unable to anticipate that Apple would be able reduce the price of the iPhone, like they did with the iPod?
I was in the audience!
It was a great session - you're a funny guy, explained the concepts well, and there was some really interesting real(or alternate :p) world use-cases for all this stuff.
Nintendo seems to be doing this with their handheld line. But the issue is Nintendo always makes money off its consoles.

Microsoft and Sony typically lose money per console for a good portion of the sales cycle. So either cost has to be driven down dramatically, or you have to expect people to pay significantly more per console and then expect them to update more frequently.

I think in the future we'll see it where you'll be able to upgrade a console, like a gen .5 where you just connect a pack into an expansion bay and it boosts CPU/RAM/GPU to allow the game to run with better graphics
So Windows is a "burning platform"? I'm sure his hatchet-man reputation (and consequent results) aren't impressing long shareholders.

It could also be a reminder to shareholders of what happened to Nokia. Elop's vision of "burning the village in order to save it" sounds pretty apocalyptic.
Well in actual fact, despite all the flack the feds get about monetary policy, core inflation is very very low. I remember the inflation of the late 70s/early 80s, and we are absolutely not seeing that now.

Oil prices are obviously much higher than they were fifteen years ago, which has follow-on effects for transport and food and similar, and is why I specified 'core' inflation. How would a bitcoin economy deal with these sorts of spikes in commodity prices?
Interesting idea, but the lack of internet to look things up easily could be a headache. I suppose it would help if you already have expert-level knowledge in the tech stack that you're working in, and/or you can download local copies of lots of documentation.
Isn't 'Canonical' a trademark? Couldn't you just refer to it as DerivativeOS4 and then have a central reference table?
Profit margins and dollar signs and how to buy out as many politicians as they can, so nobody interferes with their unnatural monopoly.
Have you looked at AppAnnie? They launched an e-book tracking service recently...

https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/?demo=1&vertical=books
"IPv6 is the future and the future is NOW!" Is what has been said for years. And everyone overlooks the value that IPv4 has ala Metcalfe's Law. And that value can be further mined if we had a public market for IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is not the only solution.

Let's start admitting that IPv6 offers no (or little) present day net benefits compared to the benefit of currently connecting to all of IPv4. And let's stop with the NAT booggy man argument. NAT works well, as much as any tech works and isn't perfect. And let's stop pretending that only thing stopping a peer 2 peer utopia is the lack of globally unique address. There many economic forces in play beyond that.

(edit spelling fix)
I really like the simplicity of the UI of your cruise deal website. As someone who is currently looking to book a cruise trip, this helps.
It's vestigal on a server. It's there because the server installation and the desktop installation share that component. But since there's no UI for you to approve transmission, currently the crash reports sit on the server awaiting (local) examination and do nothing.

All the resources you pointed appear to be people who have found a setting and do not understand that it does not do anything.

Like my posts elsewhere on this thread, it's open source. Take a look for yourself, or ask someone who can.
Wow, I don't think this would have ever occurred to me, but it's genius!

I can go from London to San Juan in 14 days, for about £32 / day. That's cheaper than life at home.

Think I'm gonna book myself a cruise soon

Edit: Just exploring this guy's blog, and it turns out he's Herbal from "The Game" - an excellent book if you've not read it.
Technology is a force multiplier. If there was a gap between the most and least able before, it will be larger now.
Trademark law does not require you to harass people using your trademark to refer to your product.

I wish people would not try to justify corporate bullying based on a misunderstanding of trademark law.

Also: it's legal counsel, not legal council.
Yes. Debian has its own restrictions on one of its own logos. See the terms on their restricted use logo on their Logos page[1]; they reserve the right to assert copyright privilege in the same way.

[1]: http://www.debian.org/logos/
I used to use SourceTree. I moved to using GitX: http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ and seem to prefer it much more. SourceTree feels too cluttered. Gitx has better UX and appeals to me as someone that prefers to view more relevant content on the screen.
I got mine this week as well. The camera is about what you expect from the reviews - acceptable, but not amazing. The biggest problem is start-up and focus lag when using the camera, but I read at least one review indicating that an update is coming out soon to address this.

I'm happy with it size-wise, it feels about the same as the S3 I had before it (but with speed and screen noticeably improved)
The Prius doesn't have a tradition automatic transmission with a torque converter and multiple gear ratios. The gas engine is connected to the wheels at a fixed ratio along with two motor/generators in a planetary gear system.

Reverse is achieved by running the electric motor in reverse. There is no reverse gear.

Shifting the neutral on the prius just means disconnecting the MGs and turning off the ICE.
I had no idea cruises were so cheap. I though they're ~$100/day. This is what it costs to get a cabin on a cargo ship.
Then I suppose you will be happy about this youtube change if it helps Google show you an author's comments? Perhaps because you +1'd them on google plus? Or because you bought one of their books?

This change, like it or don't like it, should not be conflated with, "Now Google will only show my comments from my friends." For better or worse, it means Google will know more about connections between people and the things they like. There are plusses (beyond seeing my friends' comments) and minuses to that.
Hey man, reinventing the wheel is a surprisingly expensive proposition!
Yeah, as an investor, that's the kind of guy I'd like to have managing my company (not).

Hatchet men are useful, well paid, but definitely not high-profile, except to knock down and make their successor look better by comparison (see HP: Apotheker and Whitman).
"Frankly, if you're not into bingo and ballroom dancing, you may find there's not much for you to do on the ship other than work or read."

What is happening to people? When you are insulating yourself from nearly every aspect of day-to-day normality just to be able to concentrate without distraction there is a problem and it's likely you are working to much. I'm all up for travelling but this just seems like an easy way to remove yourself from the world to get more done. Why not just check into a mental health clinic with a wifi dongle - you won't have to cook or clean and they'll be perfectly equipped to deal with you once the monumental burnout hits.
Hmm, I wonder if I could publish a dd-wrt fork that requires you to pay me $0.20 to $0.70 per minute for internet access.
What if Anon was a 'covert' branch of the NSA? Or Wikileaks a CIA sub-contractor? Wouldn't that be an awesome twist on an already convoluted saga?

I just like imagining such possibilities, of course this is probably not the case, but the implications ... I guess I have been watching too many Homeland episodes lately. :)
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You know I do to, but usually only as I find myself actually scanning a QR code. Which is not all that rare it turns out, mostly bus stop schedules.
If an end-user experiences a chargeback, why should Kickstarter pay for that and not the end-user? The end-user would be getting free money at that point, if the funds weren't withdrawn from their account.
The Prius like all US cars has a physical hydraulic brake system. The brake pedal is connected to the master brake cylinder. Stomping on the brake pedal in a prius, regardless of the computer state, will brake the car.

The throttle is computer controlled because it allows much greater efficiency.
You can make a Google+ page with any name you want. If you have a brand that is not your actual name, you can manage it as a page.
Everything that leads to more 2D games is great.
These people are technology people, and good speakers. But I think it's a bit naive to assume that translates well into running a massive corporation like Microsoft. The skills needed there would be completely different.
I stared completely amazed for like +20 loops at the first GIF, incredible job.
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First, it's not Debian derivatives. It's a specific derivative that, unfortunately, can not be named.

Then, It is a bit paranoid, but Debian people work very har to clear their distro from any IP risk, and writting down the name of that distro that can not be named is now a risk.
I watch Vihart's videos, and the comments are full of low signal. All of the high quality comments are from G+ from anecdotal evidence. Let's look at the top ones on her Dragon Doodle video:

"Ever wonder why fractals are called "fractals"? It's because they have "fractional dimension". This idea comes from noticing that when you scale a 2-dimensional object up by a factor of 2, its area increases by a factor of 4, but when you scale a 2-dimensional Sierpinski triangle up by 2, its area increases by a factor of 3. With a normal 2D object, if you scale it up by a factor of 3, you'd increase the area by a factor of 9, but when you scale a 2-dimensional Koch snowflake up by 3, its area increases by a factor of 4. So fractals don't behave like normal objects. They behave as if they have fractional dimension"

First non-G+ comment? "Can I marry your mind, please?"
Or this one: "hey, no knock on community colleges, studied at a couple myself I just feel like everyone's giving this girl way more credit than is due, but like I said, that's just me, and it has been made clear by everyone and their mother watching this vid that it is ONLY me. lol"

Or this one: "Yeah, you're totally a dick."

General consensus is, YouTube comments are, by and large, shit. I don't think you're going to convince many people that they're worth it because you can find a few videos that might have slightly higher signal.

Frankly, I would like to see "unification" of comments so when I'm looking at a video, I can see what people are saying about it from around the Web, rather than the same video linked to from 15 different blogs. For example, if some new tech video comes out, and is covered by HN, TheVerge, Engadget, Reddit, etc, I end up having to visit 4 or more sites to see what people's reaction to the video is, rather than having them collated in one place.
IANAL, but a domain name is more than just a reference to a product. ICANN gives trademark holders additional privileges when it comes to domain names.
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