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Unfortunately Replicant does not run on my phone. When time comes to purchase a new one, I will probably get a compatible one. Most of the apps I use already come from the F-Droid repository https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/ as there is a lot of fantastic software available there.

I don't like it when threads end up as list of lists but some recommendations that might not be well known:

Aard is a offline wiki(pedia and others) reader. AFWall+ is a firewall to give/revoke internet access to apps. It is a fork of DroidWall which went inactive. Document Viewer is the best PDF reader I know and it's free software, hooray. It can automatically cut off white margins, you can set your own touch controls etc. Gibberbot is a great XMPP client. I tested many but this one did not randomly stop receiving messages like all the others did. GnuCash for keeping track of finances. Mirakel is a Todo app which I switched from Astrid to. Astrid is free software too but relies on several non-free libraries from what I know. Mirakel seems more concerned with privacy. OsmAnd for offline maps. And of course you can get APG, AdAway, ConnectBot, FBReader, K-9 Mail, ScummVM, Terminal Emulator etc. from F-Droid.
All I want to say is I got to level 27 on expert mode and I'm quite proud of this fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpF3qymPqA
The "long" and "short" used in English classes (not Linguistics) usually refers to the presence of a "silent e" and the lack of "silent e", but this terminology does not necessarily match up to a phonetic long and short vowel.

I remember hearing an argument in a linguistics class that for English oral stop consonants ("p","b","t","d","k" and "g" at the end of a syllable), the primary source of differentiation between minimal pairs, like "made" and "mate", is vowel length and that they are all devoiced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_length#Short_and_long_vow...
Games. I release one browser game (kinda like Travian or eRepublik, but simpler) pretty much every other month and they are actually a very good source of income. They pay all of my bills.
Don't beat yourself up about it: 'gray' is a perfectly legitimate US-English variant of the British-English 'grey'. In fact, 'Gray' is actually correct according to the spec (I had to look it up, and remember making this very mistake in the old days, which makes sense given that I'm British) I have a vague recollection that the 'misspelling' was actually handled differently between browsers.
I thought it was because Chuck Norris doesn't adhere to web standards - web standards adhere to him!
Part I is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCUJn-5By14
(Fortunately part II is of much much better quality)
If only there were some mechanism we could use to get everyone to change their schedules at the same time.
One of the things I love about Android is that you _can_ do this with it, if you so wish.

You can't build a Truly Free Version of Windows Phone. You can't build a Truly Free Version of iPhone.

But if Android doesn't do what you want, then you can fork it, tweak it, and turn it into something that does!
If it's random, you need to store it, and it becomes just as available on a leak. The salt still works though, because it makes all hashes different. You need to attack each password individually rather than tackling them all with a rainbow table or something. The approach from this article also stops working. What you use as a salt is fairly irrelevant as far as I can tell.

If you want to get more security on top of that out of your salt, the only thing I can think is to add some security by obscurity on top: If it doesn't matter which field in the DB you use, just pick an unlikely one and keep secret which one it is. Might be id, email, favourite pet, or something else. Just don't forget to update the hash when the user changes that field.
I have had good luck with OpenSUSE. They package the latest stuff (I am on kernel 3.7.10 now). They're also very community-focused.
It's a quote from another document so we have no idea if it's self contained without seeing the original document.

It's also worth remembering that Greenwald chose that quote to go in his article so would have chosen to put it in a context that emphasises his viewpoint.

I still don't understand why Miranda flew though the UK when he was carrying UK intelligence materials - still looks like a baited trap for publicity to me.
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Australian summers are a great way to experience the advantage of DST (though obviously only some states choose to do it). Even the early hours of the morning are bright and warm, and enjoying dinner with the sun setting late into the evening adds such a lovely ambience. I think, here at least, it does more good for our culture (tourism and the like), than any other reason.
Let he who has not used table-based layout cast the first stone ...
People have lots of preferences about housing, which is why people tend to make an effort to suss out their housing options. Whether your neighbors are permanent or transient is just another dimension along which your preferences can vary. I don't understand why that preference in particular should be legally codified, whereas practically every other variable gets determined by people voting with their feet and dollars.

The same argument, after all, goes through for long-term renters too, whom a lot of people don't want to live next to. Should we zone all annual leases as well?
There is so much stray capacitance around that whole design, let alone the inductance of the leads etc. It would be totally useless for accuracy at the pF level (maybe 'that's the joke'?)
This is the guy who invented Bratz? Bratz are fucking evil, my little girl doesn't need a sexy doll. I refuse to buy her one.
I've had to handle this multiple times as my Codebase was started on Django 0.96 and currently supports Django 1.6

3rd party libraries upgraded painlessly in 90% of cases aside from those few that had been abandoned. And usually they were abandoned because the community had coalesced around a much better library.

So 3rd party code? Change a line in requirements.txt and bam. My own code? Had to upgrade it manually each time.
It's not just referring to the court battle, he competed with Mattel in the market also.
Actually, in HTML, ‘grey’ is wrong, ‘gray’ is correct.

“There are several tones of grey available for use with HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as named colors, while 254 true greys are available by specification of a hex triplet for the RGB value. All are spelled gray, using the spelling grey can cause errors. This spelling was inherited from the X11 color list. Internet Explorer's Trident browser engine does not recognize grey and renders it green.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey#Grey_in_the_sciences.2C_na...
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> "In almost every case where we allowed non-local effects, it has bitten us. Badly."

But the request object in flask is not global. If the guarantees break(request locals leak to other requests), it will be a problem. I never have had a request local leak in flask. On the other hand, I have ran into cases where I need the request object in django signals. A simple task of getting the full uri requires either a request object(I would say that's bad api but that's how it is in django) or configuring sites. Bad api or not, if I am in a request, I should have access to it, and Django makes it hard. Dress it up if you want to comply with "no globals" - RequestManager.get_current_request(). Though I don't see how that's any better than `from flask import request` when you know it does the equivalent RequestManager.get_current_request() internally.
The critical path for free software runs through open sourced hardware specifications. Otherwise, a.project like replicant can never hit enough of the moving target to gain the critical mass needed to take off.
I agree - my personal preference is for reform of the patent system to provide a higher bar for what can be patented (actively used by the owner in a current product, evidence of significant investment to get there, significantly non-obvious and so on) and a shorter period (three to five years except in exceptional circumstances).

But that's a somewhat different argument - the original point was that consumers were being significantly impacted and I don't think this shows that.

To my mind the biggest impact may be coming from FRAND patents, the terms of which don't have to be particularly fair or reasonable and as such can easily be used to block new entrants. To my mind FRAND patents should have transparent licensing terms which are common to every licensee whether you be a major multinational or a two man start up.
Obfuscated link goes to http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/293124/10-educational-p...
They forgot Jeri Ellsworth of Technical Illusions and Tan Le of Emotiv, as usual. Not much journalism if they can't keep up with the news. What does sex have to do with startups anyway?
No, it's not chance – he asked on stack overflow because he knew the chances would be likely that someone would find the answer. Skeep is an extremely knowledgeable person and it shows in his history there, so I'm not surprised that he was able to come up with the answer.
I agree so long as we are using" Android" in a special sense, and not in the way the typical user does when they say, "I just replaced my iPhone with a Nexus 8 running Android."
That's true. However, as the article says, the "Android" you are forking is something completely different than what is running on phones.
A lot of clocks are smart enough to change everyday. You could have 6am at sunrise the whole year.
Annie Belis, brilliant researcher from France's most selective post doct was already doing this with her ensemble Kerylos in 1990. The site is in French though but the songs in Ancient Greek http://www.kerylos.fr/index.php
And here is a chorus, easier for our ears I guess http://youtu.be/R_KmlIX3aHc
Wouldn't DST have two different time zones? Over here it is CET/CEST, so if I were to store a date within that hour and its timezone, that would be as good as storing it in UTC, given that the timezone gives just the current offset from UTC.
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There's one fatal problem with .NET platform: it only (usefully) available for Windows. Who can afford to ignore other platforms these days? Windows, especially on the server side is on the decline. In mobile it never took off. The rest is not really relevant.
Well, without asking for help from an actual Chinese person, I can say the following:

- my dictionary includes several words where 娃娃 seems to refer to a child and not a doll, e.g. 抱娃娃 娃娃兵 娃娃车. It's conceivable that they're all metaphors, I guess.

- I tried once to refer to a doll as 娃, mirroring an actual usage I'd seen, and my then tutor (from Guangzhou) complained that with just one 娃 you're referring to a human.

Having become ashamed of my lazy answer, I just asked a college student in Shanghai; she informs me "you can call a baby 娃娃".
Just as a hypothetical example, let's say I want to hook up a Wiimote to an Android device.

The Wiimote cannot enter a code and hit enter, but apart from that it's a normal Bluetooth device. Pre-Android 4.2, it was perfectly fine to connect it. Bluetooth uses the code '000000' for this and a third party application can hook through.

With Android 4.2 and 4.3, the ability to connect Bluetooth devices to connect without using a code determined by the phone was removed. It was possible to root the phone and set it to a specific MAC address for the Bluetooth interface, from which the Bluetooth code was generated, so that this Bluetooth code would be '000000' and the Wiimote would connect correctly.

Now with Android 4.4 the answer is going to effectively be 'forget it'...

I'm sorry but if what seems to become the most ubiquitous operating system out there cannot connect to probably the most ubiquitous gamepad in recent memory (and quite a few others that exhibit the same problem), using a standard that both of these devices support, then that's just a tad ridiculous. Especially if it's something as simple as this that was supported in the past.

And that's just one example.

Sure, I'm also going to complain about the fact that "it's my device, I want to use it as I want". But when you actually see the reasons coming through behind this you might understand why rooting might not be such an unreasonable request - it makes things like that, things that should work, work.
Since Ubuntu is just "let's sync repos from debian testing every 6 months and add our own crap" just use debian testing. You even get rolling release.

Btw, I know nobody who uses standard Ubuntu. Everyone uses some variant like Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. which are really well put together distros for the average user.
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If it happens that the music player, dialer, home screen, messaging app are all closed source Google apps (just like now, or will be in a while), then what? You can create a non-google experience aosp build (meh..) or tweak the filesystem caching parameters or something like that at best.

I think Google is doing what's best for Android, but Android is not open source anymore.

Firefox OS might be a better choice for open source comminity to spend time on. I haven't been following latest development, how's the hardware situation on FF OS?
Ish. AOSP is missing a lot of key ingredients. See this article for a look into that:
http://betanews.com/2013/01/02/building-android-from-aosp-go...
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Seems to rest on the notion of Obama "taking full credit". I don't think anyone believes Obama parachuted into GM to lead it like George Washington across the Potomac. Rather, they were extended a loan to give them time to turn around. Without executing on a plan, money alone would not have rescued the company, but without the government loan, they would have been doomed as no one in the private sector was capable of raising or loaning tens of billions in cash in 2008.

I'm guessing this will form a future right wing talking point in the redstate blogosphere, again, trying to rewrite Obama's term in office and diminish each one of his policy achievements. So now the talking point will be "It wasn't the government loan, it was these awesome plans hatched by the private sector." After all, we can't have any evidence of government policies succeeding.

It's a kind of white-washing, call it 'private washing', to downplay or trivialize any involvement of the public sector in the success of the private.
Why is it bad to start working while it's dark outside? The problem I have with DST isn't the summer time, but the "normal time". It just doesn't make any sense to me that it's light at 7am and dark at 5pm when you're working from 9 to 5. To enjoy any sunlight during the day you'd have to wake up way early.
It seems every headline could be interpreted in 2 ways, and I've seen a bunch of them lately:

1. a) "Evil Google Tries to Take Control of Android"

b) "Google Tries to Standardize Android and Fix Fragmentation"

2. a) "Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat"

b) "Google Trying to Make Android as Secure and Unhackable as ChromeOS"

Doesn't it make sense for Google to try and stop rooting through vulnerabilities, just like Apple tries to stop jailbreaking with every update?

From what I understand, rooting should still be possible if the bootloader is unlockable (which it is for Nexus devices, HTC's devices, and I think Sony's too). Samsung and a few others, on the other hand, don't let you unlock the bootloader. So maybe we should take it up to them, and demand unlockable bootloaders, so we can modify our devices, instead of asking Google to turn a blind eye to Android exploits.
Having observed a few big projects failed like that in my country, I can't deny the feeling that "throw big money onto company/institute(s) X to deliver a very big system that will replace the old system on day Y" is an awesome recipe for a spectacular failure, regardless of the software development process and skills of the programmers. Eventually the initial failure would be converted into something usable by spending 10x more money and 10x more time.

Contrary, a minority of national-level projects that succeeded here were always almost things that were initially planned to be very small, experimental, with no hard deadline and implemented without a big-bang in media. The biggest distinction is that the small systems tend to be put in production only partially but much earlier, often as an opt-in, working in parallel to the old often paperwork based systems. So there was no huge switch to something new and the risk was pretty small. This is what agile means to me.
Out of every dumb question there's a business opportunity: just open an agency that offers 'retreats' designed to cure heartbreaks. Laugh all the way to the bank.
I'd give Lenovo a little slack, because they're (or were a few years ago) probably the only brand to provide an automated driver update program that works pretty fine. It's not light nor fast but still. And since they have to support a ton of different environments I could accept static inclusion of dlls.
That said I often avoided installing the bluetooth software stack (almost never used bt) because it was so fat. :)
Aside from the other comments that the functionality could already be replicated with a mobile phone, it would be cool if the device could have some kind of screen effect as though the machine is powered off. (ie. the power pendants in the TV series Revolution)
I'd love a fork that doesn't' depend on jQuery, as I use the Dojo Toolkit on my site. I'll try to create a library independent fork soon.
>> "Doesn't it make sense for Google to try and stop rooting through vulnerabilities, just like Apple tries to stop jailbreaking with every update?"

The problem is that Apple doesn't position iOS as 'open'. Google does. That's been one of their big selling points for years.
OP was not saying that he tried the game, he was saying that he tried to load the game and this is exactly what his critique was aimed at.

FYI - I had the same experience.

I waited for like 20-40 seconds for the stuff to load and then left the site...

Do you think such user experience feedback would be valid for your own project?
I'm aware of the English-class terminology, but interestingly enough the guy bringing up "hit" and "heat" wasn't using that, as "heat" would be described under that system as having a long E, not a long I.

It's definitely plausible to me that (when the word is pronounced in isolation) word-final stop consonants are all devoiced. I haven't looked into the question at all and don't plan to, so I'm basically just spitballing. But my vocal tract can definitely start running down before I entirely finish speaking.

However, a much bigger issue than distinguishing "hid" from "hit" is distinguishing "hip" (where the final stop has become a glottal stop) from "hit" (ditto). I was under the impression that in general there isn't necessarily any phonetic difference at all there. If the argument you mention was only referring to minimal pairs with the same place of articulation, that sounds more reasonable.
Isn't those called ASP.NET MVC or WebApi or Nancy or ServiceStack or ...? I think you have a lot of options - in fact you might have 1 or two too many in the .NET world.
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GM vehicles are also very US focused. There is nobody who drives a Chevrolet or something here.

Don't forget they bought Saab and basically ruined the brand within a couple of years with poor quality and no innovation.
Uh, the whole reason the Replicant project exists, and this article describing its challenges, is because of the difference between what you describe and reality.
Only if you use a password which can be obviously 'hinted at', and that's unlikely to be a very good password in the first place. Except, maybe, if it's a password phrase.
You mean the same driver update that broke my VPN with no fix no matter how long I looked without a reinstall?

'pretty fine' is always going to be a subjective thing.
I grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons in the early 80's. The world you played in was Greyhawk. As a result, even though I'm from the US, that shade between black and white will always be grey.
Where to find it, then?
In many places, people go to school/work when it's dark regardless of whether DST is in effect or not.

I would also wager that the risk of being hit by a jetlagged, drowsy driver offsets any dubious benefit changing the time twice a year might have.
i don't have a study, but i live in santiago, which has smog in winter, and buying an air filter cured (or at least coincided with the cure of) my bronchitis.
If you're talking about the standardization "issue", maybe Google realized that what it wants is not for Android to turn into another highly fragmented ecosystem of "distros" (like in the Linux world), that have little in common with each other except the kernel, and even file extensions aren't the same. Google is positioning Android as an ecosystem that can compete against iOS and Windows - a (more or less) unified ecosystem. The more unified it is, the better it is for consumers, in general.

But I think a middle ground can be created between super open/fragmented/anyone can fork and do whatever they want with it and super-closed/nobody can do anything with it except its vendor. However, Google could probably achieve the same thing, if they treated Android, like they do with Chromium and Chrome. Keep Chrome/some version of Android for themselves - while keeping Chromium/AOSP as open as possible.

As for this rooting issue, I don't really see what it has to do with being "open". They're just trying to secure it. And as I said, they can still allow bootloaders to be unlocked by the user. It's up to companies to do so, or they can take Samsung's route and try to lock them down as much as possible, even at the region level (which I disagree with, because in this case, there's zero benefit for both consumers and hackers. The benefit is only for the company).
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Music: a Mathematical Offering (free PDF)
http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/maths-music.ht...

You can skip to chapter "History of consonance and dissonance" and go from there.
I haven't had a chance to watch these yet, but every other speech I've seen of his has been thoughtful and eloquent. For anyone who isn't familiar with his other speeches, it's well worth it to give them a watch.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Eben+Moglen&tbm=vid
"Android is open—except for all the good parts."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
All of my best ideas, Lamport invented them first.

Lots of great and important ideas and the lucid writing required to convey them to others.
I really wish articles like these would spend more time on how the poor immigrant went from 0 to first 10 million, then from 10m to 1bio (of course I realize the author only has what his subject would tell him - so it's only a wish).

Here we have 'In the early 1980s they moved on to consumer electronics, repackaging Nintendo's GameBoy forerunner, the Game & Watch, pulling in $21 million in sales the first year. That fad passed after a couple of years but left Larian with an appetite for the toy business. When a struggling inventor in 1996 brought him a design for a talking doll already passed over by Mattel and others, Larian pounced. Singing Bouncy Baby was the surprise runaway hit of 1997.'

So by '96 he was in position to talk to with inventors and bring their ideas to be 'runaway hits' (which I understand is largely about marketing). To me (personally) the path from nothing to someone who can bring runaway toy to market is more interesting than how they build the business beyond that point.
Walmart is also one of the most tech-forward companies in the world. They spent lavishly on satellite links before the web, and more recently are pushing on Rfid and other inventory management tech.