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I understand Stallman's past achievement and I respect his personal opinion as such, but I personally think many of the beliefs he holds are borderline insanity. He simply became a champion flag holder for people who share his point of views due to his credential.
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People don't like her because they disagree with her conclusions and what they assume are her methods.

In order to understand her methods you must understand her epistemology. This requires reading her nonfiction systematically (and Peikoff's).

Here's a Reddit reaction to Rand's response to a letter:
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1reias/til_th...
especially see this response:
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1reias/til_th...

She's completely misunderstood and misrepresented. There are countless examples of this.

In politics, she's seen as the epitome of all that is "right wing", whatever the Hell that means. Her ethics are disregarded as simple ignorant selfishness. It's easy to see why many would disagree with her.

Academia simply dismisses her. However, her ideas are becoming harder to ignore - they are important!

Highly recommend reading at least Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Then pick up Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and the recently released Understanding Objectivism . UO is very good (it's useful/personal, down to earth), but requires familiarity with Objectivism.
so are most OSes...
Do you have an actual source, a newspaper story or something?

I personally believe this to be true, it's how Microsoft often does these things and the fact that a bookstore stood up to them and won makes me think the agreements with Samsung etc. are more about showmanship.

But I've never seen this side of the story repeated anywhere with quotes from sources, even anonymous ones.
> Computer generated, computer readable, but typically completely obtuse to humans.

This is not code you write. You wrote the program that generated your code or the constraints the program used. That is your code and that should be human-readable.

Does a compiler generate human-readable machine language code?
Yes, with a strong coordinator or with a distributed system that can provide similar guarantees. But currently there is no plan to add this in Redis Cluster. Three main reasons:

* Our main business is low latency, so very few will use synchronous replication.

* Redis cluster is composed of multiple master-slave systems that hold a subset of the key space each. This means that if you need a majority of replicas to promote a new master in order to achieve consistency, after a partition you end with different hash slots having the majority in different sides of the partitions perhaps.

* With the current weaker consistency guarantees Redis Cluster can elect a replica that is isolated by the others but is in the right side of the partition, where the majority of other masters are. Similarly you can have just two total nodes for every hash slot, a setup that I believe will be very used, and still get some availability if the master fails.

So the consistency premises and the tradeoff of Redis Cluster are not exactly compatible with strong consistency.

Is WAIT still a useful tool? I believe yes, if documented as such:

WAIT in the context of Redis Cluster / Sentinel is not able to provide strong consistency, but lowers the percentage of probabilities that a failure mode that results in data loss happens.

A trivial example, what happens if a client is partitioned away with just a master? Without WAIT there is a window of NODE_TIMEOUT to lose data, with WAIT there is not this problem in this specific failure scenario. There are still a number of failure modes for WAIT, but are a smaller number compared to the full set of failure modes that there are without WAIT, so practically it does not feature strong consistency but provides the user with a smaller probability of data loss.

Another example: manual failover for very important data of some kind. You may have 5 nodes and use WAIT 4 to always write everywhere and improve durability.

And so forth.
The tool looks really cool. But I don't know if it is awesome enough to earn the name of my favorite text editor.
Define surveillance. Is a baby cam ok? What if you're using it while the nanny is minding your baby? Or when the kid is a teenager? If they have friends over? If they are a 12 year old latchkey kid? On the babies at the daycare you run? On the employees of the daycare you run, or the nursing home you manage? On the chain of daycares? Cctv on the glass frontage of your jewellery store? Cctv on the valuable jewellery in the store? On a bank teller?

summary: I don't think you mean that for normal definitions of surveillance, and if you do you're in a pretty small group.
I'm using CrashPlan+ Family Unlimited (it's a home NAS!); I also bought a separate CrashPlan+ license when I first signed up. I don't have more than 1TB backed up specifically to CrashPlan as yet though. A big chunk of that NAS is for future growth, and a lot of it is a playground for experimenting with serving up media that we either have physical copies of or is of low replacement value.

I do see CrashPlan updating at a leisurely rate, but that's OK with me, as my upload bandwidth is limited. I'd be interested to see if it completely chokes past a certain point, like you say it does for you. But it's not yet at the point where I need to worry about it.
Chrome OS is simply a product that reflects the vision of some of the engineers/organizations out there, and you don't have to get it if you don't want to, AFAIK Google isn't trying to shove it down your throat (sure they do promote it, just like any products from any company).

I really enjoy the tech industry being populated by a portfolio of products with diverse philosophies behind them: easy to use vs complicated and powerful, open source vs proprietary, cool and sleek vs nerdy and efficient.

I really don't understand why some of the strongest proponents of "Open Computing" are ironically so close minded when it comes to offering choices to people.
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Heh, sure thing. Let me know if you make it to Asia or Australia / New Zealand.
100% of this is already common place. i doubt any Maya pilot even has the tool bar on the screen.

im not even a frequent user and i only move stuff around with hjkl and qwe. not to mention the backtick (or space bar?) to open up the one liner prompt to revolve, extrude, etc...
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This should be on every CEO's wall when he wakes up in the morning.
Yup... I guess they call it "vim" because key bindings are inspired on vim, but this is just a prove that keyword rocks much harder than any other interface :-)
This is highly unlikely right now I think. This was possibly a test device they were working on before the WP partnership with Microsoft (and we know for a fact there were such devices). Nokia just sold it's bleeding business to Microsoft, and will concentrate on infrastructure and maps. Why would they want anything to do with Android at this point? It is also way too early for Microsoft (under Nokia's phone division) to be playing with it also, if ever.
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So I just tried Disconnect. A few comments:

* I can't seem to see a list of all Google trackers. Some sites have multiple Google trackers, but if I click on the icon to see them it just turns off blocking for them. I'm assuming sites don't have 6 GA trackers, what are the others?

* I can't seem to turn off Content trackers for all sites. Configuring this site-by-site seems clumsy, to say the least.
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In fairness, the way even the most firmly established scientific theories get firmly established is precisely by having a lot of experiments done that fail to disprove them.

(Disclaimer: That's a bit of a simplification. In practice the acceptance of a theory also has something to do with how explanatory the theory feels, how elegant it is, what prejudices the highest-status experts have, etc.)
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On a second check into this, there is some corrections to my previous comment:

A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or a
work based on the Program. - GPL

So what a covered work is, is clearly stated. Either unmodified program, or a work based on it.

You are right that a movie don't become a derivative work of any preexisting work it includes. Rather, the movie requires to have performance and "sync" rights to such works or they become legally liable for infringement.

So the real question is, do the GPL give performance and sync permission to the movie producer for using the covered work?

This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the
unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this
License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work.

The answer to that is ... only if the movie itself is based upon the code and thus become a covered work. Otherwise, the license to do not give any such permission. It could be argued that performance right is covered under the term "convey", as it states:

"To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties
to make or receive copies.".

However, it also says:

"Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions
stated below."

Since performance and synchronization are not include below, such right can not be seen as given under the term of conveying.

So to correct my statement: The GPL can't come into effect since it is not giving any permission to the movie producer in the first place. The movie producer would have to get a separate license or be liable under copyright. You are right however that movies do not become derivative works of the preexisting works they incorporate.

For more details about sync rights: http://www.musiclawupdates.com/?p=2182
This is utter rubbish; the negative effects on health of any activity or substance clearly cannot be judged by merely trying it. Think DDT, asbestos, thalidomide, and a massive list of other misadventures that we've tried over the past 100 or so years.
Not much point to that either, and I agree it doesn't make sense. Removing the Play Store, there already is Nokia Asha-- which runs very smooth on low-end devices.
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I think so, too. I was just browsing and came along this:
http://www.pythonocc.org/

But it would be great to have a concept where you create a model of a table by creating a cylinder, copy and translate it three times, add a flat cube, connect these 5 pieces, and name them table. Then you would have another (non-)primitive that you can instanciate and maybe have some parameters to change it.
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I do use it on side projects, but on the job I am pretty happy to be on JVM/.NET land for our enterprise projects.

Mastering C++ is like playing guitar, but most corporate developers only know how to play Kazoo.
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The last time I wrote a C project I used "cunit":

http://cunit.sourceforge.net/

It was nice that I could both compile the test-cases as standalone executables, and also build them into my main application. Running "./foo --tests" to run the test-suite post-installation was very nice for getting user-feedback.

There are a few frameworks for test-suites for C, and I looked around a fair bit before picking this one. Whether it suits you is an open question, but if you're not sold on it feel free to browse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks...
He also said MDMA is safer than horse-riding. This annoyed the politicos no end, especially as a lot of them are from the horse-riding classes.

It sounds like a flippant remark until you realise it was triggered by him knowing people who have died or become brain-damaged pursuing equestrian hobbies. He then did the statistical calculations and found out that the risks of horse-riding were higher but roughly comparable to those of MDMA use.

People think MDMA is more dangerous mostly because of intense press coverage when someone does die from it. When was the last time you saw "girl dies in tragic polo accident" on the front page?
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Consider that one of the countries the US recently has been occupying - Afghanistan - is one of the largest sources of opium poppies in the world, and hence heroin, despite the years of US military presence and massive amounts of money invested into trying to reduce it. Supposedly heroin output

In other words: The US army is wholly insufficient to prevent heroin production in even a single country. And if they were to succeed, they'd just have made production vastly more profitable, and hence attractive, for people elsewhere.

> Then what does stop you from asking this simple question: why don't we fight for more life quality for everybody?

Why do you think this would improve life quality for anyone?

Have you known any high functioning heroin addicts?

Chances are you have even if you think you don't, but just don't know it. I have known at least one - it took a year of dealing with this person regularly before we noticed, and then only because the war on drugs causes massive price instability. Suddenly he had problems getting money enough for his abuse, and ended up stealing some. Until then, he'd been able to hide his abuse for years from everyone including his closest family. Luckily for him, he got it together enough to check himself into treatment before he got into further

The heroin users you see on the street is not nearly all of the heroin users out there, by far, any more than the alcoholics you see on the street are all alcohol users. Even heroin is not so addictive that everyone who use it even have a strong dependency on it; you find recreational heroin users out there. Of those that are dependent, not nearly everyone have problems managing their daily life in ways that makes it likely for people around them to have any idea they are using.

A huge part of the problem with even drugs that can be as nasty as heroin can be is the criminalisation that makes it impossible for users to get properly manufactured doses of known strength at a predictable low price. Most of the nastiest side effect of even many of the really hard drugs are legal and/or problems related to impurities and unpredictable doses rather than actual medical problems related to the drug itself with "normal" use. There are a few drugs where extensive abuse does have nasty medical side effects, yes. But so does alcohol and nicotine - do you propose we use military means to stop all manufacture of those too (if you do, I suggest you look up prohibition to see how that worked out last time)

Want to fight to improve life quality? Legalise pretty much everything, and invest the money currently spent on fighting it into enforcement of strict quality standards, regulating manufacturing and sale, and providing far more treatment and support for those who do need it.

The war on drugs has nothing to do with making things better - it is a mix of religiously founded moralism and a war on the poor (and by extension, in the US it is a war on black people).
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Yes. Prohibition does two things:
1. Pushes drugs to a black market, which increases violence and cutting drugs with even more harmful chemicals and
2. Wastes money on a useless 'war'.

Notice I didn't say it decreases use, because it doesn't (evidence: see Portugal case study, they decriminalised drugs and use went down).

If that war money had been spent towards educating people how to use drugs safely, health care and rehabilitation, instead of putting people in jail for a victimless crime, well, you tell me if that's a good idea.

The benefits of drug prohibition (if any) are far outweighed by the problems it causes.
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Yes, that was kinda the point of the rest of my post!
That would be it. I'm on FF 21.0, a browser from all the back to... May this year. I like the idea of stable software that does what it's meant to, and lasts more than a few months before needing an update.

The photo spheres thing should fall back to flash, since normal street view uses that reliably.
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To be fair, unlike tanks and aircraft carriers, those two are actually used.
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Yeah, I've tried to do all those things. And no, I haven't noticed that I can't go to town and by fresh fruit and veg from the market or supermarket for less than a 4-pack.

Finally, a lot of poor people have 2 jobs or try to get as much overtime as they can to supplement their income, so 'We all work the same hours.' is a bit of a fallacy.

Yeah, whatever. Plenty of my friends seem to manage just fine. I managed just fine back in the day.
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Even when you do see "girl dies in tragic polo accident", compare that to "girl dies after taking illegal drugs", and the expected slant on the respective articles. The former would likely be framed exactly as a tragic unavoidable accident that is not her fault, while in the latter chances are good the article will be full of comments from people who can't understand how she could have possible fallen so low as to take dangerous drugs, and implicitly it is her fault, and she had clearly gone from being a good girl to a bad girl and that is how she ended up dying. Coupled with some blurbs about how many people use drugs and recent deaths and statements about what a problem it is.

Imagine if the "girl dies in tragic polo accident" was slanted the same way, and listed recent horse riding accidents and interviews with people warning about how more and more young people ride horses...
Feedbackarmy.com did this a couple of years ago, with a really minimal form. Very nice to see a tuned version with more structure.
Come on, its not like I rob my mother to have another IPA. But the crack cocaine problem in Brazil on the other hand... the drug does seem to make people "crazy" quickly (or its all a media play).
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Consider the Anthropic principle: observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it [1].

We don't think things are garbled because we have evolved to make 'sense' of the chaos. Perhaps everything is a garbled mess that we think we can understand.

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

edit: I think I went off on a tangent. The answer to your original question is that our observable universe is the thing that is being played - it is the stuff on the boundary that might be garbled.

We are the projection.
So Shuttleworth was right it was a UX problem...
"the trick is having either an infinite number of monkeys or an infinite amount of time, or both".

The universe is finite, (no?) so we don't have an infinite supply of monkeys. Do we have an infinite amount of time? From my understanding of physics, we don't (though I am not an expert).
Why is the Disconnect trackers list (https://services.disconnect.me/disconnect.json, referenced in https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...) an encrypted blob?

That seems to go against the OS nature of the project.
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I find that it

1. is really slow, especially for long documents or ones containing large images (so, e.g., for lengthy scanned documents it's frequently just unusable);

2. renders less nicely, scanned text again being particularly awful;

3. on at least one machine I have, prints documents very badly (text comes out all fuzzy, as if the anti-aliasing is messed up somehow);

4. it has no facing-pages view.

I keep using it because (a) it's the default and I'm lazy and (b) in principle I like the idea of supporting a completely free PDF viewer. But compared even with Adobe Reader (still more something like Sumatra or Foxit) the experience is grossly inferior far too often.
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Any chance of posting it here? I am sure people on this site would find it useful.
Some people do though, alcohol addiction is a real problem for some people, and booze kills quite a lot of folks.

You're right, though, crack and some others seem to have horrific addiction profiles and I've even heard of Brazilian drug-lords forbidding its sale in their territory because it destroys any sort of community stability and kills the market.

I do wonder if many people would bother getting started with crack if other drugs were open to them. I also think that if there wasn't the criminal stigma we could help more of them, sooner.

There's no perfect solution, but what we have isn't working.
it isn't a matter of opinion. heroin is in no way a harmless drug. it's highly addictive and easily lethal if taken in to high a dose or combined with other drugs, like e.g. alcohol, or benzodiazepines.

EDIT:
the same goes for most other opiates/opioids.
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Thanks.

#2 first: Code to block everything marked as content with one click was either just checked in or is about to be.

For #1: Disconnect groups tracking requests by company. If you want to see all the Google services that Disconnect filters, you could look through the filter list (services are grouped by category and company here, so start at lines 33, 1,882, and 2,326): https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/b27abbf033c6....
I don't think they are that wedded to Apple long term. Unix yes. they like the hardware but there are costs to not running on a production like environment. If docker or similar takes off it will push more to Linux as there will be less virtualization in the stack.