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"it's hard to imagine something less free than the app store"

I would argue that if you are not safe you are not free.

The vast majority of App Store users are non-technical and therefore open to scams, viruses and malware. The walled garden may take some freedoms away from the highly-technical but it pays back freedom in spades to 'normal' people. (plus the highly technical can always choose to leave the walled garden if the want to either by jailbreaking or by buying an open device).

We geeks have only ourselves to blame — if we won't police ourselves someone else will have to police us. We gave these freedoms away by using our talents to cheat and scam our customers.

We're not the first to need it of course, if it wan't for Victorian scammers using suspect weights & measures and adulterating flour with dust and the like there's be no need for Trading Standards Officers.

Trading Standards Officers give us all the freedom to buy food & drink safely and I don't believe anyone would truly see us return to a world without them.
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Glad to see the Ukrainians are peaceful.

I also grew up in a heavily armed and very peaceful nation and like others I suspect this has more to do with culture than with access to weapons.
On the other hand the price paid for games has dropped massively, especially when indexed against inflation. Partly this is helped by digital distribution, but by creating a more direct relationship between the publisher and the customer, and drastically reducing piracy and eliminating reselling the required price per unit to make a profit as a game studio is really small. I've paid $5 for iOS games that gave me vastly more hours of enjoyment than games that I used to pay $50+ for.

For years those who supported the developers were subsidizing those who weren't. This is happening less now, and it's a more efficient market.
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Yes, the pictures don't prove much, here you have to trust the author, he's spending quite some time in the heart of the events.

Pretty girls can still be crazy nationalists, that's true. The point is that if some crazy form of nationalism has taken so wide-spread popularity in Ukraine, it would be well-known abroad already. That's not the case, it seems that the only foreign force concerned with Ukrainian nationalists are Putin's medias.

Ukrainian nationalists are often overrated: their traditional message and goal is "Glory to Ukraine", anti-Moscow feeling is also strong (not surprisingly), and alas, some historical "domestic" antisemitism which almost never comes into real actions and sometimes is actively fought (Maidan now actively protects Jews from any assaults, our government has tried to speculate on this, Berkut are also mildly antisemitic - it's a common Slavic trait). What I have never seen is hate to others based on ethnicity or just being other.

From my little experience (I live in Kiev), people are organized informally and it's an amusing self-organization: a lot of my friends (including me) have been supporting peaceful Maidan with presence, money and food. Guys at Hrushevskogo do not have some formal organization, they deny access to interlocutors if they see you're unprepared for the hell at the front line.

If you have more questions, I'll be glad to answer.
Except getting macbook to boot anything else than OSX or Windows requires bunch of stuff that I can only describe as 'hacks'. At least it was like so couple years ago (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html) and I haven't heard that things would be different today.
I think the goal is probably to scare/deter them and make a piece of ground unpassable for a short while.
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More videos : government building takeover in Vinnitsa, Ukraine : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_B637FCDY
To be precise, the PS3 and 360 each sold around 80 million and the Wii around 100 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_...
I disagree, especially about the nurses. The medical system is a huge machine. Nurses and doctors are but cogs in that machine. The system produces guidelines such as "after looking at tens of studies, for patients above X years old, procedure X doesn't make sense"; it's way more important for doctors to be able to assess symptoms and to have a feeling for how to tweak those guidelines (yes, this guy is over 60, but he ran a marathon last week without problems, has never smoked, and his parents, both in their nineties, do not need care yet) than to know the ins and outs of statistics.

After all, all those statistics are kind of meaningless. They rarely are split by sex, age, smoking behaviour, and familial history ("Where was the study of nonsmoking 36-year-old neurosurgeons?") It's a doctor's job to, somehow, find the best approach using incomplete data.

More importantly, all guidelines likely are about approaches that have changed since the data was collected. That new anesthetic procedure may have shifted things by a percent, that slightly adjusted monitoring protocol another, the improved CT scanner another, etc.

Medicine just isn't that much of an exact science as many of us think it is. In many cases, we haven't managed to make it a science (yet). For example, in IVF, even after years of working together to copy each other's best practices, one hospital might have a 30% success rate, another a 40% one, even after normalizing for every difference in patient population or treatment we can think of.
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So instead of a kludge like the PC BIOS, you pick that EFI mess, where one of two main sponsors is your direct competitor, who directly turned around and created an incompatible new version in UEFI (even before the EFI based Apple systems hit the market).

So now Apple has to support an EFI version no-one runs, while integrating Intel reference code targetted at newer versions to support new chipsets.

Well, it ensures job security for Apple's firmware engineers.
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> People are more likely to leave a review/comment/upvote if something is not working for them.

Also known as the 3/11 rule. On average people tell 3 others when they have had positive experience. And on average they tell 11 others when they have a negative experience. [proper citation appreciated]

Add the effect of internet, and multiply by Google effect. More recent posts are given higher relevance, and of course more frequent occurrences are given higher relevance.

News agencies and publishers have known this for ages - after all, there's no news like bad news.
What makes a 'real' gaming platform? What does a 'real' gamer look like? How often does a 'real' gamer game?

All surveys of gamers over the last 5 years show that the average gamer is female, late twenties to thirty, and puts in gaming hours way above anything your average FPS gamer would. (and the figures from before that were badly skewed by having the 'hearts' players removed for not being 'real gamers' (and some even removed commercial casual games), despite being the overwhelmingly largest group of gamers (arguably, if they'd included them, we might have seen the rise in casual gaming sooner))

The iPhone is the biggest gaming platform in the world. It is also where the main gamers are playing the most hours of games. Isn't that 'real' enough for you?
It's not that different how the media in my home country (The Netherlands, e.g. 'Nieuwsuur') have been reporting in Syria and are starting to report Ukraine - in the trenches, literally on the fronts, following and interviewing people on both sides.

Of course, everyone already knew that CNN and others are garbage. If the reality doesn't align with their great capitalism fairytale where Bono is the pinnacle of humanism, they will make it fit ;).
Look again at Object Storage under the Git Objects link and you should get it, you're probably not quite matching what it does, it is a simple SHA1 so you're probably just missing one little part of the string to hash. You're on the right track - test getting the hashes to match first with git hash-object, but once you have done that you just need to solve it faster and recover when you discover that someone else got there first.

It is possible in ruby, that's what I used first, though the ref implementation is in ruby, so a single process may not cut it unless you are lucky. Keep trying too if you are solving it but not quite making it in time as you're competing against a variable time to complete on the other side.
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That would require actual effort/danger, which SJWs would never put themselves through. Moral superiority is their goal, not any sort of change.
Nah, you've got it about right. It's not offensive at all, and the contortions people are performing to make it so are quickly becoming quite mind boggling.
"If it's not about women, it's sexist."

Ok.
Ukraine has been historically divided into pro-West Ukraine in the west and pro-Russia Ukraine in the east. I think the only peaceful resolution to this conflict is having two independent states.
I know a number of Belorussians, and they all want to move to the EU. They also regularly drive to Poland for shopping, because it's cheaper and more things are available there :)
Do you want to assert that Bulgaria, Slovakia would be better in Russian sphere of influence?

Do you suggest that benzopirenes are more harmful than a lot of tear gas being used against protesters?

Kiev is living its own life, re-read the Zyalt's post if you haven't read this yet.

Protesters are stupid? Ok, is it better to stay quiet when you have your president becoming a dictator? When police is more like bandits and courts are lawless? When peaceful protests are almost outlawed just because it annoys the dictator and its clique?
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The uncle of my girlfriend is a train driver (not in Japan, but in Belgium), and he's had several of these incidents happen during his career. Here, walking under a train is one of the more popular methods of committing suicide.

It's a very tough situation, because trains don't stop on demand. Last week, a friend-of-a-friend killed himself by walking into a slow-driving train. Imagine being the driver of a train with a 20-year-old kid walking towards your cabin and being unable to stop the train in time.
"But she still has to type it again, over and over, taking a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time."

The idea that a woman would literally be repeatedly emotionally traumatized by typing a three letter combination would be hilarious if it weren't so blatantly misogynistic.
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There isn't one. There's a problem with the people who have a problem with it.
A lot of this is solved with a requirement that police officers must always be on cam (cameras that they carry on their person must be on at all times). Everybody benefits except the scumbag cops and the criminals.
People come up with all sorts of excuses when they fail, usually ones that place the blame on an external factor rather than internal (lack of work ethic, unsuitability for a role, etc).

This is hardly new, or confined to a single gender. It's like when they study obesity and find that people who "can't" lose weight massively under report their calories.
Nothing will placate the misogyny complaints, which is why they are best ignored.
Well, 'beautiful' is to a certain extent a subjective quality. 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful is X' can be interpreted as 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful to me is X', and that's not really a statement that you can argue against.

But even so, the fallacies are either stretched or completely inapplicable. Both the 'no true scotsman' and 'special pleading' fallacies involve constantly shifting goalposts, but we've only ever seen Jormundir say that internal design is part of what makes the new Mac Pro beautiful. Where are the shifting goalposts?

Like, I don't think that the fact that it's not beautiful on the inside is relevant to the fact that it's a cool as hell mod; I think it's completely irrelevant. But throwing fallacies at the statement is just weird. I don't get how they apply at all.
are you nuts? this would never occur in the UK.
I think that paper is very inspirational to people who love to stereotype others based on race, especially in a judgmental manner.
Oh no!!! That's literally rape, omg.
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Citizen of a neighbour of "former Baltic USSR republic" here. We also gained so much from EU membership that it's hard to describe in full. But it's also hard to notice how every single piece of existing infrastructure was improved with EU money, and many new things were built - roads, transportation, as well as playgrounds and football fields.

Yes, we have a lot of complainers here, but they mostly blame EU for either what particular neighbour countries did to us before we were even a member state, or they blame EU for whatever anti-EU crap some British newspapers produces this month (Some newspapers in UK don't like EU, they write nonsense about legislations like the one with juices or water, the news spreads and people here believe it. Seen this many times).

TL;DR: this side of the world, joining EU is a Good Thing for the people.

EDIT: a reply made me realize that I'm not sure if it was The Guardian or another British paper that spins anti-EU nonsense, so I removed the name.
Might as well work out what $2495.00 in 1984 equates to today...

I used this site:

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com

$2495 in 1984 inflates to a hard to swallow $5,594.11, an increase of 124.2%.

Being a limey this this is hard for me to comprehend. So I looked at this page:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt

There were $1.4076 per £1 in January 1984, which roughly equates as £0.71 per $1. So if I wanted to buy a brand new Mac 30 years ago, I would have had to cough up around £3974 in today's money.

A quick browse for IMac prices, around £1300 (~$2135, the dollar had a higher value compared to the pound in 1984 than today).

My father's IMac boasts a 2Ghz processor. How many of your vital organs would you have to sell on Ebay to buy 2Ghz of kick in 1984?

Here is a picture of a Cray X-MP:

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8c4/74c/8c474c54-...

A Cray X-MP in 1984 would cost about $15,000,000 for 105Mhz, so I would require 19 Crays, costing a total of $285,000,000. Taking into account inflation, today that would be a bank-breaking $639,006,208.

I'm trying to remember the source, but I think the CDC 7600 packed 512Kb of memory back in 1969. The Mac had a comparable amount but cost about a 1000 times less.
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>"bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic.
>You're not taking this serious.

Well gee, I wonder why.
thesz is from Moscow, it's how it looks from there.
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> Ok, is it better to stay quiet when you have your president becoming a dictator? When police is more like bandits and courts are lawless? When peaceful protests are almost outlawed just because it annoys the dictator and its clique?

Reminds me of one country that tends to drone strike everything that they can't spy on.
Well, we already have fascists in Hungary.
That's before my time! Haha. I know it's always been there, but it's gotten so much worse lately, or so it seems to me.
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We've had two months of peaceful protest at Maidan being ignored politically and assaulted with police. Many activists have been beaten, some of them are dead.

After two month of Yanukovych plainly ignoring protests and our opposition ("leaders" of the protest) being impotent, protesters were desperate, so the more radical part started to use the violence against police at Hrushevskogo street. Maidan is still a place for peaceful protest.

I don't want to excuse our radical protesters, but the situation was grieve and radical protests succeeded at Yanukovych admitting that he has to do something.
It seems like nowadays all of these services are trying to one-up each other on privacy and promises of good intention. My parents couldn't care less about their online privacy - they were storing their files by emailing them one-by-one as attachments. Anything is better than that system, so Dropbox really did wonders. This solution is hardly a Dropbox-killer, because its not made for the 99% of people who use email attachments to save their files.

I saw an ad for a product Western Digital is coming out with in this realm:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424967,00.asp

the "My Cloud" product itself is apparently total crap, but the idea will certainly be refined to serve a purpose similar to that of teapot. That is, glorified network file access.
Here in India, we have also witnessed a series of street agitations against a corrupt political system that runs most of the country.

Though, It hasn't crossed the line, yet, and turned into violent protests like Kiev.

There are many things which have happened in the 21st century, but the rise of frequent civilian protests around the world is certainly the one that stands out. I am not a student of history, but this is the first time I am becoming more and more aware of such restlessness in the citizens of the world.

I guess, this is a kind of cycle. Political systems rise, become stable and stay for some time and then slowly the rot begins, which when reaches a certain tipping point, forces the masses to rise to make correction and then the cycles repeats.

The only difference being the timeline of the cycle, which seems to differ from region to region and from country to country.

I am sure there must be some literature/research dedicated to this phenomena.
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There's been plenty of butthurt about it:

http://jezebel.com/the-many-misguided-reasons-famous-ladies-...
Agreed. We have them in Paris at a minority of stations. Hopefully this will eventually be ubiquitous and not having them, like elevators with no internal doors, will seem extremely outdated.

(Yes, this must be costly, but it's not just relevant to prevent suicides. I have once been at the very brink of a subway platform in Paris without that did not have such equipment, along with a huge crowd of other people who were eager to get in the train. Anyone behind could just push anybody on the (electrified) tracks, and if panic were to break out for any reason it would have been a disaster.)
Yep. Shuttle buses with Belorussian plates and "shopping in Lithuania" slogans is common sight there.

Fun fact, Vilnius' IKEA is built next to a highway that goes to Belorussian border. Every 5th or so plate in the parking lot is BY.
Is this really happening? If it is, it brings up an interesting issue.

Private public transport can out compete public transport. But then school buses already do this as well (compared to Europe). Though I did commute using SF buses, and I fully understand why one would not prefer ones kids to travel on them, and even why one would prefer company buses.

As for rents, true, but can that not mostly be blamed on restrictive building regulations? Not so much with regards to standards as well with regards to limits to flats and highrise buildings. As there is an undisputed market demand for more housing in the bay-area.

Imho protesters are a tad misguided in who they are targeting.
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Most deaths are suicide. So even spending a lot of money and effort won't help, because the root of the problem is psychological, not technical.
I am little surprised that there was merely a financial settlement. This is not just an invasion of Mr Eckert's privacy but a matter of public concern. The law enforcement officials and doctors should have been fired too, well not just by fired but criminally booked as well. I am surprised this has not happened.

On a larger note, imagine that government tries to build a military base on a mountain behind your house. They use explosives to break bid rocks. One rock flies off and falls in your backyard killing your dog. Government pays you $1m as compensation. Does the matter end there ? Most certainly not. Instead government's negligence is a public concern. I think your neighbors should be allowed to demand that government disclose what security measures they have put in place to ensure that more rocks don't fly in air killing others.

I think in the above mentioned case it must be absolutely necessary that the cops and doctors should be booked and heavily penalized.
The difference is that Yanukovych is the president of _my_ country.
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That's a good point. I probably bought more games from small indie developers on iOS the last few years than PS3 titles. Those indies wouldn't have access to the PS3 market.
We always have an alert box shown up when the audio and video recording is turned on.
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Not in the article but still a good example:

> There are an alarming amount of typos and grammatical errors ...

Errors are countable. Should be:

There is an alarming number of typos and grammatical errors ...
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They want Ukraine to join European union. and the fate of Ukraine will be pretty grim in that case

I am as euroskeptic as the next man, but the EU is 100x better for everyone than the USSR was.
There are two forces clashing. US supported groups (That basically want Ukraine to be part of the EU) and Pro Russian groups (supported by good ol' Putin). Let's hope it all ends well.

This is the Bozo who thought it all up:
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Nitpick - Himmler wasn't tried at Nuremberg. He committed suicide while in British custody:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
Similar idiocy does happen to European tourists/visitors.

Google "John Kristoffer Larsgard" for an AG's narrative that makes no sense, yet made it all the way to court and a conviction. (Astroturfing on both sides - look for the facts.)

For me, the US is indefinitely off my itineraries, both private and business. I've lived there for years, and I liked it, but the risk of becoming a pawn in some elected law enforcement official's scramble for reelection - or pissing off the wrong police officer - carries too much risk.
I don't think I've ever heard of a Molotov being directed at a person because that isn't what they are useful for. Not to mention the fact that unless you were to hit a shield/helmet you likely wouldn't break the bottle and ignite the contents.

They have been primarily used for disabling vehicles and making some ground impassable. It doesn't appear that the wiki even references their use against individuals so much as against vehicles.
OT but why doesn't the German forum want any links to them, even going so far as threating with sueing the poster if he doesn't remove the link?