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This guy is a completely vicious puke. He deserves everything he gets and a whole lot more.

Did you read the bit where he told a woman who wouldn't have phone sex with him that he would kill her baby by flushing it down a toilet? How do you think that made her feel?
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because he's probably talking about doing it over wifi, which happens to degrade fast if it needs to traverse thick walls.
Throwing the cell-phone to regrasp it is kinda cool !
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And the christians deserve it because...?
The oldest of the old is in Nara, and millions come sightseeing every year
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Shorter method: run 'iotop'.

This tool is packaged in every current Linux OS.

If you want to change IO priority, run ionice.
It's only because of their bullshit "hard line on (something allegedly bad)" or from making a big deal about their piety and "clean lifestyle", that they're susceptible to such pranks in the first place.

I thought they were susceptible to this because of security problems with a website, and not specifically because they're religious?

Reasonable people unconcerned with maintaining a squeaky clean image would indeed just laugh it off.

Right, so if someone did the same thing to you, you're absolutely sure you'd think it was hilarious and laught it off, without feeling even a hint of annoyance about it?
my own driving is not money-limited...

Yes, but (I infer that) you're a well-paid, environmentally-conscious professional living in the center of a dense (and expensive) city. For everybody like you, there's a pizza delivery driver on the other side of the bell curve who covers 200 miles a night. If delivery-miles get cheaper, we have no reason to think the pizzeria wouldn't spend the savings on more drivers, so as to reduce the amount of time customers have to wait.

when gas costs doubled briefly last year...

We wouldn't expect to see much change so soon after the price shock. Filling up at $4.50/gallon is no fun, but in the short term it's something people are willing to put up with rather than buying a new Prius or moving into a new home with a shorter commute.
Hey everyone! _why the lucky stiff's Flickr account still exists! http://www.flickr.com/photos/_why

Either he or the hackers or whoever is responsible for this forgot about his Flickr account.
so, an IRC channel?
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I know how TipJoy could make money fairly easily. Would like to help.
I was joking. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
Not quite—it's about half-way in between a Reddit-like model and an IRC server. Unlike an IRC server, everything someone "says" (links to) must be cross-posted to all the threads/channels they think it's applicable to, instead of hidden within the context of the conversation being had at the moment. Unlike an IRC server, people can vote on the articles' relevances to each conversation. And unlike an IRC server, the articles with the highest aggregate relevances show up on a "front page." It would take about the same amount of work to make an IRC service daemon that managed voting and gave a "front page" listing as it would to extend a social-news/bookmarking service with tag-link-pair voting and move discussions to tags. Plus, I think the IRC culture would be less willing to accept the resulting "conversation bleed" than the social-news/bookmarking culture.
I don't see how causing someone's home to be invaded by a SWAT team is so different from sticking a gun in their face yourself. What if it had gone wrong and someone actually got shot?

11 years is light.
"President Felipe Calderón waited months before approving the law."

:D
You don't need a Class C to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's on dynamic IP, don't do shit.
> or because of what was posted they lost their job.

And this is why I can't help but sympathize with 4chan on this. I agree it's not pleasant for people involved, and that overall it's an unethical thing to do... but. From a social point of view, on a large scale and timeframe, what 4chan does stretches the limits of what is socially accepted. Means aside, their purpose in this is to make a parody of christian social inhibitions. Not exactly evil, and arguably not even mean.
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11 years is right in my opinion.

He physically abused people dozens of time, in the form of FBI coming to their house and beating them up as they arrested them.

Not too mention how many threats on people's lives?

The immense number of malicious intended calls definitely leads to a number like 11 years, at least.
Why do headphones need to be wired anyways?
Because of three things:

- cost

- otherwise they'd need a power source

- sound quality will degrade if you modulate the audio for transmission and then demodulate again on the receiving side, especially channel crosstalk will increase
People are happy to pay for information that's of value to them. How does Google Finance make money, by showing ads to people who are preoccupied with their own business?
I think you're right from a business perspective. The reality though is that "gang bangers" aren't killing people solely for the benefit of their drug smuggling and distribution operations. It's become a cultural thing, the change you're suggesting would require a total cultural change, which wouldn't happen anywhere near the present day.

If you don't believe me, look at the slew of wealthy hip hop/rap artists who get busted with firearms or even for violent crimes. There's no reason for them to do it, but they do it anyway, because it's what they're used to.
If you look at the iPod carefully you'll see that they number of mechanical components is cut down to a minimum.

The most fragile components are the mechanical ones and the battery, if your iPod fails it is probably because of one of those.

The headphone wires are the most fragile bit outside your iPod. I've had many of these fail, if they were an integral part of the iPod you'd lose the whole device, or you'd have to get it repaired.
It may. But it may also engender more problems than it solves.

Don't forget that the burden of maintaining the prison system is on the shoulders of the rest of society.

America has an absolutely amazing number of people in prison at any given time, also the chances of becoming a prisoner in your lifetime border on the medieval compared to the rest of the developed world.
Kid had turned his talent to music, he coulda been the next Biggie. A man who got the girls, the money and the respect and no-one cared about his immense girth.
I call your bluff. 'iotop' may be included in many linux distro's but don't say every. My Arch box doesn't have it, not by default anyway.

edit: What I'm trying to say, is that your statement is overly broad. Not all linux distro's have 'iotop' installed. It is not a guarantee. Particularly on specialized distros.
>also the chances of becoming a prisoner in your lifetime border on the medieval compared to the rest of the developed world.

That implies that the imprisoning is arbitrary, which it isn't. If you don't commit major crimes then your chance of being imprisoned is near zero.
"and second how we've completely lost touch with how big things are."

I think the author missed reading his own writing :)

It's about 39000 times, not counting overhead for meta data and end-of-file slack.

It is amazing though, the speed with which the price of storage has come down. 10GHz processors are probably not going to happen, but I really won't be surprised if someone will offer a multiple terabyte solid state drive within a decade.

Not all that long ago I bought a 500 MB conner peripherals hard drive for about 1500$ and I wondered how we would ever fill that thing up...
Re Greenspun's bundles of skills: One of the Rich Dad books talk about being "one skill away from great wealth". Because of Robert's best selling book, he is interviewed by a young woman who's also a talented writer. But she isn't getting published. He points out that he is a "best selling" author, while she is a "best writing" author. "It's not fair," she says, then reiterates Robert's thesis.

I think you can have both bundles.

It's just that if it's hard to become really good at just one skill-set, it's going to be twice as hard to be become really good at two. Could be it's even harder - but isn't x2 enough to explain why so few people practice both? I say "practice", because that's how you become really good at something.

I fancy myself as a writer. I'm often constructing story outlines. I'm a published author (technical writing, alas). I model my startup/research life on those of writers. In other words, I'm a creator, a builder. It's not just what I do, it's what I value; what is meaningful to me.

Yet, I've spent this August researching licensing agreements in my industry, to discover and understand what the standard approaches are, from the web. Once you're into it, it is quite interesting and challenging. It's a lot of work, and terms as used in price-lists and licenses are often ambiguous without the context of their use in action - it's like learning a foreign language from books. That's OK. The problem is that it is worthless in the eyes of a "creator" - my eyes. It's part of "selling". However, it's necessary in order to make money at reasonable rates. It makes sense to practice this skill, and gain this knowledge.
They seem legit from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_logic

At the very least, it's significantly less stupid than "XML acceleration". :-P

I'm thinking it's kinda a specialized object database for XML documents? Considering a lot of documents these days are ODF and MSOOXML, that might actually be an interesting technology.
> If you don't commit major crimes then your chance of being imprisoned is near zero.

You think so ?

Three strikes law ?

Minor drugs infractions ?

stuff like this:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/topless_woman_poli...

Think again:

http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1001548
The project page: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
No need to link to Slashdot.
I think it's because VML is slow, and probably it misses some features to properly emulate SVG.
That's not possible, because you have a space in there.
This article reads like a bunch of notes. Not much interesting stuff and zero flow. oof
Regarding 2. Hang out on the web dev channels on IRC, after a while you can tell who has the chops to handle the work you're looking for.
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People buy benefits, not features. It's not what the product is, but how it helps them - what use is it.

If Wilcox eloquently illustrates the unreliability of other people and the inappropriateness of optimism, this could reassure people in some cases. Certainly, its very eloquence can be of use to people who appreciate that in itself, or who want to study it (but that's what Stephen King complains of here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633935)

People want to be encouraged and inspired by their reading. Most of us don't need assistance in being discouraged. I think I might go read some more Emerson.
I assumed he does, indeed, rely on collaborators for computer stuff. After all, although Diaconis is a former magician, no amount of magic would cause the papers to write themselves.

In fact, there were two things I liked about this passage: 1) the fact that he does not use a computer, 2) the fact that he does not know much of Differential Geometry.

1) makes me wonder if I waste too much time online. 2) makes me feel less bad for knowing so little of Differential Geometry ;-)
not by default for most distros means an

apt-get install iotop

or

yum install iotop

away. That took about 6 seconds on the two machines I tried it on. So even if it is not installed by default it hardly is a hindrance that it isn't.
Would you care to quantify that ?
The article acknowledges iotop and explains that this method is for older kernels that don't support whatever syscalls iotop uses.
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...and cheap SSDs are pathologically bad at random writes -- at least an order of magnitude worse than an mediocre hard drive on average, with regular latency spikes of several seconds!
Google the article title and follow that link. You won't get the paywall.
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1. Invent the ultimate url shortner
2. Re-design how news is delivered and monetised
3. Write a commercial model for Twitter type services

These aren't intended to be flippant answers, these are how you'll make $$$.

If you're really, really desperate, you could try something like: www.therichjerk.com (not an affiliate link btw)
We have alot of this on tinychat.
The acts of this individual demonstrated that he was unable to operate within the bounds of human society. 11 years is about right in relation to other sentences with the US justice system, but that presupposes that the US justice system is fair and proper.

I don't believe the purpose of prison is punishment. I think the US system of prisons is cruel, unusual and close to insane. People are regularly threatened with rape in prisons and a lot of average US citizens think this is perfectly acceptable. This unconstitutional system is terrible for our society, as it churns out repeat offenders.

Look at the Norwegian prison system for something that is sane. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/14/norway-prison-...
iotop is a very thin ncurses frontend to taskstats in the linux kernel, and is totally dependent on TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING being enabled when the kernel is built.

They were introduced in 2.6.20, so the stupidly conservative distros that have been frozen for years on 2.6.18 or 2.6.19 don't get to play.

On nice distros that don't force-feed you their kernel and litter their repos with broken-out kernel modules, installing something like iotop is not necessarily just a call to the package manager.
I had a chuckle at the 'If you are without honour you can download it here directly'. I think if the music industry would set up a site with that line in it together with a registration form and a 15 cent download fee they'd be doing just fine.

Thank you!
The difference is that prices would be driven down. The reason the drug cartels make obscene amounts of money is that they operate a monopoly, which they defend with violence and killings. If the market became legalized other players would enter the market until the profits were driven down to normal levels. And a gram of coke would cost you $1 on the street.
Or you could try writing a flash game and putting it on a platform like Heyzap. A simple game should take you a couple of weeks to make. You could even throw in virtual goods.
It's a Siggraph paper from 2007 (PDF, ~6MB)
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/Siggraph07-van_de...

Google Tech Talk about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEM-XAeY4K0

Reference:
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/
11 years may be right, but it's certainly tragic.

We're really all chubby little Weigmans-- grasping at anything for validation and meaning. When one thing disappoints us (Wow, I'm a total fail with poor hygiene and no friends...) we just find something else to give us meaning (...but at least my stock just vested!).

We can always find something new to validate ourselves. But if you're a poor blind bastard with no friends and a world that thinks you're garbage, what hope do you have? Probably none, so you just pick up the phone one more time.

I feel like I've heard too many stories like this lately, stories that are sad as much as anything.
Yes, but the headline is misleading - this is a terrible way to 'find per-process I/O statistics on Linux'.

'Linux with older kernels' would be more appropriate.
Those are interesting links, thanks.

But to expand on what I meant: I remember that back in the dot-com bubble, the bubble Greenspan wrote that essay in, there was a lot of enthusiasm and hype about how the future would be so much better for authors and artists than the old world of offline publishing - the Web would empower creators, cut out the middlemen, and channel tons of money to them, via the magic of 0-cost publishing, micropayments, and other things like search engines or aggregators. Greenspan's essay seems to buy into that zeitgeist, albeit relatively modestly.

Of course, that vision has largely come failed to come true (spectacularly so in the case of micropayments and agents). I wondered if the point of your linking this old essay was to emphasize the contrast and make clear that writing is still a marginal business regardless of where it's being distributed or what neat technical gadgets are involved.
I don't necessarily think these two contradict each other--they're really about different things. Sivers' article is concerned with the psychology behind motivation while this article and discussion is about the fear of idea stealing.

I'm firmly in the camp of sharing ideas with anyone who will listen. And, ideally, with different types of people. If I can concisely explain my idea with someone who doesn't know a browser from a modem, then that's when I know I've really thought through my idea.

That would be impossible if you're walking around with entrepreneur paranoia.
While the rebuttal makes good points, it still misses what the law is really about and why it isn't a step in the right direction at all. It's about prosecuting small-time drug dealers. Except now anyone caught exceeding the above limits of personal use is a drug dealer. The limits are so arbitrary they're laughable. I mean 5 grams of pot could keep you high for days or just give you a bad head ache, 40 mg of mdma? How much is that? the kid at the club only sells it by the pill.

TBF, it seems you could make yourself a pretty crazy personal party kit and stay under the legal limit. Too bad the kid caught with just a 10 mg bag of crappy pot will get a really hard time at the police station though.
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'litter their repos with broken-out kernel modules'

You don't seem to understand why modules exist. It doesn't matter how many modules are available, they won't be loaded unless they're needed. Eg, for PCI hardware, unless you have hardware that modules.pcimap matches to a driver. There is no overhead from having modules available to load, just extra convenience next time you, say, add a NIC or somesuch.

Also no distro force-feeds you a kernel. You're always able to build your own in the rare event that you need to, or the more likely event that you just feel interested in doing so.

For a business, most people can understand the benefit of using the same software that a few million others do.
Get it. The Bachelor's is too depreciated these days.
Here's one we're working on to give you an idea:
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"Even though you can get in trouble for filing a false DMCA notification (and even for failing to take fair use into account), most online services will quickly pull down content when receiving a DMCA takedown to preserve their safe harbor protections. So in almost all cases, the content will get pulled down, even if the content isn't really infringing."

Although this will be true for content randomly scattered about the internet there aren't that many services reviewing doctors, RateMyMD.com was mentioned, and so I would expect them to have the clout and the incentive to stand against this.
I think its more useful for a lot of people. If you drive to work and back every day, then you know how many miles you drive. So you can say "I need to fill up my tank every week" or something, and you can figure out how much money you need to spend each week. Its not about wondering if you can fill up during a trip, but about how much you need to spend on gas.
Two things come to mind that might work:
1) Gas credits for the poor... but this might be hard to get right.
2) Cheap public transportation. This won't work everywhere, but I suspect it would work in big cities and their suburbs.
They miss the point that merely the title is misleading.

The correct title should have been 'Mexico legalizes drug addictions', and I consider this a very, very good and important step for a country.

Why? Because there is a certain asymmetry in the drug scene.

On the one hand, you have those guys who are addicted. They buy small amounts of drugs to consume and, well, consume them. Usually, and especially for those harsher drugs, however, this addiction is physical, which -- at least to me -- qualifies as a sickness.

On the other hand, you have the professional drug dealers. They buy large amounts of drugs (much more than one could consume and not die) and sell drugs to other people. I consider this to be a nasty abuse of sick people (one might go as far and sort of compare it with stealing purses from people in wheelchairs, even though that might be a bit harsh).

Thus, mexico legalized a disease, while keeping abuse and organized criminality illegal, which seems like a good, correct step to me.
This seems somewhat less impressive that the raytraced Quake 3 from a few years ago, which has a higher framerate, less on-screen artifacts, and is also a well known application.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNZt3yDXno
This is the typical way to 'use' 4chan. One of the few guys there with a bit of knowledge breaks into something, gets a list and then his job is done.
Post the list to 4chan and have that community wreak havok with it. 4Chan is a semi-intelligent botnet.
OmniGraffle and Balsamiq are great for higher fidelity prototyping, but I find that the precision it allows and the care I end up taking pushing my mouse gets in the way of getting ideas down.

I usually stick to a fat pen and paper or whiteboard. When I'm done, I scan each page or take photos of sections of the whiteboard and then load them up as a presentation in Google Docs (easy to share with partners).

No losing papers or accidental erasures there!
Just so you can feel smug - a class C block gives you 254 usable IP addresses, not 256.
Americans and their weird notions of justice. No interest in solving the problem. Just hide the problem behind bars.

Just give him a year, professional help and a (low-paying) job at the FBI or AT&T. Saves society pain & money and saves his life.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9d5sq/im_ok_the...
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The arguments you make are flawed, because you are caught up in the mindset of "religious people == good people, therefore if there are no religious people, all these good, necessary things will not get done". This is demonstrably untrue. People remain generally good even when they are not fooled into being so by tales of an magical space god, and all those things are covered, as can be seen in every other rich country on earth. In fact, they are generally covered a lot better, so if you actually care about the plight of the needy you should be trying to get churches out of the charity business.
As long as the state is involved you will have at least implicit guarantees. Robert Anderson in his book "Just get out of the way" (http://books.google.de/books?id=yRs2Ms3918QC&lpg=PA1&...) treats this topic extensively.
They are not only threatened with rape.
IRC usually proves technical competence. Business-sense is a whole different skill set. FWIW, my problem with very competent programmers has been that they told me what I should be doing, instead of what I want done: the former is a technical decision that the two of us could have made in a mutual agreement after a brief discussion, the second is something handed down to me by the people signing my paycheck. Do what you're asked to do, not what you aught to do.
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x = 10

y = x + ++x

What is y?

Even the professor who teaches compiler construction at my university thought it was interesting to see how different languages or compilers handle this. I've tried a couple but leave it to you to post and discuss your results.

(I know it's terrible code)