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The alternative is for Comcast to buy enough transit to receive those bits from Netflix. I'm sure Netflix would be happy enough to deliver those bits to Comcast via transit, if enough capacity was available.

Shouldn't Comcast be required to purchase enough capacity to provide high-quality service to their residential customers? SFI between a content provider and an eyeball network should be a mutually beneficial cost reduction, but Comcast has enough market power (captive broadband subs) that they can get away with intentionally not buying enough capacity to serve their customers.
>According to prevailing wisdom, the continents were lifeless, irradiated rock shelves until after the occurrence known as the Cambrian explosion in the seas 540 million years ago, when the precursors to rooting plants and animals burst forth from the ocean to colonize the land.

>Taken together, the geochemical and microfossil findings support his theory that during the Precambrian eon, complex life forms evolved not only in the oceans, but also on land.

I'm confused. "Cambrian explosion" refers to the development of multicellular organisms, and the resulting geologically-instantaneous biodiversity, not the colonisation of land. Surely the leap to multicellular is a rare event that only happened once. This article seems to be trying to imply that the ocean was not "the cradle of life" in that sense, or that it evolved twice.
>It spreads via blood or other body fluids, it's not airborne or transmitted via touch.

How do you think diseases spread through body fluids normally spread? By touch, from sick patients to their caregivers.
Because there are two pieces to a penalty:

1) Restitution to the parties. $6 billion is probably in the right ballpark

2) Deterrent to prevent the behavior. $6 billion isn't relevant.

And, to be fair, $6 billion is the direct damage to people directly employed at these companies. Consider the fact that all salaries in the Bay Area were depressed by this action. That's a LOT more than $6 billion.
So it doesn't have value because people think it has value.
According to a user here, this is the result from the Kickstarter called Rails.app! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp

I'm not sure what this is though. I was under the impression it would be as simple as installing Postgresql using Postgres.app. Which is literally downloading an .app and copying it into your Application folder. http://postgresapp.com/

Want to try this out but don't want to bork my homebrew/rvm/gemset set up. Does this support multiple ruby/rails versions?
As a Rails coder on a Mac who uses RVM for managing my apps, is there any reason for me to switch to Tokaido? And if there is a compelling reason to, what would happen if I ran this installer? Massive conflicts or is it all sandboxed or something?
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What is currently private are the proposed terms of the settlement.
Those get mailed to every member prior to any judge approving or denying them, because the class members can object independently of the lead plaintiffs
How does this compare to Apache Tika?
I think that is really smart and makes a lot of sense. Facebook started out by servicing a niche, Twitter was used by tech nerds.
Thanks for the really informative post - i appreciate it.
Is this really still true? With utilities like ruby-install that also install all of Ruby's OS X dependencies, and bundler, I didn't think it was still so difficult to get Rails up and running.
Well written analogy of cryptocurrencies, it might help to mention all the other hundreds of new cryptocurrencies that follow the same or similar model, LTC, PPC, DOGE, VERT, XPM, etc.
The issue with BTC now is not if it is a Ponzi scheme, if it is then so is USD, EURO! Etc.
Banks (central especially) are very worried about BTC. This is the next phase, which I like to call "then they fight you".
Banks are refusing to do transfers to exchanges, citing fraud (absurd as exchanges have stronger AML/KYC policies than banks), central banks are creating or trying to block new sites, creating new laws banning purchasing cryptocurrency. The theory is that if you can stop the fiat leaking out, you can kill its apparent trade value.
I say as long as 1 person can use the network to send the minimum transaction amount, the network will survive.

As they say in DOGEland; 1 DOGE = 1 DOGE. As long as this is true, DOGECOIN will have value.
In his book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, Andrew Blum presents a partial defense of the late senator's analogy:

"I have confirmed with my own eyes that the Internet is many things, in many places. But one thing it most certainly is, nearly everywhere, is, in fact, a series of tubes."
hundreds is certainly an underestimate.
Lawsuits like this have massive amounts of discovery to go through.
I think the fact that all life as we know it is essentially a "bag of water" is pretty conclusive evidence of its origination in water. However, at some point life clearly flirted with the land, so to speak, and thus there would inevitably be an evolutionary track of going back and forth as organisms become more able to go without sources of water for longer and longer periods. The evolution of amphibians follows the same pattern. So I think it is erroneous and sensationalist to say "fossil evidence suggests complex life evolved on land". It would be more accurate to say something like "early life may have evolved on land more than scientists had previously realized".
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Because this is about something he _did_ not something he thinks?

> It is the job of the Thought Police to uncover and punish thoughtcrime and thought-criminals.

> thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party

Note the unspoken part of that definition. Eich took steps, actual steps, not even just speech, to limit the rights of other people. That's why it's not thought police.

Treating people with less dignity than someone else is a _huge_ thing, this isn't just a petty political issue. The Mozilla community, a private group of individuals, raise many concerns that someone willing to limit the dignity afforded to certain groups of people through actual actions that person has taken was not fit to be the head of their organization. How is that thoughtpolice

EDIT: Downvotes without comments do so much to move the conversation forward, thanks!
Because this is about something he _did_ not something he thinks?

> It is the job of the Thought Police to uncover and punish thoughtcrime and thought-criminals.

> thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party

Note the unspoken part of that definition. Eich took steps, actual steps, not even just speech, to limit the rights of other people. That's why it's not thought police.

Treating people with less dignity than someone else is a _huge_ thing, this isn't just a petty political issue. The Mozilla community, a private group of individuals, raise many concerns that someone willing to limit the dignity afforded to certain groups of people through actual actions that person has taken was not fit to be the head of their organization. How is that thoughtpolice?
Charging the battery fast isn't necessarily so bad in and of itself, but fast charging tends to generate a lot of heat, and high heat is bad for lithium ion longevity. The Model S has a battery cooling system built into the car which kicks on when needed, so this is not such a big issue.

The Leaf doesn't have any battery chillers though, so fast charging may indeed be bad for it. Also, even though most DC fast chargers only put out 50kW (as opposed to 120kW for Superchargers), if you consider how much smaller the Leaf pack is, you're actually charging the battery faster than a Supercharger can charge a Tesla.

That said, this study seems to indicate that fast charging isn't all that bad for Leafs anyway: http://insideevs.com/idaho-national-laboratory-dc-quick-char...
I thought superchargers were solar powered?
We have medicine we spent billions in research and development perfecting. Let's find us a diagnosable disease we can sell it against!
So, illegal behavior is fine as long as it provides jobs? You might want to think about your statement a little harder.

Yes, the penalty should be high enough that the company goes bankrupt if they lose 2 or 3 of these kinds of cases.
"In this example, the defendants get a decent bonus check. I'm really offended by "class action" lawsuits where the lawyers make millions and the victims get a coupon for $10 off their next purchase."

Me too. But the only good solution to this is no class action lawsuits (which i'm actually fine with, but let's be real that anything else won't work in all cases).

"Also, in this case, THE LAWYERS WERE TAKING NO RISK. There already was a ton of evidence from the justice department case. What actually happens is several groups of lawyers rush to file, each with a different lead plaintiff, and then the judge picks which group of lawyers get the big cash windfall.
"

This is so wrong i don't even know where to start.

So if i wanted to, say, create a new version of facebook, you'd say i wasn't taking any risk because i can already see what facebook did?
I'm pretty sure this was meant for beginners to lower the barrier to entry for getting started.

Slightly OT: I thought most people had switched from rvm to rbenv. What's the current situation between these two?
"Poly1305 also saves network bandwidth, since its output is only 16 bytes compared to HMAC-SHA1, which is 20 bytes. This represents a 16% reduction of the TLS network overhead incurred when using older ciphersuites such as RC4-SHA or AES-SHA."

Does that mean 25B->21B per-packet overhead? What percentage overhead are TLS headers?
Yes. I've never seen a quote at $1/Mbps regardless of scale.

It wouldn't surprise me if speed/pricing like that existed around major network hubs (like Chicago).

I'm paying $8/Mbps. If I were to afford five times more backhaul than I have now, that price eventually drops to about $3.8/Mbps.

Places like Charter and Comcast pay less for their backhaul, in part because they are their backhaul, in part because they are large enough to negotiate their own peering agreements.

Recently, that's swung even more in their favour. Netflix, for instance, pays Comcast money for the "privilege" of paying the costs for all of the backhaul Netflix uses over Comcasts lines.

People sometimes call this "double dipping". But it's actually "triple dipping". Comcast charges subscribers money, Comcast makes Netflix buy the backhaul to Comcast, and Comcast charges Netflix again, to allow them to connect the backhaul they already bought, to Comcast's network.
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I'm confused, since when does Amazon Fresh take 2 days? I put in an order last night around 11pm and the stuff was on my doorstep at 4am.
Assuming you wave a magic wand and get rid of the technical and cost issues, you then run into thermal pollution. You're collecting heat from space and beaming it to Earth and then inefficiently converting it to electricity.
Twilio lets you deliver SMS from a number other than your Twilio number. The one caveat is that you need to have Twilio verify the external number first, two-factor auth style.

EDIT: Oops, apparently this is only for voice calling: http://www.twilio.com/help/faq/phone-numbers/whats-the-diffe...
Marketing isn't about lying. It's about telling the truth* that gets you to buy the product, not the whole truth. Who has time to tell the whole truth?

* for varying definitions of the truth.
I didn't say we had already run out of suckers. Just that it's coming and everyone (who can do math) knows that it is so.
Except that appeals work is significantly cheaper than a large lawsuit at the district court, because it often focuses on legal error. They don't relitigate the case.

Also, attorneys don't take appeals work on contingency, so you don't often see as many appeals.

The only people what you are suggesting maximizes for is the plaintiffs.

You also act as if the lead plaintiffs in cases like you suggest are blameless. The attorneys are not the ones agreeing to settle, and they actually can't do things without the okay of their plaintiffs.
Yep.

Chance of sickness or certainty of starvation.
> My concern is with the idea that there will yet be a "day of reckoning" when the rest of the ASDs must also be termed fad diagnoses, which seems to be the implication from the wording you used.

No, not possible. That would be as likely as schizophrenia being labeled a fad diagnosis, or seriously questioned as to its reality. The reason that cannot happen is there are a handful of real physical ailments, ailments rooted in genetics and body chemistry, not just mental illness. I'm saying that "real" mental illnesses are actually behavioral symptoms of physical ailments. If you cure the physical disease, the mental symptoms will go also.

Schizophrenia, bipolar syndrome, autism and a handful of other conditions aren't fads, they're physical diseases with behavioral symptoms. On the other hand, purely mental illnesses whose diagnosis relies entirely on the opinion of a clinical psychologist and that have no associated physical properties or diagnostic indicators, like Asperger's, that's a different story -- that's an obvious area for abuse by mental health practitioners.

Eventually there will be a day of reckoning in which conditions like autism, schizophrenia and bipolar syndrome will be scientifically understood, and when that happens, psychiatry and psychology will take an entirely new form.

This is why President Obama recently announced a brain initiative rather than a mind initiative -- people are becoming distrustful of claims about mind diseases.
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Five years ago I might have agreed with you. There's no reason to trust that google (another giant private company that disabled my ability to comment on youtube or rate android apps because I dared not to want to join g+) won't pull some crap once they're in a dominant position in the ISP market. Like with many other things google saw the writing on the wall regarding how they at the behest of the ISP and looked for ways to be at least minimally prepared for the worst.
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Yes, vs RC4-SHA.

There's always five bytes of record header: the record type, u16 length and u16 version. (The version is basically a waste.)

For AES-CBC there's an average of 8 bytes of padding (half the block size).

For AES-GCM there's eight bytes of wasted nonce because of FIPS concerns that appear to have been groundless.

Then there's the MAC: 20 bytes for HMAC-SHA1 or 16 for GCM or Poly1305.
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The main difference is that in Québec, tuition for all Universities is around that much. Tuition for a BA at McGill is $2,282.10 per year for local students, and McGill is arguably either the best or second-best school nationally.

For comparison, U of T in Ontario comes to around $6,000 p.a., or $13,000 for Engineering.
Thank you for the information. According to the linked XDA discussion:

"Evozi's fork is based on opensource 1.4.x, with tracking code and removes validation for undownloadable APKs as a fix for new play store. Besides this, it also removes the copyright header of background.js, adds more tracking and some textual changes (adding links to his own apps and social accounts)."

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44032616&post...
Looking for a summer internship as well. Currently studying at the University of Calgary, just finished my second year. I've been programming a bit longer than that however, and I do most things in Python, Java or Qt. I know a bit of C++ and I'm currently learning some HTML5 stuff. My github is here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/krruzic (only a few projects there).
Seems simple to prevent: Keep an active signal loop between receiver and satellite. If something goes wrong, shut off the satellite. Worst case a couple of seconds, which with microwaves isn't long enough to do substantial damage (I suspect).
No, I think there's clear objective attributes that are different. Email vs. phone: async vs. sync, recorded vs. unrecorded, etc. The only real difference between blockchain vs. standard db is anyone can write who has 'x-coin' vs. trusted authority can write, and I argue that the difference really isn't that important.
i would say that hes a good choice and generally "no bullshit" from bugs/mailing lists reads.

There was a funny twitter account with his name that has now been removed which was a satire of his way of handling people.
I'm not at mozilla corp. but "very nice" sounds like a stretch. I'm sure mozilla needs positive input right now - but psst :)
> eventually the world will run out of suckers.

That will only happen when everyone uses Bitcoin or something better.
>There are people working at Mozilla today, many of whom are pulling in a decent salary, who believe they are working for social justice charity rather than a technology non-profit.

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ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You're an idiot, and I think you even know that you're completely misrepresenting the situation which I guess just makes you a liar.
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Right on - for me, it is that they could not make the fundamental decision of whether or not Google+ was a place or connective tissue between places. I can only guess, but it seems to me like a reaction to Facebook - they felt the need to differentiate from them and thus created this awkward construct. As I mentioned above, I think the winning strategy would have been to define Google+ as a place - the place to share stuff from all your other Google apps/sites really easily - basically create a feed of all your stuff from across the Google universe.

They've got some of it, but it doesn't quite work (for me at least) because of small gaps - like the fact that Chromecast works with Youtube, but not with Google+ Photos - thus in order to use Chromecast to display the wonderful video I just took, I have to essentially download it and reupload it to Youtube. Google+ Photos likely leverages the same tech as Youtube, but they're clearly being developed separately and that just seems silly.

Other people have put the fault on designers - to me this is a failure of product management and ultimately management to pull together the various forces that I'm sure exist within Google. And I don't think that was easy and that's why I say that Vic has some measure of success.

Google+ is, for me, almost really good - but it falls down in enough places that I would consider switching, for instance, if Dropbox came up with a full office suite to match Google Drive (which they seem to be working on).
And, equally important as Mozilla, has not expressed a political opinion that is disagreeable.
It's not that it's too hard, it's just not something I want to worry about. I think some people like to really organize things and some see it as a hassle.

For myself my inbox has essentially two folders. Inbox and Archived. My facebook lists is just friends and my google plus circles is just whatever the default is.

I don't want to think about who I'm sharing things with. I either share it with everyone on a social network or send it as an email to specific people.
You mean, Andreas hasn't done things that would actively harm the lives of the people working under him?

Sounds like a good thing to me.

I don't think you fucking trolls are making the point you think you are.
that was loooong... I'm using TLDR for the first time, thank you
Comcast does transit with many peers, but Netflix doesn't do business with any of them because they want to lower their own costs by cutting out the middlemen.

A peering agreement is free when both sides are accepting traffic for the others, but that's not what is happening in this case. Netflix -> Comcast is one way.

Still waiting for an answer to my previous question, should Comcast delivery my personal website to their customers for free?
Don't like Google+ either..
Charging back is protection for either one of the two transacting parties to protect themselves from misrepresentation from each other. The fact that it's one of the most popular features of a credit card would imply placing the naiveness on you. Laws/regulation exist because people are imperfect!
Except that appeals work is significantly cheaper than a large lawsuit at the district court, because it often focuses on legal error. They don't relitigate the case.

You still ignored his main point, get the money now without delay and without the possibility of appeals court striking it down or lowering the amount won--if they win. Appeal after appeal can take a few years.

The attorneys are not the ones agreeing to settle, and they actually can't do things without the okay of their plaintiffs.
Can they "strongly suggest" it to the plaintiffs?
“In my old age, I am so disappointed that people close their minds and jump on whatever splashy, simplistic bandwagon is in vogue,”

“But if you start with the rocks and work upward to an interpretation, it often reveals a reality that is not the one in vogue.”

Kudos to Knauth for having the fortitude to cut through the cultural bias & naysayers in the pursuit of truth.
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Are you just as frustrated with Tim Cook for telling global warming deniers that he doesn't want their money?

Life is just so unfair, isn't it?
For anyone who thinks it doesn't matter that apps like Candy Crush Saga are vulnerable to heartbleed, remember that the majority of users use the same password for multiple sites and apps. So gaining access to their video game password can give a baddie access to their email or bank account password.
multi-sig on the blockchain allows you to do escrow in some interesting ways.
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Hi, I'm writing a software development book and I'd like to send some free copies to software developers who are well connected in the hopes that they feel inclined to recommend it.

The book is a Java software development book, any ideas?
Disagreeable isn't a problem. Bigoted is a problem.
You're absolutely able to spoof SMS numbers from a technical standpoint, but you'll have to go straight to an SMSC or aggregator that lets you do it.

I haven't checked in years, but we had to write an SMPP library to pull it off. That sucked.
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This idea reminds me of the ION cannon from Command & Conquer.
Your assertion that Netflix "doesn't pay an ISP" is at odds with their description of having previously paid Cogent to carry traffic over long distances. Now, "Netflix is itself shouldering the costs and performing the transport function for which it used to pay transit providers."

In other words, you're describing a situation in which Comcast blackmailed Netflix for access to Comcast's customers as one in which Netflix claims they "should not have to pay for internet traffic". This is detached from reality.
I've seen grocery stores offering this.

Giant: http://www.peapod.com/
Ralphs: http://shop.mywebgrocer.com/
Safeway offers same day delivery: http://shop.safeway.com/ecom/home

That's a few different regions, and the Ralphs has been doing it for over five years. I bet the idea has spread to most major cities by now.

I don't know why this hasn't just displaced normal grocery shopping. Lack of knowledge about it or customer comfort, hard to establish new buying trends for basic purchases, no idea.