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> The illegality of an action doesn't appear to immediately affect whether someone does something or not. It does affect how sneakily they do it.

That's also a matter of social censure though. I mean, every thread I've seen on this EME fiasco has included people looking forward to the Adobe CDM, in anticipation of its being cracked. Which is illegal.

See also people talking openly and frankly online about their usage of narcotics.

Which brings me to:

> So that's the kind of attitude that many people have about piracy. But laws have longer lasting effects. They social engineer people into "acceptable" modes of behaviour.

Again: drugs. Is taking marijuana less socially acceptable now after x decades of prohibition? No. It's completely bloody normal. And laws are slowly adjusting to the facts on the ground.

Will piracy become a big old taboo, like using child prostitutes? Will it continue to be 'normal', until anti-piracy people just give up? I don't have the faintest idea. This is going to run and run.

> So, while DRM and anti-circumvention laws are hateful and stupid it is daft to think that they have no effect on rates of piracy.

Daft indeed - everything has an effect. I'd want to see some numbers either which way.

Again: DRM has the effect, at the moment, of making it easier and cheaper to access content legally (by convincing Hollywood etc to license things to Netflix and co); but harder to use such content generally rather than under certain predefined conditions. Which one of these conditions is prevailing at the moment is a matter for statisticians and the like.

I would be surprised if Firefox's decision to implement EME mattered a hoot one way or another; DRM and non-DRM content will remain available through more or less the same channels as they were beforehand.

EDIT: on nintendo's encryption, this is (finally) some kind of concern. I notice that copy-protection is getting 'better' on certain popular music software (as well as more intrusive and annoying).
You might also be interested in Gleebox. I use it a lot.
A 6-character password is only insecure if you have unlimited attempts to guess it. If an attacker is blocked after something like 10 attempts, a 6-character password really provides all the security you need.
I think that's called just-one-more-turn syndrome.
http://bash.org/?13213

Like this?
The thing is that you only see the failures. Propping up a currency like that works fine until it doesn't.

Not buying up pounds would have meant dropping out of the ERM immediately. In the short term that would have saved money. In the long term, depends on your view of how similar or different the UK and German economies are.
Agreed.

Interesting to see that it doesn't work the same the other way.

> When you need to tell me about a problem in a plan, please do not start with a long apology. That is unbearably boring
Its not that they expect to see a bowl of brown M+Ms - its that they expect to see someone come back to them during negotiations with - "M+M's - seriously?"

If no-one comes back they know they need to give that venue more attention.
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It would be interesting to read the stories or incidents that caused all these clauses to be added. Imagine the parrot clause, what tripped this off to be added?
Nor is it possible with Bitcoin: the current default minimum transaction fee is 0.0001 BTC (which is ~$0.05). People often make a big deal about the transaction fee having been "lowered" (it used to be 0.0005 BTC), but as the transaction fee is measured in Bitcoin (which has highly-variable worth with respect to the things it is being used to purchase) this value must be adjusted occasionally, and Bitcoin happened to become much more valuable, requiring this fee to be lowered. At the same time, transactions less than this amount (by only about half, a 0.543 multiplier, so still larger than one cent) became "non-standard", which means that they will not be relayed; because, to quote the Bitcoin release notes, "storing them costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth". The blockchain just isn't designed for this kind of use case, and the idea of "dust" (tiny transactions that overwhelm the blockchain) started becoming a serious political problem in the community due to a gambling service called Satoshi Dice that managed to become a large percentage of the total traffic on the blockchain despite moving almost no money. In reality, attempts to build microtransactions on Bitcoin are based on the same approach that people use to build microtransactions over bank accounts and credit cards: a separate currency stored with (and thereby "owned by") a single entity that can move the virtual money "effectively for free". Coinbase recently started offering these "off-blockchain microtransactions" as a service, allowing people to withdraw funds only once they accumulate 0.01 BTC (so ~$5.00).
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Not anymore, this was valid up to CS5. CS5.5 and later need the amtlib.dll patch on Windows, dunno what's the state of affairs on Macintosh.
I would wager that you'd end up being handed a can of Coke at good proportion of the time.

"Oh sorry, they don't serve Pepsi here."

Richard Stallman's way makes it clear that he does not want to support Coke. He does not want you to hand him a Coke by mistake. Since I assume that is his goal, he communicated it well.

His story helps you to notice, and remember, this seemingly trivial detail.
If your team are all Apple users (in part), the Apple calendar is pretty good for sharing.

We use different email apps, but our email's provided by Media Temple as our hosting's with them. I rate Airmail pretty highly if you've got a Mac.
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I'm confused why you think him saying "I only want Pepsi" is in any way clearer than my saying "I only want Pepsi".

EDIT: Make it clearer by saying "Pepsi (absolutely not Coke or any other brand)" by all means but the person buying the drink wants to make sure you get what you want and then get on with their lives, they're really not interested in the why.

It feels to me that Stallman wants to use this - as with most of what he does - as something of a polemic about what he believes. That's fine but it does make the whole document less clear about the actual detail of what he wants.
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The ClamAV daemon also ship with a config file containing a line 'Example'. As long as the line is there it'll refuse to start.
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We use Sqwiggle (https://www.sqwiggle.com/) which is almost like being in the office - everyone's there when you need them.

Would totally agree with caw about getting a dog though!
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To be fair to him an apology and an explanation are different things.

He's basically giving his reasoning which under some circumstances is fine but on matters of beverages feels to me at least to be something you should file under unnecessary detail.

I guess it depends what he's trying to achieve with the document. As an aid to hosting Richard Stallman, it's too wordy. As a combination pollemic / Richard Stallman FAQ (though with some of these things frequently would seem to be stretching it) it's probably fine.
I think you're focusing too much on the technical implementation. I agree with the parent that a CDN effectively carries traffic from a content provider to the end user. Sure it does it in bigger chunks, and uses existing network connections. But the end result is still "pay more for faster access", and isn't that exactly what net neutrality is against?
Maybe I misunderstand how this works but I want to find a pathfinding algorithm that is super fast and only calculates the first few steps toward a target. The target is moving and the calculation needs to happen several times every second so calculating the whole path is not feasible. It doesn't really matter if it gets stuck or doesn't find the optimal path, just that it looks like it's trying to move closer to the target.

Any ideas?
It feels to me that you can't account for someone who would do something as ill considered as buying a parrot just because someone coming to stay with them for a couple of nights likes parrots.
These articles are very well structured. Excellent delivery.
Excessive pessimism? All he said is that this "will not be as useful in most cases of Parkinson's disease" because <list of reasons>. For me this is clear thinking, not pessimism. If one is not able to handle this kind of feedback without going emotional, then one most certainly lives in the world of self-induced delusions.
Am I going crazy or is that Tim Ferris he hired to help with shipping? https://twitter.com/cameronmoll/status/412080485502705664
Simply run bitcoin-qt or bitcoind all the time and make sure that you have port 8333 open to the outside world (if you have a router, this usually means forwarding 8333).

It takes a few hours to a half day for the node to catch up, depending on your bandwidth and CPU, but after that it requires relatively little processing time. But you do need ~20 GB of free hard drive space for the blockchain.
At Google's scale, they have to think 5+ years out. The technology doesn't just "become" good, it's enterprises and entities which iteratively reach that point. Street View helped them get this far, maybe Tango's research makes the last mile. The self-driving car itself has been in the works for 4.5 years already, with actual commercialisation at least that far away again (by my shot-in-the-dark estimation).

edit: Although there's a distinction between tech that can be previewed (Tango, Street View) and those which is developed in relative secrecy.
I was used to a similar cycle while preparing for exams at university. It might have been less than 36h of activity, but definitely more than 24h + >10h of sleep. If not a daily job, I would be on a similar cycle now as well -- I just felt more productive and rested that way.
Btw, I'm a "night person" and I have noticed that such people are prone to long sleep times but also can sustain longer activity periods.
The Xkcd would go "We thought we sanitised our input but we still lost this years student records.
Did you really name your son Little Bobby Drop [DOS/STONED]{16 byte malware Signature}?"
I'm quite curious what would happen if DRM got banned and everything had to be open.

I know it's wishful thinking however ironically I predict that content creators would experience an increase in sales since giving up control means that companies are given freedom to integrate all entertainment devices together and make them work more elegantly possibly offering something piracy might not be able to offer or has offered for a long time and legitimate sources just couldn't match it.

It's a interesting idea that companies are very uncomfortable in exploring even though a very similar idea lead to the creation of the internet.
Well, so what? It seems to be a standard medical practice. It only sounds scary because it's new / we're used to have it sound scary in TV shows.
Actually, the situation isn't that bad: the outage hasn't affected whole departments, it's affected a whole industry. Which means that your competitors' design departments are just as screwed as yours, so you have nothing to worry about.
Yeah, it seems I misunderstood the change.
There isn't really a difference between "increasing" and "not decreasing". Some of these debates have been about ISPs not investing in infrastructure when they otherwise might have.

The market can still provide a solution with the Comcast payments. That would be customers wanting fast everything don't use Comcast. If there's no competition for those customers then that's the real problem - a monopoly - not what tricks the monopoly uses to take advantage of people.
I've said it before and will say it again, this is not a crazy rider. I've been organizing fairly large bands and their riders have been similar in "craziness" if you will.
Guesses more than ideas but. Have the distance estimation function take time as an argument? Actually move along the current best n-step path then start again?
Well, why don't British people do something about those Lords? It's up to them.
Try to understand what something means before you mindlessly parrot it. The article I linked to shows that there is no correlation, or even negative correlation between immigration and unemployment. And that actually proves pretty conclusively that there is no causation.
man page? I think you texinfo page :)
Of course no country has such an obligation per se. But if your government constantly attacks my infrastructure, why oh why should I even consider paying a penny for your service? Given that many American companies still market to users outside the US, this nevertheless seems to be the overall expectation.
It's fighting for users' privacy as in fighting for how much of that ton of information they're gathering can be withheld. Otherwise, yeah, I know a few really attractive ladies who are fucking for virginity.
It reminds me of the orange juice test.
You organize an annual convention for hundreds of people.

You tell the banquet manager of the hotel you are considering that the morning breakfast must include a large glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for everyone of the attendees. It must be squeezed no more than two hours before the breakfast.

It is not possible to do so. Squeezing that much orange in much a short amount of time would be prohibitively expensive.

If the manager says yes he is either lying or incompetent and you'd better find someone else who will tell you it's not possible.
Six stars for Apple! It's the first time that it's received such an accolade from the EFF.
The old maxim is even wiser than you quoted.

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16419-know-the-rules-well-so...

(Also, if you believe QI, there's debate about whether a classification of 'fish' can even exist since it covers such a wide range of species as to be essentially meaningless. But I'm not an icthyologist.)
Buzzfeed has spent the past 6 months standing up a really great investigative team. They hired Mark Schoofs (a Pulitzer winner) from ProPublica as the head of their investigative team (http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propu... ), and recently were joined by 2014's Pulitzer winner for investigative reporting, Chris Hamby (http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/04/8543804/... ), and they've hired several really awesome people to fill out data/developer roles on the investigative team like Jeremy Singer-Vine (http://www.jsvine.com/ ).

Buzzfeed appears to be making a real go at the investigative journalism thing and it'll be interesting to see what they do.
So what if the original creator of a guide that has been forked and edited multiple times decides to revoke the license? Wouldn't you have to delete all forks and edits?

That's why FOSS and CC licenses are perpetual; to avoid building on potentially shifting sands.
It is, in my opinion, an obvious solution. Or at least it should be for anyone who took control theory classes (or learned it by itself). So I guess is that a/ people who know engineering don't know what medical problems are, and (more likely) b/ there's a long, long way from an idea to working product.
It looks like it was cancelled because the premise of it was wrong (that technologically innovation is stalling and something needs to be done to revive it).
Your point about the bureaucratic restrictions is a good explanation for the kind of things that affect education - and it has nothing to do with money.

To return to my earlier point - it's dumb to reduce the education debate to just a question of money. Even if you paid teachers quadruple, the bureaucracy would put off a lot of talent.
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Right, but hedge funds are less transparent and have a greater mystique than other managed funds right now.

BTW my takeaway from the article is I should diversify more into bonds, and bond index funds are not as compelling, relative to managed funds, as stock index funds. So I need to do some research.
Actually, it wasn't "badly written firmware". Hayes modems actually looked for "+++", then a second or so of no traffic, before they would switch into command-mode, and that delay was patented. So "Hayes-compatible" modems would implement the system without the delay, and as a result were vulnerable to remote DoS.
Using “git push” to deploy Ruby applications to your own server
If you're interested in informational and entertaining videos of someone taking things apart, check out the EEVblog teardown series: http://www.eevblog.com/episodes/

Allowing video guides (linking to them, if you can't handle the bandwidth of serving them locally) on your site would also be a good idea.
I have long wondered why personal cars are being tackled. Surely that's the hardest problem to solve.

Easier to automate would be trains, large container ships, tube trains, planes or buses (fixed route, designated stopping zones).

Granted planes and ships travel in more dangerous regions, but I think they should be flown 99% of the time by computer and pilots only taking over in an emergency.
One of the interesting things about tech work is that it's almost all "brown M&Ms". It's amazing how important attention to detail is in this field and how quickly something will simply not work if the details aren't sweated.

We see it time and again when things go into production where the "brown M&Ms" haven't been looked into and we end up with things like enterprise class websites that cost millions of dollars to produce crumbling under the load of a dozen simultaneous users.
Stallman's "I want pepsi" reads more like "I specifically don't want Coke, and Pepsi is the most common alternative". With that information in hand, I'd probably suggest he try some of the more boutique cola brands that are available. Your "I only want Pepsi" reads like "I specifically want Pepsi", without accounting for regional flavour differences, etc.
Thanks, the demos are amazing on Chrome, but slow on firefox 29. I guess they will fix it in the next release. The physics engine is impressive, but I hope it will add not to much code complexity. Let's see next month how are the first apps built with famo.us.
I first heard this in "The secrets of consulting" by Gerald Weinberg. The fuller version is that the manger is only allowed to say 'yes' if they tell you there is a cost associated with it (i.e. it isn't free).
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TORONTO: for its proximity to Waterloo, the centre of Canada's startup universe. Many UW students are from the GTA anyway.
country without any industry

This description does not match the UK, no matter how many "manufacturing is dead" articles you read in the papers.
Updated the post to include input from Mike Butcher after he checked out the first draft. He offered his advice on what to do if you want to get covered by TechCrunch's writers
When you upvote yourself (via a sockpuppet account), you're paying yourself, and therefore it's basically a free upvote. So yes, upvotes are free unless you're upvoting somebody else.
Errrrr, anything can contain malware. For exampe if software that uses the blockchain file has a vulnerability that can be exploited by writing stuff into the blockchain.
At the state level, on Ookla's data, New York performs pretty comparably to France and Belgium. It may be that there are cities in France and Belgium that have faster internet service. But they have better subways, etc, too. Most Americans cities are terribly managed. While Verizon is trying to deploy FIOS in New York, De Blasio has hired a civil rights lawyer to look into the issue of poor people not being able to afford FIOS! I would say the bottleneck is definitely NYC's government!
For what little I do that doesn't require spinning up Photoshop on the Windows beast, I use Acorn on the MBPr. It just feels nicer than Pixelmator to me.
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> As to your other point, this is how markets are supposed to work. Soros in effect helped show the incompetency of the government, which was a net good. People got screwed, certainly, but the situation was terrible and no one did anything about it until Soros stepped in.

> You could say that he is similar to Snowden or other whistleblowers in many ways. They through the government into chaos, likely endangered a lot of the economy and possibly lives, and they did it all because exposing the bad things the government was doing was more important.

Grotesque. Soros certainly didn't give a damn about the public good. A better comparison would be somebody blowing a nuclear power plant to make a point that the security measures are insufficient. Should we congratulate terrorists next, because we can "do better" next time in terms of security?

> Of course, I'm not arguing that it's the same, as the whistleblowers do this despite the fact that it ruins their lives, and Soros did it to make money. What I am saying is, it's great we've setup a system where people like Soros are incentivized to uncover government screwups, so we can do better next time.

Really? Let me ask you, why was the situation terrible exactly? Because the pound was overvalued and exposed to the same predatory behaviour Soros demonstrated? Oh, right...
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> Progress comes from monopoly, not competition.

Okay, that was a surprise. I get the idea that one should work on new things, that merely trying to out-compete is counter-productive (competition is a zero-sum game after all).

On the other hand, some benefits may only come when there's enough players that compete with each other. Take Virtual Reality, for instance. There's the Occulus Rift, Now Sony is working on it, there was valve… at one point, there will be enough player to make a market for low-latency, low-persistence, high-frequency, ridiculous-resolution flat panels. The smartphone industry pushed in that direction of course, but the limit of what's useful for this industry is clearly not enough for VR. Anyway, with this new market, VR will improve as a whole. Without the competition that is currently forming, I think those miraculous flat panels wouldn't come out as fast as they will. That said, those folks are still working on something new…

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Now that I think of it, maybe he was talking about maximizing one's marginal impact? Like, let the Occulus people work on their Rift alone, and try and work on something different. Even if that slows the VR revolution down, we may now have two revolutions. Hmm…
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Going with the flow of ideas
>all Windows versions

Except the most popular one, apparently: Windows 7.
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You'd be amazed how much of that running an active open source project prepares you for.

Other than myself, I know a couple of dozen developers who can comfortably refer to themselves as full-stack.

But those people are never going to even talk to recruiters.
The problem is if you switch between Mac and Linux computers (and sometimes Windows): it's highly annoying when the 'shortcut-muscle-memory' has to 'think'...

With KeyRemap4MacBook I could 'linux-standardize' the Mac shortcuts. It's not perfect but good enough and vim, terminal, most ui behave ~equal.
The DRM on a game creation IDE I use stopped working not too long ago. I'd bought the product, but the DRM didn't care. So I just used a crack.
true, this graph shows it's been down but not for very long
http://www.currentlydown.com/stackoverflow.com#chart-2014-05...