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If you try to pay a police officer costumed as a prostitute, do they let you go on the same technicality?

Which then, if you never offer to pay, leaves such a costumed officer frustrated - what if these webcam viewers literally just wanted to chat? (Treat that as a statistical experiment) Where they disconnected? Or entrapped?
What happens when you launch your app without doing any PR
Haven't you done more than think by participating in the conversation?

I'm all for discussing this and thinking about it, but actually chatting with the person on the other end demonstrates intent.
Why is some non-government agency organizing stings?
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I'm with you - But in the US I believe this depends on the state. The "To catch a predator" show was specifically done in areas where the law included "intent" as a crime, rather than the actual crime IIRC.
No, you are twisting the accusation. It is not a crime to think, it is a crime to act. The law here is about the act of proposing sexual actions to a child over the internet, which has been made illegal by the UN.

Under debate is whether it is still illegal when the victim of your action does not actually exist as a person.
The crime isn't thinking about abusing a child, it's intending to abuse a child. It's still somewhat in a grey area since they haven't actually harmed anyone, but it's a lot darker grey than just the having the idea to do it.
Mobile smartphones. That's what changed, and it's made all the difference.
Let me take a look into that for you. TBH, never heard of claws-mail until now :p
Cloud platforms are exciting to me because it seems every new feature presents an opportunity to break out a spreadsheet to figure out performance/$.

I'm going to consider 3 cases:

CDN: 1TB of storage, 1000 IOPS required. (a cache or "smart"/ACLed CDN)

DB: 20GB of storage, 5000 IOPS required. (a moderately sized database)

Hybrid: 500GB of storage, 2500 IOPS required. (some composite of the two)

A summary of pricing right now for storage IOPS:

(US East)
$/GB $/IOPS CDN DB Hybrid
Google Cloud Platform 0.325 $0.011 $ 325 $ 54 $ 163
Amazon EC2/EBS 0.125 $0.100 $ 225 $ 502 $ 313
Microsoft Azure 0.050 n/a $ 50 $ 1 $ 25
Microsoft Azure (w/vm) 0.050 n/a $ 85 $ 278 $ 164

Here's how they are currently priced:

Google: pay for the GB, get a fixed IOPS/GB.

Amazon: pay for the GB, pay for the IOPS.

Microsoft: pay for the GB, get 500 IOPS/disk, with a maximum of 16 disks. (but you can't attach that many disks unless you pay for a larger instance size, too)

Microsoft (w/VM): I've included the cost of the compute instance in this summary. I used an A1 VM for CDN, A4 for DB, and A3 for Hybrid, at $35, $277, and $139 monthly, respectively.

CDN

Google: $325 for 1TB/30,000 IOPS.

Amazon: $225 for precisely 1TB/1,000 IOPS.

Microsoft: $50 (using 2 500GB disks)

Microsoft (w/vm): $85 (an A1 VM is required to use two disks)

DB

Google: $54 for 167GB/5,000 IOPS.

Amazon: $502 for 20GB/5,000 IOPS.

Microsoft: $1 for 20GB/5,000 IOPS (using 10 2GB disks)

Microsoft (w/vm): $278 (an A4 VM is required to use 9-16 disks)

Hybrid

Google: $162.50 for 500GB/15,000 IOPS.

Amazon: $312.50 for 500GB/2,500 IOPS.

Microsoft: $25 for 500GB/2500 IOPS (using 5 100 GB disks).

Microsoft (w/vm): $164 (an A3 VM is required to use 5-8 disks)

EDIT: I forgot to add a disclaimer. I am a student at the University of Northern Iowa. I am not affiliated with Amazon or Google. I am a Microsoft Partner, however. I was not paid or asked to write this post, and have never been directly paid by Microsoft to produce any writing, benchmark, or whatever, etc, etc. IANAL, etc. I have received standard gifts from them from attending conferences.
Please don't keep commenting with links to your site. As you can tell from the downvotes on previous ones, it looks like spam.
No, there's a difference between substantive review of applications with availability and queue management (and responding to inquiries) about applications pending availability.
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So we're OK with raiding and arresting the "sort of person" we find undesirable on their potential to commit a crime?

I'm not sure if thought crime or pre-crime are more abhorrent concepts, but here we are.
Note, DigitalOcean has a $5 plan, and works quite fine for my case where I host tons of small traffic websites and background tasks.
also JavathScript http://kybernetikos.github.io/Javathcript/
Denmark is the notable exception. You can buy hard liquor at the local 7-eleven at any hour.
Because they could. Why wouldn't they?
It's crime to plan to do something, no?
For all the browbeating about erosion of privacy, I have yet to come across practical, consumer-proof solutions to anything that protects against said loss of privacy. Digital, software, hardware anything? The only solutions out there are range from impractical to ludicrous. Go hoodies, go Tor, go klutzy-PGP, go burkas!! /sigh
If this group had openly advertised Sweetie as a computer-generated little girl avatar for sale, and then nailed anyone who responded, I would be a lot more conflicted. But all of these people believed that they were taking advantage of an actual child.

Attempted murder is a crime. Trying and failing to steal a car is a crime. I see no reason why attempted child abuse shouldn't also be a crime.
One significant difference is that instacart just matches you up with shoppers who can go to your local stores, pick up the food, and deliver to you and everyone in your area. I believe the Y2k grocery services had fleets of trucks, warehouses, and tried to act like a layer in between the food distribution companies and the buyer. This method proved to be extremely expensive and hard to sustain.
I don't know about wire shields, but circular guards acting as ducts should theoretically increase efficiency for quads due to the relatively slow propeller speeds. The downside is they add mass and I've yet to see a compact folding design that incorporates guards.

I think we'll see guards become a very common thing as designers find clever ways to fold them in the near future. I also think that that FAA regulations for low altitude drones in the future may very well mandate guards because they go a long way towards preventing injury.
Then they should be tried for intent. And it is my understanding,that they are being accused of actually molesting a child,even though there was no child present on the other side.
You make a license trade-able when you care about limiting the supply, but you don't care who gets it. The purpose of a taxi medallion is to limit the total number of taxis, and the purpose of a liquor license is to limit the number of establishments that sell liquor.[1] But the government doesn't care who has the license. Making it trade-able ensures that the license goes to the person or organization that values it most highly (Coase Theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem).

[1] These purposes aren't, on their face, unreasonable. Taxis generate undesirable congestion, and establishments that serve liquor tend to create undesirable drunk people. If you don't believe me, take a walk through Wrigleyville in Chicago on a Friday night, where you can see an endless parade of taxis picking up an endless parade of drunk students.
I'm in no way defending anyone who takes advantage of anyone who's age they are unsure of (or really anyone who is vulnerable), but I notice that nowhere do they talk about the age of the person they are modeling.

I'd be curious to know what age a randomized blinded panel would rate their avatar at. If this was a psychological test, that would be a requirement for it to be considered valid.
Interestingly, the U.S. Supreme Court surprised many people in 2001 by putting limits on government use of infrared imaging. (They didn't ban it entirely, but they said that it would be regulated as a search, normally requiring permission from a judge.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

This means that police may not be able to routinely use imaging technologies, including active radars, to look through the walls of people's homes.

(Interestingly, this is a way in which police now have fewer powers than the general public, since in most places there are no laws preventing you as a civilian from using infrared imaging to look at someone's house.)
Just downgraded to this. Half the price of the $20/m plan. Never really needed all they were giving me. Woo hoo!
What is allowed with technology does not dictate what is right or even legal.
Right, but it's a separate crime than actually doing it, and from what I understand, the law does not separate these two in this case. The law treats it as if they were chatting to an actual child, which they weren't.
Speaking from personal experience: Do things you are interested in, and find hobbies. Do things because you genuinely like to do them, and don't think about ways to find friends, friends will come naturally.
As to your english speaking you WILL get used to it eventually, just make sure you practice when you're around people, and even when you're not, i found it helpful to express myself out loud more often even if i'm not around people, makes me look mental most of the time but it works, and you'd feel so much better about yourself when you're talking in public. Also, you're multilingual, most people aren't, you shouldn't feel bad if you're still picking up a new language, it's supposed to be hard, people understand that.
Can you be charged with anything further than "Conspiracy to do X" if all they have is intent?
Glad you have numbers and are sticking to them.

That being said, how did you arrive at 7%, may I ask?

Also, by your numbers you say you play a typical song 10(=dime/(cent/song rental)) times? I suppose it's highly dependent on the person, but I personally would say ~25x. (Mean of the playback numbers of all songs I have that I have played at least once is ~21, and I occasionally play songs off of my mp3 player, etc, so it's really higher than that.)

Personally, I'd love a service that was both a micropayment enabler and music player - ~one cent per 5 minutes, period.
If you are going to read one article, it should be David's. It's the article I used to send around when people asked me this question.
The SC mini-bottle law has an interesting history. It was originally promoted by the Baptists to prevent alcoholism by limiting how much you could get in your glass (open-pour became illegal) The waiter or bartender had to crack the seal on the mini-bottle in front of you and pour the entire contents into your glass. No more, no less.

This quirk in the law caused an unintended side-effect. Mixed drinks became very popular because now your Manhattan had quite a bit of alcohol in it -- a full mini bottle each of whiskey and vermouth.
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The arrests on that show also usually result in dropped charges or even the suicide of an alleged predator. We shouldn't be condoning these kinds of tactics anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator#Criticism
Is it a crime to think about murdering someone?

It's certainly a crime to plan to murder someone. These guys have gone beyond thinking about it; they have actually planned and tried to execute on the idea. What about that is different than conspiracy to murder?

Now,if these people are being accused of anything more than intent I think it is going too far.
This is a very good advise. Thank you. I agree that lots of practice without theory does not get you very far. I know this because I made exactly the same mistake. I used to want to be a musician. I have copied countless of pieces and done many improvised jam session. And yet, I still had no idea how complex music actually works. In retrospect, although I studied basic music theory, it was not enough to crack the secrets of music.

Now I am a senior CS student and doing pretty well. I respect science in general.

BTW I am an Asian introvert. I really feel the author. I am going to go read the rest of the comments.
Do you see more complicated voting methods being incorporated?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system

weighted voting. proxy. random.
No, it's a crime to actually try to murder someone. It's a crime to grab your purse strap, try to yank it away, then give up and run. This isn't hard.
The combination of this HTTP Load Balancing announcement, and May 23rd's announcement of CoreOS support are super exciting. I've been working on setting up a similar docker-based multi-AZ autoscaling setup on EC2, but getting it up and running has required integrating a lot of separately moving parts. If Google can simplify this process via a few simple gcutil commands and a cloud-config YAML file, it would be a hugely compelling offering.
In theory it should be possible, but doing so in the general case is a ridiculously hard problem as sliverstorm hints upon.

If I was back at school, this is something I would definitely spend time on.

Some possible ideas:

- Writing different LLVM backends to target the various hardware. You still would need some runtime to schedule/organise the tasks.

- A language with a very powerful type system (ie fully dependent) which allows a high level of programmer intent to be extracted by a compiler. (ie we are only doing Multiply-adds on a specific range of doubles, so create an custom fpga for just that)

- Just writing a bunch of libraries which provide nice APIs for the various functions, kinda like NumPy.
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Because credit card system is not sustainable without various hidden fees, overdrafts, default rates and so on.
I wonder if, instead of using this technology to catch pedophiles it might be used to treat them instead. If computer-generated avatars are good enough to provide sexual gratification, maybe that would be enough to redirect their attention away from real kids. There is some evidence that pornography can reduce the incidence of (adult-on-adult) rape, so it seems not entirely implausible that it might reduce pedophilic abuse as well.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/04/porn-and-rape-the-debate-...
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And for obvious reasons (if you read the link) JFK is given credit for that tax cut.

While I'm sure LJB's legendary ability to work the Congress played a part in it actually getting passed, this was clearly part of JFK's legacy, especially after his assassination three months earlier.

Adding brewing to the list of 2-3 transportation deregulations does not satisfy my interpretation of "every industry he could get his hands on". There's a reason Malcolm Wallop's 1976 advertisement of a cowboy strapping a port-a-potty to a donkey behind his horse resonated long after.

In retrospect it's possible Carter was a deregulator at net, certainly the regulatory things he's infamous for were, to my memory, inherited, but it would be a hard case to make. Remember the 95% complete Tellico dam and the snail darter? He also put an awful person in charge of the NHTSA, and I believe it was their insane air bag decisions that resulted in the deaths of hundreds or more short people and children.
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The new WKWebView seems to solve this problem. It's bundled with the WebKit project, not iOS or OS X.
From my experience, getting your money back from a debit card hack is way harder then a credit card. That is why I travel and pay online with my Visa ...
My server had 1000+ days uptime before it had to be restarted (migration/upgrade).
>>Attempted murder is a crime. Trying and failing to steal a car is a crime. I see no reason why attempted child abuse shouldn't also be a crime.

So should stabbing a mannequin should also be treated as murder, if the person doing the stabbing was 100% convinced that it was a real person? Or an attempt to break into a car made out of cardboard treated as an actual robbery,if the thief was 100% convinced it was a real thing before trying it?

I want all child molesters to rot in prison forever. I really do. But there was no children present here.
ouch. As an asian male, I'm ok with the first part. the second part hurts at the heart. but don't forget asian males are also short!
Weird Chemistry happens at a certain temperature. At above a certain pressure (above 217.755 atmospheres) and above a certain temperature (705 Fahrenheit or 373 C), water is neither a liquid nor a gas.

Physicists have made special engines that operate on this "super-critical" fluid, that only works above this temperature / pressure combination. For the first time ever, a solar-panel has achieved this critical mass of temperature and pressure, allowing solar-energy (in very hot regions) to take advantage of the same technology that makes conventional fossil fuels so efficient.
I'd appreciate any opinions on how usable something like this or ClojureScript is to transition to in an enterprise / team environment. How can I sell that switch to my employer and co-workers?
Or the winner of The Voice TV show.... ;)
I don't think it is right for a state to bait people into committing crimes.

Not that I'd ever defend sex offenders, but by creating an opportunity that is strong enough you could get anyone to commit some kind of crime.

That doesn't have to be a sex offense, it could also be tax evasion, prostitution, gambling, illegal file sharing (music/films), hate speech, speeding with a car or consuming illegal drugs.

Most people have some weakness that could be exploited.
Really awesome!

My account managers just said "That's awesome! I'll use the s* out of that!"

We're willing to be on the beta of the business version!

If multiple people send me tasks, does it condense my to-do lists into one to-do list?

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> A lot of things make for being outgoing. In my case, I realized very early on that people hate making plans and organizing shit. I on the other hand, can suck it up and do it. This plays in my favor in that I get to meet a lot of people (friends bring friends) within my comfort zone. Also, host parties.

I am about as introverted as they come. However, with practice, I normally find I can become pretty good at things, so I've been working the last two years on being more outgoing and social.

My problem is that people flake all the time nowadays. I don't mind planning events and inviting people, but they all flake at the last second and it's really quite annoying. At first, I thought maybe it was me, but then I realized everyone does it to everyone else. I don't dread social the interactions; I dread the inevitable flaking that everyone's going to do at the last second.

So... my strategy recently is just ditching friends that flake and finding new ones. I'm not sure if this is the best idea though because I'm going through a lot of them quickly.
Playing with Anscombe's Quartet in an interactive shiny ggvis environment
A minecraft server so that my kids can play with a couple of their friends.
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Yea, he means Cmd + Number I believe. In Chrome Cmd + 1 goes to the first tab, Cmd + 2 to the second and so on. So it can be somewhat annoying for someone who frequently uses those shortcuts to change tab.
Before quoting performance comparisons it is a good idea to check whether they are up to date. That page compares a very early version of Dalvik (1.6 a.k.a. 'Cupcake') to native C and a server JVM with a smart-ish jit compiler ('hotspot').

The first release of Dalvik which contained a jit compiler was 2.2 ('Froyo'), comparisons for that versions with Java have been performed by Sun/Oracle [1] showing it to be about half as fast as Java SE embedded 1.6.0_21. Both the JVM as well as Dalvik have made speed gains in the intervening 3.5 (!) years. As of Android 4.4 there is an experimental new runtime (prosaically named 'ART' for 'Android RunTime'...) which pre-compiles as much of the code as possible to native code. The speed gains currently are subject of much debate.
I definitely feel that the valley (in particular) is clinging to process over result, and this essay nicely uses data to skewer one of the major fetishized processes.

Of course, Christensen _was_ onto something (his model is illustrative in regards to DEC, and it is also an excellent explanation of the dreadful economics of hospitals). But his model was descriptive, not prescriptive.

What's a bit uncharitable about this essay is the condemnation of the widespread enthusiasm for Christensen outside 128 & the valley. If you work in one of the many legacy industries it's no wonder you look desperately for some life ring to cling to. It's unfortunate that the choice du jour doesn't actually tell you what to do.

Despite all that, this insightful essay is also a testament to how a liberal arts degree can be useful. Useful to me, as the reader of a good essay I mean -- for most people it sadly isn't useful to put much food on the table.
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> How on earth do you get from there to licenses being a kind of property?

How on earth do you prevent it? You need to provide stable access to licenses, so that if Joe drives a cab he doesn't end up jobless next year because he lost the taxi license lotto. Suddenly Joe has something he can sell, access to his license. Say we tie the license to the person driving the cab then Lucky cabs can't fire a bad driver because then they lose a license.
Just created one for connected hardware and the internet of things at http://conopsys.postatic.com/. Definitely and interesting concept, but I'm looking for 4 things.

1. Pricing information

2. Custom title bar color

3. Custom logo

4. Custom domain hosting
So how do they prove how old the virtual child is?
Agreed. Funny timing as I was just checking back to look at Linode pricing yesterday after having made the switch to DO over a year ago and was amazed they're cheapest plan was $20. Good to see they've lowered it further but even that $5 difference is a big deal if you're using a lot of vms and simply don't need the extra memory from a $10 a month plan. They need to at least reach parity, otherwise there really isn't any incentive for me to switch to pay $5 more a month per VM that I know doesn't need the extra resources.
I pretty much had thought that they didn't make money on delivery because on average drivers make $5 - $8 per shop/delivery. Free delivery with $x in groceries also confirms that they are making a margin on groceries, which I've heard is as much as 30% but I guess that depends on how often they update their prices and if there are sales going on at the stores they shop at.
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Yes,I'm ok with it,as long as the charge is one of intent. Do you also think that we should allow people to plan murders, robberies, etc. with no penalty as long as they do not follow through before they are caught?
I would argue that there is a difference between having an undercover officer posing as a prostitute, and having a virtual prostitute. In the former case, by paying the officer, you are -- in a sense -- engaging a prostitute. In the latter case, you are paying for what amounts to a virtual service.
On a semi-related note, yesterday I watched a BBC documentary about Stalin and couldn't help but notice the similarities with Hitler's actions. And the guy comes out of WWII as a hero. Not unexpected at all from megalomaniac people but why the world cared about Hitler and not Stalin? As usual, nothing to do with helping other human beings but securing power/resources.