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There's also the question of whether an unsigned post-purchase EULA constitutes a legally binding contract at all.
(Not a lawyer) My understanding is that you can't file a DMCA takedown against content/code that you don't own.
Can we update the title to reflect that of the article: "Programming Isn't Manual Labor, But It Still Sucks"; or failing that, can we fix the spelling of Physical?
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Certain clauses will be unenforceable, obviously. But this isn't about enforcing, this is about you granting them permission to do something. After that you'll have really hard time in court trying to argue that they shouldn't have been doing it.
> If they want Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA they have to honor the request.

They shouldn't want safe harbor then.
Cool, I'd buy one. But the 'green' argument doesn't hold water? Doesn't matter what you burn; its all carbon.
> Xbox sales were #1 for years - had to be a profit motive there regardless of software 'lock-in'.

No. You're confusing sales with profits. The Xbox division lost Microsoft over $3 Billion '03-'12. This has been covered extensively but see eg) http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h...

Profit, other than perhaps hope of long-term profit derived from spending their competitors out of business, was certainly not their motivation
You have a good point.

This paints it as more of a societal problem than a legal one, and I think you're correct in hindsight.

I think about my gamer friends, and they've resigned themselves to vendor lockin because "What choice do I have if I want to play with my friends?", something I've come to call the Facebook Argument.

However, when I think about [some of] my colleagues, many of them don't like vendor lockin when it's applied to them, but aren't against implementing similar features in their own projects with a different name, and I have a hard time believing they don't see it for what it is.

Edit: typo
Where do you think the red shirts come from?
Just because those nations aren't considered "rich", it doesn't mean they're penniless. Russia has a long history of profitable trade to that list of countries. They sold US$1.1 billion in goods to the Syrians alone in 2010. So the idea that they couldn't build an industry selling a good that those countries can't or won't buy from the West doesn't hold water.
> I personally hope you chose IP as a layer-3 protocol.

ROTFL! Whoopsie. ;-)

> You might want to decide between TCP and UDP for layer-4, though, but as gingerlime pointed out it is stupidly easy to successfully spoof UDP comms, there's not even need to have a MITM situation. Same goes for ICMP.

Yes, but TCP's protections are quite weak. If you are really concerned about spoofing, you are much better off handling that with cryptographic solutions.
Courts have agreed on them being legally binding several times.
https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Contracts:_Click_Wrap_Licenses

When they haven't found them legally binding, they've generally either been simply ridiculous or deceiving.
What are you talking about? Technological disagreements? Political disagreements? Business disagreements? Something else?
He actually tried to quit after they blindfolded him and moved him to South Korea, but producers just argued with him until he gave up. (This is a guy who is malnourished and starting to feel the psychological affects of isolation, he probably wasn't the hardest person to bend to the producers' will.)

He could have ignored them, stumbled naked into the streets of a foreign country and tried to beg for help, maybe using some form of pantomime.

Not literal locks and chains, but in the beginning, he probably didn't know what to expect, and by the end of the series, there was some strong psychological pressure keeping him there.
Probably shouldn't use IP then... ;-)
I would be neat to see your pre and post workout blood-pressure stats too, and how that has changed over time. I can personally tell that when I squat or deadlift near my max that my BP peaks. I'd like to know how quickly it falls off after, etc. I'm also curious to know if heavy-lifting has positive effects on circulatory system elasticity.
Well, you can, but that would be fraudulent. But whoever you sent the DMCA takedown notice to, it's not their concern and not their duty to check whether you're the rightful copyright holder or not.
I'm fairly certain you can gracefully sandbox Origin without losing functionality or impacting your game. Is Warden the same in that respect?
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... or we'll get mad? Again? Good question.

"I'm going to pout and not pre-order Battlefield 5 until a week before it comes out. That'll show them!"
Yes. The problem is that while we have division of power in governments, there is little stopping private enterprise from accumulating worrying amounts of power. There is antitrust law, which in theory should be the solution, but in practice is hardly applied in modern times.
How free, exactly, would you like the cells in your organs to be --- free from the social rules regarding nutrient flows and replication rates? Free to do something other than its specification?

Go up one or two levels on the scale of life, and we call that cellular freedom "cancer."
No offense, but have you ever seen a successful startup? Your (very mistaken) arguments apply to literally every industry, ever - plus, you even give, then discount, a viable path to market for them at the end of your comment!
Which decision in which legislation? This is highly contextual.

In Europe, for example, contractual freedom with a consumer (not in between companies) is often highly regulated. And even then, it differs from country to country.
> (and when you've got Netflix why bother?).

Many countries don't have Netflix yet. Or have crippled versions of it.
Actually the people who do not succeed (the lower-to-middle classes) pay far more in income taxes than the paltry capital gains taxes of the ultra-successful.
Then they are the target, and will incur many costs. Fine once, maybe, but what about the tenth time? The hundredth? The thousandth?

It's like wanting Google to be the legal shield for everyone committing copyright infringement on their sites. It's not remotely economically feasible.
I agree, and disagree.

Agree: 'Disruption' (as often so-called in start-ups) through 'innovation' (as often so-called in larger corp internal policies) is about change. But that change is often incremental, not huge bounds forward (e.g. AT&T in their halycon days, or HP pre-electronics, examples of huge bounds made by incumbant firms)

Disagree: Incremental change (one less click to do X, or $5 dollars off purchase of Y) _is_ important, as when multiplied across multiple product types in multiple industries, such 'disruption', 'innovation' or 'change' can have effects that not only have a small effect, but sometimes hit tipping points. Toyota / pull-based scheduling / LEAN as a big-corp type example.

This view comes from the motivation to embark on a small project right now. Production (of a physical product) enriches those that have the economies of scale to produce it (manufacturer) that I am not seeking to 'disrupt' (or, continue to make the same people rich as the title puts it), but to create search, delivery and cost savings for the customer. This is unlikely to 'change the world' in the sense of developing AI could, but will lead to savings that are valuable to thousands of individuals, and hopefully more.

'Disruption' or 'innovation' seems to be an easy target to attack, as it encompasses a multitude of ideas.

Side note: I have a strong opinion that 'innovation' for many large corps is a deliberately mis-used term with multiple goals - two principal ones being a motivational tool to motivate systematically disenfranchised employees, and to substitute the word 'change' (often viewed negatively) for 'improvement' (which often lacks).
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The year-long isolation seems to me like a much crueler part of the ordeal than anything food related. We consider it inhumane to do this to convicted murderers, even when they have interactions with guards and activity time that make them much less isolated than "Nasubi" seems to have been.
Quantified-self raises huge privacy concerns, and will make it easier to "rule the world".
If you read the linked thread, they are not "accessing your browser history". Rather, as a specific countermeasure against specific cheats, they checked the DNS cache for access to a particular set of phone-home server addresses embedded in some cheats. Not websites, but backend servers (ironically) enforcing DRM for cheat software. Like all such countermeasures, it was effective for a short while, then counter-countered by the cheat. What they sent back to valve was only a "yes they appeared to have accessed cheat backend server X", not a list of all accessed servers or browsing history.

I'm not saying I love it, but it's important to be accurate before turning the outrage dial to 11.
All those articles show are a few correlations. They don't establish causality.

They are also somewhat cherrypicked. If you look at changes over time, you see no relationship between inequality (which has increased) and relative mobility (which has remained flat).

http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_trends.pdf

You can also get similar correlations if you put single motherhood on the X axis. And if you compare US commuting zones, rather than European countries, you find the correlations are not so strong.

http://www.economics21.org/commentary/great-gastby-curve-rev...
“To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved — these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more so,” Wilson said once, and other Xerox executives have often gone out of their way to emphasize that “the Xerox spirit” is not so much a means to an end as a matter of emphasizing “human values” for their own sake

Funny how this philosophy has become a prerequisite in the startup world, to the point where even trivial apps with best-case success scenarios of modest profitability must be sold with promises of changing the world (or at least an entire industry), and backstories in which their hyper-focused product, based on 3-year-old technologies, has been the founder's passion since he was 10 years old....
As a fellow resident, as a person, I agree about the access to law issue. Its such a problem that there is an entire political movement dedicated to the issue: the Free Access to Law Movement. (That website is not free; the notion that my rights[1] are worthless is quite offensive to me.)

[1] http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/
"spyware"?
Racial covenants existed in the cities as well. The Levitts weren't inventing anything new. Hell, there were convenants that would have restricted them.
A human speaker would not consider that to have fulfilled the request embodied in that sentence.

In any case, you're discussing the "do as I mean, not what I say" problem, which is completely different than what the OP is talking about.
you're an idiot if you think origin is more invasive than steam, lol
As a science teacher, I've always enjoyed teaching students how dark true black really is. I take a large cardboard box, poke a small hole in the middle of it, and have students hold other "black" objects next to the hole. Students are pretty consistently amazed to see the difference, if they have never noticed the phenomenon before on their own.

I would love to see this material in person.
Write the whole pitch/description in text, because otherwise you'll lose the people who can't or won't be able to watch the video: people at work, libraries, auditoriums, etc.
If shit like this is real, they (Github) should move their operations away from US.

What happens when little assholes like this target something bigger, for example Linux? After all it can be used for all sorts of downloading.
I'm okay with the name; it's the .me domain that's weird to me.
Nice writeup, though I was struck by the author's funny use of the word "concerns":

> Remember that AOP aims to separate concerns from business logic ... It turns out that nearly half our function code is devoted to concerns!

Separation of concerns is about separating concerns from each other, not from business logic. Business logic and logging are both concerns.

It doesn't ruin the article or anything, it's just an interesting mistake.
Cue "why didn't you keep me as a friend"
Well to be fair, you can often receive those gorillas from reputable shippers (torrents), keep them each in their own strong cage (different user account under wine, chroot/namespaces being the next step), and prevent them from getting overexcited by the jungle (iptables).
This has looked cool, ever since I saw it announced, a peltier in a stove - how awesome! i just can bring myself to pony up the cash as I fear it would fall short of my expectations. kind of like this real world test. http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/adventure-tested-biolite...
There can be a successful startup in the processor arena. But it can never succeed by trying to do same thing better/cheaper. You want to offer replacement product on the other hand - very different but serving the same purpose.

You don't succeed in automotive industry by trying to directly compete with BMW, this is absolutely hopeless. Tesla has a real shot on success on the other hand.

Same here: next Intel won't be doing anything similar to Intel. But someone offering real quantum computing may get there. Someone making a chip with thousands of simple cores and somehow 'bringing Moore's law back' [1] may get there. But this one is just too similar. Intel's established, polished business processes on all levels can easily beat this.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Plant a couple trees and over the next decade you'll sink more carbon than you'll ever release with this thing (not considering the carbon emitted when the thing was built and shipped to you...)
web artisan - now there's a word I hoped nobody in their right mind would be conceited and deluded enough to use.
The stuff about boxing, Rc and Gc is simply wrong. For example:

`box foo` is Box<T>, the old ~T, nothing to do with Gc or Rc.

Gc is not at all clever and does not do cycle collection.

There are quite a number of other wrong or slightly wrong things about Rust, and a total ignoring of many Rust conventions.
I've always got the impression that Sergey Brin is the true visionary of the two.
Yah, I feel like I'm being accused of being overconfident when my answer is "I don't know"
Call it Vibes.
Lolwut? Not sure where you came up with that. Actually, I was eating more then than now and was doing well.
Why don't you use your ability to purchase software from somebody else (or use open alternatives) rather than increase the ability of governments to threaten and imprison people? While there are societal benefits from regulating monopolies, making "anything that might annoy a consumer" illegal is a dangerous path and does little but erode freedoms.
The Xbox doesn't exist to support DirectX, most AAA games write to bare metal for better performance.It exists because Microsoft wanted a living room presence the way the Soviets coveted a warm water port.
No, you'll be banned, because anticheats are malicious and will ban you if you're an outlier not allowing full access to your system.
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> "Organic" food is what we've eaten since the beginning of time.

Actually, we have not been eating organic food since the beginning of time. Most of the crops we consume today have been developed fairly recently in evolutionary terms (farming began only 12,000 years ago). Humans did not evolve exposed to fruits and vegetables we see today. Any farmed crop is not natural.
Hahaeha, no, warden can and does scan EVERY SINGLE THING on your system. Good luck with fixing that whole "trusting companies that release games I like" thing.
Wikipedia:

> Spyware is software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge.

Save me the boring arguments about how regular people who can barely work a toaster can still somehow magically elect to avoid Analytics using browser plugins and editing their hosts file
or in the UK where Netflix Lite(TM) (aka the UK version of Netflix) is available.

It really is wildly inferior to the US version and I think I'll be cancelling as soon as the GF has finished the few shows she does like on it.
Green? Solar is much easier to charge your USB devices. I attach one to the top of my backpack.

Seems pretty expensive for a wood burner.
This may sound strange, but I don't understand how I'd use this for backups. It seems like all it does is sync one folder to another, potentially in realtime. That's essentially RAID1 at the filesytem level, but RAID isn't a backup! What if I accidentally overwrite the contents of a file; how would I recover the previous version?
Basically only the iPhone has a separate baseband chip; most other phones put the baseband on the same chip as the application processor.
I disagree - long maternity leave would encourage women to stay in the work force, and I strongly support this. I think, from seeing things first hand, we need 1 year maternity leaves to do things properly. Making women choose between raising/having children and going to work is no choice at all.
What I think I would appreciate more than "live" values of variables etc. would be integration of some statistics into IDE. For example, how often was this function called?

Check out Theseus from MIT / Adobe Research:
http://blogs.adobe.com/open/behind-the-scenes-with-theseus-a...
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>"Incidentally, monitoring my jogging showed me that my tendency to settle into a routine carries across into other forms of exercise. I realized that I was running the same route every single time in roughly the exact same amount of time. My body got used to a level of effort and then stopped getting better."

This is the trifecta of slow—consistently low mileage, no hills and running at the same speed every workout.
Apples/oranges. Compare burning regular stove fuel vs sticks. Same btu - same carbon footprint.
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This seems like quite the overgeneralization.
And still it was his choice. Hard to ignore the strong enticement of fame and fortune (whether he was right about that or not).
Wood is worse than other fuels by most accounts, but I guess if you were planning to build a fire for warmth anyway it's not so bad.

Thermoelectric generators are something like 200yrs old though and this isn't even the first hiking oriented variant (http://www.powerpractical.com/ - not obvious on the front page, but it also works fine with a wood fire). Historically I think hikers considered this a non-issue because of better battery life and/or keeping your phone off except in emergencies.

It's a little ironic that people are staying tied to their smart-phone even during long camping trips. These really aren't good for much else because they only keep a good heat difference for a short time and have to be used with a battery.
The DMCA is the US's implementation of the 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (the bill's formal name in the House was actually "WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998"). Most countries you'd want to run a startup in likely have similar laws -- 187 are members of WIPO. The worst thing a falsely filed notice can do is take down a webpage for under two weeks, until a counter-notice goes in effect, while opening the false filer up to criminal liability. The law includes penalties for such bad faith filings.
Does this mean that someone could take down all of github by sending (fraudulent) DMCA takedown notices for every single repo (from some fake return address)?

And then it would then be incumbent on the users to fight that?
Thank you! I had to ctrl-F down 75% of this thread because it wasn't explained in the article either.
"Web artisan" makes me think of Etsy, etc.

This is just a developer freelancing site. Call it what it is.
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I believe that is the case, those movies are under their ownership.
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They have to. If I send one in about any repo, it must be removed straight away. The pwerson who receives the notice can file and have it reinstated.
I'm honestly confused. How could you think something like that? It doesn't make any sense at the most basic level. If the code is changed, people will notice because the code has changed. If CVS somehow didn't notice the code had changed, then it would not copy the changes, so the tampering would have no effect.
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Quick summary :

The french government wants to add non compulsory computer science in primary school ( age 6 to 10 ) where the lessons are up to the teacher.

For secondary school ( age 11 to 15 ) programming will be added to the schedules, these lectures will probably be made by math and technology teachers.

Personal opinion :

While this is a nice step forward, I really fear the teachers will lack formation resulting in poor lectures made just to follow regulations ( and squeeze some extra hours ).
Much too late, but my explicit point was:

It sounded like culture to me too, until I replaced the word "white" with "black" in my head.

If I should say anything more: There is a limit of different standards for different groups (somewhere between a factor two and five), when it becomes disgusting hypocrisy.
What are the ethics of doing research on reality TV? A researcher meets a television producer at a bar, and jokingly suggests an experiment he'd like to run. The producer pitches it as a reality TV show, and it runs. Would it be ethical to use the recorded video to write the paper the researcher originally wanted to?
Cute, but not quite. To add to 3pt14159's and jessriedel's comments above:

- Fundamentally, automating programming is equivalent to finding a satisfying assignment / refining a specification; so it is a perfectly well-formed question. (Further, we still don't even formally know if it's hard at all; but I digress.)

- It seems to me the "short-circuit" argument kinda defeats itself... by the very fact the explanation itself is a great example of short English sentences successfully conveying a huge cardinality of "minor" variations!

- The "minor variation" device itself seems to me intrinsically flawed. Most (all?) depictions in nature are overwhelmingly sparse --in the SP sense--, and so most plausible instances of minor variations like "changing one pixel" could arguably be produced in a quasi prefix-free / constant overhead manner from the same underlying English language description. Thus the corresponding "eps-close" spheres of minor variations could well form huge equivalence classes --like one would expect from common sense.