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A good black kid doesn't, apparently. A good rich white kid does this sort of thing rather frequently, it seems.
I assume this would be exclusively for people going to Chicago and returning home, as there's little reason to travel in the other direction.
Most hotels that host business meetings or have many business travelers will install small cell distributed antennae systems to boost cell and data coverage because business travelers who don't have service in the rooms won't come back to the hotel.
> Maybe the "next browser" will be so intrinsically attached into your OS window manager there will be virtually not difference between an installed application and a website, their windows will behave the same way.

Reminds me of Windows 98.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Channel
Or you could safely assume that it's either keyboard made by Dell, IBM, or one of few well known companies.
This would probably be a nice market for commercial vendors of PostgreSQL solutions.
On one hand, if it was jamming guest Wifi in hotel rooms it seems Marriott was acting badly. On the other hand, if this is in the context of trying to provision wifi for a conference, where there may be a lot of users packed into a dense space, I'm not so sure it's as bad. Wouldn't outside Wifi routers be fairly disruptive where you're maybe configuring individual conference service routers to lower their power -- to essentially get smaller than normal wifi range 'cells' and serve more users?
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Probably not within the powers of the FCC?
Ah, but if the prison turns him into a violent criminal, then his fate is his own fault and the rest of us can relax in our sense of justified vengeance.
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It's competitive. The price is $879, for those who missed it deep in the article. There are many places where 45 days worth of rent at that price will get you worse environs than a train.
The turtle shell pattern matching seems like an interesting, but roughly solvable problem - don't even need anything as complex as a NNet or Deep learning, an SVM, or heck even a well trained correlation filter (UOTSDF, MMCF, ...maybe even MOSSE) can be used after first registering the image (DNets maybe). It's nice to see a Detroit based tech activity that isn't recruiting (most end up in Ann Arbor). Too bad i'm pretty busy this weekend or i'd join in.
I agree. The pain component can't be totally ignored though. It seems you're just restating my point in a different way.
How is all of this surprising to anyone who has ever plugged in a mouse and had it work automatically?
I'm not sure $600,000 even qualifies as a slap on the wrist. Marriott's revenues in 2012 were somewhere around $11 billion.
Not sure if mine has Blu-ray. Think it's only DVD but I don't own any Blu-ray discs anyway. Figured if I ever really need it or want a simple-ish upgrade I'll just swap the HDD out for a SSD at some point.

Either way it works for what I use it for. It's not my main workhorse so it doesn't need to be as fast as humanly possible. Just need to be able to handle fairly processor or graphically intensive tasks outside of the house. For the sub-$1k price it was a good deal. Macbook had a few more bells and whistles that I didn't need but cost a good deal more.
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/ddl-rowsecurity....

I found the dev documentation to be much clearer than this blog post.
Forbes put together an analysis in 2012 (the last year Excelerate was still Excelerate) based on companies' exit price or price of most recent round. Excelerate came in No. 6.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/04/30/top-tech-i...
A lot of these lyft/uber/sidecar-are-falling-apart stories remind me of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html. This may or may not be the case, but certainly the thought pops into my mind.
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Maybe we could have a whitelist, where non-blogspam blogs get a 'pass' on being edited. In this case, the Errata Sec blog provides much more value than some crappy blog spam and stands on it own. (Errata sec provides a desired value-add, you might say.)
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I can see why it would be impossible to explain quaternions without boobs
If you make $120k a year this would be like the FCC fining you $5.
This was answered on reddit a few years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e2uui/why_is_wifi...
Considering a conservative estimate of $1000/week for a single year across a dozen hotels is already over $600k, this fine is particularly really meaningless.
Yes. I wrote that in a hurry. I'm surprised the comment is on the top. This was purely theoretical speculation. I don't run a hidden service.
I agree - even a hover tooltip with the laptop details would be nice, rather than forcing clicks through to Amazon.
I disagree with that. I never implied that, maybe people think I implied that because my strong opinion goes contrary to what they think.
Good luck, Ebola-chan!
>Most drivers were driving for both Lyft and Uber, and everyone was really just hanging on and waiting for the moment when Uber will inevitably emerge victorious, purchases Lyft, and raises their rates back up to more reasonable levels.

This is why one of Lyft / Uber should die already and let the other take over the industry. Ride sharing is such an amazing idea, but the competition is nasty. This is a perfect example of why a monopoly is infinitely better than having competition: http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo...
I'm not so sure it's as bad.

Completely illegal is not bad? Whatever the reason, this is bad.
There isn't one, all titles like this do is perpetuate the myth that you need some sort of specially wired brain to learn math. I hate the spin of learning as some sort of hack. Surprise, learning something involves repetition and practice.
At the very least, it's a lot more money than they made renting wi-fi access during the event in question. Therefore, this behavior is unprofitable and will stop.

It's also enough to get the people who decided to do this fired.
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The lines are still there today: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4070/4642915654_4fbb595e20_z.j...
How do you change the y-axis?
$600,000 is enough to make the entire venture very much unprofitable. Whoever in the management chain was responsible for this will have trouble meeting their targets, not to mention keeping their job. The PR damage is massive.

The FCC has no place setting fines based on the total size of a corporation. It seems rather proportionate to me, given that they were attempting to profit from willful interference, and that's in the ballpark of how much they probably made. I doubt Marriott, or any other major US hotel chain, will ever attempt this again. Seems to me the punishment worked, without having to get dragged into courts, appeals, and legislation if they had, for example, fined them $1 billion.
I didn't say they couldn't afford it. I said it worth it (i.e. it's not profitable).
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The fine was small. Getting that money back is the job of a class-action lawsuit as suggested elsewhere.

The other conditions of the decision put a stop to the activity, and require them to report on compliance for three years. That will be more onerous than writing a check, and may convince them to stop being such greedy dickheads.
You really handpicked the references about the teenagers. Hamas has admitted it was their cell, it has been discussed in other comments. Sigh... At least be honest about well known facts. :-(

http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-leader--don-t-compare-us-to-isil...

About the examples:

- That airplane might have been different, if Russia didn't have nuclear weapons. Now the Russian economy will only be crushed, instead. (That France might get an exception through when they'd lose a lot of money is another thing. Which you probably know.)

- North Korea is being punished as much as is possible, since that seems to be the only way to get anywhere with evil juntas.

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On the subject...

So, you claim the rocket artillery and terror against Israel civilians would stop if the Israelis stopped trying to stop it? (How!? The last peace gestures from Israel were seen as weakness and resulted in many more attacks.)

Or do you think that it is OK to shoot artillery at Je... Israeli civilians... for a few decades?
With all the dirty tricks going on, I can't help but wonder if Uber is somehow arranging this as a PR attack on Lyft.
So they're burning essentially plastics? FK them all.
It's a nice example but when would you actually want RLS in the database? In practice you'd want to validate phone number formats etc, so between this and adding a "WHERE row_owner = X" to every query doesn't seem that different.
> Yay, RLS! Maybe I'm weird but I've been waiting for this.

We can be weird together!
Yeah, you need to write up this whole trip. And tell me if you ever do
Wow, very informative.
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Awesome idea. But it looks like the hackathon in behind schedule. When do you think it'll leave the station?
Folk hold up pharmaceuticals as an example of the one industry where IP protections are vital. Stories like this really make me wonder about that.
And that's only the relatively sane pipeline. There's also the proposals to pipe water down from Alaska, as in http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-25/news/mn-596_1_water-p... , with a Congressional Office of Technology Assessment[1] background paper at https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1992/9203/9203.PDF .

[1] Yes, Congress used to have an office designed to help members of Congress understand science and technology. Congress, under Newt Gingrich, defunded it.
AFAIK, Facebook no longer uses Cassandra, but apparently Apple has 75,000+ Cassandra nodes.
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Marriot should have been required to reimburse everyone that paid $250 for a hotspot.
> so between this and adding a "WHERE row_owner = X" to every query doesn't seem that different.

The difference is you will forget to add the condition to a query at one point.
> “But this is an elective service and our culture is taught to tip for elective services. And yet HQ doesn’t want to offend or dissuade customers by making the ability to tip more prominently featured for fear they may end up going to Uber. And so no drivers get tipped even when a passenger would like to give one. Maybe that’s more likely what’s bringing down morale.”

I never used Lyft or Uber until last week, and this was the most surprising part. I was trying to figure out how to tip the driver, and tbh I don't think I was able to figure it out. I ended up tipping them after the fact through the emails they send you, but it was very surprising as to how ambiguous that part of the user experience is.

With Lyft and Uber starting to take off a bit in my city, I was going to recommend it to some friends to make some extra cash. I don't think I'll continue to give this recommendation anymore though, if tipping is discouraged/hidden.
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They also get free advertising in the tech world and a list of great engineer that could be hired.

For $10k it seems like a pretty good deal for them.
The document in question mentions them having over 4,000 managed properties, assuming an average of $1,000/month for each one of those, across the 2 years between October 2012 and now, that's $96,000,000. I seriously doubt $600,000 is enough to make the venture unprofitable.

Even if I'm off by two full orders of magnitude it'd still be $960,000, and it's possible I'm undercutting the truth.
How does this story reflect on whether or not patents are vital to this industry? That seems a bit like reading a story about a drowning and saying, "This makes me wonder if water is really vital to human life." And I don't see how any of this reflects on other forms of intellectual property.
It's a critique, impassioned and curt albeit; and here's the most powerful metaphor you'll hear in regard to the topic of non-standardized formats.

Non-standardized formats/languages are the jive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_jive_talk) of the development world. It sets you apart from the general population (of programmers) when you use it. It primarily effects obfuscated communication to a smaller group. The specific form of jive will fall out of fashion a few years after you learn it. There is very little value in committing it into your brain other than for 'funsies'.

(In regard to Markdown specifically: there are tons of WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Use those and copy/paste the HTML text. It requires no learning at all. Markdown was pre-emptively made useless over a decade ago.)
More than likely we are all hanging out in Shoreditch pubs at this point in the evening, supping our real ales, playing foosball and will duly head home in a few hours on our fixies, with our hipster moustaches flying out gloriously behind us in the wind.

You should repost this Monday morning GMT.

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Some lawyer somewhere is probably already calling up all and every Marriott guest on this planet.
Yeah, maybe I'm paranoid, but this story sounds like an event organized by some anti-Lyft group for the purpose of press coverage. Most people when they are fed up with a job just quit, they don't hold a photo-op-worthy beach bonfire. Who bought the four pizzas in the last photo?
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> Amtrak is great when you aren't on a schedule.

Not on a schedule - or - for shorter trips the overhead of flying is just too much. Airports are far away from a city center, and there's always lines for security.

I rode Amtrak Cascades[1] from Seattle to Portland a few weeks back and the train station is only a few blocks from the city center. Leg room resembles first class on a plane, and being able to walk around and sit in an observation/dining car is better than anything.
Four hours, $50. I'd have spent more on gas just by itself if I drove.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak_Cascades

> Sometimes I wish I could go effectively homeless and work on personal programming projects for months at a time.

or remote on full salary :D
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If word got out that a conference center was passively blocking cell phone signals by design, I'd venture that the business would pretty much dry up to zero.
I realize it's fashionable to dump on the rust belt, but, at risk of sounding defensive, there are 2.8 million people and a whole bunch of big companies [0] in the St. Louis metro area. There's basically no way to construct a narrative that supports your claim that there's little reason to travel there.

[0] http://www.gislounge.com/fortune-1000-companies-by-state/#mi...
I was the founding CTO and VP of Engineering at Wayport (now AT&T WiFi Services.)

The answer is really, "because they are rapacious".
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The AdHoc Rogue AP sounds very much like what they were doing; which may be reasonable in some contexts, but it would seem not to be in semi-public building.

One of the important issues here is that wireless communication doesn't respect boundaries. It seems they could have easily been interfering with networks on neighboring properties.
While I'm unable to come with this on my own, the article was pretty easy to digest and understand.

It seems that the take-away lesson from the article is that you should save it in a bash script.
I'd also like to escape from the Mac, but not because it's expensive. The MBP is ridiculously well made, and the high-end models ship with components that should perform well for 3 years or so. Beyond that point, I'd be looking for a generational change (e.g. CPU architecture, RAM frequency, storage interconnect, etc.) which is more about my weakness for new stuff than actual obsolescence.
I've only used Uber, but my understanding is that the tip is built in. You choose a fixed percentage when you sign up, and that's the tip every driver gets. You can express how pleased you are with the service in your review, there's no need to do this through money. This model is a bit part of the reason I like Uber; tipping is an annoying, awkward, and outdated convention that I would prefer not to deal with.
FWIW I have seen this in practice at other convention centers (not owned by Marriott). We attended a convention (as an exhibitor) this year in MN and had to spend $10k for 3 days of Internet connectivity over WiFi. Your choices were to pay (this was the cheapest plan, others went much higher), or use your own. If they caught you using your own, they would block you and shut down your booth at the convention.

Their rationale/justification was that because WiFi at scale (40k attendees, couple hundred exhibitors) the MiFis and other hotspots are using the bandwidth that the exhibitors have paid (a lot of money) for and caused issues with their demos (which the attendees paid entry fees to see).

Convention centers operate in the world of unrealistically high pricing that is rarely seen outside of airport newsstands . For example, they wanted to charge us $3k for renting a 42" TV for 3 days. We ended up just buying a 27" Thunderbolt display and saved a ton (and had a nice monitor to give to one of our devs after the show).
The 2006/2007 versions were definitely a chore to take apart and required three or four different screwdrivers. The unibody ones starting in late 2008 are much easier to work on. (At least when replacing the RAM and HDD.)
>This is a perfect example of why a monopoly is infinitely better than having competition: http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo....

Or you could let the free market allocate resources quasi-perfectly, let the prices fall and send the money you saved on that ride to an African kid who just lost his family to Ebola. I don't know how much an Uber driver should make, and neither do you, nor the government.
First of all, I don't doubt that women are sometimes treated with less respect than man in our field. Part of the reason I left my last job was the rampant casual sexism. Shame on us.

With that said, when a woman is interrupted, how often is that due to sexism?

My girlfriend and I are in our thirties but we used to speak like college aged children. When we improved our speech, we noticed that people treat us with more respect. I know a large number of engineers, both male and female and in various age groups, who could benefit from Toastmasters or a speech coach.

As for men who interrupt, I hate you, you make the work environment worse and you need a lesson in basic etiquette.
Wonder if this article was run up the Vice flagpole, or down it?
If you get a chance to visit the US again on the west coast, take the Coast Starlight, especially if you can take it northbound out of Los Angeles. It's one of Amtrak's long-haul routes, so, especially going southbound, plan in a few hours of delay in getting to your destination, but it's one of the most beautiful trips you can make. You'll see the ocean, wind through the mountains, see farmland, see deltas, see a lot of the country for what it really is.

One of the things to keep in mind about rail in the US is that, unfortunately, freight rules, and passenger rail is kept a distant second. So any scheduling problems, and the passenger trains get bumped back farther and farther, leading to the problems you described. If you're on one of the corridors that are handled mostly by passenger consortiums -- the Northeast Corridor, or Southern California -- you tend to get much better quality of service, but when you're out of those areas, it does get pretty craptastic, unfortunately. It's better than the dark days of the late seventies to early nineties, but it's still not nearly as good as it should be.
> Someone really needs to setup their own DNS server...

Or outsource some accounting work...
Sounds like par for the course at another company beginning with "A"...
Because most people shop hotels for the room price, not for the Wi-Fi price. I've been bit by this a couple times simply because I forgot to check and see if the hotel I'm staying at offers free Wi-Fi.
That sounds amazing. Any idea how much it would cost to attend, though?
It starts off "David Graeber" without giving any context. That's the author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years".

Is this link no more than a copy and paste of Graeber's reply at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-... ?
Can this be used to detect a voice's unique digital signature? For example I just say my name to login into a website?
This page appears to be Twitter branded at certain window sizes. Specifically, if the Twitter icon in the header happens to show up more or less centered, it looks just like the header on Twitter (when you're logged in). Maybe use text for that link, or have another logo in the header somewhere?
The problem is that the FCC says that you can't interfere with legally-operating radio systems. Since conference-goers' Wi-Fi hotspots are operated and licensed under FCC regulation, the hotel had no legal right to block them.
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> They're linked in the parent to my original reply.

Okay how are they a game changers? How did they impact you?

> That's a pretty wide swath of hosting providers

They are still trying to do the same thing I described. It's a marketing play.

> If you want to run your business from a couple of boxes under your desk.

Been there, done that. Things were different ten years ago. Now you can get a VPS for a price of coffee.

> Cost is relative. $5k/mo for a year (citing the BizSpark Plus credit directly here)

It's $5K a month for a reason. They either have no traction or most start ups will never hit that limit or even come close to that price tag within the first year.

Sure there are exceptions, but if you are really pushing $5K /month on BizSpark at an early stage you should step back and figure out where you are now and where you want to be in a year after that credit runs out.
I am not the maintainer of the project, and unfortunately they don't seem to have currently a GitHub repo.
Well if you trained to the point where you don't feel pain anymore then my point is irrelevant and of course you'll be bored.

Also I think your abilities are outside the spectrum of normal. If you ran 6 miles a day for a week that'd be 42 miles per week. If you look at this article http://www.active.com/health/articles/why-too-much-running-i... 20 miles per week is the recommended sweet spot. I think if you can hit 42 miles per week without accumulating any wear and tear on your body then you're one of those people genetically predisposed to for cardio.
If IP disputes stop you using something when society as a whole really needs it, it doesn't really matter if the existence of IP was an efficient way of motivating the creators of that thing, as it is still effectively useless.