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"Information wants to be free" is a terrible argument from the naturalistic fallacy. Cars want to break down, your body wants to get cancer, and ebola wants to spread.

I agree.

The question is whether information having to be free is good for us.

Eliminating copyright doesn't the information has to be free. As a producer of copyrighted works which are freely distributable, my paycheck is an example of that.

If all information is free, your salary is $0 unless you are making content for indirect monetization -- which means propaganda, surveillance based marketing, etc. A world where information is free is a world where only content with an indirect manipulative agenda gets financed

After the Sony rootkits, I don't know how anyone can still claim with a straight face that paying protects you from that.

Content producers have introduced propaganda and manipulative advertising decades before widespread copyright infringement was even possible. From Donald Duck campaigning for WWII involvement, trials with subliminal ads, decades of product placement, really, it's everywhere.

And why shouldn't it be? Why would we expect the major studios and labels who end up owning most distribution rights to forgo those extra sources of income? "Our customers pay, we're morally bound to treat them well"? Yeah, right.

It benefits ultra-capitalists who own large channels of communication

Unlike the previous model? Yeah, no capitalists in the MPAA and RIAA!
1) Dropbox is distributed.

2) This article doesn't actually make any argument about why a centralized system can scale as well as a distributed one.
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I'm a Spaniard and I can't agree more!! Yes, we love to be near bars, restaurants, terraces, small-medium supermarkets you can buy fresh food daily, use public transportation instead of depending on the car, have nearby parks to play sports, good public schools... Also usually our family and friends live nearby. That's very important for us. Also, many people used to choose their apartment in a walking distance from their job (traditionally there is few movement of workers, people usually stay many years on the same company).

It's way different than USA (except NY or SF maybe). Not better nor worse, just different :)
Not at all, that wasn't what was posted at all. But, then, you knew that didn't you?
On the other hand german pronunciation is mostly predictable (compared to english and french at least) and the only thing that's really tricky to learn in your list is gender. For the rest, the german case system is really not that hard (especially compared to languages like russian, arabic and many others). I doubt you have 44 forms for "a" in german, although I haven't counted them lately...

Quite frankly I don't think language difficulty is the key here, otherwise we'd be having this conversation in spanish. I'm a native french speaker and I think the only reason english is easier to learn than german for us is that english is basically everywhere around us.
Complex problems often have simple solutions but it takes a lot longer to get there than it does to create a complex solution.

CSS is like a second draft. We can do much better.
This is a fallacy of the excluded middle. If the blogger was in fact a domestic blogger (was it?), it can in fact be both about domestic efforts to organize and international influence.

The United States and allies have other ways of handling domestic movements, like Fusion Centers and Free Speech Zones (in the US) and partnerships and leverage on media providers.
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Here's the link to it as a PDF for anyone else wanting a printable copy to pin to their wall: https:/docs.google.com/document/export?format=pdf&id=199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q
Speaking of language weirdness, as a person with little knowledge of anything but English, can anybody answer if there's any commonality between the genders assigned to inanimate objects in different gendered languages? Presumably there's some language branching through history that determines what gender, say, a chair is in various languages. How far back does that go, and do languages of different families commonly have wildly different genders for things?
This is true, and also applies to other systems with dependent types. Generally speaking, when you do this dance, it's best to work with total functions that terminate, i.e., algorithms. If in the chunk example, he used an option type to make the function total, the problem you pointed out would go away. And you would also be left in a better place than if you weren't using fancy types, as other functions can now use the fact that the result is a chunk of size eight.
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Ah, I missed that part of your statement. Snarky comments like "PHP land" while clever and gives us all a big chuckle can be a bit difficult to understand in context. If you actually want someone to understand what you are saying, subtle digs and pretentious put downs, while funny and I'm sure make you feel better about yourself, don't really contribute much beyond dividing people and making others feel bad.
> Yes, it's a similar to gun control arguments. Some guns are more for self-defense, or hunting animals, other guns, like assault rifles, are designed for war.

This is actually a surprisingly good analogy. People want to ban "guns that can kill people" but revolvers and hunting rifles are no less capable of killing people than an AR-15, so instead they ban "guns that look scary" regardless that they use the same bullets, have the same rate of fire, etc. Look up how an "assault rifle" is defined, it's hilarious.

It's exactly the same problem here. The technical architecture of Popcorn Time could just as well be used as a YouTube competitor as to pirate Hollywood movies. You want to ban the second and not the first but they're really the same piece of software.
Ubuntu is the least of my worries; Ubuntu backports is an even smaller blip on the radar. What about all the software running on CentOS and RHEL 6.x systems? Those aren't going away soon.

And yes, I understand the implications of what this exact system call is meant to do; explanation much appreciated nonetheless (clearly it could have mislead some people).

My only point is this system call is a step forward, and mitigates some known problematic attacks or edge cases - but nonetheless, we'll need adequate fallbacks for unsupported systems for many, many years to come in our libraries.

Thinking of it this way, I'm somewhat amazed Linux has gone this far /without/ this feature. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was either A) never suggested, which I find unlikely, or B) your typical NIH/"this is nonsense and not needed" response you sometimes see to sane things in the Linux world (despite them implementing a thousand new things every two months, that only 5 people in the world could ever use, and inevitably will result in a handful of CVEs - their priorities are Serious Business, after all.) But maybe I'm just a cynic at this point.
Yup, this is exactly correct. The buildings here in Valencia are 6-10 floors on average.
You have to wonder why the America intelligence agencies are working towards this uprising though, interference of American authorities into another countries have proven hurtful[0].

So I guess is all in the intent, while a developer may give their software for free because he believes in free speech. Why would a country want the uprising of another country, which lives under a economic system the former has been arguing against for so long? Why is information about the NSA (and other operations) being hidden but suddenly they're heroes because they release information of other countries?

[0] http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/02/pino-f11.html
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It seems you're rather upset with people who like systemd. That's fine. However, you're putting a lot of words into my mouth. I like systemd.

According to you because I like systemd:
- my opinion is "screw users"
- belittled you with compatibility concerns
- arguments are nothing more than rhetoric.

I find such discussion style rather poor. Instead of diving people into pro/con or black/white (with us or against us), try expressing things a bit more granular. Further, it seems you're out to win arguments by selectively quoting and changing the meaning of what you've quoted.

If there are bugs in systemd, they have to be fixed. I'm one of the biggest systemd advocates. This combined proves you are incorrect on what people liking systemd say or suggest.
Interesting assessment squeaky. Thanks!

I was unaware of this and it does seem like indeed popcorn fits this description.

And yeah, I agree with you that it will hopefully be ok if you don't do the aforementioned stuff, however I guess we can't ever be truly sure until it's tested in court.
It sure seems lighter/faster. Other differences:

* It doesn't support drag to enter ranges in formulas

* Arrow keys don't move the selection

* It doesn't have nifty pie menus for dragging a selection

* It doesn't support ctrl+z undo

Does EtherCalc have multiple worksheets? Ethersheet does.

EtherCalc's tabs-and-forms UI is clunky.
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You are right, the audio is from Monbiot's 2013 Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/george_monbiot_for_more_wonder_rewi...

That wasn't clear to me. Rather, I presumed (I think reasonably) from the tag "Sustainable Man Original" that it was something that that Monbiot had participated in the creation of. I've now read the comments on the Sustainable Man page (http://sustainableman.org/blog/2014/02/17/how-wolves-change-...), and see that other have pointed out that the video also uses uncredited video of English badgers and Slovenian bears.

The creator of the video responds "Hi, we “steal” footage from lots of sources all in a non-commercial effort to raise awareness about sustainability.". The removes most of the criticism I'd have toward Monbiot, and retargets it toward Sustainable Man. The video is clearly more concerned with rhetoric rather than accuracy. Regardless of the goodness of the cause, I think in the end this sloppiness with facts will do more harm than good.
About 'IPC' that talk about Lisp Machines single namespace was interesting. Passing pointers instead of serialized data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
Your fallacy is very simple. You're saying that ¬A ⇒ B, and implying that it means that A ⇒ ¬B, with A=direct and B=indirect monetization.

The conclusion doesn't follow. There's no reason to believe that enforcing direct monetization will reduce indirect monetization, and history shows that creepy and manipulative is and was being used way before "home taping was killing music."
The history of Mexico and mesoamerica in general is fascinating. I was lucky enough to spend a week in D.F. (Mexico City) in January and I fell in love with the city. I highly recommend to anyone who hasn't been to go, it's such a great city.

To bring this back to the parent comment: The anthropology museum [1] in D.F is incredible both in depth and scale. It covers the history of the city and area so thoroughly. I had no idea about the extent to which civilization had persisted in Mesoamerica before I spent half a day wandering around this museum. It's such a fascinating history and it's available to see right there through the recovered artifacts and the current ruin sites both in D.F and just outside (such as Teotihuacan [2]).

Oh, and if you go stay here: http://theredtreehouse.com

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_de_Antropolog%C3...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan
You and I have literally the same progress since the beginning of the year (mid 260s to 225). I don't really have much to add to that, I just find it interesting :)
Of course, but sometimes it is a huge pain.

I used to do cross platform across Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Windows NT/2000 back in the .COM days.
Dlls essentially. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries...
Pick a 'usb stick' distro of choice (my choice is usually sysrescuecd) and boot that image off of media or virtual media if you have one of those remotely managed systems. Though it sure would be nice if said systems could pull the image off of a mirror local to the DC.

Alternatively, build a similar rescue option in to your boot menu; if that's broken you've got no choice anyway.
It seems like American consumers especially, have a hard time with the "higher upfront for cheaper in the long run" way of thinking.

Look at all these cell phone companies that lock consumers into a two year contract with a much higher monthly premium than an alternative prepaid service. $200 phone + $100/month is somehow much more palatable than $800 phone + $50/month.
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This post reminds me of http://www.zombo.com/

FYI you can rent Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, Access and publisher for three beers a month at London prices. That's pretty cheap and it works online and offline.

Agree with OpenOffice though.
A fascinating short story on the author's early year and look into the life a hoarder. The ironic ending is delicious.
download http://www.sequelpro.com/ and you are sorted
Keep filing bugreports! If they're not responded to in an appropriate amount of time, please send a message to the systemd mailing list.
Simple is relative. CSS is far too complicated and ad-hoc for what it does.
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I covered that in the article:

"In particular, Boldrin and Levine devote a chapter of their book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, to the pharmaceutical industry. They argue that the actual cost of bringing drugs to market is substantially lower than the estimates produced by the pharmaceutical industry — a group with a vested interest in lobbying for strong patent protections. They also provide evidence that in many instances the existence of patents hinders research in drug production."
Sometimes those primitives have so different set of corner cases and implementation specific semantics, that they could just have different names across "compatible" OS.

I used to do cross platform across Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Windows NT/2000 back in the .COM days.
I guess until it's tested in court (and IANAL etc etc), it does kind of circumvent it albeit indirectly.

Since the tool's main functionality is to watch copyrighted material I guess it does circumvent access controls by tapping into an illegal repository of movies with copyright already removed (e.g. torrents).

Maybe this would be akin to telling a friend to lockpick a neighbor's door so that you can go inside. You are not directly circumventing the lock in the door but are actually doing so indirectly, by asking someone else to do it for you. Kind of like breaking the spirit (intended use) of the lock. I mean, the analogy is probably full of holes but I'm just using it to illustrate the point.
I'm not sure how to reconcile this with what I read in the book Lies My Teacher Told Me, which contradicts the source you've given here.
I suppose people could like a car when they buy it and then get disgusted with it over time.

I wonder if there's a paradoxical filter effect at play. If a car is really obviously bad (for most people) then they won't buy it. But if a car is bad in a more subtle way, maybe people are more likely to buy it and then hate it later. Thus, one might expect overall terrible cars (in the eyes of the general population, at least) to have a fanatical following, since they're the only ones who would buy it.
I know I'm a bit late, but here's one competitor I know of in your space: http://www.memoryloungeapp.com/

As of this past summer, they had very few users. Their CEO was pretty determined to get a seed round in sometime this Fall/Winter, but who knows how they're doing now.

Hope your pitch went well! Cheers!
Translating idiot: they implicitly meant 'in the rest of the world' instead of 'the world' (probably wrote it that way to begin with actually... and someone else probably 'made it shorter').
The singular "they" is as old as Chaucer and used by Shakespeare, Conrad, Austen, and EB White. The made-up word "ve" is, for what it's worth, an attempt to pick a usage fight that you won't win. :)

Join us in camp "gender-neutral singular 'they'". You have nothing to lose but your &c &c &c.
"As a producer of copyrighted works which are freely distributable, my paycheck is an example of that."

So if I pull your OSS archive and take it closed and found a new company based on it, you're totally okay with that?

I work on OSS too, but that's a choice. If I don't choose to release something OSS and you make a tool designed to rip me off, that's the same thing as taking your OSS project and stripping your name off and taking it closed. If I did that I'd be violating your terms and generally abusing you, which is what Popcorn Time is explicitly created to do to movie makers. It says "we don't care what you think about how you want your work to be used... we get to decide that for you."

Edit:

... and the RIAA is essentially a union. They look like buffoons because historically their understanding of technology is awful, but their stated purpose in life is to protect the income of working professionals in the recording industry. That includes but is not limited to musicians, since it takes a lot more than musicians to make a good album. Like most unions they are paranoid and reactionary, seeing any change as an attempt to devalue the labor of their members, but that's sort of what trade unions do. I know it's become fashionable to hate on unions, but look at what it's doing to the wealth distribution in this country. I think that's something that needs to be reconsidered. If the RIAA/MPAA are morons and reactionaries, then the tech industry could have stepped up and suggested a better alternative. "We ain't gonna pay you sheeeit" is not a good alternative.

Yeah, music and movie studios can be jerks, but at least they paid the artists something. The new model is to pay the artist nothing (or close to it) and monetize their work indirectly via advertising and customer surveillance.

The general attitude of tech people toward artists is disturbing. If you can program, you can fall out of bed and into a job making more than the vast majority of musicians can ever dream of making. I mean... six figure salaries are the stuff of fever dreams to most artists. They will never make what a low-skill JavaScript hacker makes right out of college. Benefits? What are those? Then you go and use your free personal time to build tools to yank the bottom out from under that industry even further? It just makes us look like a bunch of entitled, spoiled brats that get our kicks from rubbing our comparative privilege in everyone else's face.
I think that at least part of the problem is this: People find an approach fits them better than all others (of which they are aware). This could be based on their problem space, or personal taste, or both. But they mistake "fits me the best" for "fits programming the best". Then they can't understand why everyone doesn't do it that way. And since they're sure that it's the best way to do all of programming, the only possible explanations for why others don't do it that way is ignorance or incompetence.
Thanks. I'm eagerly waiting for them. I'd missed a few talks in the morning.
This is exactly right. The proposal is to change elisp implementations. elisp the language won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
However deep in shit they are, people can find "beauty" in it. It is a defence mechanism. But why not see things as they really are?
If the copyright holder is deprived of resources they otherwise would have received due to the infringement, it is indeed "theft". It wasn't until it could easily be done on a wide scale that such infringement was a real concern.
I think 'resources' there generally means "engineering resources", ie skilled people, not 'funding'.

It's not necessarily easy for an open source project to translate money into engineers. A pot of donated cash in the bank doesn't mean that the existing developers have any more time to work on the project, or that somebody new with the right skills and experience with the codebase magically appears. If one or more project members happen to be consultants who can use the money to spend six months working on Guile rather than on some other paid engagement that's one thing; but the amount of money required to make "quit your full time job to work on the project" financially sensible is prohibitively larger.
Not to drag this on further, but it would depend on the role the US/UK played. If they remained neutral the entire time i don't know if Russia would have eventually won. Germany wasted a lot of energy defending the west coast of europe.
No. I just won't use the law against you.

EDIT: I have no idea what is this new model that you're talking about, or why do you assume I support it. If anything, it's you who are taking the side of the tech giants, since they're all reliant on copyright and patents too.

EDIT2: I make $15k/year. And I don't really care what artists think of the "tech industry". That's mostly an US thing.
Just to clarify, are you saying that the word "handy" is used to mean "mobile phone" in Australia?
uhm... why does the faq page explain IMAP access when the product's using Google's EMail API? Also, "extended network" is not defined.

OTOH, nice project and blissfully simple!
> Nor is mobile phone.

Germans do use the word 'handy' when referring to a mobile phone.

To us, 'handy' sounds like it could be the actual English word for mobile phone. When we hear 'public viewing' we think of people watching soccer together outdoor on a big screen. And I guess that most of us first think of a laptop computer when we hear the word 'notebook'.
Neither "beauty" nor "shittiness" are part of how things objectively are, but rather things we project onto the world by how we relate to it. Why not, when given the choice, project the former?
I see this is "in Canada". Is there a way to see all schools together?
Following the exact same approach helped to lose 20 lbs and motivated me to start a product around it.

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I had to clean up a hoarder house on multiple occasions (somewhat like the author I got a brief, one-time job cleaning a few out); I've got a pretty high tolerance for the filth in one, so the black mold and decaying clothes didn't bother me much.

What bothered me on a much more existential level was the insanity. The madness in the minds of the hoarder (whom I had to interact with) that could not be reasoned with. Madness is terrifying because you're just helpless to do anything for them once it sets in. It's like dealing with a mule who refuses to get out of a danger it can't comprehend - because you're robbed of the essential human ability of explanation. You no longer have that human connection to them; you just have to helplessly hope they'll find their own way out.
The problem is that the flaw in thinking is everywhere. Even wikipedia unfairly lumps in Condorcet voting with its various "tiebreaker methods" - it's the tiebreaker methods that run afoul of Arrow's criteria, while the Condorcet method itself does not. And so the Condorcet method gets unfairly lumped together with voting techniques like plurality and IRV.