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Cash is so important - don't take it lightly. When I first started, this was a side project for me and the tendency was not to be thrifty. Because of some bad decisions spending-wise, it ended up delaying when I was able to go full-time with the business.
I remember my mom being one of the very last people I knew to insist on using checks instead of a credit/debit card, and that was more than 10 years ago.
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I can cut this "insertion" time in half. :) Miniature camera pasted somewhere discrete on the ceiling.

That even bypasses physical (lockbox) security.

(I liked the article but I think she waffled on a bit long about physical security, which TC developers made a good point about, and TPM)
Works on all OSs and only takes a few minutes: replace the laptop keyboard with your own keylogging version. Or insert a device where the serial port connects inside the laptop. Typical 'stealth' hardware based keylogging.
But there are lots of Mac users who used to be Windows users. Apple would like them not to switch back. So it's not in Apple's interest for Windows 7 to be perceived as "Windows done right". Hence their attempt to ensure that idea doesn't take hold, right from the get go.
Superb!

That is the sort of creative demonstration that will really help throw this stupid idea out. Go Talk Talk!
[...] sold as end user installable.

(And I didn't have admin rights, so I did what I could to work around the problems)

If the problem was not the installability then you fail to mention the antecedent to "the problems" in your post. I think it was a reasonable conclusion from what you wrote that you were "installing software and had problems because of permissions".

I wasn't saying you were wrong to install it, some corporate environments require workarounds themselves!
The point is that people with eight year old computers are going to get new hardware and not just the OS, and then when they realize that it's a big jump to go from XP to Win 7 (copy files over, install all their old apps and hope they're still working, etc), they might as well get one of them cool Macs.

Something like that.
That is the premise you should start with IMO; which is why this is not interesting. Absolutely you need to avoid releasing physical control of your machine.
When you get to that level of protection, the main attack I'd be worried about is the $5 wrench.

http://xkcd.com/538/

Of course as the strip also points out
"Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets"
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Very true, funny :-) At least with truecrypt you can give them only one of the passwords (it can do that secret "deniable" encrypted partition).
hehe, and then, one realizes that the government might recruit your sister and the dilemma is perfect.
The Google Wave chatting tool is too complicated for its own good.
It is open, but most[1] people are going to use the Google-provided servers. Businesses who want to keep their data safe can have an internal wave server, but these aren't the kind of places which would allow employees to use Gmail for their business communications...

[1] Wild assumption, but I expect that the numbers will bear this out.
"PC users are waiting eagerly for Windows 7 as they want to get rid of their eight year old ancient Windows XP"

What?! Wasn't it just discussed a few days ago that most users couldn't care less?
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It's called a cramdown: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1027/030.html

The idea is that there wouldn't be a liquidity problem as the debt excluding individual depositors would be restructured as equity or some type of quasi equity/debt with assets aggressively written down.

The problem with what has currently been done with the bailouts is that the underlying problem hasn't be dealt with and only deferred meaning that at some point it's still going to have to be dealt with - and by taxpayers instead of investors who should bear responsibility for the risks that they have taken and the trust they placed in the executives of these institutions.
All their plans have that structure. I'm guessing that they want to be able to plan what resources to give to Alpha on the basis of what their customers have signed up for, so they want to discourage "overuse". Also, you pay up front for the quota and presumably pay in arrears for any extras, so obviously they want to encourage you to pay earlier.

(Still seems pretty daft to me, though.)
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"Have you really tried IDEA, and did you really not think it was better than Eclipse?"

Yes and yes I did think it was better than Eclipse but I did not think it was better than Netbeans since 6.5 and on. I think the problem with IDEA is they are beginning to have trouble keeping up with the latest trends in the industry given that fact that a lot of those trends are coming out of open source it is natural that the open source IDE's will implement tooling before there closed source competitors.

That being said IDEA always felt more "bolted together" and consistent than Eclipse but the trade-off was always that they did not have tooling for some of the things eclipse did, so personally I would have to jump between the two.

Since Netbeans 6.5 and now 6.7 I have moved away from both as, for me, it has both covered well. It is polished as if it where build less by community and more by a driving vision. It also has a large community following implementing new tooling for the latest and greatest. Take the JavaScript tool-kits for example, Netbeans is the only IDE short of Aptana that I have seen, that implements code completion jsdoc inspection, code navigation, debugging, trace from JavaScript client, through server to database, etc. etc. for all of the major JS frameworks.

Anyway, long story short, IDEA is competing in a space that is becoming increasingly difficult to remain closed source. Especially when some of it's open-source competitors have caught up with it in it's mainstay, efficiency and usability.
This really isn't that new. Also, what is the final comment?

“The next experiments are to get that second person
to be aware of the information that is being sent to them.
For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”

Is he admitting that he hasn't managed to send information from a computer directly to a brain? If so the title of this article is a lie. "Developed" No! Developing? Yes!
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What laptop / HD combination does that, or rather how can I tell if mine supports it?
A guy I once met told me to: "Make something people want." The harder they want it, the less hard it will be to survive.
I'm not clear whether these are from Apple folks or the writer himself. But I don't see them strong.

# Macs are easy to connect with widespread iPhones and iPods

well.. Is there any difficulty connecting them with windows?

# About 80% of PC users are still using Windows XP and

upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is a arduous and punishing task.

If the problem is pain of _upgrading_ getting a mac won't help.

There should be stronger points I guess :).
Sure, except that these companies don't seem to realize that the average computer user today doesn't like having to figure things out.

If you just use your computer for email and a bit of web stuff every other day or so, and you've been using Windows XP, you don't want to move to a Mac. You'll find it frustrating because things aren't where you expect them to be and you don't get to have all the same programs on your computer. Likewise, if you're a long-time Mac user, it doesn't matter how good Windows 7 is -- you don't want to use it, because it's too different from what you know.

The majority of computer users now are not hobbyists or tinkerers, and these two companies' marketing strategies are so out of sync with their customer base that it would be hilarious if it wasn't sad.
As far as I understand posterous does not have comments functionality. Is this correct?
I think it's false advertising to say it has no blades. It uses an internal fan that you can't see to push air.
> and then use the national one-day postal service?

I just sent a letter from Britain to Germany, and it was there the next day. So you might not even need to ship to all countries.
I was reading this, posted by Snaptalent (YC Winter '08), last night:

http://snaptalent.com/

They talk about choices they made and the end result.

It would be great to hear more from YC people about their experiences (a number from the list on Wikipedia have sold or moved on).
Ah, they must be fans of Peter F. Hamilton. I wonder if they have they started growing Bitek yet?
What's agility after all?

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

For me being agile is adapting to a changing environment. Animals are being agile to survive in their natural environment and we are agile to survive in our environment. If your "agile" mind tells you to slow down to get to something you do that. So if "waterfall" is the key for the next few releases then what's the problem? The "agile law" would have to draw up all the scenarios in the world to be word for word otherwise what agile means is: do whatever you want just get it done and I can share you this and that from my experience. It is basically passing on responsibility and judgment to the executioner after a bit of coaching ideally from past experiences. Think of a coach-football player relationship.
This is how I see it and I hate this branding of it and of putting labels everywhere when it should be: "stop being an idiot and take it from there" - common sense
Last time I checked Acer was known for making cheap computers. Apple on the other hand is known for making high-end fashion accessories. Nope, not gonna beat iPhone. A two second comparison of the companies' websites tells you which one is going to come out on top. Acer's website is a usability nightmare and has absolutely zero panache. Apple's website is all panache and very intuitive.

... and having an iPhone makes you cool. That about ends the discussion there.
I think in most circumstances, nobody would want to buy the voting rights.

This was an unusual situation in which Theiss paid for the voting rights to vote against the interests of the share holders.
There must be laptops out there with the feature that they lock closed and require some physical opening token (key, combination, etc). Given a sufficiently strong and tamper-evident locking mechanism, you wouldn't need an external lockbox and this attack would be difficult or impossible. (Emphasis on the "sufficiently", of course.)
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You're just being overly pedantic. To most people, it has no visible blades, and therefore it has no blades.

Sure, a more accurate wording would have been "no blades that you can stick your fingers in", but you can't expect too much out of marketing people!
Existing competitors more often mean that the market exists, not that the market is saturated.
I've spent quite a bit of time on windows 7. My dev box with 3 monitors and two video cards as well as my $300 netbook run Windows 7 Ultimate very very smoothly. I think Apple is right to be a bit concerned.
Here's a much more mature analysis of what's going on.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091014-711422.html

Posted article is fairly shallow, and this deserves some better analysis.
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All they need to do is force the Mac users to use Windows for an hour. I had to do that last week and I'm still recovering.
I'm talking about this kind of thing (fuzzy string matching) at the Central PA Open Source Conference tomorrow:

http://www.cposc.org/

Also have slides (keynote, ppt, pdf, and example code) here:

http://github.com/kyleburton/fuzzy-string

Interesting and useful algorithms.
Am I the only one who feel that trucrypt dev is just running away from answer here.

Joanna Rutkowska: If I could arrange for a proper lock or an impenetrable strongbox, than why in the world should I need encryption?

TrueCrypt Developer: Your question was: "And how can you determine that the attacker has or has not worked with your hardware?" My answer was a good safety case or strongbox with a good lock. If you use it, then you will notice that the attacker has accessed your notebook inside (as the case or strongbox will be damaged and it cannot be replaced because you had the correct key with you). If the safety case or strongbox can be opened without getting damaged & unusable, then it's not a good safety case or strongbox. ;-)
We've made something similar for industrial use. My understanding (given that we only do the machining) is that in an industrial setting they require loud compressors with much larger footprints... so the real engineering feat is probably the motor depending how loud these suckers are (http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/dyson-speeds-up-worlds-fa...)
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Don't forget, though, the size of the XP userbase. A mere fraction of a percent might be enough to make marketing effort pay off for Apple. They don't need to tap into the average person when tapping into outliers could do the trick.
Ok, this was interesting, but he only dealt with the "they built it" half of the title. I wanted to know more about the "It's Still Working" half. Who is controlling this system now that the Soviet Union is no more? Who is maintaining the components, and their interconnects? Is there any reason not to tear it down and, if not, why hasn't it been?
You are presumably reading this on a computer you own , and drive to work on a car you own. You can increase the dignity of a number of people by selling both and donating the proceeds to a worthwhile charity. ( I can think of few things more dignified , than say , for a starving kid in India to be able to go to bed with a full stomach for one night). And charities like giveindia.org make this very possible ...

Remember the old saying, "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and feed him for life"? You're talking about the former. Kamen's inventions that mdasen mentions are like the latter.

Not that helping people out isn't good, but creating tools that let them help themselves is incomparably better. Kamen has demonstrated an ability to do that in ways that most people just can't.
Internet "journalism" has just reached a new low.
A Known Buyer and http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/serious-before-startup/
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Not to mention sabotage and blackmail. "Pay me millions or I'll chop your cables". Hmmm, new meaning for the term "Hacker"...
That's certainly a plus because you have a court to go to, but tax law is national law in the EU.
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Ah, there's your problem right there. You have assignment rather than comparison in line 3. Fix and try starting up again!
Considering he was gay and is now dead I would say the answer is yes :-)

But I know what you mean and you are right, the EU doesn't prevent rabid populism. Interestingly though, it's the mainstream parties in the EU who aggressively pursue all kinds of privacy intrusions and surveillance madness.
> If I could arrange for a proper lock or an impenetrable strongbox, than why in the world should I need encryption?

In case the attacker steals your laptop and decides to keep it, for example.
The motor is interesting since it's a "digital" motor called a Switched Reluctance Motor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_Reluctance_Motor
Sales matter.
The below may be seem simple but i don't know when i was starting up :( ................

1.Don't go alone atleast partner with one or two similar minded person .

2.Keep run way for atleast 1 to 1/1/2 Year.(nothing auto magically happens)

3.More features will not make your product popular.
Implement few set of features which uniquely showcases the core idea.These features has to be done very very very well (remarkable).

4.Atleast one mentors in same area.

etc..........
I don't think so. If the attacker got physical access to the hardware there is very little you can do via software, given the architecture of normal computers. So the only thing that makes sense is to find a way to detect physical access, and currently the only one is to physically protect the computer itself.

Edit: still there are a few tricks that can be done in theory. For instance to flash a new bios modified in order to write some data in a given sector of the disk if after the power up you don't press a special sequence of keys. This makes the owner able to detect if there was access to the PC, and because it's done in the BIOS even starting a different operating system from the CD will not avoid the detection.

This is security by obscurity, but can work against Maids.

Another simpler, less effective, but still better than nothing approach is to set a password in the BIOS. Unfortunately if I remember correctly a lot of BIOSes used to have backdoors.
I liked the photo. Thank you for posting it. I hadn't seen it before.
Will we start to see attempts to ban "old" and insecure wireless routers? If your router only does WEP then you're open to this kind of attack, and no amount of configuring it will fix it...
Programmers should know math.. just not all of it
Assuming I understand you correctly, the hypothetical solution is now this:

The attacker has complete physical access to a laptop with an encrypted hard drive for an indefinite period of time.

Forgive my ignorance on the matter, but what good would encryption do you there? Other than slow them down, of course.
Just keep it in a lock case. This solves the problem of Evil Maids, but not of Evil Maids-financed-by-the-NSA-with-lockpickers. I have to imagine that if those types of people were after your encrypted info,you'd know and you'd probably keep it handcuffed to your wrist.
Jump up from a large mass and don't fall back towards it then come and tell us again about there being "no hard and fixed rules".

It is not that Their(sic) must be an order but that there _is_ an order.
product market fit.

forget users, focus revenue.

AARRR.
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Well when you're working with other people's code debuggers are most definitely not pointless.

I'm not sure how you can write any non-trivial Java program without lots of getters, unless you expose your fields everywhere, and end up in maintenance hell.

hashCode/equals/toString are boilerplate code that is best machine generated, because humans make mistakes when writing the same boilerplate code for the 500th time.

The fact that Java is strictly statically typed means the IDE can safely refactor your code without breaking things, though obviously you can still get naming conflicts, which if occur the IDE will not let you continue.

Your comparison with natural language is disingenuous, they are not parsable by machines, and hence are not easily refactorable; a word processor can't determine the context from your cursor location, and hence can't auto-complete words.

Here is Java's complete grammar: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/synta....

I also haven't seen a character name like SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean (that's a real Spring class name...)
How often have you used the computer as a blunt force (striking something) or as a construction item (eg in a wall). You solve problems by writing code for the computer to run. Is the computer really a tool or is it simply a device for controlling tools? If the outputs are not connected to other devices the computer does no useful work.
It could slow them down for thousands of years, well beyond the time when the data it holds becomes worthless.
Google Wave will force me to learn to touch type to avoid embarrassment in front of my geek friends!
the next iPhone Killer

What was the former iPhone Killer and how can it be killed again? Zombie iPhones?
The detail you forget with gaming is that the basic PC hardware is more or less guaranteed to be there: mouse, keyboard, 3d graphics accelerator, monitor capable of a certain minimal resolution. In particular, the ergonomics are also consistent.

The issue with phones is that ergonomics can make or break your app, and that is dictated entirely by fixed hardware. Do you have only a touch screen? A keyboard? keyboard + touch screen? What about physical screen size and resolution? Your application will technically run on every combination of that hardware, but the end-user experience may suffer.

Those ergonomic issues impact the end-user in a huge way. If you've ever watched someone with a Blackberry (with a trackball) use an iphone optimized website, it's usable but not as efficient as using a touch screen. There's often no way around these limitations for the end-user other than getting a new device.

Mobile devices will eventually mature and converge toward common hardware and input technologies, but until that happens cross-device work is going to be a real challenge.
Related question: what's the general feeling about starting a project that you believe will be popular, but that doesn't have a clear revenue path?
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Exactly, and this is also the reason many people are still using IE6. If your computer does the things you want - sends email, browses your favorite websites, lets you write a letter, maybe plays music - then what's the point?

Until recently, Apple's market has indeed been these "straw-man fanboys" - people that will always upgrade to Apple's newest kit, covet their latest OS or shiny thing. But that's not the case any more, and Apple have been selling to the common man, and they're eventually going to get bitten by the same bug as Microsoft - consumer apathy - as their market share rises.

I have a Macbook running Tiger, and a PC running XP. The only OS I regularly upgrade is Ubuntu, and only then because it's (almost) automatic.
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My personal favorite reference to the Coandă Effect involves urinals:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2450/urinal-101-aim...

http://ask.metafilter.com/8204/Urinal-Aiming#160007
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I'm with Mr. Manjoo here. Check out that screenshot -- it looks like an interface nightmare similar to AOL in the 90's. Where are my eyes supposed to go? What do I click on? Personally, I find this a noted departure from the simplicity I like in Google's other products -- this looks more like outlook than it does gmail.

I'm also curious about the potential use cases for such a tool. I can see students using this a lot, I guess, but I don't know if I see anything compelling enough to make me change the way I use email.
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