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> I honestly want to know how is it allowed for someone to humiliate and make fun of something that is sacred to other people/culture.

Because then claiming offense becomes a sword, not a shield, and can be used to shut down legitimate criticism.

For example, saying "There is no honor in honor killings" can be very offensive and humiliating in the wrong crowd, but it is nevertheless a discussion which needs to be held anywhere honor killings take place.

Similarly, there are disingenuous morons in my country who claim all criticism of Israeli policy is anti-semitism. That can't possibly be considered valid. If it was, nobody could criticize Israel, which is obviously what the morons want, but a free society can't allow that.

> How come guys like Julian Assange are not protected under 'free speech'? How about people who sign NDA's?

You can't use "Free speech" as a way to get around other laws, including contract law in the case of NDAs.

> How come it would be heavily criticized (and probably illegal) for a newspaper to start running weekly cartoons where they make fun of the black population in America, depicting them with the all the token representations and slurs that are now widely accepted as 'racist'?

The KKK is a legal organization in America. David Duke is a legal human being, and is legally considered a human being despite evidence to the contrary, and legally has the right to say everything he's said, past and present.

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

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

And then there's the Westboro Baptist Church:

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

I fear your understanding of American free speech laws is quite flawed.

> Are there some written rules about this

Yes. A lot of them are in court cases, where judges have made decisions which bind on other judges. This is how a Common Law system works.

> or is it just the result of how things are perceived by the majority of the public (i.e. what we like vs what we don't)?

No. If it worked like this, the Westboro Baptist Church, for example, wouldn't be legal.
Which is why it is recommended that, beyond a certain point of initial expertise, you seek a "master" in whatever branch of practice you're comfortable with.

It's actually pretty thoroughly documented in all the Buddhist commentaries that people can have a very shitty time with meditation.
You can reverse engineer to your heart's content using whatever you like, provided you didn't "acquire" the original source code. Given the binary, there's nothing to legally prevent you from using or creating tools to convert machine code to assembler code and then find patterns that you can disassemble into compilable source code.

Now redistributing that code might maybe possibly get you into hot water, but to find out you'll need to go through a trial. So you use your disassembled source to learn the algorithm, then reimplement it in your own style. Now you're not even in the gray with respect to the original source.
While I strongly agree in net-neutrality principles, there is the case that in these scenarios the data may not have the same costs to provide, and some may be cheap enough that it doesn't make sense to charge from.

In Australia at least general internet transit is orders of magnitude more expensive then a local peering connection. If the content provider is making the content cheaper then the general internet traffic, then it seems quite reasonable for that saving to be passed on to the customer.

While I love the abstraction that you simply pay a fixed rate per bit/byte, it doesn't accurately portray the connectivity situation at least in Australia, where international transit, and even inter-capital city transit can be a sizeable portion of any costs.

I pay rough costs of $2000 per month for a 100 Mbit / 5TB per month service to my rack in a DC, but I can pay $750 per month for a 10gbit service to a peering (IX) Internet Exchange in the same DC. If I was providing an ISP service I think it would be completely reasonable to not charge for traffic over the peering link as the data is nearly 300x cheaper, its quite possible it would be cheaper to simply not track the usage.

It does create a situation where competition is harder, where a content provider may need to deploy many POPs to ensure their content is available under a peering situation, however I don't see this is inherently anti-competitive.
Given what happened in the civil war, it must have mentally broken many people.

But if you live in a society where it is fairly normal for mothers to die giving birth, or for children or friends to die or be maimed for life (and where it must have been fairly common to see corporal punishment of slaves) seeing healthy men die suddenly in horrible ways may have had a smaller effect than it does today.

But of course, outside the battle field, they had it way worse than present-day soldiers (at least those for rich countries such as the USA). No antibiotics, no rescue helicopters, no air-conditioned hospitals, etc. That may well have compensated for that.
I don't really get what's going on here. Do the OP and his friend know how to code? If so, why bother raising money when you could bootstrap your MVP?

if not, what were you doing with the 7 projects that failed?
I'd rather see them not use Cydia.

While I'm glad that Cydia exists, for those individuals who love iOS and i-things but wish to step outside of apple's total control, it seems less professional to me to release an app whose usage specifically requires 100% of the users to violate the agreements they made with the manufacturer.
@ensure_annotations
def f(x: int, y: float) -> float:
return x+y

This looks great, I wish it was the standard
Playing video, usually (not a coincidence that the demo video is using XBMC).

But on a more general note - if you can get quad core for $35, why wouldn't you?
> The "manually adds funds" flowchart block looks, to a banker, like a risk item. How does that work? Every hour or so, some clerk opens a safe full of USB sticks and takes one out? Now you have an insider theft risk. Did they copy one? Who has physical access? If you're operating 24/7, more than one person will need access.

Exactly.
> I see that Charlie Hebdo would have been in a lot of legal trouble if they were based on the US then.

I don't. Can you explain, please? I'm honestly interested in how you think American free speech law works.
Probably not the answer OP is looking for, but for me it was Baby Rudin at uni
Where can I get one???
Thank GOD someone posted this after everyone lost their fucking heads at the Intel stick yesterday.
[0] looks like a nice article with a comparison to Raspberry Pi B+

[0] http://linuxgizmos.com/35-dollar-quad-core-hacker-sbc-offers...
I would love to not talk while driving. I would also like to not listen while driving. In fact, I would like to not drive while driving! That being said, I'm much less concerned about spending a minute talking to a dispatcher than the guy/gal flying down I-95 while breaking up with someone over the phone. (Speaking of which, at least with a phone you can hang up... but some passengers, man...)

Edit: I would also posit that in some cases, a short phone call can actually do a great deal to remove distraction if it is a settleable matter. The conversation you have in your head while driving may be just as bad as the one you'd have on the phone, except that it may dwell longer.
How much cheaper would it be to get less power? Would it actually be worthwhile to find such systems, if you found that one first?
HTPC has been the most common use I've seen. I use my Raspberry Pi to run XBMC. It gets the job done although the menu can be a little sluggish; I've been thinking of upgrading it for awhile.
>> Ban on Reverse Engineering: Section 2.6 prohibits any reverse engineering (including the kinds of reverse engineering for interoperability that courts have recognized as a fair use under copyright law), as well as anything that would "enable others" to reverse engineer, the software development kit (SDK) or iPhone OS.

> Wow. EFF should sue Apple over that alone. Private companies aren't supposed to "contract-out" your rights. This will be an easy win for EFF.

I would agree that apple is going way over the line, but the issue of 'contracting out' your rights isn't so cut and dry. I'd be interested in reading more about which laws or cases may apply in this situation, but generally speaking its perfectly legal to voluntarily sacrifice previously existing rights as part of a contract.
Absolutely not. It's much easier to be chastised for criticizing someone's religion. Tell a meditator what they do is stupid, and you may actually have positive feelings intentionally directed at you (see compassion mediation).
Not saying this is what people would want, but what if the aggregator shaped itself depending on what the person was doing, where they were, time of day, etc?
My feeling when it comes to addiction is that it becomes a comforting or at least comfortable thing.

Yes.

The article talks about changing environments, and I absolutely agree

A huge part of the inpatient treatment program had to do with an extended aftercare and halfway-house plan for up to two years.

Since my addiction occurred mostly out West, being back "home" had much the same effect, so I was able to skip the half-way house (but of course not the aftercare)

The state-of-the-art in addiction care completely recognizes the absolute importance in removing addicts from their environments.
If you're in North America.

http://ameridroid.com/
Did you miss “How to Start a Startup” lecture series?
I tweaked the style a bit for the site for "better" readability (though it's subjective): https://userstyles.org/styles/109116/mit-operating-system-en...
I mentioned it above, but there is no license fee for Windows 8.1 with Bing. It's completely free for OEMs to sell on their hardware, they just can't modify the search settings at install time. The user can do whatever they want with the search settings, and it's a full 8.1 install from a technical viewpoint.

Basically, the difference in price between the two SKUs is purely hardware based. So, buy whichever hardware you need, and install GNU/Linux.

On a side note, I have an HP Stream 7 tablet with an Atom CPU and 1GB RAM, and it runs 8.1 very well. I'd imagine even the lower spec SKU of the Intel stick would run it fine. Storage space would be the only real issue for that OS.
> there is definitely a problem with the way doctors prescribe drugs these days

Why? Painkillers have a clear function and are useful in many scenarios. Most people using them have no problem quitting when it is time. The minority of people abusing painkillers do it because they have an addiction problem (which is the actual issue to target) and obtain them through the black market.

> prescription drugs kill more people than illegal drugs

Most likely not.
Everybody wins?
Thank you for that, brother, and your wisdom on this issue shines brightly.
The site is so garish I actually love it for some reason.
I'm on mobile right now, so apologies that there are no links. I have an app on my phone called TinyScan, which allows you to take a photo of a piece of paper and do perspective correction on it to get a normal rectangular copy. I'll take a stack of notes on a particular topic, scan it with TinyScan, and then upload the resulting PDF to Evernote. Then, I'll sprinkle some keywords into the Evernote doc/tag it/move it to the appropriate notebook so that I can find it later. Not ideal, but it's been working pretty well so far.
> I make my money as a software developer, selling my work directly to people who appreciate it.

If you sell your work directly to people, then you don't use apple's app store.
I am not sure familiar with jspm or bower. In the limited 60 second window that i researched their site it seems jsmp doesn't have as much documentation as broswerify. If jspm comes up more often in npm then I will think about it.
Yes. You only really need objects when you have mutable state. Without mutable state, what you have is just a module that contains data structures and related functions for processing them.
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Log in to Google Webmaster Tools, claim your site, and find out why it's not being indexed. Understand the problem before attempting to remedy it.
The assumption that the DPRK is an irrational actor would actually be handled just fine under Occam's Razor, it is simply an additional variable in the hypotheses.
White House Responds to Carmen Ortiz/Aaron Swartz Petition
Just got this from the White House:

Response to We the People Petition on U.S. Attorney's Office Personnel Matters

Aaron Swartz's death was a tragic, unthinkable loss for his family and friends. Our sympathy continues to go out to those who were closest to him, and to the many others whose lives he touched.

We also reaffirm our belief that a spirit of openness is what makes the Internet such a powerful engine for economic growth, technological innovation, and new ideas. That's why members of the Administration continue to engage with advocates to ensure the Internet remains a free and open platform as technology continues to disrupt industries and connect our communities in ways we can't yet imagine. We will continue this engagement as we tackle new questions on key issues such as citizen participation in democracy, open access to information, privacy, intellectual property, free speech, and security.

As to the specific personnel-related requests raised in your petitions, our response must be limited. Consistent with the terms we laid out when we began We the People, we will not address agency personnel matters in a petition response, because we do not believe this is the appropriate forum in which to do so.
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Charlie? Charlie Root? Charlie??!?!... is that you?
Frequency is just periodic variation in volume so it doesn't really belong on that list as if it's a separate thing and not an emergent property
Totally agreed. I misread your tone, which can be tough to perceive over the interwebs sometimes. My apologies :)
It's much easier to be chastised for criticizing someone's religion.

That's a rather low bar, though.
What are the shipping options for Europe?
Some things are classified for a very good reason and should stay so for some time.

This is an oft-repeated claim that is sorely in need of justification. Especially in this case, where the attack is purely digital.
This is what a brazilian “prison” looks like
I don't doubt that this is useful to you, but the phrase "mindful thinking" makes me wonder what exactly you mean.

"Mindfulness" as used in insight/mindfulness meditation / vipassana and similar schools of mediation does not refers to thinking about something.

Rather it refers to detached but focused observation (though you may observe your thoughts). The point is to instead of "following a train of thought", to get off it and watch it closely from the sideline, and let each train disappear into the distance.

What your use of "mindful thinking" sounds like to me (and I might be wrong and you may be thinking of exactly what mindfulness meditation tends to refer to), is focused attention on a train of thought. That's important too, but very, very different.

From the sounds of it you are certainly practising your concentration and willpower, and that is certainly valuable in itself, and if whatever you're doing works for you of course you should keep doing it.

But I'd like to suggst an experiment: Try to "detach" from your train of thought sometime, even if just a minute here and a minute there (a minute can be frustrating enough...). E.g. when out walking, try to purposefully clear your mind and fix your attention on just the path. Try to be present and quietly observe every detail without trying to verbalize any thoughts. Thoughts will pop up and distract you anyway. Just gently nudge them away, or observe them but try not to "follow it up" and just let it dissipate. When you lose focus, and notice (whether 5 seconds later or 10 minutes), just gently nudge your attention back.

The "game" is to note when you lose concentration and try to gradually lengthen the time span where you are just present, detached from your thought stream and just observing. As I've heard someone say: it's when you notice you lost concentration you're learning.
Agreed. I never saw the point of Bower, since it requires Node itself anyway. With tools like Browserify (and, I assume, Webpack... haven't had a chance to use it yet), you can load dependencies into your project extremely easily: `npm install backbone --save-dev`, then `var Backbone = require('backbone');` in your code.
(Speaking as an Open Dylan hacker...)

I've occasionally wondered if we should take the old emulator sources and re-package them as a separate repository. It isn't clear that anyone knows how to make them run any longer or whether or not they'd run on anything other than LispWorks or if this would be of anything other than a historical curiosity.
I don't mind the odroid, but I would love it a lot more if there were some official Debian images for it. The software side of things is lacking a little bit.
Don't you see? Since we are all so very scared of malware, apple is our very best friend. This is the beginning and the end of the conversation on 'consumer rights'. If you disagree, then you support malware. Shame on you.
Hm, makes sense. I think hobbies in general can be used to take the place of an addiction. I should probably cycle to work more, though ;)

However one of the major problems with heroin addiction is the actuall process of quitting. You can't keep a job during withdrawl, i.e. cold turkey. There are clinics that offer 'five day detox' under sedation, but that's expensive (GBP 5K plus) and good luck getting NHS or health insurance to pay. They offer naltrexone implants, which prevent opiates from working altogether, which removes the option of relapse completely...

Getting a methadone prescription in the UK is also tedious to say the least - you are supervised when taking your daily dose, must report for 'assessment' regularly and so on, which is hard to fit in to a working schedule. And forget about getting enough to take away with you on a business trip for a couple of weeks. I generally have to purchase on the black market when required, which is ridiculous. I'd love to be able to ask my GP for help, and simply be given a repeat prescription for a week or two's supply to take home, but that's never going to happen because they're afraid of it being sold. So I have to buy it from others, which doesn't make sense...?!
I can vouch for this. I used to have an FM system - this is a mic that transmits on a very specific FM frequency
to a receiver that's paired with my hearing aids. I loved it because I could easily use it to hear people near me in loud rooms, but it sucked in meeting rooms. The reason why is that I would hear someone speaking through my hearing aids and through the mic - at slightly different times. This is the phase shift Dwolb speaks of. This reduced clarity significantly.

That said, if analog31 wants to wear the mic on his shirt, that distance is actually good enough for most 1 to 1 conversations. Just understand that you're trading off "spatial perception" (no left/right balance if only one mic).
They have a distributer in Germany here: http://www.pollin.de/shop/suchergebnis.html?S_TEXT=odroid&lo...

They also have a US based distributer as well: http://ameridroid.com/

Back before they had the US and German distributers I ordered a different board and they shipped it to the US from South Korea with no problems.
Definitely interesting and a neat paper, but please keep in mind that this is _very_ speculative. (However, the authors do a nice job of stating that, and give plenty of specific tests that could be performed by Curosity or a similar rover.)

They're keying in on the top surface, but there's no strong evidence that it's a "clean" bedding plane. You get very similar structures from normal weathering. The authors make a few reasonable arguments to support the idea that there's no significant weathering, but I'm not convinced.

Ignoring geochemical signatures for the moment, a great visual test would be to take a closer look at the morphology of the laminae they mention. Stromatolitic laminations are fairly distinctive.

Caveat: I'm a geologist, but not in astrobiology.
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I was literally tortured by the CIA on my jobs.

No matter how bad, just remember the torture.
I doubt it since the author of the book I read was the person who studied the drug in question and he said that research was discontinued due to FDA issues.

Another anecdote in the same book was that the same researcher was funded to study side effects of a drug for insomnia. He found it did an excellent job of helping people sleep, and was puzzled about why people weren't interested. Turns out that the drug company funding him was testing a competitor's drug and were hoping to find side effects so that they could get the FDA to take it off the market. :-)

It was an excellent book that I read 20 years ago, and if I could remember the title I'd buy it in a heartbeat just to refresh my memory.
My favorite excerpt from the reviews:

"As everyone knows, Ethernet cables are for transmitting digital data and that any basic cable with the right rating will successfully transmit any signal thrown at it. However, what people don't know is that -- given the right product -- you can transmit more than digital information through the cable. In addition to the digital information, this cable lets you transmit analog signals such as love, tea, the color green, and the feeling that you get when you first step into a warm bath.

After experiencing this, I'm never going back to the cheap $5 Ethernet cables that only transmit digital data."
The API looks very easy to use. Anyway, I created some REST API wrappers to given another option to the developers for accessing the API:

http://restunited.com/releases/426944488402847511/wrappers
I do not think the EFF can (or would) sue them over the developer agreement in the manner described by the grandparent post. I found that statement hyperbolic, though I do wish that people would stop writing overly burdensome contracts full of CYA provisions.

That aside, your statements about defamation are just as bogus. Opinions regarding specific, disclosed facts are protected. There's something called the Milkovich standard, which you can read more about here:

http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-la...

Given that the Apple developer agreement is public and the article I read makes that agreement the sole basis of its opinion without implying that they know more than they've told us, your statements about it being "defamation" are not accurate. They cited specific provisions in the agreement which they disagree with as the basis of their opinion and the article was explicit about this.

You're entitled to that as an opinion, of course. It's an incorrect opinion that mischaracterizes the defamation laws the EFF is subject to here, but you're entitled to hold if you wish.

This is why nobody should trust any legal discussion they found online (including mine) and instead hire a lawyer who can give them competent legal advice (and who has legal malpractice insurance in the event their advice is less than competent) when dealing with anything more than academic pursuits.