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"In a cyberspace environment, the players are not omnipotent, so performing large actions takes time and effort."

Well... try to glue these operations on a OOT rom and wait for people to reverse bottle adventure your system.

http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/ba/reverse-bottle-adventur...
Well, its fairly unstable and the OEMs know it. The much publicized memory leak hasn't been fixed, performance is poor, battery life isn't good, and big changes like Volta and ART aren't being well utilized by app developers yet.

I imagine 5.0.2 isn't enough of an incentive for hesitant OEMs to push out just yet. Maybe 5.0.3? 5.1? Who knows when a lion's share of the new bugs will be fixed. I imagine the memory leak is a dealbreaker as it breaks the GUI. Clearly, 5.0 was pushed out early for the N6 launch event, which is bothersome, but that's just how google does business now I guess.

Not to mention, even under ideal circumstances with a solid version of android, there's a 12 month lag before the newest version breaks 50% of installed devices. Lollipop isn't changing that. I used to joke that owning a Nexus was like being a beta tester, but honestly, its pretty close to the truth.
Exactly. If you don't know what you do, it's gambling.
https://code.google.com/p/ninefs/ . I don't know if it supports the virtio transport, but there's a Windows virtio base driver, so it likely wouldn't be difficult to adapt ninefs to use that.
A US government worth overthrowing by armed insurrection and that couldn't be overthrown some other way would practically by definition be willing and able to engage in some really nasty practices to put down a domestic rebellion. Like, filling-mass-graves nasty. Shooting at them wouldn't help.

Sympathy from the armed forces and various forms of political pressure, foreign and domestic, would be far more helpful than a few deer rifles, and if you've got that your private arms aren't really necessary. A domestic rebellion wouldn't win by shooting enough people, it'd win when the tactics necessary to stop it were beyond what the government and/or military were willing to do.

Guns are much more useful when:

1) the enemy is foreign (killing enough people actually might make them go away), and/or

2) your position doesn't actually have popular support so other means are unavailable to you, and/or

3) foreign powers have the will and capacity to bomb the shit out of your country if the government goes too far in its attempts to suppress your uprising (this, or loss of military support for the government, are basically the only reasons authoritarian states fail to stop revolutions in the modern world)
Very, very few console owners run unlocked consoles

If that were true, these console developers wouldn't need to worry about their games being cracked. And yet, as the article discusses, there really is a piracy problem.
not just "good enough" but "better"
I have a 1st gen Moto G and it hasn't received the 5.0 update yet.
nexus 5 with busted wifi checking in.
I wish I weren't using lollipop.
And it's a shame because it's the fastest/prettiest version of Android I've ever used. I have a Nexus 5 as a test device and using it with Lollipop makes me consider switching from iOS.
The problem is that we don't have competition because you have to dig up the ground. And, everything else which requires that you dig up the ground is regulated (electricity, water, sewage, etc.)

The ISPs did this to themselves with crappy service which they then tried to enforce by regulation (lobbying, sweetheart laws to stifle local deployments, etc.) The ISPs created the openings, and now they're going to have to live with the problems.
I have no idea what is going on but sure had fun scrolling slow. Well worth my time. Props to the founders for launching. It is a hard field to compete in but I am sure they will find their revenue model.
No. I am very serious. Religious fundamentalists should be mocked and ridiculed. I find it very offensive that you would suggest otherwise. See? Different things can be really offensive to different people. Religious people don't have the monopoly on being offended nor on truth. If I turn the TV on, I will hear many offensive things. But first, I get over it. And second I don't claim that it should be illegal to express their view. Yet you do. You are out of your mind.
What I'm excited about here is monitor hubs. You plug your monitor into a power socket, and peripherals into the monitor's USB ports.

You arrive at work, and only need to plug your laptop into the monitor. The monitor hub sends power and data from peripherals to your laptop. Your laptop sends video to the monitor all through the same cable.
> Title II is good for anyone who wants to build a good Internet Service Provider.

So that'd mean it's good for, at most, anyone who isn't in the set { Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, ... }.
I always watch conference talks at double speed, speaker speed permitting. Alan Kay's voice works fine.

(But I didn't upvote, and your question is valid)
Odd that there are so many complaints about Lollipop vs KitKat here. I have a 2014 Moto X on Verizon and Lollipop has been excellent for me.
You have to keep in mind that OpenSSL runs several Perl scripts as part of its build process. And it's one of these scripts that generates a header which defines the cflags variable:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/103b171d8fc282ef435f...

Apparently this is done to work around potential length limitations in C string literals.
Surely someone versed on North Korea and interested in sharing their knowledge with the general public in somewhere like the US would use the term "North Korea" in order to be understood?
Linux systems should boot with "-norba -noww" as kernel arguments ;-)
Pole access. That's a Good Thing.
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The use-case doesn't really matter; it's against the regulations for that radio band to interfere with other people's usage. Even if you think they're attempting to commit fraud.
Other countries have to dig up the ground too, and they have competition. And no, not every of those countries has public last-mile infrastructure, the ISPs actually build it themselves.
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Comparing cause-of-death rates between automobiles and firearms is a lot like comparing the median number of miles traveled riding in a car versus carrying a gun.

Death is a possible unintended side effect of riding in an automobile. Death is the explicit primary purpose of discharging a gunpowder weapon.

Thus, this is far more laudable accomplishment for automotive safety than it is a deplorable statistic for gun owners. Cars now cause less deaths by accident than a consumer product that is actually designed to kill things when used correctly. Yay.

I don't ever have an absolute need to own or use a gun, but it is practically impossible to earn a profitable living without spending at least 40 minutes per day driving in my car, or riding in any other form of on-road transportation.

I don't particularly feel like the jerkass riding on the hard shoulder at 50 mph to bypass a rush-hour jam is in any way comparable to someone who plinks beer bottles--the ones they just emptied--off their back fence without stopping to consider if there are neighbors living in that general direction. They could even be the same guy. If so, I meet him far more often on the road.

Neither guns nor cars kill without an operator--not yet, anyway. If I am now less at risk from an idiot behind a wheel than an idiot with his finger on the trigger, that is unequivocally good news, because I encounter far more of the former. But the article doesn't exactly break the statistics down by intent. I suspect that rates of deaths by gun due to accident or operator negligence are still less than deaths by vehicle due to accident or operator negligence.

So I still feel like guns are safer for me than the average person, because I don't particularly feel like anyone has an actual desire to kill me specifically, especially given my own disinclination toward suicide.

The article doesn't tell me anything meaningful. It seems to be presenting the statistics in a very narrowly interpreted way to advance a particular editorial point of view. The Economist might as well tell me how likely I am to die from falling off a ladder while cleaning my gutters, and compare that to deaths by food poisoning, except that there are far fewer passionate advocates for pasteurization and ladder stabilization bars.
Thing many people are missing, I think, is that the position of the NRA is not necessarily based on the merits of that particular issue. It is based on the STRATEGIC view of the political battle to restrict and eliminate firearm ownership.

The gun control side claims they "don't want to take away your guns" or they "don't want to take away all guns" but when you look at DC and Chicago, where they have the most power, they completely banned private ownership of handguns. This demonstrates their goal, and this is what the NRA is fighting against.

It is much harder to repeal a gun control law than to pass it (if you look at things on the scale of decades and/or centuries), partly because this is a demographic issue and the pro-gun demographic is smaller and shrinking.

So the NRA has absolutely no incentive to concede ground in the battle for private gun ownership. I've never heard a gun control proponent suggest "OK if you give us background checks, registration and capacity limits, we will loosen gun laws in states where they are more strict and promise never ever to go further." That would be compromise. I've never heard it, neither has the NRA.

That is why they are absolutists, because ultimately so is the other side. (Their leadership anyway, which is what counts, not the moderate "let's split the difference" voter who only cares about the issue when its a major news item.)
It's certainly possible. It wouldn't always work easily (for example, in the NSDate example, which uses private subclasses in its class cluster model). But it would be better than what exists now.
A modern version would make it to alt.chi. People present alt.chi papers (usually very though provoking) at the conference.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807135
This is a very extreme point of view. Asserting that education is the only worthwhile use of the Internet is dogmatic and an unfair generalisation. Is entertainment and pleasure not a worthwhile and fundamentally human thing to pursue?

While I agree with your point of view that there is a lot of "bullshit", I don't believe it's for any one individual to control. You have to trust people to regulate their use.

Your post also states that all forms of entertainment are Internet-based, but this is simply untrue. What of people who read, cook, rock climb, play instruments. The list goes on.

Perhaps if your Grandmother had access to the Internet, she may be have been inspired by a "pointless bullshit" YouTube video to actually a climb a mountain, not just see one?

Additionally, you say that there aren't communities, but there are. Reddit, HN and many other sites connect thousands (and more) of people with similar interests, possibly more than could ever hope to meet in real life.

As I mentioned earlier, you have to trust people to regulate the balance of online and "offline" activity.
It will be interesting to learn to what extent the USG does this. Certainly not at this scale or we would have already heard about it, but there have definitely been leaked US Army Intelligence reports which suggest it does go on to some degree.

I will say a far more common thing from the USG is seeing people edit Wikipedia pages, however those attempts are almost laughably unsophisticated (often being trivially traceable to the offices of the people they're editing).

I strongly suspect a certain controversial country in the middle east does it, as every time they come up in any discussion you get inundated with pro' people who have little posting history (or none) and who come across very unnaturally pro (like talking heads). I won't name the country since the same thing might happen here.

PS - I'm neither pro nor anti this middle eastern country, I've just noticed very unusual posting patterns when they're discussed. Particularly during large scale controversies (which seem to occur about once a year).
I'd rather have a better GPU than 6 more CPU cores that would always be idle. It's great that Intel is taking integrated GPUs this seriously. Also keep in mind that these are not desktop CPUs, but ultrabook class CPUs.
gun owners place a high value on agency. I have wondered if one reason they tend to not see suicides as legitimate in gun death stats is because they tend to see suicide as a willful act that a person also has a right to. Just a speculation...
Gotta admire the level of coordination.
Name recognition seems to encourage reflexive upvoting, which is one reason we often take names out of titles.

We've removed "Alan Kay" from this one. (Nothing personal—we're fans.)
It would be a stinging defeat for their expensive lobbyists, who will be fired.

Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon won't change much.

A lot of people forget that AT&T, Verizon, and Google put forth Net Neutrality legislation that was perfectly good, but limited temporarily to "wireline" services, because they wanted time to regulate wireless.

That was like three or four years ago, so the argument at the time that we couldn't wait for wireless regulation is completely insolvent, since we also still don't have wireless regulation, and Title II is unlikely to cover wireless services, at least in this round - though I could be proven wrong.

Look, I'm an anti-capitalist, anti-corporate activist, but most people, fellow engineers included, have no idea what they're talking about with Net Neutrality. Most people are protecting the interests of Netflix, who is a major corporation with a massive technology budget dwarfed only by its' massive budget for paying the MPAA.

But please, keep regurgitating Netflix's talking points about how noone will be able to start a company in their basement ever again - an odd complaint, since before Comcast throttled Netflix to something like 70% of the total Comcast network, Netflix themselves may have been causing problems for people trying to launch companies from basements or garages, or just check their e-mail.

Title II is a victory for the internet, it should be a utility, I've been saying this for the entire 20 years of my career since I was involved in Time Warner's beta test of Roadrunner and noticed that as an entertainment service, it wasn't regulated like my ISDN line.

But the way this is all going down, it's clear to me that something is happening behind the scenes, and I think it looks like Netflix pouring water into a bucket with a few drops of Net Neutrality.
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Why wouldn't companies compete at least as much as now? They might charge more for higher tiers but I don't see any, justification behind your assertions.
One of the massive issues with title II is that it can retroactively punish for "unreasonable charges or practices."
OS and chip infrastructure are two different beasts. Chip infrastructure much more difficult to recreate, even the Intel's best competitors can't keep up with their process tech and design capabilities.

But OS and software? I'm surprised the Chinese govt hasn't just cloned Ubuntu and reskinned it, then mandated the entire country convert to it. I suppose the main problem is, as with everywhere else, too much required enterprise software that is Windows-only.
While this particular vulnerability in OpenSSL isn't nearly as bad as some of the other recent ones, it drives me crazy that we still have NULL pointer dereferences in something this critical. The worst part of this library is that the way it is organized makes it difficult to find these problems, or to use tools such as static analyzers to help. There are some amazing static analysis tools out there for C, but they are rendered useless by some of the hackery used in this library, such as their custom allocators. I don't mean to sound negative -- the OpenSSL team has done a great job making this library available in the first place -- but given how heavily this library is relied upon, better discipline is needed in this code base.

LibreSSL is a step in the right direction, and I commend the OpenBSD team for taking on this alternative. However, it's only a starting point. The entire approach of OpenSSL is dated, and it has not done a good job keeping up with our modern understanding of solid security engineering. The code base needs to be overhauled from the ground up with modern security and software development practices in mind. If ever there were a library that should be designed using formal proofs in software, it's this one. Even basic TDD with good code coverage would catch the majority of the bugs that have been discovered in OpenSSL over the past ten years.

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> If laptops can charge via USB, international travel will be so much nicer.

I got the HP Chromebook 11 for just that reason. It charges with a micro-usb port, i.e. the same cable as android phones. It's nice to not need to bother packing a charger or cable for it.

It's too bad all ultrabooks don't add a micro-usb port just for this purpose (in addition to the normal charger). The current chargers are much thicker than the computer which is annoying, and it'd be nice if you could just leave a charger in your car and suitcase and figure that you'd be covered.
I know, but I have better performance on vm. May be hardware limits of vm was too low.
Not really a fan of it. My Nexus 4 updated to it and is really buggy. Sometimes I'll go back to the home screen and there are no icons until I swipe away and back. Wish I could just turn off all the new gratuitous animations since they are broken and buggy anyway and they slow down using the thing.

Triangle instead of home seems really obscure and bizarre to me too. I don't even remember what that circle thing is supposed to be any more. Wish they would stick to meaningful icons. I'm glad some graphics designer at Google probably got a promotion for screwing up the OS and changing everything, but hopefully the next graphics designer gets a promotion for fixing it.
I am glad Intel is keeping at this. Along with the more exciting PC stick, they are at least trying to breathe life into a form factor that has been frozen for too long. I wish people would get more excited about HP's Sprout. The PC platform needs innovation desperately.
Declan, I respect the work you've done, but this is a bad argument:

> despite his JSTOR "victim" never asking for a criminal prosecution

Law enforcement and prosecutors have to take the responsibility, and not put the weight on the victim's shoulders.

You are implicitly advocating a system where the victim can be intimidated out of prosecuting.
I was "forced" to update to lollipop in order to add lollipop support for an App I'm working on. I must say I was pleasantly surprised.
The upgrade was seamless, and I immediately felt the improved speed thanks to android's new ART.
Material UI is a pleasure. It's great to see how much effort Google has put into the look and feel of lollipop.

Either way - If you're developing a new app or releasing a new product - don't let the lollipop percentages confuse you. Early adopters of your app are much more likely to be early adopters of new android versions as well.
About 15% of the users of one of my Apps recently released to the play market are Android 5.0 users.
The rest are on Kit Kat, and virtually none of them on Jelly Bean or ICS.
They're all photo-illustrations or outright painting/drawings.
Somehow get the assembly newsletter once in a while and I have to say it's a great newsletter. Not because I am so interested in what assembly does but rather because the subject line is so compelling to click on. Almost like it's not a newsletter but a real email. I don't know whether it is the lowcaps which does the trick or the wording but it's nailing it.
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Sure it's worth less, that's why Google is deploying Google fiber...

If Google really believed in the potential profitability of fiber, they could spend $20 or $30 billion over the next few years to get it in every major metro area. But they won't, because it wouldn't be.
Furmark always does it to my cards. Perhaps of interest. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...
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Every single person I knew who had a PSP ran only pirated games. My cousin had a single legit copy and even then he would run a downloadad ISO because it was faster to load than the UMD. Apparently PSP sold really really well, but no games matched those sales, which suggests that PSP piracy was fairly widespread too.
What is a good way to go about it?

Because from my perspective, there's more than enough accumulated capital / lobbying / entrenched market positions to make disruption of the market a pipe dream.

In that case, I consider slapping "too burdensome" regulations and then later parring them down the lesser of two evils.

Is or isn't internet access important enough to be treated as a utility? That's what Title II asks in my opinion.

If so, then sort out the implementation details later.

(Disclaimer: In a semi-related note, I support the ACA for the same reasons. Is universal health insurance important enough to codify in law? If so, work on the details after you get that point down on paper.)
"dedicated for graphics" may be a bit misleading considering the Execution Units (EUs) also do non-graphics computations using, say, OpenCL. This is especially true with the shared memory structure. Although, yes, most end-user software doesn't support heterogenous computing well yet.
Our justice system is adversary in the sense that the prosecutors will do their best within the law to prosecute and the defense lawyers will do their best within the law to defense the accused. Sometimes, a prosecutor or lawyer can be overzealous in doing his/her job, but it is very dangerous to punish them for being overzealous because such punishment will endanger a system that has worked so well.

Aaron Swartz's should not have taken his own life.
Just eyeballing, I see a handful of strongly liberal European countries above the US, and a bunch that are just below the US.

But this is a tough thing to compare, as you note. Suicide rate is encompassing a whole bunch of things. I'm tempted to compare against Canada, where the suicide rate is only less by 1 per 100,000 people per year, but I have no idea if I'm picking that out fairly.

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/9/07-043489.pdf suggests that the US is the only country where firearm is the preferred method of suicide. A bit morbid to read but there you go.
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