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The posted discussion thread is rather silly, so if you find the analogy silly, it only comes as a result of an silly "2 Minute Hate of the FSF/GPL/RMS".

I also find it strains the bounds of credibility that someone accuses people of being involved when they has nothing to support the accusations. This is what the term conspiracy theory was created for, like "it must be aliens who did it" or "A shadow Government". Its nutjobs that talk to other nutjobs, creating their own reality in order to feel good about themselves.

RMS answer this speculation directly at: http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/Real-men-don-t-attack-stra...

But sure, lets talk to the real issue. BSD permit that changes to copyrighted work be placed under a different license. This explicit permission is why proprietary software developers like BSD/MIT licensed software, since they can do changes and then add a proprietary license to the then created derivate work. GPL do not permit this, and thus we have the difference between GPL and BSD. The question about what defines derivate work is originality, which the word "small" or "big" has no impact on. A small change to a large body of work has similar impact as a green change to a yellow body of work. Originality do not care about sizes, it cares about creativity (in the United States).

In the linked mailing list, there is also some discussion if an redistribution of a work can add a license without doing any changes at all, which is how the apple app store does it. Apple puts puts work that is under BSD, with no changes, and redistribute it in the app store under the terms of app store license. The legal view by most lawyer/apple/fsf and others is that apple is legally allowed to do so under BSD license, since the requirement for distribution has been followed by Apple. If there is a change in consensus regarding this, the proprietary software distributors would be the first to react and the small number of BSD work that get distributed under GPL, while still retaining the BSD notice, would be quite small in comparison.

The relevant part of the mailinglist discussion can be seen here: http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/Real-men-don-t-attack-stra...
These kind of comments pop up all the time, Europeans are hypersensitive and complain at the drop of a hat.
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Making such corrections is interesting. I'd like to hear more comments on it.

Whether it's equivalent current value is $600 (as posted elsewhere) or $5400, both numbers are believable. The functional difference between a modern $600 rifle and a $5400 one is, to most casual observers, minimal - though the owner may have reason to pay $4800 for that difference.
The OP commented on responsiveness, which is certainly a sensitivity issue.
Upper and lower casing can't be assumed to be inverse; there are plenty of other cases where they will change (e.g. precomposed characters that don't have a precomposed upper case). The correct lower-casing of "I" in English is definitely "i"; the correct upper-casing of "ı" in English is maybe a wrong question, because it just isn't an English letter, so I guess you could argue for leaving it unchanged, but converting it to "I" is probably what the person who wrote "ı" would want to happen when it was upper-cased. Maybe?
"Valleywag is cynical and harsh, but it has done more good for technology and humanity than all of Sand Hill Road combined."

Your hyperbole is misplaced. Has Valleywag done some good? Sure. Does it produce a bunch of unsubstantiated gossip that hurts people? Yes. Sand Hill Road on the other hand has provided funding for entities such as google, amazon, genentech, netscape, sun, lotus, AOL, etc. Are you seriously saying valleywag (not satire / ridicule) has provided more good for tech and humanity than sand hill? If so I would suggest you're delusional.
Yes. http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/14/eu-auto-renew-subscripti...
Regarding finger, it was even more intense: he chopped it of, got it back, and then chopped it off again, because it has limited dexterity and he was better off with a shorter digit than with the "whole" but not as functional.
Could also be from German, although this would also be written ne instead of neh.
People from the northern part of Germany use this in pretty much the same way it is used in Japanese (at least according to what I know with my limited knowledge of Japanese)
I always thought of this as a strange quirk that the same language construct can evolve in two unrelated languages.
It's just like parallel evolution in biology.
The problem you describe is one of incompetence. The professionals are not really professionals. And yet, someone is paying them as if they were. That is not the case everywhere, I assure you.

A little of anecdata: In Portugal, where foreign stuff is translated and subtitled, the quality of translations/subtitles in english language movies and series in very good. Or at least it used to be, I can't be sure anymore since I don't currently watch TV. I grew up used to reading good translations. Those translations taught me to understand and speak the English language when I was growing up, since age 5. I understand I might be a bit biased because of my personal experience.
Living in Europe seems so exotic to me, what with all the currency exchange and whatnot. I don't think I've even seen non-USD money in 5-6 years.
This differs from stories that I've heard, like how they used a plainclothes female agent yelling at him to throw him off so they could grab his laptop.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/dead-end-on-silk-ro...

Why leave out these details, I wonder? It makes for a much better story.

Also, this article leaves out all of the details on how they found him. Presumably the FBI found the server from the unsecured captcha page... but these claims have been shown to be false

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-ho...

Which still leaves everyone wondering how the FBI legally found the server in the first place.

This is the part of the story that I would like to see more about.
Even with 3Mbps, that's still sufficient for vast majority of Americans. Netflix, like the guy said, recommends only 3Mbs. Heck it requires only 0.5MBps[1]

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
IP filtering compared to checking a HTTP header is trivial - it isn't going to be expensive.
You know what multi-million movie has a translation that isn't total crap? Frozen. They really put resources into that. You can look up random Disney songs on Youtube in different languages, and then look up the Frozen songs, and you can sort of tell that they've done a better job even if you don't speak the language.

Even relatively obscure languages like Dutch where they usually just watch English-language movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOueN0sV2SY
Maybe they were just over-reacting... It doesn't really bother me if a road sign is written in a different language as long as I see a translations or something. That is all that matters really.
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None that I know of, I also meant visceral stretching..
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I would say that what they are doing is to vote if they believe if climate change is real.

Their vote does not make climate change more or less real by itself, but assuming that humans can affect climate change, the vote may change direction of it depending on the vote outcome and the actions following from it.
> I don't know why nobody seems to put information like "warning: this phone's UI in <your local language> is total and utter crap".

This is what makes me use SW and equipment only in English.

Translations are pretty much useless (and of course, Googling the English error messages usually gives the best results)
> What would translators see in this case for Arabic

The Arabic translator would have to provide 6 different translations, one translation for each plural form.

> And if there were two variables, nine translations?

We currently only allow for pluralization based on one variable per phrase. We're hoping address this soon.

> Does Localize.js handle work like culture-specific number and date formatting?

We usually recommend libraries like moment.js to handle date localization. They do a fantastic job at localizing dates.

> How does it identify application-generated text versus user data

We provide a set of HTML markers that you can use to indicate to Localize.js that certain text should be translated. For example...

<div class="blog-comments" notranslate> [...] </div>

https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/variables
The system we use in the UK for trad (not bolted) routes has two parts. Exposure and technical difficulty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_%28climbing%29#British

I find this conversion chart useful. It's usually included in guidebooks.
http://www.rockfax.com/publications/grades/

Basically a lot of these pitches would be E9 7b, which is insane. 7b is an 8b+ sport (indoor) technical grade.
Very well done to the guys. Huge achievement.
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Wow! Interesting tricks here... Requires a lot of brain work too! But great work
Good point! Terrible, but probably not worse than what we have today.
Very interesting, thank you for the insight!
I think this one works for the highly social types. I've tried this once but it didn't really work for me. Perhaps, I didnt really get lots of perks from it.
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Yes. But the way the system in the UK works is the worst of both worlds. Openreach is a private company (a subsidiary of BT I believe), which has been granted a monopoly and as a result has to be constantly audited by the government at great expense to ensure that they are not making too much profit or favouring some ISP's over others. As a result, the way they make a profit for their shareholders is by being as tight as possible about everything that has no regulated minimum requirement.

For example, the broadband service in my town suffers from random slowdowns where everyone's speed drops from 8mb/s down to 0.1mb/s for days at a time. As a town we have been complaining about it for years but nothing ever happens as we have no power over Openreach because they are a private company and are not answerable to us and they also have a de facto monopoly on the infrastructure so we can't take our business elsewhere.

At least if broadband was provided by the local council, we could complain to our local councillor when it's not working. This system works fine for other infrastructure, e.g. if the council haven't gritted the roads we phone our councillor and she gets on to the right department, gives them a row and they sort it out.

As it is, most broadband infrastructure improvement projects in the UK are government driven any way. I don't see the point of Openreach existing as a private company, seems like extra unnecessary bureaucracy which exists purely for the dogmatic reason that private companies are supposedly always more efficient, a claim which I have never seen any serious peer reviewed research to support.

If anyone can explain why this is not a stupid system, then I'm all ears.
You are definitely not alone in that. My native language is Arabic, but if I switch my phone or computer to Arabic I wouldn't be able to use it. I dread testing translations of apps I'm working on because it forces me to switch to Arabic. It doesn't help that there's a lot of jargon that just doesn't translate that well. For example, the translation of "Tap" to Arabic is the equivalent of either "Peck" or "Perforate". It's just that that's what's generally agreed on as the proper translation and everybody uses it, however, if I didn't know that it would take me a while to figure it out for myself.
Doesn't ship to the UK :-(
Kudos to the author of the article for his perseverance in decorating message to fit grammar. I'd go another way, just using more formal and dry format:

Number of scanned directories: %g
Number of found files: %g

That solves the problem with Slavic languages at least. Italian aversion to 0 may be mitigated with printing 'none', I guess. Please correct me if this form does not fit other languages.
Yeah, that's perception, not actuality.

Italy's got a lot of problems. But it's not Brazil, not by a long shot.

Italy's problem is bureaucracy and outright laziness far more than corruption or crime. And the fact that you can't fire anyone.
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Sounds like a pretty simple question to answer... If only you have it all figured out but internet marketing is a rather complex thing.
Agreed. An entry in the hosts file for ad dot turn dot com could be a temporary fix-- until they use a different subdomain. A combination of the above is probably the most optimal solution.
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Surely a phone book is a directory, not the other way round.
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Not tested, but since longjmp has __attribute__ ((noreturn)), it should.
Yup. It's totally feasible to bike year round in many places even in the winter. I rode a bike ~6km to work year round in Ottawa, Canada where temperatures were routinely lower than -10C (14F) (my coldest day riding was -31C (-24F)).

I find riding in a couple inches of snow to be quite enjoyable but it can become overly burdensome when it gets too deep.

The main thing is to just dress appropriately and take your time. There's quite a few blog articles you can find about tips for bike commuting in the winter.
But the argument here is "broadband monopoly" not "wired broadband monopoly", which municipalities have direct control over on who gets to lay cables. The "broadband monopoly" argument should stop since American consumers aren't limited to one broadband provider.

Anyway, one of the wired ones that's listed (CenturyLink) does residential internet from what I can tell[1]. Another wired one that's also listed for residential in Olympia is MegaPath (owned by Platinum Equity, another wired one)[2].

[1] http://www.centurylink.com/home/internet/

[2] http://www.megapath.com/services-residential/
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Why are you lumping all US universities together and why are you assuming there is a fear of being indecent? WCU is pretty unique that it has policies against having alcohol on campus even for students over the legal drinking age of 21.
Or rare variant of common issues. Got told a story by a relative in the health care profession about a patient that complained about pains. But their location etc didn't match anything fitting the the age etc. Eventually they discovered that it was a heart condition...
Most local franchise agreements require a certain level of internet service to be offered to a particular percentage of people. It's not regulated at the national level like the Universal Service Fund does for phones, but a national internet would certainly have similar targets.
Well, depends on your point of view if it's "not like bitcoin at all". If you have your retirement in Bitcoin or something that is effectively short the Swiss Franc, it doesn't matter to you whether the jump was orchestrated by people with names and Ph.Ds sitting in the SNB office, or unknown people with mining equipment - the money is gone either way (or, if you managed to be short bitcoin or long CHF, has been created).

In economics, just like any other subject, stories matter much less than actions.
Yes. Unfortunately, some corporate rules suck! And oh another thing, I hate it when they expect you to say some bullshitty stuff during interviews just so they'd hire you, when you havent really done those things in the first place! Duh!
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something like this?
https://github.com/lightswitch05/Bogus_X-UIDH
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> having a beer at lunch is unprofessional, and driving after a few drinks, while not encouraged, is far more accepted.

I once got told by a former employer (At a pub) that if I didn't have a few drinks whilst on shift with him that I was being rude. His only exception to this was if you drove to work.
Pretty much anything is - buying food, negotiating with an auto driver, asking a girl for a date. As I said, in the broadest interpretation, everything is political and the word is now meaningless.
I think it is not so much the doctor that is at fault, as the system of checks and measurements that make up modern health care. The boxes are there for the convenience of management, insurance, etc, as much as it is for the doctors.
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@rifleman44 ha! I was thinking the same thing. The tree looks like it has a small trunk. I was thinking there can't be 100 rings and if there were, it would be the whole tree.

I'm Mr. Skeptical... It's hard to believe with the tree growth and over a hundred years of weather that the gun stayed propped up like that. It does look a little wedged between two trunks but wow...
If there is anything that can be done to give me a better option at internet than the local crappy / expensive DSL provider I have to go with now, I am all for it.
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Modern political campaigning and modern marketing are becoming the same business. Whether voting or buying, the techniques are the same and often so are the agencies.

Also, being able to say what people want to hear at the time that is most beneficial to you, by running the statistics on giant datasets, is one of the biggest existential risks democracy has ever faced.
I completely agree that finding the "right" doctor can be very difficult. The large academic hospitals are often a good bet, but there are also, depending on what ails you, specialist hospitals that can be much better, as they tend to see many more of the specific case. You may very well be sent to the resident expert at that hospital, but that expert may be far from expert when compared to other facilities.

In one case I am familiar with, someone with an acoustic neuroma was offered treatment at a few very well known, large, academic hospitals, but those hospitals only treated about 25 or so of these cases a year. It was amazing to me that a general neurosurgeon would offer treatment when they only had ever done 20 of the relevant surgeries in their career, and not mention that there were facilities with vastly more experience. Going with a specialist hospital, the patient found a team that did a few hundred of the relevant surgeries each year and achieved a good outcome.

This leads me to think that neuro and other surgery might be better off following the regional heart hospital model so that expertise gets concentrated.
It makes sense if not all of your target demographic, or at least a large part, cannot read English on the level neccesary to use your tool.

However, for a lot of modern tools that isn't the case. Often a translated tool is an order of magnitude less usable because of broken translations and inability to Google things.

It's also infurating that lots of tools look at your Windows location when deciding your language. No, I don't want your broken native translation on my English Windows installation, just because I do like to still have € in front of my currency.
This depends also on the person having the organizational position and time to do said thinking.
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> No? My understanding is a whole lot of sites have deployed SPDY because it solves real problems for them, and HTTP/2 is largely the same thing. Or am I wrong?

Lots of sites have deployed SPDY because it is expected to result in HTTP/2 and people want to be using up-to-date technologies. I'm not sure which problems it's actually addressing, though.

The changes which it actually implements so far, such as HTTP header data compression and TCP parallelism, are nice-to-haves but are frequently sidestepped by other means which are more mature. The only real benefit to the new standard seems to be some performance enhancements, many of which were possible to implement without the standard.

> Leaving a giant security gap? Which gap? You must be referring to either SSL or cookies, and calling cookies a "giant security gap" is .... unhelpful, at best.

Lack of defense against pervasive monitoring. There are a number of opportunistic encryption schemes which have been proposed and which have not gained traction because of various issues they cause with existing SPDY design. This is actually even worse, because HTTP/3 will almost certainly also be burdened by these same design issues because of reverse compatibility concerns. An HTTP/2 standard which doesn't include encryption may actually mean that we may have to break reverse-compatibility to get adequate encryption, or worse, that we may never get an encrypted-by-default HTTP standard.

> Sigh. I've being writing software for the last 15 years, with nearly 8 of them spent at one of the worlds biggest websites. I think I'm allowed an opinion on HTTP.

I agree: you should be allowed an opinion. My point was not that you shouldn't be allowed an opinion. My point was that you can't discard PHK's opinion simply because Varnish doesn't fully support HTTP/1.1.

> From what I can tell by half following this debate, phk wants HTTP/2 to be even more ambitious than it already is, and the reason for not doing that is to try and ensure it actually gets deployed, implemented and the IETF stays relevant with what real deployments are actually doing.

If all the standard does is define what people are already doing, then it's not relevant. It's descriptive, not prescriptive. We don't need an organization to describe what people are doing: there are plenty of blogs on the internet that do a more thorough job of that.

The role of the IETF, as I see it, is to prescribe best practices for the industry, not to describe practices that are already occurring. If all that is required for an IETF standard is that a bunch of people have already done something, then the IETF has already lost relevance.
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'Homo sapiens' is a very rough category. If you would call a 250,000 year-old animal a homo sapiens, you'd probably call its grandparents one too. Time-frames used this way are only really applicable to talking about some static history, not active evolutionary processes.

Humans will still be Homo Sapiens in 1 million years as long as we still call them that. In other words, "how old" homo sapiens is is a rather arbitrary matter of convention, so it doesn't make a good argument.
There are loop holes to getting in the database. The wireless providers aren't selling w data rate at every location, they sell a package that can reach that rate in the right locations.

Likewise, why are speeds so low still if there is all that competition? Once the wiring is done, it should be fairly inexpensive to upgrade performance and that should be a pretty clear competitive edge. Are they colluding? Or is it really somehow a noncompetitive market?

I've been in Comcast country a couple times, as soon as there were even whispers of not renewing their franchise, comcast just magically upgraded everyone's performance, I saw that twice. No fee increase.
I don't think the issue is whether ads should prompt them to lose weight, or they shouldn't. I think the crux of the issue is that we (humans) are ceding this judgment (which have political and societal ramifications) to the ad matching algorithm. Some people (myself included) find that bothersome.

Of course not every example of a targeted ad is going to be controversial (like advertising merchandise of a sports team that I like versus the one that is just popular in my area) but its problematic that we don't have any sort of machinery in place to control/modify the examples that are politically/societally important.

At least if that machinery were in place, then we could transfer the agency of decisions to the humans that run google, rather than the algorithms that are just running in the background.