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I just checked, and Jerry Pournelle is still around:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/

All those columns about him messing around to get his machines to work.
Come hack on LibreOffice we're a fairly friendly bunch :)
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I would say primecoin is marginally useful at best.
Joseph Nacchio was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio ).
Nobody on this thread has personally attacked you, so I'm not sure why you thought it was necessary for you to do that to someone else on the thread.
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Gnumeric is a large steaming pile of dog poo. Do a sort on a largeish file and it will consume all the known RAM in the universe. Do the same operation in Excel and it barely breaks a sweat.
Defecting on vaccination is perfectly rational if you expect everyone else to cooperate and never meet another defector. You get all the benefits of herd immunity while taking on none of whatever slight risk of complications there may be.

It's pretty straight-forward game theory, which must be met with equally straight-forward strategies: defectors must be punished.
This reminds me of a quote by Eric Schmidt : "One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market..." Eric Schmidt continues, "and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that."

They probably have thousands of employees who can access this information, I think it would be foolish to think that absolutely none of them does it for personal purposes.
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The laws keep insiders from doing that, but it does not prevent other people from amassing non-public data through research, investigation, or financial modeling. Instead, the law protects the products of those activities as trade secrets, thus enshrining into law the idea that some traders do in fact get to be advantaged with non-public information.
Pretty cool app! If you're interested in adding an option to sell prints, I'd love to help. You can reach me at interest at printdropper.com
I believe that misappropriation theory is jurisprudence developed from 10(b) so a defendant would be found guilty with respect to 10(b), a "fraud".

http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm (search for "lawyers")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Misappropriatio...

http://meyersandheim.com/how-to-win-an-insider-trading-case/ (misappropriation section)
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Yeah, I wonder how many paid apps are now free.
Yup, you can get some extra minutes by sharing it with your buddies or buy time via IAP. It's an experimental business model in this genre and seems to be working pretty well.
> Claiming that you ought to be able to jam RF on your property is equivalent to claiming you ought to be able to shoot down aircraft overflying your property.

Your comment is incorrect in two ways.

Firstly, shooting down an aircraft, unless it is an unmanned drone, constitutes murder. So you're equating jamming with murder. By doing that, you're attacking a strawman version of my argument: a weakened version of my point which goes like this: "anything whatsoever can be done by a property owner, on their property".

Secondly, the aircraft is thousands of feet above. So it can be considered not to be on your property on the grounds of being outside of that 3D volume which constitutes your property. You're pretending that I have a strawman definition of "property" which is "the entire shadow volume of a designated patch of land, from the center of the Earth out to infinity". I have not revealed the use of any such definition; nor made any argument about what is the definition of property at all.

Even the air space of a country is not indefinitely high. If you're the government of a country, you can in fact shoot down an invading aircraft, but not some foreign satellite that is passing over, 500 km above.
We're getting there. But it takes time and we have only recently gotten a dedicated ui design team, who are doing a great job, but it's a really big product so there is only such they coukd get done in one release. Expect more improvement in this area in future releases.
> Could we get this data any other way? How about putting cameras in front of a few flagship Chipotle stores and using CV to track the number of people going in/out? That's legal, AFAIK.

Analysts already do this with satellite data for parking lot occupancy rates for businesses.
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I always feel there should be a single controller that reviews all major outreach tactics - or even a team dedicated merely to that once at that scale. It's just too important to skulk at.
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Some of these custom libraries are mentioned here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software

The PlayStation 4 features two graphics APIs, a low level API named GNM and a high level API named GNMX. Sony's own PlayStation Shader Language (PSSL) was introduced on the PlayStation 4
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I know a lot of ER doctors. They all hate the software that they have to work with; especially the "resource control" software that stands between them and the drugs and tools they need to treat people. This seems like another tool in that direction. It seems designed to take decision making away from doctors and put it in the hands of management.

What do you expect that this tool will do for the working environment of ER doctors and nurses? Or the relationship between them and their patients?
The misappropriation references in this speech:

http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speecharchive/1998/spch221.ht...

also clarify the relationship, which according the SEC revolve around the obligations of "trust and confidence".

I got the alternate impression from reading the O'Hagan syllabus and 10b-5 itself. Oh well!.

I've pushed this point far past a point at which I'm comfortable defending it. :)
We did this so it forces you to focus in that 5 minutes.

But if you really want to you can get another 5 min a day with sharing and such.
I'm with you. At this point the extremely open-ended, poorly written and understood laws exist to serve the uber-ambitious career-building prosecutors seeking the limelight.
And using advanced fission seems easier than either.

We need engineers attempting to solve all these problems. But what we don't need is people assuming that hard problems are already solved, and that other lines of research therefore aren't important.
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The problem might very well be that our level of scientific education isn't in step with the realities of the world we live in.

If someone wants to get a good grasp for the entire "story" of vaccination they have to have a basic understanding of evolution by natural selection. Fully 42% of the US population does not "believe" in evolution, which is further proof of the level of ignorance we are dealing with. I put "believe" in quotes because evolution by natural selection is not something one believes, that's nonsense. It is something one accepts or rejects based on over 150 years of evidence across a range of scientific disciplines.

Perhaps this might help:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
If I don't own them, that means someone has the right to knock on my door and ask for a return of the energy that I removed by attenuating the waves as they passed through.
I couldn't agree with you more. We landed and kept a large Microsoft deal exercising the principles you described. "How can we help you reach your goal as an individual within your company and as a group within your company"
Are you excluding hacks? Because you can do this pretty easily in CSS2 since padding is always relative to width. Make your square div { width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 100% (or whatever ratio you want, doesn't have to be 1:1); };
Are you going to actually answer any of my points? Because you've answered none so far.

Go on then. Post links to Kane's technical achievements, her positive influence for women in tech and why the industry is so much better for having her in it. I'll wait.
There would have been many ways that integration could have occurred, so that executive direction isn't inherently the problem - it's more if there was no one to direct the nuances of doing then there's a problem.

That kind of nuanced understanding is the difference usually between successfully companies and their unsuccessful companies.
It's interesting to compare Apple and Google. Talent-wise, Apple has always been a "front-end" focused company, and they've now had several fiascos when they've started to get into "back-end"/cloud stuff (this, iCloud privacy leak, etc...)

In contrast, similarly Google had been a "back-end" focused company, and their first few versions of Android were horrible and clunky compared to iOS (but they've improved a lot).
How about eating actual gold? http://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/delafees_chocolate_wit...
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Would anyone in San Diego be interested in getting together for coffee or lunch during the day?
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They could also be there even though the cafe doesn't offer free Wi-Fi. Maybe they are getting it from next door. Or maybe they are getting it from a wide-spread commercial Wi-Fi service that they pay for, which has hotspots all around town. Maybe they are on a mobile network.

In other words maybe they are just there for the comfortable seating, and the relaxing smell of vanilla and cinammon, while you, a paying customer, have to have your order "to go" for lack of seating.

If the shop jammed those parasites the heck out of there, I'd consider that an attractive feature of the shop.
It is a bit more complex than that.

Assume that the offending behavior is worth $X to the offender. Also assume that the regulatory fine levied for that behavior is $Y. Further assume that $Z is the cost for the offender to achieve regulatory compliance. For the sake of argument, $W is the cost of resisting the regulator (including fines).

The benefit of passive non-compliance is $X - $Y.

The benefit of compliance is -$Z.

The benefit of active resistance is $X - $W.

A rational actor will choose the option with greatest benefit, so $Y > $X + $Z will encourage compliance over non-compliance. If $W > $X + $Z, that also encourages compliance over resistance. In either case, it is apparent that $Z amount is working against the regulator.

As long as the benefit achieved from continuing the behavior plus the benefit of not having to pay the cost to stop doing it exceeds the external costs of continuing, it will not stop.

But there's more. Assume $V to be the cost of resuming the behavior after it stops. Now, in order to achieve nonzero $X, $V must be paid.

Now the benefit of non-compliance is $X - $V - $Y.

The benefit of compliance is $0.

The benefit of resistance is $X - $V - $W.

That puts a higher cost on the other side of the equation. the ability to rip out, confiscate, and destroy the equipment forces the actor to discount the cost of just unplugging all of its devices, which is what allows the fine to be matched to the benefit from continuing the activity.

Thus, the FCC can look at the mean daily income realized from jamming and set that as the initial guess for a persuasive daily fine. But the FCC also has to make the total cost of fighting them in court higher than just paying the fines, otherwise everybody would fight.
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Snail-mailing a letter to O2 is likely easier than the cancellation process for Comcast...
Oh I see - you just needed to be a licensed developer to get their version of it before, is that it?

> You still can't do anything with it if you aren't a licensed developer.

Not sure I follow - what is stopping non-licensed developers from developing and testing games on their own PS4s now that this has happened?
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Interesting analysis btw - thanks for sharing. I wonder if this is per company or per leader for trickle down effect - I imagine it is per leader, the one setting pace, vision, culture, etc.
Minimizing outside influence is only a portion of the decision matrix. They want to maintain their community and their religion. Minimizing outside influence might be part of that, or it might not. As said above, there is no absolute rule - the community decides are a group which technologies/changes they want to use or discourage.

Yes, that does lead to some oddities.
Hopefully the mods can update the OP to point to it?
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I've been working on a project that relies on a library which is only available in python 3, it is at a point where I want to pretty up the interface.

I'm wondering if wxpython phoenix is stable enough to warrant the time and effort, or if I should hold off until there is a non-dev release?
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$1 may be too much friction at this point. Not something most people consider must-have, but willing to put up with ads to fiddle with.
Case in point: Brenden Eich
It's possible, but typically what instead happens is that people sacrifice Turing Completeness in the value language. It turns out that this isn't so painful (strong types help a lot) and then you have guaranteed termination all around!
Specious argument. Nobody has touched their equipment, let alone reconfigured any bits not to make it work.

If they actually hacked into the Wi-Fi access points to disable them that way, that would be wrong.
If there isn't anything inherently wrong with collecting, and future abuse is the only thing you are worried about, then you should probably worry about protecting against abuses, not collecting. Especially if you have no other point to be had for privacy, when the opposition claims unobjected that giving it up can and does save lives.

That said, I think the criminal breach argument is a valid one but the one that really nails it is one already mentioned above:

"privacy isn't something you can just give up. It's a right given to society by our framers, not individuals. A smoothly functioning democracy depends on dissent, which requires privacy to allow alternate points of view to gain traction. So privacy is a social good, not a personal right, and if we reduce privacy, we are reducing our democracy. The Soviets didn't have privacy. Free countries must."

Sans the soviet part, in my opinion... Seems useless and even fallaciously counter-productive to mention it, I don't get why it's even there

edit: What I mean by the first paragraph, in case it's not clear, is that most technologies can and probably will be abused, which doesn't go a long way to say that they should be forbidden right at the start, if there is good to be had in them. You just have to be careful not to allow abuses (which by your post I figured you don't think are happening at this moment)
"Some grammar knowledge" probably also tells you the structure of the verb, namely TREAT+ING(V,present progressive). "TREAT" is the 1,118th most common word, so that gives you:

WNPHMMVF FOUND EFFECTIVE IN TREATING CUYROVGVF

And then some contextual knowledge of what sort of things get treated tells you that CUYROVGVF is a disease or injury, and WNPHMMVF is a medicine or therapy. So knowing 2,000 words and some grammar isn't quite fluent, but it's around the level of a middle-school child who has to ask what lots of nouns are.
Crashes when choosing a picture on Ascend Mate.

The back-button gets hidden per default and when used he doesn't go back to the main menu but leaves the app.
There are automated tools, but in my experience they mostly pick up the easy things (missing alt attributes, etc.) The harder bits are focus and notification in SPAs. Read the WCAG docs [1] and the and WAI ARIA docs [2] stick to them. Then test with a screenreader.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

[2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php
That's totally true, but it's off-putting to farm out the core functionality and it's underlying data to a third party.
Static websites are great, I love them. I definitely generate them when possible.

But beware, if your website start to grow and becomes more dynamic, take a step back and rethink if you should still go with all that generation. Could be a pain in the future.

Someone correct if I'm wrong, but the people behind the The New York Times website had to do a major rewriting of their code base due to that (I remember seeing some presentation about it some time ago, but I can't find the link nowadays...).
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If you are looking to build an extension, make sure to checkout the post by @binocarlos [1], it's just the right level of detail for you know and a full-blow implementation indeed!

[1]: http://weaveblog.com/2015/01/29/powerstrip-weave-a-docker-ne...
I never really could get the hang of InkScape (while I'm usually pretty good with graphics) until I followed the first few parts of this tutorial:

http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.nl/2011/10/lets-get-...

Now I love using InkScape. It was a matter of finding the proper workflow.

Just putting it out here, in case it might also help others.
Employees always (in my experience) are explicitly restricted from trading company stock based on non-public info. There are also [usually] specific windows in which employees cannot trade in the company's stock.

Additionally, I have worked for companies which prohibited transactions in any derivatives or options and barred shorting the stock.
The regenerate button seems to cycle (inconsistently?) thru the grain sizes. Undesirable; if I pick a grain size and regenerate, I'm looking for a suitable arrangement at that size.

Otherwise, nifty!
"Spectrum" is frequency domain, not time domain or space domain. It is a completely different abstract space. The concept of "US Spectrum" is nonsensical.

A packet does not leave hardware and enter spectrum; that is nonsensical. A packet leaves one space and enters another space.

The spectrum part is already settled in the oscillator inside the hardware.

Control over parts of the spectrum is demarcated by space. For instance, you can transmit in certain bands, but only for a certain range.

Inside an electronic box, all sorts frequencies can occur, as long as they don't escape in excessive amounts.

It's all about space. When two users use the same frequency band in the same space there is a conflict.
Gender-based prejudice is a separate thing from sexism (but they are interrelated). Point one and three from this page [1] do a good job explaining, but here's the crux of the argument:

"The first important thing to understand about sexism is that it is systemic. Gender-based prejudice, on the other hand, is individual, although it exists in the context of a sexist system."

"But men who experience oppression based on the way they express their gender are still not oppressed on the basis of their gender itself. That is to say, they’re not experiencing that oppression because they’re men. Non-men, on the other hand, experience gender-based oppression because they aren’t men."

[1]: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/sexism-vs-prejudice/
> Eventually, the "public" might catch up to that, but then you simply set the price high enough to eliminate any potential profits of that information.

How do you set the price high enough without making it unprofitable for the sibling-company as well?
It could potentially be interesting if they worked on the Fusion platform code generation much. The little AMD SoCs are pretty awesome, and if Sony has a few tricks up their sleeve for making things like OpenCL nicer, we could see some use elsewhere. Dev studios will get the advantage that because the Sony code's not in llvm mainline, it's a lot easier for Sony to give them more recent, faster compilers.
Datadog is very nice. Here's something I wrote when asked what value we were getting from it- https://gist.github.com/sciurus/3a1cd4c203891c8d33b2

# Why datadog? #

I would break it down into four pieces. Datadog is

1. providing functionality

1. we need

1. in an easy-to-use manner

1. that would be difficult to build and maintain ourselves

# 1) Functionality #

## The agent ##

It gathers system metrics, integrates with key software we use, and provides a standard interface to which our applications can send custom metrics.

## Integrations ##

Datadog has prebuilt integrations to pull data from almost every important service we use.

## Events ##

Through the integrations datadog generates a consolidated event stream that we can filter and earch as needed.

## Dashboards ##

Datadog lets us build dashboards that combine metrics from many different sources. We can combine and transform metrics to make them more useful. It also provides an powerful interface for interactive exploration of metrics.

## Alerting ##

Datadog has nice stream processing capabilities for generating alerts, and it can surface them in services we use like pagerduty and slack.

# 2) Need #

## The Agent ##

We don't get nearly enough insight from cloudwatch alone, we need an on-instance tool to gather system and app metrics.

## Integrations ##

There are lots of services with operational signficiance, but many of them don't provide a good way to access their data.

## Events ##

We would spend dramatically longer investigating problems if we had to look at eash source of events in isolation. Many of our event sources don't even provide a way for us to view past events or to query them.

## Dashboards ##

Per-service and per-instance dashboards are important for investigating problems quickly. The consolidation of data from multiple sources is again a key feature.

## Alerting ##

We need to do anaylze trends in our metrics and alert on them.

# 3) Ease of use #

## The agent ##

The agent is deployable via a chef cookbook datadog wrote for us. It requires minimal configuration. It knows which system and application metrics are worth gathering.

## Integrations ##

Integrating with all the data sources is literally a few clicks.

## Events ##

The interface makes searching and filtering events straightforward.

## Dashboards ##

There are prebuilt dashbaords for lots of things we care about. Snazzy features like autocomplete and templating make building our own dashboards easy.

## Alerting ##

The guided steps and previewed outputs make creating alerts simple.

# 4) Hard to replicate #

Here I described a system of collectd, custom code to pull metrics from cloudwatch, custom code to pull or receive events from various sources (airbrake, cloudtrail, chef, pagerduty, jenkins, etc) influxdb, and grafana.
The implications are bigger than for public companies' insider trading.

Think about the success of the Oatmeal's Exploding Kittens card game on Kickstarter. Aside from the fact that KS's new payment processor Stripe is leeching an astounding amount of money from this campaign (where most pledges have probably been made with cash-like debit cards being charged at the rate of credit cards), there are also implications of aggregation inside that cartel.

How many playing card printing companies out there are eager to handle that order? What if you knew ahead of time who they were going to use, based on that "bank account" info you have to give out when you sign up for a campaign on KS? Private companies leverage this info all the time, and it's much easier for them to get away with it.
1) So make it an unmanned drone.

2) It remains that only matter, not EM spectrum, within the 3D volume of your property is actually yours.