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As I said put an upper limit, I did not say do away with government spending. Let the government manage in that much money by spending more judiciously then sucking our hard earned wealth. They can start for example by selling off the luxurious homes that our Congressman end up having for free.

For any other cause let people contribute out of their own volition.Which works much better.
> With Facebook, the intrusion of privacy happens completely out in the open and you can work with that.

I'm not following. Once I hand over my data I have no real control over how they end up using it behind the scenes. Furthermore, even if I never sign up with Facebook or at some point delete my account thinking my data has been flushed, a "shadow profile" still exists that I have no control over. [1]

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/facebooks-shadow-profile-bu...
If only they could hold down Alt when the boot chime noise is made on turn on and select an alternative disk to boot from.....
Has Archiveteam, Internet Archive or anyone else taken a shot at mirroring Sourceforge, including binaries? Since its founding there have been a hell of a lot of small projects hosted there whose sites have gone down since. 430,000 projects have been hosted on SourceForge at some point. At least a few tens of thousands of them represent the only remaining copy of a program needed to read a certain sort of data. Maintaining that capability in the face of a company circling the drain represents an extreme historical utility.

Even if you now need a VM to handle the crapware, that's better than losing the apps entirely. If somebody maintained a time-diffed mirror of SourceForge, they could pinpoint the last version before the bundling event occurred in an automated fashion, as well.

EDIT: It seems there's a project to begin this - http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SourceForge and an IRC channel, EFNet #coldstorage
I've read many highly rated comments that state something on the lines of "Apple sells hardware not ads, so they don't want to collect your data". If we shorten this to "<somebody> sells <whatever>" then you already have the foundation of what requires data. Sales and marketing probably eat the biggest amount of money in any company. And they get better and cheaper with more data. That's why Google ads works so well. They can connect the right customers with the right products, because they have the data.

Therefore I'd say everybody wants all data about you they can get, including Apple, because everybody sells. I would guess they'll collect your data and call it privacy because they protect it against third parties, but they themselves wouldn't protect your data from Apple.

It also doesn't make much sense to really protect data. The supermarket in front of my office sells so called "Extra Cards" which advertise to not care about your data because you don't have to enter your name or something. That they still collect what you buy, when you buy, and where you buy they simply don't say and many people are fine with that. Even software developers have this card because they think their data is safe.

It's hip to sell privacy, it's not hip to really offer privacy.
Obviously an intermediate developer, he doesn't need to be perfect to get the point across.
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You're absolutely right; South Korea traditionally tended towards making interfaces more complex.

"Because Koreans like things to look complex," they responded. It is a symbol: it shows their status. [1] This piece is from 2007, though, and some of the lines in it that refer to the West simply don't apply anymore. I think we all know who made simplicity the new, expensive status symbol.

[1]http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html
> I don't remember a time in which Sourceforge was the hero, as much as I try

No offense to you personally, but this is a case where it's about grey hair more than ability.

There was certainly a time when Sourceforge was the wham-bam-snickety-snack boom-blam bomb. It was when Slashdot was the Hacker News, when "LAMP" was a new term, when 10Gbps across the U.S. (vs. your living room) was a Big Deal.

> If we'll look down in history, I think there are very few villains that have acted as heroes when starting out.

This is called playing "I told you so." In reality every organization begins with high ideals then adjusts to reality. The elegance of this transition defines how villainous they've become. Consider McDonalds and Whole Foods. Both seemed delightful at the beginning. We see how McDs is now cancerous (or at least diabetesacious) and Whole Foods is anti-union, but surviving anyway, a "mundane evil."

You can't predict which company will become evil or not.
Funny, I was doing exactly that to help someone create an emulator :D More specifically, recording all packets between the server and the client.
This is the future and is going to revolutionize everything. Would be worth it (lucrative) to start now!

I am thinking of abandoning my current, well paying, web dev career just to do these types of games and experiences.
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Awesome, thanks! I hadn't looked too hard but now that you point out how easy it is you just gave me something to do this weekend.
They had this "You Can Take Over Abandoned Projects" policy for years:

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Abandoned%20Pr...

I took over APNG project in 2011, nice short name, it was really abandoned, and I don't feel bad about it:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/
Maybe we should all learn something from this and also the thing about RadioShack selling of all their customer data. What will Google do when it gets shaky?
It also makes me laugh that Google is doing Brillo, which is a stripped-down version of Android - surely Linux is enough?

If you remove all the Androidyness from Android, it's Linux which is quite stripped down....

It's like a project that has no purpose.
Apple does not just sell hardware. They charge for hardware, but they sell a well integrated combination of hardware, software and services. That's what makes Apple unique. Otherwise they would be like Samsung.

The question is how much the usefulness of that combined offering depends on collecting user data. I think the dependency is not as deep as for Google but it is growing fast if you look at the ever more central role of iCloud.

Google does not sell user information by the way. Google sells conclusions they draw from user data. I am concerned about the wealth of data Google holds about me. But I'm not that much less concerned about the data Apple holds about me.
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Yes, you did. You referenced the companies Cook was talking about, and he was primarily talking about Google. Google also operates the only software market that's close to the App Store in size, apart from the niche-market case of Steam.

One of my pet hates is people who imply something, then use "but I didn't LITERALLY write the exact words that say that". You can play that game forever - for instance, where in my first reply to you did I explicitly mention that you did say it? I never said you did.

Isn't implication a wonderfully deniable building-block of human communication?
This is a bit controversial because people like to remember Sourceforge fondly for some reason, but it was never good. It was merely unchallenged.

Google Code was never good either, but people gladly moved from SF to Google Code. And when something actually good came along (Github), Sourceforge simply vanished.

Sourceforge was never a hero. It was a horrible website, with horrible UX. It always had pretty terrible ads and for the past couple of years it has been repeatedly abusing its users' trust, serving malware, been involved in countless drama.

Glad it's gone.
It is not clear that the FDA has anything to do with the pharma crisis. In fact, since the pharmco crisis began in the late 1990s and the FDA was founded in 1963, the two are completely unrelated. Since closely held pharmaceutical companies are doing better than public ones I'd point the finger at Wall Street, but that would be oversimplifying a complicated problem.
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You do realise how marketing works? The idea is that the money spent on marketing is more than recuperated. You could argue that without the money spent on marketing, that R&D budges would be significantly lower.
Also, more profitable to spend money on advertising to maximize the return on existing treatments, than on trying to develop new drugs.

The current pharmaceutical market unfortunately seems to behave in odd ways.
I always organised my data myself in directories etc. and find any software that attempts to organise it for me to be incredibly annoying.

Admittedly, it seems most people's filing system is basically lob all their bits of paper in one room and shut the door hence the need for these "let me organise it for you!" software features.
Perhaps this is an attempt by Google to show it's not anti-competitive?
> Google knows that when I search for Django I want the web framework

That isn't a good thing. http://dontbubble.us

Unless Jamie Fox someday starts giving speeches about Django framework, this sounds like a pretty weak excuse to use a google-style (i.e. 'personalised') search engine.

> I think option 1 is more likely for Apple.

Google's business model is basically selling aggregated user data - not in the form of raw data but in the form of targeted ads - for $0 (note, they aren't "free") services.

Apple's business model is about selling hardware and software, and providing a fairly complete ecosystem to use those products in/with.

Given that Apple's iOS+ecosystem accounts for close to 90% of the profits in the smartphone market, I don't understand this claim by people "Apple will have to adopt google's strategy to remain competitive".

If anything people are becoming more sensitive and more aware about the "creepy" factor of having all your personal information in the hands of some corporation that uses it for profit.
How do you pay for the browser?

Are you talking about Safari and the fact that buying Apple hardware has subsidised the Safari development to some extent?
True!

The only safe way is to use a dumb phone from about 15 years ago. Now where's my Siemens A50 or Sony w810i.... I know I have them somewhere...
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The researchers in R&D are making significantly less than your typical clinician. It's not a career path you take if you're prime motivation is money (or job security).
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I had never thought about paying for Search but I think it's a really good idea. A subscription to a search engine would be really useful.
I'd love to see that board meeting.
Knee defenders are essential to me because I have long legs. But more importantly it protects my laptop. I've had an incident where the person in front of me suddenly reclined whilst I had my laptop on my tray table. The screen got stuck on the lever to lock the tray table and cracked under the pressure.
I am sure the industry has been held back in part due to public anxiety, but that is hardly the whole story. Whilst nuclear power maybe acceptably safe, that comes at a huge cost in terms of time, money, and complexity. If you need to acuire grid capacity in the short term these are major issues. In the longer term all we hear are new unproven designs that require massive investment just to prove a concept.
I think the argument for patents, as incentive for development, is quite strong. There is no alternative system in place yet.

Also you probably underestimate the value and purpose of pharmaceutical regulation. Most rules revolve around production quality, scientific soundness, safety monitoring and so on. Come to think of it, the degree of safety in pretty much any drug on the legal market is quite astounding, despite exceptions and accidents.
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If this is indeed a non scripted and uncompressed demo this technology is pretty outstanding.

SoundHound[1] are behind this product.

[1] http://www.soundhound.com/houndify
I wish they had opted to use S/MIME, because of the wide support in MUA and because it's relatively easy use even for non geeks.

Some time ago I started collecting support of S/MIME in products and companies: https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/5945400
Risky business, literally.
A few of them are USD-denominated (so it's difficult for me to invest in it). Others are ZAR.

So it's the foreign-exchange rate that adds risk/volatility, I see.
This comment was Bauhaus inspired.

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DigitalOcean feels wrong for this purpose since they provided VPS not storage per se. I would suggest hosting the website on Digital Ocean, github or something similar and hosting files on S3 or some similar service that specializes in storing files rather than providing VPSs.
Maybe this is cool? I can't tell. The landing page provides little information. There are videos, but they're overproduced (at least the first one) and I ain't got time for that (rimshot).

Really, just seems like a crappy design with a focus on all the wrong things, a design I've seen 100 times before; all the bells and whistles of modern web design (like video backgrounds), but little to no actual content. Maybe take a look at apple's own watch page for some ideas.

Sorry if this is harsh. The product might be cool - but the page fails to engage or inform, and I am left frustrated because I want to know more, but the site fails to deliver.
> I think there are very few villains that have acted as heroes when starting out.

The logical implication in that line flows in the other direction. It's not that every villain started out a hero, but that every hero (that survives long enough) ends up a villain. Of course, it's untestable as there's no limit on "long enough", but then again, it's just a line from a movie...
Whats worse is that they never had to spend a penny on hosting opensource files, the likes of HEANET in Ireland paid out of their pocket (well me and other Irish taxpayers did in end) to host terabytes of files and use gigabits on downloads at a time when bandwidth was expensive (10 years back bandwidth was a lot more and HEAnets downloads were always fast and I know the guys used a lot of hardware back then for the mirror to support open source).
This is basically the same as the Google terms, which appears to be, eventually it'll be deleted but no guarantees will made. Any Cloud provider worth their salt will have multiple datacenter copies as well as tape storage. It's not easy to go back and surgically delete data on tapes, so you've got to expect this will happen slowly, at unspecified times, for example, when old tapes or harddisk clusters are wiped and destroyed.

I mean, if you want to be pedantic, Apple doesn't say how they delete the data. What secure procedures do they use to ensure a clean wipe?
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I think that "big pharma" companies act a lot like banks, and small companies act a lot like venture-capital backed startups.

Incidentally, both mechanisms allow spending a couple of hundred millions (or even billions) of Dollars for a potentially even bigger profit.

A third way is government financed research, which may be a competitive option in some cases.
> you could call the next bill involving abortion "CVE-2014-0160" and I guarantee you people would know it

What about the next 50 controversial bills?

Would you remember which one is CVE20140160 and which one is CVE20150240?

It gets hard once there's 4 of them. If you have to deal with 10 of them at once, it's impossible to remember which is which unless you work in the field, at which point you're not the one phased by names like "patriot act", "freedom act" or "isn't it cool to hate on the french act".

Maybe if I say 09f91102 you'll know what that is. But I doubt you know what e83c5163 is.
Tim Cook specifically LITERALLY says that he is talking about multiple companies:

> I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information

> where in my first reply to you did I explicitly mention that you did say it

You were the one who brought Google into the conversation. I said Apple don't send spamvertising emails based on App Store purchases, because that's a very easy concept to understand how apple could use the private data they do have (i.e. my purchase/download history of iOS apps) as a revenue stream.

I think Google should be avoided whenever possible, but I'm not stupid enough to think they're the only company with skeevy data collection policies at the core of their business model.
Thanks a lot @anigbrowl. But there is no way it seems, that I can download those corpus on my local machine to feed it to my classifier. Should I crawl the resulting corpus or would you suggest some other route? TIA.
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This is by far the most likely reason. When you hire top developers, those developers want to work on interesting stuff. If retaining those people is a priority, the middle manager's only option is to smile and nod when they tell him something they'd like to do, or he'll soon find himself without employees, and shortly after without a job.

Just look at all the shit that comes out of Google, not as part of some grand overarching scheme, but because someone thought it would be fun, and more often than not forgotten about a year later.
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Unfortunately the selected answer is meaningless. Quoting mine, which is below and has a higher score <grumble grumble>:

Such a list [of airlines] would not be meaningful. All airlines have wide rules to prohibit "tampering" with seats, with Knee Defenders or otherwise; you can improvise one with a well-sized bottle, after all. Those that point out the Knee Defender as banned are only making it explicit that this specific device is not allowed.

More to the point, if the passenger unable to recline complains, the flight attendants will insist that you stop using it.
Magic Leap have realistic occlusion. That means that black can be projected on the screen - thus, VR is possible.
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You can see the answer if you go to the page via a google search result. If a friend sends you a link, they block the answer with that annoying login modal.
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Marketing has next to nothing to do with R&D because most R&D is accomplished before market entry of a drug.

It looks as if revenues of one drug fuel investment into new drugs, and that may be true but it is misleading. There are a lot more sources of capital than just one particular companies own revenues.

Margins and marketing budget allow us to assume significant market power in favor of the pharma companies.
It's great that at least some shady businesses are being exposed. However, the problem is that it's hard to get any public attention on it - they are relatively small, and it's hard to link any actual damage to these shady businesses, and even then, the victims are "spread out", and will find it difficult to litigate.

There's no pressure to stop such businesses, unless law enforcement do their thing properly. FBI and other gov't agencies have massive resources, why isn't more put on this sort of thing, instead of spying on the citizens illegally?
I really love reclining. As a tall guy, it makes long flights significantly better. Albeit I usually fly in economy on budget airlines so can't usually recline far, but I'm still appreciative of what I get. It saddens me that people want to disrupt others and disable functionality that the seat/plane was engineered to have. Although I always recline very slowly to be least shocking to the person behind me and obviously not during meal time etc.
I usually just talk to the person in front of me to inform them that I'll use a laptop. Maybe I'm lucky but it's usually pretty easy to work it out.
I had never heard of Knee Defenders before today. I think it's fairly rude to just install them.
Or, improve the independence and targeting of the research. For instance, having medical groups, patients associations, etc of X disease invest in research for X through crowdfunding.

Experiment [0] looks like a good example/PoC for this.

[0] https://experiment.com/
> NZ is able to get drugs cheap because the US consumers are paying extremely high prices which cover the development costs.

Any source for this? I heard quite often that the marketing budget is more or less the same as the development cost. Further, a lot of the costs is burdened by others.

Seems like you assume that there's a reason that the costs are so high or must be so high. Could be a easy "can get away with it".

There's been numerous explanations that e.g. companies force more expensive medicine than needed. E.g. cheaper is available, but to get a unique medicine from the company, you also are forced to get all the expensive stuff that they have.
Yeah, sad that I at one point thougthey were trustworthy. Hell, at one point I thought CNET was safe...until I downloaded and installed a "BestMp4ToMp3 converter" from there that infected the corporate network. Scumbag city, those sites. That's a major reason I support FOSS like VLC financially.
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Some European charter airlines (i.e. airlines that move people for package holidays) now have fixed "slimline" seats that can't recline and are incredibly uncomfortable.

We flew back from Turkey last year on a brand new Airbus with slimline seats and it was purgatory. I really hope this trend doesn't catch on with regular airlines.
A few days ago I read somewhere that you could use Psiphon to circumvent some mobile providers data cap. Supposedly, you would activate it and the data used would not be counted towards your monthly allowance. Did anyone hear of that? Is there any logic behind that statement?
It would be interesting to know exactly what the marketing money is going towards. Is the money going to doctors so they push the drugs? or to pharmacies so they push their drugs over others? or to consumers?

What is all that money being spent on?
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