VonLipwig

Is this really needed?

It really inconveniences the recipient. They cannot copy and paste the email. This can sometimes be important. Often private emails contain usernames, passwords or urls.

You cannot view emails on multiple computers without first yourself going out of the way to register multiple devices..

There are many scenarios where forwarding the email is important. You may want your solicitor to look at it whatever.

It seems to me the best use of this service is just to send people some hate mail as it makes it difficult for laymen computer user to forward it to someone who can do something about it.

Email isn't a secure platform, if you don't want what you write getting out there don't send it, use another medium, avoid sending emails to untrusted people.

Making the email an image means I probably won't read it.. I guess that is one way to stop me from forwarding it.

It's all down to ignorance really isn't it. Isolated incidents by themselves aren't really a big deal. Idiots are everywhere. Sometimes people just don't think before speaking.

Sometimes the odd jibe is actually amusing. Of course when the jibe has been heard a hundred times before it never is.

I have a stutter and the amount of crap I have had over the years is rediculous. It isn't people taking the piss, I am used to that. Its people being 'kind'. People assuming I cannot do something or wouldn't want to do something on account of my speech. People being 'protective' or finishing sentences...

The outride rudeness of people is easy to confront and challenge. It is the subtle stuff which is very difficult to deal with. Often people genuinely do not understand that they have done something wrong. They were just asking someone to take notes and you have become the defacto note taker... whats wrong with that?

I have always thought the best thing to do is stand your ground but if you do that every time you get a reputation of being a stickler and being less approachable. The trouble is finding the right balance between letting the odd thing slide without just leaving yourself open to taking crap.

I feel for Katie and think it is a shame that she has been effectively forced out doing she something she enjoys by the ignorance of others.

I have no idea what you are on about to be honest.

Surely in this context generate == produce. I don't really get how you could take what I wrote as 'these guys made content "magically appear" in their event description'.

pfft... like I said "What is this 'Women:' bit about?"

I didn't realise that they had listed women explicity as a perk. I just thought it was a bad bit of copy. I didn't see their original site and as it has now been taken down.

I thought they had listed it in a less obvious way noting the servers would be women to bait males to attend.

Perhaps this is a bit more than a kerfuffle then.

While what they wrote turned out to be sexist I don't think at all this was there intention. They fell into the trap of sterotyping their audience. If your a hacker your probably a pale introvert with little access to women. The trouble is a hacker/programmer/whatever is just a job title. The people who do these jobs have variety personalities and genitals.

If anything they misunderstood their audience which is a shame really and managed to generate some copy that could offend just about everyone.

What exactly was sexist about what they did?

"""Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you."""

Perhaps the quote is missing context, I found it here: http://philomousos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/how-to-apologize.h...

To me it doesn't even make sense. What is this 'Women:' bit about?

If you discount the 'Women colon' I think if anything it offends programmers. Are we really so geeky that we would go to an event just to get a beer from 'female' event staff?

Perhaps they think their audience is locked in some underground lair 364 days of the year and women have become nothing but a mythical creature to a programmer. The promise of seeing this rare and mysterious creature serve beer would make someone like me want to go? I think not.

There are 3 things that bug me about this.

1) The quote makes no sense and if you try to rationalise it attendees should be most offended.

2) People have got into such a kerfuffle which in scheme of things shows the inexperience of the hosts rather than their malace.

3) The event might not go ahead at all because of this... which seems like a bit of a shame.

This looks like a storm in the tea cup brewed by people who don't get out enough.

I disagree with the post.

"""The slope of this graph is the whole story. The complicated general purpose computers are at the bottom, and the simpler specialized computers are at the top."""

This is a terrible graph. The Mac has always been a premium niche computer. 28 years ago computing was in its infancy and computers were expensive, unnetworked with limited benefit to the average household.

Compare this the iPad / iPod Touch and iPhone. These are main stream devices that achieved immediate traction. It is unrealistic to compare Mac sales with those of main stream devices.

You then have the desktop market as a whole. If you compare any single company or brand of desktop against iPad sales, desktop sales would look in trouble. However, if you compare desktop sales to tablet sales it is clear that tablets are still only in their infancy.

BUT TABLETS ARE SELLING FASTER THAN DESKTOPS!

I don't know if this true but it doesn't matter and it doesn't say much about the state of desktops. Everyone has a computer, the market is saturated. No one has a tablet. It makes sense that tablet sales would rocket.

Buying tablets also make a lot of sense for people who just consume content. The fact is though that the iPad isn't great for productivity. It is far better for consuming content. This is what most people do.

However if you want to program, edit images, write a novel, maintain spreadsheets, make movies etc a desktop / laptop is what you need.

The PC isn't dead and it isn't dying. It has reached a point where people only buy replacements. Now yes, some people may switch perminantly to a tablet. Thats fine. For the forseeable future though there will be a large market of business and consumers who require more than a tablet can provide.

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The article also touches on how great the new iPad screen is. I don't think its all that. I walked past the demo of 'the new iPad' twice before asking a sales guy to point to which one was 'the new iPad'. Yes, if you put the screen close to your face you see less pixelation on icons. For general web surfing though I saw no perceived difference. Hell, I don't really see any pixelation on my iPad2. Perhaps I am not holding it close enough to my face...

I feel the same way unfortunately. I really wanted to like DDG but compared to Google I just found it a little too slow.

I really like the bang syntax and well.. the search engine as a whole I guess. I think it is the lack of Google style ajax fast content loading which makes adjusting searches just seem really slow.

It's bullsh*t.

I agree that a person doesn't need to actually visit a country to face extradition. I agree that the US should be able to extradite people who break their laws and harm American citizens and business.

However this doesn't look like a legal action to me. It looks like a political one.

The guy never hosted the content. He simply created a resource that made content already hosted on hundreds of websites elsewhere easier to find.

Where does it stop? If my website links to a site like The Pirate Bay or whatever does that mean I am helping people infringe copyright? If a US citizen verbally asks me where they can 'aquire' photoshop and I say.. "Oh you could probably find a torrent at blah address" does this book me a one way trip to the states?

US silliness aside it is demoralising that the UK Government provides so little protection to residents. This guy didn't physically harm anyone. He didn't make a site that specifically targetted the US. He didn't host the content. He didn't visit the US or host his site there. He didn't even break a UK law...

How you can send a resident to - potentially - be incarcerated in a foreign country for commiting an act which your own legal system doesn't believe is a crime is beyond me.

This makes you wonder about the current supply of talented developers. Where has that supply gone?

I see no reason why Twitter would aquire Posterous for any reason other than the experience that the staff have. As far as I am aware Posterous doesn't hold any valued patents. It doesn't appear to be leading the way in pioneering technology. I don't really see how the site itself fits in with Twitter's strategy.

It looks like a smash and grab to get more staff. Is this a statement about the typically applicant Twitter recieves when looking to hire? Its also a shame as aquisition's like this are happening more and more often killing off fairly popular websites in the process.

This is the least exciting thing I have seen today. There are hundreds of these throw away games which are nothing more than a time sink and contain no more depth than an A4 sheet of paper.

So there is an new/improved platform store to buy/sell these apps. Greeeaatttt....

I completely agree with the article though I think it misses what the iPad 3 is. I think most tech commenators miss the point.

Apple isn't a traditional tech company. The majority of Apples 'new products' aren't new at all. They are just a new iteration of an existing product.

Many tech commentators look at the iPad 3 and see it as make or break. They want reason's why you would toss aside your iPad 2 and buy an iPad 3. The fact is though, if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2.

Its like like if you own a 2010 iMac you didn't buy a 2011 iMac (I assume there was a 2010/11 iMac). While the latest model is superior, quicker, has better gizmo's etc. The one you have is just fine.

The iPad 3 will be the continued evolution of the iPad product, just as the iPad 2 was. This isn't a new product, Apple is just continuing to keep its product up to date.

The message seems to be...

Only 8 accounts were affected. Do not worry. Minor breach. Not much harm done.

It seems to me the truth is the attacker looked for bitcoin wallets and emptied them. The fact he could identify 8 accounts and access them suggests the attacker could have accessed far more accounts if they wished. I think this is the most worrying thing about the breach.

I don't really understand how bitcoin works but it seems that people with wallets need to set up multiple wallets on multiple providers and limit the amount of bit coins in each wallet to limit any losses from breaches like this.

If I was a linode customer I would be thinking about moving. This message, while fairly open, doesn't give me much confidence there aren't other security issues with the platform.

This site is good because it pokes Apple into action. However this seems like a temporary problem. It was pulled because of a problem on Apples end. There are a lot of companies who want an app in the app store or help with something. Its not difficult to find a temp job for a couple of weeks to tide you over.

Obviously it isn't ideal but you do what you have to do to keep going. If your revenue stream dries up you contact Apple to try to reestablish it. How long does that take? Maybe 1 email and 2 phone calls a day. Lets be generous and say this takes an hour each day. That then leaves 7 hours of thumb twiddling.

I have been in similar situations and have just nabbed a job on Guru. Its horrible BUT it brings in that little bit of money to keep the lights on until more work comes in.

I sympathise with the developers plight and this is a reason why I haven't wanted to get into App development. If your not battling people cloning your games, you have a constant axe swinging above your head that the app store may find fault with your App and remove it. You then have changing rules and requirements in the App Store..

The thing that bugs me a bit though is how the developer is asking for money. "Save my house." Its been 14 days since this revenue stream was compromised and the guy is apparently in financial trouble. This doesn't sound like Apples fault. This is a lack of financial planning.

I am by no means well off. I get by. My partner, my child and I were struck down by a bad virus last month. For 3 weeks I couldn't work, I could just about roll out of bed to get to the loo. I am a freelancer, I have no sick pay, no payment protection etc. For 3 weeks I earned nothing. My family is on a budget for the next month but we are fine. We have savings to get us through 3 months of joblessness.

If 14 days of near zero income pushes you over the edge and risks you loosing your house then you probably need a career change. That or its time to spend less and save more. For many profession's this isn't possible. Some people need several jobs to make ends meet. However, for a I expect fairly talented developer there are plenty of jobs and opportunites to get you on the right track.

I wonder if this can really make an impact with a bad name and all the patent trolls around. If you look at the patent wars between Android / iOS and Microsoft I wonder how many patents have been infringed knowingly or not in Mozilla's offering.

I support this, I feel there should be more competition in the mobile market but at the same time it looks like something geeky people would run just to say 'look what I can do to my phone'.

If a Death Star takes a couple of decades of build wouldn't be obsolete by the time its finished?

Also, I am not that into Star Wars but I understand that the Death Star is big? Like a small planet right?

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to take a shovel to one of Saturn's moon. Mount a giant cannon and nail on some fairly large booster engines?

I mean.. the whole idea of building a planet sized space craft from metal seems silly when there are plenty of large space objects ready to be commandeered and turned into very large space vessels. Should also be noted that a moon has a long track record of surviving very large impacts. A metal structure? Perhaps not so much.

Looks good and very useful. Any chance you can stop the keyboard popping up on the iPad when you touch the menu?

I am really into 'do what works for you'. You may find that that sleeping in two 4 hour blocks changes your life. You feel alive!

Alternatively you may find yourself more tired. Personally I like sleeping 8-9 hours a night. I find myself fairly alert a few minutes after I wake up and I can start my day. It certainly doesn't feel 'unnatural' to me.

I am also a big fan of sleeping when other people sleep so I can enjoy time with friends and family. Unusual sleep patterns typically mean missing out on some of this time.

I don't see why affiliate programs would have an issue here. If Pinterest didn't exist they wouldn't be getting the traffic.

Pinterest has every right to monetize their website in the least intrusive way possible. These referal links are transparent and provide a neat way to get some income.

What suprises me is how they are giving away 25% of their profits by using a third-party service instead of making something themselves.

I thought things had been like this for a while now. A year ago Wired magazine had a good article about a guy who ran a site buying and selling credit card details and law enforcements attempts to catch him.

The computer had full disk encryption which they couldn't touch. Instead they needed to raid the guys house when the computer was on and secure it so the techs could pull what they needed from memory.

I didn't think it could be done in under an hour though.

This is golden. I think I might be a terrorist.

I...

1) Shield my screen in public places ( I don't want snoopers reading my emails....) 2) I pay cash most of the time (Helps me save money as the change goes into a change jar never to be spent again) 3) I have multiple cell phones. (One for business, one for personal)

4) I use a proxy to shield my IP address 5) I encrypt my computer and files, I send password protected compressed files. 6) I communicate with people I have never met in video games

7) I sometimes keep track of hackers and learn of vulnerable websites and infrastructures

Seriously though I am not keen on the flier. I think terrorism and extremists work best in fragmented societies. If you live in a small village where everyone knows everyone then the oddball or outcast will naturally be viewed with curiosity and suspicion. However, in towns and cities where you sometimes don't know your neighbor.. this is where a suspicious person can thrive.

Fliers like this encourage you not to trust to your neighbor. It screams. "The guy next to you might be a terrorist!" and encourages you to be distrustful. Its not healthy. It helps propagate the climate of fear. You expect messages like this in a police state not in a supposedly free country.

"""[citation needed]"""

Sure, however I doubt I am far off. The site is called The PIRATE Bay. Shall we play a game of spot the legitimate content? http://thepiratebay.se/top/300

"""The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free."""

Of course it isn't however the owners are making no attempt to remove infringing content. They know their business is helping to distribute copyrighted digital content and they profit from it. Sure, they need to cover their costs but they don't run it to be a beacon of freedom. They run it for the $$$.

Take WikiLeaks, before it started publishing unredacted content they served a purpose. They broke some laws but they set information free. There was a positive reason for it's existence.

What has the Pirate Bay done of value over the last decade?

"""And? Is it written anywhere that people with deep pockets should not be insulted? If anything, their position of privilege should make them less prone to knee-jerk reactions."""

Knee Jerk reactions? Really? Content owners file DCMA take down requests and take other actions. The pirate bay respond by goading them.

http://thepiratebay.se/legal

There is little doubt that TPB is costing content owners real money by helping people access torrents. The amount is obviously up for debate however when you insult, goad and cause losses to Billion dollar companies you are asking to be engaged by an army of lawyers and politicians.

The Pirate Bay could just quieten down. "You do your thing, we do ours." They don't though do they. Instead they adopt the. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha you can't get us."

Well sorry but you know, if millions of dollars of copyrighted content is being accessed via your company. Large content owners will work to lobby and pressure politicians to take action.. this isn't knee-jerk. This just natural escalation.

"""I think you should talk to your analyst about that complex, hating extrovert people is quite the negative attitude."""

ROFL.. sure because that was exactly what I was saying...

Hmm.

"""What binds us all together is a strong belief that what we do is good."""

What is 'good' about the pirate bay? A site which is 95% dedicated to sharing copyrighted content?

The Pirate Bay exists to make money for its founders. This is why it has so many intrusive ad's constantly popping up. They aren't on any mission. They are just raking in money at other people's expense.

"""Our 3 friends and blood brothers have been sentenced to prison. This might sound worse than it is. Since no one of them no longer lives in Sweden, they won't go to jail. They are as free today as they were yesterday."""

Does this mean they are on the run? As they have been sentenced to 4-10 month's I would just serve the time and be done with it. Surely this is better than constantly watching your back and avoiding being extradited back to Sweden.

"""But what enrages us to our inner core is that the system, the empire, the governments, are still allowed to try to boss you and us around with one law crazier than the other"""

Yes.. the system.. the empire.. surprised they didn't mention the people in black suits? The pirate bay is such a target because the people who run it humiliate and insult people with very deep pockets. They aren't victims, they enjoy the attention.

Call me heartless... a job needs doing. Someone is doing it.

If Apple ran these factories then yes, boycott them. However they don't. They hire Chinese companies to put their products together.

This is a China problem not an Apple problem. China can introduce work standards, maximum working hours, minimum pay etc. Contracts can then be renegotiated or whatever.

As things stand though the factories are supplying jobs to those who need jobs. If the jobs weren't required the people wouldn't be doing them.

Is the situation good? No. However, this is an issue for the Chinese Government. You introduce law's, factories follow laws, working conditions improve.

It would be bad business for Apple to narrow its margins in such a competitive market to provide better working conditions than the majority of other shithole factories in China.

I am going to chime in being negative against the wave of positive feedback here.

Twitter has done well releasing this and when I first saw it ages ago it looked neat and fairly professional.

However, like a pop song which has been completely overplayed on the radio it has become tired and frankly a bit annoying. It has its uses offline to quickly get a demo up and running but it shouldn't be used on a live site. At least not in its entirety.

If you have to use this for your project due to convenience or lack of design skills then do everyone a favor and mix it up a little bit. Change the colors on the buttons. Avoid the black bar running along the top of your website. Just don't look 100% like a vanilla bootstrap site.

Would be nice to have a vegetarian / vegan option which quickly checks / unchecks various things.

As a vege in one day I need to eat a lot of eggs and drink a lot of milk.

6 Eggs + 1 Cup Egg Whites + 3 Cups of Milk

I wonder how to make a meal out of this:

2 eggs Eggs + 1 cup Lentils + 30 grams Protein Powder + 1 cup Strawberries

I think it has potential though. Will be good when there are recipes.

I would guess that would depend where the hosting resides. If the host is non-US then it is out of the courts jurisdiction.

You need to think about the cost to the hosting company. I assume they are holding a lot of data and a large number of servers are tied up doing nothing without payment. They have every right to clean the server and allocate it elsewhere.

If anyone should be footing the bill it should be the prosecutors themselves. They can't take it from MegaUpload. The defense shouldn't pay for it as the data may actually damage their case. You would expect them to be in a stronger position with the proof gone.

You also need to think about the damage to the company. I am sure the prosecutors think they have a slam-dunk but what if they loose? They would have effectively destroyed a multi-million dollar company as a result of a failed prosecution. You could expect a fairly large compensation package in this scenario.

Surely the prosecutors loose their case if the data goes. Doesn't the defense shift from 'we moderated content, majority was legal' to 'prove that we hosted illegal content'.

With the data deleted isn't it like trying to commit someone of murder after the murder weapon mysteriously vanished?

What scares me most is how many people here seem to think it is OK or 'not that bad'.

I don't know a designer who hasn't or doesn't draw inspiration from other websites. However, that process goes something like this...

1) Look at website. || 2) Assess what is good about the design || 3) Mock up own version.

What a decent person doesn't do is rip the existing site. HTML + all. Tweak it slightly then publish it.

What Curebit did is indefensible. This is something some 2-bit web designer fob's off to a client paying $200 for a website... the fact Curebit is a start up is not a defense. It is frankly scary that a company can get $1M+ in funding and not realise they cannot just rip other peoples work...

I was wondering why more websites weren't already doing this when SOPA/PIPA were on the horizon.

The US has a problem with politics and when that problem endangers the internet, to me at least, the simplest solution is to block US users.

It has got to be tempting now for site owners, especially considering how US courts do not seem to have much trouble seizing websites. If the site isn't US facing surely that would put a big dent in any legal action made stateside.