cliveholloway

Favorite Perl snippet (from Joseph Hall's EPP book)

    [$x => $y]->[$x <= $y]

Holy shit - just realized I first touched Perl 15 years ago!

> When it becomes illegal to stage mass protests about anything?

As long as you're in a "free speech zone".

> When the media is directly owned by the state, as it is in many places?

Since the US is basically a corporatocracy, we're already there.

> When journalists and activists are jailed, as they are in many places?

Already happening. Assange abroad, Barrett Brown here in the US.

> When the media feels in any way uncomfortable roundly criticizing the government?

That's been happening here for years. Why does the US not have it's Jeremy Paxman?

> (3) Political mobilization is fine. No repression.

You're joking, right? The Occupy protests in Texas? Infiltration of protest groups and false flag events? Tch.

I would have thought a client side encryption plugin that will seamlessly encrypt/decrypt all your Gmail sent between yourself and any other user running said plugin would be a simpler option. Adding common mail suppliers as it goes forward.

I clicked through after seeing original headline. It made sense. This means nothing to me at all. Aren't editors meant to make things more readable?

That is a really good read, and very sane. So, obviously, it has to get pulled.

It's called "NoScript". I have yet to see the solution on the site :D

Where has the link's site gone?

These days, the important thing is to know the right question. Once you get that far, the rest is easy.

eg, you want to extract a date from a sentence. If you don't know the question, you might google "get date from sentence". If you do, then you'd google "date regular expression".

You still need to know stuff - just not as much of each thing, so you can know more. It's like memorizing the TOC of a book rather than the content of every chapter.

DIGG killed Digg. The week after V 3.0 launched was a mess. Tons of corporate sponsored posts (AKA intrusive adverts), often multiple submissions by the same person on the front page at the same time, and other weirdness.

Reddit was right place, right time to pick up the exodus. I don't think it did anything to kill Digg.

Trying to work out why this is on HN. What next, "Google's Bathrooms"?

When I heard Schneier had been invited I actually thought the government was going to take this seriously.

Obviously this is now going to be just another whitewash. sigh

I would have just pointed out that the phrase "Libertarian community" is an oxymoron, heh.

If I was driving in the desert, of course I would learn how to fix a car. You might as well have said, "if you go scuba diving don't whine if you get decompression sickness while surfacing". What a really bad analogy.

Where do you draw the line? Do you make your own yoghurt? What about milk your own cows? I very much doubt you do that. My time is valuable enough that I'm comfortable paying people to do these things for me.

If person A offers a service to person B, there needs to be some level of trust and expectation. In this instance, the government is responsible for destroying people's assets and I hope they get sued to oblivion for screwing up. Other times, companies are at fault.

Gotta love the Libertarian mindset that appears to prevail here. Sheesh.

I don't care how cars work, I trust the mechanic to fix the problem.

I don't care how the financial markets work - I trust my 401k to pay for my retirement.

Life is far too short for me to want to know about things that don't interest me. One of the points of an advanced society is that we can pay people to do things for us.

People shouldn't have to second guess every professional service they use. Maybe it's time to add legal guarantees to the cloud?

"I have little compassion for people who store their files in the cloud only."

That's all well and good, but what about the other 95% of the population that just want to pay someone to host their files?

Why should consumers have to know the best technical solution? All they want is to pay for a solution to a problem.

And they were so close. If only they could have worked out the missing piece...

HINT: SD Card support.

I think for the people in general to respect copyright, they need to have something to respect. 100 years is ridiculous. And it's unrealistic. Basically it gives certain companies a right to print money. It's particularly egregious that Disney built up a huge pile of their "intellectual property" by stealing stories that, in this day and age, would cost them a fortune to license.

Copyright used to be for 25 years. In this day and age, that is an eternity. Back when it was implemented, it was probably a little more relevant - with the distribution of media being a lot slower and organic.

If copyright was for 7 years, with the option to renew for another 7 years (for a period of time - say up to 21 years total), that would protect the rights of content creators, whilst letting work that is deemed worthless to fall back into the public domain. And NO ONE could hijack our culture in perpetuity.

What is this COICA going to do for the consumer? For society?

Windows 7, but with Ubuntu running on Virtualbox so I can actually get some work done.

Do you really think that was an accident? Heh.

In related news, when I'm on a non essential site that requires a password, forces a weird restriction ("Your password must contain at least one number and one non word character) and won't let me save it in Firefox, I just copy the password, log out, bookmark the login page and then add #password to the URL and bookmark that as the new login page.

Then, come login, I can just copy the password from the URL.

You post a large update in a place where you value your integrity stating that the goal you were going to achieve will be accomplished by a certain date (that appears reasonable).

In my case, it was to tweet that we'd be selling our latest discs (http://twitter.com/Thisoneisonus/status/27176693962) on a certain date, and then coding through the night a couple of days before because I didn't want to look like an idiot to our 5,000 obsessive Twitter followers :D

Do you have to pay "hoisting bills" to pull the replacement images into place? ;-)

You were texting while driving?

And let's not get into "intelligent pressure pads". The number of times I've had to run a red light at night because the pad doesn't register my bicycle...

I used to like them, but I like being able to run cron jobs even more.

Somebody grab Jason Calacanis for a meaningful soundbite :)

I hope you missed a "k" after that 20-30 and 15...

I haven't seen it for people you aren't friends with before the last few days, so I'm pretty sure - either that or it's a bug. Either way, some feedback on it would be welcomed if anyone knows anything.

Much too highbrow for me.

39103 * 136

Then turn your calculator upside down and read the result.

Or, you could argue that if Sergey had had a pile of people being friends with him that he would have been distracted from his intellectual work.

Do you think Microsoft would have come about if Bill Gates had got laid earlier?

(that's the excuse I use when discussing why I'm not an internet mogul right now, heh cough)