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It's probably less of being valuable to society and more of finally monetizing the culture he helped create.

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I was more pointing my comment towards the notion that there was no conspiracy revealed. I do agree that everything thus far revealed by the cables hasn't been illegal in-and-of-itself nor is it all that surprising to those who have a non-romantic view of international diplomacy. It is an unfortunate truth that lying is a natural state of politics.

There was the revelation that the US and China worked together, or one might say conspired, to derail the Copenhagen Climate talks: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,733630,00.h...

Notably Wikileaks has released only a small amount of the 251,287 cables, and while the US government refused to vet the cables from Wikileaks, they did vet them when the NYT asked them too.

According to a Q&A with Assange:

"Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assa...

I think that the hosting with Amazon was more a PR move than anything.

I preordered your book, can't wait for it to come!

One thing that has bothered me about this article that has been floating around the web is that the data cited only says that iPhone users have more sexual partners. To put it vulgarly, it only says that iPhone users are more likely to be whores, not that they're more likely to have more sex.

Seems like the server is a bit overloaded at the moment, I get 504 errors while trying to use it.

It should be a small image centered on the bottom of the page that says "[Y] Hacker News Fan"

I see the button now that the link is clickable. No idea if this will affect your conversion rates but I wish you luck.

Edit: Quick slightly off-topic question that I've been curious about: have you received any complaints from customers requesting conversion optimization? I've found that setting any expectations for conversions with customers can backfire as one can't control web user behavior (search user to be more precise, as I work with search advertising).

I was a kickstarter backer for Diaspora and I haven't heard a peep from them since they asked for shipping info for the backer rewards, and even their twitter feed was last updated on the 18th.

Also, joindiaspora.com doesn't seem to be up at the moment. I really hope that they're just incredibly busy.

I've only seen a tweet from them thus far: http://twitter.com/futuretap/status/19947170850

I think they missed the important point that the redshirt's attractiveness is also attributed to the expendability of the wearer. Or perhaps they just mistaken the men for senior officers or merely want to use the redshirts to get to the more powerful members of the away teams.

I have never been a fan of DRM but Ultraviolet does seem to be a step - even if it's only a small one - in the right direction. The inability to transfer content from one medium to another has been big pain point with DRM and at least this UV seems to be trying to address that.