gregory80

I'm not sure I follow your argument. JS is bad b/c it's client side? Doesnt that paint all fat clients and every piece of software before the "web" in the same light?

well said.

Dont forget document.write, or the blocking behavior of script tags themselves.

Who is pushing this cross platform datastorage solution you speak of?

[I am not a lawyer, you should always consult a trained legal professional when working with legal matters.]

Don't let corporations bully you. Find lawyers who are willing to work on the case and pursue it. I would hope money isn't your only motivation, but if they have committed a crime, at the very least your local District Attorney or the FBI should review and begin pursuing any criminal charges.

Assuming any criminal complaints "stick" it will make a civil suit much easier on you down the road.

I have read it and linked to it because it is actually happening. You suggested its a 'no-no', which is definitely not the case.

I think you may believe I want the patient to carry the phone, but I am suggesting the nurse.

My father worked in Public health for 40 years, two decades ago we explored the idea of cards such as this for patients, but came to the conclusion they fell short for a variety of reasons, including patients losing the devices, patients transferring to different clinics and not having their original card etc etc. As is the case with current medical records, there is a stronger guarantee the doctors will be able to review existing case history is the data and files are stored with the hospital or care provider, not receiver.

Finally, I am pretty sure the nurse can charge a phone daily.

Why would nurses, who have been given the phones in the first place (and do the billing) not be able to run 24/7 GPS on their own phones? Also, it wouldn't even have to be 24/7, if they work from 9-5 then its only during those hours.

Also, why would this be a no-no? How do you think map applications work? And 'local recommendations' apps?

EDIT: Add link to Apple / Google tracking GPS on phones http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-apple-track-users-lo...

this appears to be far more anecdotal evidence than research. I was thinking a published study, not simply consumers noticing price differences on checkout, haphazard sampling to say the very least..

So it's a digital timecard system where the patient is required to keep a special ID?

Certainly sees neat, but why not just base the whole app off GPS data and skip the cards for 'billing' completely?

I've heard about their UX A/B testing around showing cart flow and checkout, but actual pricing? Can you link to research?

I'm a fan of http://preloaders.net/

> "can't be cracked"

Not sure about that. Certainly tough, but crackable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448963/has-recaptcha-been...

http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/01/google-recaptcha-cracked...

Wasn't this announced in October of 2010?

http://www.cultofmac.com/steve-jobs-explains-was-java-was-de...

"Java runtime at the same level, and it may even be removed from future versions of Mac OS X."

that's unreal. Min 29 on seems to be where the direct discussion of "rule" breaking begins. Rule breaking by Swartz being getting the JSTOR files from students and placing them online.

Demand progress makes it sound like MIT asked the gov't not to pursue the case. But the gov't went forward anyway

http://demandprogress.org/aaron

this thread as well http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782059

Wow, that's very weird. What school did he speak at, did anyone record it?

A statement from demand progress, which Swartz is the former exec director of: http://demandprogress.org/aaron

Summary: Police live tweet search warrant raid for man. Don't find the man, find some empty bags that appear to have weed in them.

Yeah, real score for the police of the world everywhere. Demonstrates just how silly modern police enforcement is.

Second! Customers do not want insecurity. That's like saying people want bank vaults with glass walls. It's ridiculous on its face.

"The IT job sector has been under increasing pressure. A couple of decades ago it was easy to imagine IT as a job for life, but outsourcing, offshoring and the dot-bomb brought wave upon wave of uncertainty to IT professionals.

The past couple of years have seen redundancies in all sectors including IT"

It's a gripping intro, but I'm just not sure it's true. The tech sectors in Silicon Alley / Valley are facing staffing shortages. The tech sector has been almost recession proof.

It's just a fluff angle to write a story about cloud computing.

Perhaps I am missing the point, but isn't this just the 21st century version the School of the Americas and the CIAs radio broadcasts / clandestine media efforts?

I certainly don't oppose freedom, but willfully causing destabilization in foreign countries, even if that country has a brutal government seems to violate the concept of state sovereignty, at least a little bit.

http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/03/30/how-the-cia-used-rad...

http://www.soaw.org/

> He was even outed by one of his own as an investor and didn't do anything to stop it.

Journalists who are using full disclosure, shouldn't need to be outed. They are supposed to be upfront about such things. Outing suggests he was not.

Second, mere disclosure doesn't prevent a conflict of interest.

agreed, not sure why this is comment is getting down voted. Journalists need to disclose such facts. Conflicts of interest are real. For that matter conflicts of interest aren't limited solely to journalism to begin with.

After all, Eric Schmidt had to step down from Apple board when google started to compete in that area out of concerns of conflict of interest. Why does Arrington get a pass?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/technology/schmidt_google_ap...

> Android users just want free software, while iOS users don't mind paying for quality.

that seems like a gross generalization. Having had and used both android and iOS I never saw that behavior in myself or others.

I have to agree with OP, i don't understand the excitement over this SSH client, interface included. A shell prompt is one of the oldest interfaces. iOS can support 3D graphics rendering and gaming and panic is selling a $5 SSH prompt. Seems bizarre.

an impressive and lengthy response to the issues that arose around Prof. Cronon's original piece of ALEC's role in Wisconsin politics (among other things)

Original Piece http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/

thank you for posting this! been on a trip out of country and kept getting sent to pages which were in languages I couldn't read, this is great.

I thought the exact same thing, especially when I caught the "the evil eval" header. Still, handy to have the reference online.

RESPA ftw?

--snip-- He learned about RESPA which allows a Qualified Written Request (QWR), a letter that a loan holder can send to their mortgage servicer who is legally obligated to acknowledge within 20 days and take action within 60 --snip--

Perhaps it's Google translate missing some words, but who placed him in the hospital? Was in voluntary?