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This was the funniest thing to me, CERN released the Higgs boson finding in Comic Sans http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-com...

I was reminded of RMS's autoreply:

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Where's Ben Wellington when you need him? http://iquantny.tumblr.com/

> random and useless 'nice to have' touches

We can probably conflate this type of problem with the second you mentioned. If the changes are that much of a problem there is probably something wrong with the software architecture. From a programmer's perspective it's easy to forget that the code exists to serve the user's experience, the user's experience shouldn't be crafted to serve the code.

I've expended 0 effort to find the answer to this myself, but I wonder if this is based on the OTR protocol, and if not, why not.

Headlines like this just reinforce my feeling that the "Internet of Things" concept is bad/premature. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but it strikes me as "Let's take this network technology that we've yet to make reliably secure or private and put it in everything!"

Live sports moving online would be the final nail in the coffin of the cable television industry.

Hopefully Tesla doesn't end up crushed by blood-sucking union pension liabilities and can afford to continue making a marketable product.

Wasn't this in the Batman movie?

I am confident that knowledge exists which is not only undiscoverable by humans, but also beyond our intellectual capacity and impossible to grasp.

It's interesting how you can exchange "academia" for "Hacker News" and your comment remains true.

I'm a big fan of this project, too. However I'm disappointed that the final price is going to come out to about $1200 http://neo900.org/estimate

There seems to be a fair amount of money and attention being invested in secure messaging, Mark Cuban's Cyber Dust, Blackphone, the various things by Moxie's Open Whisper Systems, etc. However the Neo900 as far as I know is the only solution offering a sandboxed baseband which is critical.

There's one more factor which is the configuration of QoS. This can be as easy as checking a box in a GUI for home routers. I've also spent days configuring Cisco switches, OpenBSD queues, VLANs, etc to achieve this.

I'm switching to Netscape.

It could be argued that the power of lame duck presidents cuts both ways since they can act with less fear of reprisal. You may still be right about prioritizing congress.

Related, I once read an AMA on Reddit where a congressional staffer advised everyone to do their best to get op-ed pieces in newspapers which mention your elected officials, since it was their job and the job of the staffers they knew to compile such pieces for review every morning by the legislator.

Still rings true for Mac.

Maybe in San Fransisco. For billions of people around the world it did not.

I'll bite

This bookmarklet http://pastebin.com/raw/Rur0Lrza works if you have less than 500 karma. I haven't figured out how to make it work for over 500 karma.

> It's certainly not working for the echo chamber of HN

True. I would also go a bit further and say it doesn't appear to be working with the House Judiciary Committee. I watched all five and a half hours of the inquiry and overall, the committee including the chairman seemed strongly on Apple's side. There were only 2-3 dissenting positions in favor of the FBI.

>This will sound moralistic, and I don't mean it that way

It's truly sad that the culture of people in computing reading this forum, which reflects the nation and west as a whole, is so disconnected from God that you feel the need to disclaim the profession of morality or religion.

You've touched on a larger issue that occurs to me often. Though your point is valid, my response to a company making the argument would be, "too bad." /They're/ the ones making billions in revenue by voluntarily accepting a business relationship with millions of customers. If you want the revenue from those millions of relationships, it's also your responsibility to manage your side of the bargain with those millions of relationships, that includes your legal (and many other) responsibilities. Is scaling to keep up with your responsibilities to millions of customers easy? No. However that's not the customer's problem.

>remove the copy protection that prevents them from being digitized

In other words, cutting that little square of plastic off of the top right corner of the 5.25" disks? I distinctly remember learning that skill myself.

Here's our spending on ed, virtually the highest in the world https://polisonic.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/education20spe...

Here are our scores, among the worst https://softwarestrategies.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image...

The problem with our education system is not a lack of money.

Check out my favorite media player, cmus. It's a light weight iTunes alternative for command line.

What gets me is when I see software designed this way and then start imagining how much money was spent developing it, and fellow software architects sitting back with their arms folded staring at the screen thinking what a good job they did.

I don't know about routers but I've had very good experiences with Cisco's SMB switches like the SG500.

I have this reliable bookmarklet which makes comments collapsible, however it stopped working once I got a downvote arrow: http://pastebin.com/raw/iMkHgmNZ

The name reminded me of the animated ASCII Star Wars: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

I use a mutt setup like this http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

Besides the efficiency of the CLI, I like having a local copy of my mail.