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This should be mentioned when we have people saying, in response to gun control, "Demand a plan! It's already too late; we need to do /something/".

Doing "something", something which the security state crowd had ready in '96, is what got us the PATRIOT act and the TSA.

The strong anti-gun crowd is trying to wage a slow war against gun ownership that would result in an Australia-like confiscation of weapons and the repeal of the 2nd amendment. Don't let the "do somethings" win again.

/rare political post on HN

I'm more afraid of my government than I am of al Qaeda.

I think the point is that, when something novel is invented, two routes can be taken:

Patent: Protection from competition for a limited time, in exchange for disclosing the methods of the invention.

Trade secret: Keep things on lock, and make money on it until someone else figures it out for themselves.

This is why things like "pinch zoom" and about 5m other shitty patents are so absurd: There's very little "novel" about most software patents. And these people are making really broad claims, and doing nothing with them, for the sake of litigation. It's a mockery of the intention of the office.

I think watching an HFR feels like watching a play. But I'm not. I'm watching a movie.

I cannot imagine watching a non-live play on a screen and feel at all connected to the characters or the narrative.

>and that type of argument could be (and probably was) used to argue against audio ("talkies"), color, surround sound, digital color correction, etc.

This is like a reverse slippery slope argument. I have not seen one quote, newspaper article, book excerpt, and so on that would back up the claim that there was widespread opposition to audio or color.

Perhaps the discussion is centered around America.

Care to type up a paragraph of the most egregious misunderstandings?

BTW broadly speaking, I agree. I see smart people saying really frightening things, then think about all the not-smart people.

It's unfortunate there is not a 2D HFR version; I'd like to sample future technology without present anti-features.

There is no valuable postmortem on that instrusive-ad ridden site.

So, when a person's job becomes outdone by technology or automation, we should force companies to pay them more?

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Sounds like you were arguing against a use case which the other fellow doesn't believe is a target use of the product.

What?

I use Google Apps to host 4 email addresses for my personal domain.

Personal email Online shopping email Forums/Programming email Facebook-only email (so people can't search for me)

I use it for me. I wouldn't pay $20/month for such a service, and Google is smart for not taking free away from existing customers.

People are not used to a search area that looks up local AND internet resources. Furthermore, AFAIK, thre is no obvious "local only" search box to act as an alternative to this global one.

It's a combination of user expectations of a local search resource and the lack of obvious warnings about this new, and odd, feature.

Your third sentence doesn't support your second.

I use closed source software, but that doesn't mean I think he's wrong on his overall analysis of its downsides.

Well, if we're going to miss them when they're gone, then we should figure out a goddamned way to replace it, rather than saying, "The Internet is just too much revolution for you to handle, man."

Full-time investigative journalism cannot go away, for the sake of society. It's a matter of how we will continue it, or what model and best practices will supplant it. iReport doesn't count.

Calling it: There will be a blog post titled "Ruby Two's Day" on release.

So many people in this thread are saying they highlight sections of text as they read. I don't do that, and no-one I know does that.

What is the benefit? Is it intentional, or is it a habit with no real use?

If Toronto were launching rockets at Detroit, I think the US would strike a staging area, even if some civilians were in the way.

I'm assuming this conversation was being held in discussion about internet policy and potential legislation regarding web filtering. In such case, I must say what I often do:

It is dangerous and immoral for legislators to restrict freedom of choice on the assumption that all people are stupid.

Well, that's not the way the like button works. The like button is the "follow and get updates" button. Like it or not (heh) that's the use of the button, and I believe people get this.

That's why the blogger should be summarizing leaked info, not posting verbatim.

>Replacing it wouldn't protect them from infringement lawsuits

Why not?

DAE think that the whole "BGP is broken!" argument is a bit overblown?

If you're going to have a bunch of autonomous systems/networks operating together, with no central authority, it necessarily comes down to trust and relationships.

Shit will occasionally happen. It's important to look at outages, figure out the cause, and work to prevent it. Perhaps, though, this is a best practices issue, and not some fundamental flaw in BGP.

Android has people downloading "apps", true, but the apps Google pushes still have the "cloud" has their data backend.

It's not like Android's star applications are ones that get you to keep all your data local to your phone. In fact, Chrome OS being centered around the browser (I assume), note the push of the "Google Chrome Web Store" which has browser "apps" installable.

I don't think their strategy is divided.

With Xubuntu, you don't need gnome-do. Its appfinder is (almost) as good. Just hit Win+R to get to it.

Everyone has their own preferred setup, and that's great! It's part of what makes FOSS great: Your choice.

My choice is Xubuntu. I've been using Xubuntu on my laptop for the past 6 months, and the 12.10 beta for the past two.

The link below is my tasklist after install to really make Xubuntu shine. Oh! And now with updates to the Ubiquity installer, FDE can be done with the GUI instead of fiddling with the debian-installer text partitioner!

http://wiki.cyberfoxfire.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tech:xubuntu_t...

If you're experienced in Java, have you taken a look at the Play Framework?

http://playframework.org

Apples and cucumbers. GAE is a platform as a service; Flask is a framework that can be deployed anywhere.

Unless I'm wrong about GAE...

"cunning".... that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

This is DRM.

Flightfox just posted an article about how they more aggressively pursue potential customers with email, and it's doubled their conversion rate.

How is this isolated example of snail-mail marketing at all creepy? As long as it's Verizon and not a third party, it isn't strange at all.