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I know, this should be a pull request...
Edit: BTW, I just saw '(-1 unread)' which I'm guessing has something to do with showdead being on.
[1] http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...
It shows global PC sales flat since the start of 2010. The iPad debuted in April 2010.
Did you really? I guess that means you don't have kids.
> Has anyone stopped to consider that maybe we should stop wasting so much money during the holiday season?
Actually lots of people, since before Dickens, and often with ironic reference to the basic moral tenets of Christianity. And yet here we are. Like the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, it is what it is.
> more money to Chinese factories ... killing more Arabs or corporate welfare
You seem to be saying that on the one hand, workers don't know how to spend their pay while on the other hand, neither does the government. So perhaps 'ideally' it's not such a bad thing to have the money end up in a part of the world where millions of people a year are actively raising themselves out of poverty on the back of export demand.
On (a), how or why can one be indemnified for lawful activity?
The bill to which Greenwald refers does in fact grant retroactive immunity from lawsuits seeking to show that the telco's participation was unlawful.[1] Such lawsuits would occur because other parties to the activity are protected by other mechanisms.
On (b), not sure what you mean by 'under the color of'. Hopefully not a reference to retroactive legalisation.
(c) doesn't seem at all relevant to the specific point here.
You said they're growing. They're shrinking.
I'm out.
See my posts re declining PC sales for why this would matter (hint: people are getting work done on devices).
Then we can fall back to the argument that consumer PCs aren't really important anyway.
(I love that after telling one person they don't know what they're talking about, while making obviously false claims yourself, you continue to lecture about 'reality'.)
BTW, I'm not posting in support of Lewisham's thesis, so I have no need for straws.
[0] TFA
[1] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/12/03/Why-Window...
[2] http://news.investors.com/technology/101612-629557-intel-bea...
Gartner and IDC: PC shipments tumbled over 8 percent in Q3[1]
That's the second consecutive quarter of negative global growth.[2]
>> The consumer PC market has cratered since the iPad
> There are a lot more PCs sold per quarter than iPads
I don't think 'since the iPad' meant losing out solely to iPad sales.
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/10/gartner-and-idc-pc-shipme...
[2] http://www.consumerit.eu/index.php?option=com_content&vi...
Windows once held an overwhelming lead in 2008 with about 70 percent of the OS market, Forrester found in estimating overall personal computing device sales by OS. By 2012, that market share had shrunk to about 30 percent.
-- http://rcpmag.com/articles/2012/10/22/microsoft-os-market-sl...
According to a Goldman Sachs report acquired by The Seattle Times, Windows lost massive share in the global compute market-- from being the OS of choice in 97% of all computing devices in 2000 to just 20% in 2012.
-- http://www.consumerit.eu/index.php?option=com_content&vi...
This approach was also applied to non-industrial alcohol products, leading to another round of mass poisoning:
Exec's current design makes the whole proposition feel more normal and the way they've put the personal elements up-front helps allay any latent worries about somebody being exploited. I don't think this is accidental.
Web designers sometimes forget that visual communication is about so much more than layout, colours and fonts. The visual content is extremely important. And I suspect that with reference to their marketing goals, Exec have done well here. (Of course there's room for improvement.)
FWIW, I think this is the weakest of the designs the OP has presented, and that because of a difference in message. Not at all saying you're bad at what you do, Kyro. Speaking of exploitation, I've downloaded the pack and will no doubt learn something from it. Thanks!
I hope I'm not being a dick by commenting on this but the subthread is getting fairly long with 'me too's. Can you give any kind of explanation as to what's been going wrong?
Also, this is the first I've heard about Game On 2010 so I went to find out more[1] and it looks like all of the links (winners list, game gallery) have been stomped by this year's site. I can still see Google's cached screenshots but no info.
And ninethly: loved Browserquest. Competitors, get your MMO on!
It's not necessary to refer specifically to the means of manufacture. Homemade weapons are already regulated. The legal risk you run by illegal possession is separate from how you obtained it.
> Is it desirable to require that 3D printers can recognize infringing mechanisms?
Again, a simpler question would be: "Is it necessary?" And the answer, of course, is no.
Seriously, this article is talking about completely hypothetical problems. There is plenty of time to legislate on 3d printing if and when it becomes a serious problem in and of itself.
Excellent writeup. It really helps when the conversation is steered away from terms like 'amendment', 'advertisers', 'enforcement', 'criminality' and steered back to the central idea of recovering and safeguarding an intuitive and traditional idea of privacy in personal communication (postcard analogy). Lots of people, many with vested interests, insist that this isn't possible, that the genie is out of the bottle. But let's at least try, right?
In fact, PGP was a neat solution for the internet of the '90s with its quaint directory services (Bigfoot, anyone?) and dialup links. I think it had Pretty Good uptake too. So I'm very interested to see what can be done in today's environment.
(Your exchange with jmillikin looked promising too. Did it continue?)
FWIW, the Hushmail ex-CEO seems to strongly agree with you on both the ethics point and the need for users to take blind trust out of the security equation.
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So I've just gone to the Lavabit site and it looks like that they store your private key on the server.[1] That doesn't strike me as being more secure than Malone's idea of externally-audited client-side crypto. But then, as you say, you've arrived at PGPGPG.
The fact, then, that Zimmerman was involved with the company so early on and they still fucked it up just goes to show that faith in the efforts of 'a few dedicated folks' doesn't get you very far.
Which, in case it's not clear, is exactly what Hushmail did/does.
http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/pgp-creator...
I'm not the target audience for this article either so it really is hard to judge, but I got something out of it and I can see that a number of people found it helpful and timely.
Don't change!
(Please don't kill me.)
Sure, but the query was about "pay most attention to".
I wonder if hacking the YC app process via PR stunt became too obvious an answer to the question over time.
1. I don't see how continued discrimination against gay people into recent decades (and, indeed, the present) supports your claim about public attitudes towards 'age gap'. Unless you're suggesting that there's some kind of morally significant link between the two. In that case, maybe you can explain why the age of consent for girls (16 between 1885 and 1994) needed to be raised from 13 in the first place.
2. In a debate over equal rights, assertions about the moral sentiment of some presumed majority are completely irrelevant. Appealing to legality and the democratic process and in the same breath to some vague idea of mob 'acceptance' is hypocritical. You can't have it both ways.
3. Even if discriminatory age-of-consent statutes were relevant, it's not 1994. The age of consent in the UK has been 16 since 2001 -- that's one third longer than the preceding period that you suggest reflects current public sentiment.
> lifestyle choice
Oh.
Non-sequitur (really a classic syllogistic fallacy if you consider who does the scorning). Peer pressure exists ('meekly admit'). One could even imagine that the kind of 4chan user who might prefer to sometimes express themselves in a more 'moderate' environment such as on Reddit would be the kind least likely to provoke a visceral response by outing themselves as a user of r/4chan.
It's very difficult to know anything about the 'average' member of an online community, especially without surveys.
The foundational principles of traditional medicine (Chinese, Ayurvedic, whatever) are generally bullshit. But that doesn't mean that everything that emerges from them should be ignored. If researchers have the resources and inclination to engage with specific claims and put them to the test, surprising discoveries can still result in this day and age.[1] Of course, that doesn't mean that discussion of any one patient's treatment should always be surrounded by a haze of quackery. But we shouldn't close the door completely. We should be careful to distinguish the fanciful principles of traditional therapies from their observed benefits over centuries and from the actually fraudulent nature of later pseudomedicine such as homeopathy.
[1] http://www.washington.edu/news/2011/04/04/high-dose-of-oxyge...
In Firefox if I click the dropdown on the search field, then click 'Manage Search Engines' I get a dialog in which can be found a link to 'Get more search engines...'.
Clicking that opens an add-ons store tab with the 'Search Tools' filter applied, none of whose above-the-fold suggestions has anything to do with DDG. That's not one-click, it's a runaround.
In contrast, Chrome automatically adds search engines as you browse the web and lets you set any one of them as the default. It also has clearly labelled fields to let you create your own by copying the format of the ones listed. Getting to there takes 3 clicks and a scroll.
Two reasonable gripes: the existence of the free-edit fields is not immediately obvious upon clicking 'Manage search engines...' and neither is the fact that the domain name in the second column is an editable keyword.
Pron explained why the association with your comment was unfair and I admitted that it was. Your comment, however, remains.