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It's spelled internationaliSation (joke!)

The title of the article (as fascinating as it was) seems rhetorical. Can't easydns just point the PIPCU to their own Domain Takedown Policy and instruct them to take it further with ICANN and the courts of the Province of Ontario?

I hoped that with products like the iPad and Chromebook Pixel we'd get back to taller screens again, at least 16:10. 1366 x 768 is not something I want to go back to.

In case anyone is not aware of it, Jeff Miller has created twitter and RSS feeds which also provide the same info (albeit without push): http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

> Americans drive an aggregate of 3 trillion miles, while Tesla drivers have done 100 million. That's well over an order of magnitude difference.

The data on 100 million is probably enough to compare with the 3 trillion miles. The populations don't need to be equal to compare them, just big enough that they are random and distributed enough.

Civil disobedience can be a wonderful thing. If the Civil Rights movement followed every judge's instruction they would not have achieved what they did.

It's impossible to have only "essential" staff as you will always need "non-essential" staff to support their work. For example, NASA TV employees are "non-essential" [1] but without the TV station it may mean lots of kids are not inspired by NASA any more. Also, Labor statisticians are "non-essential" but would you rather the Department of Labor make decision on gut feelings instead?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/27/us/who-goes-to...

You seem to think that keeping the pilot awake is the only option (based on your car example and rhetorical question) but actually there are several options but it's important to be tracking pilot drowsiness as a datapoint first.

Does anyone know if the latest airplanes detect pilot drowsiness, as various cars have been implementing that for a while (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_drowsiness_detection)

I think it's hard for airlines to innovate much as many factors that determine the quality of service are outside their control. For example they don't own the airports (like Apple owns their own stores) and that affects a lot of the overall experience.

Further to that, their profits are always being affected by fuel prices. If you read an airline's annual financial report it will talk about buying fuel futures to minimise the risk but they are still vulerable: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp?pn=0&display=chart1

The airline industry has the lowest return on invested capital of any industry: http://centreforaviation.com/images/stories/2013/jul/05/ROIC...

This analysis from McKinsey is worth a read: http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/Documents/economics/Profitabili...

To corroborate your point, here is the transcript from the 5S launch:

"The third feature is all about security. Now we have so much personal information on our devices that we want to protect. <snipped> So we have to protect them. The most common wave of course is to set up a passcode. Simple four digit passcode or more complex one if you want. This is something you do, dozens of times a day to unlock and get access to your phone. Unfortunately, some people find that's too cumbersome and they don't set it up. In fact in our research about half of smartphone customers do not set up a passcode on the device and they really, really should. That's the team has worked so hard in the brand new technology to make this easy and fun to do."

http://www.earningsimpact.com/Transcript/83555/AAPL/Launch-o...

Yes, you're correct:

"Apple purchased fingerprint-reader specialist AuthenTec in 2012, and the U.S. government recently approved Apple's patent for its own fingerprint reader technology. The company, like other makers of fingerprint scanners, uses radio frequencies to map a finger's surface." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732386460457906...

Yes, I think they failed to make a strong point in their blog post.

I will be glad if Apple makes fingerprint scanning mandatory, as it will at least introduce the concept of securing your device to the 50% of iPhone users that currently do not use a passcode. I'm really surprised Apple have implemented this before Google.

All been done before. iPod Shuffle: http://images.apple.com/euro/ipod-shuffle/images/hero2.jpg iPod Classic 2009: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18mm44f9lif04jpg/ku-medium.j...

Surely this form of personalization must go back to the 1950s

Two wrongs don't make a right

HTTPS URL is https://go-read.appspot.com/

I hate having to enter my details (name, email and address) over HTTP. I hope they can update that to HTTPS soon.

Whilst it might not suit the needs of "serious cyclists" it could do well being sold on Amazon or on high street bike shops.

I'm a non-serious cyclist and happily suffer using my Nexus 4 as a GPS. The biggest downside I experience is the battery going flat by the time I reach the pub at the end of the route :)

It's good that legal teams never do anything that looks insane then ;-)

Or some bizarre way to strengthen trading links with China perhaps. Cameron is not popular is Beijing since he met the Dalai Lama

He cannot return the data per se, so there is a difference. Once it leaves Apple's servers it could be less secure and he's not registered as a data controller I'm sure.

In your example above, why could the person not just point out that the money was not safe? It's no loss to them if the person does not act on the information.

Yes, extra points of failure may include:

- Having webmail which is not protected with two factor authentication

- Enabling POP/IMAP which also does not have two factor authentication

One minor annoyance with that is that it breaks Gmail's SPF lookups as Rackspace does not do SRS [1] (last time I checked).

[1] http://www.openspf.org/SRS

You can learn from failures and successes. Why does every headline need to be so self-assured and bombastic these days?

"Although most users don't use bookmarks"

Wow. I'm sure they have the data to back that up. I guess most people now get the news from their Facebook stream perhaps.

Seeing the outpourings of tributes for Google Reader reminds me of Elon Musk's comments about GM recalling the EV1. There are not many products which are missed so dearly and it doesn't seem like progress to me.

RSS is dead but I cannot uninstall Google Currents from my Nexus 4...

I've not enjoyed using any of the new readers so far, so will be spending my "free" time going though my Pocket and Kindle backlogs (The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches is insiprational).

I will also miss https://www.google.com/reader/i/#sub-tree/0

That iPhone-focused mobile view served me well for many years. I vastly preferred it to all iterations of the Android app and often use it on my desktop too. Showing only 15 items and being able to mark just them as read was a great workflow for me.

Great post, thank you.