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"We all agree on the need to better secure the border, and to punish employers who chose to hire illegal immigrants. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected."

Agree or disagree? Make up your mind and then click through to find the answer.

"We are a nation of immigrants.. but we are a nation of laws. Our nation is rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country...

"Illegal immigrants take jobs from citizens or legal immigrants, they impose burdens on our taxpayers...

"That is why we are doubling the number of border guards, deporting more illegal immigrants than ever before, cracking down on illegal hiring, barring benefits to illegal aliens, and we will do more to speed the deportation of illegal immigrants arrested for crimes...

"It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that has occurred in the last few years.. .and we must do more to stop it."

This got a standing ovation. Not because the facts he was stating were so obvious, but because of who was stating them.

"What the commission is concerned about are the unskilled workers in our society in an age in which unskilled workers have far too few opportunities open to them. When immigrants are less well-educated and less-skilled, they may pose economic hardships to the most vulnerable of Americans, particularly those who are unemployed or under-employed."

the first black woman elected to Congress from the South.

Now, be fair: those statistics are only for Americans. The parent said that he was talking about people he knew, in Finland presumably. Here, I found this. No doubt it completely validates NettiWelho's remarks. I assume.

You can't buy certain things anywhere.
Stop watching. Even the old stuff. Stop buying.

The BBC even produced (as a 13 part series) "The roads to freedom" by Jean-Paul Sartre, and apparently has all rights necessary. It's not available online, offline, or anything else (DVD? Hah, no). However, the BBC does have the master tapes for it, and showed it in a limited screening at BFI.

I made actually a post just some time ago about how to remove the luck factor from the Monopoly board game and make it into a better strategy game. The trick is that all players share the very same piece. For more information, take a look at my blog

I have played several times in this way, and it makes the game both more interesting and faster.

You are probably referring to the Pioneer anomaly, which was explained by thermal radiation. Alternative explanations exist, out of which MiHsC is my favorite as it gives also an explanation to the EM drive, galaxy rotation (no dark matter needed) and cosmic acceleration (no dark energy needed), and couple of other measurement anomalies out there ;)

I've actually got a Sony X9005A as a desktop display for my PC and no, the 29Hz refresh rate does not make it "unimpressive". If you're looking for getting impressed then the resolution will vastly overpower the refresh rate. When you have a window-like view to your games, photos etc. you just instinctively ignore the slow refresh.

The worst thing is probably the input lag introduced by the low refresh rate. The thing has one of the lowest input lag scores on the market, but the slow refresh still makes cursor input really laggy. It's not the kind of lag you see but the kind you feel. It's gone if you switch to 1080p, but you won't if you have a 4K panel, will you.

FWIW the Sony supports hdmi 2.0 and thus 4k@60fps, but good luck finding a GPU that outputs it. I'm stuck waiting for the eventual NV GTX 800 series which probably will. NVIDIA haven't even confirmed it.

On the topic of Youtube, I thought they'd supported 4K since 2010. In fact 4K vids on Youtube were one of the first materials I tested my panel on. They stream fine over 24mbps ADSL2 but the bitrate is not great (the vids are noisy).

Google play and services can be installed on Jolla (and other devices too?).

I'm one of the guys who got the phone two days ago. You can read my quick review here.

To summarize: the user interface based on swiping works quite nicely, even if a bit confusing at first, and the phone works OK as a minimalistic smartphone. On Day 1, there still are quite many bugs and usability issues that need to be worked out.

Compared to Android or iOS, the visual simplicity of the user interface views is extreme, no buttons or decorations almost anywhere. When you open the phone app, you just see a very plain call log. In the email app, you just get a list of emails, and when you open an email, there's just a title followed by text. On the downside, views are often rather over-simplified, so that things are hidden too well, and workflows to get to what you want are often a bit complex and unintuitive. There's no status row that is always visible, system settings aren't accessible immediately everywhere, but you need to go to the start screen, etc.

Some critical features such as WiFi access point missing (or I just haven't found it after poking around 2 days).

Around 30 native apps; some Android apps work just fine, but many do not, and the selection is in practice very limited.

Your analogy holds true only if both projects, being Wayland and Mir, are serving the same purpose - They aren't.

Yes, they are both a display server/protocol, and yes, they are designed to replace X, but the goals of each project couldn't be more dissimilar.

Wayland is a long needed update to X that will fix a number of issues and allows for secure buffers that only the application and server can access. Wayland is being designed for the existing Linux desktop market and is a much needed project.

Mir, while adopting some ideas from Wayland, is a completely different beast that will focus on achieving two primary objectives: A display server that runs natively on both desktop and mobile, and, being actively developed and supported by new commercial partner Valve. It makes little sense for Canonical to wait for Wayland and then extend it for these two purposes as doing so will leave Canonical years behind on a shift that is happening NOW.

Wayland is absolutely being developed with mobile and desktops in mind: From the official wayland site itself (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/): "Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases."

And that's just the reference compositor.

But there's more. Work to get Wayland running on android about a year before (april 2012) Canonical's Mir announcement : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-April/003149.html

In fact, while we're on the topic of Android, Canonical took someone else's code (libhybris) for running Wayland on Android drivers to achieve Mir support for android drivers. Here's an article about it from the author of libhybris: http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html
Quote from the article "Earlier this year however, I discovered that a well-known company had taken the code - disappeared underground with it for several months, improved upon it, utilized the capability in their advertisements and demos and in the end posted the code utilizing their own source control system, detached from any state of that of the upstream project's. Even to the extent some posters around the web thought libhybris was done by that company itself."

Oh yeah, Canonical's criticisms of Wayland (ie, their stated reasons for creating their own display server instead of going with Wayland) were so awful that they had to retract them: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxODY

Regarding Valve's support... Citation please. Last I heard Valve was sticking with X and hadn't made any further comments. Unfortunately I'm unable to find a link to back this up at the moment. I *suspect* Valve is taking a wait and see approach, and they're probably silently hoping Wayland wins as Canonical has stated that Mir has no stable API/ABI, which would make it a nightmare for application developers to support. It's unclear if they'll stabilize the ABI/API in the future, but it's sounding like they won't. This is one of the major reasons why the major desktops don't want to support Mir.

Everyone has been waiting for the Year of Linux on the Desktop; this will bring the goal one step closer. The same goes for an unadulterated Linux on the Mobile where graphical applications are more easily ported from their desktop counterparts.

There is nothing stopping Wayland importing code from Mir and vice versa.

Mir can use Wayland code as Wayland is under the extremely permissive MIT lice

He's talking BS.
Martin Graesslin, the KWin maintainer, began to prepare KWin for Wayland before Mir was even announced. So he designed the transition path to support two and only two back ends. See https://plus.google.com/115606635748721265446/posts/136nV4uojKH for details (public post, no need for a G+ account).

Graesslin also made it repeatedly clear that he won't support single-distro solutions. That means no support for MS Windows in KWin, OSX' Quartz, or Android's SurfaceFlinger. Somehow nobody ever had a problem with that decision. Only after Canonocal announced Mir Ubuntu fanboys began to whine.

There are no technological benefits for Mir over Wayland. Canonical made false claims as outlined on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxODA but they've since redacted the statements. Wayland even works with Android drivers: http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html

The reasons for Mir are not technological, they are purely economical. Canonical wants to establish asymmetric licensing to have an economic advantage over the competition: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
Wayland OTOH is under MIT/X11 license for everybody. This means that not only can any Linux vendor grab it and to anything with it, incl. to make an Android version that uses Wayland: http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2012/09/wayland-on-android-upgrade-to-404-and.html
Mir's licensing makes it forever impossible to become part of any major BSD variant. Wayland, however, is being ported to FreeBSD: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwMzE

Wayland is being pushed by industry giants such as Intel and Red Hat, as well as smaller companies like Collabora (creators of many technologies commonly used on GNU-based Linux such as Telepathy, WebKit-GTK, etc.: https://www.collabora.com/projects/ ).
Mir is just backed by Canonical who, while claiming to be the most popular Linux distributor, still makes no money: http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/canonical-ubuntu-linux-is-still-not-profitable.html

It can be a work of art: "Norwegian pilot flying a passenger plane NAX3194 from Copenhagen to Stockholm flew a penis figure to the sky while waiting landing permission to Arlanda". http://iwriteinmargins.blogspot.fi/2012/12/norwegian-airplane-pilot-drew-penis-to.html

Hi Timothy, have you checked: http://codespells.blogspot.fi/2013/04/beta-release.html?spref=fb Project called Code Spells, sadly only available for Mac at the moment but hopefully for other platforms later too :) -erno

From the authers blog

Earlier this year however, I discovered that a well-known company had taken the code - disappeared underground with it for several months, improved upon it, utilized the capability in their advertisements and demos and in the end posted the code utilizing their own source control system, detached from any state of that of the upstream project's. Even to the extent some posters around the web thought libhybris was done by that company itself.

That kind of behavior ruined the initial reason I open sourced libhybris in the first place and I was shocked to the point that I contemplated to by default not open source my hobby projects any more. It's not cool for companies to do things like this, no matter your commercial reasons. It ruins it for all of us who want to strengthen the open source ecosystem. We could have really used your improvements and patches earlier on instead of struggling with some of these issues.

http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html

Canonical being Canonical

At least Google doesn't demand you pay for the services they discontinue.

From TFAnnouncement:

Google Sync will continue to be fully supported for Google Apps for Business, Government and Education. Users of those products are unaffected by this announcement.

Sounds like paid-only availability to me.

A few comments from someone who lives in Finland.

First, Netflix reacted by posting a note saying it was sorry for the trouble (the exact wording changed a time or two). It has also removed those programs where the DivX Finland subtitles were used. Or said that they will do so, I am not a subscriber, so I am not able to check.

The representative of DivX Finland is just feeling amused, although he did say "well they could've asked for permission..." (this from TFA) - there is no outrage there.

Apparently Netflix buys their subtitles from Broadcast Text International, who in turn buys them from a multitude of sources, including a number of freelancers. Probably one of those sub-contractors just got them from the easiest location.

According to a blog post (in Finnish) from the website av-kaantajat.fi (video subtitler's site), Netflix is getting their subtitles with super-tight schedules and expecting to get 1,5h worth of subtitled programs per day, whereas to do this properly it would usually take a week.
From the same blog post, in an interview with the Netflix subtitling chief Neil Hunt, he said outright that he's not interested in quality. So apparently the subtitling for them is just a feature checkbox that needs to be ticked off, with minimum cost and without other considerations.

Now for some background. At the same time as this has happend, the major Finnish TV media house MTV3 has recently in September outsourced all of it subtitling and translations to the same Broadcast Text International. MTV3 used to employ more than a hundred translators in-house. The difference is that BTI is offering to pay freelance translators to what amounts to less than a third of the income from a monthly salary.

The translators have been taking quality seriously, and now with these changes the quality is expected to go down a lot. While this saves money for the media companies, there is an argument that there are subtle effects on the population. For example, many Finnish children and youths start to learn to read from subtitles, and some also start to learn the English language from English programs with Finnish subtitles. Another point was that poor subtitling may make the whole movie worse, without the viewer realising that the source of poor dialogue is not in the movie itself, but just in the translations for the subtitles.

Netflix's approach to "quantity over quality" is just another move in the same direction, and as such, worrisome. It's also not a surprise that when paid very little and expected to deliver a lot, someone would resort to the easiest approach. Also, given Netflix's attitude, I'm not surprised if they don't have any quality control of their own for the subtitles which is why something like this would pass through.

That's a pretty bad metric. Defects found is most certainly not the same as defects existing, or we wouldn't have the security situation we have today.

To make matters worse the more code there is, more defects there is going to be, so it again boils down to design. http://amartester.blogspot.fi/2007/04/bugs-per-lines-of-code.html

To make matters even worse, many vendors refuse to admit any issues, i know several such vendors, and more important it is, the worse they are admitting and fixing those issues. The worst crap i've seen is eCommerce applications, and the worst pieces of code i've seen is in the payment gateways and handling of money/transactions.

It's funny how it's inverse relationship with required quality to defects, more serious it is, more defects there is going to be.

For example, WHMCS considers 1EUR = 1GBP = 1USD = 1AUD for the most part! They fixed some of the issues after i reported WITH solutions (tho they did not give credit for it), but those i reported without solutions they simply swept under the rug.
I even found a severe exploit which could gain free services for the attacker on very specific circumstances. I also did find a DOS exploit in the system, requiring 0 resources from the attacker to make it happen.