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Now the next question is what about something for which there isn't a system support. Like a new compression algorithm. In the case the whole thing works the other way around. The new compression algorithm dynamic code installs as an extension to Finder, that is it grants Finder permission to use it as a way to compress. Then the application makes a request to Finder to use that compression algorithm.

So what about things other than compression? Does Spotlight's API allow a search program to add specific ways to specify what sort of "needle" to search for, such as regular expressions or language-specific stemming or synonym resolution mechanisms? Does Spotlight's API allow a search program to add support for searching text in specific file formats? Windows, in fact, is going the other way: Windows 8 flat out removed the concept of an "indexing service" from the operating system.

You mentioned trusted wrapper programs for archiving and search. How would an application add more categories of service that the operating system's publisher hadn't thought of, such as file comparison, the sort of continuous background file synchronization that happens using something like Dropbox, and the sort of file synchronization that happens using version control software?

Ben Goldacre of Bad Science fame uses Posterous. In his words it's for "things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on his main blog".

So Twitter aquiring and then closing it (presumable with the thought that "Oh, you don't need Posterous any more -- just use Twitter!") becomes a little bit ironic to me, as the person I know who uses Posterous uses it explicitly because Twitter doesn't work for his purposes.

the summary is being a bit overdramatic. you can download all of your posts into a zip: http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-spaces-backup-tool-available-now.

This makes for good reading http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/nzs-copyright-proposal-guilty-until-you-prove

The form of an infringement notice is to be prescribed by regulation. However, the fact that the form is correctly completed is not relevant to the issue of whether or not there has been copyright infringement. So that does not explain why the mere filing of a notice should be conclusive evidence.

Merely CORRECTLY filling out a complaint notice, is deemed sufficient evidence that an offense occurred if it goes to a tribunal

To put it another way, if someone accused me of downloading X song on Y day, and i didn't, i still have yet to find anyone who can show me a way to prove i didn't

Example:"Sir, you are accused of downloading one mp3 titled 'Justin Bieber - Baby', please prove you didn't if you wish to defend yourself"

Um.... /pass??

Not to mention the RF emissions would likely be able to used as a side channel to break crypto, which is much more common today than in the late 1970s.
http://syhw.posterous.com/two-amusing-side-channel-attacks

This is a well written and funny letter: http://hardass-6owwz.posterous.com/listen-up-you-whiny-bitches

People still use the manufacturer's version of Android ? (Any manufacturer, not only Samsung)

The exploit has been tested and shown to wipe a phone running Cyanogen Mod.

https://dylanreeve.posterous.com/remote-ussd-attack-its-not-just-samsung

Exploit works on non-Samsung phones too.

https://dylanreeve.posterous.com/remote-ussd-attack-its-not-just-samsung

http://michaelgrayer.posterous.com/in-which-i-blow-a-gasket-and-get-very-uppity

Sample size of TEN. The article goes more in depth, but for fuck's sake...

Yeastie Boys have now added a license note to their recipe page - you can brew and sell Digital IPA as Digital IPA under the CC- Attribution-Sharealike license: http://yeastieboys.posterous.com/private/yCmgJxeHrs Cheers!

Earthquakes happen in Virginia, too

Second, there's already a ready group to cover student loan rates, former students with debt. No need to fund student loans when that's already covered.

Sure, that might work if tuition costs were not increasing so quickly. Tuition fees have gone up by a factor of 10 over the past 30 years! Your government needs to step in and put legal caps on tuition fees as they have in the UK; only then can you hope to make it self-sustaining.

What laptop running Windows is competitive in speed, weight, and battery life with a MacBook Air and substantially cheaper?
--
...which synonym for the subject?

If you followed the advice of your sig you'd have your answer.

The point of my sig is that not all web pages use the same term to refer to a given concept, which makes it more difficult to search for web pages that mention the concept. For example, "less expensive" won't match "lower price" or "cheaper". Which Google query would turn up relevant results?

From OKC, Why you should never pay for online dating. Of course "mysteriously" deleted from cupid's site by the CEO shortly after match.com bought them out.

An interesting article originally posted by OKCupid (until they were bought and it was pulled down) explaining why you should never pay for online dating:

http://interestingreads.posterous.com/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating-ok

Worth a read.

Yes, Google needs competition but Bing isn't it. Sad for MS but true.

At this point there won't be anyone else than can compete with Google either. Now a days search engines rely heavily on datamining and especially keyword data supplied by users when searching. It's also the reason why Google datamines so much. With their market share they get significantly more data than Bing, especially long tail keywords and keywords people search less often.

Google also relies on looking which result users choose and if they return back from that site. If user chooses a particular search, it means the user thinks it's relevant and could be good. But if he quickly returns back from the site, it means he didn't find the information he was looking for from that results. That is also data that Google gets much more just because they have so much more users.

So all in all, if it wasn't for Microsoft, we would only have Google. No one else can compete with them at this point. Interestingly, Google is failing in Russia, China and South Korea where local companies got the market share before Google, and they can't really do much about it. Google tried to play dirty tricks in Russia by disabling the initial search engine choice dialog and defaulting to Google instead of Yandex, but they were quickly called of it and had to stop that practice.

A lot of people appear to have replaced Expert S-ex Change with Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites. So when "lrn2google" fails me due to the synonym problem, and I have a question about a topic not covered by one of the Stack Exchange sites, which general question-and-answer forum do you recommend?

Posted my experience here:
http://longpants2.posterous.com/first-experience-with-eclipses-java-killer-xt

I want to use it, but I can't understand why it's missing this *one* important feature???

There's no reason why a programmer can't learn to do his own marketing. It's not hard it just requires some work.

I'm willing to do work to learn marketing, graphics, or UI design. Where should I start? Does it require going back to college?

Google is your friend

Not always. Some concepts can be expressed using numerous distinct words. If I type a word into a search engine, the results will have those documents that contain the word, not documents that contain synonyms for that word. This phenomenon goes by "synonym problem" and numerous other names.

But you've established in previous posts that you can't afford a Mac

I can afford a Mac, but not everybody else can out of disposable income. Is it considered fallacious to argue a position that affects people other than myself?

I'm guessing he has recovered from this: http://applenewsdaily.posterous.com/apple-cofounder-steve-wozniak-cried-at-mike-d

"Registration: You can contact me directly by email (fadebox AT gmail ) for payment or any other details, or just go to this online ticketing facility I'm using called DoAttend if you have decided to join. You don't have to register at DoAttend as a user, the site will take you to the payment gateway directly. I am also accepting sponsors and private donors if you wish to contribute more than the workshop fee. Once you register, you'll be added to the mailing list in a couple of days. "

http://fadereu.posterous.com/knk103-the-crystals-of-mt-zeta

http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/copyright-cheapskates

...for this specific law, he should have used a link with "preposterous" in it...

here is some good reading by a leading NZ IP lawyer, on the new law...

http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/copyright-cheapskates
 
  and http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/nzs-copyright-proposal-guilty-until-you-prove

here is some good reading by a leading NZ IP lawyer, on the new law...

http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/copyright-cheapskates
 
  and http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/nzs-copyright-proposal-guilty-until-you-prove

Oh, that was a serious link. I was sort of expecting it was going to be this photo recycled: http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation

The devastation in washington DC.

Pretty serious: http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation

Not a Dane either, but according to this it is a real one-time pad with 148 codes. When they are used up a new card is snail-mailed. Apparently the card will be replaced by a hardware authenticator eventually.

> C++ is a powerful and pragmatic, but ugly and dangerous language.

Agreed. I love C++ (worked on a professional C++ compiler for a brief stretch), but C++ also sucks.

Mike Acton has documented why C++ continues to sucks.

- Typical C++ Bullshit
http://macton.smugmug.com/gallery/8936708_T6zQX#593426709_ZX4pZ

- Do not force shared data formats for exclusive purposes
http://macton.posterous.com/do-not-force-shared-data-formats-for-exclusiv
"However, Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) have perpetuated this misguided belief that there is an ideal abstract data form where all transformations are given equal weight*. "

The largest problem is that C++ is over-engineered (designed by committee.) Its like people don't know how to say no. I figure it will be 2040 before C++ removes the ass-backwards compatibility of 'long long', 'short', 'long double', etc. nonsense. How many more years do we have to wait before we get _one_ standard on name mangling??

Cheers

It isn't quite as simple as you put it for Powerball expected values. See: http://glodime.posterous.com/48001751

FYI: It all about the variance and propensity of higher ticket sales when jackpots rise that makes the positive EV Powerball strategy a relatively poor one.
See: http://glodime.posterous.com/48001751

Also really cool: The RBox
http://rossum.posterous.com/20131601

It uses an ARM CPU to generate a TV picture on the fly. The display needs to be generated scanline by scanline, sort of like an Atari 2600.

crooked and stupid: http://mmzeller.posterous.com/steve-ballmer-image-picture
honest and clever: http://fredrik.hagenius.se/wp-content/uploads/larry-page-sergey-brin.jpg

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Some interesting suggestions for new US banknotes: Dollar ReDe$ign Project

Considering this same group harassed members of a pro-porn Facebook group, and then got their group deleted (despite it not violating the ToS) and then gloated about it, my only problem with this story is that the group got restored, honestly. http://violetblue.posterous.com/my-letter-to-facebook-about-removing-the-our

http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/nerd-saves-entire-bbc-archive-for-399-you-can

Ironically it's the same app's OSS code that Apple used to implement the Readability function in Safari... http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-reader-looks-familiar-thats-because-apple-used-op/

I guess no company is exempt from extreme corporate greed... sad to see other companies(especially little startups like Readability) get trampled on the way.

Ironically, readability can easily be had for free on the iPhone: http://hermgreider.posterous.com/use-readability-on-iphone-to-convert-web-page-0 - I guess you prefer readability.com's greed over Apple's greed that ultimately protects Apple's customers from rip-offs..

It's not just spammers and scammers that are cashing in. Would-be serious British newspaper, The Daily Mail has given voice to a quick-off-the-mark astrologer who balmes the whole thing on a "supermoon" (via Ben Goldacre)

Anyone who persists in defending that dismal rag as a legitimate journal after this heartless lump of exploitation needs to seriously re-think their world view.

>No, but they collect membership fees and revert 70% of these to the writers. 30% agency fees, for doing exactly squat besides rebranding and reformatting the content, would be considered exorbitant and unconscionable in just about any other business.

Really? Then why don't you make a free clone and just give it away? Huh? Why not?

http://hermgreider.posterous.com/use-readability-on-iphone-to-convert-web-page-0

"Using Instapaper's method of creating a Javascript bookmarklet, you can use Readability in Safari on the iPhone. There are two choices. You can use iTunes bookmark sync or create a bookmarklet on the iPhone directly. "

the latest batmobile

> Children under about 10-12 shouldn't be exposed to any artificial stereoscopy

Citation needed. But I'll do a bit more than just complain about your blind assertion... folks should check out web stories about Sega's experiences in the 1990s:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/26/2059205/3D-Displays-May-Be-Hazardous-To-Young-Children
http://markpesce.posterous.com/split-screen-how-safe-is-3d-tv-screen-play-di

Sega pulled an earlier 3D product in the mid 90s because problems were observed in kids who used the device frequently. Took me forever to find links right now -- it used to be easy to pull up the documents about this on Google, but as of today, all the keywords point at today's announcement. This is the problem with relying upon Google to remember things for me. :-)

But I did find one article about it finally:
Search within this article for "Sega"
http://markpesce.posterous.com/split-screen-how-safe-is-3d-tv-screen-play-di

There are a number of write ups about Sega's experience, and that experience is what is spawning a lot of the concern from Sony and Nintendo.

http://dep.posterous.com/not-using-scrollwheel

Typing speed matters especially when you are pairing with someone on some problem.

Thank you. I have been looking for something like that for ages! I hope it turns out to be what it claims to be. (invite only at the moment so can't try it)
For people who can't be bothered to google it, their site is here and their blog explains it pretty well: it is a p2p (although they offer cloud services as well. No pricing details for that though) file syncing tool with full 1024bit RSA encryption.