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Its possible that competitors will create tens of thousands of queries just to ensure that Google cannot meat the deadlines. A bit like when Microsoft was the top submitter of takedown notices to google but didn't remove the same content from bing.

. . . my most recent employer requires me to have a LinkedIn profile. Moreover, a lot of tech firms won't even consider you if they can't find you on LinkedIn. It's a horrible site, but unfortunately everybody expects you to play the game.

I saw a story in Wired this week about that. I just can't do it, though. I was on LinkedIn for a while, saw no value to it. I really didn't want to know about people that I didn't like in the first place getting promoted. I killed my account a while back. If it hurts my prospects, so be it.

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Lots of Windows developers warned you Windows 8 was going to be a big mistake. You ignored us and stumbled on like an angry dunk. I used Windows 8 in the shops. It sucked and was clear customers wouldn't warm to it. With the writing on the wall developers took the plunge to Tablet development. People still wanted their PCs, but instead of re-inventing the desktop and instead you laid another Zune and forgot to flush. You have squandered the biggest computing monopoly ever, but this time people are leaving so I don't think there is a come back. Bye Bye Balmer.

Windows 8 App Developer Says Process Stinks
http://www.informationweek.com/security/application-security/windows-8-app-developer-says-process-sti/240010598
More Game Developers Unhappy With Windows 8
http://linuxgamenews.com/post/29001456897/more-game-developers-unhappy-with-windows-8
Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 # warning signs as far back as 2011!
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/html5-centric-windows-8-leaves-microsoft-developers-horrified/
Don’t Blame Us for Windows 8s Slow Sales, PC Makers Say
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/oem-windows-8/

There was an interesting article in Wired magazine on the topic: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/ [wired.com] It provides insights about how we, as users, choose the closed platforms (e.g. google, facebook). And the more we turn away from the true open and anonymous internet, the more irrelevant the internet becomes.

This doesn't make any sense at all. This is like saying that cars are becoming irrelevant because people frequently use toll roads, or that roads are becoming irrelevant because people choose to buy cars which they (supposedly) can't work on themselves, or because they choose to rent or lease cars.

Google and Facebook don't work without the internet. It may not be the open and anonymous internet you and I like, but it is still the internet: a global data communications network. Google and Facebook don't even require any special software to work: they work on many different browsers, most of which are open-source and Free/free. Yes, they have problems (and yes, Facebook is a completely worthless waste of time, which is why I don't use it), but they aren't making the internet "irrelevant". You don't need Google to go to other sites; you can just type in their URL manually, or use a competing search engine like Bing or DuckDuckGo. You don't need Facebook to talk to your friends, in fact you don't need Facebook for squat. Email is still the preferred method of communications for business, as much as stupid teenagers and 20-somethings might refuse to admit it.

Yes, getting iSP service in the US isn't anonymous; I'm not sure it ever was to be honest. I've had ISP service or other internet access since 1991, and it was either tied to my college admission, or I had to sign up for it with an ISP company, which was impossible without giving them some details about myself so they knew how to bill me for it. Regardless, there's still options for anonymity, namely with VPNs. Your ISP can do all the deep-packet inspection it likes, it can't crack a VPN session, and they can't forbid VPN use since so many people rely on VPNs to access their work systems from home. Lots of people now ever use VPNs for ALL their internet use; many VPN services even provide optional software which disables your internet connection unless the VPN is running, so you can be sure nothing you do is trackable by your ISP or anyone in the US (as the VPN's exit node is in another country like Sweden or Romania).

The summary of the book seems to focus too much on the “criminals” and claims that the end of the internet is in the “unregulation” of the internet. While it is a factor, let’s not forget that the growth of the internet was also attributed mainly to the same factors. Internet gave power to ordinary citizens and it’s not possible to have that power and not to have anonymity. But with anonymity comes the criminal side as well.

The web is changing now. With every day we have less and less privacy. Large companies got to be very good at tracking everyone’s move on the web. Practically nothing remains anonymous on the web any longer. Getting an internet service in the US requires presenting a government-issued ID and SSN (wasn’t the case a few years ago). The ISP now start the deep packet inspection where everything becomes monitored and certain undesired connections are dropped. Welcome to the world of censorship where no lists will be provided of what exactly is censored. And that, not the “wild west,” will be one of the causes for the death of the internet.

There was an interesting article in Wired magazine on the topic: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/ It provides insights about how we, as users, choose the closed platforms (e.g. google, facebook). And the more we turn away from the true open and anonymous internet, the more irrelevant the internet becomes.

Innovative? It's a tiny hud screen on a pair of glasses. Been there, done that.

"They have to be coaxed, not ordered to move. Show them the mountaintop"
So true.
The Windows "8" team needs to set aside their inner city, dorm room 620p -1080p console for 5 to 10 year loving colleagues and sell "this" years and "next" years improvements - every year.
Intel has amazing CPU power on offer.
Nvidia and AMD have generations of medium and top end GPU ability to sell.
Solid-state drive (SSD) are reqady, RAM is cheap.
Show the world what Windows 8 with DX 11.1 can do. Get fans, developers and consumers dreaming of games beyond 1080p junk.
MS was always good at this, pushing colourful images/vids onto friendly fan and review sites, getting game dev code/help out to developers, making the PC an easy place to dev for vs Apple or Linux or Sony or ....
Amazing 2k quality at a reasonable price should be so easy to sell vs what? ios? PS3? a Mac Pro? Porting a game studio to opengl on Linux ...
Clean up the code base, forget making life so easy for PC and console developers. Run with quality over 5-10 years of code and art stagnation.
Make sure this never happens with the Win 8 team:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/sony-indies/
Note how Sony tries to be helpful, reach out to the next gen, guide them with the best free win 8 code tools, massive amounts of free online code help.
Make writing games, artwork, sound and releasing on Windows 8 easy, profitable and fun.
If a developer does not have to worry about the drama of the OS they are selling on they will put that effort into making a great game.

Yeah they probably mean this paper, lol:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads//2012/06/Dyckovsky-Publication.pdf

Also "Spooky action at a distance" == Einstein fail...

But nothing can go faster than light, because time is a measurement of change. Something can't possibly go faster, unless it doesn't change but folds dimensionaly. (E8, Lisi, standard model and information theory).

Intel is rumored to have a STB that will be subscription driven out later this year.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/intel-teases-set-top-box/

Protip: They were.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/04/35479

On the other hand, I have in mind a number of pursuits that I personally expect will "return many times over what was spent on it", that is, return to someone, perhaps even coincidentally you.

Ready to invest? Wait, not "invest" per se, as my actual investors/political-friends will get any payback. Let's call your contribution an "enforced donation". I await your check.

It is sickening in the extreme to think that it's possible to deny other people access to information, simply because you thought of it first.

It's worse than that. Patents don't deny access to information, but they curtail our freedom to help each other. And those who register patents almost never think of it first. Did Apple think first of a rectangular device with rounded corners?

As usual, Richard Stallman has a great solution:

We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.

This will work because a very similar law already works in the medical field. Just like surgeons, who can safely ignore procedural patents to save lives, programmers and distributors of free software deserve complete patent immunity because their work is entirely gratis, and benefits the whole world.

Wired article (gods help you if you don't use adblock and noscript).

The Wired Article : Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy? makes me wonder if the anthrax mailer got away with it. Also the Wiki article says one of the 19 involved in 9/11 may have had anthrax based on a doctor which I had never heard before.

Or by pouring vodka in it. Remember that? Booze-Fueled Gadgets

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/nobody-cares-what-you-think-about-their-phone/

No, you just don't understand basic science!

An hypothesis doesn't come from nowhere. It's a testable prediction. A prediction is made on some basis. For example, theories make predictions which can then be tested.

Here's a rather famous example, which you are now capable of understanding: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/05/dayintech_0529/

In your bizarre world, where an hypothesis was just a guess, you'd go around saying things like "when a ball of twine reaches terminal velocity, it'll turn in to a unicorn". No one need ask why you would expect such an outcome -- it's just a guess, after all.

Do you see the difference?

Good. Now, stop spreading nonsense.

If you believe, even for a second, that the feds can't read iMessages, you are just the deathstick dealer they are looking for.

Y'all know about this, right?

Here a money quote from an article in Wired:

the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US

Yeah... that really fits in perfectly with "can't read iMessages", lol.

Google in production using something else I'm sure.

I'm pretty sure Google is using containers (or at least something like cgroups) for most of their workloads to do what they do:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/

http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/

Yes it will, because not everyone's past is equally embarrassing, and there's always a reason why yours is worse. The "transparent society" idea is wishful thinking at best.

Please. This is not a partisan story:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gadget-border-searches/
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Court-limits-border-searches-of-laptops-4340897.php
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/10/tp-court-limits-border-searches-of-electronic/
http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/03/08/life/announcements/doc513ac37fad245865930407.txt
http://www.wntp.com/article.aspx?id=b38e3b70-1d3d-43ff-aee0-f207dea377d7&catid=0

Consider the unstable nature of the Middle East and I think you'll agree the serious answer as to why those divers were down there is probably espionage. The US has a long history of deploying taps on critical trunk lines/backbones for monitoring purposes. This was originally deployed against Soviet phone trunks, more recently we've seen the idea extended with the Utah data center and its backbone taps in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-data/

At least in the US most keep it for a period of time.

I would assume the same in Canada, but I would hope the interval is shorter.

There is an interesting article in wired that shows that placebos are actually becoming "more effective" or at least more difficult to make drugs that are significantly more effective than placebo's. It appears that since medicine is so much more trusted now than it was 50 or so year ago, that just believing they are being treated triggers some people's body to fight of the illness. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

An ocean full of salt water is a somewhat different environment than the confines of a bathtub, a toaster, and a victim. I'm guessing that if someone breaches the inner aluminum waterproofing shield, the conductivity of the salt water probably popped whatever circuit protection they have, shutting down the power.

If you're somewhat interested, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable has a good description of the materials making up the cables. And if you're really into it, Neal Stephenson wrote a brilliant story on the laying of the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable network, which you can still read on Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html . It's one of the most fascinating looks I've read into a world I use daily but will probably never see. I can't recommend it highly enough.

But really, this was just meant to be a pun referring to the GPs use of the word 'shock'.

These things tend to make their way into industry, but it'll take a while. ARO funding university work is usually a first step in the process, but at the end, if it works out, it gets transitioned to industry in one form or fashion. For example, flexible display research started out with Army funding and there was a consortium with universities and industry. Here's a story. You can see they started working on it in '04, the article is from '08 and they're not at Best Buy just yet. Full disclosure: The Army Research Office is part of the Army Research Lab, which is part of the command I work in, the Research, Development and Engineering Command. We taxpayers fund a lot of research.

Here's an amazing article that gives all kinds of historical telecom cable information, including the internet exchange in Alexandria Egypt. It also discusses repair ships and some inherent physics problems having to do with the pressures placed on the spindles (of the undersea cables) on-deck.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

Sadly, I can't locate a version of the article with the wonderful photos of the original printed piece.

Isn't The NSA spy room (which splits the internet and makes a "copy" of all data running through that route to a huge hard drive to analyze by the feds), and Project Echelon Enough? (which is another wire tapping program) . These perverted assholes aren't happy with just having all the internet routed, the need your encrypted communications as well. And since gmail is httpS (usually by default) this makes their wiretapping schemes a lot harder. This is why they need an explicit law to legally tell Google to "Allow us monitor all your communications or pay a hefty fine (or even be shut down)" for not complying this this Law. You say Google "don't be evil", but you fuckers don't even understand the position(s) Google gets put in by this "evil" force in the world that is diametrically opposed to freedom and free thought.

Imagine how many unemployed people there would be in there world if there was no completely fake threat like terrorism. Imagine what they would do with their pathetic lives? Would they ever contribute anything useful to humanity other than their snooping, surveillance state, constant perversion, and terrorist boogeymen?

Dissenters

- that's the government's job, they do it already.

Archos / Arnova devices also enjoy a great online community with lots of modding at www.Arctablet.com . I own the $100 Arnova 7G3 tablet, damn nice little tablet with ICS, hdmi out, usb support and decent battery. Keep in mind that these aren't $700 tablets, and all of todays high end tablets are going to be outdated in a year or two.

Second time around, better results?
This was originally the Verizon Building. In 2007 Taconic purchased this building for resale. You might remember them from such deals as Google buys building for 2 billion.
Taconic walked away from 375 Pearl in 2008 as the logistics failed. Not sure how a commercial concept on this building is suddenly going to work for someone else.

It has been possible to see 3D directly without glasses on special LCD screens since at least as early as 2004. It's called "Autosteroscopic 3D".

Sharp released a monitor back in 2004 that did this. Philips has also been huge in this field and have also released monitors commercially that allow this. In fact, Philips worked for a long time with Sony on how to update the Blu-Ray standard to allow for 3D data. Initially No-Glasses 3D Screens were sold to other companies to use for window advertising to catch peoples attention since they didn't require special glasses. It's actually fascinating how they accomplished this form of 3D, I didn't even believe it at first until I read the details on how it works.

Here are a couple of old links that prove this. Unfortunately some of the other links I had no longer resolve..

http://www.pcworld.com/article/117303/article.html

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/10/philips-3d-hdtv/

Other than that, it's all good news. I think we'll all be glad to be free of the glasses.
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$24? Are you nuts? In the Federal Courts, you can expect only the harshest outcome unless you are fabulously wealthy and connected. I know Jamie wasn't the perfect defendant here (didn't she lie about hard drives or something?), so it is easy to kind of say she deserves it, or to at least feel no sympathy, but it is unsympathetic defendants that make bad or unjust law. It is sort of shocking that the same administration which has absolutely sat on its hands (*) about $gazilions of Wall Street fraud, encouraged the Supreme Court to reject the case. Justice for some, and especially good justice when you can purchase laws you want, or in the case of Wall Street, inverse justice (rewards for crime, cabinet positions). The little guy can just have his or her life utterly destroyed. That's the Feds.

(*) William K Black is worth reading on the issue because he headed up the litigation team that put 1000 banksters in jail in the S&L crisis -- a crisis 1/40th the size of the meltdown.

Many conflicting articles have been released concerning when the flaw was disclosed to whom. IANAL, but I *think* this may have been the crux of the prosecution's case. If the flaw was disclosed to others before AT&T or perhaps the people whose emails were discovered = crime. If not = no crime.

I am not advocating this position as correct. Just trying to present an opinion.

One of the better articles on the subject of disclosure, still leaves many murky grey area problems for any professional security researcher.
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/hacking-choice-and-disclosure/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/02/in-iraq-when-th/

Just look at how Dick Cheney was able to get his house blurred out of google earth.

He invited them on a hunting trip?

In the case of Fisker, the government is backstopping them, to prevent the Chinese from funding Fisker and then stealing all the technology for themselves.

Yeah, exploding car batteries could be an important defence technology one day.

then at least we can balance the scales by ensuring that we have two-way transparency between the powerful and the powerless.

That will never happen. The powerful will always have more ability and opportunity to meddle with the data than the powerless. Just look at how Dick Cheney was able to get his house blurred out of google earth. The occasional powerful dumbass will get busted to "prove" the system is fair, but the really competent criminals will skate just like they do today.

Iris scanners have been fooled - in a laboratory setting - by using synthetic iris images:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/reverse-engineering-iris-scans/all/

That said, it's still considered to be one of the best performing biometric modalities.

This is from october of last year: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/dolphins/?fb_action_ids=10151480427414906&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

Dont use Bill Gate's lines

It's not Bill Gates' line.

These lawsuits are really affecting my decision to but a new iPhone. I just don't want to support such business practices. On the other hand the iPhone 5 is super shiny... decisions, decisions.

Confused about which smartphone OS to buy? Why not get both??

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/goophone-iphone5s-knockoff/

obviously you have no reason to believe my testimony, and i'm not going to risk the anonymity of the people who told me this, but they were real google employees. I presume there are many real Google employees on Slashdot and maybe some of them will weigh in, if they feel comfortable doing so. Google's internal philosophy that algorithms solve everything is well-known. So is its investment in a variety of predictive technologies; even reading through the documentation of its cloud-based Prediction API (likely much less extensive than Google's own internal systems) suggests many services that, when applied to the workplace itself rather than interactions with customers/projects, would make this sort of capability not just possible but even likely. Look especially at things like "sentiment analysis" https://developers.google.com/prediction/ https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/sentiment_analysis Third-party companies sell related technology as well: http://toatech.com/company/ Google (and the CIA, if you want me to play the excited alarmist) have both invested in a company called Recorded Future, apparently a successful purveyor of "predictive analytics": http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ Recorded future appears to be a real company: https://www.recordedfuture.com/this-is-recorded-future/

There's this app for New Yorkers evidently. Any suggestions from anyone for those of us who don't live in NY?

Cop Tape

I don't think that "we" are apathetic half as much as that the vast majority of the population feels powerless to make any significant change and no longer truly dares hope that we ever will. That's why the most that happens now is that once in a while, a small percentage of the population becomes angry/frustrated enough at the situation to protest physically for a while, like the protests against invading Iraq almost a decade ago.

Once in a *long* while, part of the population starts to manage a bit more in terms of action because many of them are young and their frustration is joined with the sense that they have little to lose. When they start to show signs of having a real effect, those with political power use our media to spread propaganda (typically by claiming those involved have whatever moral failings are most hated at the time), shows of force by the police/military, and threatened or actual punishment through the legal system. Even when the government has made some degree of change, it has been done in a way that made it look like concern or benevolence from the politicians rather than any effect citizens had. The message to citizens is the same as it has been for millennia: be obedient to your masters without substantial protest, or face harsh punishment from them and be reviled by all.

In addition to the resulting sense of powerlessness & hopelessness is that most people are being too taxed by mental & physical stress to spare the intellectual or emotional resources needed to look beyond survival and momentary distractions from how stressed they are. Everyone has heard of "bread and circuses" by now, but we rarely think about what it truly meant, beyond that their government was giving them just enough to avoid rioting... It meant that those citizens had only what was needed for most to survive physically & psychologically, enough to view & treat one another as rivals, but not what's needed feel energetic (well-rested, well-fed, confident) enough to band together and truly challenge the folks in charge.

You can see everything I described above -- people in bread & circus survival mode protesting with barely a glimmer of hope that it will work, then their own mental/physical state plus the powers in charge slowly tearing the movement apart in last December's "Eulogy for Occupy". Americans that feel that our fellow citizens are truly just apathetic should read it.

In stark comparison, you can also see a stirring example of what rebelling citizens sound like when they've been faring well enough to work together against their government in this letter written by Canadian revolutionary leader Chevalier de Lorimier shortly before his execution. Things written during other uprisings or times of conflict decades later where the citizens ultimately succeeded (e.g. UK & US women's suffrage, the US Civil Rights Era, anti-Vietnam protests) show a similar tone of determined optimism that tends to be conspicuously absent in cases more like OWS.

Which is why if you are going to record the police, make sure it's uploading live or will e-mail the pictures away from the clumsy hands of the law

There's this app for New Yorkers evidently. Any suggestions from anyone for those of us who don't live in NY?

Earth's core... the Sun... the surface of Jupiter... the massive black hole at the center of the galaxy... I'd like to see any scenario where these are hacked.

I think what you are looking for is this hacking article from Wired. Given sufficient resources and determination almost nothing short of a supermassive blackhole is likely to be impossible to disrupt. Even about that I wouldn't be sure.

There were ongoing military operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Seriously, the GP has a point. Obama didn't start three wars. All these actions (save Libya) are just an extension of the Bush politices.

They should move to Antigua. Even will be approved by the WTO.

Or were made from candy?

I'm sorry, but I don't really trust them on their word after all these years.

Per their privacy policies and ToS you still give them permission to do that, and they acknowledge that they do at least some ad-targeting:

Wired Gadgetlab reporter Alexandra Chang said the ads still seemed somewhat tailored to her: “When I was using Outlook.com, a bunch of gadget deals and one flower ad appeared, which seemed pretty accurate to my digital profile.” Bruce Hall, general manager of Windows Live and Internet Explorer, told her Outlook.com would rely on its newsletter filter, which grays out mailing-list messages you likely never read, to engage in some modest ad-targeting based on the newsletter’s sender.

Anyways, what's the big difference? "Yeah, we try to track your every move and build your private profile, _but at least we don't use your e-mail contents to do that!_"