in order to try to rush through a renewal of the FISA Amendments Act, which unconstitutionally allowed warrantless wiretapping in the U.S.
Don't worry, with the Roberts court, if you sacrifice yourself and push the issue, the Supremes are sure to have a nice 5-4 split vote that will, indeed, prove it's constitutional. It happened with Citizens United, it will happen here.
The court via Clarence Thomas is up for sale, what less would his sponsors expect?
InvokeDynamic is a pretty awesome new feature in JDK7 and will likely be tranformative for dyanmic languages on the JVM. For my mustache.java templating solution it increased performance on an integration benchmark by 25%.
Which trading site with auction-style listings do you recommend that takes Google Checkout? Google Product Search (formerly Froogle) is more like eBay Stores: fixed-price listings only.
You're conflating issues. Not sure most folks angry enough to ditch Paypal count "trading site with auction-style listings" as a key requirement. In fact, I haven't bought or sold anything on eBay in 4 years and haven't entered an eBay auction since 2001... anecdotal for sure, but I'd like to hear what the eBay requirement is for online sellers.
My profile was suspended because they insist on people using their "legal" names. They tell users signing up to use the name that people know you by, but their appeal form demands you either provide a government ID or some other "official" evidence of your name like a link to a college directory.
I then go to the discussion board about profiles and virtually every recent thread is people complaining about being suspended.
Good job, Google. Just as evil as Facebook. More interested in being able to connect everyone's doings with their "legal" identity than they are at creating a social networking site for their users.
What was your Google+ name? Are you sure they weren't nabbing you for impersonating someone or posing as a fictional character?
When a company is concerned about its children (employees and customers), it grows. When it is concerned about its investors, it stifles itself.
Wait, so a company that's mature and profit oriented is only "concerned about it's investors"? That's a load of bunk. Apple does quite well by it's customers as do most other "profit oriented" companies. Google will still be very great company that produces incredibly useful services, but the pure awesome that is Labs will no longer be.
Corporations are not first-class citizens in any legal jurisdiction I know of. 'Corporate personhood' is a legal metaphor that you, and others, have vastly misunderstood.
Really? Have you not read about the Citizens United case, that effectively gives Corporations the freedom of speech (and by neoliberal accounting, freedom of bribery)?
Imagine if the corporation got punished for all crimes that a person did in the name of the corporation: then I could start a corporation, rob a bank in the name of the corporation, and the corporation would be punished. That would be idiotic. Furthermore, it would be making a corporation more of a person than it is now, which you claim to oppose.
Let's extend your metaphor and say that the corporation hired someone to commit some crime. Should the corporation go unpunished? Sure the crimedoer will catch jail time if (s)he is caught, but the one who made the decision to go ahead with the theft should also get punished. Right now, with the corporate veil this hardly ever pursued... plus given Corporations often have lots of money and live forever, they could literally buy their freedom or push the punishment far enough in the future to avoid real consequences.
So as part of your solution, you're going to pay for the cost of that mandatory access for everyone, right? Because the hell you're going to forcefully take money out of my paycheck (that already gets raped badly enough by the government) to pay for other people's luxuries.
Like Mrs. Thatcher pointed out almost 30 years ago - "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
Do you get free power and or water? No, but you're pretty much guaranteed to have access at a fair rate based on regulated utilities (and if you can demonstrate you are poor or disadvantaged, you can get discounted rates).
From the summary: "This involves replacing some of her lectures with Khan's videos, which students can watch at home." So what do K-12 students without broadband at home do? Go to a public library every day?
The solution is to do what should have happened 10 years ago with the rise of the internet economy: Make access a fundamental right, utility and regulated like utilities.
For those of you who rebut my point with prattle about "free market" and such, keep in mind that telecoms and cable has never really been free; it's always been a) patchwork of local monopolies in the case of cable and b) a fully integrated monopoly for phone/DSL lines for 50 years (was split up in the 80s but is now like the T1000 reassembling into the big monolith AT&T)...
Introducing competition into this market (though more desirable) would be much harder than regulating the existing system.
My google apps use is much more important to me than google+ is.
So do what I do, and just run your public google profile in a separate account on a separate (instance of) browser. Route all your (public) emails (if you choose to gmail) into your domain account.
I see no reason why there has to be a choice between the two.
"Commencing July 2, 2007, as PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A., PayPal moved its European operations from the UK to Luxembourg. As a Luxembourg entity, it is since regulated as a bank by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and provides PayPal service throughout the European Union."
A few years back I had a suitcase stolen in Florida on Continental airlines. I was loaded down with vintage real to real tapes and audio gear (modern and old). The real to real tapes and some of the audio gear belonged to my grandfather, which I was restoring for the family. I never did get it back and Continental declined my claim. I hope he lands in PIMA Federal Prison, some of the items I will never be able to recover.
When it absolutely must get there, don't take it on the plane. It's not safe anymore. Instead, have it shipped there (using appropriate padding as "tossers" will knock your box around)... of course, this is a real PITA if you're traveling internationally.
If I'm ever married to someone who doesn't have any moral or ethical problems with putting a GPS tracker on my vehicle just to get dirt on me, and they want a divorce.. they can have it with my blessings
Most of these people aren't necessarily unethical to begin with but they change over time to view it as acceptable. Bearing, rearing and caring for children changes parents.
Another thing to keep in mind is that if children are involved the legally required child support and alimony can be crippling to the one who doesn't keep the kids... so parents "fight" for the kids, not just on emotional grounds, but on practical financial basis... divorces can really suck, even if there is no wrongdoing from either partner.
The later was useless to me, as my entire presence for decades is based on me, not my real name (which happens to co-exist with a celebrity, making it useless).
. While I agree many of them are tabloids and not hard journalism, not all qualify for the tabloid label. The WSJ is still an excellent source of business news, even if its opinion pages are most definitely conservative.
The WSJ was acquired relatively recently (in comparison to GP comment link), and is slowly approaching the foxnews event horizon from which facts, if they ever escape, are heavily red-shifted.
The terrorists have won, we have become Nazi Germany, and nobody seems to care.
No amigo, there are folks who are profiting from this (ahem - Chertoff)... and they defnitely do care. The problem is the privatization of defense and now, security. The MICIf you follow the money, you will see the root of the problem.
The post office should just offer a service like Earth Class Mail for a similar price and an extra bonus - no "resident" mail.
It's too bad the post office is still stuck in the 19th century; if they offered mail->digital at a reasonable premium, that alone could pay their bills and subsidize the letter carriers until we no longer need them.
I'd say Google is the perfect fit then. They already have 1 (maybe 2) strong profit centers that can fund all their other non-profit-generating initiatives like maps, reader, and... plus.
Also Google's corporate structure (all the voting shares are held by 3 people) prevents external pressure from hostile takeovers and activist investor groups.
Facebook is quite literally in a diametrically (are heavily influenced by venture captial, still haven't even gone public, have lots of employees that are hungry to cash out, etc).
This doesn't change the fact/problem that "social users" are really still the product sold to the advertisers who are the customers.
They are starting to rack up a nice stack a corpses made from discontinued Google services. Google Wave, Google Translation API, Google Health, and Google PowerMeter to name a few.
I would hate to get too invested in a Google service only to have it disappear on me. As far as I am concerned, Google Search and Gmail are their only sure bets.
Discontinued efforts are good. That means Google knows that it's not the end-all-be-all of tech, and have chosen their battles. I'm also glad Apple shut down their xServes and Microsoft shuttered the embarrassment that was Zune.
btw, Google Translation API is available now, you just have to pay for it (since they couldn't justify it as a free service)... if you have a business model around that API, it's now priced appropriately (like others in the same market).
I can't tell if you're some markov bot or what. I take offense to your lumping the iPad in with other Android tablets because it's lack of required data plan was a key innovation that is only now being copied by other tablets. In fact, the monthly optional data plan combined with jailbreak+tethering is my internet service redundancy plan at home (iPad 3G -> router -> rest of devices). I've paid no monthly fee for this and already use the iPad at home for games/books/video. If/when comcast fails, I simply turn on the iPad, activate the monthly plan (2G), turn on tethering (MyWi), and convert my router to a repeater.
Capability did not exist until very recently for Android or other tablets without a monthly plan.
For normal usage, the iPad really shines with the kids and my elderly parents. I don't use it for "computing" in the normal sense, I use it while watching TV, in bed, or traveling, but prefer to do most of my web and hacking on a real laptop... YMMV, I respect that you don't like it. Just don't go around saying the month-to-month data wasn't innovative when it was released last year. Only Apple had the cred to force the carriers into that stance. Google/Android caves to carriers every wish.
A tablets I've looked at as serious contenders, frankly suck. They are around $700, have low storage memory, must be tethered to a cellular plan, and cannot run anything better than what I already have on my very spacious 4.x" phone screen. My netbook, on the other hand, was $199, has more storage than I'll need in a portable situation, works with Wifi, Cisco VPN (which most phones/tablets don't), and is very compact with the same or larger screen size as most tablets (~10")
Stop spewing misinformation. Not a single iPad requires a cellular plan, even for the 3G capable device.
If you compare specs, they yes, the netbook should almost always win... but like the Kindle, tablets are not meant for traditional computing. If you want a travel/bedside device or have trouble with standard computers, a tablet (of which the iPad remains the most usable) is much better. If you don't, then get the netbook which, among other things, also can act as a USB host (and sync the tablet:-)
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
You've just outlined the credit ratings agencies, ya know, the ones who happily stamped AAA on complete financial garbage and helped cause the subprime-fueled credit crisis? The ones which are considered an oligopoly anyway?
The problem isn't just the government, it's the money and corruption that forces government agencies into regulatory capture (among other things: the revolving door between government agency staff, and the corporations that are regulated and supply the government).
The problem can almost always be found by following the money.
For all of you worried about failure modes and human passengers, keep in mind that drones do not require either.
Once militarized, this invention will change how warfare is done. Drones will longer be limited to air operations, but now can be part of ground forces (imagine a highly mobile floating turret with either ground or remote operators to aim and control).
So from "quite good" to "stunning" is a 0.3 rating on a 1 to 5 scale? That's quite a non-linear scale.
Not only that, but 1000 reviews is a whole lot less statistically valid than ~5000. Some reviewers are just haters or idiots ("I'm rating this 1star until you add the new Ranger class! I love the game." - WTF?).
It is, though, if you look at the distribution. For most decent apps, people pick between 4 stars or 5 stars. A technically functional, resonably thought out app isn't going to get 1 or 2 stars. Occasionally you'll get a 3, but mostly 4 or 5s. Based on this, about half of iPhone users rate it a 5. But 80% of Android users do. The 4.8 gets even more impressive when you throw back in the 1,2,and 3 ratings.
The number is the big deal. At around 1000, you are mostly getting the folks who love the game and were waiting for it. At about 5000, you get some folks who were "hyped into buying" and end up disappointed for some reason. Also the haters and idiot reviews start piling up here. I'd say 4.8 at 1000 vs. 4.5 at 5000 is pretty much equivalent.
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in order to try to rush through a renewal of the FISA Amendments Act, which unconstitutionally allowed warrantless wiretapping in the U.S.
Don't worry, with the Roberts court, if you sacrifice yourself and push the issue, the Supremes are sure to have a nice 5-4 split vote that will, indeed, prove it's constitutional. It happened with Citizens United, it will happen here.
The court via Clarence Thomas is up for sale, what less would his sponsors expect?
I'm curious how much of an impact the new 'invokedynamic' has - specifically on Ruby and Python - any good performance analysis out there?
Well, according to a comment on HN:
Google Checkout.
Which trading site with auction-style listings do you recommend that takes Google Checkout? Google Product Search (formerly Froogle) is more like eBay Stores: fixed-price listings only.
You're conflating issues. Not sure most folks angry enough to ditch Paypal count "trading site with auction-style listings" as a key requirement. In fact, I haven't bought or sold anything on eBay in 4 years and haven't entered an eBay auction since 2001... anecdotal for sure, but I'd like to hear what the eBay requirement is for online sellers.
My profile was suspended because they insist on people using their "legal" names. They tell users signing up to use the name that people know you by, but their appeal form demands you either provide a government ID or some other "official" evidence of your name like a link to a college directory.
I then go to the discussion board about profiles and virtually every recent thread is people complaining about being suspended.
Good job, Google. Just as evil as Facebook. More interested in being able to connect everyone's doings with their "legal" identity than they are at creating a social networking site for their users.
What was your Google+ name? Are you sure they weren't nabbing you for impersonating someone or posing as a fictional character?
When a company is concerned about its children (employees and customers), it grows. When it is concerned about its investors, it stifles itself.
Wait, so a company that's mature and profit oriented is only "concerned about it's investors"? That's a load of bunk. Apple does quite well by it's customers as do most other "profit oriented" companies. Google will still be very great company that produces incredibly useful services, but the pure awesome that is Labs will no longer be.
Corporations are not first-class citizens in any legal jurisdiction I know of. 'Corporate personhood' is a legal metaphor that you, and others, have vastly misunderstood.
Really? Have you not read about the Citizens United case, that effectively gives Corporations the freedom of speech (and by neoliberal accounting, freedom of bribery)?
Imagine if the corporation got punished for all crimes that a person did in the name of the corporation: then I could start a corporation, rob a bank in the name of the corporation, and the corporation would be punished. That would be idiotic. Furthermore, it would be making a corporation more of a person than it is now, which you claim to oppose.
Let's extend your metaphor and say that the corporation hired someone to commit some crime. Should the corporation go unpunished? Sure the crimedoer will catch jail time if (s)he is caught, but the one who made the decision to go ahead with the theft should also get punished. Right now, with the corporate veil this hardly ever pursued... plus given Corporations often have lots of money and live forever, they could literally buy their freedom or push the punishment far enough in the future to avoid real consequences.
So as part of your solution, you're going to pay for the cost of that mandatory access for everyone, right? Because the hell you're going to forcefully take money out of my paycheck (that already gets raped badly enough by the government) to pay for other people's luxuries.
Like Mrs. Thatcher pointed out almost 30 years ago - "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
Do you get free power and or water? No, but you're pretty much guaranteed to have access at a fair rate based on regulated utilities (and if you can demonstrate you are poor or disadvantaged, you can get discounted rates).
Keep your neo-liberal ideology at bay here.
From the summary: "This involves replacing some of her lectures with Khan's videos, which students can watch at home." So what do K-12 students without broadband at home do? Go to a public library every day?
The solution is to do what should have happened 10 years ago with the rise of the internet economy: Make access a fundamental right, utility and regulated like utilities.
For those of you who rebut my point with prattle about "free market" and such, keep in mind that telecoms and cable has never really been free; it's always been a) patchwork of local monopolies in the case of cable and b) a fully integrated monopoly for phone/DSL lines for 50 years (was split up in the 80s but is now like the T1000 reassembling into the big monolith AT&T)...
Introducing competition into this market (though more desirable) would be much harder than regulating the existing system.
My google apps use is much more important to me than google+ is.
So do what I do, and just run your public google profile in a separate account on a separate (instance of) browser. Route all your (public) emails (if you choose to gmail) into your domain account.
I see no reason why there has to be a choice between the two.
"Not until ...... they are certified as a bank,"
Rejoice then.
"Commencing July 2, 2007, as PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A., PayPal moved its European operations from the UK to Luxembourg. As a Luxembourg entity, it is since regulated as a bank by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and provides PayPal service throughout the European Union."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status
Well, well... I wonder when are they going to get certified in the USA?
A few years back I had a suitcase stolen in Florida on Continental airlines. I was loaded down with vintage real to real tapes and audio gear (modern and old). The real to real tapes and some of the audio gear belonged to my grandfather, which I was restoring for the family. I never did get it back and Continental declined my claim. I hope he lands in PIMA Federal Prison, some of the items I will never be able to recover.
When it absolutely must get there, don't take it on the plane. It's not safe anymore. Instead, have it shipped there (using appropriate padding as "tossers" will knock your box around)... of course, this is a real PITA if you're traveling internationally.
If I'm ever married to someone who doesn't have any moral or ethical problems with putting a GPS tracker on my vehicle just to get dirt on me, and they want a divorce .. they can have it with my blessings
Most of these people aren't necessarily unethical to begin with but they change over time to view it as acceptable. Bearing, rearing and caring for children changes parents.
Another thing to keep in mind is that if children are involved the legally required child support and alimony can be crippling to the one who doesn't keep the kids... so parents "fight" for the kids, not just on emotional grounds, but on practical financial basis... divorces can really suck, even if there is no wrongdoing from either partner.
The later was useless to me, as my entire presence for decades is based on me, not my real name (which happens to co-exist with a celebrity, making it useless).
Is that celebrity some no-talent ass clown?
. While I agree many of them are tabloids and not hard journalism, not all qualify for the tabloid label. The WSJ is still an excellent source of business news, even if its opinion pages are most definitely conservative.
The WSJ was acquired relatively recently (in comparison to GP comment link), and is slowly approaching the foxnews event horizon from which facts, if they ever escape, are heavily red-shifted.
He wasn't the same after the antitrust trial.
But now MSFT has top guys in the DOJ... which is amusingly going after Google for anti-trust issues... hmm.
Back on topic, with DOJ neutralized or captured, would Gates be happy coming back?
The terrorists have won, we have become Nazi Germany, and nobody seems to care.
No amigo, there are folks who are profiting from this (ahem - Chertoff)... and they defnitely do care. The problem is the privatization of defense and now, security. The MICIf you follow the money, you will see the root of the problem.
The post office should just offer a service like Earth Class Mail for a similar price and an extra bonus - no "resident" mail.
It's too bad the post office is still stuck in the 19th century; if they offered mail->digital at a reasonable premium, that alone could pay their bills and subsidize the letter carriers until we no longer need them.
The primary reason is the profit motive.
I'd say Google is the perfect fit then. They already have 1 (maybe 2) strong profit centers that can fund all their other non-profit-generating initiatives like maps, reader, and ... plus.
Also Google's corporate structure (all the voting shares are held by 3 people) prevents external pressure from hostile takeovers and activist investor groups.
Facebook is quite literally in a diametrically (are heavily influenced by venture captial, still haven't even gone public, have lots of employees that are hungry to cash out, etc).
This doesn't change the fact/problem that "social users" are really still the product sold to the advertisers who are the customers.
They are starting to rack up a nice stack a corpses made from discontinued Google services. Google Wave, Google Translation API, Google Health, and Google PowerMeter to name a few.
I would hate to get too invested in a Google service only to have it disappear on me. As far as I am concerned, Google Search and Gmail are their only sure bets.
Discontinued efforts are good. That means Google knows that it's not the end-all-be-all of tech, and have chosen their battles. I'm also glad Apple shut down their xServes and Microsoft shuttered the embarrassment that was Zune.
btw, Google Translation API is available now, you just have to pay for it (since they couldn't justify it as a free service)... if you have a business model around that API, it's now priced appropriately (like others in the same market).
I can't tell if you're some markov bot or what. I take offense to your lumping the iPad in with other Android tablets because it's lack of required data plan was a key innovation that is only now being copied by other tablets. In fact, the monthly optional data plan combined with jailbreak+tethering is my internet service redundancy plan at home (iPad 3G -> router -> rest of devices). I've paid no monthly fee for this and already use the iPad at home for games/books/video. If/when comcast fails, I simply turn on the iPad, activate the monthly plan (2G), turn on tethering (MyWi), and convert my router to a repeater.
Capability did not exist until very recently for Android or other tablets without a monthly plan.
For normal usage, the iPad really shines with the kids and my elderly parents. I don't use it for "computing" in the normal sense, I use it while watching TV, in bed, or traveling, but prefer to do most of my web and hacking on a real laptop... YMMV, I respect that you don't like it. Just don't go around saying the month-to-month data wasn't innovative when it was released last year. Only Apple had the cred to force the carriers into that stance. Google/Android caves to carriers every wish.
A tablets I've looked at as serious contenders, frankly suck. They are around $700, have low storage memory, must be tethered to a cellular plan, and cannot run anything better than what I already have on my very spacious 4.x" phone screen. My netbook, on the other hand, was $199, has more storage than I'll need in a portable situation, works with Wifi, Cisco VPN (which most phones/tablets don't), and is very compact with the same or larger screen size as most tablets (~10")
Stop spewing misinformation. Not a single iPad requires a cellular plan, even for the 3G capable device.
If you compare specs, they yes, the netbook should almost always win... but like the Kindle, tablets are not meant for traditional computing. If you want a travel/bedside device or have trouble with standard computers, a tablet (of which the iPad remains the most usable) is much better. If you don't, then get the netbook which, among other things, also can act as a USB host (and sync the tablet :-)
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
You've just outlined the credit ratings agencies, ya know, the ones who happily stamped AAA on complete financial garbage and helped cause the subprime-fueled credit crisis? The ones which are considered an oligopoly anyway?
The problem isn't just the government, it's the money and corruption that forces government agencies into regulatory capture (among other things: the revolving door between government agency staff, and the corporations that are regulated and supply the government).
The problem can almost always be found by following the money.
For all of you worried about failure modes and human passengers, keep in mind that drones do not require either.
Once militarized, this invention will change how warfare is done. Drones will longer be limited to air operations, but now can be part of ground forces (imagine a highly mobile floating turret with either ground or remote operators to aim and control).
Cue terminator theme.
So from "quite good" to "stunning" is a 0.3 rating on a 1 to 5 scale? That's quite a non-linear scale.
Not only that, but 1000 reviews is a whole lot less statistically valid than ~5000. Some reviewers are just haters or idiots ("I'm rating this 1star until you add the new Ranger class! I love the game." - WTF?).
It is, though, if you look at the distribution. For most decent apps, people pick between 4 stars or 5 stars. A technically functional, resonably thought out app isn't going to get 1 or 2 stars. Occasionally you'll get a 3, but mostly 4 or 5s. Based on this, about half of iPhone users rate it a 5. But 80% of Android users do. The 4.8 gets even more impressive when you throw back in the 1,2,and 3 ratings.
The number is the big deal. At around 1000, you are mostly getting the folks who love the game and were waiting for it. At about 5000, you get some folks who were "hyped into buying" and end up disappointed for some reason. Also the haters and idiot reviews start piling up here. I'd say 4.8 at 1000 vs. 4.5 at 5000 is pretty much equivalent.