DoubleMalt

So can you confirm that specifically:

a) There is no list of accounts that is protected from scrutiny?

b) There is no group of accounts that is watched very closely for violation of terms?

c) That bans happen almost always shortly before a payout would be due?

The description of the latest known policy in place reads as it is carefully tweaked to be defensible even in a court of law, so even if the "leak" is true, I am not sure if a class action lawsuit has a chance.

To skew the outcome in Google's favour is basically guaranteed if bonuses and goals drive the team members to interpret the procedures in a way that a impartial observer might interpret as unfair.

(using a throwaway account for whistle blowing does make sense, and not necessarily reduces credibility)

This not necessarily the case. Most advertisers will have fixed budgets to spend on AdSense.

Under this assumption banning a publisher would not diminish the revenue stream but just diverting the ads to other not yet banned publishers.

That doesn't mean the scheme as described is true, but it's not as obviously stupid as your first paragraph makes it seem.

This is actually not enough as you cannot be sure that certificates generated after that have never been used on a server with a vulnerable OpenSSL implementation.

But there is no code for the server component. Only for the clients.

I agree, of course.

Some context about weev. (And of course regardless of my preferences he should be free unless convicted of a crime)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?p...

Weev is not a good guy imo. I'm not even sure I prefer him outside of prison walls for some of his past actions (although of course the solitary stuff is outrageous).

But: He really must be acquitted for the actions he is now in jail for. There is just no way this should ever be punishable. Otherwise it would set a very bad precedent for corporation bullying of people that uncover negligence when it comes to customer security.

Yes, unfortunately.

Sounds a lot Luke Austria ( the good and the bad) ... a little bit more tech startup friendly maybe.

trigger.io claim it is possible for their apps on Android 4.4 [1] that uses Chromium as basis for the webview, but I didn't have the chance yet as I am still on 4.3.

[1] http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

[nitpick] actually it is x * (x - 1) / 2 in this case [/nitpick]

It's called leasing. It's there for some time now ;)

The problem is that even if Dart is completely open and patent free (and I agree that there is a vast difference between Dart and ActiveX in this regard), if the other browser vendors like Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla don't pick it up, it will still be a walled garden, even if the wall is built by the others.

Also Google has shown signs of embrace, extend extinguish when it comes to essential parts of Android, which makes me a bit wary.

I would love nothing more that Dart superseding JS as the goto language (and compile target) for browser development, as it is doubtless a step forward. But there are pitalls hidden on the way there and the outcome is determined by the path we will take.

Of course hesitations are political, because the outcome will be determined by political actions of everybody involved, Google, MS, Apple and Mozilla. Technical merits alone don't guarantee a happy outcome, sadly.

This has sadly the potential of making Chrome second coming of IE6, with enterprises locked in a system that is too successful to have the incentive to evolve.

As long as the Dart specification is not governed gy a body encompassing all major browser vendors, this is a very dangerous development (And yes, I know that being governed by a standards body seriously hampers the evolution of a standard, but everything is a tradeoff...)

or https://miavia.in/

Yes. Go ahead. Competition is the driver of innovation.

However I am afraid without the opportunity to put a man year work into it, it will be hard to tick all the boxes.

I really hope you succeed, though.

(Disclaimer I am a backer of Mailpile)

I really like the project and I would love to use it for https://cloudfleet.io (shameless plug), but ... show us the source, bittorrent!

However I am hopeful that some other projects will come up (maybe based on http://www.gocircuit.org/ ) that will give us the same functionality with a verifiable code base.

Vienna, AT - full time machine learning enthusiast

(local in Vienna, the city with the best quality of life in the world http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/972..., we can provide relocation assistance)

We, nextSociety Inc want to help people find and connect to the subset of their social network contacts that is actually relevant to them.

To achieve this we need people that like hard challenges, want to work with cutting edge natural language processing and machine learning tools, and know that to deliver value to the customer even the loftiest algorithms have to be glued together with solid software craftsmanship.

We are a python shop with the frontend written in Backbone for fast prototyping, but strongly believe that real programming talent is not language bound.

We have an office in the center of Vienna in walking distance to innumerable bars and pubs, regular happy hours and regularly host guest start ups to cooperate and learn from each other.

If you are interested or know someone who is, shoot me (christoph@nextsociety.com) or our CTO (ben@nextsociety.com) a mail, recruiters shouldn't bother.

It was a conference. Not the Congress. (Google translation artifact).

Nevertheless very alarming.

I disagree. The result is a brilliant demonstration on why design by committee is bad.

Because indiegogo forces you to do it more ore or less.

Glad I didn't donate yet. If necessary I'll fly over and deliver it in person ;)

Celebrities are on average not much different than other people. Most of them are sheep.

Like most of us do not go to protest on the streets over such a thing, most celebrities will not be bothered to stick their head out in a possibly career crippling way.

The ones that do regularly are quickly labelled as parts liberal Hollywood that can be disregarded.

Another thing is that actors are part of the big movie-industrial complex that has a lot of interest in surveillance because they perceive this as their only hope against the free distribution of data.

But I agree it would be worth the effort to actively pursue people like Matt Damon to give the cause widespread legitimacy. Easy it will be not, I'm afraid.

But you can easily turn it off by apt-get remove ... wait ...

I'd volunteer to set it up for you on a virtual machine for free.

Can't say anything about freezing temperatures, but like with every elastic material extreme temperature changes will probably wear it down.

I did not try it for downhill mountain biking because that is not something I do. I'd probably trust it for it though.

[I am in no way affiliated with Finn]

Have it. Would not use it for downhilling, but for the occasional curb in the city it holds up well enough.

And I was pretty skeptical when I first mounted it.

(And from the principle it can only go flying if the forces are strong enough that the thing tears)

Actually that would make Zeffirelli's production of "The Taming of the Shrew" borderline illegal.

Along with many other respected works of art and culture.

The Anglo Saxon penchant for pruderish grandstanding combined with the British desire for an overbearing nanny state is a truly disturbing combination.

Unfortunately there are a lot of sheep on the British isles (as everywhere)

Careful. You might have committed a felony by accessing a page with SSIs. It was definitely not intended to be accessed under that URL by you ;)

I love stories that expose the gender asymmetric nature of typical encounters. That these asymmetries are so deep ingrained in most of our societies and so widely accepted is the problem.

It reminds me a bit of the story about the mullah's daughter.

(could not find it on the Internet so you have to bear with my narration)

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The daughter of the Mullah comes to her dad and tells him that this honourable young man asked her out. He swears that he only has honourable intentions and there will be nothing than harmless conversation.

The mullah pulls his hair "Oh no, my daughter! You do not understand. This is how this will end: He will pick you up, and be totally honourable when you get into the car with him. On the way to the city he will remember, that he forgot his wallet at home, so he will kindly ask your permission to stop by at his house to get it. Of course you will accept as you don't want to embarrass him. He will drive to his house and tell you he will be right back.

But after he got out of the car he will turn around and tell you how impolite it would be to let you wait in the car, and if you would like to come in and wait in the house.

You will accept his offer and he will open your door, and politely accompany to the house. There he will introduce you, and then go upstairs to get the wallet from his room.

But halfway up the stairs he would turn back and apologize for his incredible rudeness letting you wait in the hallway. He will ask you to accompany him up to his room.

You will accept his offer and politely he will lead you to his room and all will be lost!

Once you are in his room, he will have his way with you and rob you of your virtue and of your honour and of the honour of the family!"

The Mullah almost wept at the imagination of these horrors.

The daughter assured her father that she would make sure nothing of that sort would transpire, and the mullah, who always had a soft spot for his daughter did not object to her evening out.

The evening came, and the young man, polite and well bred, showed up at the door. He made pleasant small talk with the Mullah and assured him of his incredible esteem of his daughter and his thoroughly honourable intentions.

Then they departed and the mullah anxiously awaited the return of his daughter, depicting the disgrace she would suffer in ever more colourful patterns.

Finally his daughter came back. Hysterically he asked: "My Daughter! Tell me! What happened this evening?"

"Well, he led me to his car, and was the perfect gentlemen. Then he remembered he had forgot his wallet, and asked if I would mind a stop at his house."

"Oh no " exclaimed the mullah in despair "What then?"

"I agreed because I did not want to embarrass him, and we went to his house. He said I could wait in the car while he was getting his wallet, but when he got out he came over to my side and told me how impolite it would be letting me wait in the car. And if I would like to wait in the house."

The mullah felt panic creeping up "And then?"

"He politely led me to the house and introduced me. The he went upstairs to get his wallet. But halfway upstairs he turned back and chided himself for his impoliteness and asked me if I wanted to accompany him to his room"

The mullah was beside himself "Oh my daughter what has he done to you?"

"Don't worry father, as soon as we were in his room, I had my way with him and robbed him of his virtue and of his honour and of the honour of his family."

Of course, b and c are completely irrelevant as reasons why nobody built a business model around that.

I wonder what the IRS and/or the shareholders would say if Wal-Mart would state "that its books are in such disarray that an audit is impossible".