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I'm don't quite get what you are saying, but I also note, you are just saying it without backing it up in anyway.

Why wouldn't it last?

Why can't some members be incompatible with others?

Why must there be a framework to make judgements on others?

The United States is a good example (in a lot of ways) of successful multiculturalism (it's a bad example in some ways as well). But no official language, no restrictions on belief, the only consistant thing is a 'rule of law', is that what you mean by a framework for judging?

You referred to it as reprehensible. So you are basically saying that their culture is reprehensible (As the striving for wealth is well and truly part of Chinese culture).

That's fine to not like it your self... but to condemn others... That seems more than just intolerant, that is verging on bigoted.

Yeah! Other people/cultures are just downright offensive, why can't everyone be just like me, share my values, and think exactly like I do!

Or alternatively, perhaps we can respect other peoples world views without judging them within our own limited set of cultural values.

The word for mind and heart are not the same in Chinese...

Does the riemann hypothesis even have ground breaking applications to crypto?

I think you need to learn more about the correlation between educational outcomes and socio-economic status (Hint: There is an extremely strong one).

Also, GPAs, SATs, and ACT composites don't measure ambition. So... I'm trying to work out what your point was...

40 people isn't a 'study' it's an anecdote.

What I am saying, is there is not enough information to draw a meaningful conclusion, which I believe the GP is also saying... You can say we are 'wrong' as much as possible, but that's just rhetoric.

He isn't saying that at all. I think his main point is you are talking crap (though he articulated it much better than I have).

And Princeton (in undergrad) isn't "intellectually" elite, it is financially elite. I don't think you can derive anything about student "ambitiousness" just from how wealthy they are, and wealth is pretty much the only thing that separates Princeton undergrad student from a public college student.

Caveat: I'm assuming the study was done on undergrads, postgrad princeton is different beast.

... Comments have really gone to shit here haven't they.

Some how we all end up antagonistic over bullshit like whether google have a big enough computer.

But alas, you're right, google could never crawl with an actual browser - what a ridiculous suggestion. I apoligise for such a dumb-witted comment.

As an aside: For my part in contributing such bad quality comments, I apoligise.

... right but a bot doesn't get impatient. So I don't see your point.

But for the most part these build processes are for web apps... If your build can't connect to the internet, your web app isn't going to work (even if it can build).

I'm confused, search indexing isn't a realtime exercise... Why would performance be an issue? Running a headless browser vs running "whatever it is they run that can execute JS" doesn't seem like a huge leap...

Show me that the majority of psychology (and sociology) papers published in reputable journals are unscientific, then publish that in a reputable journal (then just post the link to that article as a response to this comment). As that is what you are claiming. Anything less and you are being hypocritical.

You are making a very big claim, so go and do the work to back it up.

Laptops will output to external screen while closed, and all connected monitors brightness can be adjusted independently (to off if need be).

Exactly what can't be done?

I think you may be blind to over generalisations... Can you show me the causal link between psychologists and this 'disorder'?

I guess the mindset comes from TV/Radio land where content is just dished up, and there is only one way to consume it, or you can stop consuming it.

It's probably more an issue of, we are in a difficult situation where some businesses don't know how to monetize outside of advertising (like google). And if everyone could block them, you'd effectively destroy businesses like that.

But on the flip side, the advert business model have gotten everyone used to 'free'. If google started selling "Search packs" where you get 100 searchs for $20, I don't think people would go for it.

what bills do you have if you are permanently joyful?

> The need to easily type is vastly underrated IMO

Bluetooth keyboards work on iPads too.

> why would I buy a device with a new operating system

Exactly, and everyone has an iPad/iPhone... so...

Also you should check out the music/dj scene on iOS. It is crazily well developed and integrated, and unique to iOS.

Windows is to tablets what mac was to PCs in the 90s. A kind of underdog that despite good efforts never seems to pull it off.

How about rather than religious trolling you bring some sources for your stats that show causation between Islam and Slavery?

So far you've cherry picked weak correlation ignoring all other factors, and stated it like it's the obvious truth.

I realise this is a bit trolly - but:

> .... privacy IS a fundamental human right

"Rights" are not universal. Individual rights are not universal. It feels a bit like exporting a Western style thinking on the world and saying everyone should agree with it.

Isn't most of NBN Corp made up of ex-telstra... Where else would they get communications engineers?

Europe and much of america has tiny populations compared to china.

So is this story really: "Lots of people live in china" ?

You know we are talking about China right? They don't build 400sm plots with a pool and a backyard. They build highrise apartments.

I thought I made that pretty clear when I said "med-high density houses".

GET google.com

What's returned is data physically on a private server. I am not authorized to access that server.

But the internet would be a pretty crap place if that was against the law.

As I said, metaphors to locked/unlocked public/private don't make sense. But happy for you to keep stretching this analogy until it fits.

SQL injection wasn't used here. The URL scheme being used was used exactly as intended (by developers).

Seems the sophistry here is applying another clear cut version of hacking to say that this 'not clear cut at all' version is also wrong.

Putting the burden on a user to "know" whether they are authorized or not, seems crazy. Even if they talked about selling to spammers.

Hypothetically the police give me a Police report number that I can access at police.gov/crimes/:reportno I discover if I increment/decrement these I can get ALL reports. I then build a cool mashup of crimes in the area on a google map. It turns out the police didn't intend that, am I now a criminal (because of the polices intent)?

I have trouble agreeing with this. I know nothing of the law around this, but also realise given the international nature of the internet, the law probably doesn't mean much in perspective. Would Aurenheimer be prosecuted if he were Chinese?

The grandparent making the point about status 200 has a point, especially in regards to this case. If a website is returning 200s for a get request. Then you are implicitly 'authorized' to see that page. The counter point made of SQL injection is also valid, but SQL injection wasn't used here. Just plain old GET requests.

It's difficult to draw real world comparisons to things like this. So I don't think you can simplify it down to locked/unlocked doors, or public/private property.

If I go to cia.gov/supersecretfiles and it returns something... did I just "hack" the CIA? It doesn't make sense to me.

URIs that return 200s are public resources.

Tizen can run android apps. So they have the largest ecosystem. Samsung has a huge brand, they could easily make Tizen a competitor by deploying it on Galaxy Phone in the future. Consumers wouldn't know (or care).

Not sure how you can judge a whole companies software engineers, based on one project (Touchwiz).

I think it's a bit more nuanced than you are making out.

Samsung do have their own Software (Tizen, and Bada(?), and a third 'unknown' base). They are pushing for an Android compatible linux, with strong hardware integration. Huawei and ZTE won't be able to compete with that. They could fail completely on that strategy, but they are doing more than just increasing PPI.

It is really hard to work out the truth of these stories.

They always mention these as "Ghost Cities" but the numbers are always mentioned like "This city was meant to house upto a million people"... a million people, is not a city, it's a large suburb. Or a very small city (in China), given they always build with med-high density housing.

Could the reporters please do there job and ask the farmers out of earshot of the "government minders" (What exactly are they?). Having spoken to a number of different government officials in China, there are many who are openly skeptical of the Communist party (and many who are die hard believers). This idea that if you say something wrong you'll be thrown away, doesn't seem to hold true. (Maybe it's different when talking to media).

That's right, lets take our Western-pro-US measuring stick out and measure china against it in order to show they are not as "successful".

China's goal posts are not in the same spot as the US's.