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My initial (sure to be expanded) list of things I hate about iTunes 11:

1) The option of a dark background in grid view has been removed; the white background is horrible;

2) Sometimes the expanded view works well (the algorithm is clearly quite clever, zooming in to remove borders, etc.), other times it looks atrocious; it's around half and half; I've now spent hours debating whether to turn it off or keep it on;

3) Track lists in columns, everywhere, often inexplicably (e.g. on an artist page with no other albums); I know there's a bunch of horizontal white space to fill, but this is an ugly way to fill it;

4) With the new grid view and 'expanded view' there is no longer a quick way to view useful metadata about tracks (e.g. last played, number of plays, etc.);

5) Previously track lists formed 'rows' that had alternating background colors (I forget the name for this) that made it easier to follow; this is no longer the case, and for some reason looking at track lists in iTunes 11 makes me want to break things;

6) The new status bar no longer allows one to toggle the unit of measurement for the amount of music in the library; previously you could toggle hours, minutes, etc. now all it shows for me is days;

7) There is no longer an easy way to copy album artwork out of iTunes; previously you could have a preview up in the sidebar, right click -> copy; now one has to select an individual track (inexplicably, doesn't work for entire albums), right click -> get info -> artwork -> copy;

8) The album artwork thumbnail at the top of the window (in the little dialog showing the track, etc.) looks ugly and can't be removed;

9) The sidebar in the old version used to match the sidebars in other OS X apps (Finder, Mail, etc.); now the font has changed to Helvetica (bold, for that matter) it doesn't match anything;

10) The coloured sidebar icons that got ditched with OS X Snow Leopard and iTunes 10 are back; I really hope this isn't a sign of things to come elsewhere in the OS;

11) The option to change the size of album artwork in grid view has been removed; it's now one size, take it or leave it. This is excruciatingly irritating;

12) Still no FLAC support; this is beyond a joke now;

That's only for SD releases; HD still use the MKV container

This. Punish those who cause harm.

Possessing a certain sequence of 0s and 1s does not cause harm.

I don't view CP as a free speech issue, I just think its prohibition is an arbitrary, puritan social construct.

Same applies to indecent exposure laws, I guess. At what point did we decide the human form is indecent in its unclothed state, and people should be deprived of their freedom for exposing their natural form in public?

At what point did we decide people should be deprived of their freedom simply for looking at images of children in their natural, unclothed state?

Indeed, you're probably protected by safe harbor/mere conduit laws in most jurisdictions, but you're still liable to become the subject of law enforcement investigations and have your equipment seized.

More hassle than it's worth.

Do you mean as a relay or exit node? Exit nodes are the ones that take the heat.

I would be very surprised if you've run a Tor exit node for a considerable period of time without incident, even if it's just abuse notices from your upstream provider.

Of course, I should have specified I was referring to exit nodes.

Without the exit nodes, the relay nodes are nothing; just a bunch of people playing hot potato with encrypted data and no one prepared to take the heat by attaching their details to it.

It's plausible deniability, but that alone isn't sufficient to avoid prosecution in most jurisdictions.

The standard in most jurisdictions is proof beyond reasonable doubt. I don't think the OTR plausible deniability would be considered reasonable doubt, especially if the content of the messages is corroborated by other evidence.

> Furthermore, the reason you hear of child porn rings is because those are what form - people share it with each other in a tit-for-tat sort of way. It absolutely incentivizes the production of more, which means more abused kids.

I'd imagine it's like any other prohibited material or substance; drugs, counterfeit goods, pirated works, etc. Of those implicated, a small minority are involved in production, while the vast majority are simply consumers.

I assume you are willing to at least acknowledge the existence of the latter group; people who simply consume child pornography and play no part in the production, or any sexual abuse of children for that matter.

Do you really think it is appropriate to ruin these peoples' lives — splash their names across the newspapers, lock them in jail, destroy their career, their relationships, make them a social pariah — for mere possession of child pornography? For having a certain sequence of 0s and 1s on their computer?

If a non-profit can keep on top of all the different codecs, profiles and containers, why can't Microsoft? By all means leave the bleeding edge professional codecs to third party software, but most people only use VLC to play rudimentary formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, FLV, etc.)

This functionality really ought to be built into the OS these days.

1) Oh absolutely, I don't dispute VLC remains useful. I just think it's a shame that we still need VLC. To most of its users, VLC is "that thing that my friend told me I'd need to install to play these videos because for some reason Windows can't play them on its own"

2) I'm more worried about the precedent this sets. Is VLC going to need new cash injections every time Microsoft change the rules of the Windows Store, or release updates to Windows 8 that break the app? As I say, the next major release of Windows will undoubtedly break everything all over again.

It just strikes me as an awful lot of time, money and effort to build a solution to a problem that really oughtn't to exist in this day and age...

1) It's 2012 and we still need third party software to watch videos? I understand VLC does other stuff, but the reason most people use and install it is just to watch videos;

2) This seems like an awful lot of money, not to mention the precedent it sets, just to craft an interface for what is, ultimately, a transient 'design language'. Metro is ugly and a UX nightmare. It will be replaced with something completely new come the next Windows release, with inevitably mediocre backwards compatibility.

Then brace yourself for a flood of DMCA requests and law enforcement attention in 3.. 2.. 1..

If I understand correctly, the key feature of OTR is its plausible deniability; the messages you send do not have a digital signature that a third party can use to verify their integrity, but the other party in the conversation is able to verify them.

Is that really going to hold up in court? Surely by the same token I could dismiss absolutely everything there is any record of me sending or receiving over HTTP because it could theoretically have been forged or tampered with in transit.

The sheer number of Herman Miller SAYL chairs and iMacs is unbelievable, not to mention the sheer number of employees.

Is Living Social even profitable?

Edit: To answer my own question, a $558 million loss last year: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/02/01/regula...

It might have some benefit somewhere along the line, but the cost of day-to-day abuse (or plain old misuse) would be far greater.

Cost-benefit analysis says no.

Yep, if OVH were referred to it would only have been in a negative context, e.g. outing a P2L (Pay to Leech) site or someone seeding files to torrent trackers.

OVH are most certainly not popular with the scene!

That said, OVH is extremely popular with those involved in piracy more broadly, and their servers are used extensively as seedboxes.

Doesn't work like that.

Anyone outside the US and Canada is doing business with Facebook Ireland Limited. They are bound by Irish law.

Short term pain, long term gain.

Actually it's the dictionary definition of unhappiness.

> The TLDR here is that the OP is a nihilist and all that really matters is your own happiness.

I wouldn't go that far. Sounds to me like the OP is telling those who are obsessed with altruistic life goals, to the point where it is paralyzing them with anxiety and endless self-judgment, to relax, chill out, and focus on their own happiness once in a while.

In any case, there's nothing wrong with being a nihilist. For all you know I'm a figment of your imagination.

> "A pretty good job" (not so pretty when you are waiting in-line for an hour) is not enough.

You can bet the leading companies have already invested huge amounts seeking out efficiency savings and ways to improve customer satisfaction.

Slow moving and bogged down in bureaucracy they may be, but if there were a simple way to avoid common customer complaints (e.g. long queues) without hurting the bottom line, they would already be doing it.

> You also missed the picture of car sharing.

I can't think of anyone I know who would even consider sharing their car. It's just an absolute minefield. It might just about work on a small scale, where you know and trust the people you are sharing with, but that kind of thing doesn't scale.

I don't see much potential here.

Airport car rental is mostly grunt work. Moving cars, storing them, valeting them, maintaining them, filling them with gas, sorting out insurance, customer service, screening customers, chasing late returns, pursuing people for damages, so on and so forth. 5% booking interface, 95% on the ground work.

There is already healthy competition in the market, and the incumbents do a pretty good job. There are lots of moving parts, so things often go wrong, but it's hard to do better.

Who cares about a shiny iPhone app? The existing companies already have passable online interfaces, and if they don't already have iPhone apps they have the capital to roll one out in a matter of weeks and crush any looming competition.

I give both of these startups 12-24 months, and the end won't be pretty.

Worth noting the domain (fuckgodaddy.com) is registered with GoDaddy themselves

I'm no expert on email, but surely once the MX entries are changed, Google are completely cut out of the equation?

Obviously any email sent in the interim will be lost, but any email delivered after the MX record change should just be sent to the new provider.

> In the UK you could get a TV and washing machine off craigslist for not very much. You could fly to continental europe and back for less than £100 pp. You can pick up a car for maybe £2000 or so.

Then £145/year for a TV license, £200/year for road tax and MOT costs, £500/year for car insurance, £500-1000/year for petrol, etc. A £2000 car is going to be a maintenance nightmare, probably add £500/year to cover costs.

Don't even get me started on the cost of owning or renting a place to live, which will make all these costs pale in comparison...

The extra profit from pre-emptive upgrades is probably cancelled out by the increased cost of warranty repairs. Repairs get more complicated, more costly, and more consumers end up having their devices swapped out where previously individual parts could have been replaced.

I think it's more so a side-effect of the relentless push for smaller, thinner devices.

That aligns with the priorities of most consumers. The average consumer is not going to upgrade their hardware — at least, not themselves — but they do want a sleek, slim design.

Although India is listed second by number of requests, in terms of (unique) requests per capita, it comes near the bottom of the pile.

Similarly, Brazil comes in third, but is fairly average (amongst the countries listed) in terms of requests per capita.

The United States leads by a long way, then Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

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