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Weird, Outwitters is listed as free on the one man left website, but iTunes has it as $0.99

Interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has stepped up to prevent the chilling effect of DMCA takedown notices?

It seems like a non-profit could handle this role where they act as a proxy where the victim of the notice asserts they have copyright, sends the information to the proxy and then the proxy acts on their behalf?

I thought I read somewhere that because of the neuroplasticity reduction in the brain as you age, that as people get older they are less accepting of change and trend towards conservatism.

I can't find a good article to back that up with, though, so ymmv.

My own anecdotal evidence is that people believe what their news sources say more than they actually crunch numbers, so because of the polarization of news along political party lines people are going to believe whatever they see or read.

The scariest thing about this infographic is that it made me realize that for the majority of people in any election, how it impacts their taxes is their only concern.

I would guess that the soundest strategy for any party in any country would be to lie about lowering taxes by more than what your competitor is lying about lowering taxes.

As others have pointed out, your infographic is missing data (Rmoney hasn't released a detailed plan) and the design downplays this fact to hide that the numbers are likely not factual.

That does not seem apolitical.

(I'm not an American, so I am neither republican or democrate)

Why don't they show something like "4 of your friends" read this answer without identifying the friend? They would need a lower threshold were you would need a minimum number of friends before this feature would kick in to keep the data anonymous. They could also just say something like "4 people within your network" read this and use the network effect of 2nd and 3rd degree connections.

I'm surprised that no adult websites implement a social sharing feature like that. No one is clicking on the facebook / google+ buttons on purpose, but it might be interesting to see what videos people in your network are watching if it was anonymous.

of course, the real problem is that Apple will read this rumour and then get the idea of implementing these screws to lock consumers out of their devices and achieve the utopia of "no consumer serviceable parts".

The best tech support guy I've known always wore dress shirts plus ties and had a psych degree instead of any kind of tech degree.

He's since moved on to becoming a personal trainer, another profession where understanding human motivators really helps him out.

Over the last 15 years I've had 3 hard drive failures and 0 burned houses.

ymmv

The simplest solution I've had is to keep a notebook where I for every page I write down the security questions and my answer. This is done because I have a bad memory, not as an attempt to salt, but it is a good point that we should try to answer these questions differently every time.

This is used for the few times where I have to do password recovery / phone support, I just grab the book.

For normal password usage I use automated hashing system in Firefox.

I've noticed this divide for a long time, but the way I've always plotted the axis is "urban" vs "rural".

urban - accepts a certain amount of chaos for the benefits of reducing redundancy, wants to centralize code, reuse via shared centralized code

rural - wants to be isolated, wants to "see" everything, wants to have control over everything, reuse via cut-and-paste

Valve's statements about Windows 8 usability were mirrored by Blizzard.

The source engine is faster under OpenGL on Windows as well, not just Linux. So It's an OpenGL vs Direct3D debate, not Windows vs Linux.

"Is all this noise just saber-rattling?"

All this noise is branding/promotion of the Valve brand, and would likely be going on even without Windows 8.

But I agree that Windows 8 will likely try to copy Apple's iTunes success and that Valve needs diversify.

I'm hoping they do a console running Linux at some point.

In the context, Marx isn't about politics. Marx is about economics.

Talking about economics without referring Marx at all seems disingenuous.

The article is a post from the Valve's economies blog.

for the people who are arguing "but what about the right to bear arms"?

The wikipedia page has some interesting discussions about the history and analysis of the 2nd amendment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Here's the wikipedia page on gun-related deaths statistics since some people are writing "where's the beef?" comments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...

   US has a score of 10.27 per 100,000

   Canada has a score of 4.78 per 100,000

   Australia has a score of 2.94 per 100,000

   England/Wales has a score of 0.46 per 100,000

   Japan has a score of 0.07 per 100,000

(edit: formatting)

Maybe more local business should be using these ads?

Facebook captures location + interests.

I haven't been following Ouya since the initial hype, but wasn't one of their initial talking points that they would only allow free games?

I guess they're doing paid games now: "But that’s not the end of it: We’re promising to deliver Final Fantasy III like you’ve never seen it before – Hironobu Sakaguchi’s third installment in the role playing game franchise will be updated to exploit OUYA’s high-definition resolution in glorious graphic detail. For those of you who are new to Final Fantasy, we’ll offer a free demo so you can give it a go!"

I really don't understand why they don't do netflix premium with per-movie rentals for $4-5 per streamed movie.

Given that all the big box movie rental stores have died, this would make them a player vs iTunes and Amazon who manage to have better selection than Netflix.

People use pre-paid credit cards and an IP unblocker to get past the IP Wall.

It's kind of ridiculous how much more stuff is on US Netflix and HuluPlus compared to Canadian Netflix.

I wonder how many roadblocks they've put into the way for signing up on Hulu Plus from Canada? You might need a US iTunes account as well to get the app.

I feel the same way about Boxee.

The Boxee netflix app is painful to use. It's so much faster to load up Netflix on the iPad and then use Airplay to stream to the Boxee.

index sites could have password encoded rar files of AwesomeNewMovie-1080P-SceneHipsters.rar (like they already do if they're using file lockers)

wouldn't the hash be different for every rar password used?

I guess the problem is once any copy infringing hash is found it is trivial to search the network and find everyone who has transferred it?

edit: although if the only writer is the uploader, would you be able to tell who read the copy infringing copy vs who just has it because their part of the network?

I tried again and it started working... must have been a server issue.

I used to have all the mixes from hybridized.org

Gray Area and Digital Witchcraft were fantastic

not working for me under the latest Firefox either. Soundcloud itself works fine and I use it all the time.

> “These illicit sites are among the culprits behind the music industry’s more than 50 percent decline in revenues during the last decade, resulting in 15,000 layoffs and fewer resources to invest in new bands,” wrote RIAA CEO Cary Sherman in a New York Times piece last year.

If we assume that the average salary of the 15,000 laid off employees was $67k-100k, so that means they saved $1-1.5 billion a year with these lay-offs?

Does anyone know what hardware companies they are using for their network?

Are customers going to have an optical transceiver in their house?

That's the first I've heard that Gates didn't say the 640k quote. Thank you for the correction.

re: #2

have you been following this story at all?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nsa+whistleblower+william+binney

(lmgtfy used not because I'm trying to be a dick, but rather because the direct google search gives a url that contains all kinds of extra parameters)

yes, a facebook list.

your clusters were perfect lists of family, different groups of friends who knew each other, my wife's family, etc.

I saw it on HN a while ago, but I've been liking morphine: regulate distractions

You configure the websites to block, and when you try to access a blocked site it lets you create a 1, 3, 5 minute window to access the site.

really good for a 5 minute break.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fbnpehpbojenlldmfc...