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Let's not exaggerate. Just because the article is silly and obviously trying to make something bigger than it actually is doesn't mean that "everyone born these days are morons".

Also, http://xkcd.com/603/

To be honest, the whole title is silly. Apparently a kid needs to be "bored" to do that. It's obviously an important information. "Zero-day exploit" is also an amazing way to call "changing the hour to make the crops grow faster".

The whole title is a click bait, as we expect some kind of hacker kid prodigy (after all, he was "bored", not actively hacking) who would have found a severe exploit in iOS and Android.

The article can be summed up by "a young kid changes the hour on her device to make the crops grow faster in the game".

(heck, I was changing the date to make my sharewares work longer at the same age and nobody wrote about me)

Pity though that Swing didn't get much love in this release. But I guess that's the course of things.

To be fair, the portion of open source software which actually have that kind of guidelines instead of being just a shot from the individual developer's mind is very small.

Nothing to do with OpenSource issues, though.

It's deprecated anyway, it refers to the first death star. Use the latest specification provided by the Empire for exact calculations.

Picasa is an app you have to download, Google Earth (Keyhole) too.

Maybe someone could add a "speculation" or "prediction" tag to the title, because so far it's looking like an actual fact.

Besides, my company for example filters such words in URLs (and logs any such attempt), so I wouldn't be able to see this site from there with such a name.

It is uncommon to the regular user, though, who is probably the one targeted by this feature.

Stallman is like you would imagine him. Hardcore geek/guru, fully involved and dedicated to his cause.

Torvalds is more of the pragmatic kind of person in personality (at least from what I remember reading about him over the years). He's not a preacher like Stallman, and actually much less "only linux is good, the rest is garbage" than most of Linux gurus.

And I guess it is apparent in the look as well. One "hardcore", the other more pragmatic, "normal".

Well at least we can learn how to use it, by heart, instead of refreshing the "We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon." page :)

It's fun to read about, but I can't help wondering what is really the idea behind that.

I mean, someone invested money to design and manufacture this addon. In an objective to sell it.

But who would buy that? What exactly is the target market for that product, which is far from cheap (canceling all impulse or 'fun' sales)

People with such lens most likely have at least a bit of knowledge about photography and wouldn't take a quality photo with an iPhone. And uninformed people... they don't have such lens, they have small digital cameras or are satisfied with the iPhone as it is.

It's not really a matter of weight or carrying either: if you carry the lens, you might as well put the body in the bag.

So I remain puzzled.

Nothing to see here, only a stupid video trying to get views.

In France you have 3 main players (and some little ones using their networks, but that doesn't really count). They were already condemned for some "secret" agreements on prices (http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15060.php).

A fourth operator is in process of entering the market, but it has had a lot of difficulties already. The 3 main actors really did all they could to slow the process down and even try to have the government refuse the license to the new one.

Their main reason? The new "challenger" is Free.fr. These are the same ones who pulled the internet market in France. The ones who came and proposed a free dialup access (minus communication costs), when all other actors were still on "3 hours + comm costs" kind of deals. The ones who pushed the ADSL market to lower prices for more service, and introduced the concept of "triple play" (you get a special router from the ISP, and you get free TV and phone calls added to the regular internet) ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox , the English page is lacking, though ). They forced the other actors (roughly the same ones as the mobile telecom) to come up with the same offers for about the same prices.

So that's why they did everything they could to prevent Free from entering the mobile market. By fear of the same kind of thing happening.

Free.fr managed to get their license though, and are in the process of establishing their antenna network. So we will see what will be, when they will really start, and announce their mobile deals.

Yeah, that's becoming quite usual. Change one thing and you have self entitled UI experts all other the place to explain that it's awful because their personal taste doesn't allow for change.

But apparently it works. After all, I clicked the link and I'm here commenting.

Ok, but why would you have to see https, then? Wouldn't a lock icon be enough?

If the idea is to drop the prefix because it's redundant and useless to most, then it's same for https. All what matters to the end user is that he is on a secure connection, I think.

In Opera, it's only a cosmetic change as long as you don't click the address bar. When you click it, the full url is displayed and selected, along with the http://, so no problems to copy.

(It is a bit disturbing though because it goes a bit too far, and cuts the parameters. for example, if I activate it, right now all I see is "news.ycombinator.com/reply", I won't see the id after. Though I guess most users won't care.)

"The basic purpose of hiding the common prefix, http://, is to make URLs more visible. This will also help users to easily identify the website they are dealing with. Although, the URL prefix for encrypted pages (https://) will be displayed as usual to avoid confusion."

How is showing the prefix in one case and not the other avoiding confusion?

If they want to get rid of it, they should get rid of it fully, like the others, and use a recognizable icon for the modes, but not show it and hid it depending on the case. That's the base of confusion, no?

Yes, of course. From your previous messages it was looking like you were assuming that private files were "safe", that's why I wanted to add the detail.

I agree as well on the need for an encrypted solution. I'm surprised that Dropbox hasn't been proposing this already. Well, unless they intend to have access to the contents, themselves..

The issue with Dropbox recently is that for 4 hours, there was no password check. So it's not as much to protect public/shared files, but to protect all files you have on Dropbox, in the eventuality someone gets full access to your account.

Do you have a not-awful one to propose? I would be interested in it.

But that's also the best way to becoming careless about typing "rm".

And the day you will be ssh'd on another computer, you may forget that you are using a command which is really deleting.

You can submit and vote, so people assume it's just like a reddit or something, I guess. The bigger problem is that it gets voted on, because it's "fun/cool".

But indeed it doesn't really have something to do here, it's more in the "sensational" tech news. Or not even.

Apparently it's Andrew S. Tanenbaum (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum), and the actual quote was:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618160

"The Special Rapporteur considers cutting off users from internet access, regardless of the justification provided, including on the grounds of violating intellectual property rights law, to be disproportionate and thus a violation of article 19, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."

The important part is "regardless of the justification provided", in my opinion.

Apparently some kid was having fun vandalizing the page to break this. The page is semi-protected now, so it should be ok from now on.

That story reminds me of a more personal anecdote. Some day in the past year, my girlfriend found a picture of herself (taken from her Flickr) used as the "anchor" for some article on a online magazine's portal.

No mail to ask her about it. Nothing.

When she asked to get it removed, they assured that they always take their photos from paid stocks, or free of rights, so that it's not their fault. They didn't give more details, but eventually removed the picture.

The problem is that we live in an age when most people just use Google image to illustrate their stories, and assume that they can use just anything, because they found it there.

Actually, Minecraft model and appeal is different, because it's a game which is mostly geared towards your inner will to create, assemble, like a kid (or, you know, grown up kids) with Lego bricks.

SL has two sides, the creator side is one, but most people, like you describe, are here mostly to "be" in a different world, and chat, not to create or shape it.

Creating something in Minecraft takes a few minutes, you hit blocks to gather them, you reassemble them somewhere else. In SL, to create, you have to be in a place which allows you to create (most likely one you rent, or a sandbox). You have to know how to create, and the learning step is quite high. You have to pay actual money to upload any texture or mesh to the game.

So the "god" possibilities are high, but not accessible to most of people. Minecraft is the opposite on this point.