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Seems like branding is the way to go on the internet, rather than throwing crap in peoples faces.

Example: Yahoo News, brought to you ad free by Nationwide Insurance

Then people think "I like Yahoo News, I like Nationwide Insurance" instead of "I hate that scummy ad, I hate Yahoo News".

I don't think he's proposing a micropayment system, more like a universal system to keep track of who worked on what song.

I think he's saying Katy Perry sends a song to Spotify along with a bitcoin-type address and at the end of the month they send the payment to that address, which divides it up between all the writers, producers and rights holders.

Me too, and it'll be interesting to see if/how he deals with what's become of his baby, once a democracy but now a "failed state ruled by warlords". He doesn't strike me as someone who'll turn a blind eye to the mod problems like the outgoing guy did.

Is this just a proposal or something?

Really hoping they bought it because it's something amazing that Amazon doesn't have, or they're planning on using it themselves and want more control over it.

If they shut it down and I have to rewrite all the stuff I've built with it I'm going to freak the fuck out.

I'd rather they focus on finding out who starts those chain emails. Those things are a threat to the Republic.

Ah I'm stuck in an infinite death loop in the dodgeball room

Edit: it somehow fixed itself and gave me a skateboard

Because I have time to invent shit.

Well I'm a self employed house painter even though I could probably get a job tomorrow doing either Drupal or Angular and never have to crawl around another toilet ever again.

You gotta take some risks.

How long until Apple buys DuckDuckGo, minutes or seconds?

All the computers for the paint mixing machines in every Home Depot were screwed up today, which brought up the topic of the hack and he got excited when I suggested it was probably outdated software on the point of sales machines that was to blame.

The interesting part to me was it sounded like the managers explained to them that it was all the bank's fault. Not that Home Depot was too cheap and lazy to update their software. And ya got to talk about something while the paint's shakin

I got into an argument about that with the guy at the Home Depot paint counter today. I blamed the hack on Home Depot probably running XP on their POS machines and he blamed the banks not doing something that they do in Europe, I'm assuming it's this EMV chip because it sounded like he was repeating something he was told.

There are a lot of terrible things out there but one that really bugs me is all the misinformation/propaganda that the internet causes. I didn't see it coming, I thought the web would make people more informed, not less.

Can I get a tldr? Where is all this money ending up?

Something like a Mozilla-run opensource p2p Rdio with periodic NPR-style fundraisers? Sounds good to me.

The problem as always would be with the major labels, they won't go for anything that weakens their control, but you could certainly start with an indie label alliance of some sort.

It's even worse than that, this isn't like Bill Maher getting fired from ABC for something he said on the air during a time of hysteria. This was something Eich did in private six years ago which he may or may not regret, depending on how you interpret his blog post. The precedent this sets is truly awful.

I'm getting the feeling he really did voluntarily step down to save the company. But if he wanted to fight it he might have a good case, as per California Labor Code - Section 1101:

>No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy:

>(a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office.

>(b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.

>- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/LAB/1/d2/3/5/s1101#sthash...

The other paradox is that this might do more damage to Mozilla than if he stayed, the reaction is pretty split but a lot of people see this as an act of cowardice on Mozilla's part. I'm personally finding it hard to respect how they handled it.

Putting aside moral arguments for a moment, if Eich didn't voluntarily step down Mozilla may be in a bit of a fix, as per California Labor Code - Section 1101:

>No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy:

>(a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office.

>(b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.

>- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/LAB/1/d2/3/5/s1101#sthash...

They're probably thinking post-Facebook. They aren't dumb, they know what they have now won't last and when it dies out they can cash in their user data and go into the virtual reality business.

I wanted a part time job to pay the bills while I'm finishing up a couple sites so I took one washing dishes at a pizza joint. All I can say is writing code in the morning and then doing the most mindless, repetive work while being forced to listen to "sunny FM" is not something I recommend. I think if I hear one more Billy Joel song my brain is going to go into emergency shutdown mode.

I love it but it's sometimes not as smart as it thinks it is. For instance they removed ng-bind-html-unsafe (because "safety"! Thanks Ralph Nader!) and now you have to jump through all kinds hoops to add a simple ng-click to a dynamically generated element.

That's something that can be done in 30 seconds with jQuery but my determination in making it work the 'Angular Way' has turned it into a 48 hour Donald Duck cartoon.

Why did Yellow Horse want to use her real name? Attaching your real name and photo to everything Google knows about you seems like a pretty bad idea.

That would suck, but I think what makes Rdio the best of the bunch is it's people-powered discovery system. I don't use the Stations feature and it would probably do just fine without it.

Isn't Facebook correctly assuming that if you use it you're okay with your life being an open book? They've never attempted to hide it and everyone who's uncomfortable with that has moved on, or at least using it very conservatively.

So who exactly has a problem with this?

Most expensive city in America, the most downright tyrannical laws in the country, might come crashing down on your head at any moment... oh, and NO WOMEN.

I thought you guys were supposed to be smart.

Dogecoin is doing a good job positioning itself as the internet tipping currency, as far as I know there isn't a dead-simple way of doing it yet though.

Google Glass: now with Spider-Sense!

Yeah that's pretty obvious if you've ever seen a news article with Facebook comments that the Drudge Report has linked to, particularly one involving a black person.

If it can be shown that Facebook is aware of this would it put them in legal jeopardy?

That personal info must be worth an unholy amount of money for them to blow their once-stellar reputation like this.