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Perhaps a t-shirt that says "If you can't downvote, upvote!"

It's like a burqa for your nipples.

Can you imagine the abuse? You forward a cat video and they see 'Help I'm trapped in a strange city and need money!'?

An actual exploit like this designed to monitor the hacked computer would likely either talk to a small range of IPs in the infiltrating organization, or a widely scattered botnet.

Trying to contact a small variety of servers of various disparate government agencies seems more like an attempt to generate false evidence that the victim is actually a dangerous hacker.

Or at least that's what Stephenson, Doctorow, and Gibson have trained me to think.

Our neighborhood uses Nextdoor (about 950 homes) and it's fantastic for community building. It focused more on personal interaction than hyperlocal news aggregation, but in my opinion that made it more useful.

Neighbors in our community who have lived on the same block for 20 years without speaking are now getting together for block parties and sharing info about babysitters and local crimes. It's actually very useful.

To be fair, recent congresses have actually pushed through so little significant legislation that there's much less to veto.

Seeing these stats broken out as a percentage of legislation that crosses his desk would be much more interesting.

Bluetooth would have been a much better solution.

I agree.

(my comment on the Arduino blog, cross-posted here)

Massimo, you asked the Arduino community for comments, so here’s mine.

It’s obvious that Dimitri isn’t trying to do you or Arduino harm. Did he over-represent his team’s association with Arduino? Perhaps, though not to the degree that you claim, and your repeated accusations that he’s a liar go over the top.

While you’ve made it very clear you don’t like the term ‘Smartduino’ this is a slope that Arduino has navigated before, trying to find the happy medium between building an open platform and community of developers and manufacturers and protecting your own intellectual property.

Regardless of where Smartduino falls on that line it clearly doesn’t fall very far away from it. So again, whether Dimitri is right or wrong he certainly doesn’t deserve the lambasting bordering on libel that you’re dishing on him.

For someone who has such a leadership role in the Arduino community, your actions today have done a very poor job of promoting it. At the heart of the Arduino movement is the idea that hardware development doesn’t have to be about huge companies that build walls around their IP with lawyers manning the battlements.

This is how THEY solve their conflicts. This is not how WE solve our conflicts.

Got issues with how the Smartduino project represents itself? Talk to them. Work with them. Don’t try to whip us into a frenzy of torches and pitchforks because every single person in this community is trying to expand it and move it forward, a sentiment I see throughout these comments, but not in your own words, where I would most expect to see them.

Relevant, from Arduino's FAQ: "Note that while we don't attempt to restrict uses of the "duino" suffix, its use causes the Italians on the team to cringe (apparently it sounds terrible); you might want to avoid it."

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ

If the point of the blog post was to get Kickstarter to change their policy then it was very poorly written. It read like a hit piece on Smartduino.

I'm a backer of the project and have been following it closely. You don't seem to want to get to the bottom of this so much as yell from a soapbox. Calling a guy and asking 'have you ever heard of this guy?' isn't really enough research for the accusation you made.

When you found out that he does have people on his team who were on the Arduino manufacturing team you still call him a liar. When he claims to have order invoices from your company and asks for your permission to make them public, he hears nothing.

There's a bit more nuance here than you presented, so how about you two get in to a substantive discussion before you hurl any more volleys over the wall at a guy who, though you disagree with, is making a quality product advancing your platform, and who has been trying to talk to you about this?

Unresponsive? Whatnow? He has more comments on the blog post than the post's author! He's asked repeatedly for the author to email him directly, allowing him to release the invoices for the orders the post author claims are nonexistent, but hasn't heard anything from him outside of the public blog post.

This comment is about Kickstarter in general, and not about the Smartduino project, right? Even the linked blog post doesn't imply that they're not capable of delivering their product, and looking at their collateral they appear to be very far along, far more mature than the average hardware kickstarter project.

I just want to make sure we're not blanket conflating branding concerns with ability to ship, because they're entirely different issues.

Author here. You're right, and this was an intentional omission because it was irrelevant to my larger argument. If you want to go to the full depth of determinism then yes, with complete knowledge you can eliminate any chaotic factors in the model.

The greater point though is that with our current capability of determining state we can eliminate a huge amount of chaotic factors from elections, but very, very few chaotic factors from sports and lotto drawings.

We're not anywhere near the ability to determine state to that degree, and even if we were there's the certitude that unless the system was completely closed before the measurements were taken, the minute changes that result from the prediction (a team getting a sense of security, a fan cheering louder, a teammate changing a stride into the locker room because he read a tweet spawned by the prediction) throw the prediction out the window.

So yes, on a scientific basis you're right and that's the grist for another blog post, but on a practical level it's irrelevant.

I'm disappointed by all the folks calling mail fraud a 'loophole'. Mail and wire fraud are the ways people prosecute domestic 419 (Nigerian prince) scams and other confidence games.

This case shouldn't be given a free pass just because the party intended to be deceived is the judicial system rather than the mail recipient.

My biggest problem with this explanation is that even if the star-filled universe were infinite that doesn't necessarily mean there would be a star at every point you look at in the sky.

Depending on the density of the stars in space, it's quite probable that as you zoom in farther and farther you see more and more distant stars, you also see space between those stars. It becomes a limit problem where the 'star density' of the sky (vectors from your viewpoint which will eventually hit a star) gets closer and closer to a specific percentage the further you extend your sphere of view (or magnification level) but will never exceed it, and won't ever go to 1.

So with a top speed of 2,300-3,000 mph and a range of 1,000 miles, it could sustain top speed for what, 20-25 minutes, assuming no fuel required to achieve altitude or for landing?

It's hard to imagine the mission profile such a vehicle would fit.

...other than doing a short-range, high-speed insertion of a bomb delivered from high altitude. In the 1950s. Oh, nevermind.

I think the point is that they're trying to average the load across the datacenter, only part of which is Glacier. If they can offset all the Glacier requests by 12 hours, they'll help normalize load when combined with non-Glacier activity.

I'm impressed by PopCap's openness and candor in this blog post. Tough business decisions are tough, and it's nice that they're up front and transparent about it. They really have no obligation to be.

The flaw with this analogy isn't likening Yahoo! to a Lamborghini. It's saying that startups are all the same, regardless of who's starting them.

If Elon Musk and a new Stanford grad started brand new companies on the same day, would both companies be old busted cars with blown head gaskets?

Also, the metaphor is a bit flawed by likening the 17-year-old floundering company to a new sports car and a hypothetical new company as something that's already worthless because of wear and tear.

TL;DR: "Amazon's going to wreck retail now that they're giving up their unfair advantage and relying solely on better service."

Boo hoo.

I've donated to several kickstarters without a backer reward. They're usually film or music projects though, where the finished product is available to everyone for free.

I can absolutely see Dropbox, Google and Facebook creating a class of SSDful machines as a middle performance layer between RAMful and Diskful machines, but price point and storage limits have a long way to go before there's any wholesale replacement of diskful machines with SSDs.

Also, I'm really surprised there's a datacenter that has a meaningful amount of Facebook, Mozilla, Dropbox and Google servers in the same DC. Looks like someone might be trying to bolster their DC image a bit.

Nevermind. :-)

There's an error in Rule 52. They specifically say variables shouldnt have any capital letters but their example does.

It was still a bit unclear: What the static firing intended to be just 2 seconds, or was it cut short?

Moving from Lightroom to Aperture's not a possibility, given the workflow, experience, and catalog data she's built up in Lightroom over the years.

Upgrading from 4 to 8 gigs last week helped a lot. I'd go to 16 except her MBP won't support it.

I'd love to get her on an SSD but she's on a 1tb drive now and it would be hard for her to try and fit into a 512gb SSD now (especially now that she's on the D800 with huge video files and 72mb raw photo files.

It's frustrating that it will work find some of the time and not others, implying that the problem could be fixed with better memory management. I do hope that a serious Adobe competitor arises to force Adobe to make its apps faster and more resource efficient.

Thank god for this article. My wife is a photographer making heavy use of Lightroom on her 17" MBP and has been experiencing these exact problems for a year or two. We've tried everything to fix it, rebuilding the system from scratch, to no avail.

She had 4 gigs of RAM which we recently upped to 8gigs which reduced the severity of the problem.

I really, really hope this is something that gets fixed in Mountain Lion. Tasks that should take 20 seconds take 10 minutes or more.

It's good to know she's not crazy.

"referrers" not "referrer's"

Anyone know about the thermal conductivity of the cured resin? If it's a thermal insulator I wonder if the capacitors might burn out after prolonged use because there's not enough heat dissipation.

Oh, and I want one.