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I'm all for a HSR system and I think it sounds AWESOME, but I have doubts if it would ever catch on.

HSR would have to compete with the current airline system. If it's cheaper, more convenient to ride, and the time required to travel is comparable to airline, it could catch on, but as it stands I'm unsure if there's enough room for it to survive while competing against the airline system.

Commercial airlines travel at around 500-600 miles per hour, so if a HSR system is able to reach 220mph, then the plane will get you there about ~2.5x as fast. Of course. People consider their time to be valuable, so if you need to get somewhere quick, you'd likely just take the airplane, unless you're traveling somewhat nearby (like San Francisco to Los Angeles). It would appeal to most people not having to deal with the TSA, but there's no guarantee TSA wouldn't decide that it's their duty to "protect" (terrorize) the people in the HSR system as well.

Somebody please write me a message to convince me my message is nonsense and that a HSR system is a great idea.

It also has to catch on as a popular thing in society. I like the term "absurdism".

I just tried Stylish add-on for Firefox. Works great except I can't seem to figure out a way to make custom styles work for only a specific page. Maybe I'm missing something but there doesn't seem to be a way.

For example if you have .margin-width CSS class defined it will work on any page that has .margin-width CSS class, not just desired page (like Facebook).

LinkedIn is scattered. They use a lot of different technologies. It looks like they will only be using Play in a few of the services that they offer.

I just wanted to post real quick to say that I have experience calling my congressman and talking with staffers politely but confidently and can confirm that they did indeed take my opinions and ideas very seriously, or at least gave me the impression that they did.

I was getting around 500 KiB/s for the 1080p version just a few minutes into the download.

You could also just rip the 1080p version from YouTube with "Easy YouTube Video Downloader" browser add-on, or a similar add-on (there are tons of these). The YouTube servers typically support downloads of around 1-1.5 MiB/s which is better than torrents in most cases (on residential Internet lines).

It is down for me as well. USA here.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/thepiratebay.se also says it's up.

Not sure what's going on. Possibly an ISP level block?

I agree. I really like the Google transparency report but I would like to know WHO/WHAT government officials/organizations requested to remove WHAT links and what their basis for removal is. However, I am still glad that the transparency report exists at all.

Sorta/kinda relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nncY-MA1Iu8

It's a TED talk about a woman claiming that sleep is the secret to success. (I only sorta/kinda agree with her but it's still an interesting point of view to consider)

I didn't quit my full time job but I got fired and ironically (although it still sucks to be fired) I am happy that they let me go because now I can work full time on my independent projects. I am poor at the moment as well and live with my parents, although I have a feeling that some of my projects are going to work out and when that happens, I will be much happier to work for myself rather than at another company.

If you really REALLY are unhappy with your decision to quit your job, then why don't you just find another full time job? Sure, it wont be the same as the one you quit... it will have pros and cons for sure. You could even possibly try to go back to your old job and see what they say. Couldn't hurt to ask if you left them on good terms.

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop." -Confucius

This was a pretty good article and I like that it was written with a level of candor that is fair to both sides and factually telling the information. However, it was very long and I stopped reading half way through.

So for those of us that live in the US, is it not possible for us to request to have the data that Facebook stores about us???

Related (well, maybe): You can easily download a copy of your Facebook data no matter where you are located, by logging in and clicking "Account Settings" > "Download a copy of your Facebook data". This will include all things like messages, pictures, etc., but I am positive that it isn't nearly as in depth as what is outlined in that article.

So what should I do if I am reading that article and thinking to myself the whole time "yup, I do that. yup i do that too"

Congrats, sir. That is awesome. I also have Crohn's, and am still developing feverishly as well. More power to ya.

I have found that I ALWAYS try to learn as much as I can to have a fully intimate understand of the tools that I use. However, I have also found that this has more often than not been a huge disservice to myself.

For example, yesterday I got fired from my employer on my 90th day for not being productive enough. I can't fault my employer because I understand his perspective. He needs employees that are productive. I spent most of my 90 days learning the tools and EXACTLY how they work, without much to show for it. This was my fault. I spent too much time learning.

This is true with many things that I learn on my own as well. For example, in the last few days I started teaching myself Kohana PHP framework. If some of MY applications are going to be using it, I want to know exactly how it works and everything about it. I want to be an "expert" at everything, but I'm not quite sure how realistic that is.

I think I am going to try to change my ways to only learn enough to "make it work". If the tool is worthwhile to use over and over again, it is inevitable to develop an intimiate understanding of the way it works over time. I think it is more important to be able to have awesome products to show for the time you invest in your tools.

Great, thanks. I have downloaded and am messing around with Kohana now.

So far we have 1 recommendation to use a framework, and 1 recommendation to use KohanaPHP IF you choose to use a framework. Any other recommendations or thoughts?

Hmmm very interesting. First of all thanks for posting that, it works perfectly as well, using the Grab++ tool.

The method that Skalman posted using the Firefox Web Console works perfectly as well, although in the CNN video that I posted above, that method seems to download a .flv file, whereas your method seems to be downloading a .mov file. Interesting....

EDIT: Both the .flv and the .mov seem to be the same file. They are both exactly 11,840,167 bytes, so that leads me to believe that they are the same file. It is interesting however that your method and Skalman's method download the same exact file just with a different file extension. I wonder why this is.

Oh hell yes. This method works perfectly :-)

Good point. I agree with your suggestion and have made an edit to my post.

I will have to look into that. Thanks for the response. Does anybody know how to rip videos from various websites, though? I feel like it is definitely possible. I use a program called JDownloader which can rip videos from Youtube, MegaUpload, and various other "streaming only" sites. Somehow the program is able to extract the URL of the video file(s) and download them directly. This program however does not support any of the news sites (including CNN).

At this point I am mostly curious about the theory. I am curious how a hacker would go about finding the URL and download the files themselves. I looked at Youtube source code and examined it with a HTTP debugger and can't seem to figure out the URL of where the video is stored but I know it is possible because the JDownloader program does it. I am sure that I, along with many here, would be able to benefit from knowing how to download from various "streaming only" video websites.

Facebook also had to pay $100,000 to buy the .com. That's not really a possibility for most of us.

+1 sir.

Should be revised to "Work to live, don't live to work. (unless it's your own startup)" :)

Perhaps his thread can also be good lesson for those trying to run a startup, to treat your employees fairly and don't take advantage of them (no matter if they are a programmer or not)

The example of the "privacy protection" reminds me when I was a n00b (I still kinda am), but like 3 years ago I wanted a domain that was taken so I paid ~$15 for them for domain backordering.... LOL. I didn't really know what it was at the time (stupid me) but now I feel so incredibly stupid for basically giving away $15 and getting duped for my money.

Yup, this has happened to me several times back in high school, when all the shitty bands used to approach me asking to make a website. At first I was like "yeah, cool!" and then they automatically expected me to update it consistently and do things like handle merchandise sales. LOL. Yeah right. Then they get mad at me for not maintaining it. I'm like "I made the thing, you update it".

That was my lesson. I don't make websites anymore for people without charging thousands of dollars and an hourly fee for any future work.

I think you are all right that I should not try to re-invent the wheel and instead focus on great content. Although writing my own would be fun and worthwhile, you are right that time can be better spend working on something else. Thanks for the comments.

Sounds like a great suggestion and I am glad that you posted the example too. It would need to be integrated well into my existing page and based on the example you showed, it looks like that wouldn't be too difficult. Thanks!

I use Ext JS at work (it's awesome) and jQuery for my home projects (it's also very awesome but very different than Ext JS).

I would recommend taking a look at Ext JS as it can do some pretty incredible things. For instance it features a layout manager which allows you to make web applications that look and function very much like home-computer based applications.

Forgive my ignorance but isn't the hash algorithm publicly known? Isn't "reverse engineered the SecurID token" basically have the same meaning as breaking RSA algorithm?