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Stupid title, as ACTA predates the Obama administration.

I've also got that impression, partially from this answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVSnoJZHmM#t=21m33s

Maybe I should put my location (Sweden) in my profile and hopefully it's just the cultural differences that make you come across as arrogant. I do think there are some organization (ISOC, "IETF", IAB) who might not share your opinion and I guess the last time I checked was back in 2005 when DNSSEC was first implemented for the .se TLD.

I'm glad to hear all solutions has been found. Still, last time I checked researchers actually had a lot of influence on the evolution of the Internet.

Edit: What I'm really saying is that if there would have been an implemented, 'universal', solution that takes civil liberties into the digital world, then it would be much harder to take these liberties away. I really don't think most politicians understand neither technology nor the fact that they are in effect infringing civil liberties like anonymity protection, freedom of expression and secrecy of letters. Who's to blame for this? Probably no one and everyone, still sad to see though.

To: The Compter Scientists, the group of people who invented the internet.

Hey, maybe you could invent some technology which actually provides some privacy and security instead of all this 80's tech?

Sincerely,

The Users, the group of people who use the Internet on a daily basis.

Protesting might be a first step, but what really counts is organizing. The Pirate Party started in 2006 and now has a man (and maybe soon a woman) in the European Parliament and active parties in a dozen countries. I know some people are skeptical to the whole phenomenon, but that's mostly because they don't understand where it came from. I'm not saying that starting a political party is the right thing to do in the US, but organizing and getting heard probably is.

I don't think you guys get that this law affects how you provide access to a communications network. It doesn't matter if you have your own service provider or network, you are still going to have to comply with the laws. The entire point of this treaty is to hold the provider accountable for how people use their services.

Didn't want to make a new submission, but I read this yesterday: 'Anti-depressants cut suicides', http://www.thelocal.se/22842/20091023/

Also includes the origin of the Swedish "suicide myth" at the end.

Is this list called "Compare a very small group of people to the rest of society and claim they are doing badly?".

People who attend "elite" universities are far more likely to be successful. This of course might not have anything to do with the actual education.

You shouldn't even have to buy the device (Kindle). It should be included when you buy the first years course literature. I do think amazon knows what they are doing, but the publishers needs to wake up.

The only real future for the publish industry that I see, with regard to course literature, is if they either create an outstanding service themselves or work together with the universities. I don't really see any drawback with electronic books that won't solve itself by time.

The publishing industry faces some of the same challenges that the music industry did when the mp3 players started to become available. And similar to then people will start to think of books as data, and not psychical things. They need to realize this and make the most of it themselves, and not make litigation and DRM part of their business plan.

Regarding evolution of the e-reader, I think course literature is going to be the "killer market". I've attended courses where half of the class couldn't even get all the books. Required reading is also often a fraction of the books content. Sometimes one book is more expensive then all the other books combined and you can't really make notes in them if you want to sell them later. If you miss a class session you always have to find out if there were any changes or notes handed out. To summarize, it's really a pain.

Imagine if you instead could loan/lease the books to your e-reader for the duration of the course and only pay for the relevant pages. You could make digital notes and share with your classmates and ask questions to your teachers. By syncing the device you would always have the latest course schedule and material. Some of this is doable without an e-reader, but there always be a disconnect between the analog and digital information.

This might already exist or never be practically feasible. But when people claim that 'people always prefer physical books', I don't agree. At least not when it comes to course literature.

On a side note, anyone seeing Google selling OCR'ed books as e-books with an android based e-reader? :)

You need to switch doctors to someone who takes your problem seriously. And you need to start to take it seriously yourself. Don't do anything until you have a proper diagnosis, chances are you'll just make it worse.

When I traceroute youtube the last host my ISP owns is actually named google-10ge.bredband2.net. My ISP peers with google by AS29518 SKYNET-AS to AS15169 GOOGLE.

Seems natural as the Internet will become the primary communications network, replacing both the telephone and television networks.

One might think that the developer of the application is the right person to pay for the application.

The publishing industry and the music industry is very very different. But if the publishing industry does not lead (or at least keep up) with the evolution of the market they will become marginalized. Just like the "little plastic disc" industry is today. They really need to make the e-book "market" mature before e-books become more popular than psychical books.

"At some point I just said, 'screw it, I’ll get a high paying job.'" - I guess that was the job.

This page gives me good feelings about the future of the company, http://dailybooth.com/ijustine/969074 (see the comments)

I think the point is that it was done without the help of ice-breakers.

mcormier is probably refering to "The Great Masculine Renunciation". If you're interested in fashion studies, I can recommend the book "Fashion-ology: an introduction to fashion studies" by Yuniya Kawamura.

[1] http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Great-Masculine-Renunciation/... [2] http://books.google.com/books?id=LUWTJWXZ2QQC&lpg=PA40&#...

For the history of Tetris, check out the BBC documentary "Tetris: From Russia with Love".

From what I've seen HN is more debate oriented than 'fun and uplifting' and it's probably natural that people care about how they are represented. I think the easy solution is to write a couple of lines of code, instead of having people stop caring. It's no secret that this site is very underdeveloped. Probably deliberate, but not without its consequences.

I recommend the even more capable Ncat (http://nmap.org/ncat/), which is a reimplementation of netcat by "The Nmap Project".

IPREDator is administrated by the same corporation who run Relakks, but has their own hardware. Relakks is run by "Trygghetsbolaget i Lund AB" (approx. Safeness Corporation in Lund Ltd.) and has no affiliation with TPB. The Pirate Party did promote Relakks when it was first released.

More about Relakks at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/technology/20iht-net21.1.5...

Never thought we were going to see prerendering of webpages :)

Hm, maybe we need privacy guidelines at HN. Let people disclose information on their own terms.

This is in theory correct, but there's many factors which decides how much your body will uptake, store and burn. It is possible to eat less but gain weight. It is also possible to gain weight and loose fat. I don't know what this obsession with weight comes from as it's generally a very poor measurement of fitness.

Please Oracle make ZFS GPL as Btrfs is. :)