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Those kind of tasks would go in the online calendar, scheduled on some future date.

The one outside tool I use is an online calendar, and I put everything on this calendar, even things that aren't actually for a fixed time like "make a coffee table at the workshop" or "figure out how to recruit new PhD students" — I'll schedule them on a date when I want to think about it. That way all my future plans and schedule are together, and not a bunch of lists I have to keep track of.

I had a similar experience as the author I broke my cell phone in Chongqing, China. If you have a chance to go to China, I highly recommend it. The society is just so different there, and it's incredible in so many ways.

You may be able to do it without speaking Chinese, but it would be much more difficult, and I'd be afraid of mutual misunderstanding of what I wanted the repairperson to do.

I learned the basics of Chinese before I went to the country, and took an intensive course in Mandarin the first time I went there.

I think learning a new programming language is more about logic. There's not a lot of memorization, but you need practice (some need it more than others) to make the connections. After learning one programming language, other languages may have different structures, but the logic required is not all that different.

In my experience learning Chinese, there's no shortcut to putting the hours in and memorizing vocabulary. I think this is even more true for Chinese than most other languages.

Learning a new programming language is difficult mentally. Learning a new human language is extremely tedious, but I think anybody can do it if they put in enough time.

Google seems to have no interest in protecting android users from this either.

There was an app called 'App Ops' that gave android users the ability to choose which permissions they wanted to grant applications. No root required.

Get too many notifications from an app, or don't need location functionality? You used to be able to turn these features off one-by-one for each app. You could also see the last time an app used location services. Android developers have a bad habit of requesting every permission under the sun, so I've gotten in the habit of disabling the permissions that don't add value for me.

Unfortunately, Google later removed this feature saying that its release was accidental. I thought it was a clean solution to a major problem.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-p...

You're assuming that the governing law is that of the place of birth of the clone.

This would be my biggest problem, I think it's just nuts: "all travellers transiting in the USA using either a transit visa or the Visa Waiver Program will be photographed and fingerprinted."

They didn't even need to be a shareholder.

Shareholders with voting shares have the right to attend shareholders meetings and vote in the board of directors. In such large corporations, shareholders usually appoint a proxyholder who attends the meeting and votes on the shareholder's behalf.

My understanding was that Nokia Plan B was basically soliciting such proxies by asking shareholders to give their votes to them for the purpose of replacing the board.

Corporate law usually doesn't require a proxyholder to be a shareholder, so they actually didn't even need such a (weak) claim to authority.

As a side note, soliciting proxies usually requires following proper corporate law procedure by sending prescribed materials. Nokia Plan B just had a website, which was an early indication this was a fake.

You should probably update the price column. It still says $49.99, although the price increased to $59.99.

Perhaps this illustrates the need to revamp profiles.

They're on the 4th page, as of this writing.

From what I've heard: * If you paid by google checkout, you were never actually charged * If you paid by paypal, you should have been refunded by August 17th, 2010 (http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/08/17/timing-update/)

So if you paid by paypal, just check your transaction history around that date to ensure you actually got the refund.

Update: I got a response within 24 hours after emailing contact@wakemate.com

I also sent an email a week ago, and got no response. Sent to preorder@wakemate.com

Nope. It was registered April 26 2010 by ".CO Founders program".

.CO founders are hand-picked to ensure the domain will "contribute to the .CO community in a meaningful way." In return, they get get first dibs on a .CO domain name, which will be publicly launched in July 2010. (http://www.cointernet.co/domain/become-co-founder)

Maybe it is registered under the program's name instead of the actual registrant to ensure registrants under the program stick with their originally-submitted plan. Or at least they can't turn around and change it to a domain parked ad page.

Or perhaps the whois registrant name will be changed after the public launch.

It still says so here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/security/safety/safe-payments/

"Skype-to-Skype calls will always be free but there are a few things that cost a little such as calling mobiles and ordinary phones when you want to get hold of your friends that havent started using Skype yet."

In the author's world, people who would otherwise get an organ now will not be able to. If we allowed organ purchases on the free market, they would be allocated by ability to pay rather than by need.

Similarly, a person undergoing financial difficulty may end up selling organs to stay afloat.

In my opinion, the most morally acceptable result is not necessarily the most economic efficient one. The author disagrees, which is fine, but he doesn't look at the downsides to a more efficient system. The dilemmas above are completely ignored by the author, and he only focusses on the end result: economic inefficiency (more home foreclosures and deaths).

I'm weary of any argument that only looks at one side of the coin.

Is there a problem with sign-ups?

"An error occured while joining. The email you entered may have been registered already."

I was especially disappointed after reading rmc's comment that "One of [OpenStreetMap's] statements is 'We make beautiful maps'".

It's great that the data is made public, and they play an important role there. But if we're only comparing map styles (as the article did), OSM has a long way to go.

The article has map samples for comparison at the bottom. I made one for OpenStreetMap, and tried my best to make it a fair comparison.

- Approximately the same zoom level, judged by distance between cities and size of land masses.

- 387x387 pixels (same as images in article)

- Map of approximately the same location

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3999/screenshot20100501at...

Here is a second image, zoomed-in by one notch. The level of detail provided is more comparable, but arguably I shouldn't have to zoom in to get this. http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5959/screenshot20100501at92...

No matter how many times people are reminded of this, they will continue to make the same mistake.

And it will continue to be amusing gossip for the rest of us :)

We do know: Yahoo

@evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out. -- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy. -- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584

FireEye (http://www.fireeye.com/company/management.html)

I took a quick look at the company's products, and I don't really see how he stands to benefit by convincing people Microsoft is more secure than its competitors.

Fill me in if you see something I missed.

Chances are they won't really check the address. Why not just put a fake one?

You could also look for a mail forwarding service in the jurisdiction.

Giving you a proper answer requires that we know more details– are you expecting that somebody will want to take this site down? Or is it a potentially valuable domain?

Another solution is registering under a local's name and address, and have a contractual arrangement with them limiting their rights.

You could also set up a corporation, and run the domain with the corporation. It all depends how safe you want to be.

The headline of the HN article is a bit misleading.

"using a forensic software program available for free on the Internet, he ran a scan - downloading tens of thousands of documents in less than 12 hours."

Since he had to use special software to extract the files, it looks like the software deletes the files, but not securely. Basically, it uses 'rm' instead of 'scrub'.

As explained below, storing scanned pages temporarily is good when photocopying (or faxing) multiple pages.

Also, the creator of the software mentioned (securely wipes photocopier harddrives) is a very smart marketer. The article is basically an advertisement for his software, "INFOSWEEP," and he's the one who showed the journalist this vulnerability in the first place.

Implicitly confirmed true in Evan's reply:

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy.

-- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584

This stuff is interesting, and we should add more companies.

I took this table from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_tech...), put it in a spreadsheet, and added a column for revenue/employees. Anybody can edit, so feel free to update with more recent figures and add other companies.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqI3DInWs2nKdDdMcXlL...

> There is no “Lorem Ipsum” used as filler for content, either

There is here: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ (look above "Streamlined word processing")

Love the detailed stats for removal requests, but I'm more interested in data requests.

How often are they complied with, and what data did they want? On what grounds?

Apple puts in a lot of effort to maintain an air of secrecy. It's part of their pubic image.

AFAIK this is the first time there has been a leak this big. It is a big deal to Apple.

Unless you have something supporting an estimate, I wouldn't put anything in at all.

If your guess is no better than the reader's, I think it's best to provide the relevant information you know, and let us draw our own conclusions.

What if Gizmodo does its due diligence after the fact?

ie. First take all the photos they need, then contact Apple