joeybaker

Fair point. Perhaps "perpetual" is a better word.

As an engineer, I consider it my job to automate myself out of a job. It's a sisyphusian goal, but a healthy way to think about your duty to the company and leads to a good kind of laziness.

I've really liked using this. I donated!

https://www.goubiquiti.com/

This is the perfect example to point people to when they ask why the company shouldn't just maintain an internal fork or write its own version of an open source project.

Actually contributing the code you write is helps _everyone_.

Google has not shown that it is able to competently handle copyright complaints. YouTube copyright take down notices happen all the time for legitimate content, chances are a similar ratio of false positives for site content.

1. Microsoft is in the ad business. 2. With ad and analytics firms claiming its okay to ignore the DNT header from browsers that default it, I can't think of a better way to kill the spec.

True, it's another IE version, but an auto-updating, mostly-standards compliant version. IE 10 brings IE into the "modern browser" realm.

This is huge for webdevs. With MS making upgrades to Win8 (and therefore IE10) so cheap/easy, the death of OldIE is that much closer.

Looks a lot like Greplin — I mean Cue. :)

https://www.cueup.com/

Anybody using this? How does it compare to others (e.g. Backbone?)

Argh!!! This is precisely the problem when you give developers a designers' problems. It is not possible to engineer your way around every problem.

In this specific case, the font is blurry, unattractive, and lacking any character. It looks like someone tried to autotraced a photocopied fax of a carbon copy.

It's an interesting experiment to be sure – but this is not, in anyway, a solution to … anything.

/rant

This is really just an example of lawmakers not understanding what they're legislating. "hacking tools" are also known as 'development tools'.

This sort of proposal is only made when completely oblivious about the operation of computers/the Internet/two-side coins.

They key part of this research is that newspapers failed to personalize advertising. That, more than anything is why their online ads aren't worth as much.

If there's a workable solution for supporting codecs in gecko via a system license, why not use the same method on the desktop? Why fragment the engine?

The elephant in the room is that this is exactly what Apple is doing with iCloud and Google is moving toward with the fabled gDrive.

Dropbox is never going to have the integration that these two companies can offer on their OS's.

Sure, I can get to my Dropbox files on my iPhone, and I can even use it to sync in some programs, but it's not even close to the synchronization that iCloud offers.

Better, Isotope

http://isotope.metafizzy.co/

Anybody know a good place to see how much google had to spend on lobbies to get this through? It'll be interesting if it's high or low.

The fact that the question is inevitable is disgusting.

They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.

Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)

Actually, it's interesting to do the math a different way. Based on Senator Reid's statement earlier today, Congress believes that

> Counterfeiting and piracy cost the American economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs each year, with the movie industry alone supporting over 2.2 million jobs

Doing that math, for every 1000 jobs lost, the MPAA looses 0.045% of it's workers. So "thousands" could mean as much as what… 5,000 – (2.25%) of their workforce?

How are we wasting Congress's time!?

The way the Dropbox execs have been talking themselves up in the press over the last few months just makes me think that they're angling to raise the price on an acquisition.

Dropbox is a great product, but feature development has stagnated, and the only two expansion options I see are:

* compete with Amazon in a much more user-centric way. * compete with Apple iCloud in a much more open way.

It's going to be funny when S&P raises all of these countries back to AAA in 2-3 years.

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Alternatively, it's going to be funny when S&P has no more AAA rated bonds and AA becomes the new norm (since the A-C scale apparently wasn't enough to begin with.)

Seems like this news falls squarely in the "someone's got to" area. Verizon might not be the ideal buyer, but Netflix has run into the dual problems of bandwidth and IP restrictions. They could really use a corporate parent to fight their way through.

Verizon could really help on the bandwidth side, but companies like Comcast, Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon could all help on the IP side.

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I was thinking it really started with the Obama campaign, became real when the State Department asked Twitter to avoid maintenance during the Arab Spring, and recently has been reflected with Carrier IQ, SOPA, and the FCC privacy reviews of Google/Facebook.

It's an interesting comment on governmental policy to see how quickly recent events have gone from Internet meme to Congressional attention.

Misleading title, the quote is nowhere to be found in the article which says little beyond the fact that encryption is tough to crack. Nowhere does it say it can't be done.

The simple creation of a thing doesn't entitle the creator to payment. The music/movie/IP industry has an opportunity/problem. While they could limit supply, they could sustain a monopoly business model with high prices.

Now that there's a new, unlimited supply, the business model has to change. It's not that people won't pay for good content, it's that they won't pay for the same product anymore.

A quick thought experiment: People paid for CDs because they wanted access to music in their own homes. They paid for _access_. A new business model could continue to charge for the same product.

Access could include live streamed concerts, studio recordings, first-access downloads of new tracks, notifications of new bands similar to what you like, small, local, live performances, etc…

Scroll to the bottom here for a quick idea of what they _can_ charge for: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-sell-news-on-we...

TL;DR It's not the consumer's fault that the industry can't make money on their product.

I think the counter to your counter is that piracy represents the establishment of a market. It's up to industry to take advantage of that market.