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no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.

dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already is.

the real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.

If we project even further chrome will have 200% market share, imagine the results of that!

I doubt many sites are going to bother with all the complexity of implementing and utilizing SPDY when only chrome supports it. To see significant advantage with SPDY vs something like long-polling you need to build your app around it, and if you need to support long-polling methods anyways, not very many sites are going to bother.

just because you know somebody's name, doesn't make them honest either, if it did politics would be a whole different ballgame.

well perhaps somewhat understandable, why should i be happy with an inferior interface because of it? This falls very squarely in the category of "not my problem, but you just made it my problem anyways"

I see this as part of a big trend towards software and software designers that think they know what you want better than you do, and its an endless source of frustration for me, and im sure many others.

"These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information"

So Facebook isn't acting counter to your interests because everyone is acting counter to your interests?

whats humorous is that Strunk and White use the passive voice in their recommendation to not use it!

>BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows).

why is that important? why do the BSDs have to be gaining on Linux to be a viable, useful system. If your entire goal becomes "competing" with Linux, you miss the entire point many people chose a BSD to begin with, a stable, well thought out, usable system. The ZFS integration clusterfuck with freeBSD pretty clearly shows the results of trying to rush things so they are somehow better than linux.

Merging all the BSDs together to "fight" Linux is stupid and shortsighted, the OpenBSD philosophy is about more than security tweaked defaults for freebsd, its an entire process from conception of a new program, to implementation, to maintenance of the code. If you try to reduce it to a common codebase, it is just going to be freebsd + tweaks, which negates the entire reason people want to use OpenBSD to begin with.

this technology is very cool, and has a lot of future promise for treating illness and detecting disorders before they manifest themselves.

One thing i an extremely concerned about is what other uses this kind of data will be put to, is your genetic data one National Security Letter away from being put in a government DNA database? I'm also certain that insurance companies would really like to get their hands on this kind of data/analysis. What about certain kinds of jobs, will you be required to submit a genetic profile to prove you can preform your duties?

I think a situation like Gattaca[1] is not too far off if we dont tightly control who is allowed access to this kind of information.

[1]https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gattaca

e: corrected "gattica" typo

Slightly OT, but this is a perfect reason to regard javascript crypto as dangerous. If one of the most heavily scrutinized cryptographic protocols can have what is in retrospect, a fairly obvious flaw (WEP fell to a very similar predictable IV attack), the average developer does not stand a chance of getting it right implementing it from scratch in an environment they do not have strong control over.

Forced arbitration clauses, with an arbiter of the companies choosing, are in no way "holding them accountable". They are pretty much the definition of an unjust kangaroo court.

yes, it is heavily patched to support things like IPv6 (which the Apache foundation claimed was "impossible"). However, the code-base is getting a bit long in the tooth, a more modern replacement will be nice. I am curious however about how they are going to implement CGI with nginx, as tons of applications still rely on this.

when something is specifically promoted as protection against oppressive laws/regulations, and then caves at the first opportunity to do so, that's problematic. The service clearly never intended to fight such orders, only to use such claims as marketing tools. I dont care if he is a "guy just like me" thats a scummy, shitty thing to do.

I meant it both ways, however the second interpretation is really only true under US law. A lot of parties would want a lot of money to license things, how would they pay?

The gaming industry and the politics that surround it are some of the most toxic relationships I've ever seen. I dont think its a stretch to draw comparison between the relationship between and addict and a dealer.

if ffmpeg worried about patents and licensing, they would have stopped development a long time ago.

to paraphrase a certain Google executive "if you don't want somebody to know where you parked, maybe you shouldn't be parking your car"

I never said profit was their only motivation, but it is the reason they are a corporation, and not a charity.

I refer you to the comment above by jey

  What Google "wants" as an entity is different from what the individual 
  component humans want.

the first motivation of any for profit corporation, especially one as large and successful as Google, is profit. That is their entire reason for existence, don't fool yourself into believing otherwise.

My post was not arguing against the specific relevance investors had on food prices, but rather the attitude that just because something is legal/allowed that any parties partaking in the action bear no responsibility.

There is a common mantra here of "don't hate the player, hate the game", but people have to understand that large institutions like investment banks don't play by the same rules as everyone else. When the player rewrites the rules to his favor, the game is flawed deeply, however a great deal of blame still lies with the people that decide to manipulate the rules.

Please don't pimp your referral links on HN

Plenty of web interfaces on routers have VERY poor security, a bug that gives you access to the web interface may have just given you a shell aswell.

its much worse than that, there are an unknown amount of intermediate CAs that also have this abillity. Several CAs sell these certs freely. So not only can one of the 300 CAs get compromised and totally destroy ssl security, so can a large amount of people you have _no information about at all_.

Something similar has occurred with LCD monitors, all companies advertise stats that are grossly misleading like "dynamic contrast ratio" and "grey to grey response times", but sound similar to the legitimate measurements like contrast and response times.

These fake numbers are much more impressive sounding than the "real" ones (1:100000 dynamic contrast ratio (DCR), vs something like 1:10000 regular contrast ratio (CR), when infact the monitor with a 1:10000 CR could be greatly superior to the 1:1000000 DCR monitor, which may easily only have a 1:1000 CR), so companies that provide the real numbers are penalized in the marketplace, so instead start to only publish the misleading numbers. This has made it all but impossible to meaningfully compare screens on manufacturer provided stats.

Information asymmetry plays a powerful role in marketing, and can result in a race to the bottom where consumers cannot compare things in real terms before purchase, so providers have no incentive to deliver anything of quality (extra costs, no meaningful way to market the extra quality as an option). This sort of behavior is also extremely common in residential ISPs ("unlimited" internet always sounds better to the average consumer than some kind of published limit).

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Market_fo...

Cool article about nanosatellites , but the HN title needs to be more descriptive.

marketing tends towards an exercise in who can lie the most and get away with it.

i frankly wonder if there isnt some form of holywood accounting going on so their 30% cut can be "justified".