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"He had just sold 400 Bitcoins, he told Betabeat, which he planned to buy back in the morning."
"You can’t do more sophisticated strategies."
Which just shows that the entire finance sector is a side game of the market. Literally a casino with slightly better predictability. They produce nothing. They just move money around to make money. Not surprisingly, they're moving into another side game, less functional and strategic, but less regulated.
I was a freshman in college in 1996 and remember PowerPoints being used in my courses then, so that change is pretty old... and we're still using them today. The reality is that we haven't advanced very much in "presentation technology" in the last 15 years.
> Yes, there is, to the extent that that rule is legitimate. Usually, just powers arise from the consent of the governed. For example, sane people pay taxes because they understand that they have need of the canonical services of roads, fire service, police, the military, and the like.
It is Randians who think that civilization is the only free lunch.
The last one is ok, but I like thinner fonts. MS fonts are legally available on Linux (just accept the license). I know that may be blasphemy to some, but here's how fonts look on my system:
http://i.imgur.com/vBi93.png
If anyone cares:
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
$ cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
$ sudo rm 10-hinting-slight.conf
$ sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf .
$ sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf .
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
> I'm not sure if vocabulary size matters once you reach around 25,000 words.
This is what I was thinking. I scored 34K, and rarely encounter a word that I don't understand in regular speech or reading. I also know several thousand jargon words, none of which were on that test. I know what I need to know. Memorizing another 16K words to reach Shakespeare's magical 50K (and feel good about myself) would be a waste of precious mental resources.
If there's a place anywhere on G+ for a reddit-style up/downvote system, it is Sparks. Let me teach it what I am interested in.
If I'm reading that article correctly, GoDaddy is more than $1 billion in debt?
I'm ok with apps on G+ if they provide an option to turn off all notifications / spam. You can "turn off platform apps" in Facebook but still have to hide the posts individually. I've probably manually blocked 30 apps at this point, which is annoying.
No, no. Stupid and ignorant adults are a wildly profitable resource for corporations, advertisers, and marketers. That's not exploitation; it's capitalism. But the children, they must be protected.
And Gmail was a calculated and intelligent response to Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail?
The killer advantage that he didn't mention is that Google search is used by a billion people worldwide, and is probably the start page for at least half of them. You still have to go out of you way to visit Facebook, by explicitly selecting it from your bookmarks, but seeing your Google+ notifications will be automatic and unavoidable.
Sure, some people will turn the feature off entirely or simply not have any friends to bootstrap themselves into the network, but hundreds of millions of people will be in a position where their interaction with Google+ will be automatic, and if you're already interacting with friends there, why bother going to Facebook?
Quite simply, a lot of people will be on both for a while, and use Google+ more and Facebook less over time.
I was wondering how long the posts could be and hoping that it could be like a blog integrated in your social feed. Yet another thing about Google+ that pleasantly surprises me.
"The Enterprise" operates at a glacial pace and has been holding back innovation on the web. "The Enterprise" is the reason why 10% of Internet users are still using IE6. I'm glad Mozilla is ignoring the Enterprise.
Right, Circles only solves the sharing problem. Diaspora has a much larger ambition. Federation allows for communication between instances that are owned and operated by different people, but it also preserves your privacy better. Google wants all your data. However, you can install Diaspora on a home computer so absolutely no one gets your data except what you share.
This is exactly what I was thinking, since I saw that presentation last year. It could be that the Diaspora guys were inspired by the Google research, and not the other way around. It just took Google longer to push it out to a product.
This is more "crypto nerd imagination", a la the XKCD comic. The FBI doesn't care about the encrypted passwords because it has access to all the
content in plaintext. And what else would they need the passwords for? Other accounts on other services? They can just confiscate those servers too, where the content is most likely also in plaintext.
So in this case, where the FBI is involve, using a SHA-1 hash poses no extra security vulnerability.
