literalusername's comments

Don't bother trying to load the MPAA's contact page if you reject their cookies. It just loops a reload. I'm not exactly surprised that they value tracking over usability.

Post-scarcity has already arrived for every resource that has a marginal cost of production equal to zero. That includes every digital product.

That's not to say we're living in the age of post-scarcity. Most of our resources are still limited, and you're right that non-digital resources are likely to retain scarcity for a very long time. Furthermore, post-scarcity will never arrive for inherently limited resources, such as time.

But PG's essay addresses industries selling digital products, and within that realm, post-scarcity has indeed arrived.

I switched to DDG after Google started giving me 500 server errors in every web search, complete with a request to send a bug report to an email address that turns out to be undeliverable. That was about 3 weeks ago, and I've been generally much happier with DDG (despite the standard caveat of subpar search results).

The URL with a trailing slash redirects to a 404. Presumably tmobile feels they're providing a more useful result, and monetizing it. If my ISP did this I would use a proxy.

Done. Thanks!

> full disclosure, i am co-editor of this site

Awesome site. I tried subscribing to your newsletter, and the server responded:

  Forbidden (403)
  CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
  More information is available with DEBUG=True.

Edit: I wonder if the site's trying to detect CSRF with a cookie, which I rejected. I hope not, because that would mean I won't be subscribing to your newsletter.

Normally, in cases like this, the law prohibits businesses from offering gambling services. In that case, no Americans would have broken any law.

However, a quick google search strongly implies that sports betting is in fact legal in Maryland. http://www.legalgambling.net/is-sports-betting-legal-in/mary...

Something is amiss.

Edit: While the Rosenstein quote erroneously states that "Sports betting is illegal in Maryland", it seems more likely that this was actually a breach of the 1961 Federal Wire Act, which banned sports betting over the wire. If Bodog allowed bets to cross state lines, then they're involved in interstate commerce, so the Wire Act applies.

I upvoted you before reading that you were downvoted. Your idea's just slightly off-topic, but it's a brilliant idea.

Add Lenovo ThinkPad to the list. I always order mine with no camera.

According to your link it was 7:30AM.

Unless httpd is running on a different server from your second-level domain, and your primary use of your second-level domain is something other than serving http, then the use of a www subdomain is silly. Changing it to "web" makes it no less silly. There once was a movement to do away with it, but sadly http://no-www.org/ appears to have been essentially abandoned -- or at least very rarely updated.

Private libraries exist today. The Mechanics' Institute is an example. My impression is they have a diverse collection, though I don't know for sure. http://www.milibrary.org/

Thanks, icarus_drowning. Having reread my post a day later, I realize that it could have been a lot better written. I suspect you're right, just based on MS history, but that logo certainly looks like a fresh mentality. It's simpler than the Arch logo, fwiw.

Fair enough. It's important to have different paradigms for different work styles. You use whatever works best for you. My point was just that tiling WMs were not anachronistic back in '85.

fuzzix said it best. Long ago I configured ratpoison to be modal like vi, with tons of personal customizations. I've set it up to behave exactly like I'd want any WM to, so what's the use of moving to something newer?

You speak about tiling window managers as if they were already an anachronism in 1985. Yet today, some of us continue to prefer them, and they remain in active development. What good is a window that's partially covered? I either want to completely see it or I want it to be completely hidden from view. The parlor trick of overlapping windows is useless to me.

Ever since Windows 3.1, I viewed the faux 3D window decorations as an insulting waste of my processing time. The Windows logo was merely an extrapolation of MS's attitude that "Now that we have such powerful computers, we can merrily waste all that power with this increasingly bloated but supposedly impressive OS."

That attitude was not unique to them, at all. Apple has been equally guilty of it for longer than Microsoft. It's that attitude that (in part) led me to move to Linux a decade ago, where I could merrily work without suffering the overhead of a GUI.

This new Windows logo is, in my view, the sexiest thing I've ever seen come out of Microsoft. I stopped caring about Windows long ago, except to note that minwin sounded awesome (but never shipped?), Windows 8 Server could run headless (What an innovation!), and PowerShell actually does seem brilliantly innovative (although it's unfortunately integrated with all that .net crap).

Now if this logo accurately reflects their change in attitude, to a minimal OS that stays out of my way, then I've got to say I'm a fan. They're unlikely to win me over from Arch Linux, but for once Microsoft seems to be on the right track. At least with respect to that logo.

Edit: I'm amazed that this post is bouncing between 0 and 1 points. In a discussion of the new Windows logo, I described why I like it so much. If you disagree, feel free to comment. Down-votes should not be used to express disagreement.

How about Firefox 9.0.1? It works for me in Chromium, but in Firefox the dropped image doesn't even appear on the deck.

I use a tiling WM too (ratpoison), so I empathize. But you don't need to launch a file manager in order to drag and drop. You can open the image file in another browser tab, and then drag it between tabs. Hover over the destination tab for a moment to pop it forward.

Edit: It would be useful to make an addon that adds a contextual menu item for "Drop file here", which raises a file selection dialog and delivers the result to the drop zone. Essentially it would be the inverse of this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ez-drag-n-dro... I don't currently have the time to write it.

I hope the answer is "yes", but it's a challenging question.