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Yes, this is the part of the rules I find most confusing. Someone with the ability and desire to blow up a plane wouldn't do it unless they could be sure they were on approach to the destination? There would be more devastation if the plane crashed into a densely populated area, but he would give up if he couldn't maximize the impact?

The only thing I can think is maybe it has more to do with the altitude of the aircraft and the hour window is whether the plane is on its final descent or not. Perhaps the explosion is not too powerful, and the pilot could recover in time if the plane is high enough? I'm not sure that's plausible.
Heh... the title's kind of amusing. It made me wonder why Kent Pitman was lost by the Lisp OS.
I didn't notice anything requiring that window blinds must be closed though; it doesn't really seem to me that it would be too hard to just look out the window and figure it out.
The document specifically mentions "aircraft-integrated" GPS devices.
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I don't think that would make sense nowadays. Great backups are good to have, but they aren't a panacea. And I could just imagine how social pressure would work: "Hey guys, please don't exploit this bug in my webserver that will make it reformat the hard drive"
I'm a gambling man (as my profession). I will offer you (3:2) - my $3 to your $2 says this photo is real. Let me know how much you want to bet, I'd accept someone reputable on HN will escrow. Would you trust the author of this article as the arbiter of the wager, using similar techniques as the Victoria's secret photo?

[I have no expert knowledge on photos, wolves, or the photographer in question. But I like a good bet, especially in the pursuit of science!)
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"But only Muslims commit terrorist attacks."

I sympathize with your outrage when confronted with blatant bigotry, but this isn't what was implied. If you take a random sample of a 1000 terrorist attacks in the world, I suspect you'd have well over 85 % of them committed by Muslims.

Now, this in itself doesn't imply that you can (or should) discriminate against Muslims, because that is a very very small percentage of the total Muslim population, but there is some truth to the old saw "Most muslims are not terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslim".

I am not sure what the correct conclusion to draw is, but as a proto truth, perhaps just like Communism is a dangerous and suboptimal way to run a society, maybe a religion with millions of followers that advocates eternal war and subjugation of the Infidel should be carefully watched. In the Middle Ages this would be Christianity. In the 20th century, this would probably be Islam.

I also submit we may never be able to have rational discussion of this topic, except among very close friends, because it would veer rapidly into divisive topics and useless hairsplitting - a prime example of "things you can't say" (or discuss rationally). Besides this is politics - something that should rarely be on HN in any case.
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By "all the information at your fingertips" i meant the things that Genera can do. So you look in /proc/core and find the bytes, but it won't show you the source that produced that, or even the program. The Unix Shell and curses doesn't cut it.
Many times, apparently (see recent articles). There's just no explanation except fraud or misformed experiments that fits well with our current scientific understanding of the world, and those shouldn't be invoked just to keep your comfortable world-image :).
It's not too difficult to notice your plane is descending.

And you know the length of the flight, within a reasonable tolerance. So timing can't be too hard.

This rule makes no sense at all.
Is that speculation, or have you seen that provided as an official rationale? It just doesn't make sense to me that someone would not blow up a plane just because it wouldn't be maximally effective.
Too bad it's not git.
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I come from the call center / telemarketing business (don't worry, we aren't as evil as most ), and I can tell you first hand that "pennies per person" couldn't be further from the truth.

Names and numbers on their own are incredibly valuable.

Names and numbers that you know exactly the demographic they come from, are gold mines.

I can tell you that some run of the mill name and number can easily be worth $1.

Gauging the fact that he assumes their target audience is rich (which I doubt this is the case), we at least know it is a very specific type of people. This is as close to texas tea as it gets for telemarketers.
Sorry what does VWF mean? In my limited experience most asian countries don't really ask much when the address is not known...
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You probably mean Linus? (makes a lot of difference)

If not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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Actually, I believe that it's an FAA regulation that the window shades stay open on emergency exit doors. I've never been on a flight where the flight attendants allowed those shades to be closed (even partially).
It goes for both sides. If you're a cop or a criminal, all you want is a result, which means bringing overwhelming force to bear at the earliest opportunity. There's no "fair fight".

I have a friend who fancies himself a bit of a martial artist, thinks he can handle himself in a fight. Look, I said to him, this is how a fight in a pub goes down. You go to the gents, and 5 guys pile in after you. None of them knows any martial arts, but it doesn't matter. They'll all just drag you to the floor, then stamp on you 'til you stop moving, then they'll go back into the bar, quietly finish their drinks and leave. I don't think he believes me, nor can he, he's got the martial arts mindset too ingrained.

This knowledge can keep you safe too. The last time I was threatened was by some kids (20 at the oldest) in a bar. Middle-class "alternative" types, drinking cocktails, are not a threat, to anyone. They don't even know that they don't know how to fight (neither do I really, but I know it!) It's all posturing. Didn't impress me, didn't impress the girls they were with either, why bother?
Take a look at this stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238177/worst-ui-youve-eve...

Notice something? Poorly designed UIs tend to cram every bit of information as densely as they can.
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i've only written extensions for FF. i love it!!! it was a bit overwhelming at first. i was still learning javascript, too. now i feel like a master. i'm an "abstraction/high level" kind of programmer (er, computer scientist)---you can tell because my biggest pride is that my code is organized very well, and adding features is a joy. by this i mean that understand extension-land and writing extensions isn't all that difficult or nittygritty. i look forward to writing extensions for chrome, of course, though the power of ff extensions is pretty d* satisfying.
When I saw this post I was wondering what bazaar was. then it took me a few seconds to google and figure out that GNU Bazaar is a version control system. Why don't they use git? Anything good with bazaar?

EDIT: Just saw the Bazaar site. Even MySQL and Ubuntu uses them. http://bazaar.canonical.com/
I agree that we shouldn't try to regulate the author's business plan into viability, but at some point, and Google has to be close to that point in search and cpc advertising, antitrust questions come into play.
Although "selectively promoting" seems like a pretty mild conspiracy theory, I agree with you on the whole conspiracy theory angle. That kind of supporting evidence almost always lowers believability of the rest of an overall argument. The article would be just as, if not more, effective without that statement.
good point. i guess i'm overvaluing the now/tip docs. i definitely delete old docs since that just confuses everything.

when i reach that point where i start wanting to revert the repo or backtrack on changes then commit docs will make much more sense. i still leave a good commit message when i can but....documenting the now/tip in the code is far more useful to me currently.
What's interesting to note is that I've found box cutters in the stores within the gates of one airport before. I wonder what the regulations are for airport merchants?
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Closing all the windows is dangerous because the pilots have no way of seeing the wings. If there was damage, gas leak, fire on the wing a passenger or flight attendant needs to see it and alert the pilots.

For example: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123149266

It would be pretty easy to slip a gps antenna behind the shade before you closed it as well.
Umm... We all saw it happen September 11, 2001?

You're right that an attacker probably wouldn't back out just because the attack wouldn't be maximally effective, but the result would still be reduced casualties. Ideally, you want to prevent all attacks, but even when you can't the next best thing is to reduce the severity.
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At least they are (so far) only enacting it for a few days. I really wonder what would happen if people consistently, politely resisted, by keeping things in their laps, by getting sick and having to run to the bathroom in the last hour of the flight, etc. Seriously, how are flight attendants supposed to enforce this stuff, and what are they to do about unruly passengers? An airplane is not exactly a high-security area.
i believe chrome and jetpack are quite the same in their simplicity. google even said that in the future they hope to make chrome and jetpack esxtensions compatible.

regarding chrome's speed , firefox is starting to implement the multi-process browser ideas from chrome(a tab per process,a tab per extension) , with some of it is even in firefox 3.7 nightly build , which i feel is faster.
Media have reported that the attacker was instructed to blow up the plane over US soil. It's possible there were even more specific instructions that we are not privy to. Pieces of a plane raining down over a major city could not only inflict significant casualties, but also creates a hell of a lot of fear.
My view:

- Chrome extensions are beating jetpacks by a long shot.

- There should be a unified/standard way to build extensions for browsers based on javascript.
Aikido is extremely effective, but its goal is not winning a fight, but to protect against an opponent. You are just using the same limited measure (winning a competitive combat) for all martial arts.
Actually, bazaar has to be the most difficult and confusing VCS to use out of all the options available. Git and HG are much saner options to use.
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My guess/assumption is that "reasonable instruction" is intended to give the flight attendant flexibility in deciding what you should or shouldn't be doing, and not to give us a basis for refusing instructions.
The problem with this is the great deal of uncertainty about when (if ever) the 'optimal' outcome of the commitment will occur. It's not just a matter of application availability as the author seems to imply.

Even if CloudPhotoShop and CloudEmacs materialized tomorrow, until there is ubiquitous high-bandwidth connectivity, most users will want to continue to make lots of fine-grained choices about what particular bits of their data they want stored locally, remotely, remotely-with-local-cache, etc. There's no way for my CloudApps to know in advance that tomorrow I'll be on a 15 hour flight so I'd like to have these 2 movies, 10 playlists and the latest versions of a couple of Cloudocuments I last edited from a different machine in my local storage before I lose connectivity.
Cell phones are a bit of a different story. Cell phones were designed to be operated somewhere around 0-100MPH from the surface (or very close to it). A plane violates those assumptions. That's important in a couple ways.

First, if you're in the air, you have line of sight to a lot more cell sites than you normally would. While there might be a couple sites at any give point that are a similar signal strength to you, here there could be hundreds. Basically, cellular wireless is based off the idea that your transmission only goes so far and therefore they can re-use the same spectrum in different locations (or, in the case of CDMA systems, not have every code talking over each other, but rather have a limited number of voices screaming). Being on a plane violates that. With a CDMA system, you'd either be drowned out by closer signals or you'd be causing a ton of interference for all towers within range and it'd be a lot of cell sites. With a TDMA system, you'd be transmitting on a frequency/time-slot that would be re-used on another tower that could similarly hear you. To explain that a bit more: in real life if you have:

Tower FreqA :: Tower FreqB :: Tower FreqC :: Tower FreqA

in a linear fashion and you're transmitting to the first tower (using frequency A), your signal won't reach the last tower (which is using frequency A to talk to a different customer). However, if you're flying above all the towers, all of a sudden you have line of sight like you've never had before and if you're transmitting to the first tower on frequency A, your signal is also likely being heard by the last tower as well meaning that the entire theory of re-use goes down the drain.

Likewise, you're travelling at (potentially) 500 miles per hour. Travelling at 60MPH, you'll likely need a new cell site every few minutes (depending on geography and the like). At 500MPH, you could be getting new sites more often than not. Combined with the fact that you'd be in "range" of so many sites as noted above, it would become difficult for the network to determine which site you should be transmitting to/from.

And that is important. Cellular wireless only works because the same finite bandwidth can be reused since you aren't using that bandwidth in all locations.

So, unless microcells are used on the plane itself, wireless service is a terrible idea in the sky. A microcell in the plane would get the phone to transmit at a very low power (therefore not interfering with customers on the ground) and the cell site would be a constant distance from you. It's why even in countries where the aviation folk are moving toward cell phones on planes, they're doing so through microcells.

I'm not saying that it would't work. I haven't studied it, but it wouldn't be a wonderful experience and would cause havoc for the network.

EDIT: It seems that it's an FCC (in addition to FAA?) prohibition in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft#USA_C...). The article on Wikipedia also mentions airlines installing microcells (although not by name) to allow people to call on planes.
Yeah on all counts IMHO. I'm currently developing both firefox and chrome extensions and there is an order of magnitude difference in effort and technical complexity between them.

Jetpack is a great start for extension developers and it gives the FF team the ability to implement multiprocess browsing without breaking extensions left and right. As it stands now, FF is basically one big single threaded JS process (with other non scripting stuff delegated to other threads as possible). Small caveat: I am reasonably sure I understand how it works under the hood having worked so closely to it while writing extensions but I may have details wrong.

I'm a Chrome fan and full time user, but I think Firefox will reign king over the modern browsers for a while. They need to break the single threaded JS loop, finish up the out of process plugin work and continue work on reducing the overall memory footprint of long-running Firefox sessions from buggy extensions and the complexity of working with long lived , fragmented heaps. Jetpack itself will help contribute to some of this.

Firefox is still architected in places for machines of Y2K while Chrome had the advantage of assuming modern machines.

I wouldn't count the Firefox team out at any rate. They make a lot of progress on platform and footprint every release.
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Why even comment on this story? It isn't even security theater anymore, it's amateur's night at the corner pub, with knee-jerk policies that a normal five-year-old kid can figure out how to get around.
And people still ask me why I prefer taking high speed trains! Flying by plane is so nerve-wracking nowadays, what with dogs sniffing about and burly custom agents and you have to arrive 2 hours beforehand, wait in long lines, sit in an enclosed room and wait even longer, share a bathroom with hundreds of other people.

In euro style fast trains, you arrive 2 minutes before, walk in, you can go have a meal, there is electricity for your laptop, there are toilets everywhere.

For any journey that can be done in 6 hours with the train, the plane journey, which would take between 1 hour and 2 hours actual flying, will take much longer.

That high speed train china built is the way to go. Planes should be used for flying really big distances, and then trains should be used to go on. The entirety of europe should be connected with trains, the U.S should have 10 major airport hubs and the rest done with trains.

Nowadays, flying is just such a bother!
So, did anyone else catch the Kurt Vonnegut reference?
+1 for retro usenet nostalgia. This was just like reading rec.martial-arts in 1993. Waiting in anticipation for the first kibo thread.
I recall someone's suggestion to wear ear buds, even if your are not playing anything. The social norm is to avoid interrupting such a person -- keeps at least some of the interruptions at bay.

I've found some CD's of "white noise" and I intend to try playing this. In the past, I've used a fan to take the edge off of background noise. One of the CD's is for "fan noise"; maybe this will help.

I'm cautious of playing anything too loud for too long. Even lower level noise can be damaging when heard for extended periods of time.

EDIT: Unmunge word choice.
Yeah, same here, except I graduated in 2004. I took CS from an engineering school, so I had a little less theoretical background (that was replaced with EE / CompE basics). But I agree -- I had exposure to big-O in h.s., but didn't realize that CS would involve so little programming (I probably wrote under 2k lines of code in 4 years, to be honest... but I was a slacker too ;) ).
I don't live there so I can't help you, but I'm interested in your question. Why wouldn't you look on one of the online recommendation websites? (e.g. Yelp, or whatever works in Toronto.) Do you figure HN-types would give a better answer?
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That would actually be really good. Easy tutorials to do common and uncommon tasks in git for users that don't know it yet would be really useful.
It is still martial, because it is related to fighting. Just because the fighting isn't accord to your rules, it doesn't make it non-martial. For example, fighting Kung-Fu style will always be martial art, even if there were "superior" forms of fighting.
If you are only sharing a subset of folders that are under the free limit, I'm pretty sure the other side can still use the free account.

I'm doing this with a friend right now, I have the paid account and am using 30+GB, he has a free account, and we share just the folders we need to.
Fear, probably.
Damage/Casualties on the ground? Not so much.

Detroit jokes aside, Metro Airport is in Romulus. It'd take a staggering amount of either skill or luck to hit even one or two buildings with plane bits. And pedestrians essentially do not exist in Michigan.

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Sorry, but 30,000 is a very low number.
> it does take a pretty significant amount of hardware to index and deliver that much data. No?

That's a barrier due to the intrinsic nature of the technology in question. It's not a barrier due to legal, political, social, etc difficulties.
Terrorists blow up trains, too.
Personally, I find it impossible to even venture a guess as to what my location is just by looking out the window at cruising altitude. It becomes much easier during final descent, but it still requires familiarity with the location. In any case, an attacker will have nowhere near the precision provided by GPS.

Passengers, beyond curiosity, have very little use for GPS during a flight. When I'm on a plane I could really care less what my location is. I'm more concerned with how much longer I have to wait before arriving at my destination.

The parts of the security directive that bother me most are the restrictions on access to carry-on belongings and items on your lap and not being able to get up from the seat.
The big problem with the cloud is that it moves power from the user of the software , to the cloud vendor.

so google chrome might be a bad commitment.

I believe we as users need to find a better way to get the benefits of the cloud(in maintenance and availability) ,without losing control of our software.
The security on an airplane is the other passengers (and air marshals). I can guarantee that if you start resisting commands from the flight attendants you're going to attract attention from other passengers. Like it or not, the first thing that's going to pop into their heads is that you're planning on bringing their plane down.

Hypothetically, lets say that all passengers coordinate such an event - I'd imagine that's a really easy way to gain admittance to the no-fly list.
This is not exactly a novel viewpoint (and, yes, that is somewhat ironic), but it is presented very well here. I especially liked the admonition to "do something that no one has ever done before". This is the kind of thing I love seeing on HN. Thanks for sharing.
Reading between the lines, I bet that's what happened with the writer's startup Foundem: they probably used black hat SEO techniques, and were penalised for it.
I can foresee a lot of involuntary "resistance" of the bathroom restriction. An hour is a long time, and quite a few people have health considerations that make waiting that long simply impossible.
I agree with you that XKCD should be reserved for other forums; however, when it is done as well as this post I welcome it. This was an eye opening experience that was not expected out of a comic and it taught me things in a very easy to understand mannor.

I welcome any comics on HN that has this sort of wow factor.
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I think he was referring to cell phone GPS
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My expectation when I went to grad school would be that I would have more freedom to do what I was interested in than I ever had before. What I found was that what I had to do was far more constricting than undergrad; I had take take courses on things I was completely uninterested, do research I couldn't care less about, and teach undergraduates stuff that I got a D+ in when I was an undergrad, because it was so boring.

That said, I am probably not cut out for being a scientist anyway. But what drew me to science was the lure of following my intellectual interests, and it turns out I'd have to do the very opposite.