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I find the behavior of the software manufacturer rude and unacceptable. CERN is certainly not the type of company that screws you over or produces counterfeit copies for their own profit; 30kCHF is an outrageous claim.

Sure, people using your software without a valid license is not cool. On the other hand, AllSIM didn't suffer any damages.

Also, there are probably not that many potential customers in the world for AllSIM(TM). Maybe CERN should have used their power to make clear that this was the act of a naive student, and that a ridiculous fine could seriously impede the future business relation with CERN...
Not some - all* US jurisdictions.

From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S. Code § 1030(5)(A)):

>knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer
Why do we need to see this? Won't there be a massive buzz around the release when it happens?!
>If it's O.K. to hack into someone else's server and mass-out people for having profiles on a dating site because you suspect most of them might be "guilty" of the crime of "marital infidelity" --- and come on,

To me, Thomas's opinion doesn't appear to be based on facts simply because Impact Team specifically said, "it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee."

Maybe if he edits his original opinion to not suggest Impact Team released the Database because of marital infidelity?
I don't want to come out as being insensitive, but what is the complain about exactly? I was expecting more of an anecdote due to a quirk in the law, but it ends up being a weird rant about how a change in policy somehow makes the entirety of the UK hostile to immigrants.

If you're not a citizen of the country you have to expect these changes in laws and regulations. What a group of politicians puts together, another can undo. Today liberals give "free" visas to "undocumented" immigrants, tomorrow conservatives will cancel them and deport them.

I am an immigrant myself and I do understand that until I fill all the criteria for citizenship I am not equal to the citizens of the country, that's just how it is. The only way to be sure that you won't have any trouble is to be a citizen.
Perhaps making the student share a portion of the cost would be smarter. Maybe make the student pay 5 or 10k or the 30.

Alternatively, everyone could be adults and settle for a smaller, much more reasonable amount proportional to harm. Especially considering the company wasn't really harmed substantially by this since he did have access, just not on that machine.
This bulletin is obviously aimed at scaring others who were thinking of doing something similar. Still, it's a bit heavy handed, isn't it? No one was hurt, no damage was done, CERN responded immediately when notified, and it turned out to be a dumb student who fucked up. Give the dude a slap on the wrist, and let it go.
Not true, I still get recruiting emails every week asking for angular experience, which means there is probably a huge group of people locked into the angular framework, and since 2.0 will be backwards compatible, I'm sure a decent amount of people will be switching their angular 1.0 apps to 2.0. It will be easier then converting a whole angular stack to React and figuring out all of the other React libraries and frameworks you need to use.

Learning all of the libraries and frameworks for React is quite complex and not less complex then learning Angular 2.0. with its backwards compatible support.
In case anyone was also wondering, that's the Swiss Franc, and not a Chinese currency, and converts to about 30,800 US dollars.

> As he was affiliated with a university, CERN passed all costs to them who, in turn, passed them on to the student.

At first I thought that the software vendor was being unjustifiable. But if you think about it, the student was not just part of CERN, he was also (using the s/w) to work on a CERN project - so it does kind of all fall back into CERN's lap. Yet CERN passed the cost to the university, which passed the fine to the student?
From looking at the Angular 2 alpha, design documents, etc., it looks to end up with considerably less accidental complexity (from an application developer point of view) than version 1, and it has a lot of ideas under the hood which are reminiscent of React.

I think the most visible difference will remain that React is code centric, with templates as a sort of special case of code. Angular (1, 2) is more explicitly divided between code and template.

I believe the main driver in choosing between them will not be technical, but cultural. There are many organizations where considerable value is ascribed to the notion of code versus template, such organizations might lean toward Angular (especially in version 2) over React and friends.
In the insurance space I have focused on disability insurance, annuities, financial reporting, and general profit/loss modeling.

As far as modeling is concerned I have built extensive models using combinations of Excel/Access/VBA. Not sure what you mean by data tables - if you are referring to something like actuarial mortality tables, yes I can create those from scratch based on population data.
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Is that official? I get no indication from the site whatsoever , plus the page points to https://twitter.com/juanmacuevas!
The market would have adjusted and better devices that can circumvent their blocking would have become available.

Moreover, if Smart City chooses to block WiFi signal on their own private property, that is their business and not the FCC's. Of course they probably did this nefariously without the knowledge or consent of the private property owner.

Still pretty crummy of them to do that.
Language is a considerable problem. You basically need it for the post office, your bank, your landlord, ISPs etc.

My 6 years of learning German (in public schools) didn't help much. I'm learning now everyday, for more than a year, and I still cannot understand my doctor and my neighbors.

As a fallback you just smile a lot and hope for the best.
It does read a little too passive aggressive.
> Let's hope you're not responsible

Is the judge responsible if the delinquent hangs himself in prison?
> plenty of hungry workers.

aka a reserve army of labour, just on a global scale. It's the XI century but Engels still makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it.

However you look at it, the game is still fundamentally the same; it's just that one side can play it so much better than the other. It's like that period in the '90s when football clubs using the offside trap and applying pressure up the pitch dominated the European scene.

> Ultimately unions have only one effective negotiating tool: the strike.

That's not correct. Striking is the only legal negotiating tool; but it's not always been legal, nor the only tool. Striking is a type of industrial sabotage; being the most innocuous one, it's the only one that was made legal (and even there, its legal deployment has been progressively restricted in most countries since the '80s). If shit really hits the fan, a compact unionized workforce can do much more damage than "down tools". We've forgotten a lot about industrial relations, sooner or later we'll have to relearn old lessons.

> UK public opinion turned against unions when they rationed electricity to 3 days a week.

That's a problem for public services only (most recently, with the London tube). Unions in public sector and public services refuse to understand that their exposure damages the whole movement. It's a historical issue in most countries, a huge strategic problem for any progressive movement.

Most private companies likely wouldn't get public support in a fight with unions, but because public-service ones can (and will) abuse their role, the whole movement gets a bad rep.

> A lot of people have cited Piketty as the next Marx

Unfortunately, with all due respect, Piketty's contribution is nowhere as significant as Marx. Piketty tried to prove what a lot of people suspected, but I don't think he managed to reveal so many new elements about the structure of the game in the same way as Marx did, nor did he articulate solutions as powerfully as Marx did. Besides, there is little point in waiting for a messiah; what is required is a combination of analysis and prognosis that can resonate with an atomized and oevereducated white-collar workforce.
> DV SSL also allows someone to register '*.othercompany.com' wildcard and then create 'yourbank.com.othercompany.com' and have this domain name display a green lock in older browsers.

Wildcard certs only work one level down, when I looked into this Firefox was the last browser to remove support for doing multiple levels.
Hell, even Amazon.com and Google.com can't be bothered to go EV.
The thing that angers me about this, is that the user could legally access this software from his Laptop, albeit over an inferior third-party interface.

His choice was between accessing the software over a display proxy, and accessing the software locally. The provided functionality was essentially the same either way.

I don't understand how this minor technical distinction should be worth 30 kCHF.
> The hassle and expense of UK immigration law was one reason I moved to Germany

When I married my wife (we both have different passports, neither of us are British) we decided to move to Austria, my country of origin because the situation in Britain looked problematic. She would have to apply to visas constantly to get into Schengen (as the UK is outside), the financial requirements for the household are sky-high (income of 18.600 GBP post taxes or access to 65.000 GBP on an account) and you would need to have that every 2.5 years. Money would not even be the problem, but the fear of this getting worse or that you might lose the job for some time really does with your brain. Especially the worry that if the UK would leave the EU, British citizenship would not help my wife either and we would again be left with different citizenships and different travel rules.
My opinion of CERN has gone done a few notches after reading this bitchy blog post, this is some poor sap's life they have ruined for taking initiative around silly restrictions to get shit done.

They should have contacted the software company in question and settled this, now both CERN and Allsim have a bad reputation and a student is deep in debt
Not the university, CERN. As the article notes CERN's license pool is only for fixed computers (not roaming), the student wanted the software on their laptop so they went and downloaded a cracked version.
This happens frequently at large corporations, where a design engineer uses either an educational or personal license on a corporate machine (or vice versa), either out of ignorance or simply because they want to work more flexibly than they'd otherwise be allowed. IT departments don't adequately educate about it, imho, and software companies are too heavy-handed in enforcement, but regardless of all this, the student was in the wrong here and absolutely knew better than to use a pirated license.
Stuff like this often makes me consider writing an open source version of whatever the software is. If I really had to base my long-term livelihood off a piece of proprietary software, I wouldn't want to perpetually have such a sword hanging over my head. I work with many pieces of software where the core functionality is actually quite simple (more complex if you want nice features), and I'm actually doing this for one of them.
No. CERN were covered by a site license.

FTFA; But our student failed to download AllSIM from DFS onto his office PC, since that wasn’t where he wanted to use it. He wanted to install it on his laptop so that he could work on his simulation while travelling. However, the CERN AllSIM installation would not allow for this, as roaming usage is not covered by CERN's AllSIM licence. The student had a need and was not willing to compromise i.e. by using the Windows Terminal Service. Instead, he used Google and quickly found AllSIM for free on a dubious website. Three clicks later, he was ready to go.

For convenience, the student essentially stole the license.
It looks that way in the long run, although there will be a period where tutorials for Angular 1 will be superior to those for Angular 2.
But not for 30k. I doubt a court would award this much in damages if he was sued. Even before that, I don't think CERN is justified in releasing his identity (edit: I mean, the identity of the student to the software vendor for them to sue).
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No the problem for chemistry is that it _doesn't_. You end up getting all these just so stories about electron shielding and d orbitals that have absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever even as an approximation.

And it's safe to say no one really understood magnetism properly before quantum mechanics, qua Feynman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr–van_Leeuwen_theorem
You, sir, are moralizing just as much as anyone else. This situation is not ethically clean-cut, despite how badly you want it to be. The website's existence itself is -- at the very best -- ethically and morally questionable. The hack, while technically illegal, is arguably a morally righteous act. You can't say that there is nothing ethically acceptable about sharing this data, when its very existence is ethically a gray area. Whether their actions are legal or not, some people seriously deserve to get punched in the face. That's what is happening right now in digital form to ALM.
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Yes. I've heard this compared to the recent "Fappening" where celebrities' private photos were stolen. I'd have a hard time justifying the AM leaks without justifying the leaks of the stolen photos.
The US isn't the whole world. ;)
No, it was a financial services firm (a big one, with about 45,000 employees globally).
It's worth actually reading up on the BRP. It doesn't change your visa status. Rather, it's an identification requirement. In the UK, like in the U.S., you have several ways to prove your work eligibility. One is with a passport endorsed with a Visa. Another is a biometric residence card. This woman's family let their passports expire without obtaining a BRP. There would have been no need to pay extra for expedited processing if they had not let their passport expire, or had obtained a BRP while their passports were valid.

You could run into this as a citizen in the U.S. At least when I worked for the federal government, I had to show either a passport or social security card. If you let your passport expire and had lost you social security card, you couldn't work until you got a new one.

Also, the whole "the application is all about terrorism" thing is bullshit. Here is the application: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm.... There are three yes/no questions, in a 22-page form, about terrorism. They're next to questions about your criminal convictions, and whether you've been accused of participating in genocide.
Why you need facts, when you have a great imagination like me?
I suspect (but should stress that I don't know, my suspicions are based purely on name and the fact that it's listed on the CERN Engineering Software DB) that the software in question is Allegro AMS Simulator: http://www.cadence.com/products/pcb/ams_simulator/pages/defa....

Let's get building!
Please don't bundle Android and the rest of Google software. They are two different teams with two different philosophies, and one team doesn't like to have it's reputation hit by the other teams faults.

Remember Android wasn't originally designed by Google, and many of it's security design decisions and culture were inherited.
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its an interesting project, but being as how the the topic of the project relates to security, democracy and ease-of-use, I think there is a point relating to each that would be worth addressing if you've not yet submitted this for assessment:

1. Security: i know its a demo, but 'admin' and 'password'? No two-factor for admin login? nor biometrics? not even https?

2. Democracy: Candidate 3 is disadvantaged by the fact that their button is partially off screen when there is plenty of room to show all three (ideally in a randomised order)

3. Ease of use: Some visual feedback about what was happening with the fingerprint scanner would be really helpful. You held your finger there for what felt like a minute and if I couldn't see something on screen I think I'd have given up and walked off or found someone to help.
I suppose that's why IE has been discontinued and Microsoft developed "Edge".

I'd be interested to hear about these hot spots though (if you've blogged about them anywhere?). I've generally been quite pleased with Microsoft's browser effort in the past couple of years. Safari is quickly travelling toward becoming the next IE9 with the kind of weird bugs I've come across recently.
Presumably they imagine that they might need to do a deal with Amazon in the future, or get a job there.
I don't think it's fair to compare the same browser (by name, at least) on two distinct operating systems. I believe that the sentence in question is biased by the use of any other browser on iOS, comparing thus iOS Safari with other browsers running on the same OS.

I didn't try to start an argument on Apple sabotaging it's competitors...
So much fail here. If someone is aware of the vendor's name please publish it here so that I can avoid doing business with them.

The software company was within it's rights, but there's a big difference between what you're legally allowed to do when you detect a licence violation by a big customer and what you should do. You should attempt to preserve your company's good name at CERN and get the licensing situation fixed (by removing the extra copy or relicensing it). You should not try to go after a poor CERN student for 30k because he/she installed your software on the wrong computer despite having a valid license.
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Even though CERN's budget is probably humongous, it does not mean it can spend 30k CHF (27.5k €, 30.5k $) left and right. As it is huge amount of cash.

The best way to do is explain and negotiate with AllSIM. As I understood the student used pirated software for a very short period of time. If AllSIM are human, they will not charge CERN, or charge low fine (<1k €).

Rules are rules, without obeying them, student compromised reputation of whole CERN, then his/hers university and finally himself. Probably CERN will not hire him and will not recommend to anybody else.
Interesting that your moral absolutism is correct whereas theirs is false
This is why I left the UK after living there 4 years. The climate went from somewhat neutral to extremely xenophobic and anti-european, very fast. Why bother staying in a country that is downright hostile to continentals?

There's plenty of fantastic other countries to live in. No point wasting time with one that doesn't want filthy outsiders.
This post could be funny if the gifs weren't so annoying.
Institutions are not humans, so they cannot do "the human thing to do".
And of course there are departments, projects, etc, and probably the specific department that was billed did not have 30K to spare.

Anyway, they could try a political solution (ie: call someone with authority in AllSIM)
Shit stirring and gossip mongering disguised as a moral crusade. Nothing more nothing less.

Be careful. We all have secrets.
Wake me up when Chrome or Firefox have decent accessibility and then explain to me why I should care about indexeddb support over battery life or accessibility.

IE only ever had decent accessibility support because it was ubiquitous and third-parties provided a solution.
About the same as the "smart but disturbed" people will do in practice.

You can't smart your way out of life having routines, thankfully.
There should be virtually no overhead from decompression, since, if I understand this correctly, there isn't any actual compression going on in the sense of e.g. ZIP etc. It's just a matter of lossy data reduction, by e.g decreasing a 32bit float to 15bit while keeping the original value as closely as possible. Same with the curves, they are still regular uncompressed curves with fewer keyframes than before, the "compression" is done by efficiently placing these keyframes and letting the interpolation between them take care of the rest.
So I guess speaking of data reduction instead of compression would be closer to the thing?
In any case, I really liked the article.
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IE11 is "Edge".
I'd love to help in any capacity I can.
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All Americans are from immigrant families, except for the very few left who descended from the beautiful tribal cultures that stretch back thousands of years, and that were promptly expunged by the immigrants. No American should be complaining about modern immigrants, with the sole exception of the Native American peoples, who have the only authority to speak on the matter, yet rarely do. That speaks to the silliness of these immigrant debates.
Android browsers do not, by definition, run on iOS.
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His identity has not been released.
> One is with a passport endorsed with a Visa. Another is a biometric residence card. This woman's family let their passports expire without obtaining a BRP

You left out that this is new since April 2015.

//EDIT: this is how other european countries do it. You get this card which lives independent of your passport: http://www.aupair-worldwide.de/_gfx/news/246_1.jpg
I agree with most of your post. I don't think the license was valid for the laptop/roaming, however ("roaming usage is not covered by CERN's AllSIM licence").
On-call is not the norm, nor to be expected. I've worked over a dozen jobs easily in this industry and not a single one has had an on-call requirement for any amount of time, let alone throughout the night. This will not be the case as much for ops people, but even then it's possible to find jobs that don't have an on-call requirement. Your mistake is thinking this is expected and putting up with it. Sleep is my most precious asset and to be on call 24/7, even once a month, would require at least a 50% raise for me. Though I have to say, if I was in your position and had a job lined up, I'd definitely wait until you were paged at 3am and respond by quitting. Seems like the only just way to go ...
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