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> Google Chrome stores usernames and passwords in an SQLite database file in the user profile directory. This database provides neither secrecy nor integrity.

Chrome has since implemented OS-level security, the SQLite database contains ciphertext instead of plain passwords.

Is this encryption directly related to my Windows password? Can I transfer the "Login Data" database to another PC with the same password? Or is my password only a passphrase for a longer key?
No, I think many people do. People are beginning to treat all websites as if they should be web apps.

Look specifically at WIX sites, Google Groups, and Blogger these should not be web applications -- they are standard websites, repositories of information that need not live-update or run any javascript what-so-ever for the most basic of use-cases -- are entirely, 100% unusable without Javascript.

Browse the web without javascript, you'll find that most things are broken, even static content just doesn't work. That's the problem. Web Apps are cool. Your blog _requiring_ or a news group _requiring_ javascript to read is not cool.
If the engine has no moving parts, how do you get a ramjet off the ground?
The motivating use case is: I'm doing some topology research, and exploring a new property P. I've determined how it relates to some well-studied properties A,B and C (say A => P, P => B, and P => not C). I'd like a list of example spaces that I can examine where P is interesting (spaces satisfying B, not C and not A in this case). In general the hope is to streamline what is currently a pretty tedious literature search, and to encourage researchers to better pool their knowledge.

The other main use case now is educational - I definitely would have liked a site like this when I was taking my intro to topology class and grappling with examples to get my head 'round things, and I know of a seminar that ran using the db as a hook to get students being self-directed, exploring, and contributing more than undergrad mathematics usually allows.

Admittedly, that may not seem "useful" unless you're a topologist.
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And what happens if you deliberately avoid any attempts by them to contact you ? Don't answer the door, don't acknowledge them, dont sign anything, etc. How can you enter into an agreement you haven't even acknowledged ?
As others have pointed out, it's important to distinguish concentration camps, whose aim was to hold prisoners, from extermination camps, whose aim was to kill them.
This looks like it's effectively Prolog, and the problems with this way of programming can be found in criticisms of that class of programming languages.

I haven't written a Prolog program of any complexity myself, but it seems a common complaint is that the programs can be hard to reason about and debug. Your solutions are always running on top of a unification algorithm.
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But in a lot of cases, isn't this the same as the people who film themselves climbing tall buildings, bridges, etc? For many people, drones will always have the exhibitionist grandeur attached to them. Sure, they know they aren't allowed to fly near Point A, but the sunset is just so perfect, they can already smell the 4000 upvotes they'll get that night posting on Reddit.
>No effort is made to examine the trade-off between tackling tiny marginal problems vs. rethinking more fundamental assumptions and practices.

So what? That isn't what the article and book is about.

Maybe you should spend some time writing the book you seem to want to read, instead of criticizing a book for not including things, when you haven't even read it.
Land is a finite resource, always in demand. I have zero sympathy for rent-seekers, and the government shouldn't be subsidizing the value of their assets.
From what I've been able to find the route was a one-off chartered flight in February, 1985[1]. There were a few delays and because they were attempting for a world-record time, a bit longer because certain conditions had to be met.

[1] https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19850215&id=...
Thank you. That's really a small part of the video. I get the sense that most of these comments are coming from people who didn't watch it.
For someone looking to cause trouble using other people's routers, I can't imagine it's terribly difficult to run a Shodan search and attempt login with default credentials. The whole thing can be scripted and once you have a list of vulnerable devices, you upload the modified firmware and you own the router.

I don't do this sort of thing but I was under the impression that it's pretty common (hence the importance of setting strong passwords on any device accessible to WAN).
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True, but nobody is trying to get a C. Mediocrity is possible everywhere. Zuckerberg could have just made a university-specific social network and have gotten by. Bill Gates could have just made software for altair and gotten by. Larry Page could have just let Google work for libraries and would have made good money. Elon Musk could have stopped after selling PayPal.

When talking about people just trying to get by, you're naturally ruling out people who can start a company. The argument here is refuting the assertion that college is useless for a wannabe entrepreneur. I say it's not, for the person who wants to use it. All great CEOs did use college effectively. Some started companies there, some found talent there, some learned lessons, some learned hard work, some got inspired, and some learned skills.
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From my understanding, as long as the venue in which those songs are being broadcasted over loud speakers pay the ASCAP/BMI collection society fees, the only recourse the artists like Survivor or R.E.M. have is to publicly decry their affiliation. I mean, they can sue, but I highly doubt they'd win. It would be an interesting case to see the angles taken though.

Now, using one of the songs in a commercial, that's a different beast all together (re: sync rights). Beastie Boys are 2 for 2 in defending their sync rights in the past 5 years or so (GoldiBlox & Monster Energy).
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I would like to start emailing "all human addresses that I can find" at premium content outlets like NYT, Wired, etc, as well as the FCC and FTC, Congress. Just something pleasant to do in the mornings over coffee.

The content will be my thoughts, observations, complaints and desires about online advertising.

I want to include really eye catching and noticeable ads in these emails, served from any really privacy and resource violating ad network.

Would I go directly to an ad network? Which ones?

Or is there an email service I could contract with, that handles the ad part for me?

I would prefer that the email appear to come from my main email address, not some third party, and any reply-tos would come to me.

Bonus if I can somehow be notified that an ad blocker was used, so that I can auto-reply with "Please do me a solid, and unblock my domain, so that I can afford to pay my broadband bill and communicate with you."

Also, I want to easily NOT email ads to my everyday correspondents.
It's been a while since I've seen anyone take a stand for IE6 users.

As a web application developer whose bootstrapped startup needs every user it can get, let me just say: I am perfectly willing to forgo all IE6 traffic.
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Active cooling: If you put the extra heat into fuel, you have a higher fuel flow per second at the faster speed so you can indeed cope with the higher heat flux and enjoy the lower total heat quantity.

Passive cooling: If you have to radiate the heat away , then the surfaces will reach a steady state relatively quickly and you have to deal with the flux. If you burn up in two minutes it doesn't help you that the flight would only last two hours. You can't carry heavy heat sinks in an aircraft.
I do prefer a Tesla with a nicer interior. Like this Porsche, it doesn't exist.

My point is that the interior, which is actually great but could possibly be better, isn't really important to me when nearly every other aspect of the car is amazing and better than anything else I would consider in its price range.
>lot more air in order to maintain the thrust necessary to stay at altitude.

Not really... you need to move the same MASS of air, just more air VOLUME. Bigger props solve that problem, at the expense of moving a large prop (greater moment of inertia, slower acceleration).
The good news is that Java has gotten much less verbose than it used to be.

The bad news is that umpty million programmers tried Java before that happened, decided they hated it, and now will never look at it again.

As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Show me some evidence that pigs are "way smarter" than dogs.

Although figures seem to vary, there is evidence that dog domestication began at least 30,000 years ago. Dogs co-evolved with humans to the point that we can communicate with them to a really impressive extent - humans can understand dog emotions and vice versa. It has also been shown that dogs can understand human pointing, a feat that even chimps are unable to accomplish, and I don't see any evidence of pigs doing the same either.

Dogs have been used for hunting, pest control, guidance (as in guide dogs), and companionship (individuals with PTSD or emotional problems) amongst many other uses. I have never heard of pigs being capable of any of these tasks. Their only other major use appears to be for truffle hunting.

I do not eat pork and I respect that pigs are highly intelligent creatures, but to claim that they are "way smarter" than dogs is absurd. To insinuate that we should eat dogs because they are supposedly less intelligent than pigs is even more ridiculous, and shame on anyone who thinks that. Without dogs, many human populations would not have survived, the Thule and Inuit being prime examples.

All of my claims are backed by this video, which does a lot more to explain how amazing dogs truly are: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-decoded.html
> I could say that arguments about postmodernism are for the author the "bailey" and the A and B statment distinctions are the easy to defend and boring "motte".

That is actually very plausible. :-D
What do you think of Apache Drill onto of say HDFS served files?
> he would have been fine at MIT I suspect

Why? Because he is Asian and must be good with numbers?

Chuck, what you describe, does indeed exist in American universities, but it is a discrimination. We should fight such atrocities.
I think that probably only one of them is the enemy. Stuxnet, for example, hit computers in half a dozen countries but only deeply penetrated in Iran (by design). So two of the countries might be collateral or they might be deliberate misdirection. The target could also be a non-state actor with a distribute presence.
Here's another good reason to encrypt everything. With letsencrypt.org coming online soon, maybe browsers can start providing warnings to users that try to download files from regular HTTP connections; though that wouldn't prevent this problem if the originating website itself is nefarious.
Put another way, couchsurfing and ride sharing have been around forever. What wasn't obvious is whether there was enough money in intermediating these as commercial transactions to make a business that would be interesting to VCs. (And, arguably, the current valuations of these businesses is higher than the market will ultimately support.)
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> the myth that 'organic' means anything of value

It is not a myth. While some organic food is very similar to food grown with orthodox farming techniques, most of it is not, and some is very, very different.

I surmise that your contention is based on the Stanford study? Have you ever actually read the study yourself? Do you realize that its methodology is widely regarded as fundamentally flawed? Start here for a good review:

http://www.tfrec.wsu.edu/pdfs/P2566.pdf

...and of course, the Stanford study is just one. Many other studies, which I and many others assert are of a superior design, have come to the opposite conclusion. This one is particularly compelling (sorry for the wordpress.com link, it's the only full text I can find online):

https://donamarianadoces.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/nutriti...

Even if organic food weren't healthier - and for some foods, it certainly is - there are still other serious matters to consider, such as the sustainability of the farmland and the levels of exposure to farm workers.

I agree about one flaw of "organic": that it is never a good idea to trust a government agency - especially the FDA - with food or drug safety advice without verifying it.

Thus, the best way to ensure that your food meets your standard is to visit a local farm and ask about what fertilizers and pesticides are used.

But that doesn't invalidate the entire 'organic' designation, which is in fact meaningful and significant.
If ad blocking keeps growing at the rate it has been, then you're correct and the web will shrink. Maybe people will pay for services or news, and maybe they won't. I do agree that some ads are intrusive and annoying, but the model of publishers using advertising as a revenue source isn't going away any time soon.

What I think is disappointing is that the quantity and quality of original content would suffer without advertising-based business models. Individual bloggers, niche news outlets, and other small publishers will be unable to monetize their content. Even the New York Times (one of the most respected and largest news outlets in the entire world) can barely get over 800,000 paying online subscribers, and that includes subscriptions for a slimmed-down NYT Now app.

If you want a web that is rich in information, then advertising is a devil you have to accept.
A confusing thing is that Cisco builds features that enable wiretapping, for example

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/tech/security-vpn/lawful-interc...

Those features are disclosed to the customers and are meant to be used with their knowledge, if at all. It might be easy to confuse this with other spying features that Cisco could include in routers that are meant to be used without customers' knowledge.

The information that I've seen about U.S. government attacks against Cisco customers would be consistent with the hypothesis that Cisco is unaware of the details of these attacks and doesn't intentionally facilitate them, but maybe there's other information out there.
I'm surprised they let him apply ten times. I was rejected from Stanford three times and didn't allow me to apply a fourth time.
Sure! Parts of that are indeed ridiculous.

Although I'm pretty sure the download size from a CDN is far less important from a performance standpoint (within reason). More important things include:
- Time to first byte from a slow'ish server (.5s to create the HTML and .5s to deliver).
- How many separate requests you are making (somewhat going away with http2)

Can we start ranting about the excessive amounts of tracking pixels everywhere now :)?
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Thanks for the replies. I guess I just needed validation before abandoning Keychain.

I'll figure out how to migrate the 2FA stuff.

Is a Keychain -> 1Password migration tool (feature) a good idea?
>or parents discouraging their kids from playing sports to chase a 4.4 GPA.

Sounds like they could use a class on how to get into a good school. Grades alone aren't it.
On what planet is there a market for this? I can't even imagine this EVER working in roommate-centric New York City.
As long as you're paying application fees, why should they stop you from trying?
I very much agree with this. Get the content to the user as fast as possible and then progressively enhance.

Most of the web sites that I get value from really just need HTML and CSS.

That said I don't mind waiting for rich web email clients, web version of Office 365, etc., that I leave open a while.

Complex web pages that are really just showing content also eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources.
In my clueless ignorance, that was what I first thought the author was ranting about when they mentioned "server-side rendering"...
The author argued that the GC details matter, not whether they will or won't change.
> holistic healing

What's wrong with holistic healing? Perhaps you are thinking of homeopathy?
Remind me of this old service: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Sole purpose, no; primary purpose, definitely.
I agree with concurrency making code harder to reason and read. Beside flow variables I've found Futures a readable solution though.

The example should be considered IO code, which is hard to speed up as you're limited by the other side, not your code. Also I'd say it's much faster in real production environments but you have more calls than three to backend services. I will try to make the calling of backend services clearer in the guide, thanks.
It looks similar to the OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences). Any time a problem comes up whose solution involves topology, this is a good place to go and avoid re-discovering a space that might already be known and well studied.
Instead of the declarative/imperative paradigm and the ongoing shift to more functional flavoured languages and more abstractions crammed under the hood, I prefer instead multi-paradigm languages like JS to be the languages of the future.

Multi-paradigs languages, if done right, combine the best of two imperative & declarative worlds beside they're very friendly to beginners and they don't have this intimidating quality that other "pure" languages like Haskell have.

Also, procedural coding is easy to do and carries low mental overhead in writing and not every programming problem has be modeled in functional terms or worldview to be solved. Sometimes, it's economical and efficient just to get the work done in two lines of code without going through all those functional hoops just to capture a field value in some form.
WWOOF is an amazing organization. A wonderful model. I know more than a handful of people who found direction in their lives through WWOOF. I also know two farms that got awesome boosts from being injected with WWOOFers.

I had an idea to create a similar model for open source. I want to call it MEOW (Making Enterprise on the Open Web).
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Plenty of sites can replace a black box router with a plain linux or bsd box with a couple of good network cards and some iptables/ipfw rules. That solves a number of issues right there.
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Well yes and no. Data science jobs are gated by newly minted PhDs. Software Engineering jobs are gated by CS grads who quiz entirely on Algorithms and data structures. You can get a job outside of this but it is becoming more difficult because of self selection.
>as it is no longer healthy for them

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I'll go out on a limb and say that those athletes are far, far more healthy than the people slumping over their keyboards in an office all day (which is probably 90% of this message board).
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Can this be used for .onion sites?
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Given the Tour de Fukushima this year, you would be forgiven for thinking such a thing.

British cycling is hilarious; whatever they are doing is going to trickle into all power/weight sports.
Most newspapers are building sites for mostly static content. There's no reason for those sites to be so terrible, yet they are almost all terrible.
On being asked what he worries about:

I worry today that a lot of young people lose hope, lose vision, and start to complain. We also had the same problem - it's not a good feeling being rejected by so many people. We were also depressed. But at least later, we find that the world has a lot of opportunity, how you see the world, how you catch the opportunity.
By my reading the author accidentally took a potshot at his own ideas. He didn't convince me of his philosophy on cleverness.
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That's apparently the record time it achieved, as a charter flight. I'm sure there were multiple stopovers built in, and another major factor is likely to have been speed restrictions when flying overland.

On the grounds of comfort I'd have preferred the even longer journey in the 747...
Why are you bringing up the current administration? It's congress that controls the purse strings. Only 5 minutes of google searching would show you that republicans fight to lower the NASA budget and democrats fight to increase it.
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Thank you. If there's anything worse than apathy, it's people who get frustrated with outcomes from politics, but do nothing but express how much they dislike politicians. Decrying the whole process and staying away from it is the best way to ensure that power stays in the hands of those whose decisions you dislike so much.
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The military is our largest social welfare program.

Our military space program kicks ass. Robotic shuttles, spy satellites and god knows what else. Maybe we can build a giant laser and write "America, Fuck Yeah!" on the moon to rustle Europe. Or giant Star of David to really annoy the Arabs.
I think the best way to move away from the way computers think, is just to build higher level functions and utilities. For example: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug
Okay, but did you not see my response? People who work for uber are already at the bottom of the proverbial food chain in America. Your use of the word "our" in "our standard of living" is puzzling since you are most likely middle class. Paying them less will marginally raise your standard of living since you could presumably afford more taxi rides.
Think about what happens with the "old web". You make an HTTP request to a server. The server evals short snippets of dynamic language inside a template to generate a really big string. Then the server sends that string down the socket.

If you want to view another object, you have to request another slightly different big string.

Because of how resource-intensive it is to assemble these strings, programmers deployed "caching software" to memoize every big string that came up. Server hardware was loaded with RAM so that they could store a lot of big strings.

- - -

The new approach is to send the basic code of the website to the client the first time, then have the client make additional requests for data via AJAX, assembling the UI as it goes. Sanity.
Fred can sell his time/labor to make up the difference.

In other words, Fred can bring new wealth into the system, yes. If he defaults, then Ginger learns that a key assumption of her loan---that the wealth of the Fred/Ginger system would increase at time t+1---was wrong. Which is exactly my point: that our system of finance relies on the implicit assumption that the economy will grow.
"It's amazing to me that so many smart minds in content outlets can't figure out a way to make money other than ads"

There are many ways, but nothing that is as profitable.
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how successful do I need to be in order to be accepted into Harvard MBA from a western province university with mediocre GPA?

How much much under the table damn it.

You have no idea how much social capital an ivy league degree gives you in Korea, no idea! (ex. generous bank loans, women, social status, tv shows, your own kpop girl group wow!)
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