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> This would prevent open/free components insofar as the actual driver, but would not permit the operating system itself from being installed.

If the SDR has a microcontroller, you potentially only need the firmware of the microcontroller to be signed (with the microcontroller checking the signature), and can have a fully free driver around it. You can even release the source of the firmware (and allow reproducible builds!) because it's guaranteed by the signature, not by the availability of the source.
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They have a new feature called "Salt" which is based around generating recurring crowd-funded revenue for OSS projects. We have been looking into the possibility of giving it a spin, but haven't committed yet. But yeah, it definitely looks interesting.
Looks awesome! I'm curious though about how it handles file ordering in a project.
He would have asked "Let's see if we can get a statement from @MartinShkreli. Martin, your co. just hiked the price of an old drug - new to you - by 5000%. Why, aside from the obvious desire to milk more money than a Saudi oil shiekh from a population that has little choice but to pay outlandish prices for a life-saving medication, would you raise the price so drastically?", but twitter has a character limit.

Although I do love the idea of making the people who are suffering now bankroll the research to cure people tomorrow. Its just so logical and thoroughly misguided.
In the submitted post he says Apple made the decision without consulting him.
Surreal. What's wrong with ad blocking? Maybe it would have created a market for micropayments which maybe it's far superior to ads? I know on my MIFI which charges insane amounts for wifi, anything that blocks popup videos or images while maintaining text and formatting is definitely loved by me.
It's a lot less than that actually, it's on the order of hundreds of dollar per tusk (a male elephant's tusk weight ~50+kg). And you are right, the people who are making money from this are up to no good, a lot of these groups are militias and terrorist organizations. There was a recent article about this in National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory/article.htm...

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory/map.html
It had a good security history.

The whole point of Symbian OS S60 3rd Edition (aka Symbian OS 9.1) release was to introduce DRM support and a security model based on certificates for API sets.

Many, included myself, were disappointed that they didn't took the opportunity of such breaking change in the programming model, to throw the Symbian C++ dialect out of the window.
I made a node.js package that does exactly this, a local cache in json with few hooks for data modification, and you can control when to update it to avoid timeouts [1]

Then we used it as backens for a blog for my University team as we were already using Drive, being each entry a google docs document [2]

[1] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
[2] http://www.makersupv.com/
Honestly I don't know what was "going through my head". I think most letter case decisions are handled by my brain below the threshold of conscious awareness. I don't spend a lot of time agonizing over trivialities in my online comments that are completely irrelevant to my question or point.
A random American has a 1/10,000 chance of dying to a gun this year. Half of them are suicides. Hardly a 'gun problem' worthy of banning guns.

I have a higher chance of crashing my motorcycle and dying that way, do you support banning motorcycles too?
I'm building one right now. It's going to be about 20k when I am finished.
https://goo.gl/photos/dPnx7jttphUvQXcj8
This is a different drug. Looks like this isn't a unique case. Sounds like the entire pharmaceuticals market is not a pleasant place.
Where is the government interference here? How is the FDA or whomever enabling this behavior?
Groovy's always been OK for quick and dirty testing of Java classes, though the statement label hack that Spock uses makes Groovy look trashy. The static compilation that came with Groovy 2.0 is what no-one should touch if they don't want to spend countless hours and days debugging and wondering why they didn't use a language built from the ground up for static compilation, e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon, and others.
Good call - similar to how you load firmware for Wifi using a blob a lot of the time. But for a lot of advocates of this they still might not be okay with this as they don't want any blobs. Which I can get, but even more reason it's kind of alarmist in my view.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/06/investing/wealthy-investors-...
So if the 50 mpg car cost $5,000, you would be willing to pay >$5,000,000,000 for the 100 mpg car?
For me the most interesting part was:

> ...we can prove that certain levels of consistency cannot be achieved without making operation latency proportional to network delay.

'Consistency requires waiting' is a pretty well known rule of thumb for distributed systems but this is the first quantitative proof that I've seen. It's really useful see exactly what kinds of consistency impose latency and how that latency varies with respect to network conditions.
I tried to find this article and couldn't. Could you point me to it please?

I'm interested in it because I'm in the middle of building a Tiny house my self.
I don't know if they're in opposition exactly. The Java language is definitely amenable to static analysis to some extent, probably more so than a more dynamic language. But a lot of the "false positives" are just about what rules the developers of the tool ship by default, and what they define as a "bug" (or "possible bug"). For better or for worse, static analysis tools sometimes conflate simple stylistic issues ("don't use variable names less than two characters") with things that are likely to be actual logic errors. And since the tool will always be limited in how much it can understand about the intent of the code, it's pretty much always just applying heuristics and a probabilistic analysis, even when processing Java.

So yeah, those tools aren't perfect, but my subjective experience has been that they help, as long as you tweak the knobs so that they don't just generate something equivalent to the "broken windows" compiler warnings, etc.
I'm implying you are asking a leading question and pulling some serious sleaze editing your posts to make sure my reply does not match up.

For the record, I can be motivated by multiple parameters at the same time as it is in this case. I'm looking for the performance/mileage/emissions/cost sweet spot that I thought this car held when I bought it. I'm not hung up on the binary opposition that you seem to be accusing me. As for the hysterical save the children crap and ad hominem, I'm sure you are quite proud of yourself for coming up with it...

For the record, this is the post I am responding to should this poster continue his questionable editing habits:

"Are you now implying that there is some "smog multiplier" below which you are more upset about reduced performance? What is that multiplier? How many asthmatic children are required for your driving satisfaction?

I have no explanation for your reading difficulties."
Would be interesting to figure out whether the different methods "used for venting out" anger make any difference. I do agree that playing a game is different from punching a bag though, takes more intellectual skills and such, yet I for one remain convinced that the problem persists – whether it's punching a bag or hunting bots.
It's a reasonably-common capitalization.
This is fascinating. Unsurprised by a lot of the findings, as I see them on a pretty regular basis.

I really interesting technology offering would be an application of this used to map the "real" power structure vs. the org. chart. Imagine the power of that as a starting point in an organizational design?

Conversely, I know people who say, "Great thanks!" in threads in which they otherwise play no part. And I hate those people.
That's a pretty small app. Sure, it's ready for smaller apps but, things aren't so great on larger scale apps.
I'd like to see the same experiment performed, but audited by Penn & Teller and/or Derren Brown.
> properties. (In a groovy class they're threated like a map

Except in hard to remember special cases like .class which gives the class "LinkedHapMap" of the map object instead of the value at key "class". After working with Groovy for a short while you'll realize you're really working around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EpJ3KoUNmI
Of course not; it's wealth growth. To be fully explicit:

wealth-next = wealth-now + wages * time

I am starting to think that you are being purposefully obtuse.
Per Occam's Razor, the Yogi disconnected his EKG, got hypothermia, and lied when he claimed he didn't drink water.

Is there a culture that doesn't fall for mystical cons?
Thank you for the reply.

I threw out those various phrasings not because I'd expect they'd be treated identically, but because I was asking if the specific phrasing used happened to exclude some kind of major category. I really don't know where my thinking diverges from the accepted legal consensus, and wasn't sure if it hinged upon that exact phrasing somehow.

> As for the rest, you want to read a very broad definition of script into it. ... Data files they [scripts] use, unless covered otherwise, would not be covered. ... Most lawyers take a pretty strict definition of script

Concretely, per your narrow definition of "script" (which I am understanding as anything a programmer would call "a script", correct me if you have something more formal), a makefile is not a script. neither is some C with a sequence of system("...) commands, and neither is something piped through rot13 to sh, nor a sequence of commands in a free-form text file that are copy and pasted into an interactive shell.

As a result, the word "script" is essentially meaningless in the legal context, due to the technical transformations that can be done on any script that makes it not a "script" - computer science is a playground of made up words and endless reinvention.

I had the impression that courts looked at general concepts and frowned upon attempts to circumvent the intent of contracts; is this not so?

> what if my script requires a special fuse plugin for my company's magic distributed file system that i store all this stuff on, and becomes worthless without it. Do you believe i have to give you the plugin?

Doesn't this strongly come down to intent? If the company just happens to use some internal filesystem that differs radically from POSIX, and their engineers really do work on the program using it (rather than some obfuscation game), then I don't see them being compelled to rework the source tree into POSIX conventions. But if the file system is adopted and integrated specifically so the company can avoid its obligations under the license, isn't it likely that a court would call them out on it?

Stepping back, doesn't copyright law by default essentially mean most things added to a build are derative works, and also the final executable itself is a derivative work? The GPL2 has explicit exemptions for operating system components and "mere aggregation", plus further exemptions when combining with non-GPL works (eg Classpath and OpenSSL). Otherwise, these uses would run afoul of copyright. Presumably the GPL2 says "scripts" as distinct from data which is already covered since it gets incorporated into the final executable work.

I would think if you played a similar game with an independently-developed binary code blob - prepending it to compiled GPL source - you would be shot down pretty quickly since the entire executable is one derivative work. Don't binary kernel drivers only legally work as modules precisely because the resulting in-memory derivative is never distributed?

How does the scenario of incorporating such a machine code blob differ from creating a signature blob and inserting it into the executable's header?
You don't have to implement Google API or use any lib to talk with it. Just paste link and get API end-point with docs, which is easier to use. Much more easier than creating your app at Google Console, connecting with it, etc. Especially if you are not a programmer.
I actually completely agree with you on this - what they're proposing is going to stifle a lot of wireless hacking and will be overall harmful to try to avoid what is probably already at best a marginal problem. Most people that overpower their equipment already burn it out very quickly, and I don't think I'd worry about it as much as they are.

I think the alarmist point of view on this actually hurts his points though - because it comes off as a less legitimate concern than I think it actually is. It is something we should be concerned with, because FCC rules are often hard to change once they're made.
In practice, about half the extensions I use (the complex ones, like Lazarus) need a serious overhaul to work with e10s. It can't hit a stable release, there would be major breakage.
"Rodelis reveals almost no information about itself, such as the names of its executives, directors or investors, on its web page. It operates out of Alpharetta, Ga., though the Chao Center’s statement said it was based in Dublin."

They sound a lot like a patent troll.
This is NOT the currently viral Turing Pharmaceuticals's hike of Daraprim's price (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-...) that's being rescinded. I had no idea that this practice of buying up patents and increasing drug prices is so common. Sounds like the pharmaceuticals market is full of some very unethical folks.
I don't know xca and I hope that it is a good project. Seeing a sourceforge link after the flack from the last few months makes me somewhat skeptical of the content on the other end though.
Sort of a catch-22 though. On the one hand you want all of the important details about your password "encryption" system to be handled by more competent people (read: cryptographic experts). On the other hand, without an understanding of the details you will be too ignorant to tell the difference between a good and bad algorithm and in whom you can entrust such implementation specifics or not.

Additionally, one might say "well, just follow industry best practices", but that is based on the idea that "use bcrypt/script" is such, but it's not. The "best practice" as defined by the industry at large is mostly just to use MD5, maybe with a salt, because that's what "everybody else is doing".
You're basically saying "I've seen it fail so it's impossible" which seems shortsighted to me. Do you really believe soda cans and dirt are an insurmountable problem for car sharing?
Here's my prediction : apple is currently working on a replacement framework for cocoa (at least uikit), that will be writen for swift first, taking advantage of its great special features.

My other guess is that it will come in time for ios 10 and be cross-platform ( aka work on mac os as well as ios).

I have absolutely zero inside info, but the fact is cocoa felts great and elegant on ios3 , but with all the latest additions it now starts to feel old and convoluted. Objective-c has been patched incredibly well but can only go so far, and the convergence of hardware between devices makes the distinction between computers and tablets more and more obsolete.
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Fair enough. I realise that the Indian states are very different, much like different EU countries.

I don't think the EU has quite as many languages (and dialects) as that, though there are more than many people think. Have a quick look at the list here, for example:

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/en/

Many that previously existed have died out, of course. And as TV and radio became more prevelant, it did kill off a large number of dialects. I've noticed in the UK that in certain regions, it's the older folk who have the broadest accents and use the most dialect words, compared with younger people.

Do you see the same thing happening in India, or are they managing to preserve local tradition alongside the mainstream?
> I can probably count on one hand the situations when a counter-based loop is necessary

Such counting is analagous to counter-based looping. If you'd said "I can probably filter down to the fingers of one hand..." I might have believed you.
You need more than money to get Henry Kissinger on your board of directors at the age of 31.
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Yes, of course. Thanks for the correction. Looks like it's too late for me to edit the original.
He was a founder in Tumblr. He probably isn't worried about cash.
> The only thing I would add is that while Mozilla is implementing most of the API that Chrome and Opera support, we’re not restricting ourselves to only that API. Where it makes sense, we will be adding new functionality and talking with other browser makers about implementing it as well.

At least focus on making it possible to do secure communications inside a browser, where for instance you may not want to trust the service provider and want to do the crypto locally. I know for instance that Nadim Kobeissi was in the past praising Chrome for its packaged apps and how they allow better security for Cryptocat than Firefox does. Make extensions such as Mailvelope be at least as secure as native apps.

Focus on stuff like that rather than enabling extensions to change how the browser looks, which likely introduce their own security vulnerabilities by design (I know many have cried about stuff like that when you announced deprecating the old add-on model).

Maybe even do that with browser components that are written in Rust. Speaking as a Chrome user and very occasional Firefox user, the more Rust you use the higher the chance you'll have to convert someone like me who cares about security and continues to choose Chrome based on that. The sooner your sandboxing architecture is on par with Chrome's the better as well.

Someone like me is not "just a niche". It's also the type of person that recommends (evangelizes even) a browser or app to every single friend he has. Don't forget that's exactly how Chrome "beat" Firefox, if I can say that - by winning over the evangelists.
It must have been annoying for them to deal with thousands of refund requests by hand. I was expecting Apple would just bulk-approve refunds for this app, but it's great that they've gone one step further.
How to be praised for doubling the price of an essential drug:

1. Set the price to 55x the original

2. Wait for outrage

3. Set the price to 2x the original

4. Profit
Yeah - it sucks and this FCC rules is concerning, but not as concerning as I initially thought it was.

Don't get me wrong - I think this is a stupid rule, but I just don't think it's as big a deal as the article, and title in particular, make it out to be.
Never though about how it could affect the local economy, but what about those who cannot afford the local economy... This gets a little further than I can honestly handle thinking about... But thanks for your input (and everyone else's for that matter, there's plenty I haven't seen before shared).
(In general "which charity" has a simple answer: any. In general donating proceeds immediately solves accusations of self-interest, except perhaps for the component that it's reactionary rather than being announced ahead of time.)
The market is not a company.

If you're playing anyone, it's your competitors. Understanding your competitors is much easier than understanding the market. Actually running a business in the space makes you much more familiar with the unit economics of it. If the market fails, that is, if people decide they no longer wants the service you're both offering, then you're both hosed.

If you feel there's a bubble, that is, if you feel that demand for a product / service is going to eventually collapse, then the rational response is to get out of that market, assuming your position is liquid enough to do that, and invest in asset classes that will do well if and when the market collapses. You don't start taking short positions unless you have specific reason to believe a specific company isn't looking good. Otherwise volatility could cause you to lose a lot of money in a very short period of time. Also, you can't short a whole market, you can only bet against it.
He explained his decision in a previous post. I think it's more interesting to focus on him as an example of doing something difficult because he felt it was the right thing to do.
Yes, and it's becoming worse for each year. Ultrabooks has at best 8 GB but 4 GB is the norm (at least last time I looked). And if you look at Surface Pro etc. 4 GB is the norm and 2 GB is mainstream. I might be 6 months out of date or something but regardless the current state is quite appalling.
I'm writing this on a computer from 2008, and it has 8 GB of ram (and I've never updated it, I would have done it if the motherboard supported more)...
Yes, but what is happening right now is that start-ups are taking funding, build a brand on VC money, hence drive everybody else practically out of business (and blocking potential newcomers), while making losses year after year.

To me that sounds pretty much like predatory pricing (and anti-competitive behavior in general).
It's been tried[0][1][2], but doesn't work very well. Similar to how PhoneGap tries to create a cross platform solution, it will always feel kludgy compared to developing with native APIs.

[0] http://kangoextensions.com/

[1] http://crossrider.com/developers

[2] http://crossbrowser.com/
>How can you have consistency and availability if there's a partition?

I don't get why people seem to have such a problem with the CA trade off, but seem to understand the CP or AP tradeoff. If you trade partition tolerance then have a partition your clients need to handle that just like they need to handle inconsistency, or unavailability if that was the trade off selected.
5 growth principles small businesses can steal from the startup world
I don't see the maze you're referring to. You still don't need to log in to see the videos.

On the top bar is a drop down of all the subjects which leads to the videos. It took literally one click to get to the Algebra 1 videos.