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The bank is at fault for the amount of damage due to their own negligence, which would be the amount greater than what it would have cost to re-key the locks. And you have to re-key the locks instead of recovering the keys that had been issued, because you have no way of knowing whether the keys were copied or not.

In the case of username/password keys, "changing the locks" can be done as easily as running an automated script nightly against the HR employee database, to suspend login privileges from anyone who is on leave or no longer an employee, or at worst, by having your sysadmin's lackey, who makes $30/hour, spend 2 minutes on doing that every time it is needed.

The people who broke in are responsible only for the damages they caused directly, not for the cost of fixing things that were already broken when they showed up, or for investigating and implementing measures to stop the next gang of vandals that might enter.

So what is the actual financial impact of a defaced web page? How do you prove that? If you give crowbars and sledgehammers to a gang of vandals, to what extent are you responsible for the damage they cause with them? If they only use those tools for legit demolition work, are they obligated to pay you a cut of their revenue?
Yes, I got an SP3 a couple of months ago so I'd have a machine for a road trip I was planning.

I'm pretty heavily invested in Linux, and before getting my SP3, I only ever used Windows for gaming. I considered dual-booting Linux, but I was nervous about accidentally screwing things up ahead of my trip, so I decided I'd postpone that to after my trip.

So I installed stuff to make myself comfortable instead. PuTTY was one of my first installs, so I could SSH into my VPS whenever I wanted a familiar command-line environment (and with that, access to my coding projects and vim). Another was the suite of KDE apps, so I could use the GUI apps I'm familiar with. TortoiseHg, too, so I could pull stuff down that I wanted to work on (I use Hg as a means of backing up my stuff -- not just code, but a lot of plain text documents and stuff -- to my VPS).

So, yes, if you want a Nix-like ecosystem on a Surface, you can do that. I could've gone even farther and installed a full Cygwin environment, but I didn't bother just because PuTTY into my VPS was a much more efficient way of accessing a CLI environment. For that matter, I could've installed a Linux VM, too (and I probably would have, but I forgot, and it didn't come to mind until I was already packing).

And it's totally possible to install Linux, if you want. There are guides for installing Arch, Ubuntu, etc. on the SP3, and I doubt the SP4 or SB will be much different. Only reason I didn't is because I wanted to make 100% sure that if I accidentally did something wrong and blew away the wrong part of my SP3, it wouldn't happen until after I'm home from my trip.
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My interpretation of the grand parent's comments were that it's nice and all that "Microsoft is changing" but if it doesn't result in a turnaround in their fortunes with consumers and developers it's all for naught. So far I don't see any turnaround happening.
I completely agree but some (most?) people tend to look at their quality of life on a relative basis. How much better or worse off they are than others they see. So despite the fact that there's probably never been a better time to be poor in the US, there is increasing political pressure to narrow the wealth gap. Someone told me once that he'd rather have pride than money and pride was what being on the wrong side of a large inequality gap slowly destroyed.
Why specifically animal protein and not just protein?

(I'm not a vegetarian or anything like that, it's a serious question)
False equivalence fallacy.

You can wish Microsoft would die, and still use an iPhone.

In fact, much of Apple's success can be attributed to Microsoft fumbling the mobile revolution. In other words, people who use Apple may be doing so directly because of how much worse Microsoft was -- due to Microsoft spending their limited resources on zero-sum tactics like shafting their developer ecosystem.

Compete or die. (Microsoft seems to act like they have a third alternative, monopolize. They're still immensely profitable so it's understandable that their shareholders are comfortable with their current course.)
Now I'm wondering if I could still find the set of 5.25" disks for Prodigy circa 1990 in my parents' house. I'd say 50% chance they're still there. Something to look for next time I'm visiting. :)
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In south american countries, there's a concept called a "basic basket" ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta_b%C3%A1sica_de_aliment... ) ( https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesta_b%C3%A1sica ), which, while not standardized, can at least give you a ballpark cost of the basic food needs of an average household for a month.

One could conceivably figure out a reasonably not-out-of-thin-air number for each country by cross referencing the items in an arbitrary basic basket package and supermarket food prices in each country.
I used click in production. It was a great piece of software. It allowed us to do packet processing and routing in the linux kernel with high level C++ code. It also had a great "standard library" for packet routing primitives.
That's more or less what the World Bank is doing. The dollars per day are PPP adjusted, which attempts to account for all of those things you are talking about.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/international-pov...

I guess there is lots of room to quibble over how objective it is, but it is at least starting from the idea of doing an objective quantative analysis of the issue.
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The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.

But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.

Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you.
Thank you for the background. I am super-familiar with the Soviet WWII documented experience (Vasiliy Grossman, Ehrenburg, etc. ) but I've embarrassed to say I've never heard of her.
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I find that the UX experience of Windows 10 is better than that of OS X. That's highly opinionated, of course, but this is coming from someone who's been a more or less OS X diehard for 8 years.

Of course, Windows is still a mess under the hood, which is why I also run a VM (debian with xfce or xmonad).
What's funny about your comment is that yellow pages uses google search and maps to compile it's results. Why not skip the cruft and go right to the original source?
Unfortunately I fail to replicate the assertions of the article, using the World Bank's povcal tool. [0] ( Linked in the article.) As far as my clicking around goes, it seems that a strong reduction in poverty is independent of the precise poverty line used. In particular, if I use a poverty line of $2.5/day (2005 PPP), the data shows a reduction from 75% of global population to 46%, contrary to the claim of the article.

So just a bit playing with the data seems to imply that the claim of a strong reduction in global extreme poverty seems to be warranted. (This is certainly not a sciency study...)

[0] http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1#
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What would the charges be against Keys if he had knowingly given a set of keys to some vandals who came in and did several thousand dollars of damage?

Whatever it is, it shouldn't be 25 years in prison, either.
> percent of people who can access and afford 500MB of internet data a month

I don't think I'd include Internet access in any definition of 'extreme poverty'.
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Things may have changed recently, but online YP searches have typically been just as frustrating. Most of the time, the top search results are paid promotions nowhere near me and sometimes not even relevant to my search.
I remember using a Windows machine in 2006 that could also double as a tablet. (You could pivot the screen around and then fold it back on top of the keyboard.) It wasn't very good of course, and my point is that this idea is not new by a long shot. So is the enthusiasm for Surface Book coming from the fact that it's made by MS themselves?

Beyond that, it strikes me that the way they talk focuses so much more on narrative than the actual products they're selling. Like "I want you to love MS because you love building things for other people" or whatever.
You're acting like you hate the company just because they screwed their competitors. Do you hate other non-tech companies who screwed their competitors or is your hatred in this category especially reserved for Microsoft?

Do you speak ill of banking corporations as often as you do of Microsoft?

Also, if you run Apple hardware at all do yourself a favor and take a look at all the screwed up shit that Apple has done because that company has always been an asshole to just about every entity that they come into contact with.
Anyone have this? How does it compare to Illustrator or Affinity Designer?
A very attractive straw man, but I personally can't remember anyone saying that digital would "never catch on". 25 years ago the state-of-the-art digital camera was a 1.3MP digital back for the Nikon F3, that included a gigantic external box that the user wore over their shoulder. Only a weirdo would use a digital camera in 1990, but it was pretty obvious that digital was the future. 15 years ago the digital camera (Nikon D1) was just barely a good idea for dedicated enthusiasts and still basically terrible for everybody else.
Specific applications are usually better than their generic competitor. A gerneric web search might be able to find some of the same information but the service yell and yellow pages provides is really vastly more effective. I genuinely couldn't find a stationary shop locally using google and maps this week a task I completed in 30 seconds on yell.co.uk.

I am not looking forward to the inevitable death because I dont think there is a viable alternative right now and certainly not one with the quality of data that makes yell so useful. Local business searches are just awful everywhere but on yell which is why its still alive.
> Microsoft is as hip and alive as Google is.

I would probably agree with that.

From a technology point of view, there are things I love about each company. Microsoft's Azure is pretty neat as is Google's Compute Engine. None of that matters to most people though.
Same here (although I toss them in the recycling bin).
Of course we should not, by and large, blame the individual officers, sans those who have clearly overstepped boundaries. This should not in any way distract from the point that police forces in the U.S. (and many other jurisdictions) serve as paramilitary organizations which, as set by common law precedent, have no obligation to protect anyone, but only enforce a legal framework on a macro scale, i.e. their only duty is to serve the state (see: Castle Rock v. Gonzales).

It's interesting you mention "gun nuttery" as a problem. I take it you approve the citizenry be asymmetrical w.r.t being armed relative to the police? I do not.

By all means, fuck the police. Why would I approve of, say, the LAPD any more than I would approve of the MVSN?
My solution was to run Debian in Virtualbox

I think that's what I'd do. I don't have a problem running Sublime etc. in Windows, so I figure I'd only need command line access to the Linux box, so even windowing isn't a problem.

But still, my Macbook Pro is only about a year old. As much as I want to justify that upgrade...
Heck, it doesn't even suggest anything actionable.

Gun control is the elephant in this particular room. A cop who isn't expecting his next public contact to shoot him is not going to pull a gun when he walks into the room, much less shoot first.
Why are people trying to bend over backwards here? Let's step outside the startup world for some facts:

iPhone market share in the US is 43%. Macbook market share is 12%. So the vast majority of iPhone users are "risking" this.

Which is really not a risk at all, because if it really were a risk Apple would be shooting themselves in the foot. They would be killing one of their most successful products for the sake of some of their least.
Indeed, further down the thread Werner Koch suggests the solution is deploying AEAD modes, but the bottleneck is other implementations picking it up.

As an aside, I'm surprised this got posted to cryptography@metzdowd, the S/N on that list is so low I'm surprised anyone still bothers to read it.
It's easy, from a conceptual standpoint: Make sure everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and access to healthcare etc. Basically, make sure no one is in a position where they have to bargain away something of value in exchange for their life or to avoid pain.

A 'position of power' in this case means not bargaining to avoid death or pain. ALL people should be in such a position; no need to pick and choose.

That is also how you decide -- just ask 'Will lack of this cause someone physical pain or death?' If the answer is 'yes' society should do its best to provide it to those who are not in a position to get it for themselves.

The goal is to make sure when people engage in a transaction that everyone walks away with more value than they brought to the table. That's the magic of the market. But when people either need to strike a bargain or pay a dreadful price -- well, that's why muggings don't lead to market efficiency, isn't it?
Honestly, I would take out the internet requirement. All the others can significantly improve quality of life in a home, but I can't truely say the same about internet access.

I'd love to hear the counterpoints, but I just can't imagine a farmer needing internet access to live a comfortable lifestyle, as opposed to clean water and electricity, which is necessary.
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People don't argue about using the word rape on reddit, that place is a bastion for anti-trigger warning rhetoric much like tumblr is a haven for pro-trigger warning rhetoric.

Also you are severely misunderstanding what 'trigger warnings' are. Nobody says you can't talk about rape, just give people a heads up before you do. If you live next door to a veteran that you know suffers from PTSD, you ask him/her about using fireworks before you do it, right? Trigger warnings are the same thing except on the internet and instead of not talking about it the person just knows to stop reading.

Also, this isn't policing thoughts. Think whatever you want. Say what you want. Understand the consequences.
I will think what I want and respond how I want and understand the consequences.
My bet is that Zuckerberg intends to stay there for the rest of his life.

Not to say that he can't buy other properties (and all their surrounding properties as well)
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I have mixed opinions about this idea; here in Scotland (population roughly that of Colorado) the police force was consolidated into a single national entity and since then there has been a number of serious problems (including the brief adoption of a policy of routinely carrying guns unnecessarily).

But it does seem that there are too many little police departments in the US which are unaccountable. Or, worse, accountable only to racists.
Very good point, still, what does this include. I would think of extreme poverty as those who have extremely limited access to food, water and shelter. Fortunately that is legitimately becoming a smaller and smaller portion of the world I believe so this is a useful stat to track. Still, I have no idea if that's what's being represented here.
Nobody is controlling what I listen to, read, or think here, on reddit, or off the internet.
Yea I've wondered that myself. I picked up a book a while back called "Data Science for Business" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028918.do

Something that stood out to me was their discussion about "Big Data technologies" (Hadoop, HBase...) and how they "support" data mining techniques. So sometimes I wonder if big data technologies are more for the processing of the data, like the ETL needed for data warehouses - but since it's big, we need those special technologies to process it (and do additional data-sciencey things on it - like calculate a probability of churn, probability of loan default, etc). End results can still be those high-performance in-memory objects that we can slice and dice, just like our data warehouses, if that's how we need to see them.

This is all coming from no practical experience with Hadoop / Big Data, just research so hopefully someone clarifies :)
I own an SP3 and ran Arch Linux on it for many months of constant roaming use, sitting, at tables, in bed, etc. I do own the detachable keyboard. I can say from extensive experience that it is very awkward to use on your lap compared to a true laptop.

The problem is that the center of gravity is under the screen/kickstand, not the base. The new book looks like a much better option in that regard.
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You're correct.

The guidelines are pretty broad for the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the judge will have a lot of leeway in sentencing.

If he was smart, he'd apologize and take responsibility for what happened and ask for leniency. Coming out publicly after being convicted and calling it "bullshit" and crying like a child won't win him any favors with the judge and could certainly backfire on him.

The judge should give him a suspended sentence and put him on a 5-8 year probation with some community service and a stiff fine. As much as I believe in jail time for hackers who do malicious things, I don't think his crime warrants jail time.
The journalists I know definitely don't think News International is representative of their field. If you'd like to tar most journalists with that particular brush, you'll have to try harder.
Re: how Yahoo is still in business...

Yahoo made a number of strategic investments which are very profitable.

You could say they are an investment firm with a small tech-sector arm.
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I'm sorry, I had a big comment written up but Firefox ate it.

The general gist was that exercising power is not the same thing as having the ability to exercise power, and that while money is power, not all power is money.

I also tried to look up some numbers for my county but got distracted by an SQL injection vulnerability in my state's donation records archive.
Internet access could certainly help, for example, a farmer, as it could give access to information on better farming techniques, where to source better value fertilisers, where to get the best price for produce etc.

But I certainly agree that it doesn't play any part in the definition of 'extreme poverty'.
Historian Vera Keller said, in Episode 1 of the CBC series "Making Modern Publics", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984068

"You know that 19th century commonplace, "If you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it?" That's what most people think is the reason why you do history: you're doomed to repeat it.

Historians don't think you're doomed to repeat it. Historians don't think in cycles of history, the way they did in say, the fourteenth century. We think in terms of arrows of time.

You're not doomed to repeat anything. What you're doomed to do is to continue it. Early modern Europe has established so much of the modern world, and so many of the ideas that we have in our brain, were thought up once upon a time, for some reason that made sense—perhaps, perhaps not—at that time.

We continue to have those ideas inside our heads and we don't even realize that they are products of history. Unless you understand the history, you have no choice to examine those ideas and decide whether or not they make sense, or that they are moral, or they have anything to do with you, or your culture.

And so it's only by understanding your whole world as a historical product, and specifically as a product of early modern Europe, that you can do anything to change your world."
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Well, he could very well have cost his former employer tens of thousands of dollars—it would be appropriate for any sentence to be at least roughly the amount of time it would have taken him to earn that sum.
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GraphQL means UI components can stand on their own - they work without custom endpoints. And it's faster. You do need to write an adapter between GraphQL and your datastore, which is probably hard today, and probably easier next year, but you only need to pay that cost once.
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It's different in the same way that you giving your work keys to thieves is different than you writing a paper about potential flaws in a particular model of lock.
The only people that need to worry are professionals. Developers and so on. And they can decide themselves whether switching is a risk without a journalist saying that a good product isn't an alternative because of this risk.

The Microsoft hardware product line is arguably more complete than Apple's at this point, when you factor in the Xbox. There's minimal risk to casual users in switching.