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I've been trying to think of a practical, effective way for smartphone end users to protect their confidentiality. This is the simplest solution I've come up with, but I'd appreciate any feedback:

Hardware:

* Tablet, or smartphone with baseband disabled.

* Cellular-wifi router (i.e., wifi hotspot), prepaid so the provider doesn't need your personal info.

.

Software:

* Android with per-app permissions controlled by user (e.g., user can enable/disable access to location data for particular apps). This could be a fork of Android or maybe there is security software that could be installed, such as on a rooted phone.

* VOIP app on phone

* VPN

.

By decoupling the baseband from the handheld computer (i.e., by keeping the tablet and cellular connection on different devices), using the cellular service without providing identifying info, and sending only encrypted data over the cellular connection (via VPN), you would protect your confidentiality from the cellular provider.

Because your phone number is decoupled from your cellular service (because you use VOIP over a VPN), nobody can tie your phone number to your location.

Of course someone who is determined could track you down. Your identity needs to be tied to your phone number or nobody will know how to call you; and your VOIP vendor could point someone to your VPN provider, who could point them to your cellular provider, who could figure out which hotspot you use. But I think it does protect you from everyday mass surveillance.

Any thoughts on how practical or effective this would be?
Very few? Seriously?
Perhaps "low-cost" is a better adjective. Wi-Fi hardware and knowledge are ubiquitous — the article says the buying Wi-Fi hardware is cheaper than rolling your own.

Also, I'd imagine if the people setting up the network leave, others will have an easier time maintaining if the network uses a very popular link layer.
Somewhat ironically, given many people's feelings about Google and tracking, Google's Project fi might be the best network for privacy. Yes, Google targets ads based on some portion of your profile, but they do not sell your data to 3rd parties like the carriers.

Edit: I got curious and it looks like fi excludes call data from being shared with other Google services. https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6181037?hl=en

Disclaimer: I work for Google (not of fi) so take my opinion with whatever size gain of salt you feel is appropriate.
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Yeah, I actually read that quote twice to be sure I wasn't missing anything and didn't detect any of the alleged ego. I had trouble taking the article seriously after that.
you're losing me with this. Parents, exhausted after work, kids already 7 hours of school, then there's this new set of chores to deal with instead of enjoying life, you know life, the finite thing that runs out.

that AND this goal of "education" you seem to have is not the actual goal for most people. My goal for me or my kids is not to "be educated" Just like a goal of a society is not to "have laws"
I have been saying the same thing about bees for years: they're a semi-solid
>its not as simple as calories in/calories out.

For weight loss it is that simple though.

I'm not arguing overall health or anything like that, just fat (energy store) loss.
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It's not trivial. Imagine trying to computationally model this. And this does have practical applications too, better understanding of how ants flow in aggregates could have applications in modular robotics and claytronics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics
> if a guest comes to my house all we have to do is bump our phones to get them on my guest network.

InstaWifi does this. I think you only need to have it installed on the sending device. It hasn't been updated in a while but it probably still works. Would be nice to have this feature built in to Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jessechen....
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Bake in a marketing clause in your contracts that are tied to a price discount. A marketing menu, if you will. The discount will more than pay for itself by helping to lure new business. Press release gets you a 10% discount. A press release plus and a case study gets you a 20% discount, so on and so forth. Or ask your customers what would motivate them.
The non-removable battery has been a dealbreaker for me, but with 80% charge in 20 min and doze mode, it might be a non-issue in the short term. It will still be an issue long-term when the battery starts to wear down, though.
Chinese and Indian students in America also have the benefit of being from some of the highest socioeconomic groups in America [0]. It is more a factor of the group's average wealth rather than the fact that they are foreign.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
How many comments have you made expressing your opposition, versus painting groups fighting CISA in a negative light?
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I don't think anything is wrong, per se. But the notion that in 2015, we don't have more widely used fancier technology on stethoscopes is interesting. There are some problems in how stethoscopes are used, primarily because a lot of skill is required to interpret the sounds and many doctors could be and actually are poor at this. There are many studies which show this, for example [1].

[1] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/105/6/1184.sho...
I don't think it's a useful slavery definition because the thing forcing you to work is nature.

You are being forced to brush teeth by the same entity, that forces you to work, so in this context even teeth brushing becomes "teeth brushing slavery".
How would you interpret then:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Interesting. If they accept foreign passports, it will be amazing if we can relax the regulation in the US along the same lines with a specific carve out that information cannot be used to enforce immigration policy violations. Then most undocumented works can probably get a bank account without a SSN and not worry they will get deported -- convincing undocumented immigrants that this is safe is going to a tough battle though.
I followed a diet with that kind of macros for several years, it definitely works wonders. Ate a lot of complex carbs (oats, white pasta, white rice, etc) seven days a week... But cutting sugars I think it's more of an overall health choice. Sugar causes inflammation everywhere in the body which leads to many serious diseases [0] ...

After a detox period of few months I'll start to slowly reintroduce healthier complex carbs (brown rice, brown pasta, etc). In the meantime I'll just get carbs from veggies...

The bolus of blood sugar that accompanies a meal or snack of highly refined carbohydrates (white bread, white rice, French fries, sugar-laden soda, etc.) increases levels of inflammatory messengers called cytokines. Eating whole-grain bread, brown rice, and other whole grains smooths out the after-meal rise in blood sugar and insulin, and dampens cytokine production.[0]

[0] http://www.health.harvard.edu/family_health_guide/what-you-e...
> Anyone who kept a personal diary back in 1776 probably recorded more information about their activities and thoughts than an ordinary smartphone user today.

Not to volleyball this, but I don't think that's true. Any information in a personal diary is there because it was intentionally, explicitly entered there (even if with the expectation that it would remain private). There is a lot of information on most people's phones that they have not intentionally, explicitly put there.
The power of DNA storage is mind-boggling
do they really need us to provide personal information? they can get a +/- 10m GPS lock on our home location.
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I've read a few papers that suggest our bodies absorb sugars differently in the presence of other chemicals that are present in the fruits themselves, but not in the processed versions? I think this is one of those papers?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871121/
Living in India, Indian schools are mostly worse than American ones—rat race, outdated curriculum, etc. (I don't think there's sex ed in schools even).
> I agree that it is good practice to show attribution, and not directly lie saying you wrote something yourself. However the MIT license doesn't require that.

False! This is the license:

>>
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Max Woolf

Permission is hereby granted [blabla do whatever you want] subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>>

That copyright notice must be included and it wasn't.
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Semi-related: Has anyone had issues with psql wrapping long lines incorrectly? Specifically it starts overwriting the current line. I'm using zsh on OS X using the default terminal, though the behavior also appears when SSHing to a remote server which uses bash.

I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2024884/commandline-overw... but it didn't seem to help.
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I think we just need to talk about this often and dig into these problems every day as a part of the job and not let tensions build up.

Address the problems while they are small, use humor and friendly attitude, keep it constructive and everything should be just fine.
"your cellphone is smarter" -- I'd like to disagree without being disagreeable! I'd say ants are at least an order of magnitude smarter than a cell phone. Ants are less intelligible to humans maybe, as their intelligence is not of service to us, but they are most definitely more useful to us than phones as well.
I do not know the thresholds at which added sugar becomes detrimental. That limit probably varies wildly with other conditions such as exercise and intake of other nutrients. However, I do know that added sugar is not necessary for a healthy diet. So you don't have an upper limit, but you do have a lower one!
That looks very cool. Is it going to crush my processor? I'll give it a shot after I'm done with my work.
I think there is a massive shift in this though. The rise of indie games, niche crowdfunded games, easier tools to create means people are making games for art and not the AAA paycheck.
Sounds like a loophole.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. 1911

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Can you switch to Andrews & Arnold? They're a niche ISP in the UK, targeting tech-savvy users and businesses. They give you IPv6 for free and they're XKCD/806 compliant. (No affiliation, just a happy customer when I lived in the UK.).
I am with you. While attribution is nice, the time wasted on ranting and fuming over the lack of credit feels a little whiny.

'For these reasons, all such projects are MIT-licensed, where anyone can freely evaluate, transform, and edit the code.'
Not at all conflicted. I am 100% sure I do not like the direction this is going.

From people who see mental health as a moral failing to those who see it as a justifiable reason to restrict rights; I see great potential for harm.
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According to the site 'Plus, it’s designed to last, even as the way we use Wi-Fi changes. It’s built to support a growing number of "smart devices" because it includes Bluetooth® Smart Ready, Weave, and Thread.'

It's difficult to find more info on that as a developer. Can you guys help me out?
Of all the human rights stuff happening around psychosis an early diagnosis doesn't seem too bad. It's a bit of a worry, but it's not as bad as being shot and killed[1]; transported to hospital by police against your will; being medicated (sometimes by force) against your will (with meds that will shorten your life); being deprived of your liberty (in more ways than just being held in a hospital); etc etc.

[1] http://tacreports.org/storage/documents/2013-justifiable-hom...
Not just the economic aspect, but the game aspect. Board games and role-playing games have been around much longer, and aren't considered art (and there doesn't seem to be any push for them to be considered as such).
It depended on a few things for me personally.

I made it through several years of a liberal arts degree with a 3.5+ GPA by showing up to lectures and doing the bare minimum required on assignments. I did very little homework. Mostly, I showed up and paid attention to the lectures. I felt they were the most singular part of the college experience that I was not likely to find elsewhere, they were generally interesting, and you could, if you were lazy like I was, skip most of the required reading if you paid attention to what the professor said.

High school was different, the teachers are focused on orienting you toward the material in a more remedial fashion and classroom time was, at least for me, an exercise in boredom and frustration. Students also don't necessarily know how to learn at this age, and some need a lot of step by step guidance and repetition. Some students require personal attention from the teacher. Most of the coursework is covered outside of class, in the homework.

For highly technical topics there is no substitute for homework - you need to drill to make the material your own. For more subjective subjects, however, there is little reason to do a lot of work outside class unless the teacher is particularly bad or overloaded with needy students, or you have an exceptional passion for the material.
me too. he kinda seemed like a jackass. and the class was huge and he mostly rambled about powerpoint sucking and didn't spend a lot of time on visualization. he also took 45 minutes to show a slideshow of his sculptures. Dude. I didn't spend $400 on an 8 hour class so you could show me your welding skills.
What do you want to do?
Unfair to ants.
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Exposure to information is just the first piece in the puzzle. Imagine, for example, you went to piano lessons but didn't practice at all at home.

For the second point, I think we agree just have an impedance mismatch. When I speak of educational standardization I'm not talking to the idea that every kid takes home the same worksheets. Instead it's the idea that teachers have a better pool of tools and resources so they can address the needs to the students. In a perfect world we can have class sizes at ~10 (I think there is value in learning community that you lose if you take it much smaller than that) segregated by student ability. However, lacking the funding and push for that, these tools could be used to help teachers fully meet the needs of these larger class sizes as well as make the entire process more transparent.
MySQL also had a usable commandline. Not sure it had shortcuts like \d+ etc though.
There is a very thorough guide for achieving pretty much this from the Tor Project blog.[0] The most significant part in this process is completely separating the baseband from your user device.

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
>While it is true that BMI is not always accurate as a measure of fitness

You're right. I've never seen a fit person complain about the inaccuracy of BMI in anything other than a joking manner. It isn't precise, but it's "good enough" for the majority of people. It's a heuristic.

On the other hand, people who are clearly in poor shape love to scream up and down about how inaccurate BMI is at determining fitness levels. Ironic because BMI generally puts non-active people in a positive light. If we switched to body-fat percentage something tells me a lot of these folks would be clamoring to get BMI back since it under-reports people who have low enough mass to be not considered obese, but too high body fat to be healthy (thus are at greater risk for diabetes etc).
Even the New York Times is not immune to the impulse towards click-baity, misleading article titles.
No security updates either? Even normal updates in general can bring better performance, user experience, etc.
I believe there are anti-terrorist laws that where passed here in Europe that forces you to register the burner phones with the provider. At least here in Spain...
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Indie games and crowdfunded games are still generally done with an eye towards the economics. Even today, with all the tools available, you still don't generally get a team of a dozen people working full-time on a game for three years solely as an art piece.
Google gets into "fiber," which is a strategic threat to carriers.

Carriers get into analytics, which is a strategic threat to google.

The headline is misleading- I think the carriers have been pretty upfront with their shareholders about their intention to get into this space.

In a world with facebook, google, et.al., writing an article like this without that context is incredibly cynical.
I am in total agreement that children have better things to do than homework.

Such as learning how to play and interact with others. Learn how to deal with adversity. How to deal with the sadness of a break up or not being included. Learning how to lead a team via Counter Strike or WOW. Learning computers by writing a mod for a favorite computer game.

These things taught me far more than a worksheet on a very idealized version of the events that led to the American Revolution.

And on a different note the idea of a lecture in class followed by homework at home seems silly to me. Lectures are easy to scale so a child can learn from the best of the best in the world(With explanatory graphics). Tailored tutoring to the issues a child is having while trying to solve problems and understand a concept is very hard to scale. It seems to me it would make more sense to watch lectures outside of the classroom and do homework in the classroom.
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It's strange to see Apple pushing so hard to reduce storage requirements, while at the same time charging $50 for an extra 32GB of flash on the AppleTV (and charging $100 for an extra 48GB on the iPhone).

The emphasis on storage seems to indicate that they see storage limitations as a user experience problem. But if they'd stop gouging on storage upgrades, that would improve the user experience immensely, especially if they bumped up the storage on the bottom-end iPhone. In the other direction, the fact that they do gouge seems to indicate that they see storage limitations as a profit opportunity, so it's weird that they're trying to make it less important.

Maybe this is just the result of internal conflicts. Hardware doesn't want to upgrade storage, so software tries to mitigate that.
The modern Amiga community is weird. I get the nostalgia kick it brings, but there's too many differently vectored "purity" movements all concerned with carving out their own slightly different piece of a rapidly shrinking pie. There's what, 4-5 different OS projects?

Even stranger are the commercial software projects -- for which there are dozens. The creators will never come close to even making their time back with sales of very complex apps, so why not just release everything as Open Source or Freeware? There's no business model in the world where it makes sense to sell Amiga software anymore, and with the massive OS fragmentation any given port must sell in the low dozens even for very popular titles.

It absolutely doesn't make sense and seems very self defeating for what could be a more vibrant hobbyist platform.
This is an excellent point, and one I didn't think of. Do you have any thoughts on why this might be?
No, all the processing is asynchronous.

Depending on size of your project and complexity of the code, we can update within <100ms to a few seconds after your keystroke.
True, but there are also a lot of really well made and unique indie games that struggle because of lack of exposure. Things are much better than they used to be (but they used to be terrible), but still a lot rides on whether some popular Youtubers decide to make a video about your game, and there's still a tendency for media outlets to pretend they're evenhanded by trashing games that haven't found an audience yet.
Thanks for the explanation. I am suspicious, because what I never see in texts "like this" is a close correspondance between any other terminology offered and the literal text. That is, after reading your comment, I might ask:

1) what is the first encounter?
2) what is the devouring doppleganger? (Is 'devouring' merely poetic, or does it have some literal meaning that the doppleganger is devouring?)
3) What is the path of reification? Why is it similar to the path of carnalization of the spiritual?

There are some texts where every sentence leads to some such question, and the questions are never answered. The feeling I am left with is that there's an unlimited number of loose ends where the reader will be forced to guess at what the author means (or not guess, since you can just read by skimming over phrases like "the path of reification").
> There have been doctors researching this for years in carefully controlled trials...

You assume this is true, yet if it exists, all useful information is kept behind closed doors. The technology to make this work has existed relatively unchanged for years.

That is the point of the hashtag #wearenotwaiting
Text has similar issues, most common things I notice are:

* blog software dropping JS-dependent elements into the feed

* leaving out formatting (e.g. leaving line breaks)

* software updates etc triggering entries to be republished

All of these are IMHO "faults" in the publishing software.

A clearer standard for what you actually put into a feed (formatting) and potentially permissions for caching of e.g. podcast episodes would be helpful, if it were actually enforced (e.g. by clients being strict and dropping non-conforming contents). There clearly is potential for improvement, but I haven't seen any strong candidates that could do better, + they'll have a hard time gaining momentum vs the "good enough" right now.

(P.S.: if someone disagrees and has a good suggestion for something better, please tell us and don't just downvote)
His first blog post was also mostly lifted from here:

https://community.smartthings.com/t/hack-the-amazon-dash-but...

I found that by Googling the code snippet, which the original author actually gives a shoutout for.
This is fairly simple to answer: $0. ACM does not pay royalties. In fact, most publications do not -- you grant a royalty-free license in order to be published.
I'm imagining some of Walmart's clientele ordering stuff via drones in order to have something moving to shoot at.
Saying 'no' to homework doesn't go far enough, IMHO. They should be saying 'no' to the entire abominable structure of schooling.
>Albeit a big step (sending out armed teams to apprehend at-risk subjects before they have a chance to hurt themselves or others).

Look at the story behind the police officer who was committed for trying to expose police quotas. Is that not the same as an armed team coming to commit you... just for an even less justifiable reason?
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His biggest point was "there's a tremendous body of research about X", though. Unless there's a magical meta paper that supports that, it's difficult to cite something specific.