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I've always found it interesting that people often lump "Humanities and Liberal Arts" together when liberal arts is a much more broad term. The Georgetown study linked in the article does this. I majored in math. Math is a liberal art. Biology, chemistry, and physics are liberal arts. I understand that people can define liberal arts however they want, but often the natural sciences are considered liberal arts. This is from Wikipedia

"In modern times, liberal arts education is a term that can be interpreted in different ways. It can refer to certain areas of literature, languages, art history, music history, philosophy, history, mathematics, psychology, and science. It can also refer to studies on a liberal arts degree program. For example, Harvard University offers a Master of Liberal Arts degree, which covers biological and social sciences as well as the humanities. For both interpretations, the term generally refers to matters not relating to the professional, vocational, or technical curriculum."

Business, engineering, health professions, education, etc are not liberal arts, this I think we can all agree on.
Your position seems to imply that "bank robbery" should not be a crime because banks are supposed to be secure, and it's their own fault that there was a flaw in the system. I think that reasonable people can conclude that a system should be secure, there are things that "shouldn't" be done, regardless of the security of the system. It's not to say that "outlaws" won't break the law, but that we view their actions as negative (even if in a perfect world their actions would be futile).
https://github.com/nilcons/ghc-musl Uses musl to create fully statically linked binaries
They did something with the nodes that should have been impossible, basically exploiting a vulnerability in tor. That seems worse than just passively observing.
Professional athletes get caught cheating all the time, but I don't doubt they still love their sports.

I very much doubt that cheating athletes love the sport. They may love the fame and benefits that come with the sport, but if they loved the sport, they would work hard to become better at it rather than cheating.

I love my job. I read up on research, volunteer at conferences, tinker/hack on my own time, and provide lots of free consulting. Heck, the only reason I don't provide more free consulting is, well, because I have bills to pay. I certainly can't imaging expressing my love for the field by engaging in unethical, immoral or illegal activities. I suppose if it was the money I loved foremost, it might be different.
My organization occasionally sends people as exhibitors to conferences. At the biggest one of the year, renting a wireless hotspot from the hotel costs $900 (for a poor connection).

Rumor has it, one year, they rented a hotel room for a few hundred dollars and then sent an intern up to the room every hour to sync up everyone's devices.
> We geeks have rational, logical minds.

No. Geeks just like tinkering with computers and/or electronics, and are better at that than others.

Some geeks think that because they're good at computers they must be equally good at everything else. (To be fair, I guess that also happens to other hobbies/professions.) That might explain why some geeks have so little respect for the opinion of actual experts.
I don't know. Electronics retailers are getting few and far between. Some of that's moved to drugstores or hardware stores, some to office supply stores. But the most obvious place to go for many phone accessories is a phone store, particularly if you need it right now. Otherwise, Amazon seems to be the retailer of choice. I suppose Target and Walmart also carry some items, and of course, Apple.

What surprised me in a recent road trip was the selection of electronics-related items for sale at highway stops, particularly Loves. If it goes with an Android or Apple device, or CB radio, or uses USB power, there's a surprising selection of items. Prices are not unreasonable either.

This is a fairly high-volume market, with specialised interests, and a captive (or at least easily captured) market. The one thing Loves hasn't sorted out is that free WiFi trumps paid, by a long shot. After a few highway stops, you figure this out pretty quickly.
> But T-Systems will act as a “trustee” of the facilities, with Microsoft insisting its employees will have no access to the data held at the facilities without the German company’s permission.

If Microsoft were actually interested in privacy, they'd design their products in such a way that Microsoft would have no technical ability to get to users' data without the end user's permission. A true zero knowledge data center whereby Microsoft does not have the technical ability to restore users' data is the only viable solution.
That begs the question of whether it is a "station."
I took a flight by myself when I was 14. Not too bad. I'd assume if you're younger than a certain age then maybe they have attendants check on the children. For me it was probably the same as if I'd been an adult.
I don't think there is a stable alternative. Everything else is more exploitable.
Okay, that's good to know.

But I'm still uneasy with this, as the crypto hash approach provides some more safety features. For example, it protects against attacks the NPM platform itself (assuming they happen after you incorporated the library into your project). Also, it enables us to download the package from any other source (e.g. some archive/mirror), via plain HTTP, while still being safe from downloading a modified package.

That's why I still wish the crypto hashes were included in package.json (automatically on "install --save-exact", of course).
I had a Chinese teacher who told us that March 14th was White Valentine's Day, when valentine's gifts are reciprocated. A month after that, on April 14th, you have Black Valentine's Day.

Those holidays are known to wikipedia, although it attributes "White Day" primarily to Japan and "Black Day" exclusively to Korea.

So the opposite of Valentine's Day is already placed; April 14th. I don't see why Western Forever Alone Day would need to be scheduled differently from Chinese Forever Alone Day -- the date was picked for being all ones. (And, I'm told, you can celebrate by eating 1-shaped Pocky.)
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Random, I just got this book from the library...
The government would probably need a warrant to do that. The university doesn't, and the gov may have use it as a proxy for its attack, while calling it "research". If this sort of thing isn't stopped now in a loud way, it may become the new normal in academia.
They killed usenet off good by providing a reasonable interface that encouraged people to link to it .. then destabilising the URLs. I've seen wiki links to google groups that have been changed 3 or 4 times before people simply gave up trying to re-find the original target.

Pisses me off no end.
Why is it to hard to find a front end developer?
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I don't agree, both iCloud Photos and Apple Music have been quite buggy for me.
This was the advice my account gave me when we started billing work outside of the EU - that work is simply not counted when calculating your flat rate amount.
They exploited a vulnerability in the tor protocol. There's an argument to be made that connecting to the tor network but not complying with the protocol is a violation of the CFAA, if done in a malicious way.

If you wiretap your entire neighborhood, find a bike-theft ring, and call the cops, you'll also get in trouble.
Talking about interesting tax tactics: the other day I got an email from an Indiegogo project saying 'we ship directly from the EU, so EU customers don't pay VAT.' At first I was like 'huh?', but after a while it turned out to be true: they are supposed to charge VAT only if they are selling from within the EU. They're not, they're a US company, collecting money through Indiegogo (not sure if Indiegogo is a reseller or not, but doesn't matter for this case). So they don't have to charge VAT to their customers. But VAT for foreign purchases is charged only by customs; if they ship from within the EU, no VAT. Meanwhile, if their EU production facility is a subsidiary of the US one (or of an umbrella concern), they can still both reclaim VAT they paid, plus they can shift profit offshore. No VAT paid anywhere (by anyone - not even the customers, so a 20% competitive advantage!), low corporate taxes if they choose so, it's awesome.

So I wonder: why don't more companies do this? I can see that for mass produced cheap trinkets the 20% would not be profitable vs how much cheaper it is to produce in China; but say for high-end furniture, manufactured in the EU. Why don't they just 'sell' from their online (US, or Hong Kong for all I care) shop which would give them a legal 20% advantage?
You don't have to be "creating radio interference". You have to be "interfering with radio communications".

Intentionally preventing a radio communication from occurring is interfering with it.
This is no different from selling an exploit on the black market for $1m . It's sad that a university is going black hat. A university should be a safe place with great respect to ethics in the field the university does research.
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I would not keep my valuables in a bank whose security consisted of a "keep out" sign.
https://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/
Time and time again I see people make this point about a "real desktop operating system" like that actually means anything. What is more "real" about Windows 10 or OSX than iOS or Android? The former OSes expose more of the lower level internals such as access to the filesystem, but I'd take some convincing that not having that access would be a barrier to a video producer or a graphic artist or pretty much anyone other than a hardcore superuser or developer.

Right now, we have two highly contrasting approaches. Microsoft is championing one OS that attempts to do very different things on different hardware, alongside hardware that attempts to be relevant in many different contexts. And Apple is choosing to persist with two forks (I believe there is an amount of common code), each trying to do a smaller job, better. Plus hardware that is optimised for specific scenarios. I think the jury's still out on who's going to win this one; as a unix fan, though, I tend to favour the 'do less, better' approach.
yep...and i agree : i avoid them.
My high school physics professor had a motto: "Good enough is not good enough." This was generally in response to the imprecision of lazy students who would say to themselves or their lab partners, "Good enough." It's something I've carried with me in life in a lot of contexts.

So it was fun seeing Dr. Goodenough's name in the article.
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I'm still stunned that people use Venmo. Letting paypal or any of their ilk -- and I'm one of the many people with a very negative paypal experience -- have access to your bank account sidesteps many or most of the consumer protections that credit cards give you. It's all fine until it isn't, and when it goes wrong, Venmo has possession of your money and can suck funds straight out of your checking account. Your cc doesn't and can't. If something goes wrong between you and your cc, they have to go to court to get their hands on your cash and you have a whole set of protections, ranging from general consumer laws to the courts themselves, the FDCPA, and the CFPB.

viz http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/safety_net/2015/02/...
My impression of I Am a Strange Loop was that it contains a subset of the ideas in GEB, and lacks the off the wall charm (and delicious mathematics) that GEB contains. I sometimes recommend it to people who tried to read GEB and gave up, but I don't think there's much to learn from I Am a Strange Loop if you're already familiar with Hofstadter and GEB.
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On the other hand, on-call surgeons might just have to choose not to attend radio-opaque movie theatres when they're on-call (just as they have to choose not to consume intoxicants when they're on-call).
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$1M is not a lot of money. That's not nation state money; that's Tim Tebow money.
I think Gruber demonstrates wisdom about Apple almost all of the time. The trouble is, he is SO biased, that he tends to really go overboard from time-to-time which diminishes my overall faith in what he has to say. It's like he literally will never acknowledge someone else might be able to do anything at all better than Apple.
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That was only the top part of it, below it was a much bigger part made of concrete.
On that note, I second your ringing endorsement of GEB, and if you haven't read it yet, you should run out and buy a copy. ;)
>I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes.

So... another Adria Richards? Careful not to make any jokes about forking dongles!

I don't want to work professionally with people who have a stick jammed up their ass - and it seems to me that most people agree. I'm trans. I find this comic [0] hilarious. Others would call it problematic, offensive, and even transphobic. I wouldn't want to work with any of those people.

Asking people to bend over so you can shove a stick up their ass doesn't go well. I can see how this might come as a surprise to people who already have sticks, but I guess somebody needs to tell them... the stick isn't normal. The problem isn't that other people are missing their sticks, but that you have one.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png
I didn't imply that you should. My statement still stands. While "they shouldn't have done X" is not security, that doesn't mean that the statement is devoid of meaning, or that we should ignore the question of whether or not "they should have done X."

Edit: Your statements seem to imply that because "100% security" would mean that anyone "doing X" would have no result, then everyone should be allowed to "do X" without question.
Interesting that the book mentioned, Not for Bread Alone, retails for over $2700 on Amazon 1.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Not-Bread-Alone-Konosuke-Matsushita/dp...
Most Indians are like that, I've seen that here in Europe too. I attend tech meetups and paper study groups regularly and only friend with people I admire. Race doesn't matter to me. And yes, usually they are not Indian anyway.
Regardless of whether or not sending deauth packets counts as jamming, the root problem can be solved by simply enabling and requiring protected management frames on your router/hotspot/phone.

Once you have protected management frames required, the only way to block your devices from connecting to your hotspot would be the kind of actual jamming that I'm sure we can all agree is illegal. Problem solved.

Unfortunately most phones' hotspot apps don't let you configure this setting (and disable it by default), so we need to push OEMs to enable it by default or at least make it configurable. I for one have it required on my home network, and it gives me peace of mind knowing that I can't be deauthed by random strangers.
I'm using it for 2D. It's very good... Not sure what you mean by better support?
It's amazing how companies can charge almost the same for what's essentially an HTTP handler that saves a few POSTed field as Netflix charges for streaming unlimited films and series.

And yet, I can totally see why it makes sense to pay, since handling yet another service that you must keep up is just annoying and time-consuming.
This looks like a cool easy to use tool, nice work.
I would love to see how they managed to justify this to the IRB, and how the IRB failed at its only job, inasmuch as the only possible purpose for turning over the IPs to the FBI is to inflict harm on people, harm which happened. Given how IRBs worry about the most exotic potentials for harm...
Could it be some malware? I remember some phishing attempt recently with an apple iCloud prompt. Have to search to find the story. Couldn't find at first try. Will update here once found.
I'm sure that's likely, I just have a crazy wistful idealism that the hacker manifesto is still an ethical driver of the computer security industry and academia.

I know it's not the CMU students' fault, but part of me is glad the Plaid Parliament of Pwning lost DCCTF this year. It's really saddening that blind deference to authority is now the norm in the industry.
Sadly I can't install from the Goobuntu PPA server :-)
Where? I bank with Wells Fargo and to make a wire transfer to anyone in the US, I have to physically walk into a branch and it costs $20.
Oh, crap; I missed that.
> It doesn't matter the MTU setting on your end for WAN and ISP / interlink grade networks is meaningless [as] they don't use Ethernet...

It absolutely does matter and is quite meaningful. :)

If you set your edge router's Internet-facing MTU to 9k, and the upstream equipment's MTU is smaller than that, then either your packets will be dropped, or PTMU Discovery will try to figure out the MTU of the path. (Better hope everyone along the path is correctly handling ICMP! :) )

> The only time you would want to use large packets is pretty much when you can have a buffer...

Or if you have high-volumes of data to move and want to dramatically increase the data:Ethernet_frame_boilerplate ratio. :)

> Also ... if you think about it the small packets are the most critical ones... [because they need to be dispatched as quickly as possible.]

Yes, but a larger MTU shouldn't affect this. Set whatever socket options are required to get those packets on their way as soon as they're created, and your system shouldn't wait to fill an Ethernet frame before sending that packet.
there is no way to teach calculus to a chimp, or even to make it understand the square root of 2.

Legends ever say that the first man who tried to make primates to understand the square root of 2 was drowned by them.
If it's too onerous, then don't trade there. Simple. Facebook is welcome to abandon Europe if paying fair tax is not to it's liking. Something else will rise in it's place.

It's like the arguments against the Australian MRRT for the mining industry - a tax that only kicked in if you were making 5% or more profits[1]. "The miners will go to other countries!" was the shrill cry from the mining industry. Uh, no they won't, and not just because the resources are physically here. As long as it's still reasonably profitable, companies will keep doing business in a location.

[1] In a monumentally bad bit of PR, the initial public-sell name for the Minerals Rent Resource Tax was... drumroll... the Super Tax.
this is a great point.

I often think of the current research chemical market in regards to this: a poorly understood drug like MDPV makes the rounds on the internet, someone decides to take the risks for the rewards in the gray-area and makes it widely available, someone buys it at a gas station and ends up in the hospital after doing something dumb, a panic ends up getting it banned, and a short while later the cycle restarts with a new drug that is still in the gray-area of the law.
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If every tycoon has 2 or 3 heirs, chances are that unless one of them inherits the parent drive (and then goes to amass more wealth), the fortune will spread out. We all know how the exponential function works, it does not take that many generations to level off any finite amount of money.
I feel like looking at how the 0.01% got ultra-rich is mostly focusing on the wrong thing. The problem is that the rich and ultra-rich are getting richer while everyone else is stagnating or regressing
I'd rather have a machine that works but is no longer receiving updates than one that is effectively bricked. At the very worst, if you're paranoid, you can just use the device for non-critical tasks. That's better than not being able to use it for anything, which is what happens to your iPad if you get unlucky and upgrade it beyond the point of no return.
I've wondered about the price too, but I think with $200 they could upgrade to a 12" IPS display and something like a Core M chip. Maybe the more square display would be too exotic, 16:9 is weird in tablet mode but could be acceptable for the price. I'd expect USB 3.1 charging in that timeframe too. Backlit keys are a $20 option for Thinkpads so they should be achievable too.

What's there is already so nice and the form factor works so well I'd be really surprised (and disappointed) if we don't see this in 2016, and it should be something of an inflection in the market to contrast with Apple's unrelentingly expensive offerings.

The Pixel is clearly for Chromebook developers, or those with money to burn.
My Italian friends and relatives are always a bit shocked by that, in the US. "Real" houses are made of bricks and mortar where they're from.
You are severely underestimating the need for people to interact. People love to have subordinates (i.e. someone to boss around), and people love to be subordinates (i.e. have someone tell them what to do).

Being free to do what you want is great, but most people don't know what they want, yet they have a natural disposition/desire/urge to lead or follow, and most definitely interact.
It's a common feature. IIRC, in Cisco WLC land the feature is referred to as active rogue containment:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/...

As someone who has experienced the fallout firsthand from a neighboring tenant in a downtown Seattle office building who used it, I'd challenge the idea that there are valid reasons to do this.

If you control the physical network - don't allow rogue APs on your network.

If you control the client and care about them connecting to access points that aren't under your control, then manage that instead.
I'm a huge user, believer and propagater of QUALITY free software, or quality anything.

It's preposterous to suggest that non-free programs limit individual freedom and liberty. Quid-pro-quo: the undeniable biological, evolutionary instinct to receive something (money) for a rendered service/product (software) simply cannot be deemed criminal. There's very little incentive to charge money for something whose blueprint is free. RedHat is the exception in the software world, not the rule. Very few profitable free-software based companies thrive - take canonical for instance, they're barely profitable despite putting out a VERY high quality Linux distro

Plus, why stop at software - why not release the blueprints of EVERYTHING ever made? Oh - and please tell your ambitious school going kid to NOT aim to finish first, because, when he grows up to be a successful inventor, Stallman and co. would have brainwashed the masses into daemonizing inventions that aren't made public property!
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I would assume there is a big difference between your dad giving you a loan and investors who don't have social ties with you since childhood.

The assumption is that the dad will be less stringent on due diligence, more forgiving in what he gets in return, and most importantly, will have brought you up all your life in such a way that you are primed for handling those kinds of money.

The wider point is that someone who grew up in a trailer park, doesn't even have access to investors in the first place. For example: how are you going to get an investment, if you can't afford to to schmooze with investors? What if a $50 dinner is completely out of your price range? What if buying someone a $5 coffee is a big deal financially?

And then there's the issue of safety net. There's a big difference between your venture failing meaning you end up living on the streets, or in your parents' garage.
671 people represents a global majority?
Thanks! That's really useful to know.