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Both of these are immoral. Therefore, not paying your fair share (note that I didn't say "legal share") is immoral.

Fairness is subjective. Morality is subjective. Legality is objective.

It's not "fair" that 51% of people get to decide which services to provide, how much to pay for them, under which conditions to provide them, then use force and the threat of force to compel the other 49% of people to pay for it.

I didn't ask for these services. I have no moral obligation to pay anything for them and I have no legal obligation to pay anything more than the law requires.

We don't legislate morality.

It's basically hacking the system.

Agreed and it's not immoral to hack the system.

The state has every advantage. The state can write the laws. The state can interpret the laws. The state has men with guns to enforce the laws.

Even with all of these advantages over the individual, sometimes the state doesn't come out on top. That's a failure of the state, not the individual.

If you write the rules in your favor, interpret the rules in your favor and enforce the rules in your favor, it rings hollow when you cry that it wasn't fair that the little guy beat you using the rules that you wrote, interpreted and enforced.
The most common need was that many altcoins would start off with a large premine, and then they would offer an IPO/ICO/CFC (depending on the time, the term for this would change to be whatever was least likely to get the SEC's attention) where they basically put all the coins on an exchange or with an escrow and make it so that people can buy the coins in exchange for bitcoin. If they don't sell out of the altcoin's supply, then the developers are left with a number of coins. These coins are typically destroyed so that the only supply is owned by people who bought into it.
You don't need to send your private key to a CA to get a cert. You send them a CSR with your public key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_signing_request

Edit: Ah, if you were talking about the CA's private keys, then the parent is correct.
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Yes, Japan will grow again if it finds a way to expand productivity in one sector.

You're right about Japan getting behind after the internet. I guess their way of working is not compatible with the velocity demanded by this new field. Can you imagine Salaryman getting the latest on the new Angular.js version? (or even JS for that matter?)
Other mammals as in the ones who use religious texts to get 'power' in the real world. Politicians, military leaders, jihadists, and sadly even teachers and parents.

And was the Quran not a revelation from 'God' only to Muhammad? If he wants to believe it, fine, why should anybody else? Oh yes, eternal torture. It is childish to be told a story and believe it true only because they threaten you.
What do you suggest the rest of society should do about people who hold views which are (supposedly) incompatible with a free society?
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What is te cheapest smartphone (anything with wifi and a browser) that comes unlocked and is not carrier-subsidized?
Connecting your statement with the dominating use of "plea deals" one sees that these "courtroom safeguards" mean pretty much nothing.
Consider the MoPac toll lane that's supposed to open in a year or so. It's priced based on demand to keep the lane free-flowing at all times (barring an accident in the lane itself). You'll be able to shave significant time off your commute by paying extra, or you can pay less by sharing a ride with other people.

Demand pricing will make shared rides take off even in low density cities.
ISIS recruiting seems to live from making things black and white.

I think the best course of actin would be to leave ISIS alone from military perspective.

Then airdrop food, water and medical supplies to the area. Not discriminating between fighters and civilians. Smother them.

Then give the civilians living in that area a way to voice their grievances. So that Muslim people in Egypt and France could feel sympathy for ordinary human beings trapped in that area. "How can you treat our fellow Muslims so bad?"

Now ISIS should be busy stopping people from messaging the outer world. And stopping people from drinking filthy crusader water. They would have to spend their energy enforcing a totalitarian state. It's difficult for them to explain how there is holy war when the enemy is being so nice.
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Tell that to GCHQ and its new spider plan!
That sounds a lot like TLS client side certificates. Sure, something like would be nice but getting there would practically require new standards, then those standards need to percolate to server and client software across different platforms, then users will need to get used to them etc etc. Meanwhile autogenerated passwords can be made with a perl cgi script, be compatible with Mosaic from 1995, and be immediately familiar with most users.
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Possibly. That effectively assumes that it's far enough (or parking costs are high enough, etc.) for it to be worthwhile to coordinate a carpool in the morning yet it's still viable to take an Uber/cab/etc. home in the evening. That seems like a pretty specific scenario.

>In my case car pooling was only convenient when going to work.

I suspect this is why, anecdotally, I don't hear much about carpooling in my circles any longer. Not that it's ever been all that common. Hours at the end of the day are probably more variable for a lot of people than they used to be.
Like most political speeches, it's lacking details. Replacing the threat name is funny because the vagueness still fits.
But you are locked to that one telcom provider?

Yanks look like idiots to me, because they generally don't seem to factor the lock-in to a specific carrier to the price. In my country you can't offer phones and plans as a bundle, and therefore the pricing of the phones is very different.
I wonder if it can be rooted and reflashed with something completely different.
Probably no, but is it a phone then?
Yeah I don't even disagree with that haha (I mean youtube is another great example), but the analysis I provided is still probably the reason FB gets a hardtime on HN while Google doesn't.
Most of my two-factor auth involves a time-based one-time pad (TOTP) that involves scanning a QR code once to sync the phone to the service. The service doesn't know what phone or other device I'm using.
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I spent some time thinking about this problem a while ago, and I think I have a solution that I would never actually take the time to implement. The trick would be doing it all fast enough, which is over my head.

* Intercept the video output from the NES.

* Place a camera on the end of the zapper.

* Use static images such as the trees to determine the coordinates of where the camera is currently pointing.

* Use LEDs directly in front of the zapper's sensor adjust the light to what those coordinates would be based on the intercepted output of the NES.
2FA doesn't mean phone number. There's also HOTP and TOTP, dongles, bio, etc.
Can someone explain to me what exactly dependent types are that Haskell doesn't already have? I thought Haskell already offered dependent types.
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And notice that when the commenter says "open society," that really just means the type of society that he or she desires. It's phrased in such a way that it sounds like an objective uncontroversial description of a society that all "good" people desire, but alas such an objective description does not exist.
We could just say most people "hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society". Look at all the "enlightened free thinkers" in this thread who want it to be illegal to state something they adamantly disbelieve ("hate speech"). They are apparently not aware that the same laws could be brutally used against them, should they ever find themselves disagreeing with the predominant belief system (and newsflash, enlightened free thinkers: a lot of your beliefs already do).

The problem is that the term "open society" has no objective meaning, so you can use it to exclude any set of beliefs that you don't like, up to and including anarchists.
You seem to be complaining that the comment wasn't antagonistic enough. Is that what you mean to be doing?
Joking aside, I think it's a fundamental problem to allow secret spy agencies to be in charge of a country's digital security. A cybersecurity agency should be easily reviewed for abuses. That's not possible with a spy agency. Not to mention the whole conflict of interest between offense and defense. How many times will the GCHQ decide to let some defenses compromised in order for it to maintain its offensive capability? That's an unacceptable conflict of interest.
Or you could do like I did and let 33 of them fester in a landfill in Cleveland because I couldn't be bothered to copy them to my new hard drive because they were only worth $0.10 at the time. Doh!
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The actual reason is much less exciting than you might have hoped and actually has nothing to do with erlang vs golang...

The erlang version has been running successfully for about 2 years and we haven't had any issues whatsoever (excepting a wrestling match with mnesia early on). We are erlang/elixir advocates and have used the erlang vm successfully on highly critical multi-million-concurrency services for over 6 years.

When we set out to build nanobox desktop (https://desktop.nanobox.io) our vision was to provide a single pre-compiled executable that could be run without any configuration. The design required a push layer and needed the same functionality that the erlang project was already providing. It wasn't feasible to package the erlang application into the nanobox binary, so we emulated the original project into a consumable golang package. As time went on we were porting more and more of the features into the golang port until all that was lacking was distribution and authentication. At that point we made the decision to consolidate our efforts into a single project, that could be a standalone service or composed within a golang binary.

I regret to inform you that there isn't a mass exodus within our company to ditch erlang for golang. While that certainly would make for a fun thread, in this case it was simply a matter of fit and effort consolidation.
Hmm. There ought to be a "Deepness in the Sky" joke in here, somewhere. Perhaps somebody remembers the appropriate details?

I'm sure there's an appropriate time and place for spidersex, as long as it doesn't impact our cold war...
If it's made by LG I wonder how long until you could unlock it with one of the 5-10$ online mail the unlock code services, if it uses some standard LG locking scheme that might already be possible.
I've unlocked devices before that weren't on the "unlock list" just by trying the most similar device to that, that was pretty much the case when Nokia used to have 50 regional models for the same phone, and while things have surely changed I don't think that they've changed that much.

As a SHTF phone it's not that bad of a deal I have the new Microsoft Nokia 105 as an emergency and beach/club/night out phone it costs like 15 GBP unlocked. No wifi and 2.XG only but it's 15GBP if I lose it I won't cry because it's the price of 2-3 shots here in London.
And for those that say I need my phone to call Uber, well m.uber.com works on low end phones ;)

Oh and the most wonderful think about the Nokia it actually works as a phone unlike pretty much every modern phone out there the reception is brilliant (2G coverage is pretty universal) and as far as the voice quality goes it's by far better than the iPhone 6S and the OnePlus I'm using atm it's much clearer even in loud environments.
I'm certain the "You're fired!" is an exaggeration. You would rarely get fired over something so minor here.

Firing is difficult here and is only done for the most severe offenses. You could be "laid off," but you'll never know exactly why, (as you could then sue for improper termination), but even then, that involves a lot of paperwork and he won't sign up for that instantly after hearing a noise.

I have had my supervisor give me talks about proper workplace conduct for these kinds of things though.
Even BBC fell for it! [1] Now there are enough "reliable" sources to include it into the Wikipedia article! And then everyone else looks up the Wikipedia article and assumes it's true. Can a problem be considered unsolved if most people think it is solved?

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc
Sure, if you use Skype or Google Hangouts you can call other phones.
The data-selling business model is just one aspect of what could be considered harmful, another aspect is the privacy aspect. For example, potential employers looking through your Facebook posts to see what your personal views and social life are like. It's possible to argue that it's possible to limit access to Facebook content, though there are often changes made to Facebook that make such privacy harder to obtain.

So when working out the price of a service like Facebook, it's important to include the cost of privacy (even if this is effectively impossible to put a numerical value on).
Author reads a piece of clickbait.

Author responds to clickbait with even more clickbait (check out that comment section!).

I wonder if I can write some clickbait off this.
Though he says a lot of this is to avoid bulk cracking of your passwords. As with, say, OneLogin, your keychain provides a really easy way to bulk crack all your passwords - steal the key.
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No, he measures the entropy based on a machine knowing the format.

If I roll a dice, and ask you to guess the result, it will take you 3 guesses on average to get the result. If I ask you to guess the random word I've chosen, it will take you around 1000 guesses (if I have a small vocabulary).

Entropy is calculated as ln₂(x), where x is the number of possibilities. With four common words from a list of 2000:

4 × ln₂(2000) ~= 44

as used in the comic.

If, instead, the password was taken to be 28 random characters from [a-z ], the entropy would be

28 × ln₂(27) ~= 133

This is the overestimate that the artist didn't make.

With a genuinely random alphanumeric password, like 0LsW-nT5#^kQ, the entropy is higher:

12 × ln₂(92 keys on the keyboard) ~= 78.

but the point of the XKCD was to show a memorable password.
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We should then pressure the Gulf countries to chip in and take in some of those refugees esp. those who hold more conservative and traditionalist views because they'd feel more at home there and not have to experience culture shocks while in Europe since some of them are coming even from rural and undeveloped areas of Syria or Iraq.

Also, I'd like to point out that there's no Palestinian camps in Egypt that I know of but good on you seeing through all the BS that Sisi is just another ruthless and bloodthirsty dictator who is by the way a closeted Islamist who holds equally despicable fundamentalist views but he's good enough so far in hiding them under the veneer of reformist moderate leadership.
Exactly I suspect that Jack came late to computers and like all new enthusiasts get caught up in terminology.

Cyber is a trendy cliche but its a useful shorthand to the problem area.
Note if you are in the USA, this is technically illegal under DMCA, but like speeding, a great many people still do it.
> In a way that is not different than NASA.

I'm not aware of anyone at NASA walking into what they knew was a death sentence, or was ever sent to a hard labor camp in a harsh climate.
A disadvantage is the media break while using passwordless.

Some folks i met strongly believe that using a different medium while interacting with a site distracts new users, by this lowering the sign-up rate. I have no data on that but it sounded at least plausible.

If you believe in this, it would depend on your target group how you should handle passwords (or the lack of).
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That probably has something to do with the fact that there has been lots of military action, regime changes, etc. in countries with large Muslim populations over the past few decades. That's exactly the sort of thing I would expect to cause the affected people to radicalize.
Also alive and well in Alameda, CA, heading in to San Francisco (or at least it was last I visited in 2010). Because drivers get a reduced (free?) fare when crossing the bridge passengers queue at random corners that have been established over time, hop into strangers’ cars, and head in to the city. I thought it was one of the coolest things ever.
You can't really "add" your key to a computer you don't trust, though. At best, it could destroy your USB device; at worst it could copy the contents out once you decrypt them.

This may be better than using one password for everything, but it's certainly not a panacea.
> There must be a name for the phenomenon where an individual brings things upon themselves and then uses the criticism/persecution they receive as evidence to the fact that they were right all along.

I believe that "persecution complex" is the phrase you're looking for.
I'm not quite old enough, but it was just before my time and there were some stories in the press that it was for shooting their own satellites, at least officially. Remember the space shuttle was being pimped as being all things to all people, including the military, right around that time and satellite retrieval could happen to Russian as well as American satellites, after all abandoned non working wrecks and right of salvage at sea and all that. Now it would be a pity if the Russians shot at a decommissioned spy sat while the Americans shuttle on a classified .mil mission was trying to steal that satellite... also run the numbers on low earth orbit satellites, a decent head shot to a low orbit satellite deorbits the main pieces and the little parts have an awesome surface to volume ratio so they naturally deorbit and the precious delicate space shuttle isn't going to fly thru a cloud of satellite parts to steal a russian spy sat, now, is it?

The shuttle has enough delta-V that in the old days before advanced surveillance sats its not unrealistic it could have snatched a decommissioned low orbit russian spy sat while out of ground observation range. In fact, how exactly do you know what did or didn't happen during the many classified early missions...

There was also a some popular press scientific claims. If "we" think "we" can shoot actively dodging incoming ICBMs out of the sky in the 80s, shooting a "big" asteroid should be pretty easy in the 70s, right? So wait for a close approach, record the spectrograph of the impact, compare to the known composition of the shell, report back on the first direct chemical analysis of a meteor in space before re-entry. This is a little impractical, but ...
> If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

This still rings very true to this day.
This code combines several tricks having to do with lazy evaluation. We can define a type that requires a lazy function to ask for each bit of its input argument one at a time, in whatever order decided by the function's implementation. Furthermore, we can partially evaluate any number of lazy function invocations in parallel without finishing any of them that we don't need.

As a result, laziness reveals information about a function's implementation in a way that strict evaluation does not. It matters which parts of the input a function actually reads.

Similarly, in non-lazy languages, functions that take callbacks reveal information about themselves by calling the callback (or not). We can write tests demonstrating the order in which a function calls its callback.
I think the idea is to make your altcoins instantly have value by transferring the value from the bitcoins to your altcoins.

Kind of like if I decided to use pine cones as a new currency, I could try to convince you by literally burning dollar bills and telling you their value had moved into those pine cones.

That's how I'm reading it at least.
That tends to degenerate into resetting the password every time, or logging in from the password reset email you sent them.

In either case, you've moved security to the user's email program which is (sadly) probably an improvement.
Off-topic; regarding your attitude: The pricing of different services can be considered part of the living cost of an area, and is one of the many trade-offs you make when you choose to (not) move to/from an area.

For example: Europe might have better access to internet, however I'm not a fan of their policies, so I can choose to pay a bit more for internet in Canada, and deal with the lock-in.

It's silly to consider someone an idiot based off a single trade-off that they make.
(Considering them an idiot based on many trade-offs is a different story)
Same with Buddhism
>The problem is, no website or browser supports this kind of authentication

Aren't you describing Yubikeys? Which aren't widely supported, but IIRC are still supported by some websites and apps.
I bet there's a world wide natural experiment going on right now (since the late 90's) on that very subject. I also bet that there's several very smart people working on that very question.

The real questions are who are these people, what is their data, and what can they conclude? Maybe the fine folks over at Freakonomics might have a hint.

In the end, I believe we should believe what the academic Economists have to say about it.
Can you come up with a definition where significant numbers of any group of a billion people qualify?
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I think I remember a terrorist attack in 2011 too.
There's a similar simulator for the UK's "IECC" signalling systems (Integrated Electronic Control Centre), including a fairly large number of maps and a reasonable community for chaining maps for multiple signal areas together. It's incredibly addictive http://www.simsig.co.uk/
I appreciate the clarification. Sorry to be on the other side of the "infuriating argument with someone who doesn't know information theory and security."
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It's a good question. I think Brin/Page can be seen as bringing more value to users, as opposed to people who see FB as a waste of time, and a bane on how people spend time on the internet.

It also probably has to do how media props Zuckerberg as always trying to change the world vs Brin/Page who seem to lead more quiet personal lives.
I don't fully understand this line of thinking. To me, it's like saying "The belief that seat belts save lives might come as a surprise to these people who died in automobile accidents while wearing seat belts."

It may indeed be that this kind of signals intelligence isn't actually helpful, but I don't think this is a very good argument either way. If there was a massive disruption of planned terrorist attacks, it is not useless just because there wasn't a complete elimination of terrorist attacks.
This exactly is why I use LastPass
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There are sects of every religion that are just as violent - at least in rhetoric (and sometimes in action) - as ISIS.

Look no further than hate-motivated crimes against people of color, transgendered people, and non-heterosexual people - often backed up with violent rhetoric based on Christianity.

Does that mean the ideology of Christianity itself has failed to modernize?