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> It's even more absurd than that... after the majority of the protestors have been defeated by public awareness that encryption and terrorism go hand-in-hand, the terrorists will go back to using phone calls and unencrypted email.

I think you're straw-manning their position here.

The opponents of encryption aren't claiming terrorists will start using unencrypted communication, they're advocating for legally-mandated "back doors" to be built into supposedly-secure communication systems.
Maybe, but I'd rather not send my financial information over the Internet in cleartext every time I buy something from a web site.
Having a CA's private keys only allows you to generate new signed certificates for a site, not decrypt traffic encrypted using an existing signed key pair. At best, it gives you the ability to spoof a website with a man-in-the-middle attack (e.g. you run a rogue wifi hotspot with a fake amazon.com that uses a private key you generated), although certificate-pinning would warn the user that Amazon's certificate had changed unexpectedly.
We shouldn't forget that Joshua was basically a military leader.
A recession is a general failure of businesses across all economic sectors. That's what the word has meant for three centuries.

Some modern witch doctors have literally made up arbitrary economic statistics and defined a particular pattern of those statistics to be a recession. I could define a recession to be stinky fermented soybeans and then Japan would always be full of delicious recession (mmm 納豆). You should not take either of those definitions too seriously.
If you can catch a person's email address upon their registration, it's the re-logging-in that would require them to switch to a different medium.
I'm surprised this comment was upvoted. I considered it a "PSA from Captain Obvious"
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> Relative velocities are going to be enormous without even trying, so it doesn't matter where you hit it - the energy will have to go somewhere.

With so much energy, it really doesn't matter? I imagine it would look like shooting a bullet through cardboard - the latter gains a hole, but otherwise doesn't even notice. Energy generally stays in the bullet that continues its flight.
People say this all the time, and it's true: our most likely military reaction to terrorist attacks probably is the basis of their strategy; they're not stupid, the response is predictable, and so why strike at all if you don't want a reprisal?

But it doesn't follow logically that military response is strategically bad for us! Just because ISIS wants us to do something doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. ISIS could be very wrong about wanting to provoke military escalation. In fact: it almost certainly is.

That doesn't mean that military strikes are good, or the right option at this point. It just means that saying "that's what ISIS wants us to do" isn't a dispositive argument.
"Just live with the way things are" has pretty much been my model for online services for many years now. It's the only way I can maintain some amount of sanity.
I recall reading the first experimental paper on analog gravitational black holes being created using bose einstein condensates(http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105...), and was happy to see the work continuing here (see referenced paper in the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00621).

What was very surprising was that it was a single author paper (only the prof of the group). These sort of research efforts are usually Prof+possible postdoc+a few grad students. Not sure if prof is leaving grad students out (I hope not!), or is toiling alone at this work.
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"Which makes your argument pointless"

Of course it doesn't, and that's not what I meant. I didn't mean wholesale outlaw, as in no one would be allowed to use it. Governments can mandate consumer communication technology, for example, like they are trying to do with Apple now.

http://betanews.com/2015/11/17/tim-cook-apple-wont-weaken-en...
I took a theory class in the music of Stravinsky in grad school, and we used Craft's books at several points. It's interesting to think of the life of a person as having historical significance in large part because they acted as a window into some other person. I suppose it's actually rather common, and there are other examples even in the world of classical music (Schindler comes to mind for Beethoven).
Industrialise child raising, like everything else.

Artificial wombs. Group day-care. Have women donate eggs, men donate sperm and combine them randomly. Make it the duty of every person to be a parent to 2 to 3 children with fines for not doing their part until they hit 30/40 years of age. The babies will be born never knowing their biological parents. Then they're sent to child-raising facilities, either government or private, which are subject to strict regulation against mistreatment and indoctrination. Only the mega-rich, or very rural will afford/choose to have babies the usual way.

This seems to be the only choice in a society where everyone has to work 40 hours per week to secure a living for him/herself. If you had guaranteed basic income that can cover the cost of children, people could leave their position for one to two years, maybe do contracting work from home on the side. You will need very strict laws against discriminating against those who chose to have children. Or, you know, make making children a specialised industry like everything else.
Even if the US military is subject to the "rule of law" (which is another argument), how does that in any way excuse or lessen any atrocities it commits? I try hard to be open-minded, but that is one commonly-expressed view that deeply disturbs me.
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That's a pretty accurate assessment. Mist could be conceptualized as a self-hosted replacement for pusher (https://pusher.com/). It's designed specifically to address building realtime web apps.
In comparison to the state of things in Iraq now, they did work. The problem is that the American public(rightly so) were tired of the decade+ long wars and wanted the troops home, so we pulled out. As we saw, the Iraqi military still wasn't able to stand on its own legs against a relatively organized and well-equipped guerilla force.

If Iraq had a fully capable military(instead of the partially capable one they have now), ISIS would never have spread into the country. For all the problems the US and its allies created in Iraq, the country was comparatively much more stable, and for the most part people got on with their lives.
I hate the recommendation of 2FA as the solution. I find 2FA more patronizing than anything else.

I use a password manager (1Password) and have a unique, secure password generated for every site. If someone gets access to my passwords, that means they've compromised my 1Password keychain which is game over anyways. I'm not interested in any protection mechanisms for such an unlikely scenario. So I end up storing the 2FA keys inside of 1Password as well—bringing it back down to 1 factor, but adding annoyance and hassle.

Don't make assumptions about how your users secure themselves.
Yeah, it definitely requires maintenance that I'm not willing to put in. Just too much garbage to sort through and throw out for way too little meaningful signal.
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Read the novel "The Right Stuff" for more background. There was a disagreement as to whether astronauts would be pilots of their spacecraft or mostly along for the ride.

I wonder if any of that desire was responsible for the Space Shuttle.
That was the motivating case for Erlang. However, most problem domains don't require the same levels of availability and fault tolerance as telephone switching.
Google's non-advertising actions have earned them more goodwill (or less badwill) than Facebook's actions have.
Techies are generally idealist and strongly opinionated about stuff they think they know best.
I never equated the words "social radar" with "lie detector". So perhaps I confused a thing or two here. It happens.

The short version of what I claimed is if you have good empathic skills (e.g. being better able to feel the facial expression other people are making at that moment), then you'll have part of the answer of how to detect genuine people (and I believe being not genuine and lying are two completely different things).

About meditation itself and its relationship on social intelligence, there's not much written about it, since I made the term "social intelligence" up. I'd recommend reading about meditation and emotional intelligence on Science Daily. Then practice it for 5 days in a retreat and then see for yourself how it could improve your 'social radar'. I know it's a lot of effort, but in my opinion that's the minimal amount of investigation that you'd need in order to see if it holds value. The 5 day retreat is needed to gain the tacit knowledge that cannot be explained through language (just like the feeling of playing an instrument very quickly can only be practiced).
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> "I think the assertion is that Joe Public doesn't really care about his/her privacy anymore provided they consent to it's initial release."

People do care about it, they just don't think about it that often, or only think about people seeing their tamest online behaviour. Here's one recent example of where a privacy policy did capture the public's attention:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/snapchats-new-scary-privacy...
You woudl rather a bunch of ex plods (ones who had to take medical retirement nudge nudge) who will sell juicey bits to their News international mates down the pub.

I know the type, met some of them British telecom when they tried to kibosh the internet as just some fad the "girls " in marketing where keen on.

Or Would you rather put Talk Talk in charge as they have done so well.
This is all covered pretty well in the latest Bond movie.
> All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let's stop talking about them.

Why generalize? How about the core parts of Buddhism that are literally a checklist on how to calm your mind. And the same methods are used by modern psychotherapy as "cognitive behavioural therapy" and "mindfulness".
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I made a newsline of the events. The key is the IM messages, which were released after the movie. http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC
Ditto, but I still get annoyed at having to re-generate a password half a dozen times to fit whatever opinionated rules a particular site comes up with.
Here's a timely book by Sam Harris where he (successfully!) debates with a formerly fairly-extreme Muslim:

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0674088700?ref_=cm_sw_r_a...
> This could easily become the norm, and should.

a stronger version of this IS the norm in many countries in Europe and large security conscious enterprises in the united states: an ID card issued that is also a high security module. it's better than your scheme because the ID card is also a computer that can respond to signing requests by a host computer and the private key doesn't leave the ID card, ever. governments issue and service tens to hundreds of millions of these cards a year.
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sure. let's start in 1930:

white supremacists: 11,000,000+...
Wanna take bets on how long some bored hacker with access to a botnet takes over and paints dickbutt?
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> But the percentage of people who construct passwords by choosing random printable characters rounds to zero.

Leveraging song lyrics can be a helpful step in this direction: simply feed in the first letter of each word to create your password. Of course, you would need a fairly long lyric/phrase to exceed the benchmark noted above, but on a scale of 'hunter2' to '8%jFb#P", I'd say it's not bad :)
Followed up by outraged editorials in the Daily Mail when the BBC dramatizes it in a couple of years
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I use 1Password but enable 2FA anywhere I can. If you can store your 2FA keys in 1Password, you're not really doing 2FA.

(The distinction may not matter much in practice!)
I believe I have the same phone (or similar enough model at least), I had gotten it when it was $20 they tend to be rather slow. It's one of those "one app at a time" type of phones.
Maybe it's easier to define an open society in terms of what it isn't: it isn't a society in which women are second rate citizens, it isn't a society where religion forms the backbone of the state, it isn't a society where free speech in a practical sense is forbidden, it isn't a society where politics are so rotten that the basics of democracy are no longer present. So North Korea probably doesn't qualify as an open society, but Sweden does. Russia probably doesn't but that's up for debate, that's just my view.
There seems some evidence he's smart https://www.quora.com/How-smart-is-Mark-Zuckerberg-academica...
I keep running into sonoluminescence lately (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence), this kind of reminds me of that? Sonoluminescence reminds me of gravitational collapse, but I think that's probably because I need to read up more...

Very interesting stuff going on with applied physics though--the most immediate application is probably materials science (and hopefully better computers/information processing devices). "Simulating the universe better" may come to be linked with better general information processing systems too, as in discoveries in one helps the other. For instance, more work along these lines: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03776
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No love for spaces in passwords? i.e. spacebar presses
No, it's a $10 iPod Touch equivalent. Which could be a really good thing.
What 2nd factor has a static key that allows you to store it in 1password? I don't think I've seen a second factor that isn't hardware (phone, dongle, whatever) and/or a dynamically generated code.
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Let's rejoice about that (About Breivik being only an individual, actually he's not quite just an individual, there are more idiots like that but so far they haven't been able to do a whole lot of damage in Western Europe, let's hope it stays that way).
At least in Europe, where I live, the government can be trusted in a lot of issues --- especially it is highly likely that they _try_ to do what is best and are no "evil emperors".

The Europeans are fond of reminding Americans that we think 200 years is a long time. So, how long ago was the Stasi disbanded, again?
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Also, I didn't make the tradeoff. Some government and corporate beurocrats probably did.
This is speculation, and my opinion only, but . . .

Astronauts are highly intelligent individuals with science and engineering backgrounds, so I doubt that they were/are against technology and automation, per se. However, they also generally have pilot, particularly test pilot, backgrounds. The shuttles could not be considered mature technology by any stretch, so I suspect that the astronauts felt more comfortable being personally in control of a vehicle that could kill them than relying on an automated system. Despite (or rather because of) the fact that they work with the most cutting edge technology, test pilots are some of the most conservative people you will find. They need to be that way to stay alive.
Source for "all those "moderate" rebels switched to ISIS"? Source for "$100B in funding"? This smacks of conspiracy claptrap that adds nothing of substance to the discussion.
> I think at Google's scale one of the biggest pain points is almost certainly integrating new employees to do things "the Google way".

Ramping up at Google is definitely a stressful process, but I don't think open sourcing technology puts much of a dent in that. Even if you show up your first day at work knowing every tool Google uses, on your second day there will be some new tool and something else will be deprecated. By a couple of years, damn near every piece of software you were familiar with will have been replaced by something different. You are in a constant state of learning.

This is, I think, one of the reasons Google places such a premium on algorithms and data structures in hiring. They are some of the few things that don't change often and being familiar with fundamental concepts makes it much easier to quickly pick up a new tool that uses them.
My biggest question with this is, what if I ever have to login using a computer or tablet that is not mine? How does 1Password deal with that case?
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I'm worried i might have overmade that statement a bit. One thing is what i can string myself along in believing in, and memories of the period is growing evermore hazy from year to year. Let me restate it as "the world becomes a weird place when they -seem- to go outside your acknowledged "knowns". Saying they did becomes, based on the manner in which i interpreted things/cues/input at the time, something i can't really say with any degree of certainty. Sorry about perhaps leading you on with my choice of words.

But that initial "boom" when you go from "i am me and i am here in my head" to "oh hey, i have an invisible counterplayer in here that is capable of manifesting itself as realistically behaving, voice-pitch-perfect impressions of all my friends and family, who proceed to harass/cajole/support me in a theatrical landscape choreographed with split-second focus on whatever it is my "i" express."
Granted, this is also dream, but dream is too fragmented, and too prone to halt|flush|restart compared to four/six hour long internal conversations (with the occasional external auditory hallucination when fitting).

And then you get to live that for a few years, and its a mixture of exhilarating and scary as fuck. And you're forever left with a brain that you sometimes think of with the premonition "well, if you could do that, what other tricks do you have up yor sleeve".
Everything that mist does is "right in erlang's wheelhouse". Erlang is awesome and the actual reason we moved golang had nothing to do with erlang vs golang. I responded to that in detail at another spot on this thread (currently above, but who knows if that is still the case).
Interesting! Does anyone who has any experience in passport.js know how this compares?
No, the Green Lantern theory is basically that the public believes the President can do anything and everything he wants, and therefore can follow up on all of their campaign promises.
The blog post seems to be missing the full PGP signature.
article lists this unlocked phone for $30

http://www.amazon.com/POSH-Orion-Mini-S350a-Smartphone/dp/B0...

But this will be $100 next Friday

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/motorola-moto-g-2nd-generation-c...

However why bother unlocking when you can just use a mvno if you want cell service.

You can also buy the Firefox OS smartphone for $50
The wikipedia page is very interesting, but the motives are not clear, esp. for France. Any idea ?
'Discover Weekly' is the one feature keeping me with Spotify. Their UI annoys me on a daily basis, but I've got a lot of great recommendations from them. Frankly, I wish Apple would mirror this feature, though it goes against their whole 'human curated playlists' philosophy.
For me the telecom provider is not too relevant since I have never used a cell phone and don't plan to as I consider to be an anti-social device.

Planning to use this as a smart remote controller for my media box, as a Bluetooth robot controller, and I might do Skype and what not. It's possible I'd eventually activate it though for emergencies and get rid of my land line which costs more given the little I use it.
This article is spot on. 'In the Plex' constantly referred to Google's search being strong because it had such rich search data and not because of predictive algorithms. They used the experience of what other people searched to determine what was best to show
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> Al Qaeda had very specific grievances. They wanted US troops to leave Saudi Arabia, where they first put bases before the first Gulf War.

That was a position used to justify action, rally supporters, and which was quite overtly an instrumental (rather than terminal) goal in their grand strategy --- which was -- like that of Daesh -- to achieve a pan-Islamic caliphate.

(It's worth noting that al-Qaeda was formed several years before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait that prompted the creation of those bases, and adopted the position of opposing the bases after the Saudi government turned down bin Laden's offer for al-Qaeda fighters to defend the Kingdom against Iraq in favor of accepting aid from the United States. And both al-Qaeda's long-term goals and their anti-Western rhetoric existed before those bases.)

> Not saying terrorism is a legitimate response, but it's much more explainable than "they hates us for our freedoms."

Sure, but not for the reasons you propose: al-Qaeda's opposition to the West is because their strategy for achieving dominion in the Islamic world is the time-tested strategy of totalitarians everywhere -- sell the target population on the threat of an external enemy, and use that to sell the idea that the totalitarian leaders and their proposed system of rulership are necessary to combat that external threat. Its not a response to anything the West does, although anything that the West does that creates (or can be fuel for propaganda to create) widespread grievances (legitimate or not) in the populations in which al-Qaeda seeks to establish its caliphate will be leveraged. Daesh is much the same in this respect.
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While you're right, depending on availability of Wifi is not very portable, which decreases its utility.

Not sure how it is in the US, but in Romania we've got pretty good and cheap 4G-only Internet pre-pay cards. You can't call or receive phone calls, you cannot send SMS, all you can do is to connect to the 3G/4G network. The price is €5 for 1 GB, €7 for 3 GB, €15 for 13 GB of bandwidth. And you recharge whenever you want, as this is not a monthly plan. And I have an Android that I use with such a pre-pay card. It's like my personal 4G modem that I can also use for Skype and stuff. And I was actually thinking of giving up my phone number. If it weren't for my parents which are old-fashioned, I would.
Marshrutki don't really run in the suburbs. Even if they do, these "suburbs" are high-rise developments with 10+ story apartment buildings. Not comparable to American one family/house low-density suburb at all.
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I think you are missing the point.

Sentinel isn't really meant to solve what Aphyr/Jepsen tests.
Most users would have a smartphone or other device with 1Password or their password manager of choice on it, so you can copy the password manually from that device. I tend not to log in on any device that isn't mine, though.