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I think you are asking two related questions. A "voice of reason" is "a person who influences others to act sensibly." Bruce Schneier is a voice of reason in information security, with frequent op-ed pieces and interviews, so Snowden is not the only person in that role.

I'll interpret your question as: how does "a voice" become "the voice above the rest", and thus a person become a "demigod"?

I have no exact answer, but I can suggest a few things related to how news is organized and presented.

First is the lure of secret knowledge. Pay attention to the news and you'll hear code phrases like "unnamed White House official". These are almost always deliberate, officially sanctioned leaks, structured to make it sound secret, and thus more influential. Look at the various agencies (CIA, FBI, etc.) who declare that they have the 'real' information, which is so dangerous that they have to keep it secret, and so dangerous that we need to give them carte blanche.

In a related point, this is also a reason why ex-senior officials, and ex-high-level military officers, etc. get to be on the news; they have or had access to this secret information and get to be the gatekeepers/interpreters for us of what's "really" going on.

Second is the news cycle. With an infodump, the news gets old. After a month or two the official response is "that's all behind us; we need to look to the future". Look at Wikileaks for an example.

But by stringing the document release over years, it's always fresh news - fresh secret news. Which means there may need to be a new government response, which makes it a new news story. This keeps people like Snowden in the news. (You wrote "just grant us access"; my distinction is that his leak continues to grant access rather than granted access.)

Third is the ability to sound reasonable and look normal. Public speaking is hard. Snowden manages to make statements, answer questions, be consistent, and keep on topic much better than most people I know. This is the sort of person that newspeople prefer to talk to, because it makes their job much easier - they know what they are going to get, roughly how long it will take to get it, and it won't require extra work on their side.

The "look normal" part is important because it's an easy thing to get pidgeon-holed as someone who only does something for the attention, and looking different puts you part-way into that hole.
For decades it has been a poster child for mismanagement.

I took my Tv-b-gone to a business school and zapped the TVs that had CNBC and stuff like that and they turned them back on in an hour and the next time I used it they put tape on the IR sensors.

I zapped the TVs at sears and they were still off a year later.

Sears is the only entity that has denied me credit. (Doesn't stop them from asking me to apply.

For years I was a fan of sears auto center because the cashier would sometimes give me 4 tires for the price of one and they were the kind of lovable gearheads that always had the manager's camaro. They went on of business and an mma training center moved in and I don't get it because this is the only state where mma is banned...
No he isn't. People shouldn't be allowed to get people charged on "he said, she said" crimes 19 years after the fact.
Atlas shrugged and catch 22 are the only two books that I have been unable to finish.

In atlas shrugged, Rand takes the most incredibly boring, one-dimensional, unbelievable, cliched, cement-mixed characters and starts beating you over the head with them right out of the gate. I saw her singular point 10 pages into the book, and could not bear the pain of the next 300 of the manifesto.

While I can see how the "trader of justice" ideal that is mentioned in the article might appeal to some, it's simply not applicable to real life economic/social governance. Humans aren't spawned directly from market processes, they have parents and friends and communities and their relationships extend beyond the reach of the free market mechanisms.
For me it was the only book ever where, once I'd put it down, I couldn't remember where I had been when I picked it up again (after some time had passed).

That's because it keeps jumping from subject to subject, revisiting some, and sometimes even repeating the same information in different ways. I was completely lost after a while, but I didn't have the heart to start from the beginning. It's a very big book.

I did enjoy it though, in a way because I got so lost in it, that after a while it didn't make any difference where I was and what I'd read. It was a bit like floating into someone's dreams.

Also, it put me off my New Age books for ever - you know the ones, Alistair Crowley, Dion Fortune and the like. I'm much happier with technology than magic, thank you. Thank you professor Eco, that is.
+1

People often believe "facts" more due to their own preconceived biases than due to logical investigation. So any reports that support their position are obviously the truth. Likewise, they dismiss reports that are contrary to their position.

There are lots of examples one could use as proof - recently Donald Trump. Notice there's absolutely no one in the middle? You're either fully behind him or your completely against him. Any time you see a highly polarized issue, I'd recommend asking yourself why there's no middle ground. Often it's because there's also no rationale for the extremes.

How do we use the scientific method on issues like this? Even our historical perspectives hold biases - and sometimes it's hard to collect a large enough sample size to have confidence in your conclusion.
I am also 5'3. I don't carry a gun, so I never 'have to' shoot anyone.

The article described a situation in which two people with police training used a taser and a gun to restrain a naked man. It was two against one. Did they really need the taser? Even if they did, did they really need to shoot him with a gun, too?
Wouldn't the regular ram also need hardening? If I can modify the ram, I can change the OS that's loaded to ram. Does this hardening slow it down?
That's what I don't get either. StackOverflow is definitely a good website, but why limit yourself to one site when you can just google your problem and likely find more answers?
Exactly because others will come from Google to get an answer to the question is the reason why answerers should actually answer the question. Often somebody will write something like

"How do you solve X? --- I'm trying to do A and encountered this problem, so how do I solve X?"

And then the people will tell the user how to solve A without solving X. Except that everybody else will come from Google looking how to solve X, and that's infuriating.

I also don't quite get how Stackoverflow is so accepting of people talking down on others in this way. Like if somebody asks "Can a near-zero floating value cause a divide-by-zero error?" and the best rated answer is "Floating point division by zero is not an error." (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12114498/can-a-near-zero-...)
No mention of ipv6buddy.com in the comments is a real shame
It seems that you have no idea what you're talking about.)

Her philosophy is sound and so are her principles of free market economy, while, perhaps, her plot is idealized and naive and some characters too sophisticated to be true.)

Edit: I have tried to explain it better in a separate comment.

Hint: this is a fiction based on philosophy, not a philosophic treatise based on fiction.
I think this is a really silly and irresponsible viewpoint. This issue matters, a lot.
This county employee should be arrested and charged with destroying evidence.
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> Official security probably has more latitude to take action because they are responsible for the safety of everyone in the area.

probably, but they should have less latitude because of their training in other, non-violent methods to remove the threat. negotiation can help defuse most situations better than a taser or gunshot would.

(was this sarcastic? or just hopeful?)
Have it ever occurred to you, that the problem might be not with these works of art?)
Imagine you are in a small hospital room and unable to get out. A 300 pound 6'2 dude is yelling that he's going to kill you. His brain is so scrambled that the tazor did nothing. You are backed into a corner and he's walking toward you.
It's not about whether the other guy is armed or not. While I can't speak for other jurisdictions, in the UK it's about what's reasonable in the circumstances (with allowance made for the fact that someone in that situation does not have the time to make a full objective assessment of the situation). Sure, if the person attacking me is unarmed and I'm bigger, stronger, wearing armour and carrying a baton, shooting them might be considered unreasonable (but might be considered reasonable). If I'm in fear of my life and all I have is a handgun, shooting them is very reasonable.

Of course, in the UK, the next question from the police would be "What's with the handgun?" :)

All that said, in the case of Alan Pean in the article, I could well believe that the two off-duty police officers moonlighting as security guards were basically incompetent amateurs with weaponry, believing their own hype.
If you just want something for personal use, this is easy to setup with SNS on AWS. I've used it to send a text to myself when my favorite snowboarding resort has a favorable snow report.
It is more logical and an entirely proper response to ignore them.

But this is pointing out that Ubuntu would be hurt if developers took them seriously. Especially as they rely on others code that has Ubuntu-tailored functionality. So Ubuntu can only hope that we don't start to take them seriously.
That's the reason I could never finish the damn book. I would just roll my eyes and put it down due to the comically shallow characters ("the strong, brave, handsome capitalist" and the "dirty, mooching hobo" were actual character descriptions).
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My "hypothesis" is based on three people that I know that wanted to work or did work in law enforcement. I've met two of the people I'm thinking of before they applied to police school.

But I'm aware that those are just anecdotes that just accidentally might fit a plausible narrative...
That won't help. The problem is that the phone is signed in with the old password, and so it can't do automatic backups. If they had turned the phone on near a wifi network before changing the password, it would have auto-backed-up and they'd be able to get at whatever was on it through the iCloud backup.

Since they can't get into the phone, they now can't do that even if they know what the password is (which they probably do).
The worst part of Atlas Shrugged, for me, was the cringe-worthy romantic scenes. Other than those, I thought it was an okay read. It's interesting in a historical social context.
I'm a fan of Rand's ideas, more or less, but come on. Atlas Shrugged has some interesting ideas, which were very novel and taboo in their day (some might say still somewhat taboo). Like all works of fiction though, the author had complete control over the narrative, the world, the characters. As social commentary and criticism of frequently promoted religious and neo-marxist ideas, it has value. As literature, it needed an editor. But as a realistic model for economics?

Usually I'm pissed off by the anti-Rand flaming by people who prefer to misrepresent her ideas. But if you are going to play right into the cult of personality Rand worship with stuff like this, then you kind of brought it on yourself.
I don't think her philosophy is sound. You cannot advocate unregulated capitalism in a society where people don't start on equal footing.
Simple answer: it was the night shift.
That's good to hear. I've been meaning to look at Gogs again, after having first played with it in it's early days (before pull requests were available). Sounds like it's usable now. :)
I remember that my teacher of Italian in high school asked us to read: "The Path to the Nest of Spiders".
... which has an impact factor of 0.00:

https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1526-1018_Journal_of_Ay...

For comparison: https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0033-5533_Quarterly_Jou...
For what's worth, I also haven't been able to finish Atlas Shrugged for those very same reasons.
The author has an English degree and is interested in writing things that people read. The article is well written.
want's to be a paper and begins with declaring the subject a "masterpiece". Very objective....
People are celebrating information architecture in 57 cities across the globe
So you didn't know how to ask for help, and you think OSS was the root cause? lol.
Yes, tozer0 is the original game (you can find the link at the end of my webpage on zer0.io). I'm in contact with the dev of tozer0 since the beginning of the project to let him know about it and share informations ^^ !

With zer0 I decided to use this gameplay to create a more addictive and well designed game. At first it was just a test with Unity3D, but finaly I chose to spend some time (and money) on the project in order to create something with a good quality, for the web and for Android/iOS !

I have learned many new things with this project already !
Probably Julian Jaynes/Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of thr Bicameral Mind?
"Smart Messaging" kind of alluded to this for me, but do you plan to offer demographic targeting?

Also, what about templating based on user profile data? For example "We will be launching product Foo in {{ user.city }} soon. Stay tuned!"

The service looks cool and I'll give it a shot for my next side project.
That's odd. What ISP is it? This goes against RFC recommendations (ex: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177 - assign between /64 to /48)

My ISP (DSL with teksavvy.com in Canada) offers a dynamic-ish /64 with SLAAC, then a static /56 subnet over DHCPv6. I know some people who had issues with their /56 subnet resetting, but that was usually solved by contacting tech support.
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Complete garbage.

Source -- My personal everyday experience.
If Snowden's allegations are true, then it seems pretty clear that the FBI already has all information they claim they need, and doesn't need Apple's help. Rather, this seems to be a "land grab" by the DOJ/BHO Administration to secure government access to all communication devices, all in the name of "National Security". Not unlike the 2001 Patriot Act. Very sad.
Do you claim that the journal has never published a criticism of Rand? Does it shock you that the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies studies Ayn Rand?
What's with the ending parenthesis? ".)" ? I've noticed it in another one or two of your comments. Is it used in another language? What does it signify?
I wonder if they have any plans on implementing DirectX on top of Vulkan to make things faster.
I don't know whether anyone else is seeing it but the subject's eyes appear to move when I use the scroll wheel on my mouse. I'm using the current Firefox Developer's Edition. It could be some effect of my graphics hardware, monitor or even the refresh rate versus the distance being scrolled but the effect is really creepy!
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I thought it said "Python it"
Not necessarily. I'm comparing bandwidth costs. Amazon S3 out-going bandwidth is an order of magnitude more expensive than some of its competitors (OVH for example), and, at least, 2x the price of Dreamhost's OpenStack solution (which includes a CDN for outgoing bandwidth).

Amazon S3 is essentially more expensive than a CDN for outgoing bandwidth even though it has only one PoP by default.

That's surprising since the typical case was that the CDN would be more expensive, and increasing the # of PoP you used in CDN would make it more expensive (e.g. there's a huge jump in pricing if you use Asia/Australia nodes).
Rand (along with a couple of other women like Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) was instrumental in introducing a lot of people to the free market ethos, but no. She was never a good philosopher, nor a scholar. Her works are probably best understood as the total antithesis of Marxism-Leninism, the crossfire of which she was caught up in at the time until her emigration to the United States.

Rand is a relic and has largely been repudiated by far superior scholars (such as Murray N. Rothbard) who have since made most of her work deprecated.
I agree with Ayn Rand's theory of economics insofar as it would work great if everyone only ever acted in their own self-interest. But there will always be exploitation if there are people who choose to act in ways that damage themselves, so the theory is impracticable in the real world. There's also no treatment in the book of, for instance, how disabled or ill people should be treated by an economic system where no one is available to provide support.

But the book is genuinely a great read; she's a fantastic writer with a powerful and gripping style. I did, however, have to skip a 50 page chapter which was the third monologue speech explaining the details of her theory.
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Perhaps you're not technically deep enough to see other solutions.

Perhaps you are trying to disagree with a point by conflating it.
I don't use GitLab but after browsing the source code on their official site[1] I couldn't help but notice how slow it is.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master
TL;DR: rebuild it just as it was with a little safety pin to prevent the exact error that caused the crash.

Nothing flashy whatsoever.
=> Browserstack
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I use MS Word exclusively on Mac OS X, and I have to say that it works just fine. It doesn't have all features of the Windows version, but for normal usage I don't see any problem.
There's a guy over at http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/ doing some modelling in C++. I have no idea how good or bad his modelling may be.
The article does not go into detail why TH is bad, and neither do you. Why should I be avoiding it? What are the exact problems with it, except the occasional breakage with new GHC releases?

Generics is also not without its faults (it inflates compile time/memory, for example, see problems surrounding aeson 0.10). If the article is correct when it says that /[TH is] a eternal source of pain and sorrow/, then you're trading one pain for another.
If I were you I'd be careful on which hospital to choose in case you need care for delusions... :)
Objectivist here.

(For what it's worth: I don't hate poor people, nor do I think all rich people deserve their wealth, nor do I think the free market is a universal panacea for all ills.

What Rand actually says is that there are good people and there are bad people, and the defining characteristic of good people, the essence of virtue is not altruism, but productive work. People rarely mention that there were truck drivers and manual workers in Galt's Gulch, and that half of the villains in the novel are unscrupulous businessmen).

Rand didn't actually say that much that's original about economics per se. This leads people on both left and right to dismiss her as a simplistic thinker. This ignores what is original is what she's saying.

Unlike many libertarians, she doesn't argue that the free market is good because it leads to good results for society. She says that a capitalist society is good because it's the only society which fully protects individual rights. It's not a coincidence that capitalist societies are more prosperous -- however, when this is used as the justification for capitalism, the logical conclusion is to have a semi-free market where the government tries to manage the economy and optimise different variables (GDP, employment, inflation, etc), i.e. the system in almost every western country today. I'd argue the constant financial crises and ballooning sovereign debt show that this system cannot possibly be sustained.

Also: the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is not respected in official Objectivist circles. It's one of a number of organisations which attempt to water down Rand's message to appeal to more people, but as a result put off both Objectivists and non-Objectivists.
LibreOffice Impress is horrifically bad. The Undo function is unreliable which is an enormous data-destroying pain in the ass when editing a presentation. The tools for editing text and vector graphics are also inconsistent and buggy.
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he wins, despite the opponent trying to cheat and distract with some talking.
It sounds nice. But I have been fooled before. During my training I found a paper on IBM joining some company to create a "HD-ROM", using gallium ions instead of a Laser, which supposedly would have stored some 150 GB on a medium the size of a CD or DVD, and that mediumd could been literally anything, rock, iron, a diamond, whatever, ... but apparently, it never came to pass.
I guess the real problem with all such storage media is that, OK, you may encode your message in a certain way- but how do you know that anyone who comes across it will be able to read it?

How do you figure out that you need to look at nanosctructures inside a chunk of glass (or whatever) and that there's a message in there stored in a certain encoding?

As a way to preserve technological and scientific knowledge in particular, it's a bit pointless. You need to already possess the technology and the science to a) discover the message and b) decipher it.
I caught pneumonia when I visited NYC a few years ago and was brought by ambulance to a hospital in Brooklyn. Some of the things I heard in the emergency room were shocking compared to what I'd experienced in emergency rooms before (I'm from the UK). The most surprising thing to me was how many of the patients were verbally abusive to the nurses. Perhaps these people were mentally unstable, I don't know, but I never expected to hear any patients attacking the people that were there to help them.
And somebody won't be getting fired.
Would it makes sense then for someone to buy the house for $1, sell it back for $1 and have the property values adjusted?
As for 10:05a.m. EST, her current pinned tweet is:

"you owe these pale devils nothing."

https://twitter.com/Scaachi/status/700703145631023105

Screen grab here:

http://imgur.com/m5T09G4
Other works of art I have not finished: Lord of the Rings. Dune. Foundation. All for much the same reason.
Silicon Valley as Ally or Foe? Reflections on the Politics of Income Inequality
They just picked up a guy from Amazon and are building their data science team. Should be interesting to read the same article next year.

Edit: I think this is going to have zero impact on their biz. I got a recruiter solicitation earlier this week and started laughing. Additionally, "PhD is a firm requirement."
My town has a K-mart that I refuse to go to because the customer experience is so pitiful and the checkout process is glacially slow. There is no nearby competition from Target or Wal-Mart. They could own retail in this area but instead they hold up lines of customers with the stupid POS systems that are set up to print out 4 feet of receipts causing the printers to constantly run out of paper.
http://eurasia2005.blogspot.ru/ - wanted to check another blog by same author

Unfortunately, all images here have bit rotten.
You couldn't finish Catch-22? Catch-22 is great!
We used to have some stability. We didn't have constant financial crises for a long time. But then the regulations got tossed in the interest of enterprise. So capitalism can work.
My favourite part is the part where she talks about that train where everyone deserves to die because they were all lazy socialist scum on government welfare or what not.

You can really feel her anger burning. The whole book feels like she banged it out in one long amphetamine binge.
You can invite them to a weekend party at your branch, and bend their ear.