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>Okay fine but the alternative is working longer hours to produce the money to pay for your consumption. Which is as much robbing you of you as advertising is with the disadvantage that you can't consume concurrently.

I already pay much more for my consumption than I did 20-30 years ago (adjusted for inflation), in all kinds of direct, round-about and sneaky ways (e.g. diluted news value from infomercials and paid posts posing as content). Stopping all these BS and paying a normal rate for consumption again would be fine.

You also forgot that 10-20% of a product is often advertising costs. If without ads the products had their prices lowered accordingly, then that's more than enough to cover my consumption...
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Edit: Whoops, confused articles. NYTimes One:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/us/tangelo-park-orlando-fl...

One thing that people are overlooking from the article:

> And it has had Mr. Rosen’s focus and financing over 21 years.

How many funding experiments have been carried on for two decades?
Linux package managers are looking like one of the only straightforward ways to distribute applications securely.

Unless you are a small independent app developer. Virtually no distribution wants to take proprietary software. And you have to package for a wide variety of different distributions.

On the other hand, the Windows and OS X App Stores are awful.

The Mac App store works pretty much effortless for me. It's sometimes a bit slow, but other than that it's pretty trivial to use.
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It's tricky. If someone is actively working against the company I don't mind putting on some pressure to ensure survival, even if that's not the most ethical thing to do. But that's one individuals discomfort balanced against the continued employment of a whole pile of people. If it were actually illegal or if that person was not a party to generating the problem to begin with I would never do it. It all revolves around the particulars of the situation so there is no 'one size fits all' advice in this particular respect.

Exploitation, damaging outsiders, generating net negative value while increasing your own capital, all those are well outside of what I would consider acceptable behavior.
This reminds me of an old book¹ on Open Transport²³⁴ I started reading for fun a few years ago (what I found particularly interesting about Open Transport was that it used Unix System V’s STREAMS⁵ instead of Berkeley sockets).

Anyway, I linked the book here because it’s actually quite well-written, and the introductory section in particular actually does a good job of describing basic networking concepts.

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¹ — https://web.archive.org/web/20040626025717/http://developer....

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Transport

³ — https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Car...

⁴ — https://web.archive.org/web/20041113084430/http://developer....

⁵ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS
Survey to See If You Can Identify If a Story Is Written by a Human or Computer
Honest answer. Thank you -- and an idea for a blogpost I could help provide the community.
Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign
It seems ridiculous that any machine on which a successful spear-phishing attack could take place would have any route to the control system.
Maybe take a look around https://build.transmissionbt.com/ - but then again maybe the svn repo wasn't compromised? I tried a "svn diff svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/tags/2.90 svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/tags/2.91" and didn't see anything suspicious on a fast scroll-through
Personally, I was asked to submit suggestions of charities to Larry. But it was made clear to me that there had to be some benefit - preferably large ROI, since small ROI wasn't worth Larry's time. And, while it was possible to occasionally ignore ROI, there had to be a good reason to do so (in particular, if I could find something that Larry personally cared about or had the potential to have large ROI soon or influence a particular CEO who might be a customer.) So when I made a list of charities I thought were worthwhile, I couldn't justify submitting any of them to Larry. So I never got more involved with our charitable giving. What could have been the opportunity of a lifetime simply left me more jaded about our Capitalist system.
I'm glad someone wrote about this. I have a deposit on a Model X, and this is the single largest issue that is making me lean towards not buying the vehicle. I occasionally enjoy doing my own maintenance or repair on stuff I own and my present vehicle (close to a Model X equivalent but dinosaur powered and German) has been pleasant in that regard. There is nice fully functional (though Windows) third-party diagnostic software available, the actual service documentation is available to owners (for a pretty reasonable fee), there is a bit of competition on parts price amongst dealers (though ultimately only within a certain range as they still originate with one manufacturer) and I haven't once felt like instead of owning the car I merely have a license from the manufacturer to use it. I worry after the warranty expires that I will be at the mercy of Tesla for any service and support, which is an unknown quantity right now. I've seen the terrible spot a product owner can be left in when a manufacturer decides (for whatever reason) that service and support are now their primary profit center. Not only are you screwed in that your product now costs a fortune to maintain, your product is now essentially worthless for resale because everyone knows the cost to maintain and repair it makes it uneconomical. (See, e.g. several private aircraft companies which went bankrupt)
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The flipside is that pages like this blog post load so slowly on public wifi that the gifs may as well be static images. In short, this is a pretty terrible idea unless you're actively trying to eliminate people who don't have good network connections.
>Now if only the other billions of people on this planet felt the same way.

Anybody asked them?
This seems to be part of a larger trend towards controlling the things we own. Cell phones, tractors, cars, and I'm sure tons of other things are moving this way, where they're trying to make it illegal to root/jailbreak/service your own property. Cell phones seem to be trying to move away from ownership in general. What's the solution?
Hey everyone! My friend and I made this over the weekend.

I'm sorry about all the issues with the freezing and disconnects – the response has been really overwhelming and the game certainly isn't optimized for less than ideal network situations. If you're continually getting kicked, it's probably just because the server is having trouble getting a solid connection to you. If it helps, the server is in SF right now (though I'm able to get a solid connection that's playable from NY).
OP is challenging the claim that node will be more memory efficient than Chrome.
Nothing on Earth is safe and uncrackable, given enough time and compute power. We are living in paranoid. Password and passphrase are theoretically no different. You can generate a password like the one below and you can considered that as a passphrase. "Password" and "Passphrase" are just labels/names. I have passwords which are probably more secured than a passphrase because of length, more use of upper case/lower case/number/special characters.

Passphrase (which is supposed to replace the concept of password), should be long and hard to guess, but easier to memorize. Is "bravo multiple Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis mixture chemistry Gordon Ramsay" a better passphrase? Oh sure. But who the hell would come up with this passphrase? Unique but this is something I made up and I expect myself not able to memorize it even if I know how to spell each word right.

Passphrase and password generation by a human is always limited to her own knowledge of things. I just finished playing Battlefield 4 and the random words I am thinking right now are bravo, delta, charlie, because these words are constantly ringing in my ears. I just finished watching Hell Kitchen so Ramsay is on my mind. So there are other channels you can gather what a passphrase is likely to be for a particular user.

My point is, advise user what is a good passphrase/password, but don't make them choose totally random words. Reject ones you know are totally weak. It is hard enough to memorize password, so don't sell passphrase like a huge savior while making it look like a password. You ain't helping. That's the conclusion/advise given by the authors. Security hardness all comes down to the strength of the policy. If you allow a plain English passphrase you are weaker, but a requirement to mix upper/lowercase/special char/number? Back to the traditional password.

Oh and the greatest insult to password/passphrase security? We don't change passwords/passphrase on every site we register. So you are basically screwed from the beginning. This ain't "update OpenSSL and you mitigate X attack."
also the .50 in a really small font, making it $5.50 not $5.00.
"..I remember getting on MINIX USENET group and some geek from Europe saying that he was trying to do his own operating system..."

I can relate to a certain extent. I had the opportunity to interact with an early Google employee (Ex-professor) and I did't pursue or dive into that domain. I could have been more successful in a technical field. Now I do Program Management :)
So, either the attacker has an Apple developer account (and is hopefully traceable through their credit card information), the Transmission project was sloppy with their signing key, or the machine of the developer with the signing key was compromised.

Sorry, I forgot another possibility: some other developer's key was compromised.
>There's an obvious reason subscriptions don't work, and that's that whilst $4/mo is affordable for many people, that's only for one site.

That's because we need a platform, not per site subscriptions. They have a quite succesful such platform in the Netherlands from what I've heard (for their local media).

Spotify, Rdio and the rest absolutely work -- and it's a similar model, only in this case the "mediator/platform" should be neutral.
That’s wrong.

Your car could have all these features just as well without connection to Big Brother.

Just as I can get intelligent email sorting without using Inbox.

You can write your own software, or reverse and modify the official software.

In fact, you can even use third party software.

In an ideal future, cars would have a general API for the software, and you could use software for different things from different vendors.

Want to use the self-driving software from Google, but Apple Music? Sure!

Want to use the self-driving software from Mercedes, but Spotify and the navigation from Here.com? Sure!
Any schools performance should be judged in the delta and not the absolute.
In the lab it's difficult to generate 400Gb/s traffic.

From my perspective it seems like this attack is pretty sophisticated and has access to some pretty fat pipes. It's hard to imagine that this scale of attack could come from some infected PCs.

Can an expert weigh in here on the difficulty of generating this much traffic in an attack?
No, unless you obtained these words using a crypto-rated PRNG. Otherwise your passphrase is vulnerable to semantic network analysis (somewhat more complicated than Markov chains, but still trivial).

Sorry, humans can't generate secure passwords and passphrases anymore. (You still can memorize secure passwords, but it becomes increasingly harder).
This attitude is completely irresponsible.

HTTPS will ensure integrity of your download automatically with no action required from the user.

Checksums require the user to perform the integrity check manually, and 99.9% of users wont bother.

Please don't put your users at risk just to save a negligibly small number of CPU cycles.
It is pretty ignorant to label someone as troll because you do not agree with him.

And just FYI, this style of "discourse" is exactly the reason why TTIP negotiations should not be made public. A politician can rip apart through all the logic here and the public will eat it up.
That the fate of said four year old depends on the result of talking. That is cruel.
Halley VI: Dropping in on the British Antarctic Survey
The size of the middle class has been shrinking in large part because the upper class has been growing:

http://reason.com/blog/2015/12/10/the-middle-class-is-shrink...
You should read the rest of the description.
I would love to hear those stories. I think a lot of other players would as well. We all can learn the most from the 'edge cases' of our community, the constraints you had and the resources available. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. I think prison DMing would be such an extreme and you may have had to invent things others never would have thought to do. I would love to know what it was like, your challenges as DM that are not 'normal', your players and their psyches, the story you ran, etc.
While we're here, can anyone recommend a good antivirus for OSX?

I've just been looking at BitDefender, which looks promising, but would rather get this right than faff around with potentially crappy AV tools.
>People buy magazines like National Enquirer, which to me are the print version of click-bait dross.

Just that? "People", "Cosmo", "Men's Health", all the most succesful print titles are hardly better than BS clickbait...
That’s interesting.

KVG actually nowadays has a neat REST API for all their data, btw: http://www.kvg-kiel.de/internetservice/services/passageInfo/...

Compared to what you describe, this is pretty awesome.

(Btw, I’m studying CompSci in Kiel right now – I’m interested, what did you study, and when?)
Definitely contributes to the overall time, but its not like you wouldn't have showered otherwise. Its not hard to shuffle your normal shower schedule around so that its not just a completely superfluous shower.
iOS dynamic type on the web
> You say this like it doesn't affect you.

I say this as someone who has spent the last five years living or working in downtown New Rochelle, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and D.C. Each of these cities spends more (in some cases, a lot more) per pupil than the affluent suburb where I grew up. And it's not doing anything to help these kids.

> If we don't figure this out, and soon, ALL of us are going to be in this same boat.

We're not willing to do what it takes to fix the problem. What people keep voting for is separate but equal: give those 90% low-income minority school districts more and more money hoping that fixes things. Nobody is willing to put into place measures to actually integrate those populations into the broader community. Here's an idea: instead of creating urban ghettos by concentrating welfare spending in the inner cities, why not spread it out? Build housing projects in wealthy suburbs so kids can go to schools where their peers and the community put high value on education. Measures that might actually break the cycle of poverty are a total no-go even in "liberal" places.
There is IRC, which still has a reasonable number of users but isn't "global" in the way email is, SIP which could be used for IM but often wasn't, and Microsoft even attempted(but failed) to standardise MSN Messenger's protocol:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-movva-msn-messenger-protoc...
Well, the hack would be having internet (and things like Spotify) without connecting to Tesla’s services.
Some while ago I wrote an ARP implementation in Verilog for FPGA use; a very simple state machine. Testing it (and the other TCP parts of the system) involved using the TUN/TAP devices to connect the simulation to real Ethernet and the application it was supposed to talk to.

TUN/TAP is very useful for doing nonstandard things with networks, implementing your own VPN, etc.
Have lost a lot of great names in Computer Science lately. While sad, it's a great testament to how fast computers have evolved. Everything here that we have has evolved within a single generation. Incredible. The pace of human technological growth in the last 100 years has been explosive. It seems from my perspective now, it's slowed, but I'm now thinking that assumption is very wrong. I think in retrospect it's going to continue to explode, and it's only my view of what I'm using currently that makes it seem that way. Even a few slow years can be easily ignored in context of the leaps and bounds technology tends to evolve in: The transistor, the internet, the world as mobile...

The future is, and will always be, awesome potential.
I would be interested. I personally just make little graphical demos with jquery + d3, using babel because I like es6. At the moment my build process is a shell script which runs babel, and then 'cat' to glue the files together :)

I just download jquery + d3 from their websites.
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At least in the US, by far the largest impact on a student's education is parental involvement. It is how single mothers with only a high school education can homeschool their children and have them average in the top 60% of public schools on standardized tests.

This argument about money has always been about administrator and teacher jobs for two reasons. One, telling parents they need to do better is politically untenable and a nearly intractable problem. Two, teacher unions have consistently been a powerful voting block in nearly every state, turning every debate on public education into at least a partial referendum on their pay.
>Since when blocking content on the web is theft ? Providers don't own the web, don't own my browser.

They own their own site though, and they work and give access to it in the provision that the ads are also shown.
My 2 cents: the relationship between commute time and annoyance is logarithmic.
Prolly gotta read the paper. It relies on something called the beam column effect. It's been used for ages for making vibration isolators. You compress the flexure until you push the resonant frequency where you're happy.
I'm trying to do this too but I have a way in that doesn't involve too much capital... Maybe we should have a chat?
I totally buy the environmental impact argument on keeping that Mercedes vs buying the Tesla.

That isn't the only concern though. In a high speed collision against a modern 5-Star vehicle the people in the Mercedes are pretty much toast.

I think it's possible you could upgrade the safety of an older vehicle in many ways, but realistically most owners never would beyond tires and modest braking improvements. And you'll probably not see "city stop" like systems or airbag cocoons become common aftermarket systems anytime soon.
The middle class has not been decreasing by any measure other than subjective gut feeling.
You can expect performance to be no better than a full-fledged native compiler for the language, if the native compiler was somewhat mature.

In this particular case, Frege is compiling to Java source code (not JVM bytecode), and Java does not give precise control over how things should be done at runtime, such as object representations. Additionally, while the main Java compiler is reasonably mature, its optimizations are certainly tailored for idiomatic Java, which includes a lot of mutation, strict evaluation, and use of object-oriented programming. Haskell in particular has unevaluated expressions everywhere (thunks) because of lazy evaluation, and heavy use of first-class and recursive functions.
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XMPP came closest to offering something serious enough. But most turned their backs on it and didn't propose anything better either.
I don't see adverts.

Given the privacy implications, the malware and general scuzziness of the industry I just block everything.

There is an argument that none-intrusive same domain adverts are much less harmful but they get caught in the crossfire as far as I'm concerned.

As for blocking people with adblockers installed I have zero issue with people doing that since I can see the logical position (why should we serve content to you if you block our adverts) but 99% of the time the content I want from you I can find elsewhere anyway so I'll just go there.

As for technical circumvention, that just invites an arms race and since I and others like me control the end device it's a losing arms race, given the flexibility of current adblockers lists I can block anything I don't want to see even if the source gets creative (I even use the adblocker to block non-advert parts of pages I don't care about - theguardian's "Comment is Free" section for example, is a waste of time and distracts from the bits I want to read).

Fundamentally the advert model for the internet is broken in that unlike other advertising mediums you require my opt-in to see the adverts (if I buy a magazine I have to buy the pages with the adverts, if I watch broadcast TV (I don't) I have to sit through the adverts, if I go to the cinema I have to sit through the interminable trailer adverts but on the internet I really don't).
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This happened to a Russian nuclear submarine that got caught in a US training exercise near Cuba. 2/3 officers voted to authorize a nuclear attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
> I wonder if the source was also modified, or only the binaries.

Personally, pending further information, I've removed Transmission from my machine.
You can easily use the same mechanisms to secure personal computers to secure cars. Have a signing key for firmware uploads that the owner (or if they do not want the signing key, the dealer/manufacturer) controls.
I've seen whonix say this

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download_Security

>Practically it is difficult to provide SSL protected downloads at all. Many important software projects can only be downloaded in the clear, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Tails, Qubes OS, etc. This is because someone has to pay the bill and SSL (encryption) makes it more expensive. At the moment we don't have any mirror supporting SSL. We're looking for SSL supported mirrors to share the load.

Is it not true that mirrors supporting SSL are more expensive?
For those of us who can't spot this stuff as easily - is this detrimental, or simply out of style? Is there a recommended guide or body of source code this is "modern" C?
There are several jurisdictions that forbid cops from destroying seized weapons. They must be sold to the public or used by police. In a couple of these jurisdictions, if they really want to destroy the weapons they need a court order. Getting that court order requires a hearing at which "the guns" are represented by an attorney. I haven't witnessed such a proceeding, but theoretically the state may have to provide that attorney. I presume the NRA could also stand in.

So yes, inanimate objects can sometimes have more of a right to representation by an attorney than these actual human children.
Spam is a real problem. The background is that the law now centers on the sender of the message, rather than the beneficiary of the spam, so spam services simply pop up in places that don't have such laws. Having the law go after the beneficiaries is also fraught with danger, it would be tremendously easy to do a joe job on a competitor.

Spam is not a simple problem, filtering and education so far seems to be the most effective ways of dealing with it.
> Open source software is especially vulnerable ... the hacker can just compile the program from sources and add his own code

You must be too young to remember how computer viruses originally spread by way of modified executable files: http://computervirus.uw.hu/ch04lev1sec2.html
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Everything Bitcoin is in the Bitcoin source code, by definition. So Bitcoin is completely centrally controlled in all aspects, then?
omg dude. My E46 chews through turn signal bulbs, Final stage relays, lock actuators, and oil. I love the car but jeez.