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The way it was described, this law penalizes the person copying the ID, not the collector.
This is true, but I can't imagine why I'd pay thousands of dollars to travel somewhere and spend the time cooking instead of eating at that place's unique restaurants.
"Jesus Molina talked about doing this kind of thing a couple of years ago, so it's not some kind of one-off - instead, hotels are happily deploying systems with no meaningful security, and the outcome of sending a constant stream of "Set room lights to full" and "Open curtain" commands at 3AM seems fairly predictable."

Which takes us to this: "Any sufficiently advanced technology controlled by a miscreant is indistinguishable from a possessed object in a Stephen King Novel."

http://thefutureisastephenkingnovel.com/assets/player/Keynot...
Is this more common in the social sciences? I've never had a reviewer quote nearly as bad as these (computational biology).

There are plenty of bad / lazy reviewers, but I would think the editor should be filtering stuff like this if they want to keep the journal reputable. Or maybe they've written off these article at the outset?
I have to agree with "lmm" and "the_af" here. You can use Scala as a "Java without semicolons", and indeed that's what I recommend to those who want to learn Scala coming form an OO background. There is absolutely no need to use fancy Scala features like higher-kinds or monadic effects. Indeed, there is no need even to use functional features. Scala is a perfectly fine OO language. The one thing I recommend to learn once a learner gets a grip on Scala syntax is pattern matching matching and case classes. It's really easy to understand. And once you understand it, you never want to go back.

I have had a substantial number of undergraduate students learn Scala this way for their final year project and they all got it pretty quickly.
Which particular regulations are the compliance features targeting?
Which introduces a whole new set of security challenges to prevent attackers from getting write access to the devices.
On the myth that the Internet of Things lacks standards
I'm scared that when the prototype is done someone says "looks good, ship it!"
Once, a shop had hired an assistant called "Cookie" to do the job and another one even had hired a specialized clerk (named W.B. Alizer, for the record) and I was totally fine with this. But then, stores started to hire some guys from the Tracker bunch, but said it would be ok, since they had strict orders to stay indoors.

Now, this became a little distracting. Every now and then I had to wait for the guy to catch up, who was crawling along with me trying to measure the width of my foot steps with an inch rule, and then there was this guy, who insisted to peek into my pockets and to keep track of its contents in a quart book he had attached to the lining of my coat. (Over time, my coat became that heavy, I had to stop and rip out the lining in order to proceed.) Yay, it was all to my best ...

Then, something funny happened as stores began to engage in something they called "optimizing". Had the super market around the corner once sold 5 different sorts of cheese, it was now just 3 with the 2 best selling ones missing (they didn't have much potential for future optimization as they were sold out constantly). Some months later, they started to hide the bread behind a fake wall as soon as I entered and pushed whole piles of umbrellas in my way (since I had once bought one on a stormy afternoon a year ago – I would have understood, if it had been bagels, because I started to buy these as I was searching for the bread in vain.) That is, until last Halloween, when I discovered that there was still bread to buy, when I entered the shop in disguise.

Last month, I bumped into a girl that looked rather familiar, just as I was preparing my wig and false mustache for getting some bread at the super market. Remember Cookie? She is still working at a store, inside the server room. We chatted a while, and now I'm a habitual to her work place again. The store is a bit farther away than the fancy super market, but it really outweighs the inconveniences of the other place.
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TL;DR:

> Crudely their proof works as follows. First, the two scientists note that the up-or-down Ising spin resembles the true-or-false character of a logical statement such as "the car is white." They then prove that any particular 2D Ising model—i.e., with a particular set of coupling and external fields -- is equivalent to an instance of a logical problem called the satisfiability, or SAT, problem, in which the goal is to come up with a set of logical statements, A,B,C, … that satisfy a long logical formula such as "A and not (B or C) …" The theorists present a way to map the SAT problem onto the 2D Ising model.

> Next, they show how any other spin model can also be translated into a SAT problem. That SAT problem can then be translated onto the 2D Ising model, thus making the two spin models equivalent. There is a price to pay, however. The 2D Ising model must have more spins than the original spin model. But De las Cuevas says that the computational demands of the Ising model are only modestly bigger than those of the original model.
I'd think you'd really have to but only lawyers could say something legally convincing about this.
The article:

Joyal, C. C., & Carpentier, J. (2016). The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors in the General Population: A Provincial Survey. The Journal of Sex Research, 0(0), 1–11. http://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2016.1139034

Its abstract:

Paraphilic sexual interests are defined as unusual or anomalous, but their actual occurrence in nonclinical samples is still unknown. This study looked at desire for and experience of paraphilic behaviors in a sample of adult men and women in the general population. A secondary goal was to compare the results of two survey modes—traditional landline telephone versus online. A total of 1,040 persons classified according to age, gender, education, ethnic background, religious beliefs, area of residency, and corresponding to the norm for the province of Quebec were interviewed. Nearly half of this sample expressed interest in at least one paraphilic category, and approximately one-third had had experience with such a practice at least once. Voyeurism, fetishism, frotteurism, and masochism interested both male and female respondents at levels above what is usually considered to be statistically unusual (15.9%). Interestingly, levels of interest in fetishism and masochism were not significantly different for men and women. Masochism was significantly linked with higher satisfaction with one’s own sexual life. As expected, the online mode generated more acknowledgment of paraphilic interest than the telephone mode. These results call into question the current definition of normal (normophilic) versus anomalous (paraphilic) sexual behaviors.
I was wondering how I might be affected as a non-UK app user? It sounds like any company which has employees in the UK could be compelled to install a backdoor if this legislation becomes law. I'm not sure how this would play out but I'm hoping that if this becomes law it isn't essentially a law forcing a backdoor into all the apps that I use on a daily basis. My guess is that the companies would release geo-targeted versions of their backdoored apps for UK users downloading them from the various app stores and non-UK users would still be downloading the non-backdoored versions. But maybe not?
He is in a position to be asking for source code.
BMW did not "
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
"

or do something reasonably similar ( point people to the source code site from their car, etc).
Instead, they made a written offer.
Written offers must be valid to any third party.
Not just to people you give binaries to:

"b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, ... a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code"

(emph mine).
I would probably hold off on the butt chip. Why not get an optical viewer and train it to understand when you need help with the door?
Some of us find even that level of tracking to be creepy and invasive, and would rather opt out. You never asked us if we wanted to be "helped" around your store, but we have now answered that question anyway.
Perhaps the hotel's HVAC is running Modbus?
The title is implying that Android is the culprit here, and not just a horrible design and implementation.
Yeah but who's gonna crew a tanker of highly irradiated water?
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Find a way to demonstrate the flaws in various products, aim for non-consumer markets. Businesses that have an actual motivation to have secure devices like the hotel in the article would be more inclined to spend the extra money, especially if it at least eliminated a trivially hackable configuration like, again, in the article.
"Gold is not useful"

Gold is useful. Good thermal conductivity and low chemical reactivity with many corrosive compounds.

Using it for money and decoration is perhaps the least sensible thing.
No, that's not the intent. At all.

In fact, this is covered square on by the GPL faq:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatDoesWrittenO...

"What does “written offer valid for any third party” mean in GPLv2? Does that mean everyone in the world can get the source to any GPL'ed program no matter what? (#WhatDoesWrittenOfferValid)

If you choose to provide source through a written offer, then anybody who requests the source from you is entitled to receive it."
> to people you don't know

What is worse, your data being sent to people you know or to people you don't know?
And here I thought the video game Gunpoint (where you rewire switches, lights and doors among other things) was unrealistic.

Although I'm a bit disappointed mjg59 didn't play Blinkenlights with the rooms on his floor.
I don't know about subways, but elevators should never be a part of a building's security because they're so easy to hack[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
Personally, I would go with the em dash.

You should ask yourself -- "Am I sure that colon should be there?".
Yes. And yet, you've also described a general phenomenon, I think. (e.g. the discovery of loopholes in tax law.)

If necessity is the mother of invention, profitability is the mother of circumvention.

(Great blog post, btw.)
I guess the idea is that books naturally fall next to other similar books, a kind of "People who read this also read..." system.

I can understand the experiment, the dewey-decimal system doesn't have to be the ultimate in organisation.
I have asked tens of final year students to learn Scala for their final year projects, and pointed them towards Odersky's Coursera course. All my students liked the course, picked up Scala quickly, really enjoyed programming in Scala afterwards. Once they get it, they typically say something along the lines of "I never want to go back to Java".

As an aside, part of why Odersky's course work so well is that it's influenced by SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) by Abelson and Sussman.
How all batch jobs at a telecom operator failed because of her name
I've never seen a single site with the EU cookie warning saying "click here if you're ok with cookies, or click over there if you'd rather we didn't use them." It's always "click here to proceed with cookies, or fuck off."
Have you heard of the term 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil'.

You seem to prematurely optimizing your kid's lives. It can backfire very bad. Programming or any profession in general is way lower in priority before learning Math and other stuff.

Career returns are always non linear, getting to greedy at the start can cost a lot in the long term.
Depends. Would it be rude to inflate an under-inflated tire? Or to wash the windscreen? Or tighten a loose bolt somewhere?

I mean, you're right - it's impolite (and possibly dangerous) to reflash someone else's firmware. But considering the regular upgrade path for BMWs is to stick a USB stick into the car, I'm not sure how you can prevent it.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/bmw-are-sending-their-softw...
I'm not sure I'd like a coin that has high chemical reactivity. They got that part right.
This is not right.
If they put it online and point you at it, at the time they ship, that's fine.
Otherwise, it's going to be looked at as a written offer.
In this case, it's a 100% clear written offer.

Written offers must be valid to all third parties.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatDoesWrittenO...
Except that nowadays they'll be locked up for 5 years.
Because you don't want to go to restaurants for breakfast every day.
The Ender's Game series teaches kindness, thoughtfulness, compassion. The author is a homophobe. I'll take the learnings sans the homophobia!
Especially for longer-term stays, it can be nice to have a refrigerator at least so that you don't need to go out for every light meal (esp. breakfast) or beer. And not everyplace has a great choice in restaurants--e.g. more rural areas. (Don't get me started on hotels with minibar refrigerators that you can't use to store anything in.) But, yeah, other than the fridge or maybe a kettle/microwave to heat water, I can't remember the last time I used a kitchenette to actually cook something.

[EDIT: It probably also depends why you're at a place. If you're on vacation I pretty much agree. If you're there for some sort of project or other reason and you're paying for your own food, I can see why one wouldn't want to eat out every meal.]
Which are sadly fictional.

I suspect the tumblr blog may be as well, though I don't know the language in biology reviews.
If you find yourself saying something uncomfortable under pressure, this is probably not the right place for you.
> And that, sad as it may sound, might be the only argument politicians would consider, when it comes to signing this bill.

Sorry to be this guy, but you do realize you're talking about UK, right??

IF you have pay attention to anything that comes out of UK politicians and being actually implemented in the law, you would have a hard time believing that UK citizens' disobedience, not matter how loud, will change ANYTHING AT ALL!

Sadly, they're doomed and I cannot find a friend who left years ago and never looked back.
Feds seek 5 years prison for journalist in hacking case
Good article. I'd like to nitpick, rich != power, just because you're rich does not mean you can hire people to steal gold violently for you. For that, you need followers. Without followers and having lots of gold just makes you a target.
Absolutely - and for a light switch it's appropriate. As an example of a thing that needs internet to function, consider a heater controller that has a high power and low power mode depending on momentary cost of electricity - it fetches price data across the network, and it's important to log things like temperature at various points of the device for diagnostics. Now, it's very tempting to send the diagnostic data across the network, but this leaks usage information. It's also tempting to allow things like remote configuration, firmware updates and reading device memory for debug, but that can leak network access credentials or make the device a beachhead for access to the internal network. This is why any feature like that is to be avoided and, if present, needs to be activated from the device itself, not remotely. If you NEED remote control, see if you can limit its scope of functionality to the bare minimum, and consider who needs access to it - in the case of the heater controller, the provider of the pricing data doesn't need to know or control the state of the device, so there's no need to allow that on that connection. Where possible, make the device a CLIENT rather than a SERVER - have the device itself initiate connections, to an address that is entered by local interaction, rather than accept connections from anywhere. If you MUST break those rules and accept connections from anywhere, that's when you really need to spend a fuckton of effort securing every aspect of your device, client applications, and protocol.
A lot of scary stuff in those 134 laws:

S. 994: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the “Staff Sergeant Joseph D’Augustine Post Office Building”

S. 599: Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act

H.R. 33: Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act

H.R. 431: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

I think I know what your point is, that we might need to know what elected officials are doing, but I think this was a little more FUD than was necessary. Perhaps we need to think if these issues need to be a law a the national level.
Can't you get a digital citizenship in Estonia and perhaps transfer you company to there?

Frankly it seems like a very good solution if the problem is laws in the UK. This program was launched specifically to attract entrepreneurs and offer them the means to launch tech businesses from anywhere in the world in Estonia.
Great my fridge just rebooted for a firmware update and bricked itself now the peas are rapidly defrosting and I am in a panic.

Edit: Shoutout to Internet of Shit https://twitter.com/internetofshit
As a side note, the author's bio is interesting. He went from assistant VP at Merrill Lynch to being a software engineer at Etsy.
Sure, but that has already happened. It is ridiculously easy to get almost any newspaper to print a commercial article and already now it is hard to tell the difference between for-pay articles and genuine ones.

If you have a instagram account with ~30k or so followers, you start getting offers to promote products for example. If you have less, you can still get deals, but then you have to hunt for them.

But this will happen regardless of ad blocking, because it is profitable. I certainly don't know how to avoid it, except to generally assume that all content is commercial content in for-profit sites. And also on some others.
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I guess I fail to see how this will be any safer?
Well, coming up with that while being under pressure is still to be commended for.
Having stayed at a similar (same) hotel don't even get me started on the guest experience. It took longer to familiarise myself with all the controls in the room than a normal stay in the hotel. Also really appreciated the slight glow all the tablets gave off at night...well they did until they got covered with cushions and gaffer tape!

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Modbus has been installed in hotels for years and years. They are probably using it because many hotels already have infrastructure in place for it.
I'm not sure whether we're talking about the same thing, but plenty of the web is people running sites tracking analytics on sites that have nothing to do with ads. Of those, Google Analytics would be the most common, and yes, Google is in the ads business.

But there are numerous services that provide analytics and have no part in tracking you elsewhere. Is Mailchimp involved in cookie trading? Segment? Intercom? Mixpanel? To my knowledge, no, there is nothing there -- they only know you via session cookies in the browser, and those businesses do not make data available to third-party ad networks.

Even in cases where they do bring in data, such as Intercom using FullContact to merge an email address with social data from Twitter, it's a one-way API call from Intercom, with nothing identifying the actual sites that will make use of it.

I 100% agree with you on trackers/beacons like "Scorecard Research", and to a lesser extent, Google Analytics, but "you can't be sure" seems like weak ground on which to take a strong categorical stance against any use of analytics tracking. There are real differences to the value they provide and the ability they have to do beyond that even if the incentives are there.
Clearly we'd better raise them in child jail to preserve our illusions.
Mifare Ultralight C cards have 3DES-based security, cloning protection and read-only locking [1]. So I don't see how copying the RSA card to the towel would work unless the RSA conference totally messed up their use of RFID or the author has some super-hacker key extraction technique. Am I missing something?

[1] http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/MF0ICU2.pdf
>> One had a choice of fighting a ticket and potentially be hit with a $2000+ fine or pay a fine of $140+$43 court expenses.

The root of the problem is that a choice is even offered. If you got the ticket, why is a court willing to waive the fine for any reason? It's easier for the court, it's easier for the offender, lazy all around. But the real problem may be that some ticket carries a $2000 fine. Imagine if the ticket could not be waived. More people would fight it because it's worth the effort. Eventually enough people might get angry at the high fine and move to get it changed. Or put another way, why is there this infraction with such a high fine in the first place? It doesn't seem that important since they're willing to make a huge compromise.
Turkey is not a middle east country and Turkish people are not arabs. We have a problem with having a good education and electing strong leaders among us.
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After you've fixed all bugs and plugged all security holes, you push a final update that disables all updates. Easy.
There are many definitions for "brilliant", though most of them heavily involve philosophy from my perspective.

The easiest example of his work that I'd describe as brilliant is HPMOR. It is a story that makes the Harry Potter world not just bearable but beautiful and lively. There are portions where the philosophy comes on so thick as to disrupt the story, but on the whole it is a beautiful work. Reading it is how I first discovered EY.
I'm creating my own startup at the moment. I haven't got a front door, let alone a back door...