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Am I the only one who thinks that having a private email server would not get around being banned from using wireless devices in one particular building.
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I'd also mention the turn-based (async) Go system, Dragon Go Server: http://www.dragongoserver.net/

Many people find the more relaxed environment useful for playing human games. You don't need to commit to a block of uninterrupted time, and you can take your time and play out ideas. There's a great Android client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mco.prj.app.bw... and DGS plugin: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mco.prj.srv.bw...
>No, you won't. First off, the primary source of heat in an aircraft is the aircraft's own power plant, not solar heating. Second, a mirror finish would be a beautiful target for radar. It would be a blinding "KILL ME!" sign to even the most primitive systems. For that matter, so would a subsonic aircraft. Third, like I said, not modern air force is ignoring IRST.

I just read few lengthy papers on that. Supersonic cruise causes so much skin friction that you can't gain in speed what you lose in detection distance. Future fighters are likely to be subsonic for this reason. The hot jet plume is surprisingly invisible, but hot engine parts do show from behind. Current detection relies mostly on skin friction and hot engine parts, but if you go even slower both drop to x^3. Then you need to worry about sun heating, etc, which some systems are already capable of detecting to pretty whopping ranges.

Mirror finish with faceted plates is practically Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, withouth its RAM paint. That paint gives only part of it's stealth, it's maintenance heavy and typically optimized for relatively narrow band. So if that goes out of the window, you get bigger RF signature but smaller IR signature. Which sounds pretty good idea.
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Security is something you never need until you need it the most.

Yeah, we get that part. But it isn't about secure, or not secure.

It's that she (or more specifically Donald Reid, her secure information technology coordinator) was never provided a legitimate explanation as to why this technology was available for the POTUS -- and for her predecessor -- but not for her. So it's understandable that they felt dissed.
Thanks so much for sharing Jen. So inspiring!
horse_js isn't a bot, it's several people.

From what I hear.
Depending on how much it sells for, this might be the first case of the Alphabet strategy actually working.

Otherwise, BD might have just embarrassingly died inside of Google.
Mmm. I hear you. I leap at these articles because it's one more voice to share the facts of the situation.

As for polarizing the public, well. I think we need not beat the public over the head with a stick and tell them what to think. We lay out the facts in a manner that is understandable by non-techies, and let them decide for themselves. This is coming to pass through credible voices, such as Ms. Crawford's, sharing their unique perspectives.
Didn't work on chrome. CTR SHIFT ENTER behaves as CTR ENTER, and SHIFT ENTER does nothing. Are you using another browser?
Freemind is primarily hierarchical but you can easily make non hierarchical links (hyper and visual). Also you can add multiple tags/attributes to nodes
Mozilla is like a bazaar that is sponsored by an oil-wealthy sheik. As long as the oil/search-money flows, a lot of people are paid to come up with bizarre contraptions that may or may not find buyers at some point in the future. There is a lot of discussion going on every day, but the sheik's rule is absolute and cannot be challenged.

Every once in a while, the sheikh tells people to build a grand palace, then changes his mind before it's completed. A few madmen will stubbornly continue to work on it.

Every once in a while, the sheikh agrees to build nuclear weapons "because it's better if we do it ourselves in the open, than leaving our enemies free to do it in the dark". The fact that enemies alone cannot do it, is dismissed as a detail.

Every once in a while, the sheikh decides this or that market stall becomes an official Kingdom Stall, where everyone has to shop at least once when they enter the bazaar.

And so on and so forth...
Julia Evans' blog is pretty great overall.
... and can trivially bypass WIRED's pop-up by just disabling JavaScript in your browser (just 2 clicks Safari if you have Develop menu visible) after the page loads but before you scroll.
Their chance of beating a confession out of someone is pretty high too.

And when you consider the chance of there being worthwhile, actionable, data months later after their failures, finding the pelican is the safe part of the bet.
I'm American and I find it bizarre too.

What really baffles me is how inconsistent the rollout has been. Chip-capable terminals are everywhere, but maybe 3/4ths of them don't have the chip part enabled. So many times, I've inserted my card only to find that it simply doesn't work. Yesterday I made a purchase where they had taped over the slot so you wouldn't even try.

It seems like once you have the hardware, the rest should just work. I don't know what the hell is going on.
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The assumption that the "current model" (I assume you mean capitalism) makes is that people, when placed in a position where they no longer provide a benefit to society and yet must in order to put food on the table, will find a way to provide a benefit to society.

In my experience, this is true over longer (1-2 year) timescales, even if it's not obvious how at the outset. Most people, when made redundant, find new ways to make themselves relevant. The process isn't exactly pleasant, but the outcome often results in a lot more lucrative and fulfilling career than they had before.
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Spoken language interfaces. My 10 year old uses the voice input on her Android phone all the time. "What's the weather today?" "What's the weather tomorrow in Lexington?" "Set an alarm for 6:00am." Some of those just bring up a web page, but talking back would be great.

I've seen the notion of electronic assistant as an obvious next thing for some time. "Bring up that pdf file I was reading yesterday."

I wish the Sync interface on my car was more conversational than it is - it's much like a verbal menu today.
I think most people are not really angry about the security risk, they're angry about the double standard. Anybody who wasn't Secretary of State would have been fired and probably prosecuted for this.

Obviously people who already don't like Clinton are all over it, but I think there's a legitimate complaint from people saying that she shouldn't be able to get away with something that nobody else could.
How to get input from a flashplayer game to make a bot? (No visual input)
Hey guys,

Recently, I made a bot which can play the game "Snake", with only visual inputs.

this game: -->> http://www.speeleiland.nl/snake.htm

But the problem is, sometimes it's kind of laggy .
The visual input, a sort of stream of printscreens of a certain part of my screen (the game) is too heavy.

I was wondering if there is a way to get the location of the head of the snake during the game, leaked out of the webbased game. So I can write a bot with that live information, which is constantly up-to-date.

I probably would write the code in Python, so can I extract that information (location of head of snake) out of the flash player and use it in Python code ?
Some limitations (?): are no global data; no shared data; all data is immutable; the modules are different from CL packages; functions can't have variable number of arguments[]. It does however have support for decent pattern matching and full access to all of Erlang's concurrency, fault-tolerance and scalability properties. Plus real macros as god intended.

[] The macro handling can go part way to hide this.
The deception in his argument, though, is that this is happening because of rising minimum wages.

If the minimum wage stayed the same, but automation was cheaper regardless (it will be by its very nature, count on it), he'd still be first in line to axe those jobs.
That caught my eye as well so I googled past surveys to see how the results have shifted. What was more interesting to me is the 2016 distribution is very comparable to the 2013 distribution. But then again this survey hasn't been going on for that long.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16C6ZeNSvd-qIg45J9E-v...
Yeah, exactly. "How many big macs can you buy with your salary".
I can assure you that math is most certainly real. Just because you can't hit a head with it doesn't mean something isn't real.
>I have no doubt that the web will eat desktop application

Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates disagree with you[1].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhW8cp15tk
Thanks! I'm too lazy I guess :)
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Everyone on this thread categorising the question as FUD should read up on the Same Origin Policy of the browser and the context in which embedded javascript gets executed.

Definitely enough room for malicious behaviour.

Also, the threat does not just include ads, but the fact that too many a developer is very happy of pulling in 10+ 3rd party javascript libraries into their web application, effectively exposing their web application to risk in case one of these 3rd parties gets compromised.
I think most companies (large and small) are unwilling to dismiss c-suite executives on the word of a security professional in their IT department.
It also sounds way more polite than calling it something like a circlejerk.
"Third, like I said, not modern air force is ignoring IRST."

Right? I mean, just consider the B-2 and F-117 exhausts and the amount of work done to reduce their thermal signatures.
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She obviously didn't setup the email server herself.
> @150K you could afford 6K per month.

But why would I do that to myself?
It is really hard to believe in Microsoft, even for card-carrying microsofties. Silverlight? VB6? The umpteen drm formats? DCOM? ActiveX?...
Business Insider would’ve scored some journalistic points if they had used a real photograph of a janky ass Carl’s Jr burger instead of promotional art.
Using formats which became less popular and well supported can be considered bit-rotting.

For example, having .PCX files in some project today instead of .PNG could be considered a form of bit rotting, because less and less tools support .PCX
If anyone put anyone's lives at risk, it was the NSA for refusing to do their jobs. There's no "scandal" here.
I am totally fed up of rents in Sunnyvale. Thinking of moving to Texas now only if I get a good job.
Virtual Reality is not the future
One with an education system which teaches the proper use of apostrophes
Thank you for your response to andybak's childish comment. My sentiments exactly.
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Perhaps I'm overly cynical but I'm guessing she got caught with her phone in the SCIF more than a few times before she got the message to leave it outside.
They need to talk to Disney. They could build a tomorrow land but with real robots.
If all you're doing now is plain text with bullets there may be nothing to gain. If, however, you have main bullet items that then have subitems, you'd gain the advantage of "collapsing" items (what in some coding environments is called "folding").

To get this benefit all you'd need to do is open a blank text file with '.org' suffix, then instead of bullets use an asterisk. Put one asterisk in front of main bullets, two asterisks in front of subitems. Then use <tab> key to expand or collapse subitems of current bullet item. Or <shift-tab> to expand or collapse subitems throughout the document. That's all you need to get started using org-mode productively.
Damn, I was way off. Guess I badly misjudged my spherical pig radius.
Yes thats the key point - but the physical safe analogy is how the DoJ thinks (or wants to think, and wants the public to think) about the issue.

crypto = 5th Amendment. Locked safe analogy = search warrant. Thats their simple messaging.

Apple needs to do what they do best - market this brilliantly but simply.
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Or just not use JS for serious computation.

It was never designed for this, and upgrading the core language to do serious computation will be like putting lipstick on a pig or a sticking plaster on a wooden leg.

You're correct though Emscripten and WebGL are amazing things, but ultimately hacks. With browsers scurrying to implement ASM.js support, JITs etc... (because most JS developers write shonky code and interpreting JS is not fashionable any more)

JS considered dangerous. DO. NOT. USE.
Joseph Mallozzi (executive producer of SG:U) wrote about some potential plotlines they were thinking of for the 3rd season: https://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/may-12-2011-...
The web is an inferior platform for games. Not sure why this is a surprise.
"Don't be evil." is clearly still true!
I like Hactar for a simple AI opponent: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gowrite.ha...

For general use as well as GNU Go and DGS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mco.prj.app.bw...

For Go problems, Tsumego Pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lrstudios....
In fact, that ought to work not just in Racket, but in any Scheme implementation that conforms to R5RS or later (or even R4RS plus appendix).

The Klisp authors picked a pretty bad example for demonstrating the power of fexprs. You can think of them as being first-class macros in a way [0].

Joe Marshall demonstrated that fexprs can be divided into two distinct classes: safe and unsafe [1]. He showed that all safe fexprs could be implemented as macros with no loss of expressiveness. (An unsafe fexpr is one that relies on metacircular fixpoints (whatever that means)).

[0]: That's not exactly true. Macros are syntactic transformers whereas fexprs are procedures that can syntactically modify and selectively evaluate its arguments in a given environment. Despite this semantic difference, there's a very large overlap in their use-cases.

[1]: https://www.brinckerhoff.org/scraps/joe-marshall-on-FEXPRS-a...
Trump still poses a larger threat to the country (and the world) by measure. https://gfs.eiu.com/Article.aspx?articleType=gr&articleId=28...
ack, no, it bypasses https
As others have said in an attempt to refute my comment, times change.
INDEC is the government office in charge of carrying on the statistic (inflation, etc). They lied us for 4 years (with the previous government). They've shut it down completely 3 months ago (with the new government) and they're supposedly working to reopen it with legit information. We'll see.
The NSA didn't make things less secure. Clinton's people did to get around the NSA's restrictions. The restrictions suck, but if I were like "doot dee do, I hate working with this secure PC, I'll migrate the info I need to my cellphone connected to my own private server" I would be looking at a long stint in prison.

Hillary Clinton doesn't need to worry about that because she's Hillary fucking Clinton.

Some people are more equal than others.
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also check out @DEVOPS_BORAT, hilarious. but sadly no longer tweeting.
I have doubts about whether any proof of stake cryptosystem can work in the long-term.

The devs have stated that this coin is going to switch to PoS at a later date and I think that transition is going to make a Bitcoin hardfork look tame in comparison.
Ban academics talking to ministers? We should train them to do it
Damn. BD is probably the coolest company within Google.
No, security professionals should find adequate solutions to a changing technological (and the corresponding sociological) landscape.

Just saying "No" without investigating alternative solutions to satisfy the spirit of the request is likely the problem.

It's also apparent that there was no routine security auditing which may have caught Clinton's behavior. I'm not sure you can claim the NSA was acting with security in mind when it's quite evident she was walking around with a blackberry every day in "Mahogany Row'.
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And we wonder why we see so many companies and government agencies failing at security.
Heh, I would hope that we crack Unicode in C before we crack omniscient, digitally omnipotent artificial superintelligences, or I despair for the world.
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This is surprising to me. It seems that many prominent Googlers are very optimistic about robotics.

For example, in the FAQ of Jeff Dean's recent talk in Seoul, he mentioned how Deep Learning has a lot of potential to reinvent the field of robotics. Also, Demis Hassabis recently tweeted about progress in learning 3-D environments. I'd be surprised if Google wasn't looking into general purpose robotics...

Perhaps Google is disappointed in their robotics acquisitions and wants to start from scratch? It seems that they are farther on the software front than anyone at the point. I wonder what they'll do in their hardware/power divisions...

(Also, it kind of seems like Tesla and Google are on a crash course here. Tesla is ahead in power/hardware and is developing a top-tier AI team for self-driving cars. Elon also seems very interested in Robotics + AI. Google seems to be working from the opposite end.)
The arguement I have read is that the device the president had was only possible because he has a full security detail 24x7 that can keep track of the phone. Doesn't the secretary of state have that as well?
> Consumers robotics is still waiting for its Apple II moment.

Elderly care in first world countries.
Previous SoSs didn't make extensive use of it, or like Rice, got exceptions.

If the security apparatus doesn't allow people to get their job done, people will find ways to solve their own problems.

For example, you could certainly ban all internet use. It would render moot a huge amount of security problems, but people wouldn't abide it. So you have to find the trade off that the user and the security people find acceptable.
> we're going to be having the Person of Interest "It's not a violation of your privacy if only an algorithm is looking at your data" discussion

There are signs in the Snowden documents that this view is already pervasive in the government.
It's a very high standard to force a user to change his password every 24 hours. It also guarantees this user will write it down on a post it next to the screen. Security professional should think also in term of practicality.

I was trying to enter a 26 characters wifi passcode when setting up a new MacBook recently (so without access to clipboard). All characters hidden, not even certain the keyboard was set up with the right region. It might be secure but the guy who designed this step of MacOS should still be fired.
yeah and larry and sergey wouldn't have liked that considering how innovative bd is.
As a public servant, "I felt dissed" is certainly no reason for me to break the law. I expect better, both from the Secretary of State and from the President of the United States.
It wasn't withdrawn for Clinton, it was withdrawn for the devices themselves. The NSA decided the potential consequences for a baseband compromise within a SCIF was too high risk.

Honestly I suspect their policy is "no wireless devices within the SCIF period." From wireless keyboards, to cellphones, to WiFi, and beyond. The black phone might be authorised but I suspect that is due to operational importance (e.g. calls vital to national security).
Here's my primer for anyone interested:

https://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/
"I don’t know exactly why the Audio Data API lost, but I suspect it had something to do with the idea that JavaScript is too slow or high-latency to generate sample data in small buffers on demand."

I think it lost because Web Audio was the Chrome proposal, with implementation, and Chrome had/has the mind/market share.
My last company's retention package after their [bad] acquisition had this vesting schedule. The company knew damn well that most people would leave or be forced out before the 3rd year, and that's exactly what happened. This sort of vesting is the most employee-unfriendly bullshit out there. If I was made an offer with this sort of schedule I would immediately decline and look elsewhere.
That was an idea pitched in the episode "200" for the movie they were going to make.

It was a riff on the idea that everyone assumed they were furry when nothing was known about them other than their existence.
Feeling dissed, is one thing, but subverting the process is another. The explanation given was that scaling the Blackberry that the POTUS was given was unmanageable. Whether that is a fair explanation or not we do not know. Even if it were not a fair explanation, does that give Mrs. Clinton the right to basically backdoor the whole process?
When Google acquired them,, they said that they didn't want to be defense contractors
Yes, that's exactly why they'd use _Auto and a header to redefine the keyword. Existing code that does auto x = 3; (implicit int type) wouldn't break, but #include <stdauto.h> auto x = 4.2f; would be the new meaning.
I believe you. This is horrible and you should not have had to go through this. :(
Most people, including myself, would be fired if we broke security protocol. Inconvenience is not a justified reason to break protocol.
At least she wasn't mandated to use the cone of silence :-P
I think it was a poor choice of words. "Caring for others" can include things like making food, washing cars, and cleaning. Essentially another way of saying "labor for others."
He forgot the part about how you get cold when you go through the stargate...

I need to watch this show again.
Funny, I just nabbed the IEEE VHDL standard from IEEExplore yesterday.
My thinking seems to enjoy being structured as a directed mostly acyclic graph. That can represent causal links as well as containment, association, and so on. I've done brainstorming with GraphViz and found it quite wonderful. The syntax is also somehow inspiring and fun.
That was my reaction, too :-). My day job for 4 years was writing a software-defined radio for aviation on a Blackfin-based system. Intel and ADI made some really unfortunate design choices with that architecture that ADI seems surprisingly unwilling to correct.
> Undefined behavior allows the compiler to handle those cases as errors (e.g. print stack trace and crash). Or to perform static analysis. Or, to do something predictable.

The term you're looking for here is "implementation defined".