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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-wo...
Remodeling and Demographics: DIY?
We don't know for sure if the FBI is only bluffing about hacking the phone just to not have to drag the case further
And the UNIX style has a cost: It is insecure e.g. [0][1].

Luckily modern UNIX-based systems are rarely used as multi-user terminals these days or we would see many more privilege escalations via exploiting bugs in scripts which iterate over user owned files. Even in web scenarios, most web frameworks carefully manage what is allowed in a filename or set the filename themselves.

Ultimately because on UNIX there is no type, you have to make assumptions. These assumptions are sometimes dangerously wrong. You can definitely write scripts and execute commands in a more secure way, but you can go google Linux tutorials right now and find tons of examples where newbies are taught to do it wrong out of the gate.

Data types make this "secure by default." String for everything requires the script-writer or command line-writer to be perfect every time they hit return.

[0] http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards...
[1] https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2014/06/27/exploiting-wildca...
I'd argue that engineering improvements would be key for user acquisition.

Where is that massive growth supposed to come from if the app is too complicated for users older than 30 years and too bloated for devices older than 2 years?
>> I used to be as exasperated as you, but I have come to peace that this is all attributable to poverty.

I think it's all due to overpopulation - which it can be argued is a result of poverty too. As long as the world refuses to address exponential population growth, we will continue to run into resource shortages on this finite planet.
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Making contentious comments is fine, the problem is you have to back them up with anything solid. The basis of your argument is that Visual Studio is overkill for writing web applications. That has nothing to do with ASP.NET and more to do with the desire for simpler developer environment. This can be solved by using VSCode, or setting up Omnisharp for the various text editors out there.

You have not given any solid technical reason as to why ASP.NET is a bad framework. In my experiences, it's more or less as capable as Ruby on Rails, Clojure, Java, etc. You've stated it's overkill, meaning what exactly? Are you even aware of the changes being made to ASP.NET vNext? The dotnet cli tool? The only complaint you seem to have is that the tight coupling of ASP.NET to various Windows platforms is a little much for people who are used to Go or RoR.
ASP.NET MVC Frawmework is the most popular web framework in dotnet. I think you don't know well about dotnet.
Initial idea can come from news/market trend. Once one industry becomes somewhat interesting, lots of research comes after. Normally you have to go through financial statements and ratios of each company and compare these to the targeted industry. Tools like finviz screener helps graphical/technical analysis while stockflare tells a short summary of fundamental analysis about the company itself. If you have other holdings rather than that, portfolio mgmt is indeed needed.
I just found out the other day that if you use any "Accessibility features" on an android phone, your device's encryption password changes to a default, effectively disabling encryption until you turn those features off again.

Furthermore, it's not immediately clear that you're disabling encryption when you do that.

So all in all, and for other reasons listed, I believe iPhone is probably the better bet at the moment for secure hardware.
And Indian regime is giving just 18% credit to farmers;
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/may/18/psu-banks-fail...
Suppose electrons would naturally time travel occasionally. But, we could gain no knowledge about the future from those electrons. It's not interesting.

CTC means time-travel with structure. If you can send say a book back in time then our ideas of paradox ect have meaning.

Next suppose you could time travel, but only far from your own past that light can't reach you. Further you block other time travelers so you can't send messages back to your self. Again not interesting, you need to be able to influence your past (self intersect) to be fun otherwise it's just like moving quickly.
Nice angular progress buttons
fwiw it started in the 90's.
understood, however if someone upstream poisons their water supply, be it farm/agriculture, industrial runoff, etc.. it still effects you and your family downstream. If there is too much, everything starts to deteriorate.
I did not know these were such dangerous languages. Hey, while we are at it, we should outlaw the pen. I hear it is far more dangerous than a sword.
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Can you elaborate?

I cannot imagine how Cloudflare could distinguish VPN traffic routed through Tor and standard traffic routed through Tor. The only difference is a hop on the front end, no change to what comes out the exit node.
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Ah, I suspected something like that. I think I’m just not into that scene, so that’s completely meaningless to me.

If you are into that it’s probably exactly right for you and something like Spotify would be a poor fit to your needs.
I thought the UI was a command prompt. At least it has been for me. Shows you what I know:)
It doesn't stop them, but it raises the costs of it significantly. Instead of hundreds of requests a second, they're down to one request every 5 seconds, and they're having to run the computer at a full CPU load 100% of the time. It would be more profitable for them to just mine bitcoins at this point, meaning they wouldn't waste that CPU load on spam submissions.
Funny to call it reporting when it's more of an editorial by the renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier.

However, I'll defend his point: take the Monty Hall problem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem]. The probabilities change, even when a door you didn't pick [and doesn't hold the prize] is opened.

I think this is a fair analogy. We've now gained knowledge about the existence of a vulnerability, and that knowledge makes everyone's device less secure [for a variety of reasons -- eg others know to look for the vulnerability, others know it can be bought, etc]. It doesn't matter that the vulnerability "has always been there" if nobody knew about it.
There's a chance that some Web site ad targeting is being done this way.
Netflix used humans to tag movies for their recommendation system.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-ne...
I agree. I'm not arguing that employees shouldn't cash out when they can. I'm saying that if investors as a whole are getting cold feet 3 months after the IPO, those employees were never likely to be able to recoup much value from their equity in the first place, regardless of whether these lenders get to dive off the sinking ship first.
"the idea of being completely financially independent (if not 'retired', then at least able to live without working for long periods) is even more satisfying than the thought of exotic holidays."

Then you'd better hope you live long enough to enjoy that independence/retirement, and not die when all you've done with your life is hoard money.

There's also the opportunity cost that you should take in to account. Travel and especially living for extended periods in places very different from the ones you're familiar with can really broaden your view of life, other people, yourself, and the world. Those experiences can be literally lifechanging, especially if you have them while young and when your world view is not yet petrified by old age.

Travel and living abroad can also present you with many opportunities, introduce you to many interesting people, help you network and perform beter at work (for a wide variety of reasons that I won't go in to here), etc.

Trying to make up for this by travelling after you're retired won't be the same. For one, you'll no longer be young, so your mind will be different, your outlook will be different, you'll probably not be as open to new experiences or as open to changing your outlook on life. Your body also won't be as up to doing many of the things you'd easily be able to do while young (like walking through cities or the countryside for long periods of time, eat a lot of exotic food, hang out late, etc).

You may also not have nearly as much desire to travel by the time you're older, or if you do you might be more likely to take tours with lots of other tourists than strike out on your own or with a few friends (especially as by then all your friends will have kids to take with them or take care of, or will be retired and more-risk averse themselves), etc.

In short, there's something to be said for living for the moment rather than living for the future, and you might want to get your travelling in while the going is good. Your enjoyment of, benefit from, capacity and desire for travel is likely to reduce as you get older.
Ironically to what you mention, Java was designed with embedded devices in mind and particularly popular as game deployment platform for old phones.

Virtually any cheap phone (non-smartphone) comes with Java ME available. Nowadays you find Android and the millions of Java-based games on the play store.
It seems to me that Tim Cook and the FBI understand each other very well. They just don't care about the same things.

Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden clearly understands the issues. I saw an interview where he stated that the FBI was correct to want access (it makes their job easier) and that we shouldn't give it to them (he understands that a backdoor will be used in ways other than intended). The point being that people on the government side aren't just naive, ignorant administrators.

I think the problem with a lot of national issues isn't the players lacking an understanding of the nuances, it's that people in general aren't very receptive to nuance. That makes it a losing strategy to try to address it.
There is absolutely no proof of that. What they where asking for was keys to every lock in the world. It would have given them unprecedented power to do whatever they wanted. Apple did the right thing. Users should always come first especially when privacy is at stake.
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This is pedantic in my opinion. The main point of the article was that the FBI found a vulnerability. So before it was likely an unknown vulnerability, now it is known by law enforcement. The whole point of the article was that responsible organizations disclose vulnerabilities so that companies can make their software/hardware more secure. In this case the FBI is sitting on it, so they can continue to use it. Last week the FBI couldn't break into my iPhone. Now they /might/ be able to (it's a 6, so who knows if it is fixed). And Apple can't fix what they don't know about. Therefore, my confidence in the security of my iPhone has diminished, and it may be less secure than it was last week.
Indeed, without root access you don't get to screw a disk with dd. But let's also admit that saying dd is a tool for copying files is a bit like saying that with a katana sword you can slice pizza... Technically true, but you're likely to get hurt in the process.
But it isn't cheaper than just mining bitcoins with that same CPU load. This wouldn't prevent spamming, it would just make it unprofitable compared to the alternatives (mining bitcoins).

The JavaScript issue can be gotten around with a browser plugin that does it as well, which would be easy to bundle on the existing Tor browser. JavaScript would still be fine for all the VPN users who get stuck with these things, and the regular users who get them occasionally for whatever reason.
The FBI usually went with the no-stones-left-unturned analogy. But did they actually find anything meaningful under this stone that they accidentally locked up?
>The iPhone did not get less secure. It has always had this security hole.

Although given the fact that it was made public that they found a security hole, won't that change the behavior of malicious actors? Now that it's known that a hole exists, more people will start looking for it, reducing security through obscurity.
Sounds like a regression on Canonical's issue #1. The resolution case was "A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.". This article does indeed appear to showcase active work toward a regression on bug #1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
Ok, so it sounds like you're objecting to Visual Studio, not to .net itself. Or not quite?
How can it be plugged, if Apple doesn't know what it is?
Semi-related: I have written an org-mode replacement that addresses some of the key challenges (hard to learn, awkward) while keeping some key benefits (efficient from keyboard, extremely flexible), and adding huge flexibility in what can be done: http://onemodel.org

It is a personal organizer, and the beginning of a platform to change how individuals (or mankind) manage knowledge overall.

(Now with an improved web site.)

Feedback appreciated.
I didn't see it like that at all...

It was more of a "let's really feel the pain from this and try to come up with a better solution". And at the end of it they didn't. They felt the pain of having to do it for just about everything, and still couldn't come up with a better solution other than "improve the captcha system".

And from there they gave some suggestions on how they could work with tor to give a better experience.

Simply saying "captchas suck, find a better way" would have gotten nowhere because the people involved wouldn't personally know the pain points, they wouldn't know the exact issues, or what exactly about it was the most annoying. (was it the captcha itself, or the frequency you had to fill it out? Did it completely break some of their workflows, and what were the ways they ended up getting around those breakages, and can they prevent them? Perhaps they found the redirect page broke some browsers/software/extensions!)

I would kill to have a one-on-one with a typical "user" of my products. A long sit down meeting to understand exactly what they want/need above "i want it to work better". Making your developers/staff users of your product is a great way to do that and to really internalize it.
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I wonder what will be the performance for manupilating big numbers with RISC V (cryptography) for example, the performance will likely be very low..
If it's not testable, what's the point? If it is not testable you are literally saying it has no effect on the world.

Note that something can be political or sociological and still be testable. You can have a utilitarian moral philosophy where you assign utilities and sum them up, then do surveys or focus groups to to measure agreement with the results.

But if a theory literally has no testable predictions? That is the definition of useless.
> Have you considered setting up your own VPN? That would make the ip "clean" and get less captchas, right?

And would negate any anonymity offered by using a VPN.
> And we probably never will be.

Investigation is either made completely public after the fact or partially marked secret for certain years. Now if someone intentionally hide the investigation details, well, that's a whole different story and I wouldn't be surprised at all. Writer chooses what to write in their investigation log reports.

Anyway, we really don't know what method they used to gather the information and what kind of information they pulled off for sure.
High availability is the main requirement. Since we are running our hosts in AWS, we are sure that the host(s) running influx would go down certainly few times a year.

Will look more into Cassandra. Since it scales really well, it could well be worth investing time and money.
I agree in practice QML apps are typically less functional than React apps, but QML-the-language (without connecting JS functions) is functional, like CSS.
Nice application :) I appreciate the effort to make it inclusive to every platform.

I've tried the web-app version from desktop and I feel that the UI is suited for mobile-view. UI-wise some icons are probably better accompanied with what it meant (e.g. the "lock" icon) and some hint whether it is clickable or not (only when I accidentally click it, I realized it is clickable).

And the slogan "make plans, without a plan" seemed off for me, someone still need to make a plan, at least a partial plan.

And by the way, why should I "register" to the app by providing an e-mail address, if I could share the link myself?

Thanks, and have a nice day :)
That does not explain how they get their results.

By the way, is it illegal if the bribes are called campaign contributions or are sent to places the target wants money to go, like a charity that helps their political ambitions?
You need a better name. VLC Player, or all other V C L char combinations are used and VCL is hard to find.

e.g. "vcl css" google suggests "vlc css"

bootstrap, foundation, polymer, pure css, that are names you can remember.
Is it the result of racism that it is so unusual to see young black children with valid money orders?

We're used to seeing "racism" as the action of some individual bus driver pointing someone to the back of the bus, or some individual water fountain monitor pointing people to a different water fountain. But that form of racism was much more common two or three generations ago, and didn't just affect the lives of people who lived then, but also affected their descendants. There may be no racist bus drivers today (and even that story leaves out that the bus driver was undoubtedly under racist orders by their own employer), but we still have the lasting cultural impact of racism to deal with.
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That's true, MVC and Webapi can do everything, like Rails, all functionalities you need and don't need are inside. Most .net devs are expecting that, compared to node devs where they would have everything splited into small packages. One fx was designed in 2000, when that made sense, other one in 2010 ...

But, you don't have to use mvc; there's Nancy or low-level Owin.
So why do people complain about MVC when there are other choices? Certainly not like in other platforms, but at least few good ones exists! Why judge whole platform because of one fx?

Similar like EF or Nhibernate. They are big and heavy and very slow if not used properly, but also there's Dapper, massive or simpleData.
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Not where I'm from either (Chennai, though my dad is from Thanjavur), but in the area around the Gangetic plain, this might be a common practice, and it is deleterious to humans and the environment.
That is certainly not what he is "mostly remembered" for, and I suspect the popularity of the term is precisely because that is not the case.
You think the pricing is high for ACH with Stripe?! What pricing is better than theirs?

The low barrier to entry is a definite perk of using ACH with Stripe, at least IMHO.
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Schneier has never had a strong intuition for how software vulnerabilities work. In the 2000s, he wrote articles in his newsletter blaming eEye (a security research firm then the home of Derek Soeder, Barnaby Jack, Ryan Permeh, and the like) for publishing their vulnerability research. He is at turns anti-disclosure, pro-disclosure, and all points in between.
The Sharing Economy needs to adapt to the 21st century
Have you looked into Dwolla?
That was an excellent analogy.
Figured it out myself. Couldn't find a way to map single presses of the Shift key in emacs, but I was able to do this using AutoHotKey in Windows:

LShift UP::Send, (
RShift UP::Send, )
LShift & F13::
RShift & F13::

As a Clojure and JavaScript dev I think I am going to like this mapping quite a bit, so thanks for the tip!
The entire CloudFlare recaptcha page is < 100 KB, and that's including the images. If you're annoyed by the time it takes for that page to load, you won't be happy browsing any site via Tor - even Google is > 200 KB.
This is a common misconception (love when I get to use that phrase unironically!) about MMM and the early retirement he talks about. What he's really selling is financial independence, as in not having to worry about money so you have the freedom to do whatever you like.

This doesn't mean the stereotypical "retire on a beach somewhere and never do anything again" most people imagine. Instead you don't have to work on anything you don't want to. You can choose what you work on and how often you do so. If you don't feel like it that day, then fine. You have full control over all of your time for the rest of your days.

Want to take up woodworking? Go for it! Want to continue doing freelance coding? You can! It'll only increase your financial independence, and you don't have to take on projects that don't interest you.

It's crazy how most people don't even realize this is an option. Most people are on the old spend all your money, work til you're 65 (or maybe 70 these days) kick. I didn't even realize it until I stumbled upon his blog. Things are sooooooo much better now, and I credit a lot of that to MMM.
I agree with you, and I think this will eventually lead to a world where governments are unable to exert meaningful influence on large corporations. We're already starting to get there; I have a feeling that if the supreme court had forced Apple to write a custom version of iOS that things could have gotten really messy very quickly -- there were rumors that Apple's entire iOS engineering team was ready to resign if the case went the wrong way. It's plausible to see a scenario where Apple says "You know what? Fuck it, we're based in Ireland now."

Ultimately, I don't think governments are designed to deal with corporations that make as much money as a company like Apple does. These companies are the size of governments -- if Apple decided it wanted to hire a bunch of mercenaries and take over a small country, it could probably do so (if it didn't mind getting embargoed by whoever was friendly to the country they took over).

I wouldn't be surprised to see corporate sovereignty become a big international issue in our lifetimes. International law is a huge grey area, and I expect companies to exploit that to their advantage to avoid enforcement actions by individual nations.
> This is bad reporting.

I felt the same way when I hit the article link, but changed by mind when Bruce Schneier made the more nuanced argument.

Of course the vulnerability already existed. That's not what he has a problem with: the problem is that now there is a commercially-known but secret vulnerability. Which is a different thing than an unknown vulnerability.

Newer hardware revisions, etc etc, but the biggest issue he takes is that the US government is supporting this practice (and in doing so basically acting like malware authors). Again, that may be realpolitik, but isn't something that we should support as a policy position.
No, US. So if based in Europe charging European cards it's 1.4%? Wish US-based charging US-cards was as favorable.
That article gives zero insight into what lobbying actually involves. So I ask you, what do you think it involves?
Looks pretty straightforward, also good documentation.
if you setup an access point to route all of your traffic through tor, then connect to your VPN through that access point, your IP is the VPN IP, not the exit node.