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I know you said you understand the reasoning, but for those who don't...

On the surface, prohibiting encryption seems antiquated and annoying, but if it weren't there would be no way to enforce the other regulations, like prohibiting transmissions for commercial purposes, which I think most hams would agree is a good restriction.

That said, if you really wanted to you could encrypt data and hide it using steganography or stuff it in what you claim is an authentication signature or something. It would be illegal but entirely unenforceable.

I could see allowing encryption, at least for the higher class licenses (extra + general?), as long as you are still required to identify your callsign unencrypted.

I also think the restriction on commercial purposes could be loosely interpreted to allow loading webpages with ads or buying something on an ecommerce site, as long as the primary purpose of the transmissions aren't commercial. But again, that would be difficult to enforce if encryption were allowed.
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> We spend $25bn/year to produce 1% of our energy usage by renewables. We shut down our mostly modern atom reactors to burn more coal. We now spend ~30 dollar cent per kilowatt hour to have much dirtier energy than most of the rest of europe.

This is so wrong I don't know if you're pushing some sort of agenda or just trolling.

Read the facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany
I live in Cleveland currently and in the winter time there is no sun. Thus, LEDs are an excellent alternative, and can be used elsewhere during nighttime. The benefits are not "bringing the sun via proxy" ... the benefits are "we have focused on the wavelengths that most rapidly and efficiently excite chlorophylls alpha and beta (harvest sun color and the noon-time color of the summer, if I may approximate the "feeling" of the two active bumps... carotenoids are the main chlorophyll in carrots).
This is not relevant. An audit cost a substantial amount of money, you wouldn't expect your consultants to spend a lot of time exploiting or building Proof-of-Concepts. If you have a time-boxed assessments, you want the consultants to cover the most ground and not spend too much time on a finding.
Most countries are well over 1% renewables. Where are you talking about?

EX: US 13%, Germany 30%. (Home solar power not necessarily counted in these numbers.)
You're being downvoted because it's cool to hate on McDonald's, but I agree with you.

From my experience in the UK, their menu is increasingly easy to find nutritional information for (the print it in big font on -all- of their packaging), and they offer alternatives for fries/sodas if you like. Much of the McDonald's menu is far healthier than 'real' restaurant equivalents, which use much more oil/salt because the international community isn't scrutinising every menu item.
The smart clients are usually unhappy, unless they've set expectations in advance that you're not expected to find anything (which is rare).

As consultants, you are always very unhappy when your project ends with no sev:hi findings. That, too, is rare.
Is there anywhere that actually lays out the tech that powers habitat? ie:

This thing uses kubernetes or this thing uses mesos
This other thing uses docker/rkt/containerd/lxd
This is the set of things we wrote in rust, etc, etc.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903205 and marked it off-topic.
Although if you did switch to the mixed-case set it would show source code in lowercase.
People finding community of some form is not just a good thing, it's an essential thing to human life. It should always be lauded. However, there is a lot of socioeconomic and sub-cultural in-group/out-group judgement in US society, all of which feels absolutely justified by those doing the judging.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...

In reality, it's all exactly the same sort of crap that was portrayed on Mad Men. Such prejudice is the same, whether it is enacted by tweed jacket wearing Ivy Leaguers, rural low-brow native americans, "poor white trash," urban black people, affluent Koreans, undergraduate students, "Social Justice Warriors," or Bay Area programmers. I should know, because I've been on the receiving end of it from all of the above, while also being a member of about half those groups. (Often having diametrically opposed things projected onto me!)

When it comes down to it, people should be given a chance as individuals, not summarily judged as units of a group. (Martin Luther King Jr. put it best...)

I swear, when I hear some fellow "liberals" talking about their own rural underclass or Republicans or Christians, the kind of disdain that comes across seems like something that should no longer exist in the 21st century, outside of movies about the Jim Crow south.
He could have phrased things better, but it sounds like he's trying to make convey to the employees who are staying that the company has a viable future and is doing things to improve itself. I'd personally prefer to have as big a picture as possible when layoffs like this occur.
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The first one on the list had convinced me this was a very interestingly-trained Markov chain generator. I need to read more Philip K. Dick.
This is what we have now. We just have a saying on what lizard will rule.

Do you think everybody voting for Trump would vote for his hateful policies? I'm not on the US, but it looks to me that Trump gets most of his approval from his "I'm not one of the lizards" PR. If people didn't have to get the entire package, it's very likely they would be critical of those worse parts.
Which parts? Where I currently am I would not admit going to a McDonald's (or Burger King for that matter). There are lots of grubby independent places such as cheap, greasy kebab joints here, and even they seem to place above the chain fastfood restaurants in social acceptableness.

Not trying to be snobby, just curious what's below McDonald's if it can be considered "upmarket".
To counter your anecdote, I've also received ketamine sedation for procedures, and never have I experienced any sort of "tripping"-like effects. It certainly can be used without those effects, at least in some portion of the population.
Finally! Inline videos in iOS Safari! This is a really needed change. Specially for all those GIFs!
I think they're being downvoted because they're a new account with no submissions and no other comments bar this one, which looks a little... ah... suspicious?
This isn't me. I found this on reddit and it's a pretty good AMA about Gleam.io. https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/3hpt9z/iama_c...
Last time I checked, Germany has infinitesimally small chances of being struck by tsunamis.
Is enabling competition in fact the puzzle, though? This is a problem that's been studied intensively for well over a hundred years and solved in lots of other places. It's the same problem as power regulation, water regulation, closed-circuit television regulation, and so on. I don't think the problem is finding a solution at all. I think the problem is convincing citizens that adopting the solutions implemented elsewhere (e.g. decoupling infrastructure from service, community-owned utilities, etc) is a thing worth supporting.
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The point is not to do "me too" projects, rather bite the bullet and form an alliance with somebody that offers you better tech and in turn entice them to use what you do best and where they can't compete with you. Instead we have Google destroying all its services to propel up Google+, MS killing their desktop OS and destroying Nokia to catch up with mobile, Amazon pushing tablets nobody wants, Apple ripping off Surface stand and stylus in iPad Pro and neglecting its desktop in the process, and even Linux emulating obfuscating windows registry in systemd.
Source on contaminating the water? I've never heard of any issues with that.

Resistance is bad, but if you are against herbicides at all what's the issue? We can invent new herbicides faster than they can evolve resistance, and they will still work on most species of plants.
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No, it is not necessary.

We'll take a look.
> The real solution maybe to adapt our lives to the seasonality, and maybe to use wind power ... well to make wind mill for instance. Mechanic to mechanic energy transformation is not stupid.

What are you even talking about? Have you invented a new mechanic energy transmission process with no losses? If we are calling names, I'd say that mechanic energy transmission is even more "stupid". If your mechanic energy collection gizmo is not right where you want it, then you'll have tremendous losses transmitting it.

Not that it matters too much in case of renewables. You just need a bigger collecting system.

Also, electric energy is fungible. You can convert it into almost anything you need, including mechanical power. Good luck posting to hacker news with your mechanical energy.

The solution is not going back to medieval era. It is to figure out better solutions. Renewable energy is not a scam. The market may be heavily subsidized (not everywhere), but that's how you jump-start an industry. Market forces may prevent development, but that's a different problem.

Not to mention that everything is subsidized in some way. Coal power plants should be paying for the pollutants (including radiation) that they are releasing in the atmosphere. In fact, all current power plants (including hydro) are subsidized. If not by money directly, by the law.
Very good, but needs a option for resizing. I've tried looking at monospaced fonts and couldn't see them at a size that a monospaced font would actually be used (default is huge).
I bought an mBot kit to make with my 6 year old cousin recently. It was fun, but the default software was pretty limited, and the scratch programming environment was not actually that easy to use for a beginner. Had to drop into C for any sort of multi-tasking, and the documentation was mostly in Chinese.

Marty looks great, backed. Looking forward to playing robots in 2017!
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The current solution for nuclear waste is much better than the current solution for coal waste, which is to just dump it into the world and pretend it's not there.
There are a few in the US. They are just in select locations. I wrote software for McDs a while back and they were always coming up with high-tech initiatives. Too bad the environment was cut throat or I would have enjoyed working there.
What do you do to support the mother after birth? If she can't afford to have the baby, can she afford to care for it for the next 10+ years? Do you think your service is creating an "another mouth to feed" problem?
> Even if you bought a big sun collector you NEED to pay taxes for your energy produced (not just for the collector), also for the energy you will produce and use for your own goods and storing the energy will costs you taxes as well.

So, they own the sun now? Ridiculous.
That's a pretty ironic view. This all got started when the FCC ordered Comcast to stop blocking file-sharing services like BitTorrent. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08...

Comcast sued and the FCC spent the next eight years fighting.
Google is working on similar concept. But Marty is more advanced with 2 legs. Educational toy market combined with programming is drawing lots of interest as a trend.
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Welcome to the somewhat repetitive slippery-slope fallacy.

You argue like market-based solution are not subject to the darker side of human nature, when, in fact, the conflict of interest, especially in a natural oligopoly like terrestrial internet, is one of it's fundamental pillars.
Electricity transmission in the US is privatized and handled by several hundred individual companies [1].

These associate into regional councils that are obviously regional in focus. The NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation sets standards for these councils.

Barring any large-scale government initiative, all planning is from the bottom-up, so that's why we're so bad at planning in the large.

[1] https://www.nerc.net/eroregistration/currentmembers.aspx
> I don't think so, but GNOME does have a long history of diving down the stack and fixing problems when we run into them in lower levels.

And that may well be why we see a whole lot more controversy surrounding Gnome than KDE...
My siblings and I all got the 'bad' happy meal as a reward. Hamburger/nuggets, fries, Coca-cola or Sprite. Oh, and it came with the happy meal box full of activities and an actual toy. None of us developed unhealthy relationships with food or even became overweight.
> When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the local McDonalds to do math, several times a week. They'd let us sit there ordering nothing but sodas in a comfy booth for hours. These are some of my fondest childhood memories.

This made me smile, as my dad and I did the exact same thing. He would get coffee and I would get eggs and hashbrowns before we set out on the days errands, and I remember doing long division problems with crayons for fun. I hadn't thought of those days in a very long time, thank you :)
I think the point is that with encryption it would be entirely impossible to enforce a number of the other rules, such as that one.
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Well if you ever decide to write about what you've learned I'd certainly pay for that kind of knowledge!
There are "specialty" McD's in the US, they are just rare. This one springs to mind:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/mcdonalds-orlando-10
That almost never happens. I can count on one hand the number of times it has happened in ~100 past assessments. Generally speaking, the maxim, "There is no such thing as a secure system" is valid. Competent security consultants should be capable finding something actionable in all but the most exceptional circumstances if you throw them into a room to search for vulnerabilities for a few weeks.

That said, I have had assessments where there were no findings. This is generally because there are informational observations that can't be escalated to vulnerabilities in the given assessment time, or because the application has a very security-conscious development team. If it happens, it might be a sign that the application is not sufficiently mature to require an assessment yet, or it's just too simple to really analyze. It can also mean that the consultant is not sufficiently competent to perform the assessment.

To give an example, I worked at a large consultancy where we had a giant public company hold us on retainer to perform assessments on "brochure websites" - they were not interactive at all. There wasn't even a login interface. The company wanted to check off that it had security assessments performed on all webpages it hosted, but realistically there were never any actionable findings. (This is about as much detail as I can give because it's NDA'd, but it's not the sort of thing I'd take on in my own practice).

A more recent example is a YC company I worked with a few weeks ago. Their development team is very well educated on security matters. While I found security vulnerabilities, there were no high severity findings because the quality of peer review and paranoid development was very high there. They were very familiar with every Ruby/Rails gotcha and pretty thoroughly avoided them.

To answer your question, I've never had anyone "angry" at me for not finding anything. They're not "happy", but as long as they can verify that the work they paid for was done, they aren't angry. It doesn't happen often, and when it has happened the consultant should provide enough information to demonstrate that competent work was done.

However, I personally don't feel very good about it. My understanding is that competent security engineers in general are not happy about it. It is much more likely that the assessment either shouldn't have happened (because the application is not mature or complex enough) or that the consultant was simply insufficiently competent than that the application is really completely secure.
The washington post's take on this same unfunded-liabilities thing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/...

Also, don't "payee" and "beneficiary" mean the same thing? Should the article have used "payer" instead of "payee"?
Three months seems like an unusually large severance to me. And I've never heard of an employer paying for COBRA at all.
Respect. Teaching a course is tough, especially for the first time, and even more so as an undergrad.
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What I would love would be to have different back-ends, so e.g. you could target Go.
How would this work for image and facial recognition, especially with regard to individuals? It seems the features needed to recognize a face are by definition identifying.
I have the same issue as SEMW on firefox 47 / archlinux
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They're a very worthwhile process for SMEs and companies that haven't had one before. At one of my previous employers (I won't say which) they were marvelling at the ways in which the contractor was able to do privilege escalation by editing a form to change their user level from the "3" or "4" in the drop-down to "1".

The fact that they got full rights so quickly really drove home the need for security to be a feature and for code reviews.

Now the cynical would point out that standard pen testers would have found that, and maybe they would, but the speed at which a contractor could find these issues and then see the full breadth of the surface compared to pen testers was great. And the fact they could explain back what the problem was in terms of code and how it should be rewritten rather than just "found rights escalation in form x" leaving the client to perhaps improperly deal with that.

Overall I was far more impressed watching an auditor doing a few days work than any of the regular pen testing companies I've seen since who mostly seem to point fuzzers at any endpoints they find.
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Macbook air is somewhat in apple terms an old technology(it's the best value for money imo). So there is a great chance that we won't see a refresh for macbook air. Pro 13 gets thinner and lighter taking over the air.
I'm not sure how I feel about all these different phrases. I think it's easier to pick out which font I like when all the phrases are the same. The phrase "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" had been a great one because it contains every character in the alphabet so you can see how every letter will look at once.
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when I lived out of my car in SoCal, I wasn't familiar with starbucks yet and so I basically used McDonalds as my table/office/wi-fi/hangout spot for the first month.

I have a soft spot for McDonalds despite what its critics may say. It's an inclusive place which accepts everyone: homeless, indigent, wealthy, kids, adults. It is cheap, unpretentious, and welcoming.

That said, this was a special McDonalds in Pasadena that was clean, had numerous power outlets, and was exceptionally well-run. The McDonalds in the rest of LA were disgusting in comparison and refused to provide outlets, presumably to keep out homeless.

I eventually switched to Starbucks because starbucks always has outlets, the coffee was slightly better (and had more options) and the wifi was significantly faster
Around here, Starbucks switched to Google (which isn't Google fiber, but whoever the cable provider is in the area) for 60-80mbs speeds. This was a HUGE improvement over the old Wayport internet that was delivered over a T1, and then DSL (3mb). I noticed that McDonalds as well as other companies all used Wayport and the slow speeds are unusable unless only a few people are on the wifi.
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Except this: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060002129 wouldn't make long term plans on hoover dam.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11884152
Perhaps the funding for such services are not going as far as one would think.
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There is, unfortunately, a social stigma associated with the non-tobacco-smoking form of nicotine ingestion and the components to those devices (e-cigarettes) are not regulated enough for us to be fully sure of their effects.
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>Are you suggesting that the US will initiate nuclear war?

Yes, it should be entirely expected in response to such a serious attack, especially since no country would attempt to take out a carrier group outside the context of a much larger war.

Consider that 1) the US doctrine does not forbid first use, and 2) that sinking a carrier and a significant part of its group is tantamount to destroying a small city (the population on the carrier alone is over 6000 people), and 3) that taking out a carrier is taking out effectively 10% of our key naval/air capability. In short, it is an extremely serious action, and would be seen by all as "the gloves coming off".

Anyone contemplating launching an attack to take out one of our carriers/groups should not be the slightest bit surprised to find a few nuclear warheads detonating at over some of their major bases within a few hours of taking out the carrier. Nor would any observer be surprised at such a response.

That said, if an appropriate retaliation could be done without nukes, it probably would be done that way.

But, again, the context is likely to be that of a very rapidly escalating war. . . . .

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I don't think there's a problem because the ISP isn't involved. As soon as the service decides to deal with the ISP directly for the sake of efficiency (ie one rebate vs many), suddenly there's a problem because something shady could happen? I don't think that makes sense.

Netflix has a program where they will place servers inside an ISP's network. This allows them to deliver video without paying a third party for transit. If this lowers their costs, they could theoretically pass those savings on to the customers of that ISP (Google Fiber customers, for example). I wonder if Netflix offering their service to those customers for $5 / month and other ISP customers for $10 / month would be a net neutrality violation?

The same goes for movies on YouTube. Because Google doesn't have to pay for transit, they could undercut Amazon and Apple. Is charging less because their costs are less anti-competitive?
You should reach out to the Rust team if you haven't already. I'm sure many would love a blog post on using Rust. I was thinking about using protocol buffers for something in Rust, it's cool to see an example of a real app using it, thanks!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11898249 and marked it off-topic.
Me too. But, I have my DNS obscured using Express VPN.