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If Hillary is elected, I'll be particularly interested in her posture regarding FBI surveillance activities. I would be surprised if she didn't go to bat for them.
>Justice Department could still choose to file charges.

Not a shadow of a chance
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The Navy thinks it doesn't have enough ships.

The problem is the mission: if you want the Navy to be present all around the world all the time, able to handle serious battle, it really doesn't have enough ships. If you don't agree with that mission, then you need to elect Congresspeople who agree with you.
For the curious, this page contains a helpful comparison maximum pathname lengths of various filesystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
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After my huge stash of AA I got from woot (before they were owned by amazon and had pretty good daily deals) ran out, I bought some of these Amazon batteries.

I only use them for remotes, controllers, and the occasional flashlight, but they've worked very well.
While I'm not happy about this outcome, at least it is consistent with the way that I assume our government/legal system operates.
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I wasn't actually commenting on this project in particular or whether or not the author happens to be an expert (tptacek may have more to say about that), just on the idea of NaCl as a replacement for expertise.
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> Where things get interesting to me is that by being elected to office she is put in a position to require a clearance. A typical person (one that has had a clearance revoked) would not be granted a new clearance. I suspect the rules are different when you get elected president.

Being elected POTUS automatically gives you the highest ranking clearance, end of discussion. You could have been a convicted felon with your security clearance stripped and no chance of getting it back, the moment you become POTUS all of that becomes irrelevant for your term.
> "There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past."

That is arguably the most important part of the statement -- since it is the explanation for why they recommend no charges. But it is also unfortunately the most vague and weasely.

It basically says there are "considerations" around intent, context, and similar cases -- but it doesn't say what those "considerations" are. Text book example of weasel words.
Exactly. In fact he seems to be recommending some kind of sanctions would be appropriate and deserved. Those won't be forthcoming, however, as she currently is not employed and so the only ramifications will be political blowback.

In other words, politicians don't have the same career consequences for these types of things due to the transience of their postings.
The Kubernetes submit-queue munger is also worth a look: https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/mungegithu...
Here is how I'm trying to measure this on my system:

(for d in `find / -type d | sed 's/[^\/]//g'`; do echo $d | wc -c; done) | sort -n

Edit: It looks like the deepest directory on my (Mac OS X) system is 27 directories deep.
The piece is brilliant. He is giving ammunition for thousand kill shots while recomending not procecuting her. Brilliant.
Could be. And polyfilled for the monstrosity that is IE. That's a huge pie in the sky - whereas with JS, that's something which has already been here for at least a decade.
As soon as Loretta Lynch announced that she would follow the recommendations of the FBI, I had a very strong feeling that there would be no charges filed.
Hillary probably lost HN support when it became apparent that her security policy was "Oh shit, we're under attack. Shut it off and hope they don't try again tomorrow." ;)
>with no hope of doing an update

To be fair, space probes occasionally do get software updates, eg http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/03/28/software-upgrade-at-...

In the case of the Curiosity Rover, it didn't even "ship" with the software of what it was supposed to do on Mars until it had landed there http://www.space.com/17034-mars-rover-curiosity-software-upg...

Edit: I'm not saying this was possible in 1969. I posted this because I was genuinely curious if it was ever done.
> Has there been anything like this before? If I work for the government and forward confidential and secret emails through to a server I'm running myself I imagine I'd have criminal proceedings against me.

Unlikely. You would lose your job for sure, but typically for a criminal prosecution to result there has to be an element of willful unauthorized disclosure of classified info, or very high impact of the disclosure of classified info.

In practice this means that the people who get prosecuted have almost always been people intentionally sharing secrets with foreign entities (spying).

I only know of one case where charges were brought against someone who was not doing that. It was when the feds retaliated against Thomas Drake for whistleblowing against the NSA. Even then the charges got dropped.
I just bought that 100% standard in the US Stanley 25' tape measure (pretty much everyone uses it including tradesmen) for 9.71 straight from Amazon, it's 9.88 today, and DataAlchemy just happens to have it's own entry, which notes I bought the same item, but doesn't list all the other vendors who will sell it for, at the very most, 3/4ths of the cost including shipping.

Ah, same pattern for the Dewalt DW2166 45-Piece Screwdriving Set, your price $37 shipped, not than anyone's likely to wait a month for the earliest estimated delivery date, vs. 14.45 Prime from Amazon.

Ditto:

DEWALT DPG82-11 Concealer Clear Anti-Fog Dual Mold Safety Goggle

DEWALT DW1354 14-Piece Titanium Drill Bit Set

Klein Tools NCVT-2 Dual Range Non-Contact Voltage Tester

DEWALT DCB205-2 20V MAX XR 5.0Ah Lithium Ion Battery, 2-Pack (679 plus generious free shipping, vs. 150 Amazon)

DEWALT DCS387B 20-volt MAX Compact Reciprocating Saw with Tool

I just happened to have bought a house built in 1910 6 weeks ago, so I have a general sense of what these sorts of items go for, as well as this item I might get later after I move in:

Hakko 599B-02 Solder Tip Cleaning Wire and Holder

I'm finding it impossible to come up with innocent explanations for the combined set of facts listed above, when your entry eliminates comparison shopping.
there is a forthcoming couch plugin that does filtered replication by user
I have a Matias Tactile Pro that I'm quite fond of, but its loud.
A quick glance at their website and it looks like they now have a "quiet" version. I might have to give that a try...
EDIT: You're right about the glass. I initially misread your comment, my bad.
Unless naturalised, and therefore not counted as immigrants in this discussion, they didn't get a vote.
Thank you.

So if I understand it correctly, integration & being featured by Xero was the leverage the product needed.
I'd be surprised if Zoe picked her title, but that's a big point:

> Huge home-built computer used for Tetris

This makes it seem like the guy just wanted to play Tetris and took an extremely roundabout way to do it, where in fact he built the thing specifically to show the insane complexity we all carry around in our pockets and take for granted (I include myself in that statement 100%). Modern computers are nothing short of an engineering marvel and something like this, which is only a millionth as powerful and not capable of nearly as much built from scratch takes up an entire room.

It reminds me a lot of that photo from not terribly long ago showing an Air Force crew unloading a 50 MB hard drive that was roughly the size of a walk in freezer.

A good comparison would be someone who built their own aircraft to demonstrate how insanely complex an aircraft is, and then the news story about it says "Local Man Builds own Plane to jump down to Florida for a Burger."
Some information is, but it's not a requirement; there's no law or rule that says information not born classified can't be made so after the fact - indeed, this happens with almost all classified information, after evaluation to determine an appropriate level of secrecy to be applied.
If there turns out to be corruption with the Clinton Foundation it seems like that'd be the case.
> Seems like it would be simple enough to achieve this by altering the number of minutes in an hour depending on the time of year.

Or just altering the length of the civil second over the course of the year. So a minute would be 60 seconds and an hour would be 60 minutes year-round, but the daytime civil second would be short in the summer night and long in summer days, and vice-versa in the winter.
Indeed. If she were still SoS, she'd probably have to resign over this. But the idea that she could be denied a security clearance as president is kind of ludicrous - especially when you consider that the point of security clearance rules is not to protect the data, but rather to protect the nation. A president who couldn't see the data required to make sound decisions would be actively dangerous. It'd be like driving with a blindfold on.

Of course, this won't make much of a difference to her partisan detractors. Haters gonna hate, and the email scandal is not so much reason as excuse for most of the people who already oppose her. But if she is elected, of course she'll get full presidential security clearance. To do otherwise is stupid.

What matters most to me is that we make changes in both policy and process so this doesn't happen again - policy in that it becomes crystal clear that private email for public business is unacceptable, and process so that the "If you can do your job, we're not doing ours" vibe of the info security world doesn't make the Secretary of State (or anyone else) feel like they can't do their job properly using the official channels.
I have not found opportunity in doing this. Basically every product that is eligible for FBA on Alibaba is already on Amzn five times over.

The opportunity is in creating your own products and brands and selling on Amazon. In that sense, you already have a valuable business model that would exist without Amazon, but FBA is just a great sales channel and platform for doing that selling directly rather than traditional means of selling to distributors, retail stores, etc.
The timezone DB is centrally maintained by the IANA, and changes happen several times a year. Most OS automatically update it over their packaging system.

Its a shame it isn't extended to include national holidays and such, and that UNIX standardizes (and platforms adopt) an API for working with timezones correctly.

As the IANA now manage the timezone DB, it could put the onerous on publishing and updating such a DB on each country's delegate. Even North Korea cooperates with the IANA!
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As will you, yes?
Great, so you get to absorb the heat of vaporization from how ever many moles of water that is per hour.
Xamarin is specifically for app and UI on Android/iOS/Windows Phone.
> What are we up to now?

I am about to buy and advice to others the only freedom-respecting laptops [0].

[0] https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/ and https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200/
So he's holding them to random?
The Sierra cards seem to have the explicit ability to change the USB ID (this is how they signal the OS to use serial or newer packed based drivers), so I would think you could easily use a newer card with the USB ID set to one of the old ones? I have not tested this yet.
Possibly... I actually used to like Hilary until I found out more about her. Make of that what you will.
No more than we need Torvalds to tell us which single web browser to use, or which text editor or programming language to use.

Speaking of Torvalds, git is actually a pretty good example. There was no top-down enforcing of which version control system everyone should use, yet git has become the defacto standard.

TCP/IP has become the universal networking technology, again without a top-down mandate. There are, of course, standards describing how TCP/IP works, but not one mandating its use.

Eventually, maybe there'll be a defacto, cross-platform package manager that everyone uses, but it's premature to settle on one now, as package managers are still quickly evolving.
I am strongly interesting in seeing her prosecuted less because of my political feelings, but more because I know without a shadow of a doubt that if I, as a person who once had to handle classified information, had done what she had done, I would have been promptly fired and prosecuted to the full extent of the law (and probably then some).

This gets at the root of the kind of unrest that has led to Trump: there is one set of rules for the elites, and another for the rest of us. There is nothing more un-American.

P.S. - this is certainly not to say that Trump is or would be any better: he totally isn't. But this kind of phenomenon is partially to blame for the anger that has led to his candidacy.
You (as well as others here) might find a recent thread running over at the WebMasterWorld forums to be interesting:

Why AdSense is Alive and Well
https://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/4811179.htm
>Similar things occurred with Colin Powell

not even close. he had a personal aol account he used to test internet connections abroad. he had separate classified and personal lines going into his office, connected to separate devices.
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> the idea that she could be denied a security clearance as president is kind of ludicrous

Certainly so. I'm not sure the same is true of the idea that someone with a proven record of such a careless attitude toward security should be denied the presidency on that basis. That seems like a discussion worth having, although, given the modern political climate in the United States, not one likely to actually occur in any way that's even marginally useful to anyone.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. (c)
Yeah, I know the modern era machines have in-the-field updates, but I assume that wasn't a feature on the Lunar Module. You need a device capable of self-programming and with the state and cost of memory at the time I would think that an impossibility at the time.
>previous people in the same position also had private servers

Such as?
I have an Android phone, and I've never seen anything like this.

Then again, I don't do a lot of web surfing on my phone, and when I do, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. Smooth sailing here....

Does iPhone even allow you to use a different browser? That's why I would never own an iPhone: you're supposed to pay a ton of money for something you can't replace the battery on or upgrade the storage on, and then you're not even allowed to customize it in any way or use any alternative apps to the Apple ones.
Russia also doubled amount of DST related problems by first making DST shift permanent, then canceling it after couple of years.
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For the same reason you don't want pervasive surveillance on the streets.
> the precedent being set is: if you're a government officer or official, you're exempt from the law.

And if you vote for HRC, you're endorsing this POV. Though, at this point I'm willing to believe that at least half the country has no problem with it.
Probably right, but a more charitable interpretation would be "If Mrs. Clinton were still working as Secretary, security or administrative sanctions would be appropriate, but her actions do not rise to the level of a prosecutable criminal offense."
I would have appreciated a greater emphasis about the fact that a modern computer is made out of invisible transistors and that this is a fully discrete but working model, like a large cutaway steam engine in a science museum. Here, I'll take a wild stab:

"You may have heard that computer processors consist of billions of transistors crunching through 0's and 1's. But what is actually happening inside these processors?

A man has recently build a computer out of individual transistors, the components that control electric currents to perform computations. Instead of using one chip with billions of transistors, he has used individual transistors wired together, allowing him to visualize the individual computing structures and the electric currents that flow through them.

His completed computer has "only" 40,000 transistors, which is just enough to play a game of Tetris, but he hopes that the relative simplicity of this computer, as compared to a modern smartphone, can help educate the public on how computers actually work."
Petraeus worked for Defense, not State.
It was Libya in 2013 http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/libya-cancels-dst-switc...
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I'm with you on this. It shouldn't be hand-waved away. It's serious. I just wish we could find some appropriate action between hand-waving and federal indictment...
It is very useful when a seller has to sell directly to other users. If the seller can obtain the cryptocurrency from the user, said seller knows that he/she has the funds and that they can never be taken away. Then the seller can confidently provide the user with whatever product or service was requested. In contrast, if the seller used PayPal, the user can easily chargeback and get his/her money back after the seller has provided the product or service. Services like PayPal are seriously unreliable and become an extreme burden for some sellers who deal with intangible goods especially.

TLDR: Bitcoin makes it easy for sellers to obtain payment without the fear of PayPal account freezes or chargebacks.
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I'm self-employed, so yes. I've got four grand of Apple gear in my office, and if they sold an xMac I'd buy one tomorrow. I don't consider it to be a moral question, and in practice Apple doesn't seem to really care.
Of course they can do well and even better for some students. You shouldn't ignore why that is though. They are at an advantage because their students that are incredibly privileged. Steiner also made rather obvious improvements on the status quo but that doesn't mean he has found an optimal solution, if such a thing exists for pedagogy.

Waldorf education has turned Steiner's ideas into an ideology and the movement is unable to reflect on what it's doing, why and that it might be wrong. This creates a culture that, just like religion, is fixed and cannot change without conflict.

Science doesn't have that problem, the culture around it embraces change and improvement. An education policy that truly takes advantage of that, will eventually lead to institutions that outperform alternative ones like Waldorf schools.
I said "what she did was wrong," which is was. I made no claims beyond that. I'm not sure where you're getting anything about my feelings regarding previous people who may have done it. And my feelings on whether things are "overly" classified are irrelevant here. If something is marked classified, there are legal restrictions on its release.
Seriously. We need a group to examine and certify on this basis. This is getting out of hand.
that's a good question. I guess essentially anything that you'd do for privacy reasons with cash, but online. There are a lot of things a person might want private, but aren't illegal. E.g., an affair, weird fetish. Who knows.
You're being disingenuous. Firstly, "3 lines of Javascript" wasn't meant to be taken literally. Not only that but 73% of the top 100,000 websites use jQuery - if you are on a large web development project you are more likely than not using jQuery.

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
As I commented elsewhere, we can, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037410
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>If you believe that previous people in the same position also had private servers and received classified information on them, why do you hold it against her?

The law is the law. It should be held against all of them. This is akin to saying, 'well that robber got away with it in the past, why do you hold it against this gentlemen for stealing?'

>Do you not believe that things are "overly" classified, and are liberally and retroactively labelled as such?

What do this have to do with the mishandling of classified info? If it's classified, it's classified; that it might have been classified erroneously or too liberally has nothing to do with the fact that it is currently classified and should be treated as such.
Her direct predecessor, and their direct predecessor back through five people also used private emails. So, it was practically policy at that point.

Also, it's not like it was secret at the time. Refuge in audacity may seem like an odd defense, but for stuff like this it's actually relevant. I mean if they did try and prosecute it would come off as completely politically motivated.

PS: If you disagree feel free to comment why.
I thought I have an intermediate level C knowledge, but I have no idea what is happening in the vulnerable line:

*(v3 + 0x8)(*(VOID **)v3, &dword_AD002290, CommunicationBuffer + 0x18);

As I understand it is (was) an example code from Intel. Example codes should be easy to understand and well documented.
"If you believe that previous people in the same position also had private servers and received classified information on them, why do you hold it against her?"

Two wrongs don't make a right. Should failure to prosecute prior crimes mean that charges for the same crimes in the future be dropped?

"Do you not believe that things are "overly" classified, and are liberally and retroactively labelled as such?"

The regulations for declassification of classified material are quite clear about who is authorized to do it and when. Whether material is overclassified or not is as irrelevant as arguing that the quality of the diamond in a stolen ring should determine whether or not theft charges are filed against a suspect.

Edit: I cannot reply to @projectramo in the thread, who asked "Well, you can still go back and prosecute them now. Is that what you propose? That we also prosecute Rice and Powell?" My answer: yes, if the statute of limitations (if one exists in such a case) has not expired.

The law MUST be applied equally for all, or it is tyranny.
Heh, yeah. Everyone knows nothing is going to change in this regard. I mean, she already thinks silicon valley can make strong encryption with backdoors. This is '...what [she's] heard. Let's leave it at that."

Edit: Please, nobody misconstrue what I wrote as me supporting either party. I personally think, given the two candidates we have to choose from, that the U.S. is in a world of hurt.