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> Hackers lose the ability to swap out parts and customize it to their liking

Economy of scale means that it's cheaper to include every kind of hardware anybody may want than to customize. Hackers lose the ability to swap parts, but didn't lose any single kind of (hardware) functionality that is available on the market. (Still lose anything that we invent by ourselves.)

I don't call that a loss, at least not on mobile devices. We still have desktops and development boards for hacking.
Not OP but IME it can be faster, setting up multiple HTTP connections can be the bottleneck, YMMV a lot. That's why connections are one aspect of pageload metrics. Some sites are such that they'll only get ~1.something page-views per client per day.

See eg https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http=
This "thinking" is laughably muddied and just plain wrong. Yet it's delivered by an economics professor. Strange.
I have just read through the mailing list thread referenced in the article, and with the important caveat that I am not an expert in this space, it seems that WoSign has failed to comply with the basic requirements a CA has to meet to be trusted by the major browsers. And compounding these failures, Richard Wang (apparently the managing director of WoSign) either doesn't grasp, or is intentionally trying to minimise the severity of the failures. Compounding the situation more, it seems that WoSign may have acquired StartCom. If true, this seems to be a much larger story, because of the (probable but not yet proven) concern that any failures WoSign is exhibiting, StartCom will exhibit too. Also Richard Wang seems to want to keep the nature of the relationship between WoSign and StartCom as vague and secret as possible. This is concerning because, in the case of CAs in particular, if they haven't done anything wrong, why are they trying to hide it?

The other thing I didn't realise until I read the thread is that this situation seems to be currently unfolding - there are posts on the thread from Richard Wang dated September 2nd.
Author here. It's a more accurate reflection of what EV offers: it's about matching identities to certificates, not 'selling green bars' the big CAs have been doing for years.
>In a saner world, we would be focusing on the representative part of the republic - why am I directly electing judges, magistrates, and prosecutors when it would be significantly better to select representatives to make all these electoral choices for me?

>Political parties have become a bad proxy for true representation. People just start voting party line and the powers that be love that kind of model - it means great persons cannot rise independent of them, and it means you can blame the bad on the individuals but the success on the party as a whole. And party affiliation has always been a horrible proxy for effective leadership.

The problem is that these two ideas conflict with each other in a first past the post system. Representatives are motivated to band together to help secure their election and with first past the post the largest group is the only one who benefits. The end results will always be two large political parties.
My head also exploded.
Private schools, international schools (if multi-lingual), private tutoring.
Ban [something] because it's not effective.

Un-ban [something] because it's not really harmful and it's about choice of what I do with my body

I never understood which someyhing to put in which category. Perhaps you can argue that no one gets any utility for the thing you want to ban since it's a fraud, but people are spending their money on that thing so surely they get some utility. Not really my place to say
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Gerard, take your anti-AOO trolling somewhere else. I've had enough of it.
I use hand sanitizers, but only when there is no alternative, that is when there is no water/soap, or when the washroom is unusable (read: no paper towels).
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You are poor? Wait for six months for treatment.

You are rich? Fly to that other country for immediate treatment.

There are pros and cons to everything. The trick is to find the middle ground that suits the most people possible the best it can. I'm just not convinced a total government solution is best for everybody across the board.
Sure. Lets set a limit of 1 million dollars per year per person. May leave a gap for the double lung transplant cases, and we can work on a solution for those. But it will get 99.9999% of the country awesome healthcare for free. That is a reasonable starting point.
Hey, the premise was I could only read one thing! I kid, much obliged.
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Did you just say that teaching is much more cutthroat than professional sports, music, and film? I'm trying to imagine the aspiring teaching doing late-night lectures in smoky bars for free, or teaching at the local teacher's club (again for free) so that one day they might reach their dream of being a professional teacher.

One day teaching might be cutthroat if we can ever figure out how to create some competition, but the only throat cutting that's happening is over internal politics, which is table stakes for any career worth pursuing.
The government didn't create the problem. They have just been unsuccessful at combating the real issue.

The issue is our entire healthcare system is for profit and there is no market driver to reduce costs. Insurance companies collude with the AMA, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies to raise prices on all aspects of healthcare.

The government needs to create that driver to reduce cost, since the industry is unwilling to. This could be many things, from public hospitals that provide free or low cost care (reducing the need for insurance), to creating a mutual insurance company whose charter is to minimize healthcare cost (creating competition in the marketplace).
If you need a special tool to get your beer open, you don't want to drink badly enough.
Oh I wasn't referring to their lame knock off letsencrypt product, but their main ssl cert.
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Doesn't it just mean that they'd have to MITM you to snoop or inject? It's better, since it raises the bar some, but it doesn't really change what's possible there.
Khat is schedule I? There are Khat plants at the US botanical gardens in DC. I saw them when I was there a couple years ago.
It doesn't seem like browsers are willing to revoke certificates from these dangerous CAs, but what about a compromise that flags some certificates as less trustworthy?--a certificate tier, if you will. I'm envisioning a warning page in the style of Firefox's "This Connection is Untrusted" that would require the user to consent before proceeding to the page. Or removing the lock icon if that's too intrusive. It wouldn't break websites but it would bring attention to websites' choice of security and probably spur action from those affected. The whole system needs an overhaul but we also need a stopgap.
As I pointed out in the mailing list, there has been practically no development on OO this year though.

And? I mean, yeah, it would be nice to have more cool new stuff coming out, but it's not like AOO owes the world anything. It's open source, it's volunteer driven. If people want more new features, more development, etc, then more people need to volunteer. If they don't, well... the world gets what it gets from the folks who are contributing.
I'm sure it's horrible in some cities, but I lived in a 4.5M-people city in the South (Kunming) for a year, and its air pollution level was entirely comparable to North American cities of the same size. What are you basing your opinion on? The standards of living of Chinese people are rapidly improving. I'm sure I would be horrified to see how the sausages are made, and I wouldn't bet on its long-term success, but I wouldn't call it dysfunctional.

I agree with GP; the news media makes it sound like a horrible place, but living there felt like living in a developing east-European country. I'm much more worried about India.
So in this example, everyone gets treatment.

In the current world, not everyone gets treatment.

I think I will take these problems over the current.
I think the point is if a cert is suddenly from an untrusted source it's a sign of malicious activity, hence the increased negative feedback to the user relative to an insecure connection.

Granted this opens up attacks like ssl stripping, https://github.com/moxie0/sslstrip, but certificate pinning is making that more difficult.
Maybe we'll finally get that postmortem http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/who-rooted-kernel-or...

Oh, and this was somewhat interesting too: https://panamadb.org/officer/donald-ryan-austin_12097929
The FDA has tiers of regulation. Things like "supplements" are loosely regulated, while "pharmaceuticals" are much more highly regulated.

With supplements, the FDA pretty much lets things go until they start causing problems. DMAA was legal for a long time until people started having heart attacks. Melatonin, which is a straight-up hormone, is over-the-counter in the US, and it's by prescription only in Europe.

Now, if you're marketing something as a treatment for a disease, you have to have concrete data to back it up.

So it's very possible to have something that the FDA will let you sell as a supplement (i.e. there's no evidence that it's dangerous), but not make any claims about its efficacy (i.e. you can't say it will treat XYZ).

I experimented with nootropics at one point of my life (found them worthless, FYI), and it was funny how all of the labels just stated what it was, purity, and a blurb about the company selling it. There was no language whatsoever telling you what the supplement was for. Just a giant "PIRACETAM" label on the front.
actually that's kind of not true. There's a throwaway line in the article where manufacturers have already started the process of removing the antibacterial compounds, before FDA guidance came in, because it seems like the market itself has already started to reflect the scientific wisdom; as in: People aren't that stupid. (Or maybe they're buying into the whole probiotic fad?)
> It also further complicates waterproofing.

I own a CAT B15Q, which sports a replaceable battery and is waterproof enough to have earned back its price by betting random people in bars "can this phone survive dunking into a mug of beer".

> To be fair it's supposed to expand versus catching fire / exploding so it doesn't necessarily indicate that it will explode though you should most certainly get rid of it ASAP.

Yes, but with a fixed backplate you won't see the battery expanding until it's too late. Also, phone vendors can't ship the battery separate from the phone, which has two issues:

1) no more "take out the battery" to reboot the phone, as vendor you have to rely on a secondary processor to monitor a key combination for rebooting - and if this goes wrong, no way short of disassembly to force a reboot.

2) as Samsung is experiencing right now (and various manufacturers before them), extremely expensive callbacks in case of battery defects. With replaceable batteries, just give any store (or the consumer!) a way of checking if the battery is vulnerable (a simple web interface with a serial number input), and a stock of replacement batteries, and it's done in under 5 minutes. Disassembling will usually require specially equipped stores (clean rooms, replacement glues, special training for nondestructive opening, ...) and time, both of which are expensive and reduce the number of service points available to the consumer.
You forgot the /s at the end of the line :-).
Nurses are a bad example - they make crazy good money and are unionized.
> Our Bug Bounty Services group is growing and we're looking to add a couple of people immediately!

> Please note that this role has background clearance as mandatory due to the nature of the work NCC Group does.

I'm not familiar with background clearances, can you get one as a European, or do you need to be a US national?
It can be eavesdropped or altered by MITMing the connection and substituting a different untreated certificate. With trusted certs, you have a reasonably strong assurance that you're talking to the domain owner, even though you may not know who that is.
That would be grossly unconstitutional. Congress tried to mitigate this problem (which I agree is one) with the administrative exhaustion rule in the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, but SCOTUS significantly defanged it in Jones v. Bock. SCOTUS can sometimes be insensitive to the problems faced by lower courts -- it hears a tiny handful of cases a year on a fully discretionary docket that are almost always briefed and argued by top notch specialist attorneys. Vexatious litigants aren't a problem for them, so it easy for them to wax poetic about equal access to justice.

That said, as part of a compromise in eliminating absolute proscutorial immunity Congress could write some kind of screening procedure to allow for early dismissal of bad cases and/or some kind of administrative gatekeeper.
Interesting project. Any sub-Saharan African countries using this?
They why are they being allowed to work for free?

Is that even legal in USA? Aren't they obligated by OSHA and USDOL to be paid for the time they work??
That is very helpful information. I am surprised it had JS, I would have to read why.

Cookies are still harmful if no JS?
Matters to who? Why?

I don't give much of a crap if my vendor makes a profit, I care about user experience and app support. A big market share certainly impacts the latter.

Samsung do make profit on their smartphones, by the way, not sure what makes you think otherwise.

( Edit -- 1Q 2016 they reported a profit of around 3.3 billion dollars on their mobile operations, source - http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/28/samsung-has-got-its-mojo-back... )
The situation you're describing is exactly what exists in a huge number of municipalities: a city manager, an appointed official who runs the city, while the elected officials (city council members) basically do nothing but pass toothless resolutions.

It isn't that great. Representation isn't that great, and why should we expect it to be? How the hell is one person ever going to represent the perspective of a million people?

A representative is not some sort of averaging function; they are just a person, and the demands on a process for matching this person to the desires of the electorate are nearly impossible to satisfy.

I tend to think that the problem is not the system of representation or the ballot at all; the problem is our individual abdication of responsibility to be involved in the process. We surrendered our control of democracy to managers - officials - to decide for us and make laws for us. Well, guess what happens if you do that? The government fills up with venal people who respond to the interests of powerful elites.

The solution is not a change in representation, it is engagement from the public. That means you, as an individual, probably spending 12% of your time actively working on improving your municipality and your country, being informed and engaging in a deliberate process to study and express opinions - in both measured and unmeasured ways. If the public is so removed from the process, does not participate in democracy, then it is no surprise that the process - whatever it is - has drifted so far from what we need it to be.
True, but I think being in a closed-world snow globe where people feel comfortable letting their children walk around is a huge part of it.

Excluding people who cannot afford homes in the neighborhood or cars to get there is a principal component of the "safety" strategy of suburbia. Add businesses and public transit to reach them, and that goes away.
I saw some funny old ads from the 50s for toothpaste and mouthwash WITH CHLOROPHYLL!

Same thing there, it had probably just entered shared knowledge, it sounded sciency and natural at the same time, so why not add it to toothpaste? It must be good, right?

Completely worthless, pure marketing gimmick, yet people bought it.
I love what Amazon did with ACM, free certificates that are really easy to set-up but they don't support EV yet.
It's not about the money: many of the people complaining are extremely wealthy. It's because they moved to California with an aesthetic in mind. They wanted rambling bungalow houses, palm trees, quiet boulevards, and sunshine. They wanted flea markets and VW bugs with surfboards strapped to the roof. Shops that sell homemade tie-dye and vegan coffee houses with patios in the sun.

The anger is because they bought and paid for a fantasy of California and now they are upset about the change, which they see as a bait-and-switch. Really, it's just the evolution of a region. It's irony that these same people are most likely to call themselves "progressives"
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Nobody I know knows whether I know about it or not.
lol. point

Read the 2nd one then.
At the time, it was not clear what the outcome of the community split was going to be. But what tipped the scales was getting the assets out of Oracle.

Even if the nascent project had only managed to receive the code and make one release before folding, that was worthwhile enough to justify accepting the donation. The project managed to flourish for some time after that, so in that regard it was well above baseline.
I think the first category is "ban something if it's ineffective and there's a tragedy of the commons from using it". Antibacterial soaps are probably not any more effective than regular soaps, but they might contribute to bacterial immunity (to antibacterials).
This is some serious Gulag Archipelago shit you're laying down here manbro.
> And also one of my peeves about Apple phones is that the chassis is so strong that you don't need a cover, but only a few people I know don't use a case

If Apple would stop making their phones so damn sleek and slippery I would skip the case too. The primary purpose of my case is to make it harder to drop in the first place.
Karpathy's course notes for Stanford's Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition is a great intro [1].

It starts with with linear classification, then moves to neural nets, and then explains convolutional neural nets.

[1]: http://cs231n.github.io
Exactly. I think trying to validate end-to-end is tail-chasing. Reminds me of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary "The Trap," whrein people create a limited theory of human behavior based on game theory, but the attractiveness of numbers results in the reformation of society to better fit those numbers, even if they don't fully represent human behavior and leave us worse off than before.

It's like trying to create an AI to play chess but the creators focus so hard on keeping it from making moves that result in its losing the queen that they forget that the objective of chess is to win.
The government department in this story is literally called Anti-monopoly Bureau (反垄断局, part of the Ministry of Commerce). That name is not some spin of the press, it is what's written on their building.
You're right about the tight integration, but Ara could have ushered in better integration with offboard modules as well. And it would be fun for the things you don't want as features all the time. As an example I would have loved an Ara phone with a removable Tango module.
Not finding one is no worse than not looking. I didn't say to quit. Looking for a job while you have a job is incredibly empowering. It puts you in the driver's seat. You don't have to get a job as fast as possible just to get a paycheck.... you can take your time and find a job that suits you, and that pays you well. You'll be more confident in interviews, more assertive when negotiating salary... Also, companies often tend to value people who are currently working higher than those who don't. If you're working, you implicitly have a reference from your current employer - they obviously think you're worth a recurring paycheck.
I agree with you. While I do not necessarily think that the syntax feels overly complex (it's just YAML) the entire blueprint tends to get hard to read and complex if you add a dozen elements and tabs.

IMHO blueprints are great for a few simple cases, but anything beyond that requires writing a plugin. And plugins are easy to create and integrate in the Admin panel.

And also the Admin panel can be made client-proof. Panels like Configurations/Themes/Plugins can be easily disabled for individual users.

Now, the hardest part would be the "Pages" section which gives too much control to the client and therefore the ability to mess up the structure of the site.
This is something I am currently thinking about solving with another plugin which would allow the client to modify content, without modifying the structure of the pages.

But in general I think that the way grav handles media, assets and routing is awesome and I really enjoy working with it.

Kudos to the grav team :).
> If we're already spending that money on healthcare as it is, how are you going to take it and spend it on healthcare and have it be less money?

We aren't. That part is constant.

> And why do you think that expanding that program to cover everyone in the country is going to come out to be 20% of the military budget?

We can do the math if we want. Perhaps it will take 50% of the Military budget. Perhaps people earning more than 50k will need to pay a new tax that is more or less equal to what they currently pay in health insurance premiums. The math can be made to work.

> I took the money I use to pay rent, and the used it to pay rent. Boom free rent? I'm sorry, but that's kind of what your argument sounds like to me.

No more like - You spend $600 a month on smoking, and $600 a month on rent. Quit smoking, BOOM, free rent. At the end of the day, your costs dropped $600 which was the price of your rent.
>the average human IQ and curiosity level has not caught up

The lowest IQ humans who are also functional are concentrated in prisons. The crime rate is highest amongst 80-90 range individuals, and it is hard to believe that freeing them wouldn't retard your intellectual catchup. In fact, the French IQ has fallen by almost four points between 1999 and 2009 so if anything we must increase the number of people incarcerated, among other policy decisions.
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Well I built it for a client and will have to see if it's OK to make it open source.
Good points. I'm not proposing a single owner, but rather a federated protocol where sign-in operates over email with each person's mailbox provider. The hope is that each mailbox provider will provide the sign-in.
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Obviously I'm not suggesting that this be done overnight.

All I'm saying is that if a developer wants to build a four-story mixed-use building near the train stations, there's little reason to not let them do so.
I agree that TLS has little value if you can't verify who you're talking to. But at the very least, it's no worse than unencrypted HTTP. So it doesn't make sense to me that browsers are more stern about untrusted certs.
> Ban [something] because it's not effective.

In the case of antibacterial soap, it's somewhat harmful: those antibacterial chemicals get in the water supply, and exert extra evolutionary pressure on bacteria, leading to increased chance of resistant bacteria.
Wouldn't that require the escrow agent (your facilitator) to either only make deals between active users (so that they can sign the transfer transaction from Alice [selling] to Betty [buying]) or for the escrow to have some multipart key with Alice that has a blank recipient address? I'm not sure we've gotten away from the escrow/exchange storing BTC there and it sounds like a very unliquid marketplace.
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