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I have seen some of these hostels in the UK and they are definitely not the kind of place you'd want to live. As a single male with no issues you're certainly not guaranteed to get a place either.

Another problem is people coming from different areas, say from North to South, who are just offered a bus ticket back there.

That said, in the UK at least, if you have no income you'll get the same level of cash benefit as anyone else so there is absolutely no need to be begging for money. Those that do either have a dependency problem or are just scamming.
You seem to have a lot of time to fight with people who don't believe your lies about global warming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13388091
The half life of U-235 is hundreds of millions of years, and U-238 even longer. So it's not decaying fast enough to be dangerous.
> Perhaps its just pessimism but there likely never be a pardon for Snowden.

Who knows, maybe one day some politician running for office or seeking a popularity boost may consider it if he feels that the domestic opinion is drastically in favor of a Snowden pardon. Though, while I am not quiet sure how reliable the polls i saw on the matter were, but they seemed to indicate a majority of Americans were hostile to a pardon.

Crossing fingers for this man that his situation rapidly finds a positive outcome! I'm generally not a big believer of the whole 'hero' concept but the tremendous life tradeoffs this man is bearing, not just to stand for his ideas and beliefs - but to defend privacy and freedoms - really inspire my profound respect. It also humbles me as I do realize I would never have that courage.
It would be good to be able to check how long the present safety number has been in place for. That would allow people who have become concerned about snooping to detect snooping back until that point (hey, when did you last change your phone?).
Low bandwidth is but one component, the other two are delay and packet loss.

I spent the holidays at my parents's, they're hooked to 1024kbps ADSL[0], so theoretical 128kB/s. Effectively it hovers between 80k and 120k which is fine…-ish: the connection will regularly jump to ~7% packet loss and 2000±1000ms ping. Downloading at 80k is one thing, downloading at 80k with 3s round-trip and 1 packet in 15 missing things get much trickier, especially when most pages have a really high number of resources.

[0] and nothing better is currently available short of cellular (they do get ok 4G, at least when the weather doesn't screw with it), though they're supposed to get fibre a year or two down the line
The people who are most likely to be snooped on are also more likely to have the notifications turned on, so I don't think it's such an easy choice for an attacker.

The entities this is designed to thwart are not going to want to risk leaving behind a trail of evidence, even if the risk is small.

It also prevents fishing expeditions, since the risk would quickly add up as more targets were added.

All that said, a one-time prompt to turn on the notifications for users that care about extra-strong security seems like a good idea to me.
This sounds like we could go back to the workflow of pre hard drive systems. Windows on the internal drive, and all user file storage on SD cards.
I live in the UK, but never understood this. What if you really, genuinely don't know who was driving the car at the time? Can you give a list of people who could have been driving it, to the best of your knowledge? After all, it's the police's job to establish who committed the offence,not yours?
As a non-american, when I hear Lynchburg I do not think of lynching, but of Lynchburg Lemonade :)
In case anyone wondered (because the article only mentions it obliquely) the city is in Honduras.
This is an odd question, but for people with chronic and essentially untreatable pains (which is many people, particularly older ones): What is the problem with being addicted to opiates if you are going to take them to manage that pain for the rest of your life anyway? I would want the opiates at that point.
So wait a minute... as per these arguments, all laws for speeding are null and void because government can't prosecute you unless some citizen brings complaint with allegations of personal injury. Is that correct?
The 5th amendment specifically allows it for military trials, but for civilian trials, no, it's made impossible outside of cases where the defendant agrees to it by the 5th amendment.

Presumably, this is a big part of why Bush was so keen to relabel what had previously been considered civilian terrorists as military combatants, since the fifth amendment then apparently stops applying.
Shoot the front license plate and get a picture of the person. Oh wait, not all states have front facing plates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...

As a comparision, most of the EU member states have both front and rear facing plates.
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The combination of mbasic for Messenger, and m for normal Facebook browsing, is fine on Android. I don't install the awful FB apps on my phone any more, and I'm a fairly heavy Facebook user.
I did... too bad. Nice timing though
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Yes, security is very hard.

But whatsapp markets itself as a secure system when the client just blindly accepts re-keying from the server without notifying the user by default,

It could easily have the notification on by default, and when a user turns it off actually explain that you are no longer secure.

The very best would of course be to require the users to physically exchange keys whenever they get a new phone etc, but we all know this will never happen.
No that's incorrect. They can either do that, treating your speeding as a civil case, or - much more commonly - they treat it as a criminal case.

The complaint here is that they are picking and choosing between the two approaches, providing the safety mechanisms of neither.

Edit: Also, it appears the authors claim that the city couldn't constitutionally treat it as a civil case are being disputed elsewhere: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I really want to work on this!
Oh, thanks for reminding me, I had totally forgotten to care about my u-boot fork for...what? years? It's still on the wiki page, though...
Obama is clearly pro-mass-surveillance [0] and certainly has been all the time.

So there is no way he will pardon Snowden (even if it's The Right Thing to do).

[0] Barely a week before he leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has authorized controversial new legislation that grants America’s 16 intelligence organizations access to raw communications data from the NSA’s surveillance efforts.

[...]

So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/13/the-nsa-can-now-share-unfi...
Spending restrictions are evaded by trading with a person the goods you're allowed to buy for a lower value of goods you're not.
It's not perfect, Valves new controller prototype is probably the closest we have to noninteusive, low latency gesture tracking with some form of feedback (the oculus Half moon prototypes were also fairly close, but iirc the gesture recognitation was neutred for what ever reason).

http://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/valve-vr-...
> illegals

I'm sure it's not your intention, but you further dehumanize individuals when you use that word to describe their immigration status. Please consider "the undocumented" instead.

http://youtu.be/vehgRK3ieVM
Now this is how you write a headline. A bit more on the disease here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151019-leishmania...
I'm actually a bit surprised that they did not suspect leishmaniasis earlier; it's not an unusual affliction for Mesosamerican deep jungle regions.
Interestingly that can also be used the other way in places with "point system" licenses (assuming the driver's face is not visible or it was a backside camera), some people will pay their ticket but (after having arranged it) "rat on" someone else who'll get their points docked.
> After all, it's the police's job to establish who committed the offence,not yours?

The police's assumption is that as the car's owner you are responsible for its use, and have committed any offense involving it.
For me it turns every page completely blank.
These hostels exist in Amsterdam as well but they charge a small fee for spending the night there, something like 5 euro. There are programs to provide longer term housing for homeless who are willing to cooperate, but in the short term some homeless really have to beg money in the streets to get access to a shelter.

Most homeless people in Amsterdam however have psychological and/ or drug problems that make it impossible for them to live in a home or in a shelter.
> Transparency is a dependency of trust. WhatsApp is not transparent; therefore, it is not trustworthy. Simple as that.

+1.

The CEO calls its users "Dumb Fucks"; the sister of the CEO, formerly a director of Facebook, claimed "Privacy needs to go away".

There's no transparency with WhatsApp in terms of its implementation, so the fact that Moxie may have helped them get initially set up is moot. Moxie's reputation doesn't provide any provable assurances of confidentiality from Facebook.
"ACA has got to be the largest tax increase ever foisted on the middle class."

That's just Not Even Wrong.

Your health insurance premium is not a "tax". You're getting health insurance. Moreover, not getting a subsidy for your health insurance is also not a tax. You can only use that logic when the tax credit is offsetting another tax. Which it isn't. It's offsetting your health insurance bill.

If, instead, you're trying to claim that every bit of increase in health insurance costs since the ACA is a "tax", that's maybe a bit more defensible, but still Wrong. Health insurance costs have been skyrocketing for decades. The ACA has probably slowed down that trend.

Finally, if you're just complaining that you're healthy but you have to pay for health insurance now...take a walk, please. Eventually, we all get sick. Health insurance only works if healthy people foot the bill of the sick people. That's how insurance works.
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Well, the fifth element as a whole has a number of provisions. The popular clause against self-incrimination is but one of them.

It's mostly to prevent the incentive to apply pressure to the citizenry via torture or harassment. (Parenthetically, we just harass witnesses instead now)

"The history of this clause is interesting. In England, it was permissible at one point to force a confession, and this at times included torture. Our founders realized this was wrong, and so they added this clause." http://libertyfirstfl.org/2013/06/why-do-we-have-the-fifth-a...
Besides, I need to confess not being a big believer in clicktivism (just a personal opinion) and I would love to hear alternative suggestions to support Mr Snowden in a similarly lazy, albeit possibly a bit more useful way -> financially.

Google took me here:
https://edwardsnowden.com/donate/

I'm sure helping his lawyers will help him indirectly but suggestions would be appreciated!
I'm not really seeing it. If you look at Espionage Act cases that involve the actual passing of classified information (rather than, say, intimidating socialists and anarchists), just about everyone gets convicted. Ellsberg and Russo might have been able to rely on public sentiment but charges against them were dismissed. Snowden's position is much weaker.
I imagine that technology like this would be really useful for fundraising by municipalities. It's hard to watch police and fire fighting personnel raise funds by collecting loose change from passers by.
Luxury. I started out on 1200/75. I used to dream of 2400, let alone 9600!

('ad to lick code clean wi' tongue, etc. etc.)
>dehumanize

I'm sure it's not your intention, but you further dehumanize individuals when you use that word to describe how they're being treated when called their common nickname. Please consider that when you try to force people to use your words to push an agenda, you harm the plight of those you are trying to help.

Further, that video was terrible. Humans create abbreviations and nicknames for tons of things without regard to legal validity. Do you have any other lists of common nicknames we're not allowed to use?

Like can I still call Green Bay Packers fans cheeseheads?
You are right, thanks. I did follow your new recommendation and put a new questionhere: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/152621/do-i-un... .
Let's see ...
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I think until SSDs can hit the price point of a HDD at same capacity they will probably stay around atleast in consumer space.

A 2TB harddrive is just way to cheap compared to a 2TB SSD, even if they fail and need more power, atleast for archiving or large storage in consumer terms.

Primary storage may switch to SSD though.
The nuance is different. It's "I think..." as in "My opinion is..." or "I reckon...". For that sentence you'd probably use 以为 instead, with the connotation of missed expectations.
Well, then if you don't mind me saying so, it's a dumb assumption. If say....you have 4 children, all insured on your car, and all of them refuse using it at the time(or maybe they all say they have used it, and all have driven on the road in question, or maybe the case is now year old and no one remembers who was driving that day), then how could you possibly, in good faith, be hold liable for this?
> A person shall not be guilty of an offence ... if he shows that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver of the vehicle was.

So yes, if you only had a list of names and couldn't do anything else, you could hand that over. The police could then require information from each of those people in the same way.
>"I absolutely love a good troll" -misterman

You're not a good troll.
Curious, what's the competition? I'd love to explore the other SaaS solutions to this problem.
Please contribute something useful to the conversation.
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Hi there. I made the mistake of paying and playing this game on a smartphone and it is my duty to prevent you from making the same mistake. The controls are absolutely horrible but the worst is really that your phone needs to be connected to the internet in order to play this game. So if you were planning to play this on the plane then you can already give up with this dream.
> outright corruption by the service providers

This isn't limited to just the 'developing' world. Last year I was living in Italy and my phone service was provided by Vodafone. When visiting some popular websites (the biggest I remember was anything owned by Gawker Media) I would be redirected to unrelated spam sites a few seconds after the page loaded. Hitting back did nothing, even going back to the search results and pressing the link again did the same. If I fired up my VPN it worked fine though :D
I actually wondered what to write or if I should make quotes arround it. thanks.
He says that he got rid of the documents, there's no way to verify it. I think there are no reasons to take his statements at the face value, given the players involved in the overall situation -- the world's top intelligence agencies.
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Exactly -- people forget that every phone used to have its own special power cable until the EU forced them to standardise. It was such a pain, especially for developers working with multiple phones, but even just trying to figure out which power brick is whose in a normal household!
The opioids do not treat the pain!

You end taking life threateningly high doses of opioids, which are not working to reduce your pain.

People with chronic pain need other interventions - rapid access to specialist pain clinics being most important.
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I wouldn't drink the stuff today, but in college I remember we were buying Mr Boston and Zhenka vodka for about $8 per 1.75l. That's pretty close to a few cents a shot.

People did tend to look a little like Hogarths Gin Street on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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Android was originally built with a small team, and Andy Rubin resisted growing the team for a long time. But a lot of the worst parts of the design were laid down at that point, so I'm not sure it was necessarily such a good approach!
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Going off tangent, visiting a friend who has a TV I could not help noticing roughly 2/3 of ads are for drugs, sometimes there was a full block filled with them.
Unfortunately I haven't seen the video but it sounds interesting.

Last night I was reading a Brazilian article, based on a study, about how (what the author called) "centrality" plays a large part in the success of a neighborhood. "The concept applies to places with high concentration of economic activity, intense circulation of people and a large diversity of services." In short, it seems living where you work makes for a nice neighborhood.
He left voluntarily.
Just cause i like playing with analogies, should mcD have to sell any and all soda?
I'd hope the offered things become abundant enough.
Seems like a poor substitution term. One can be undocumented without being an immigrant (legal or otherwise). Some of my family members have been in all three situations at different points in time.
[T]he programming language used to represent a computer program has nothing fundamentally to do with whether it can be verified.

I would guess that programs in a Turing-incomplete language will be easier to verify than ones in a Turing complete one.
Even on public repo it makes sense to keep commits small enough in case you need to do a bisect later on.
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Out of interest, what is your situation where it 'draws too much power and gets too hot'?
Thank you. ))) stay tuned!
Can't you see? It's Microsoft's next short-sighted money-making scheme.
You are claiming that it would be easier to detect the obfuscation from the Obfuscated C Contest with only the binary and no access to the source code?

That is logically wrong - otherwise people would simply compile the source before looking for the bad intentions.

Having the source makes detection of backdoors strictly easier. Nothing you've said provides any evidence to the contrary.
"And I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s promoting an idiotic worldview that’s completely devoid of answers for how to effectively combat the threat that Donald Trump and his neo-fascist goons pose to our democracy."

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The reason he's considered an intellectual is that he has intellectual achievements. It's not posture since one can read his Wikipedia page and quickly realise that he's more intellectual than most other VCs. Likely better at Chess, Philosophy, etc.
For resilience testing I highly recommend Clumsy even if it only runs on Windows:

https://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
> What will be the co-pay for the annual physical for an insured patient?

> The answer is that it will be $100 - there is absolutely no risk involved in this situation, so the expected payouts of the insurance company will be $100, and therefore they will incorporate that into their price.

No. Even pre-ACA, insurance companies offered low co-pays. How did they do that? Because your monthly fees will over the course of a year add up to far more than the cost of an annual physical. The purpose of insurance is to protect yourself against rare, but catastrophic events: you will probably not experience a wide variety of expensive medical ailments, but if you do they will likely leave you in financial ruin if you're uninsured, so you pay an insurance company money to protect yourself against that risk.

(Or, alternatively, your employer pays a health insurance company money to protect you against that risk, and offers that benefit to you as part of your total compensation package. Which is essentially the same as you paying for it, with some amount of risk differences and thus potentially lower costs due to the pooled employee health insurance policies, but that's outside of the scope of this discussion. TL;DR: it's still regular market economics.)

You might wonder why insurance companies offered low co-pays at all — was it just some marketing gimmick? But no, you can explain that with regular economics too: insurance companies are incentivized to make annual physicals affordable and attractive, because they can catch potentially-expensive medical issues when they're still much less expensive, thus lowering costs for the insurance company.
Doing those sorts of things would leave a trail of evidence, though, since the attacks have to be included in public app store releases. A typical user might not be able to catch trojans in an obfuscated binary, but there are people who can, and the compromised client would be available to anyone who wanted to dig in.
Open vs. closed is obviously orthogonal to verifiability. Those who verify software have access to the source, open or not.

More parties have the opportunity to be verifiers of open software. However, a given OSS program might not attract skilled verifiers.
Star Trek in many ways does not make any sense. You have all these crew members on a ship that are miserable. They could be living much more happier lives somewhere else. But out of some weird lost sense of duty they are all alone on this star ship running around doing the federation's bidding. Why? What's so compelling to get these people to make themselves miserable when they could do anything else at all that they wanted to. Like in DS9, the captain's father is running a creole restaurant. That's a much better way of making a living than the shit these idiots are doing. And they complain about being lonely and miserable more than once in TNG and TOS. But yet they keep on. For years, if not a lifetime. No family. No purpose but the trek.
I completely agree on the "sharing headsets" issue. The economics work out fine at one headset per dev who needs to collaborate off-site.
> There's nothing to guarantee that this setting actually causes notification on all key changes, whether it's on or off.

In that case the whole thing is a "placebo security theater": you cannot know whether WA implements the encryption at all. Even if you reverse engineer it and see "oh yeah there are all the necessary functions like hashing and encrypt_otr() and stuff" you still don't know whether they're actually used. Or if they're used, is there another thing that (perhaps only sometimes) sends data via another channel?

But if we trust them to operate in good faith, like Whatsapp's users do, then it should be secure since the protocol they claim to use is secure. But then they break it with a default setting like this. Wtf.
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