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That is 100% correct and I never questioned that in my comments here.

I have to realize I'm not the lambda user I guess, as it's obvious to me to use a different passsword betwene my main emails and other services.

It's certainly better for users to IMPLEMENT SSL. But to outright tell them a site is "insecure" is bully-ish from Google, and a half baked approach from them. How about they disrupt this ridiculous SSL certificate market instead? But they don't have the balls to do that so it's the website owners that are paying the cost.

Not to mention Let's Encrypt is something that need to be renewed and how long will it work or be reliable?

But anyway, not like we have a choice right!
And yet, by fixing any one of those, you'll probably break something else. Something that relies on the broken behaviour, or 'corrects' it.

Any bug in a large codebase that's older than a certain point becomes a feature. ;)
Indeed, this is how bandwidth is sold.

To get an idea of how much $300/mo is, I just had a quote for a 1 gig dedicated ethernet from our office (not a datacentre) in Delhi to our rack in Telehouse Docklands North for $18k a month, or $18/mbit. For datacentre-datacentre I had a quote from Seoul KINX for $5k/month, or $5/mbit. Layer 2 links in both cases. These are fairly long haul links.
House of cards, Marco polo, Vikings, OITNB. Not sure if they were Netflix originals everywhere but they were here.
And in that 'ranking' they put 'Hong Kong' as the #1 'most free' place in the world.

Yes, the same Hong Kong that is not a democracy, wherein the CCP can and will come and get you anytime they please, wherein if you speak out against the government, you can go to jail, wherein every action of every citizen is monitored by the CPP.

I find this to be somewhat problematic.

Apparently they forgot to include 'political freedom' - which is a rather odd thing to overlook :)

They also place nations such as UAE far ahead of the US in terms of 'economic freedom' - this, a 'nation' wherein the various 'mini monarchs' have absolute authority, can pluck your finances, do as they please with you - for whatever reason they want, at any time, and are completely above the law. Of course total censorship of information, and absolute power by the police to intervene in your personal affairs have something to do with 'economic freedom'.

The Cato institute does some good (but opinionated work), but find this is irresponsible.
So the watch world is fragmented into Seiko lovers and haters

That's being a bit disingenuous. I love Seiko's engineering and they have a few watches I like (in fact I'm wearing one right now), but on the whole I find their design aesthetic really hard to like.
Time to watching something is good but everything else about the experience I find aggravating. They got rid of the "click to continue" after a couple of episodes feature for instance. So now a series will play all the way through and drop off the continue watching list.
It hurts but I've just accepted I need to go and see my bank in person if I'm doing anything 'unusual' in the near future. The alternative is ending up in this situation where they cannot talk to you because your account is subject to ongoing fraud investigation and the people investigating you do not care because the potential fraud is so inconsequential.
A pencil and eraser allows non-linear undo/redo.

Edit: Plus whiteout allows fairly simple overwrites.
Or a signal that they are willing to dispose of a great deal of income.
The most important points in the article seem to be summed up in just a few lines:

“Customers making and receiving genuine transactions have absolutely nothing to fear,” a [Barclays] spokesperson says.

Except Rahman is not a criminal and has spent three months without access to his money. He might still be without it if the Observer had not intervened shortly before Christmas.

The rest is a sad but educational story of how much we now depend on big business to live normal lives and how the big, automated systems used by those businesses make no allowances for the human consequences when they make mistakes.
One more reason to use Bitcoin.
Pip is built on top of setuptools/distutils, so you are using them without even knowing it.
excuse me, fixed. nb. quite confusing.
LastPass either hooks up to the Accessibility framework (scanning for password fields and filling them in directly), provides a keyboard (filling directly) or standard copy/paste.
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I do basically the same thing when an app request some permissions on Facebook. For example if they want to post on your facebook, allow them, but only make them post to "yourself". You can do that in the permission popup when they request access.
I agree. I think their originals have become rather formulaic. That may be due to the sheer amount of content they are producing but to me it seems as if they try to make use of established categories, genres, themes and styles over and over again. Don't get me wrong - it's not bad content but I miss the willingness to experiment, to ignore their statistics to a degree and to stop working on faster horses. That's what makes exceptional content that stands out.
So that I don't make unfounded claims I had to do a bit of research on the Android app permission model. Source: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/permissions

> Google Play services automatically obtains all permissions it needs to support its APIs--your app won't normally need to request permissions to use them. However, your app should still check and request runtime permissions as necessary and appropriately handle errors in cases where a user has denied Google Play services a permission required for an API your app uses.

I'd say this constitutes a loophole in the Android app permission model and Google as well as other app developers have a mutual interest in using it so that their apps get as many permissions as possible. It has practical benefits too, though: querying Google Play services for your location info, rather than independently looking it up, saves battery life. Google certainly has financial interest in it - their position in the middle gives them analytics data and keeps developers dependent on Google API's. I don't think there are many F-Droid apps that are dependent on Google Play services.

It's likely also easier for the developer to use Google's API rather than provide their own implementation, which is of course what Google wants. It just comes at the expense of the user.

I suppose the solution is to tighten the app security model, at least on an opt-in level, as I can't imagine the average user being interested in being queried for even more permissions. I think apps should require permission to interact with other apps (such as Google Play services), and most of all they should require permission to access the internet. I can't imagine Google championing this cause, though.
> Google could (and probably should) write "allows access to IMEI",

That works perfectly for us technical minded folk.

For the vast majority of the Android user base (the 99% who are not us technical folk), that is just as opaque a description as "access phone state". They will simply have no idea what an IMEI is, nor will they have any idea of the implications of allowing an app to have access to the IMEI.

The one difference is that warnings to those users could be phrased as "do not allow apps access to your IMEI because ...", which they might understand (eventually) without needing to know what an IMEI happens to be.
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I've never had much success with digital todo lists, so I've never stoped using pen and paper to schedule what I have to do.

On my current system I have a math notebook (A5 format) where I dump everything I have to do on the left (or right) non-writable areas of the page, and then everyday I write what I have to do for the next day on the writable area. I try to add for each day at least one of those items on the left/right side, and each day I try not to add more than 2/3 items per day.

The reason that this works for me is that I try to have a very simple life, fulfill my daily obligations, and try to have as much free time as I can get. I do not need automatic systems to search my pending tasks way back in time because if those tasks don't "migrate" to the current page of the notebook, it's because they are not much relevant.
I just meant not sittin in front of it, but typing standing, wen turning to the side etc. This mostly happens when I use a beamer.
iOS Apps can read your clipboard (But only if the app is open i.e. not in the background, which was possible in earlier iOS versions). I would welcome it if they introduced a permission for clipboard handling.

Personally, I use Workflow to clear my clipboard after pasting a password.
Would you want to be the one who relaxed border controls and let the terrorists in?

Yes, that's a stupid question but that's the political trade-off here. Mind blowing inconvenience and temporary invasion of freedoms versus dead children. If anything happened, you and everybody around you would be unelectable. Perhaps for that reason alone this should be put to a national vote. That's a much cleaner way to divest political responsibility.

And while I think there's a lot of evidence that the direct effectiveness of Security Theatre is pretty weak. It's much harder to gauge what would actually happen if they dropped the visual deterrents. Would more people try their luck? Is it worth the risk?
Swap the <select> tag for a text input: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY

Just let users type in a number rather than having to find it on your list.

Local currencies (GBP) and temperatures (C) would also help!
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> Both are reset with factory reset, but apps still for some reason demand tracking via IMEI.

Because from the marketers perspective, a fixed, constant, identifier of a particular phone beats out one that can change periodically. There's more tracking and big-data possibilities from the fixed never changing IMEI value. So that is what they want.
Is there any evidence whatsoever that the missile could fail in a way that would mean "obliterating tens of thousands of people in the wrong country"? SSBNs carry more than one missile for a reason - currently the UK sails with up to 8 missiles and 40 warheads, not every one needs to work perfectly.

It's also worth pointing out that if the UK ever needed to use Trident then the resultant nuclear fallout would probably cause that anyway.
I'm pretty sure that the customs form for NZ doesn't ask anything about drugs or drug paraphernalia.

On the note of that form you linked, apparently they send the results live, a friend of mine for a joke checked "yes" to Question 3, and now her visa application is under review.
It's not appropriate use of notification mechanism. It serves your need, not user need, and it does not increase revenue or NPS.
Not to mention, underlying my sentiment in my comments here, is that basically EVERY website out there can be broken. We hear about this every day now, Yahoo, Dropbox, and on and on.

If someone skilled wants to break your site, and they have a good reason to, they will. This is especially true for small sites / forums / blogs which the owners can not reasonably protect the way a corporation like Facebook can.

So on those smaller "hobby" / community sites it should be a given that using good passwords and precautions is necessary, as it always has been and a lot of people in my audience use dummy emails and tend to shy away from real names, etc.

So that's my main beef. Google is bullyish here, and is hitting the small guys, the pet projects, the "garage band" developers, and doesn't give these people a simple upgrade path. Hence, more and more I feel like pet projects and websites are going to disappear in favor of using third parties and I think this is a downside to all this fear mongering.

It's necessary but it's a painful change. The web isn't the playground that it used to be and I guess that's just the way it is.
I moved my awd one to the right. If I really like a game I go through the pain of adjustig all controls one key to the left :) I'm more of a casual gamer though. Only things with short rounds and online multiplayer for me.
I stumbled upon kalliope recently (https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope). I tried it a few weeks ago and was pleased with it in general but it still needed an online connection in order to parse your commands. According to the changelog they added the option for an offline STT recognition now.
If the purpose behind is is to get the government to force banks to responsibly handle money ... you forget it's the government that requires these rules in the first place.

But the government rules do not require the bank to continue to lock up the money even after evidence of legitimacy is provided or to make further errors that prevent the customer from demonstrating the legitimacy in the required way even if they want to. Both of those things appear to have happened here.
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How cheap? Would you have a suggestion? Thanks.
Nope. I've seen someone caught by a fruit (and presumably other substances, too) sniffer dog on entry to the US via Atlanta. So not just NZ...
disagree on

>What changed is the object of bullshit, not the bullshit itself.

(edit: after rereading, not sure i disagree anymore :))

due to removing of barriers to communication it's much much much easier to find people susceptible to bullshit than it used to and they even help spread the bullshit further which is what the article tries to analyze. in the limit you have results like brexit which are real decisions enabled by mostly bullshit assumptions.

turns out truly free speech combined with democracy is a recipe for disaster. who would've though? /s china with it's total control over information and authoritarian government has much better chances of surviving the inevitable collapse of society that is the result of not having trustworthy elites.
When I get assigned a new feature to implement, I take the spec and write out my plan for implementation in longhand on paper. It makes me spend more time considering every aspect.
Yeah, I use XPrivacy, but this makes it really hard to know which things I should allow and which I shouldn't...
It's the same. You can comment out the last line easier, but not the first one. With trailing commas, it's the other way around.
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Yeah, it's always interesting how we stop considering certain things as "technology" once enough time passes. Yet anyone reading I, Pencil would be hard pressed to consider it an unprocessed product of the Earth.
Well I can configure a Linux vm for development I guess I could handle that.

Wouldn't these VPS come with a sensible default?
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Unfortunately, even going and seeing your bank in person is no guarantee of getting sensible results.

I've been told I've failed an identity check while on a call from a branch, when that call had been started by a member of staff from that branch who had identified themselves and was standing next to me at the time, while I was in possession of more photo ID and proof of current address than I've ever needed to open any account in my life. And all that member of staff could do afterwards was apologize and share a half-hearted laugh with me as I left.

This happened while signing up for a new service, and ironically I was in the branch in the first place because I'd been unable to answer a security question on a call from my own phone. That was because the only two answers I was allowed to choose were both obviously incorrect, because the subject of that question was also the reason for my call, but again the person on the phone apparently wasn't allowed to accept that and continue.
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>> it's very Hard to reverse engineer every single release
> Nope

Nope to what? Are you saying that binary diffing is possible or that the amount of effort required is (remotely) comparable with analyzing source code?

I would like to see evidence supporting the latter statement, if this is what you are saying.
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> It's nonetheless a chilling sign that they're restricting VPN access, which is consistent with the overall tightening of internet control that's been going on for quite a while.

It is also consistent with the worldwide tightening of internet. Trump and May are much more likely to applaud the latest Chinese effort than criticise.

Chinese internet management is the model that will lead the West. Quite a reversal, quite depressing too.
the point is that if it's only you that learns to live around it, you still lose.
Imagine criminals recruiting students, offering them money to pay for education
Author here. Though I obviously can't be certain, I suspect the reason it's still showing 1 signature is that the petition hasn't crossed the threshold where it becomes publicly searchable.

I'm not sure what's going to come of this petition; I'm not a political organizer, I don't have mailing lists of people to forward this to. I'm just a young engineer who thought it was a real shame that nobody has been talking about practical, long-term solutions to the real problems that are facing our country. I think this is exactly the type of problem we should be applying technology to solve. If you agree, please sign the petition. Your signature will help this reach beyond my personal network and be seen by people who don't already know about the research that's been done in this area. Even if it just encourages a few more people to read up on what gerrymandering is and how it affects our representation I'll consider it a win. I'd also really like to encourage people reading this to talk about it with their family and friends. As a species we've made technological advances in so many areas: how we communicate, how we heal each other, how we kill each other. It's high time we start applying technology to affect positive change in our governance as well.
The article says that he did go and see them in person, several times, and that the bank gave him conflicting incorrect advice and sent him to different departments.
It also used to be called "Scrotal Recall", in what is possibly the worst TV show naming disaster ever and probably the reason it got cancelled.

Netflix quickly changed the name
I went to my bank in person to tell them I was going abroad for some time - gave them dates, locations, etc. The rep put a note on my account, but it was still frozen due to suspicious activity. I could only reopen it by visiting a branch in person. That was 10 years ago.
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I am impressed how quickly they tried to spin it by claiming a successful test of the submarine and the crew. considering that the UK has four of these subs of which only one is on deployment it does beg the question, what is the point of such a fleet half or more is not in usable condition?
Reasons I can think of for why the banks are responsible for the wrong-doings of their customers, as you put it, is because HSBC among others have been caught laundering money[1] (or at the very least not preventing it). So making them responsible is similar to making barmen responsible for checking IDs before serving alcohol. Sure, the underage drinker is the one perpetuating the crime, but by criminalizing the barman you insist upon a check in the system.

The hosting company comparison doesn't fit, you can publish a myriad of content and quickly to a host, checking all of it, against laws for explicit content and copyright alone would be a mammoth task. Banks only offer financial services they themselves choose to provide. In essence they only provide FTP and the only file you can FTP is a number (to put it simply).

Banks need regulating (is there anyone alive in this day and age who doubts this?), not just on an international level, but locally and for the 'little man' too. My own experience this last year involved making a formal complaint to the consumer financial complaints body where I live about an error made by the bank, freely admitted to by the bank, and the result was "suck it up", including the financial cost. Banking is in a poor state, having lost the faith of the public.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies
There really is a lot of things to improve about permissions. Like Apple and Android's default camera apps requesting access to camera... really? Or contact app asking permission to list contacts (on android at least).

Setting up a new phone or tablet is like dismissing 99 dialogs every time.

I indeed hope in the future there will be a better balance between user experience and user privacy.
These days it's harder to tell whether something was a bug, or only became a bug after it was discovered.
Thanks so much for all the suggestions!
yeah, because we can introduce a max cap of 5 transactions/second. Sounds like a great idea :/

Bitcoin isn't the answer. Sane banks with good laws, however are.
> The seemingly insurmountable problem is to get people to consume content that challenges their preconceptions, as opposed to having them validated repeatedly in exchange for a dopamine hit.

very well put, sir. people are addicted to information that confirms their beliefs. very good observation indeed. well played, mr zuckerberg, well played.
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For those people genuinely "stuck" I can certainly understand wanting to prolong the life of 2.7 past 2020. It keeps legacy products secure and working without having to retool them onto 3.x, which really is a big job. Why not. The core python team is unhappy keeping it on life support but why couldn't somebody else?

But this "2.8" is about adding 3.x language features onto 2.7, essentially declaring a brand new language standard for new development. People who want this aren't saying they don't want to upgrade, they're saying they want to stay on 2.x forever. That seems perversely stubborn to me.
Additionally, if you really want to get productive, you'll also need to get to know which libraries/frameworks to use, and how to use them (idiomatically). This is the most time-consuming tasks, I think.
And the security checkpoints were choked at noon. I'm willing to bet that most people were trying to get in (me, for one) and got videos to show for it.
> and how the big, automated systems used by those businesses make no allowances for the human consequences when they make mistakes.

From experience, nor do the wage slaves simply enforcing the 'rules' as dictated by their employers.
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"I don't know how the coordinates were defined for the 900 images" this is what got me curious is it some manual work or some highly sophisticated image processing and machine learning setup ? (highly unlikely)
Delay, delay, delay replacing it - then complain when it starts to show signs of wear and tear. But that is what they do for civilian nuclear too...