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>There is absolutely no good reason that the computers of today cannot share media seamlessly between themselves, without requiring the use or involvement of an external third party

If you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files.

The lawyers with the legal MS Word docs, and accountants with their MS Excel spreadsheets want to shut down their computer, drive home, or get on an airplane, or go to a meeting that may not have wifi connection.

If we ask users to save it to some sort of store & forward storage so their files are accessible to others (especially with others who are outside their particular company's boundaries) ... well... you end up reinventing an entity like Dropbox.
you may want to take a look at Palemoon.

https://www.palemoon.org/

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/crush-those-cookies/

https://addons.palemoon.org/incompatible/
Any one that uses F# right now, can you tell me if you can create folders in Visual Studio? It seems like it's mentioned here, but I'd like a confirmation.
Ok.

In agriculture, people tend to ignore the problem because it leads to lesser profits in the short term. The food industry, one of the major clients of agrobusiness is very competitive. The phyto pharmaceutical industry keeps pushing their products just like the pharmaceutical companies in hospitals. In fact, they're the same corporations most of the time.

In this case, lobbying happens in the Union level, i.e. the European Parliament.

The pressure is to great for small farmers to deal with.

That is also happening with the construction/concrete lobby (and I presume that sometimes the land price rises if you plan to build housing around cities in the countryside).

Construction companies build regardless of erosion or flooding problems. It's not their problem once they finish the job. That happens a lot around here. Politicians only think in the short term. "Yeah, sure there's the problem of seasonal fires, draughts and floods. We'll make use of some catastrophe fund. But you can't forget jobs in construction and tourism infrastructure!" Result: concrete all over.
CrashPlan is "unlimited" but it's not a storage service, it's a backup service. From what I understand, you have to use their client software, and that software will use RAM proportional to the total size of the data you're storing. In practice this puts a hard limit on the amount of data which is proportional to the amount of RAM you have.

So heavy users are not only capped, they're also subsidized by the light users.
I suspect most privacy problems come down to the apps on the users device for both platforms, but in terms of security Android is worse overall because of the abysmal rate of updates, and lack of widespread backing store encryption. That leaves a lot of Android devices open to shady apps and data loss after theft.

Both platforms can always do better of course, and should learn from each other. But to pretend device security hasn't been a genuine focus for Apple is blinkered.
Clicking through the health care links in the article you come across somebody called David Goldhill who has written about the topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

Or (AFAIU, without having read it myself) a longer version of the argument presented in book-form at https://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Care-Everything-Think-He...
Only if your only source of information about Android is WWDC keynotes.

Don't be silly. Google's own dashboard shows that the vast majority of devices are running old versions of Android with known security vulnerabilities:

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Besides that, most likely >99% of the users are using a device with Google Play Services and other Google applications. It is no secret that Google mines pretty much all data available for advertising purposes (as outlined in their privacy policy).

Moreover, most Android devices use no or weak device encryption. The Google App Store has a rich history of applications slurping all kinds of data (though things will probably get better with fine-grained permissions).

And then we haven't even talked about Asian and American vendors that 'accidentally' install third party spyware:

https://www.cyberscoop.com/android-malware-china-huawei-zte-...
Only Chinese user data is stored in China.
Long ago, I found that running home (eight to ten miles) helped.
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It doesn't matter if the technology exists (which it does) what matters is if the vendors will cooperate (which they won't).
The folly of Fallingwater (2001)
You can disable using precise locations in Google search, and Google will no longer request your location except for when there is a maps card in the result (which makes sense)
Also, we only consider the extinction to be "over" (the point at which we can declare who is and is not a survivor) when the only theropods left were birds, so this definition is circular. This is the problem with trying to derive necessary and sufficient conditions for things like "birdness", the concept was constructed by pattern matching, not analytically, so rarely will an analytic definition capture everything that the common sense understanding encompasses.
Software development; USA.
What's wrong with regulating farming practices and, if food prices rise, give the poorer consumers more money (as in negative income tax, basic income, whatever) so they can choose to spend on food or anything else? How does subsidizing producers help regulate their practices?
Bait and switch much?
> Having someone purposefully steal your data from the inside doesn't mean you don't care about privacy.

True, Apple cares much more than average. It shows that our current tech world has such a poor emphasis on privacy that even the companies that care most still screw up big.
In the end, this is a problem with _all_ cloud services that do more than just _store_ data. If it does anything with your information at all then it's possible for an insider to look at it.
The only thing I gather is it's supposed to be some sort of societal critique near the end.

Still dont get it.
There are alternatives, but with more friction and fewer features. My iPhone backups are made to an encrypted disk locally and backed up offsite with Backblaze, also encrypted.

Have never used iCloud for the reasons you mention, and haven't missed it.
Like?

You use your iPhone but disable iCloud.

If photos are important to you, use a dedicated camera and upload to your home NAS.
being that you put that data there with the understanding that you could keep it forever - yes...
By that argument, all theft is negligence.
Being able to do manual labour is still enough of a desirable skill on its own, and yes, hordes of the poor from the Indian subcontinent emigrate (albeit on a temporary contractual basis). The outflow of dirt-poor Indian farming villages to Gulf construction projects has been a phenomenon for decades now.
That position only proves true if you live in a society where compromise is seen as a negative.

I don't know when this shift occurred, but it is certainly the case now that any compromise is generally seen as a loss and failure to represent your constituents. Hence our very partisan climate and the increasing success of radical politicians. If all you have to do is vote the party line and never try to work things out, your job suddenly becomes quite easy to keep.

Now if things were to change and people would agree to discuss issues and meet midway, then more would get done and progress on long stalled issues would be made. In a country where small yet constant steps are being made, I would argue that the general populace would be far more happy than the one presented in that book by your professor.
It would be nice if all new HTML5 features and APIs release from now on turns on 'Modern Web Security Mode', which fixes CSRF and a bunch of other security issues that are not backwards compatible.
And if the NSA championed themselves as the defenders of privacy, how hard would you roll your eyes?
Predatory capitalism is based on the privatisation of profit and the externalisation of cost. It is an extension of the fencing of the commons, of enclosures, along with the criminalisation of prior common customs and rights. What we need is a system that fully accounts for all costs. Whether we call that capitalism or not is irrelevant to me. But doing so would fundamentally transform the dynamic of present day capitalism, by making capital open source. - Robert David Steele, The Guardian, 2014-06-19

The point is ... this is indeed symptomatic of a system in which only certain things are valued with money, and everything else (the environment, the future, health, social wellbeing) is left largely unaccounted for.

So what's the solution? We tried carbon credits, but they were apparently insufficiently profitable or liquid as an asset class to attract investment, and perhaps the issue was that if country A implemented harsh environmental laws and nobody else did, all the industries left, which resulted in watering down the environmental commitments. While most developed world governments do OK at solving or at least limiting the effect of serious environmental issues locally, the issues that exceed national jurisdiction tend to grow unchallenged.

Interesting times.
To be fair, this is not "pay more or we'll delete your files."

That would be a terrible way to treat customers. Customers will simply lose the ability to upload new files. All their existing content will still be there.
Ireland has it, I'm not sure you would call the last few elections "boring" (Probably more to do with the financial crisis hitting us like a ton of bricks though)
>No, there isn't. This flies in the face of everything we know about software quality. "Release early, release often".

That's not "everything we know" as in some gospel accepted by everybody.

"Release early, release often" is just one mantra of a particular development philosophy.
Angry someone has something that works for them?
Genuinely trying to get an understanding of the pros and cons here, but is there any guarantee that this, or any other, data theft ring used iCloud? I mean, let's say I have an iCloud and it is encrypted in a completely secure fashion such that even Apple cannot access it. Well couldn't this ring have just collected my phone number, Apple ID etc etc from some other Apple database?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the threat here, but it seems to me that this is not going to be fixed by simply encrypting iCloud. Sure, that would be part of a comprehensive response, but the main problem seems to be that these people had access to internal Apple databases. To my mind, "internal" means everything from retail POS data to iTunes.
I guess I'm trying to understand why encrypting iCloud would prevent a ring of internal Apple employees from gathering a person's information and selling it?

And, to be frank, it's concerning because it's not just Apple. What stops a group of internal employees of any company from gathering a person's information and selling it?

What are needed are strong guarantees about data security internal to these companies. My background is in health care technology, so the analogy I would make is HIPAA. But we need HIPAA for everything instead of just for healthcare information. Right now if employees of enterprises outside healthcare access a person's information and they don't sell it, they're just checking on a friend, there is no liability for that. Under HIPAA you're fired at a minimum. That's what we need.
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From that reddit thread there's a link to this guy [0], storing on Amazon Drive 1 PB of what the poster referred to as webcam recordings, which I think (from skimming the thread) is a euphemism for porn. As one commenter pointed out "this guy upload $40,000 of hard drives".

I find myself fairly sympathetic with companies removing their unlimited policies, when this kind of thing goes on. I doubt that in practice it will effect more than a tiny number of people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...
Retail investors are moving towards ETFs. Institutional investors can still make a little bit more money with active management. An extra 0.05% average return may not matter to a retail investor, but if you're managing a $35 billion fund, that's still an extra $1.75 million.

I do expect the "alpha" gap between active management and passive index investing to close as robotrading becomes the norm. As alpha drops in a mass-robotrading scenario, trade volume tends to increase as more and different tactics are required to get the same returns. This arms race maintains market liquidity, while index funds provide a safe "baseline" for retail investors.

It's really not a bad system.
I think CP prioritizes smaller more frequently accessed files. That said, you could use a different "back up set" for PSTs so that they not interfere with the backup of files in the other set.
>Reading and praying (about the reading, about life) probably serve the same purposes as the meditation techniques espoused in this thread, but it is more than just body hacking.

Having been raised Catholic and now a practitioner of meditation for many years my experience is that meditation is nothing like prayer nor does prayer confer the same benefits as meditation. I've found meditation to be much more effective.
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I think you're being a little naive about what really drives features from an OS vendor here. That $vendor_A could enable seamless sync with $vendor_B is absolutely true, but the realities of competition and the market mean that technical feasibility isn't the driving factor.

I can't imagine Apple or MSFT ever offering something that would truly replace it - anything either does is likely to privilege their own OS over any other, and Dropbox has no reason to do that.

The other reason that services like Dropbox shine, at least for me, is that by providing a cloud-mediated sync solution, you don't have to coordinate a synchronous conversation between the devices in question. That's valuable, especially since it enables easy sync with > 2 devices (which also opens the door to selective sharing).

That always-there aspect is also how Dropbox became the de facto mobile file system for iOS (and Android, maybe? I'm guessing -- I'm an iOS user). It's also the default mechanism for sharing files too big or numerous for email (e.g., Aunt Sally's holiday pictures).

My tl;dr is that while Dropbox's initial value prop might not be earthshaking, it's done what it set out to do very, very well for me since I started using it 8 years ago, and I'm very glad to pay them for their service.
I completely agree, this is a consequence of the patriarchy pretty much by definition. The smoking gun is that girls become more talkative specifically when men are absent, so girls aren't just less talkative in general, it's specifically a reaction to the presence of boys. By "exact mechanism" I meant more specifically why the phenomenon happens. Are women encouraged to be quiet when men are talking, or are men encouraged to interrupt women, or both? In a truly egalitarian society, would men interrupt less or would women interrupt more?
I see the same pattern in so many nations. Marketers have triumphed all places where people have or don't even have any money to spend.
Yes I meant exercise. Have you checked with a doctor about your issue ? Can you swim (should be best for body&mind) ?

Do you eat healthy food ? Do you get enough sleep ?

Do you know python (or some other lang) ? Can you check projects on upwork (or similiar) and start from the bottom and work your way up (what I did) ?

Can you do a program where you list all your issues and beneath them list several optional things that you think you can do/try to improve them, put them on a todo-task-list and try to work on them everyday (by marking) and doing/checking some stats ? (is there a program for this, kinda want it for myself too)

Where do you live ? Have you tried checking meetup.com or similar sites for activities/events to do (..hard in mountain I guess?) ?

Any drugs ? Like, do you smoke ?
So, this is your contribution. Rather than any of that volunteerism you were talking about, you're just an asshole on forums. Great. I'm sure that's something they desperately need.
With respect, as a full stack dev focused heavily on frontend these days (with react), I think what you've experienced as a blink was in fact a smooth transition over at least a couple of years. Of course, the javascript ecosystem changes more rapidly than most, but I think these things are apt to look exaggerated and very stepped when you're (I assume) checking in once every few months.

If you're working with this stuff day in day out, you see a much clearer and deeper picture where the pieces are added one by one in a smooth ramp, as the superior paradigm gradually replaces the older one in response to the needs of the developers who use it.
I would use a technique like this sparingly. It looks to be the "web request" equivalent of an n+1 query.

Imagine you have a table of results and each one is taking time to render. You add this for each row, but you only test it locally with a few rows. In production, maybe that table has hundreds of rows.

You've just DOSed your server.
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I don't understand how this works. The article doesn't go into much depth.

They listen on data coming from a satellite for certain IPs, then connect to those IPs directly? How does that allow two-way communication?
> lack of widespread backing store encryption

I am not sure what you mean.
API draft for TCP and UPD support in browsers
The Genesis of Husaria Marketing
How would an iframe help avoid needing JS?
I recently discovered CopperheadOS [0], and I've been playing around with it on my old Nexus 5X. It's very barebones, but you can pick up good open alternatives to most closed software on F-droid. I'm still not ready to drop Google services completely, but it looks promising.

If you're willing to pay the premium, they sell the Pixel and Pixel XL with CopperheadOS loaded.

[0] https://copperhead.co/android/
Yes, I was hinting towards Linux. If you worry about security then the answer is pretty clear - don't store anything valuable on mobile devices.
Have you tried helping a little other poor children ? Maybe their happiness will bring some to you too ? (like parents who live their life through their children)

Do you exercise ? Smoke?
If you look at the map, you can see Samosata up north on the Euphrates, Ressaina between Euphrates and Tigris and Zeugma to the west. Tharrana is next to the circular lake with the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosata is the modern city of Samsat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhesaina is Ressaina (see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma,_Commagene Zeugma is near modern-day Gaziantep

The location of historic Tharrana is apparently not finally known. Harran, Turkey is one possibility mentioned at http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/peutinger/10_mesopotamia/me....

Since all reference points are in Turkey or Syria, best guess is that the cirular lake with the island is Al Jaboul Lake, 36.024360"N, 37.610087"E. It used to be a tributary to the Euphrates but no source I could find states exactly when that changed.
But the Revenue consider you to have received value in that "piece of paper" that you can't liquidate? That just seems like perverse tax law - why is it that way?

Surely if they're private shares that can't be sold the extrinsic value is zero, the private share value for tax purposes is no greater than the value of the option?
Equity bubbles are nothing new. I do think we're in a bit of a bubble (not a huge one, but the market is overvalued right now IMO) but again, the market is cyclical and I expect we'll enter bear market territory again soon. But on the other side of every equity bubble are hedge funds looking to short sell the crap out of everything. Once those guys start making money again, we'll know the bubble has burst.

Also, 10-year T-bills still exist if you're afraid of an equity bubble. Returns are historically bad, but they've always been used as more of a safe haven to stash money during a downturn than anything else. The fed is raising rates again, which will likely end up cooling off the equity market.
I have read a Chinese version of this news report in which none of the above is mentioned. I think this sentence refers to another privacy incident.
So this is an alternative of designing your app FE to use AJAX or using ESI (edge side includes) right? With the caveat this is super rails specific?
I'm also using react-rails on my case to make a bridge between rails and react and it has been very useful so far, you can even render components server-side to test them with rspec.
I have the impression that other cultures were still more centered on non tech issues, culture, tradition, religion.
Embracing the power of styled-components
A project has a shorted life-span and specific outputs that would mark the end of the project.

A product might evolve and run "forever" without a specific outputs to mark the end of the product.
They didn't solve it for the rest of us. They have leverage and used it to set pricing for their patients.
Wow, the humility! I'm sold, where do I sign up?
Sometimes I wonder if making the top level parentheses optional would go some way towards making Lisp more palatable to other programmers. So

(def sum (partial reduce +))
(println (+ 1 (sum [1 2 3])))

becomes:

def sum (partial reduce +)
println (+ 1 (sum [1 2 3]))
I was curious about the logging system for that kind of data. Now that I know the name of the position I made a search and found that most systems use people to input the data. Thank you.
You need to be more busy in your personal life. You should be so busy you do not have time to think about work when you are away from it. Instead of stressing about the work day on your drive home, you should be looking forward to the things in your personal life. The whole point of trading your time for money is so you can have a personal life.
And just about any violent state action happens various places and nations get away with that all the time.

A lot of people are confusing what reality is with how we want it to be.
Being Alone and Lonely Are Two Different Things
Ok so theses VPL have 2 primitives : 2D texture (a bit mask is a 2D texture) and 3D object / sound samples and MIDI stream.
Can you generate an image from sound samples ? Can you create 3D objects particles from MIDI stream ?
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We are about to get a very insider opinion on just how well SNAP is doing.

I mean if there's a huge deluge of shares coming available for trading on lock up expiry date then that's can be taken as a pretty bearish sign that employee's don't like where the company is going.

Are employee's going to be scrambling to cash out on the first day or are they gong to hold onto their shares because they feel they'll be worth much more in the future?

SNAP did just start having options trading for it so that should help a bit to relieve the short pressure.

> Traders also own more bearish put options than bullish call options, with put open interest being about 70 percent larger than the number of calls outstanding Wednesday, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

This actually seems just as important as the short exposure.

EDIT Just so I don't sound like a heartless ass.... No one is saying employee's should sell stock and diversify, that's just prudent.

But there is a huge difference from employees selling 20% of their holdings vs 50%+ on the very first day/week they are allowed to sell.