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Takedown by Tsutomo Shimomura

That's the story of how Kevin Mitnick got caught. Very controversial so I can't say it's good. I still enjoyed it back then.

Note that the question is about novels, and I think it is how you should read the book. I seriously doubt its credibility when it comes to facts.
What bothers me is that lots of applications will start throwing errors even if you disable just one permission from Google Play Services (like body sensors). Quite some time ago Google started encouraging developers to use the google play permissions together with the respective android permission. This doesn't mean that apps can collect your data even when you disable the location permission (they still can't) but it forces you to either run google play services (with all it's permissions on) and all its data collecting abilities or basically run android without anything available from the play store.

It's a really anti-competitive strategy by google, because it gives users the ability to regulate permissions for single apps effectively (limiting the ability of other companies to collect personal data) and on the other hands strengthens googles own ability to collect all your data, making their marketing platform even more valuable. It is high time regulators start cracking down on this anti-competitive behavior when it comes to data collection. Either give all companies the same chance to collect users data or give users a real option to disable it for all applications (even the ones by google).
Littman's books on Mitnick and Poulsen.
CO2 is a pollutant just like O2 is a pollutant. The earth has a certain balance and the physical phenomena as well as the biosphere collectively support and rely on this balance. If you add too much O2 you'll get a mass extinction. This was the causes of one the earliest mass extinctions on the earth. [1] CO2 is an essential gas for life to be sustained, arguably as important as O2, but that doesn't mean you can arbitrarily add CO2 to the system and expect similar outcome. At some point you'll break the system. This is true for other "good" gases too such as O2, N2, H2 etc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Honestly, people who are looking for PHP programmers are not looking for me. It's not going to be a fulfilling experience for me, and I'm not going to be a great fit for their company culture.

(I'm in a "microservices architecture" (their word, not mine; I find it cringey, but eh) org where we're expected to deliver features as REST APIs, programming language be damned.)
Its very different from Stephenson's other novels. Its much more of a thriller with a few tech elements thrown in. I really enjoyed it, but don't go in expecting another cryptonomicon.
No, it's Saudi Arabia attempting to diversify its holdings. If they've seen oil-rich countries fall again and again to low oil prices, it makes a lot of sense for them to hedge their bets and protect against the future where solar (they're investing a ton in this) and EVs may remain supreme. If these investments don't pan out, they still have a massive amount of very cheap oil reserves and will keep those longer than most other oil producers.
Aggregate small investors into bigger funds, no idea about legality of such maneuver.
Gas, oil, coal plants fill in when solar and wind don't work. That - along with nuclear phase-out - is why there's lots of several new coal plants being built in Germany, for instance.
Ah, okay. That all makes sense! I thought you meant that like, the language couldn't do it at all. All the stuff you've said is the current state of things, roughly, for sure. Thanks!

(I'd love to see OS classes use Rust someday, so I'm always trying to keep an eye out for things...)
But it's not standard procedure at any hotel. So far it has only been reported of it happening in Vegas.

Move DEFCON to somewhere else next year in protest. Then they might learn their lesson.
My guess is that energy will be so cheap, we produce much much more than we consume in the future. There will be an abundance of energy some decades down.

Also electric cars will create very large storage capcities for energy in the next decade.

On top of that we get intelligent meters, with machines like my washing machine pulling power at the best time, my battery chargers using the right time etc, so (non-industry) demand will flatten out over time with intelligent metering.

I would have feared about this issue 20y ago, but I think this is no longer of any importance for the development of solar power.

What is relevant with the ongoing centralization of solar power is power transmission.
I agree with you there is a silly tendency and it is pretty annoying to see it. But this is what I am seeing myself, since I grew up in NYC. I have grown used to having cars stop for me when crossing the street.

For all other places in Europe (like Paris), it's same as usual - cars just will zoom by, except for lights.

I have always been a tad uncomfortable after getting hit by a car when I was 14. I mean, it's nice to see cars stop, but I am still not trustful of those behind the wheel (and who should be anyway?)
Yeah, I never understood who those ads were aimed at. Buying a superbowl ad for a bunch of money to hit millions of consumers in hopes of a single CEO with buy authority watching the ad?
You recommend soccer but discourage running because it's competitive?
It might not have any legal weight (though I don't see him saying that it does), but it could be enough to give someone pause.
from 1984:

'Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid, which appeared to take everyone by surprise. Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester. He did not remember the raid itself […]. '

'Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.'
While I agree that an engineer is less likely to spend effort on politeness, they are more likely to substantiate their claims. sologub did neither in their comment.
I would recommend "Underground", a text-only e-book about (perhaps even by?) Kevin Mitnick, how the entire hacker scene got started, and through the cat-and-mouse game that led to Mitnick's eventual arrest.

Unfortunately, I cannot find a link to this work; although I did find uncountable similar books and movies on the topic.

Perhaps this will suffice as a teaser? "Catching Kevin" at Wired: https://www.wired.com/1996/02/catching/
Real programming jobs exist and pay a lot. You have to be extremely good though - more like a mathematician or a CS researcher. Some examples: C++ Latency programmer for HFT funds, Staff Research Engineer at Google, AI Research at DeepMind/OpenAI
I'd be interested to know who besides the Saudis are interested. Who are the biggest players? I'm guessing Elon has many, many wealthy friends with huge numbers of Tesla shares that are interested in this plan.
That is capitalism doing its optimization work. It will punish the people that give credit in these risky cases and the people that make risky decisions like these because of greed.

If you buy property in more diversified regions you won't make as much money, but you have less risk and short term crises will usually pan out.
"several new coal plants being built in Germany"

Didn't know about that, which ones? I thought it was natural gas plants?

[1] looks like a small list

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_geplanter_Kohlekraftwerk...
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There is a different quality to it, at least here in Norway - if a driver sees a pedestrian on the sidewalk, about the cross the street, they must yield.
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I was waiting to finalize my product video, not knowing what is required to register.

This is very critical for my startup, we have users, but we need to scale.

Please help me to register for startup school. Thanks.
If there's no signs, no notice to guests, and no obvious policy a random person coming off the street would see, I'm not sure that counts as "explicitly banned"
Musk needs to step out of the limelight. It's obvious that he loves it, but half the news about him is the stupid things he's done or said on Twitter or on blog posts. It does him no favors and makes him look like a child who has just figured out he can scream, and that the world will react when he does[0].

Elon, go back to what you're best at: inventing, being in the lab, running the factory, making the world better with your mind. Stop trying to be famous because it does you more harm than good.

The biggest danger to Tesla today is an over-inflated ego.

[0](I wonder if any politicians have figured this out?)
I disabled location permissions for everything I could after I discovered that Google had removed the "report location in background" feature toggle for applications. I discovered that it had been removed one day on a trip to Walmart when Google Maps popped up asking me to take a picture of the location.

I hadn't used Google Maps in weeks. :-/

My next phone will most likely be an iPhone since Google seems more and more intent on outdoing Facebook in the e-stalking business.
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Of course, there is a Star Trek episode (TNG) where some alien scientists discover this, but nobody wants to believe them including the Enterprise as the consequence is greatly restricted warp drive (warp 9 becomes only emergency). I think they mention it again once or twice. Maybe a super fan can attach the episode #.
> For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app.

Except in the case of using entirely offline map data, I don't know how the user can expect their location not to be revealed to the server in this case. To see the map, you have to have map data, and which data you pull is going to give a very strong hint of your location.

I guess you can distinguish between _a_ location (that you viewed) and _your_ location (that you definitely are at), but it's still an extremely strong hint that after a period of inactivity, the first location you load is probably the location where you are.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
Birds are territorial. Its a commons, since they essentially 'own' the tree as part of their territory.
I dont think there is a maximum of owners of a private company, but you would propably be the owner of stock in a public fund, that owns stock in a private company called Tesla.

You would no longer get quarterly reports, but propably various updates, and a yearly report (my best guess).
I will not downvote (as I don't agree that a downvote should be a disagreement, and you /are/ posting in earnest of discussion) however I can't avoid at least commenting on the fact that this is a terrible novel.

It's fact based, which is nice, however Tsutomo talks significantly more about food than Kevin in this book. Unendingly boring and light on details.

If I could get that week of my life back I would.
Those GE ads were hysterical (are? I don't watch much TV anymore...)
I never understood the fame of mitnick. He was a loser and not very talented. He is the equivalent of a Kardashian for fame

Kevin Paulson at least had some actual skills.
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Part of the idea behind Connexions (and later OpenStax) is that educational resources are made available under a CC license, and tools are provided so that educators can use, combine, re-write, and modify the educational texts they use.

In practice, many choose to use the books as is, as they're already pretty high quality, but if you go to cnx.org and do some searches on the database, you'll find a number of variations that have been created by different professors and universities as well.

I don't think the intent (or resources) is there to give you every book for every course in a pre-selected order.

Disclaimer: I'm a former employee and developer for Connexions and OpenStax CNX, although I haven't been there for several years, so my understanding may be out of date.
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The slight difference is that a tech solution in the lift would actually apply to everybody. "Mark 1 eyeballs" very likely have a big bias regarding who needs checking.
I think all the late mishaps have something to do with negotiating down the price for the Saudi Arabians to come onboard.
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We must now convince the machines to reach people, especially in search visibility. I'm used to it. We accepted. It's okay.

There is a lot of resources about how a blog post should be written in for SEO.

But most of these recommendations are unnecessary for a tool.

If I have developed a tool that solves a problem that people are looking for, how can I bring it up to Google?
> if the goal is for potentially all its current shareholders to remain?

Revise "all current shareholders" to "all current material shareholders" and Elon's tweets make more sense.

> Isn't there a limit on the number of investors a private company can have?

Not technically. But you have to do all the expensive things a public company does if your "securities are 'held of record' by either 2,000 persons, or 500 persons who are not accredited investors" [1]. Practically speaking, those are the limits.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/jobs-act-section-12g-...}
> Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund has approached me multiple times about taking Tesla private.

Interesting to see countries most dependent economically on fossil fuels heavily investing in their energy nemesis.

Curious about the ramifications that might emanate out of partly giving away control of a large American automobile manufacturer to a foreign entity -- a potentially hostile one no less -- given how sensitive Tesla vehicles' proprietary technologies are from a safety/security standpoint.
Without judgment of this particular loving human; Why is it considered heroic to go to war without questioning the men sending you there? The war in Iraq was pointless and based on dubious logic which turned out to be a lie. Men considering going to another country far away to kill other men should think deeply about dedicating their bodies and family's futures to the fortunes of cowards.

I obviously do not know this man's mind, but it is just so painful to read about such pointless waste and consider it as heroic. He was brave, courageous, loving, compassionate, but ultimately his death was a huge pointless tragedy in yet another war fought for assholes.

Show me more heroes who stand up against this nonsense. Heroes who save lives by objecting to taking them. That's where our mindset needs to be to stop the horrors we constantly project to far shores to prop up our corrupt insidious military industry and line the pockets of dire schmucks.

</rant>

RIP, sorry for hijacking a sad story to vent.
I missed your comment and made a similar comment without the attached episode. Thank you and the below comment on how they solved it. I assumed they just didn't care as it was the delta quadrant and the whole show is an emergency.
Searching for work that brings one into the state of flow is good, but I think it is important not to become too obsessed with it. Otherwise, you may fall into the trap of avoiding difficult work. For example, cleaning the house brings me usually flow, but I wouldn't want to make a living doing that (not that there's anything wrong with cleaning, but I don't think I would enjoy that for long).

I believe any work can bring flow; it's just a matter of keeping the challenge at the right level. In your case, instead of ditching frameworks and implementing engine functionality manually, you may need to find work that requires you to learn new skills and grow.
The problem with the phrase "digital transformation" is it's extremely vague, implying either that managers don't know precisely what they're attempting and how it will generate business value; or that there's a raft of separate efforts so loosely related that the only unifying theme is that computers will be involved.

If your plan is "provide streaming video" you'd call it that instead, thereby showing you know what you're trying to do, what success means for the project, and how it will produce business value.
I wish I were as optimistic about Musk as you are. This seems a lot like a convenient re-imagining of the conversations he had to try and persuade people that he wasn't deliberately manipulating a short-squeeze. He's just some country bumpkin who don't understand these fancy contracts those city types insist on, he had a conversation and a hand shake and that's all he needs.
Not at all true. if you have 20% of the stock of a private or public company is exactly the same voting wise etc. The only difference, is thats its publicly traded, and the pros and cons of that (very liquid, quarterly reports etc.).
Title is misleading? This is just a bugfix release, QT planned for 4.0.

edit: also, not the original title which reads 'Audacious 3.10 released'.
But were those food pyramids ever grounded in science?

There's a difference between “the science was wrong” and “government recommendations served an interest group without being well grounded in science.”
Russian here (also have taken part in protests 2012-2013).
I believe isolating just one factor for the correlation might give deceiving results. It is true that protest movement has been much less active since 2014, it is also true that Russian economy is in crisis since 2014, but I don't think that the latter was the reason for the former.

Rather

1) As protests of 2012-2013 have failed despite the largest headcount in modern Russian history, people feel demoralized. That works pretty universally the same, (see international Occupy movement for instance).

2) The occupation of Crimea and Donbass region in 2014 made a split in Russian society deeper. Protests of 2012-2013 tried to unite liberal democrats, nationalists and communists, and most of the latter two support Russian aggression. So no union is possible any more.

3) Finally a lot of politically active people have left the country around 2014 (again because of demoralizing effect of both failed protests and successful occupation of Ukrainian territories).

So my opinion on the original topic is that it's worth limiting any collaboration with authoritarian regimes. Such regimes more often crash because of inability to solve their problems than because of successful protest movements, so it's better to increase probablility of the first scenario.
I'm wondering how Musk's compensation scheme will change when Tesla becomes private again. It was approved a few months ago by Tesla shareholders. It gives Elon Musk no salary, only restricted stock awards. They can reach a value of tens of billions of dollars. Restrictions for the full package: Tesla has to reach annual sales of 175 billion and the stock market has to give TSLA a market cap of 650 billion.
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This is strategic for the Saudis.

Other strategic investors and sovereign wealth funds that will not want to see Tesla controlled by a competitor for 10% over today's price.

Norway, China and Abu Dhabi each have SWFs larger than Saudi Arabia [1], and the energy implications of letting Tesla go would be strategic for each of them.

Tesla's market cap is only 6% of Apple's, and Apple isn't geopolitically strategic. We may see a bidding war for Tesla before they go private.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_...
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How about your wireless access point, did it move with you, and remain the same, possibly unique, "wifi name"?
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>If they've seen oil-rich countries fall again and again to low oil prices

... especially in context of how successful they've been at lowering oil prices to hurt their rivals.
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Humans do not have the same metabolic paths as most apes, you cannot break down cellular walls and you don't create nutritionally significant amount of fatty acids in your intestines.

The fruits you eat are also rich in fructose since they are domesticated fruits this is in stark opposite to what "fruits" wild apes consume.

I'm not generalizing it for all apes because different apes have different diets and different metabolic paths chimps do not ferment cellulose in their colon but they do eat ripen fruit in which the fatty acids develop they also eat fruit which ferments on the ground, they also eat pith all of which is rich in lipids, when you discount the fiber in the chimp diet you will see that it's also nearly 50% lipids even when accounting for plant sources only and not them sucking the skulls of small monkeys for the juicy fatty acids that make up their brains (don't go looking for that, trust me this is something you cannot unsee...).

Human physiology is very different than that apes if we go back again to the gorilla then the small intestine and colon ratios are reversed in humans the small intestine is about 50% of the overall digestive tract in gorillas the colon is 50% that is because they get most of their nutrients from secondary fermentation where human physiology is centered nearly exclusively around absorbing available nutrients in the food hence why we also cook food and why eating raw vegan or raw anything is a terrible terrible idea.

Saying that our GIs are similar to apes is true but it's like saying that our muscular and skeletal systems are similar but the differences are still night and day. Our bodies are designed to consume ready to use nutrients and more importantly pre-processed nutrients (is suggest reading "Cooking as a biological trait") and to extract as much of them as possible in the shortest time as possible, we don't spend all our day eating and we don't eat 30-40kg of food a day even those of use that weight like a gorilla. Our GI is the gasoline engine while most apes are coal powered steam engines they both still use pistons and consume some form of hydrocarbons but put one in the other and the result will not be pretty.
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A Saudi government owned Tesla will lose me as a customer. If you're eager to do business with the Saudi government your moral compass is seriously out of whack.
.... But you make one warp drive....