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I must be one of those intellectually inconsistent folks, so take this for what it's worth.

This particular piece of information doesn't bother me so much. As somebody else mentioned, it seems to my layman mind that, to a first order, those with sufficient resources and determination to do damage to these targets also have the resources and determination to think hard for a little while about what things might be important to a nation, and figure out where those things are made. This might save them some time, but I'm skeptical that this leak will create an army of only-mildly-interested attackers who otherwise wouldn't have bothered to find any of these places.

That said, I disagree that "either you stick up for [the] unmitigated leaks or you don't." Sure it's an opinion, but I think it's OK to think that the world is best off with some information out in the open, and some information private. I agree that governments should default to the former rather than the latter, but everything in moderation.

If you stand for this leak, do you also have to stand for the leak of all Visa card numbers and account holder information? Do you have to stand for leaking Google's search history logs, or Tor entry node access logs, or a hospital's medical records? That's not so clear-cut to me.

Also, your last sentence leaves out the reality that you will never get rid of the middleman. Today, with Wikileaks, the middlemen who "establish what is alright for the general populace to see and what is not" are:

1) The set of all disgruntled employees and personnel, and other whistleblowers. Often their motives are pure, but sometimes not.

2) The cabal that runs Wikileaks. They may well have a better sense of what should be public than the average person, but we're still talking about a small set of humans, and we all have our motivations, agendas, needs, and wants to some extent.

You can certainly argue that this is a better situation than 15 layers of government bureaucrats, or a few layers of journalists, but again, I don't think it's unilaterally better in all circumstances.

P.S.: There is a heaping helping of intellectual inconsistency flying around concerning Wikileaks; I just think that there is room for reasonable concern in there too.
>Just add that substance to toothpaste, or even sweets, and caries will be a thing of the past.

Until we inevitably discover that it causes cancer, or lupus, or rabies or something. Can you imagine the advertising push if / when this does get added to candy bars?
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There always was a black list, for child porn etc, but the proposal was to dramatically expand it to include lots of other categories. Then the Libs said they won't support, and it seemed to have died. However, from only a couple of days ago, here is some evidence, admittedly third hand, that some of the expanding has already taken place (3rd para, and near the end):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/14/wikileaks-says-f...
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I would value not having to fly very highly. At least until some idiot decides we need a security theater for trains as well.
As far as I know we have a law like this in Italy, but still commercials are too loud, not complying with regulation.

I hope this will work in the USA.
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Where did the US gain the moral ground here, such that only US papers would be best judges? Almost everything the US does has large effects in the rest of the world. I think it's a very good thing that US media isn't in control of the story.
I wonder... This would basically put most dentists out of business. We'd still need some dentists and oral surgeons and orthodontists, but not nearly as many.
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As someone who doesn't know anything about the Apache Software Incubator, what are the implications of this? What does the ASF incubator bring to the project? Resources? Credibility? Grants?
I really liked what Mark Wilden had to say about Pair Programming. Personally, I don't see how Pair Programming is as valuable as teams. I prefer looking at people working on a project as a cross-functional team. This involves everyone (the team, product owner, agile master and even sales).

From a team perspective, people can work together when they need to, or run off to do research on their own and so on. It is an open experience where the Team figures out on their own how to best work together.

In pair programming, developers are FORCED to work a specific way. And that might not be the best way for that developer. I think Mark would have had a much more enjoyable experience in a team centric environment where each person is able to add to the team in the way they feel most comfortable.

Agile is about self managed cross-functional teams. As soon as upper management forces a team to work in a specific way, that self managed aspect disappears.

I do understand all of the advantages of paired programming but think you can get those and a lot more focusing on teamwork instead of pair work.

My two cents.
> It would be trivial to create attacks sufficient to grind public transit to a halt in a major city for weeks and result in a crackdown on civil liberties,... among other things.

You mean like the train and bus bombings in Israel, Spain, England?

That have slowed down and largely stopped after the military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and other parts of the Middle East?
All those expletives made me squirm.
Did you even bother to read the post I wrote? The thrust of the argument is that no paper is the best judge. In fact, newspapers are categorically unqualified to make judgments in this case.
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You're right my comment can be troublesome, nkurz expresses part of my position more clearly.

People are free to feel I'm discounting the stimulus and the healthcare package, personally I believe those to be insufficient and a mess, whether they will ultimately really improve everyone's situation is still to be seen and debated (elsewhere). I admit I'm likely ignorant on many minor laws that were passed that are useful to certain groups of people.

My assumption on the government making lives better is not that it should come up with more ways to do so, or less ways, but that it should simply focus on the big things and not these little things, which would include giving everyone some rollerblades. I'm also aware that everything has a cost, I don't see how stating that is an argument for anything. Of course government should weigh costs and benefits before rolling out some plan.

More concretely and with respect to this specific problem, it's something the government should keep its hands out of. This problem is easily solved by a free market solution of buying a sophisticated (i.e. capable of distinguishing commercial from program) device to do this for you without failing on the obvious cases (as the top comment suggested), the lack of which suggests it's not all that important a problem in the first place. (And in fact, it seems like advertising is the more significant complaint, which is why things like Netflix and TiVo exist.) Plus a good-enough solution exists already: the mute button. If government should be providing any sort of service to better people's lives, it should be weighted such that only those services which provide the best improvement for the best costs should be implemented. Let's talk about the costs of eliminating national poverty, not making sure everyone with a scraped knee can go to the store and receive a free bandaid.

Edit: (Yes, I also realize that a failure of the free market doesn't mean there's no problem, but in this case, I think there really is no big deal and the government can stay away.)

EditEdit: On the other hand, the government nearly controls public broadcast anyway. Not straight-up censorship controlling but e.g. the recent force-upgrade to digital over analog, the list of words you can't say on public t.v. There are so many issues with this that it's hard to get a clear picture.
On a related note, here is an interesting documentary on geo-engineering and global warming that I saw not too long ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html?ID=166495...
Predictably Irrational was okay; the experiments were the best part. I was annoyed that the author made many conclusions beyond the support of his evidence though.
I came to a similar realization but unfortunately not until 5 or so books into the Wheel of Time series. I think I found myself reading a 10+ page section in which several women were doing their hair and gossiping about the men in their lives and realized (based on that scene plus some other trends I started seeing in previous books) that the series had jumped the shark and the author was now just trying to pump up the page count and make the series run as long as possible, to milk it. Thankfully I got out well before he blew past what was originally intended to be the "final" book in the series, which of course was not.

I read the first one or two Game of Thrones books, thought they were awesome, and much much higher quality level than what Wheel of Tome became, but, alas, by then I had too much fantasy/medieval/magic fatigue and put them down. I will likely pick them up again.
Yeah, OK. Try this, "disclosure does not equate to declassification".
Also, github integration with jekyll is great. You just push your post to the repository and voila!
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I don't think there's necessarily intellectual inconsistency going on. I personally would like to live in a world with far fewer secrets - particularly kept by those with power, and I certainly defend wikileaks right to free speech and abhor calls for Assange to be murdered.

That said, Wikileaks chooses what it releases and when. These choices matter in terms of the effects it has.

This kind of release makes me wonder whether Wikileaks is anti-corruption, or is it anti-American? If it's the former, that's good for us all and I think it deserves support, but if it's the latter I absolutely don't.

I don't think it's intellectually inconsistent to believe in Wikileaks's right to free speech, while simultaneously hoping that they use it in the most positive way possible.

edit: Honestly this release is the most depressing thing I've seen in ages. I really want wikileaks to be a positive thing but it's looking like just more of the politics of punishment that it puports to be liberating us from.
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I agree with you that newspapers are unqualified to make judgements; that's why it's very important that the raw unedited stuff comes out eventually.

The risk with newspapers is that they publish too little, not too much, as they rely on their closeness to elites to do their job.
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In Australia we have free health care but not dental. Dental is often an exceptional case in most healthcare plans as well. It would be nice to not have to worry about that any longer.

I'd be interested to know what proportion of dentistry is due to decay, particularly with the advent of chlorinated water. You'd possibly still need checkups for gum diseases.
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I've been thinking about using Disqus on my "blog". Which is, indeed, a bunch of HTML files built from Markdown input - using Disqus would, I imagine, consist of adding a single <script> tag.
Books and newspapers are protected by the First Amendment, maybe?

Its not clear that wikileaks.org, self-publishing is "the press". Does Lovell v. City of Griffin hold? I don't know. Do you?
It's a fascinating list for that reason. What's listed, and why, and what isn't, and why. Lots to think through (though certainly not to share on a public forum). It's an extremely interesting way to look at the world.
The problem with security researchers when they rail against "security by obscurity" is that they assume everyone is reasonably competent.... or that the main actors in any situation are nations with huge resources at their disposal. Neither of those are true in the general case.

The reality is that most terrorists seem to be fairly incompetent with meager resources. This kind of intelligence is actually really dangerous because it means someone can do a lot of damage without expertise or a lot of money.
Is GoDaddy still your go-to registrar? I remember you having some security concerns about them in the past.

And, as always, thanks for the excellent advice. I just came from upping the registration lengths on all my domains ;-)
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A friend of mine has a very nice wishlist:

If you want to buy me a xmas present, donate to Tor, Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Caring for Cambodia, Unicef, ffii.org... It will make me happier than gifts.

There are people starving, our privacy is dying, world is changing, help it move the right way.
From experience I know only two pair programming roles: the do-er and the yes-man. Which one you are largely depends on the mood of both and the dynamic of the team. So either you're writing code while explaining what you do to your copilot, or you're the copilot who's basically just sitting there, pointing out the occasional syntax error. Now, conventional wisdom says this isn't how it's supposed to be, but I have yet to see a different dynamic in the wild.

One thing where I had good experiences regarding paired work was serious bug hunts. There, the most important part was the discussion and the constant back-and-forth of ideas was actually productive.
No, far simpler bombings. Ones that would require less than $50 in supplies.

There has been nothing in the US. Are you seriously telling me that of all the tens of thousands of angry, disaffected people in the US, those who have contemplated doing such attacks decided not to because they realized that the act would cause more destruction in Afghanistan?

Similarly, there have not even been any machine gun attacks at malls or airports -- imagine what even a few dozen shots fired at the crowds on black friday would have done to holiday retail numbers. Surely someone thought of this in the past 9 years.

So you are arguing that of the tens of thousands of people in the US who ostensibly want to commit such acts, a) none have thought of it, b) they are working on some far more diabolical plot, or c) they have been dissuaded by the US bombing of the middle east?

On the contrary, I think the truth is that life is good, people are friendly, etc., but most importantly, people care far more about their next meal than they do about abstract concepts, political struggles, etc.
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Is it that unique? I thought α and β chains of hemoglobin for example are also separate subunits.
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Python's a ridiculously easy language to learn. Here are a few examples of bits of syntax.

# comments start with a "#" symbol
[1,2,3,4] # that's a list
{"x":1, "y":2, "z":3} # that's a dictionary

blah = 6 # you can assign things to variables
asdf = [3,6,1,2] # including lists, dictionaries, etc.

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That's a function called foo taking parameters x,y,z. "def" defines a function. Notice that you indent where you normally would (after the def, after the if and else). Python code is typically very readable because of this.

Here's an example of a class in Python (I assume you're familiar with classes?):

class Foo:
def __init__(self, x, y):
"""The __init__ function is basically like a constructor.
This thing here is a docstring, it's used to document a function
or class."""

self.x = x
self.y = y

def sum(self):
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# It's usually called 'self', but the name can be anything.
return self.x + self.y #note: self.<whatever> for member variables

def __str__(self):
"""This function is used to make a human readable representation."""
# there are various ways to do this, but % should be familiar to
# programmers of C-like languages. (it's like printf)
return "Foo(%d, %d)" % (self.x, self.y)

foo = Foo(1,2) # note: Python is case-sensitive
print foo # calls foo.__str__() and displays the result -- "Foo(1, 2)"
print foo.sum() # prints 3

Python allows functions to be passed to functions and returned from functions, for example:

def makeAFunctionThatAddsXtoY(x):
def myNewFunction(y):
return x + y # x gets stored in the new function for later use
return myNewFunction

f = makeAFunctionThatAddsXtoY(5) # f is a function
print f(10) # prints 15, as expected

Some people care about this ability more than other people. Python's an easy way to start learning about functional programming if you're not familiar with it yet.

There's also some other fairly handy things to learn, like list comprehensions:

foo = [3,1,6,206,24,1230,0,1,112,30, 96]
bar = [x for x in foo if x % 2 == 0] # all even numbers in foo
baz = [3*x for x in foo if x % 3 == 0] # triple everything divisible by 3

You can access list elements with familiar array syntax:

foo[0] == 3 # evaluates to True (note: True and False are capitalized!)

You can also take "slices" of lists to get a range of elements:

foo[0:2] == [3,1] # this statement also evaluates to True

You can get a description of most functions and classes by typing help(name_of_thing_you_want_to_know_about) into the Python interpreter.

The best way to learn Python is to read the tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/) and play around with it. Have fun!
Denmark same thing and dental care here is expensive. It can easily put any medium income family back a 8K just to get a bridge done.
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Could you please link some graphs or something? I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_... which suggests the numbers are roughly the same as the 90s, with the 80s being even less.
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This is ill judged and shows Wikileaks to be immature as the motivation could only have been some form of juvenile revenge, this has probably damaged their credibility beyond repair.

Little or no public good comes from this, any more than disseminating pictures of the keys to your front door or publishing your bank account details would somehow be justified "in the interests of openness".

Comments about this being OK because "security through obscurity" is a bad thing merely show the commenter to incompetent at thinking, preferring instead to spout cliched slogans, rather like the book waving Maoists of old.
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The war is there because the USA attacked.

As I said, if this actually is a significant leak, then let it be an eye-opener and improve your land's self-support. You can only exploit other countries through globalism so much. Nothing beats having all you need at home.
Personally, I see pair programming as one of a set of tools that should be deployed when necessary, rather than followed religiously. I've found it useful when I'm trying to solve a difficult problem, or teach a new starter about the company's code base. I also don't see it, as some other posters do, as being about 'code ownership' or bragging rights - that seems absurd to me, but perhaps I would feel differently if forced to program that way full-time.

Likewise TDD (famously: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/tdd-sudoku), Agile, etc. None of these things is a panacea, but they can be very effective if thoughtfully applied.
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>Sometimes someone says the same thing a little differently, and that's the one that actually reaches you.

Beautiful! and true.
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